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Live from Bremerton. It's Monday night. Welcome. Those of you on Facebook, those of you in there, we're gonna be studying Revelation chapter 20 tonight, and we wanna begin with prayer and a time of worship in the Lord. So father, we thank you for Rob and Vicky opening their home and Vicky being back and Rob feeling better and Brandon, pray for your healing touch upon him. Be with James as he enjoys his birthday celebration with family in Florida and Lord thank you that Alan Corey feeling better help Karen and just everybody else that's anybody else Lord that's sick and under the weather we pray for your healing touch upon their bodies Lord and we pray that you bless this time as we study Revelation 20 that you'd be our teacher that you bless our fellowship, time of prayer, the meal that we had together and this time of worship Lord. We commit this all into your hands Lord and we thank you Lord that we don't need to be the blind leading the blind who fall into the ditch but lord we have your prophetic word and we have you as our teacher the holy spirit to lead and guide us in Jesus name we pray amen Amen. Praise the Lord. Amen. Praise the Lord. Amen. Amen. Alright. Thank you, Rob. Thank you, everybody. Alright. Revelation chapter 20. How many are sad? We're almost finished with the Book of Revelation. Right? You can keep studying it. Just keep studying. Never have stopped. It's never ending. Never ending. Yeah. You're just gonna lead us into further revelations. Don't say that. Can't add or take away from the book. Yeah. Further in the Bible. I mean, they are. They're in there. He wants to get me in trouble. No. And to. Well, let's let's pray. Father, thank you for yours your holy word, Lord. Thank you so much for helping us during this time of great deception. Enormous, enormous time of deception, Lord, that we have you as our rock. And Lord, we just spend time in your word and all the confusion and the idiocy and everything just goes away. And we have this firm foundation that our life is built upon and lord, we have your peace that surpasses all understanding that guards our hearts and minds through Christ Jesus and lord, you promised that you would lead and guide us into all truth. You gave us the comforter, the holy spirit, and we don't need to succumb to the lies of the wicked one and be psychologically you know, just all fraught with worry and and and anxiety and despair as so many are going to lord but but lord, we can have that peace that surpasses all understanding that guards our hearts and minds through Christ Jesus because you keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee lord. So, help us evermore to exercise the discipline of keeping our eyes upon you, our focus upon you, and meditating upon the truth of your word. Help us Lord in these last days. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Amen. So let's pick it up at verse 20 of chapter 19. And the beast was taken and with him the false prophets. So two of the unholy trinity and the beast is the antichrist in place of Jesus Christ and way back in Genesis three fifteen, the seed of the woman, the virgin born son of God, he would be bruised, but he'd crushed the serpent's head, and so Satan's counterfeit Christ in place of Jesus Christ, he gets to come on to the scene and the little horn of Daniel seven, and he gets to rule and reign in place of Jesus Christ, the the unholy trinity for seven years. And so the signing of the peace treaty in Daniel nine twenty five to '27 starts the clock for the seventy seven of Daniel and then it it ends twelve hundred and sixty days or excuse me, twelve sixty days in, you have the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet, a time, a time and a half time, forty two months or three and a half years from the signing of the peace treaty. And that then he goes into the temple, declares himself to be God, demands to be worshiped as God, and everybody's gonna have to receive the mark of the beast on the right hand of their forehead. They're not gonna be able to buy or sell. Boy, we're getting close to that, aren't we? And how fascinating. And so when he goes into that temple, if you're in the tribulation period, which you won't be because you're a believer and you're gonna be raptured out here, you can count twelve hundred and sixty days from then and you'll know the second coming of Christ. Twelve hundred sixty days after the abomination of desolation. Now no man knows the day of the hour of the rapture because the rapture the teaching is imminent. He can come at any time and so nobody's gonna know or be able to calculate that and so that's one of the proof texts of a pre trib rapture because if it was a post trib rapture we could just we'd know when it's gonna happen. We know that He's gonna come back on the twelve hundred and sixtieth day. He's gonna rapture those people, the dead in Christ righteous church. They're gonna go up into the sky with them, and he's going to go to Basra and deal with them guys, and we're gonna come right back with them, you know. But that's not the teaching of the Bible. And that's not what God says. So in any event, twelve hundred and sixty days after the signing of that peace treaty is the midpoint, is the is the time when he goes to the temple and declares himself to be God, demands be worshipped, ask God the abomination of desolation, Jesus said in Matthew 24 verse fifteen and twelve hundred sixty days after that Jesus returns. He destroys the Antichrist in two Thessalonians chapter two with the sword of his brightness of his coming and the sword of his mouth and so the body of the Antichrist is laying in the field of battle according to Isaiah 14 and and the false prophet also. They don't get a burial and and then the blood is as high as the horse's bridle. Jesus subdues all the armies of the world and the birds are called to come in and feast upon these bodies and Jesus goes in the Valley Of Jezreel and he's trampling out the vintage. His his garment is is spotted with blood all over him and then he makes his triumphal entry into the city of Jerusalem And and in doing that, the Zechariah 14, the rock split. There's a huge earthquake according to Matthew twenty four twenty nine, a a blackout, an earthquake, and and then the water comes out of the temple area, flows down into the Dead Sea, and that's in the twelve hundred sixtieth day from the time of the abomination of desolation. Then we have what's called the seventy five day interval. But before we get there, it says, and the remnant were slaying with a sword and him that sat upon the horse which sword proceeded out of his mouth. So that's the Lord. And all the fowls were filled with the flesh and the vultures come and they feast and all. Revelation fourteen nineteen through 20, Armageddon. It's the final bold judgment that brings this catastrophe and and then chapter 20 verse one. And I saw an angel, just an angel, an angel. Lucifer the devil is an exalted cherub angel that you see in Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28. This is just an angel, just an angel and I saw an angel come down from heaven having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And and he laid hold on notice how he's described the dragon and a dragon is a flying serpent. That old serpent, so going all the way back to Genesis, right? The serpent that deceived Eve and that serpent was able to speak to talk to Eve, who is the devil. So he's an adversary and Satan, a destroyer, and he bound him a thousand years. So the first two guys to go into the Lake Of Fire are the antichrist and the false prophet. The devil isn't gonna go into the Lake Of Fire till a thousand years later. He's going to be held incarcerated in a place called the abyss and he's going to be chained there and unable to torment those dwelling upon the earth during the millennial period. And he cast them into the bottomless pit and shut him up and set a seal upon him that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years should be fulfilled. And after that he must be loosed a little season. Now which of you the other day were telling me that you're hearing voices in the Euphrates River it's cracking open people hearing stuff? Okay, that wasn't this church, that was somebody else. And when I hear that kind of stuff, just nod and yeah. And but praise the Lord. The Euphrates is gonna dry up and we have some demons that are in the area of the Euphrates, in a compartment there. This compartment, the abyss, the abuso, this place that Satan's gonna be there, he's gonna be put he shut up a thousand years and he's cast them into the bottomless pit. So somewhere within the earth, you know, the bottomless pit and you're gonna see for a thousand years six times, you're gonna see the terminology a thousand years here and it's the Latin word millennium and it means a thousand years. And so that's the duration of the kingdom age, the Messianic kingdom, and during the Messianic kingdom, the Antichrist and the false prophet, they're never going to come back up for air. Once they go to the Lake Of Fire, that's it. And they're there alone for a thousand years. At the end of that thousand years, Satan joins up with them in the Lake Of Fire. And then the wicked dead, we're gonna see, are bodily resurrected from the dead. Presently, where are the wicked dead? The wicked wicked dead in Luke 16 are in a place called hell. Sheol. It's a place where their souls are awaiting judgment. The second resurrection is these souls being bodily resurrected when we move on through this passage and they're gonna stand before God at the great white throne judgment. And their judgment then they will be taken out of what we call hell, in the Hebrew it's Sheol, in the Greek it's Hades, they're going to be incarcerated along with the devil, the Antichrist, the false prophet, the wicked dead are gonna spend eternity in the lake of fire. And so that's the destination of these guys. Now so on the twelve hundred and sixtieth day when Jesus comes and he goes into the city of Jerusalem there's a seventy five day interval before the start of the marriage supper of the lamb before the start of the millennium and it's not listed here in in Revelation 20 but let's go back to Daniel chapter 12 and let's remind ourselves of this event. Daniel chapter 12 verse 11 and from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away and the abomination what makes desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days. So the abomination of desolation is going to go for a duration of twelve hundred and sixty days. That's the end of the tribulation period. Then there's gonna be an additional thirty days and many feel it's the cleansing of the temple, the cleansing of the image of the beast that's there in the temple. So you've got another thirty days during that time. And and then it says blessed is he that waits and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days. So now you've got another forty five days later, blessed are those that make it that far, that make it to the thirteenth hundred and thirty fifth day. And but go thou thy way till the end for thou shall rest and stand thou at the end of the days. So what's happening during the seventy five day interval, number one, the temple is dealt with and cleansed. Many of the commentators feel that there's a restoration of the planet because during the tribulation period, the cataclysmic events that take place, the curse is reversed and the planet is is reestablished or restored if you will. Later we'll see a new heaven, a new earth. The present earth is gonna be destroyed by fire, Peter reminds us. And then later in Revelation twenty one twenty two, there's a new heaven, a new earth, a new Jerusalem and coming out of the sky and coming on down. So there's another phenomena that takes place and that is the judgment of the sheep and the goats. Revelation chapter 25. So you have Gentiles that make it through the tribulation period and they some of them treated the Lord well and that he was thirsty, they gave him drink, he was hungry, they gave him food, he was in the hospital in prison and they visited him. And so these are those who are believers and those believers are gonna be Gentile believers that enter into the millennium. The wicked ones, the ones that didn't do that, they're gonna die and be judged. And so let's see here. Let's look at yeah? 25? For what? You said Revelation 25 but for your true word. It couldn't be 25. I know. We were saying that. So. Oh, Matthew 25. Oh, there you go. Matthew 25, the sheep and the goats. Oh, okay. So yeah. Sorry. Matthew 25. And you guys knew that. I know. We couldn't. We didn't. And so Matthew 25, the sheep and the goat judgment. I was like, Revelation 25, what's Rob adding more? Are we adding more? We're not to add to this. So who wants to read Joel three one through three and Matthew 25, not Revelation 25, 31 through 46. I'll be back to you in 25. Okay. Who wants Joel three one through three? I'll do it. Okay. So you're gonna see the Gentiles be judged in Joel three:one-three. And this is during the interval period. Vicki's got it. Vicki's got it. Vicki's got it. Okay. Joel, chapter one? No. Three. Chapter three. One through three. In those days and at and at that time when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, I will gather all nations and bring them down to the Valley Of Jehoshaphat, where I will put them on trial for what they did to my inheritance, my people Israel, because they scattered my people among the nations and divided up my land. They cast lots from my people and traded boys for prostitutes. They sold girls for wine to drink. Oof. Boy, the sorcery, the the when we were studying Revelation 17, the souls of men, the sailing, the trafficking. And so God's going to judge the Gentiles in that how they treated the nation of Israel during the tribulation period. And so those that Gentiles that were anti Semitic, they're gonna be judged. Now in Matthew 25 verse 31, now who wanted that? I got it. Okay. When the son of man shall come in his glory and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory. And before him shall be gathered all nations, and he shall separate them one from another as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats. And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. Then shall the king say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the fountain foundation of the world. For I was for I was hungered, and you gave me meat. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in. Naked, and you clothed me. I was sick, and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came unto me. Then shall the righteous answer him saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungry and fed thee or thirsty and gave thee drink? When saw we thee a stranger and took thee in or naked and clothed thee? Or when saw we thee sick or in prison and came unto thee and the king shall answer and say unto them verily I say unto you in as much as you have done it unto one of the least of thee my brethren ye have done it unto me. So he's judging the Gentiles during the tribulation period, those that refuse the mark of the beast, and those that fight against the Antichrist and destroyed Babylon, these kings, the Gentile kings and people. So it's those who are favorable toward Israel, the Lord saying that these acts, faith without works is dead, but the action, the favorable action, the way that they were favorable toward Israel is indicative of faith. So they didn't get saved because they did the things. The things that they did is proof of their faith. So salvation is by grace through faith alone. And there's the proof of it. The proof of it is they were they were teaching Israel in a loving manner. For I was hungry and you gave me food, was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you took me in naked and you clothed me not, sick in your prison and you visit me not, then shall they also answer saying to him, Lord, then saw we thee hungry or thirst or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison and did minister unto thee. Then shall the He answer them saying, verily I say unto you, inasmuch as you did not to one of the least of these, you did it not to me. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into life eternal. So during the seventy five day interval, not just that of the cleansing of the temple, the abomination desolation. There will also be the judgment of the sheep and the goats and the sheep are the believers. And how do we know? They're the ones that were favorable toward the nation of Israel. How do we know the Gentiles were unbelievers and that they were antagonistic? They were anti Semitic. They didn't help the Jews. And so that's part. Now the wicked are gonna be going to the place of judgment into hell. Those who believe they're going to enter into the millennium and they're gonna enter into the millennium, these Gentiles as believers, and they are going to start having families and children. And they're going to repopulate the planet over a thousand year period of time. So mathematically, they're going to re populate the planet. There's going to be a division of government. There's going to be a government of kings of Gentiles and there's going to be a Jewish part of government which is gonna be supremacists. It's gonna be a time of the end of the time of the Gentiles and Jesus is gonna rule and reign as King of Kings and then David according to the Davidic covenant as the Davidic as a prince And and you and I are gonna rule and reign the church as kings and priests. We're gonna be a part of the government. But these Gentiles, as they start to populate the planet in Isaiah chapter 65 verse 20, I'm getting ahead of myself, but these Gentiles that are having children, have natural bodies, they're able to have children. You and I are gonna have our new glorified body. Right? And the new glorified body, the Israel, they're gonna also have their new glorified body. The Old Testament saints, the tribulation tribulation saints are also gonna have their new glorified bodies. The millennial saints same thing and so they're going to repopulate now they're going to have according to Isaiah 6five 20 they're going to have a hundred years to believe in Jesus or to deny Jesus. Jesus is going to rule and reign. He's going to rule and reign with a rod of righteousness. They're going to be able to see clearly what it's like to have the garden you know government and have the curse reversed and to watch the animals lie down everything, the whole characteristic of the Messianic engine. But the problem is the heart. The heart's gonna be exposed in that they have till they're 100 and if they don't believe they're gonna die, so it can be death and there's gonna be sin in the millennium from those Gentiles. But then they're gonna continue to have children and after a thousand years we're gonna see where the devil is loosed. The devil is loosed from the abyss and he's going to deceive these Gentiles and they're gonna be like enormous amount of people because of the mathematical thousand years of having people and lower depopulation less and less and less of people dying. And they're going to rebel against God and God's going to destroy them with a fire coming out of heaven. And the purpose of it is that God's gonna use the devil to test the Gentiles to see whether they'll love God or not. And unfortunately, even though they've had a perfect environment and a perfect government, perfect food and perfect everything, The psychiatrist today, they say the reason people sin is because their mom didn't hug them enough and didn't give them enough, you know, didn't nurse them long enough and things like that. And so they play the blame game. It's always somebody else's fault. But no, the problem is the heart of man. The problem is always the heart and and the heart is exposed. God uses the devil to expose and and trials that you and I face, the there are also tests and the lord is exposing and showing the devil that, no, these people love me even if I allow bad things to happen like I did with Job. They still love me for who I am. So that's the sheep and the goat judgment in Matthew 25 during the seventy five day interval. And we don't know what else is gonna go on during that seventy five day interval, but that's some of what's going to go on. And and then finally, after those seventy five days, blessed is he that comes to the thirteen hundred and thirty fifth day, and that's when the marriage supper of the lamb takes place. That's when the Old Testament saints have been resurrected, the tribulation saints have been resurrected, and the Old Testament saints, John the Baptist is the friend of the bridegroom, the best man, and and then we, the church, we have the fourth part of the Jewish wedding and that's the marriage supper and Jesus going to dance according to Zephaniah three. He's going to dance. Luke 12, he's gonna gird himself. He's gonna serve us and he's gonna drink wine which represents joy, you know, and festive, the Jewish dancing when Cathy and I went to Israel, they have Jewish dancing, festive dancing that they that they dance. David danced before the Lord. And and so that's a part of the celebration at a wedding celebration and says, so when I saw an angel come down from heaven having the key of the bottomless pit and and great chain in his hand. So Jesus has the chain. He can lose that chain. He can incarcerate. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, who is the devil and Satan, bound him a thousand years. Now, this is one angel. It's not a chair of angels, not a seraph angel, not a high ranking angel, just simply a messenger, an angel, and so you think in terms of Gethsemane and Peter taken and smiting Malchus and cutting his ear off and you remember Jesus say don't you know that I could take 12 legions of angels if I wanted to and here we look at it one angel grabs hold of the devil and people think that the devil is God. The people think that you know he's omniscient, omnipotent, know omnipresent and all. He's just a fallen angel and his greatest strength is that of a deceiver. He's a deceiver. That's his greatest strength. And our greatest deterrent is the truth. If we know the truth, then he can't deceive us, right? And so we look at him and people freak out and they're like, oh man, you know, just takes one angel, one guardian angel, one angel that the Lord dispatches and comes and grabs hold of that devil, that serpent and incarcerates him. And notice, and cast him into the bottomless pit and shut him up and set a seal upon him that he should deceive, notice, he should deceive the nations no more. Be not deceived. This AI technology today is deception on steroids. We are watching the most deceptive time in all of human history. And because people reject the truth, God is gonna give them over to a strong delusion that they're gonna believe the lie. Haven't hit that yet. They're just stupid. And Brian and I concluded the reason America's gonna go under, the reason the whole world's gonna go under, I called it stupidity, and Brandon said it's an idiocracy. It's absolute clown show. People are stupid. And the reason they're stupid is because the devil's deceiving them. They don't know their Bible. They don't study their Bible. They believe Fox News. They follow the AI and all of the parodying, all of the scripting, all of the idiocy that's taking place. And much of the church, professing Christians, want to go to sleep. They want to go on vacation. They don't wanna study. They don't wanna be vigilant. They don't want to be sober to watch, to be ready because the devil comes about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour. They don't care. Tell me smooth things like Jeremiah. Jeremiah, tell me smooth things. In Jeremiah chapter five, the people love it so. They just love it so. The priests lied to him, false prophets lied to him and the people love it so. They get to be told what they wanna hear. They refuse sound doctrine. They are looking for teachers having itching ears and they want people that'll candy coat who will deceive them and tell them what they want to hear. And when the EBT cards stop, when a crisis hits upcoming, they're not gonna be able to have enough faith to trust the Lord. They're gonna need more drugs, more alcohol, they're gonna need more suicides, whatever it is to try and cope. They will not be able to cope. And so I like in Jeremiah 12 where Jeremiah is wanting to quit. Jeremiah is struggling because the Babylonians are gonna judge and he's having a hard time as a prophet because nobody's listening and God tells Jeremiah, Jeremiah, if you're weary with the foot soldiers, He's saying, you ain't seen nothing yet. What are you gonna do when the horses and the chariots and the swelling of the Jordan comes? You ain't seen nothing yet. You ain't seen nothing Jeremiah. So in Habakkuk, Habakkuk is you know, God's telling Habakkuk, Habakkuk, if I told you what's gonna happen, you wouldn't believe me. You wouldn't believe me Habakkuk. It's gonna be so bad. In Habakkuk, your only way out is the just shall live by faith. You're gonna have to live by faith or you're not gonna get through this. And faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. And if you're not a man or woman in the word of God, you're not gonna be ready. You're not gonna be able to withstand what's coming. And so, So to deceive the nations no more till the thousand years should be fulfilled. And after that, he must be loosed a little season. So it's an awesome thing that for a thousand years, truth is gonna be going out there. The cows are even gonna have bells going and, you know, holiness under the Lord and people are gonna have to go visit, you know, Jerusalem. If they don't, then they're not gonna have water. They're not gonna have precipitation, you know raining on their place if they don't go to these feasts each year like when we studied in Ezekiel and in Malachi and all and so we know that and so the whole world, the knowledge of the Lord is gonna cover the whole earth during the millennium. And so there's not gonna be a famine for the word of God during the millennium. People are gonna know. They're gonna know. But knowledge puffs up but love edifies. So it's one thing to know the facts, it's another thing to know Him. Do you know Him? Do you have a relationship with Him? Without a relationship with Him, we're not gonna make it. And so you and I are gonna be with the Lord. So the nations no more till the thousand years should be fulfilled and after that he must be loosed a little season. So the Lord's gonna have a test. He's gonna lose the devil. He's gonna let them loose to go and entice, to seduce, to bait the people on the planet, the Gentile nations. And how how tragic how tragic that is after a thousand years of righteousness, a thousand years of a golden age, the messianic age, you know. And finally, you know, we're there as human beings. No more curse, everything's right, but we've got a group of people who are unbelievers, who all are under the age of a 100 years old, so it's these young kids in rebellion and rebellion against God, bunch of teenagers. And I saw thrones and they that sat upon them and judgment was given unto them And I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads or in their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. And so this is the tribulation saints who refused those that died, the innumerable amount of people in Revelation six and seven who refused the mark of the beast and and now they're gonna be a part of the first resurrection remember the first resurrection is a sequential military order Jesus the first fruits and with more to come so like a military campaign and the dead in Christ shall rise first. Those are those in the church age at the rapture, church is raptured. And then you have the tribulation saints at the end of the tribulation period in that seventy five day interval you have the tribulation saints resurrected. Then you have the Old Testament saints resurrected and that completes along with the two witnesses in Revelation 11, that completes what's called the first resurrection which is in first Corinthians chapter 15. And and so and the Old Testament saints in Isaiah twenty six nineteen and Daniel twelve two, these are the Old Testament saints that are raised from the dead, finally. But the rest of the dead, so these are the ones that went to the thirteen hundred and thirty fifth day during that time, the sheep and goat judgments, the Old Testament saints, John three twenty nine, the friend of the bridegroom, and Revelation nineteen:nine, the marriage supper of the lamb has come. And so but the rest of the dead live not again until the thousand years are finished. So you have the wicked dead that are awaiting judgment. They're in hell, their souls are in hell, and they're awaiting judgment. And so there's a thousand years that are gonna go on where the righteous, those that have been raised from the dead are gonna rule and reign for a thousand years with Jesus as he rule and reigns in the kingdom age upon the planet earth. And blessed and holy is he that has part in the first resurrection on such the second death has no power but they shall be priests of God and of Christ and shall reign with him a thousand years. And so this kingdom age and the the first resurrection and the joy and the blessing of of this kingdom age. And it says, during this kingdom age, let's look at what this kingdom age is gonna be like, the characteristics of the kingdom age where you're gonna rule and reign with him. And as I said in Isaiah 6five 20 the Gentiles are gonna have till they're 100 years old. Not gonna have infant deaths or any of that kind of stuff. No abortions and none of that. Nobody dying from sickness and all. It's gonna be people that die from refusing Jesus they have till they're 100 years old. So who wants to read Isaiah 65 verse 20? Only me. Okay. Now then who wants to read Psalm fifteen one through five? We're gonna we're gonna take a picture of the messianic age. Revelation 20 doesn't describe that thousand years. So what's that thousand years like? We have to go to the Old Testament and we have to say, hey, there's no replacement theology. All these promises of the kingdom age are found in the Old Testament. We don't see them in the New Testament. Right? The characteristics. And so all we have here is seven times in these first seven verses, six times, if you will, a thousand years, a thousand years, a thousand years. So blessed are they that rule and reign with him for a thousand years. Well, what's the kingdom age like? What are the characteristics of the kingdom age? Some say the church takes the place of the nation of Israel and that we're already at two thousand years and everything historically happened in seventy AD and we take the place. And then there's those who think that they're going to usher in the kingdom age by subduing the world. The kingdom now and the dominion theology and and a golden age that the church is going to usher in. Not so. Not so. Not so. It's gonna take the return of Jesus Christ and the judgment of the devil, the Antichrist, the false prophet, the resurrection of the not just the church but the tribulation saints and the Old Testament saints and that completes the first resurrection. So the Psalm 51 through five who wants that? Got it. Okay Psalm twenty four one through six. Okay. Isaiah two two through four. Thomas, that one's for you. Oh, he's in forget it, Thomas. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Just totally quenched Rob. He's just wondering what's going on there. Isaiah two:two-four, Steven. Isaiah eleven:six-nine. I'll take it. Isaiah 6five seventeen-twenty five. I'll take it. Okay. Micah four:one-five. Four:one-five. Micah? Isaiah nine:six-seven. That's a Christmas one. Who wants that one? Wants it. Okay. Psalm two six through eight. Two six through eight. I'll do it. Zechariah fourteen nine. Luke one thirty through 33. I'll do Luke. Okay, Jeremiah 30 verse nine. Along with Ezekiel 3four twenty three and twenty four. What did you just say? Jeremiah 30 verse nine and Ezekiel 3four twenty three and twenty four. Now, in the messianic age, there's four covenants that are unfulfilled. One is Genesis thirteen fifteen that God promised that he would make a nation from Abraham. In Genesis 12 verse one, a land covenant, God would give them the land. In second Samuel seven, there would be a Davidic covenant where God would make David a king and he would be subservient to the king of kings with Jesus as king of kings and lord of lords and David as a prince. But the lineage, the dynasty, the Davidic dynasty that Jesus would come from. And then the fourth covenant is Jeremiah 3one 31, an unconditional covenant where God is gonna cause that one third remnant to be born again and he's gonna write his word in their heart. So that's the nation of Israel, the promises that haven't been fulfilled to the nation of Israel as yet and so when you go into Romans chapter nine, ten, 11 or chapter nine is Israel's past election, chapter 10 is their present rejection right now, chapter 11 is their future restoration, God is going to restore the nation of Israel. The nation of Israel is distinctly different than the church. The church is Jew and Gentile barbarian Scythian bond and free male female. The nation of Israel are Jews, Abrahamic. And the true Israel of God are those who believe, not the natural, the spiritual posterity and Isaac shall thy seed be called, but literal fulfillment of the promises that are given to Abraham, to Isaac, to Jacob and unto David in his lineage. So that's an overview to help with people that are into replacement theology to let them understand that there's a whole lot that hasn't been fulfilled yet. So Isaiah 6five 20, it's gonna be covered twice because I also asked 6five 17 through 25. So who's got Isaiah 6five 20? Right here. Alright. There shall be no more than an instant of days nor an old man that hath not filled his days. For the child shall die a 100 years old. But the sinner being an 100 years old shall be accursed. So, somebody that rejects Jesus, they have a thousand years. We talk about the age of accountability presently. We talk about aborted babies or babies that die. David said that I can't be with him now but I'll be with him later, right? Be restored when you lose a baby. And then we talk about these babies reaching a place of accountability. Some hold that it's age of bar mitz about 13 years old and that there's like an innocence there. They're incapable of understanding what it means to believe or not believe. That would be the infinite of days. But in this case, these guys got till they're a 100 years old. If they don't know by the time they're a 100 years old, they're never gonna get it. So the sinner, the one that rejects, which is blasphemy of the Holy Spirit rejecting Christ are those that are gonna die during the millennium. Alright. And so the messianic kingdom, Psalm fifteen one through five. Who may worship in your sanctuary, Lord? Who may enter your presence on your holy hill? Those who leave blameless lives and do what is right, speaking the truth from sincere hearts, those who refuse to gossip or harm their neighbors or speak evil of their friends, Those who despise flagrant sinners and honor the faithful followers of the Lord and keep their promises even when it hurts. Those who lend money without charging interest and who cannot be bribed to lie about the innocent, such people will stand firm forever. You're not gonna have the corruption that we have today. The iniquity abounding, the love of many growing cold, the lawlessness, the Sodom and Gomorrah having to be snuffed out, you know, as in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah and days of Noah. We're reaching a point where the corruption is so great the stench of this culture of human beings is at a point where the only thing that's left, only solution is judgment. God's gonna have to judge, gonna have to take it down, and when He ushers in His kingdom, the population's gonna be those who are born again and they have the capacity to live righteous lives, to live lives that are pleasing unto God. Psalm twenty four one through six. The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof, the world and they that dwelleth therein. For he hath founded upon the seas and established it upon the floods. Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord or who shall stand in his holy place? He who have clean hands and a pure heart, who have lifted up his soul and divinity nor sworn deceitfully. He shall receive the blessing from the Lord and righteousness from the God of his salvation. This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, oh Jacob. And it can be fascinating to watch the nations flood to the hill of the Lord and see Jesus, to see him there in Jerusalem ruling and reigning and these feasts, the feasts during the four different feasts during the year compulsory that they have to come they've got to come and worship the King otherwise they're not gonna get rained and we'll see that in Malachi. Isaiah eleven:six through nine think in terms of the curse in the garden the curse being reversed. Go ahead. The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb and the leopard shall lie down with the king and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together, and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed their young ones shall lay down together, and the lion shall eat straw like ox. And the suckling child shall play on the whole of the asp, and the weak weaning weaned weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrace den. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain. For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea. Ain't that isn't that sweet? The knowledge of the Lord all over the curse reverse. You don't have to worry about your children playing in the yard out front, you know, a cockatrice, you know, a snake and a viper gonna bite them, you know. And the lion, Rob looked over at me, they're not carnivore anymore. They're eating grass. Right? Mhmm. And the sacrificial system, they're gonna be slaying some of the animals that are that are for the sacrifice. And and people are gonna be eating meat so I don't I don't I don't know how that goes but if if Adam and Eve can talk to the serpent in the garden, right? Can people talk to animals during the millennium? Yeah. Why not? Mister Ed. Mister Ed? So would you look at the beautiful sheep or a cow and say, I'm gonna eat you. But is it okay if I eat you? We're gonna sacrifice you. Right? And do you think animals know when they're going to the slaughterhouse? Can they sense? They're going to the slaughterhouse, right? And but I mean, in the millennium, they're gonna have an even greater awareness and a greater aptitude. So you don't have to eat them, you could have the salads. But what if the plants can talk? I mean, how bizarre is this gonna get? All right, Micah four:one-five. The trees of the field are gonna clap their hands. Right? Micah four one through five. But in the last days it shall come to pass that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established at the top of the mountains and it should be exalted above the hills, the people shall flow unto it. And many nations shall come and say, come and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, into the house of the God of Jacob and he shall teach us of his ways and we will walk in his paths for the law shall go forth of Zion and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. And he shall judge among many peoples and rebuke many nations afar off. And they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nations shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn any to make war anymore. But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree and and none shall make them afraid for the mouth of the Lord of hosts has spoken it. So universal basic income, peace from the prince of peace. Right? No more war. How much money how much money is budgeted toward war today? How much money is spent on war? No more war except at the end of the thousand years, they bring forth their weaponry to come against Jerusalem and the Lord, when Satan's loosed, he tempts them and then the fire comes down from heaven to consume them. But for nine hundred and ninety nine years and half a day peace on earth, right? The Prince of Peace ruling and reigning. Now I'm excited the idea of listening to Jesus teach. Amen. Amen. You know listen to Jesus expound the scriptures. Remember when the two on the road to Emmaus and he took and he began to expound the scriptures unto them And they said, did not our hearts burn within us, you know? And he was going through the whole Old Testament unlocking it, the scriptures that pertain to him. And I would just love to be there and watch him do that and the different range of aptitude that people have, you know, some are new believers, some are older, but just being reminded of truths that we thought we knew and different nuances of it. And I love to learn and I'm just excited about the chance to just sit and listen to Jesus teach. I'm excited when they were partaking the communion it says that he sang a hymn and in Zephaniah he's singing and he's dancing in Zephaniah. I wonder what his voice sounds like. I wonder what kind of songs he's singing, you know. Isaiah nine, six and seven. For to us the child is born, to us the time is given and the government will be on his shoulders And he will be called wonderful counselor, mighty God, everlasting father, prince of peace. Of the increase of his government and peace, there will be no end. He will reign on David's throne and over his kingdom, it will establishing and unfolding it with justice and righteousness from that time on and forever. The seal of the Lord Almighty will accomplish this. Okay, let me ask you a question. Have any of these promises that we're reading, have any of them happened yet throughout history? No. Right. They're promises and god's going to keep these promises. Otherwise, he's a liar. It's impossible for god to lie. So, this millennial reign, this messianic kingdom is future. We're pre millennial. We're not at the millennium yet, right? And we're pre trib. So chronologically we believe that we're gonna be raptured before the trib, then the trips gonna be a seven year period of time. Then after that seven year period of time a seventy five day interval then there's going to be the marriage supper of the Lamb in a thousand year rule and reign of Jesus, right? And that's all future. The nation of Israel is going to enter in all the promises that God has made to them and so they're going to be born again in Jeremiah 3one 31. The nation of Israel is going to be born again with an uncanny. And see people say well Israel's evil. Yeah so is Iran, so is America, so is Mexico. Every country in the world is evil. There's no moral country. None. There's none righteous. No. Not one. None. And it's not based upon them being righteous enough for God to save. It's an unconditional covenant. And they reach a place when they're in Basra where they mourn for their sin, they confess their sin and they cry out blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord. That's their conversion. They're converted the one third remnant and in that conversion God gives them a new heart and he writes his word on their heart and so that's a new people and he's gonna rule and reign as king of kings and lord of lords. Okay. Psalm two six through eight. Yet I have sorry. Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. I will declare the decree the Lord hath said unto me, thou art my son. This day have I begotten thee. Praise the Lord. Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for for for thy inheritance and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron. Thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel. So the times of the Gentiles is gonna end with the Antichrist and his armies and Jesus is gonna receive all the kingdoms over the earth as king of kings and lord of lords and every knee is gonna bow and every tongue confess Jesus Christ as lord. Amen. Alright. And Zechariah fourteen:nine. So I'm not a republican or a democrat. I'm not for socialism, communism, no other ism. I'm looking for a monarchy. I'm looking for Jesus to rule and reign as King of Kings, the Lord of Lords. My citizenship is in heaven and presently in this form of government, the little G God of this world, the prince of power of the air, it's inspired and led and empowered by the devil. He's on a leash, he's on a leash, God holds him back but he definitely has some latitude to implement his evil upon planet earth. We as the church, our weapon is truth exposing the lies, We're salt and light. We slowed down the putrification, the corruption of this world simply by exposing the deception. Okay, Luke one thirty through 33. Little Christmas. Luke what? Yeah. Luke one thirty through 33. Luke one. 33. But the angel said to her, do not be afraid, Mary. You have found favor with God, and you will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus. He will be great, and he and will be called the son of the most high. The lord god will give him the throne of his father David and he will reign over Jacob's descendants forever. His kingdom will never end. Amen. So, it started it. He started it and he was cut off. Right? According to Daniel nine twenty five through 27, he's cut off. Messiah was cut off and so he's gonna come again and fulfill all the rest of it. Right? Amen. Hallelujah. Alright. Jeremiah 30 verse nine, Cathy Joe, Blondie, and Ezekiel 3four twenty three and twenty four. Now this is where you wanna listen to David being his prince. You got Jesus's you got the Davidic covenant in second Samuel verse seven where David wanted to build God a house and God said, David, your hands are too bloody. You can't build me a house but I'm gonna build you a house speaking of a dynasty in that the Messiah is gonna come forth from your loins. You're the root and the offspring of David. Okay. Jeremiah 30 verse nine. But they shall serve the lord their god and David their king whom I will raise up unto them. Amen. Ezekiel thirty four twenty three. And I will set up one shepherd over them and he shall feed them. Even my servant David, he shall feed them and he shall be their shepherd. I, the Lord, will be their god and my servant, David, a prince among them, I, the lord, have spoken it. David, a prince, and Jesus, the king of kings, the lord of lords, right? And remember, you got the 12 apostles who are sitting on thrones. You know, this this Jewish government has the king, the prince, and you've got the 12 apostles with thrones and all, right? And different different parts of this of this government. Okay, now also remember you got Ezekiel 40 through 48, there's no mention in Revelation here of the millennium of the millennial temple. The temple, the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet, that's the Antichrist, that's the temple of the tribulation period. That one is not gonna be the one. There's gonna be a new temple built chapter 40 through 48 that describes the millennial Ezekiel's temple if you will. So you could study that further. Alright, so verse seven, And when the thousand years are ended, so we just went over the millennium the characteristics of the millennium and those that are ruling and reigning. We saw the Old Testament saints. We saw the tribulation saints resurrected. We saw the nation of Israel entering into the land. We saw some of the Gentiles entering in and repopulating the planet and then it says and when the thousand years are ended, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison And sometimes we pray Lord bind the hand of the wicked one. We say Lord bind Satan in Jesus name, the Lord rebuke you, get thee behind me Satan. We know that we can't, we don't have authority one on one with the devil. We always wanna keep Jesus between us and the devil. But in the name of the Lord, we can ask the Lord to bind the hand of the wicked one. Jesus said that He was praying for Peter. He said, Peter, Satan desires that he might sift you as wheat but I'm praying for you Peter that your faith fail not and when you're converted strengthen your brethren. So and when Michael the archangel was contending for the body of Moses in Jude, it says he made not a railing accusation but said the Lord rebuke you, you know. And so at this point just a non no name angel came down and grabbed hold of Lucifer and incarcerated him, had the keys and locked him up for a thousand years and now he's being unlocked. And shall go out to deceive the nations. Look at that. He's gonna go out and do what he always does, deceive. I'm so tired of lies. I'm so tired of the deception that we live under. Did we go to the moon or not? Was there another assassination attempt or was it a green screen? How do I know what's true anymore? How do I know? How can I know? There's so much deception with green screen and theatrics and Hollywood and cameras. And how do you know? How are they going to release alien sightings now that they've had records on, you know, all these years of aliens and the Nephilim and Operation, you know, the blue beam and different ways of deceiving people. And because they reject the truth, God says he's gonna give them over to a strong delusion that they would believe the lie. What happens when the antichrist has satanic powers that God delegates to him to raising the dead? What happens when the Antichrist is seemingly killed and then raises himself from the dead? People are looking at the lying signs and wonders, know, time of great, great deception. What happens if they bring in flying saucers? What happens if they bring in images of flying saucers? Hey, may the force be with you today. May 4, right? May 4, there it is. Wow, Star Wars, everybody getting ready for it. Elon Musk, water on Mars. How do I know? What can I believe? What's true? Who killed JFK? Is Epstein still alive? You don't know nothing. And then just the constant barrage of chickens bad for you, vaccines in the meat, you know. You need copper swimming pools. I mean everything is up in the air. And when the thousand years are ended Satan shall be loosed out of his prison and shall go out and deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth. Now that doesn't mean the earth is flat, okay? It just means North West east and south, right? Quadrants of the earth. Four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog. Now Gog and Magog is a reminder of Ezekiel thirty eight and thirty nine of Gog the leader, Magog the coalition of nations that came against the nation of Israel. So this serves as a reminder of this force that came against Israel before the tribulation period and Gog and Magog to gather them together to battle these Gentile nations. The number of whom is as the sand of the sea. So after a thousand years, these guys that are 100 years old, under a 100 because they're not dead yet. These teenagers, these whippersnappers, these millennials, I don't know what you call them. Millennials, they take the bait. They take the bait. They say, I'm tired of this manna. I'm tired of the bread of life. I want savory food. I want to go back to Egypt. They were in a rebellion to God and so they're inspired by the devil and gather them together and look at how many as the sand of the sea. That's a lot of people rebelling. So you know what? It's okay to be a part of a small church as long as they're all believers. Amen. Amen. You know, I'd rather be in a small group of people that love and believe in Jesus than being the broad way which leads to destruction, you know? And the quality, the quality, if you will, the growth needs to be genuine growth of growing in the grace and knowledge of Jesus. And they went up on the breadth of the earth and compass the camp of the saints. I mean, these guys got their own religious system, right? They got their own savior. They got the devil now. They're believing in the devil. He's inspiring them. They got their weaponry together, their technology together and they're traveling where? They're traveling to Jerusalem to take out Jesus. And they went up on the breadth of the earth and compassed the camp of the saints. We're there. We're ruling and reigning with them. Got the Old Testament saints, the tribulation saints, the church saints, and the millennial saints. And the beloved city Jerusalem in all of its glory it's a city of peace with the Prince of Peace and fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them. Now wait a minute let's talk about this. This isn't fair. I need to appear before a jury of my peers. My mom didn't hug me enough. I didn't get to eat the right kind of food. The sun was too hot on me. This is unfair that universal basic income wasn't enough. All the different ways we whine and complain and I just love the lord's, there's no talking. Yeah. I talked enough for a thousand years. If you don't get it now, you're not gonna get it. And that's why for me, I'm developing this attitude, block them. I'm done with them. I'm not gonna go into much talking anymore. You either get it or you don't. Now, if you want to know the truth, I'll spend time with you and do my best to give you the facts. But if your mind's already made up and you're just looking for an argument, cut off, you're cut off. And the way I look at it is you're way behind the curve. You're too far deceived. You're gonna have to catch up is my attitude. You're gonna have to catch up because your body of information is outdated. You haven't been a student and so you're not gonna slow us down. You're not gonna cause us to have to just whine with you. So I was with Sean and and Shannon the other day and they've got a past. Okay? Everybody's got a past. And I heard more than once, you gotta just forget about that past and move forward or you can't move forward. Whole lot of people are stuck and they just wanna talk. I got guys that tell me every time I talk to them, they keep telling me the same story. Same story. For twenty years, the same story. Hey, it's time to move on. Stuck and stupid. Stuck and stupid. I mean but the Lord here, he's he's he's not gonna stop and go, alright. Let's go over it again. Let's let's talk about this again. So beloved city and fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them. These guys are guilty. They're guilty. They're caught. They're executed. Judge, jury, executioner. And the devil that deceived, again that word deceived and Rob and Vicki have a podcast if you haven't seen it's called Be Not Deceived based upon Jesus saying take heed that no man deceive you. Beware of false prophets which come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravening wolves. Man, it's a time of deception. And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are, the unholy trinity, they now all three of them are in the lake of fire Gehenna. Jesus said a place where the worm dieth not and the fire is never quenched. And they shall be tormented day and night forever and ever. And if you watched The Sandlot forever, forever. So turn to first Corinthians fifteen twenty four. How long? Forever. So this is the end this is the end of death. This is it swallowed up fifteen twenty four through 28. 15, that kingdom's handed off. Then come at the end, He shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father, when He shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. He just did it. He just took the devil, the beast, the false prophet, and it's the end of their rule. It's over. For He must reign till He has put all enemies under His feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. For He has put all things under His feet, but when He saith all things are put under Him, it is manifest that He has accepted who did put all things under Him. And when all things shall be subdued unto Him, then shall the Son also Himself be subject under Him that put all things under Him, that God may be all, even in all. Alright, so He's the job accomplished. It is finished upon the cross of Calvary for you and I. Now it is finished in the sense that the devil, the beast, the false prophet, they're in the lake of fire now. They're not going to move in forward. They're not going to deceive the nations anymore. They're not gonna be the little G God of this world anymore. The last Adam, the first Adam blew it, but the last Adam redeemed us and dealt with evil. And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are. And so only those two were there for a thousand years, just those two, now a third. And they're the most, what are they? They walking around having fun? No, they're not having fun, they're tormented. And shall be tormented day and night forever and ever, eternal punishment. And now we come to the second resurrection. And I saw a great white throne and Him that sat on it from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. And there was found no place for them, no place to hide. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God and the books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged out of these things which were written in the books according to their works. Alright. So we've got the great white throne judgment. The judgment that you and I as Christians face is the beam of seat judgment. We we all appear before the judgment seat of Christ for reward. Our sins have already been dealt with at the cross of Calvary. There's now therefore no condemnation of those that are in Christ Jesus who walked not of the flesh but of the spirit. So this is the wicked dead. The wicked dead are in Luke 16. They're awaiting judgment. They're in a place of torment. Their souls are there. Their bodies are in the ground. Now they're gonna be bodily resurrected and they're gonna stand before God at the great white throne judgment and their end abode, their end for eternity is the lake of fire. Is Gehenna is where they're gonna wind up. Now there's books mentioned in Psalm 13nine 16, everybody's name is listed in the book of life. Somebody wanna read that? Everybody that's ever been born their name is registered in the Book of Life. 13nine 16 Psalm sixty nine twenty eight. Revelation thirteen eight. Revelation thirteen eight. There you go. Revelations seventeen eight B. Alright. So, we want to look at Psalm one thirty nine sixteen. Thine eyes did see my substance yet being imperfect and in thy book, all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned when as yet there was none of them. And so everybody's name is in the book of life. And then there's a blotting out, right? And then there's a different book called the Lamb's book of life for those who are born again. You gotta be born again. You're born once, Nick, you need to be born again. Born again. Gotta be born again. You need to be born of the spirit, born from above. Psalm 6nine 28. Let them be blotted out of the book of the living and not be written within the right with the righteous. So the unbelievers blotted out blotted out of the book of the living. In Revelation chapter three verse five, who wants to read that? Three five. I will. K. Three verse five. He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white remnant, and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my fathers and before his angels. So who are they that overcome? First John five four. Somebody read that. First John five verse four. For what for whatever whatsoever is born of God overcometh the the world. And this is the victory that overcometh the world, Even our faith. Even our You want Revelation 13? Thirteen eight, buddy. Okay. I wanna hear the lamb's book of life now. The lamb's book of life. The book of the lamb. And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him. Hallelujah. Whose names are are not written in the book of. The lamb. Life of the lamb. Slain from the foundation of the world. So your name is in the lamb's book of life, slain from the foundation of the earth. Those who are not in the lamb's book of life, they're gonna worship the devil. They're gonna worship the antichrist. Right? And we know those that overcome or those who believe, those that believe in Jesus. Now, what authority? In John chapter five verse 21, go to John five twenty one. For as the father raised up the dead and given them life even so the son of man, son giveth life to whom he will. For the father judges no man but has committed all judgment under the son. So the great white throne judgment, it's Jesus doing the judging baby, right? That all men should honor the Son even as they honor the Father. He that honors not the Son honors not the Father who has sent him. Verily, verily I say unto you, he that hears my word and believes on him that sent me has everlasting life. Can you hear his word? Amen. Do you believe on him that sent him? He says, you've got everlasting life and shall not come into judgement. You've already passed from judgement into life. There's no fear for looking to have judgement for you. Right? Amen. But it's passed from death unto life. Only the Bema seat judgment for rewards, right? Verily, verily, I say and we wanna hear him say, well done thou good and faithful servant. You've been washing dishes your whole life. No, you've been faithful over a few things. I'm gonna make you ruler over much. Enter into the joy of the Lord, right? That's what we wanna hear. Verily, verily, say unto you, the hour is coming and now is when the dead shall hear the voice of the son of God, the dead. So they're not annihilated. It's not they cease to exist. The picture in Luke 16 is the rich man is a place of torment. Abraham sent Lazarus over to dip his finger into the water and touch my tongue because I'm in grievous torment. No, there's a great gulf between the two of you. Well send somebody back to talk to my five brothers. This is terrible. They have Moses and the prophets. If they believe not Moses and the prophets, neither the will they believe. The one be raised from the dead. No second chances. Pointed on all men wants to die and then the judgment, the thief on the cross, Lord remember me when you enter your kingdom, this day you'll be of me in paradise. Abraham's bosom, a place of comfort, he that us sended in Ephesians four:one descended, hey guys, the atonement's over. I didn't just cover your sin, I paid for your sin. Your sins are paid for now. So all the Old Testament, John the Baptist, Abraham, all of them who are awaiting the blood to actually pay for their sin, Salvation was imputed unto them, credited to them by grace through faith that Jesus would go to the cross someday. Righteousness is imputed to you and I justification looking back at the cross that he did die in our place. And so when He in actuality, when He died for them, He that us and at first descended lower parts of the earth and He led those who were captive, He freed them and He also, Peter says, preached under the spirits in prison and it wasn't giving them a second chance, it was proclaiming victory, letting all the principalities and the powers, the demonic forces know that Satan's plot to kill him didn't work, that he raised himself from the dead, right? Yep. John five twenty eight and twenty nine says, Marvel not at this for the hour is coming in which all that are in the grave shall hear his voice and shall come forth they that are have done good unto the resurrection of life and they that have done evil unto the resurrection of damnation. Mhmm. So they're gonna be resurrected? They'll have bodies of eternal damnation? The the wicked dead are gonna be their souls gonna go into a body that goes into Ganna and be tormented forever and ever and ever. The righteous, their soul is awaiting the resurrection and their soul is gonna be given a new body that's gonna spend eternity in Revelation twenty one and twenty two in the eternal state. So that's a good question. For as the father has life in himself, so has he given to the son to have life in himself and has given him authority to execute judgment also because he is son of man. Marvel not at this for the hour is coming in which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice. So, he says, Lazarus, come forth and he specifically called Lazarus from the grave. If he just said, hey everybody come forth they'd all come forth. But he said Lazarus. And when he was resurrected there were Old Testament saints walking around Jerusalem, remember? Yeah. They're walking around and they shall hear his voice. And shall come forth they that have done good. What is doing good? What does that mean? I earn my salvation? No. Believe. Believe. That's the good. This is that which is good. You believe on him whom may ascend. It shall come forth. They that have done good unto resurrection of life and they that have done evil. There's only one sin that keeps you out of heaven. What's that one sin? Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. Rejecting Jesus. Every single sin. He's died for the sin. Your name's in the book of life. And He's died for your sins. All the sins of the whole world. All the sins are paid for, especially for those who believe. So qualified, those who appropriate as many as received Him to them gave he the power to become the sons of God even to them that believe on His name. Gotta be mixed with faith, right? And he shall come forward they have done good unto the resurrection of life and they have done evil unto the resurrection of damnation. And you could read here, you could read Daniel twelve:two also, somebody could turn there and read Daniel twelve:two. And I can on my own self do nothing as I hear, I judge and my judgment is just because I seek not mine own will but the will of the Father which sent me. If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true. There is another that beareth witness of me and I know that the witness which he witnesses of me is true. Alright, so we got Steve gonna read us Daniel 12 verse two. Many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting contempt. And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament, and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars forever and ever. Amen. There's another passage in Isaiah 26 of the resurrection of the hope. You remember when Jesus asked Mary and Martha, do you believe in the resurrection? Yeah. We believe in the resurrection. They believed in the Daniel twelve two general resurrection. They didn't believe that he is the resurrection and the life. Right? They didn't they didn't believe to that point. And so he says, and I saw a great white throne and him that sat on those whom the face of the earth and heaven fled away and there was found no place for them. They got no advocacy. There's nobody that can save them. They're on judgment day. And I saw the dead, small and great stand before God and the books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead that were in it and death and Hades delivered up the dead that were in them. And they were judged every man according to their works, twice works, works. Now turn to Luke 12. Knowledge brings responsibility. People are judged according to their works, the wicked dead. Their judgment isn't just for one thing rejecting Jesus, their judgment is based upon they attended Bible study, they went to church, they knew better, they said Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in your name, cast out demons in your name, they made wonderful works in your name? And he's gonna say, away from me, never knew you, you that practice iniquity. You knew better, but you continued, you know, in that sin. So Luke chapter 12, beginning with verse 47, Jesus at the marriage supper of the lamb, and that servant who knew his Lord's will and prepared not himself neither did according to his will shall be beaten with many stripes. But he that knew not and did commit things worthy of stripes shall be beaten with few stripes. So a graduated punishment based upon what? For unto whomsoever much is given of him shall be much required and who men have committed much of him they shall ask the more. So a pastor, a priest, a Bible teacher, be not many teachers for your judgment gonna be more severe. So if you're gonna play games with God and not truly be born again and walk in submission on Him, the knowledge that you possess is gonna be used against you because you knew better and your punishment is going to be even greater. Being raised in a country like America where Bibles are everywhere, where the Bible is on television, where you got the movies, you got all sorts of media and means of teaching people concerning Jesus, you have a greater responsibility than countries where they have very little information concerning who God is. And I am come to send fire on the earth and what will it if I be already kindled but I have baptism to be baptized with and how am I constrained till it be accomplished? Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth, I tell you nay but rather division henceforth there shall be five and one house divided against two and two against three, the father dividing the son and the son against the father, the mother against the daughter and the daughter against the mother-in-law, against her daughter-in-law and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And he said also unto the people, 'When you see a cloud rise out of the west, straightway you say, 'There comes a shower.' And so it is. And when you see the south wind blow, you say, 'There will be heat, it comes to pass.' You hypocrites, you can discern the face of the sky and of the earth, but how is it that you cannot discern this time? The time we're living in. You project that it's gonna rain tomorrow. You've got Andy Wappler with a double Doppler, you know it's gonna happen but you don't heed it, you don't listen. Yea and why even of yourselves judging not what is right when thou goest with an adversary, know make it right with the Lord right now. Now notice verse 37, verse 36. Let your loins be girded about and your lamps burning, you as the church. And you yourselves like men that wait for the Lord when He will return from the wedding, that when he cometh and knocketh they may open unto him immediately. Blessed are those servants whom the Lord when he cometh shall find watching verily I say unto you that he shall gird himself. So picture Jesus taking his outer garment and pulling it up with his belt, girding himself at the marriage supper of the lamb and you're seated there and he make them to sit down to eat and he will come forth and serve them. Isn't that amazing? And it shall come in the second watch or if he come in the third watch and find them so blessed are those servants. This know that if the owner of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not have permitted his house to be broken through. Be therefore ready also for the son of man cometh at an hour that you think not. And so the hope of the rapture, the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, He's gonna come at an hour that we think not. But if we're in first Thessalonians five, we see the tribulation period. We see the beast system developing. We're children of light that that day, the day of the tribulation period, the second coming is not gonna overtake us unaware but the rapture, we don't know the day of there. We're watching. We're ready because the son, the bridegroom is gonna come and take his bride to the father's house in John fourteen one through three. Alright. I see you guys getting tired. You're falling asleep. Alright. Here we go. Here we go. How could you fall asleep? We just said to be watched. Be ready. Don't fall asleep. Verse 13, and the sea gave up the dead that were in it. So remember when they they did a poser thing in the Obama administration and they said, we caught Osama bin Laden and we buried him at sea. Yeah. Right. Guys are such losers. And but anybody even in the sea, wherever they try to hide, there's no place to hide. And the sea gave up the dead that were in it and death and Hades delivered up the dead that were in them and they were judged every man according to their works and death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. Pretty simple. You either are yarn. You're either saved or you're not saved. You're the saint you're in ain't. There's no in betweeners. Nobody's almost pregnant or almost saved. Right? Let's pray. Father, thank you for the sweetness of time that we could spend in your word and Lord we got a an overview of the millennial rule and reign, the thousand year rule and reign and leading up to it. We can see some things that fit in in the immediate future. And then Lord telescoping on into the millennium, we see that we get to rule and reign with you as kings and priests. We see Israel in the land, we see the devil, the beast, the false prophet incarcerated and eventually put in the lake of fire, and the wicked dead judged, and Lord we just praise you and thank you that nothing nothing nothing nothing can ever come to pluck us out of your hand Lord. Either height nor depth nor principality nor power nothing will ever be able to steal our salvation from us Lord. You are secure, we are secure and Lord you keep a garrison around us protecting us. And so Lord we thank you for precious faith that we have. The most precious thing that we possess is the faith that you've given us that we exercise and trust in you in these last days Lord and Lord we do pray for open doors that we can share the glorious gospel with people who are perishing but Lord evermore give us wisdom to not waste our time with time wasters who think they know already and they don't know squat. Let them go somewhere else Lord and argue with other people. We're tired Lord of the division that's caused by people that just want to argue. They really don't want to know the truth. In Jesus name we pray, Amen.
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Calvary Chapel Bremerton - Home Bible Study
Listen to Rick Beaudry, Pastor of Calvary Chapel Bremerton, lead our home Bible Study session in worship and teaching the Word of God. Be edified and built up in your faith with solid Bible teaching. New episodes released on Tuesdays in the Pacific Standard Timezone.
