House Calls

Millennium, Pt. 3

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Participants: John Lomacang (Host), John Stanton

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00:01 Hello friends grab your Bible and a friend and
00:03 sit back as we explore God's word together on
00:05 this addition of House Calls.
00:23 Welcome to another exciting program of
00:26 House Calls and if you don't know what that
00:28 means, that means we're in your house, that's
00:30 why you watching us. And it's just not just me
00:33 I'm one John but that's John number two, good
00:35 to have you here John number two.
00:37 He's here. John Stanton my good
00:40 pastor friend and I'm John Lomacang and
00:43 we're here together to share with you what the
00:45 word of God has to say. So get your Bibles, get
00:48 you pens, sit back and enjoy a very
00:51 informative and a very challenging program.
00:53 One thing we chose not to do is to skirt the
00:56 issues. We meet them head on in a loving way
00:59 so sit down and enjoy the program with us,
01:01 but with we also do before we get into the
01:03 Bible is we have prayer. So John, have a pray for us.
01:07 Dear Father, in heaven we thank you for
01:08 another day, a day of life. Where we can
01:11 spend time in your presence. But we pray
01:13 that you be with us here during this program,
01:15 that you would guide and direct our thoughts
01:17 and our minds, our hearts and guide us also
01:20 through the scriptures on these importance
01:22 subjects that you want us to know. And Lord
01:24 we pray that you'll be with those who are
01:26 viewing, who are listening to the program that you
01:28 would guide and direct them in the way, everlasting,
01:31 in Jesus name we pray, amen. Amen.
01:33 Now friends some people don't know it,
01:35 but I'm sure you do if you watched the
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01:59 on one of the programs either, if your fortunate
02:02 it could be today. If we've already
02:04 downloaded it but surely in the future
02:06 somehow we'll cover that. So today we're
02:08 gonna to begin our program and we have
02:09 an exciting topic we're gonna to continue on
02:11 the topic of the millennium, the 1000
02:14 years. What does the Bible say happened at
02:16 the beginning during and at the end of the
02:19 1000 years, stay tuned for that in the second
02:22 half of our program, but John I think you have
02:24 Bible questions for us what do you have?
02:26 I do this one is from Jan and a real good
02:29 question here. She says, she enjoys House Calls,
02:33 thank you very much. She is little perplexed
02:36 about something. Why did God put the tree,
02:39 excuse me, of knowledge of good and
02:42 evil in the Garden at all? When he being the
02:45 alpha and omega knowing the beginning
02:47 from the end of course knew what would
02:49 happen? Why even put it there to tempt Adam
02:52 and Eve when he created them to live
02:54 forever? I know that some people say it was
02:57 to test, if they were faithful to God, but then
03:00 that begs the question why did the humans to
03:03 begin with. You know why create.
03:06 For why create, excuse me, the humans to
03:08 begin with. When he knew what was going to
03:10 happen and the heartache and sorrow resulting from it
03:14 Why did he give the Devil a chance to get up
03:16 foot hold. I realize at this could very well be one
03:19 o those things that we remain a mystery until
03:21 we can ask Jesus himself, but I like to
03:23 thought it out there and see what you take is on.
03:25 Okay. So, there are several things that really she is
03:28 asking here and she did elude to one answer and
03:32 that is as a test. And the Lord, the Lord is first
03:38 and foremost one who is a stanch believer, his
03:43 foundational principle is for love is choice,
03:48 freedom of choice. That's right.
03:50 And so Adam and Eve whenever there is a
03:52 freedom to choose there always is a choice,
03:55 Adam and Eve were given a choice to follow
03:57 the Lord who created them or to follow the
03:59 arch enemy Satan, who sort to bring sin into
04:03 this world. They were given that choice and
04:06 they chose to disbelieve God and believe Satan
04:09 and his lies, which has gotten us to where we
04:11 are today. That's right.
04:13 So the questions asked why would he put the
04:15 garden in there. In the first place when He
04:18 knew what would happen. You know, I
04:20 would add something a little bit more to that.
04:22 Why did he even create Satan? If he knew Satan
04:25 was going to bring sin to the world.
04:27 Or more specifically Lucifer.
04:29 Lucifer, at the time yes. Before he became
04:31 Satan. So that question has to be asked as well.
04:35 It's not just with regard to this world, but it's
04:37 with regard to the entire sin issue form the very
04:41 beginning. Now, this goes back to freedom of
04:45 choice again, because even the angels had a
04:47 freedom to chose whether or not to serve
04:49 God or to walk away and rebel against God
04:53 and we found and we've talked about in other
04:56 programs, how Lucifer who was perfect when
05:01 he was created still made a decision, kind
05:04 of his heart lifted him up because of himself,
05:07 he saw it with pride, an element of pride came
05:09 in, he saw himself for more than he was. And
05:12 distrusted God and rebelled and then took a
05:15 third of the angels from heaven with him and
05:17 from that point on, they have been seeking to
05:20 destroy and take kingdom's down what
05:23 happens to be that our earth was the one that
05:25 was brought under his deception through the
05:28 disobedience of Adam and Eve. So, again the
05:31 question is why do God put the tree there in the
05:34 Garden of Eden. And now what was the first
05:36 in foremost because of he believes in choice, a
05:38 freedom of choice for all humanity that they
05:42 must chose to love him of their own free will
05:44 not just become a robot or one that is forced to
05:48 love them. That's right in the common
05:49 time and time so to speak. Here's the other aspect
05:52 though. The Bible is indicating very clearly
05:55 throughout its pages that there is a
05:56 controversy going on between Christ and
05:59 Satan that begin when Satan rebelled and
06:03 Christ and him fought against each other in
06:06 heaven before Satan was cast out and then of
06:09 course that battle continued on the earth
06:11 as the earth fell under his deception and
06:14 delusions. This great controversy is playing
06:18 out not only for this world, not only for the
06:21 angels in heaven not only for God himself,
06:23 but it's playing out. I believe, for the universe
06:26 and here's where maybe some may, we can call
06:32 it disagree but maybe there is a different
06:34 understanding that we have, that's Seventh
06:36 Day Adventist pastors about the great
06:38 controversy then many do about our world and
06:40 about heaven. And that is this, the earth is not
06:44 the only world that was created.
06:46 Right. There were other worlds that god has
06:50 created and I believe they went through that
06:52 same test. And if they passed that test and
06:56 remained sinless, followers, obedient to
06:58 God. They also have an interesting what's
07:01 happening here because we did not. And so,
07:05 God is going more than what we see happening
07:07 on this earth. God is creating a safety for the
07:11 entire universe to allow them to see what the
07:16 true end result is of sin of what Satan's allegations
07:21 were against God. Remember, in a way God's
07:23 on trial here. Right not, not so much us.
07:26 Yeah, God is on trial here because Satan alleged
07:28 listen you're not fair. You're forcing us to obey,
07:30 your laws are not good, they are just self serving
07:33 you and so these things are playing out and
07:35 we're finding that Satan was wrong. God is loving,
07:38 he is caring, his way is the best, but not only
07:41 does this is world need to find that out but the universe
07:43 needs to know what Satan's allegations really,
07:47 really are. And also with the fruit of his course
07:52 and his decision is. And so let's just give you,
07:54 let's give a couple of verses. Sure go ahead.
07:57 About the world's being, there are other worlds
07:59 being created. Let's turn first of all to Hebrews
08:01 chapter 1 and let's take a look at verse 1 and 2,
08:12 Hebrews 1, verses 1 and 2, God, who at various times
08:14 and in various ways spoke in time past to the
08:18 Fathers by the prophets, has in his last days
08:21 spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed
08:24 heir of all things, through whom also He made
08:28 the worlds; and this is a plural form of the,
08:35 of a planet or a world established,
08:37 inhabited world established by God or created
08:39 by God. So it's not just the earth that has been
08:42 created it is several worlds that have been created.
08:45 We don't know how many that is. We believe,
08:47 we'll find out one day. But to see a further example
08:51 of this you've got to turned to Job and you'll
08:56 see the great controversy playing out in the first
08:59 chapter of job because Satan sought to bring
09:02 Job down, Job was a committed follower of God,
09:07 he was obedient to him, he trusted him and
09:10 God blessed him as a result of that and here
09:11 Satan appears and he asked God, he says to God,
09:17 basically you've protect Job that's why he serves
09:20 you, you see it's this forced obedience thing.
09:22 If I were to bring upon him, these pain and
09:28 suffering and take these things you blessed him
09:29 with away he will curse you, he will not follow
09:32 you and so the great controversy than that
09:34 allegation that was made from the beginning
09:36 by Satan is played out in this, in the life of Job
09:40 and we find in Job chapter 1, look at verse 6,
09:44 it says now there was a day when the sons of God
09:49 came to present themselves before the Lord,
09:51 and Satan also came among them.
09:55 And the Lord said to Satan, from where do you
09:58 come? So Satan answered the Lord, and said,
10:01 From going to and fro on the earth,
10:03 and from walking back and forth on it.
10:07 If most scholars as they look at the last part
10:09 of that second verse what Satan was really
10:11 saying here and there is a lot of dialogue on this,
10:13 but most have come with conclusion that when
10:15 he is saying his walking for through forth,
10:17 to and fro, back and forth on the earth.
10:18 He is claiming authority over the earth. Right.
10:22 He is saying I own the earth, this is mine,
10:24 I walk in forth, I govern, I make sure I oversee
10:27 what's happening, the earth is mine.
10:30 And of course then the responses in verse 8,
10:34 the Lord said to Satan, Well you have considered
10:37 my servant Job, that there is none like him on the
10:40 earth, a blameless and upright man who fears God
10:43 and shuns evil? See so God is saying you don't own
10:47 the earth. There are people on the earth
10:49 that serve me. Right. Job was a perfect example
10:51 and then the controversy plays out there
10:54 in Job's life and we don't have time of course
10:56 to go through all that, but I want you to notice
10:58 a few things from this, number 1,
11:01 the sons of God came to present themselves before
11:04 the Lord and Satan came among them.
11:06 Satan included himself in his authority over the
11:10 earth among the sons of God, those who were
11:13 the leaders of other worlds that God has created,
11:16 who presented themselves before this council
11:18 that was before God, they were the ones that
11:21 were given the authority. We read in, in Genesis
11:23 1 that Adam or Genesis 2, that Adam was given
11:27 authority over the earth, over the beasts
11:29 of the field, over the things that happen to govern
11:31 the earth, were these sons of God which is never
11:34 referred to in the Bible as anything being,
11:36 as anything related to anything but,
11:40 but those who serve the Lord. Never against,
11:43 some would say the sons of God are angels but
11:46 that's, that's only once in the scripture is it mentioned
11:49 that. And it mentions that in regard to the angels
11:52 that serve God, not the ones that serve Satan.
11:55 Right. But anyway so, around about way
11:58 of saying this here is there is evidence in scripture
12:00 that there are other worlds, there is clear evidence,
12:02 there is a great controversy going on,
12:03 that just doesn't include this world but includes
12:05 the universe. And that we are part of that
12:08 and this is why each world is given a test due
12:12 to freedom of choice to see whether or not
12:14 they're going to side with Christ in this great
12:17 controversy or Satan in the great controversy.
12:22 I want to add some thing also to the beginning
12:23 at the question. When the person asked why
12:26 even put it there, that's why even put the tree
12:28 of the knowledge good and evil there.
12:33 To tempt Adam and Eve when he created them
12:35 to live forever. First of all God didn't create Adam
12:38 and Eve to live forever, that forever living would
12:42 be based on this test. That's the one thing that
12:45 people often forget when God created Adam and Eve
12:48 they were not created with immortality,
12:50 immortality was the gift that would follow passing
12:55 the test, that's the main reason why God put
12:59 the tree there, not to tempt them. In the same sense,
13:03 a parent would test his or her child to know whether
13:08 or not they could extend these privileges to them,
13:10 not to make them crash the car so to speak
13:14 from using the cars in illustration.
13:16 The parent would say okay here is the keys go crash
13:18 the car into the neighbor's garage,
13:20 that's not why the parent gives the child the key
13:24 but the parent knows that is a great possibility
13:27 what the percentage 50/50 and some cases
13:29 if he kid is reckless the parents says,
13:30 there is a 90 percent chances he is gonna to hit
13:32 something before he gets back home.
13:33 But I've got to find out, so I'm going to give him
13:36 the oldest car, so if he hits anything
13:38 we haven't lost anything.
13:40 I'm not going to let him go too far either.
13:42 Right, and so there's some parents.
13:44 So in the same sense the Lord wanted to extend
13:47 to Adam and Eve what they did not yet have,
13:49 but he couldn't do it unless he put them to the test,
13:55 he could not say okay you worthy of eternal life.
13:59 Because remember the text we often think of
14:01 this as something that happened way down the road,
14:04 but Romans 6:23 give the perfect picture
14:06 of in the garden. The wages of sin is death the
14:11 Lord said you know I'll show you that here,
14:14 in Genesis chapter 2, the Bible says in verse
14:16 15 if you turn there with us, Then the Lord God
14:20 took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden
14:22 to tend and keep it, that is the keep the garden
14:24 and the Lord commanded the man saying this
14:29 is before the woman came along.
14:31 He commanded Adam, he gave him a heads up
14:34 about that, And the Lord commanded the man,
14:37 saying, Of every tree of the garden you may
14:40 freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge
14:43 of good and evil, you shall not eat:
14:46 for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.
14:50 And then it goes on, it says and the Lord says
14:53 it is not good that man should be alone.
14:54 So God told that to Adam before Eve came along.
14:57 He said to Adam, I'm telling you that there
15:00 is a tree there. I'm telling you not to eat it.
15:02 I'm telling you exactly what's is going to happen
15:05 when you eat it. If you do, chose to disobey me
15:08 this is the results of that disobedience.
15:11 But I want you to see another text,
15:13 because we find in the Bible, when I said a moment ago,
15:15 they didn't have eternal life the wages of sin is death,
15:18 but the gift of God is eternal life.
15:20 It was going to be a gift, if they had already had
15:24 immortality then they couldn't die.
15:27 That's why God did not create them with naturally
15:29 immortality and if you remember the story well
15:31 in Genesis, the moment that they sinned he barred
15:35 the tree of life, because that tree gave vitality
15:39 to both Adam and Eve so that they can continue
15:41 living and God did not want to "immortalize sin."
15:47 So he instantly dispatched an angel to bar the tree
15:50 of life, but here's the text that you'll see
15:54 that God is fair. As a matter of fact John,
15:56 if you can do me a favor and go to Ezekiel 18,
16:00 I want to show a couple of verses here,
16:01 but I'm gonna read Deuteronomy chapter 30
16:03 and verse 19, here is the way that the Lord even
16:06 does it even to his very day, showing that God is the
16:09 same yesterday, today and forever.
16:12 He says in Deuteronomy 30:19, I call heaven and earth
16:16 as a witness today against you,
16:19 I have set before you life and death,
16:21 blessings and cursings; but get this he doesn't
16:24 say make a choice he says, chose life, that both you
16:28 and your decedents may live. He not only puts both
16:31 roads, but he says here is the one to chose
16:33 and I'm sure he made it clear to Adam,
16:37 if you eat of this tree you'll die.
16:39 So which one am I telling you to chose.
16:41 Chose not to eat of this tree and so God is not unfair.
16:44 And in Ezekiel chapter 18, read verse 23,
16:50 and then verse 25 for us. Okay, verse 23.
16:55 Do I have any pleasure at all that wicked should die?
16:59 Says the Lord God: and not that he should turn
17:01 from his ways, and live? And in verse 25, Yet you say,
17:06 The way of the Lord is not fair.
17:07 Hear now, O house of Israel; Is not my way which
17:11 is fair and your ways which are not fair?.
17:13 Okay. So you see right away, the Lord saying,
17:16 hey what's the deal here. I'm fair,
17:18 I put two roads before you I said chose life,
17:22 but here is what the Lord; and I tend to believe there
17:26 is the pole is out on this one God knew what could
17:31 happen, but before imparted to them life or before
17:36 they imparted to themselves, before they brought
17:38 the penalty of death upon themselves.
17:40 He had to give them the choice, he has foreknowledge
17:44 but he does not pre-program us to do one thing
17:46 or the other. That's right. That's the difference.
17:48 Standing on top of a building and seeing both cars
17:51 coming from different angles speeding and somebody
17:54 removes the stops sign you know what's going to happen,
17:57 you didn't pre-program it, but you can tell way ahead
18:00 of time that they're heading toward a collision,
18:02 in the same way God not only has, he is not only
18:06 all knowing but he has foreknowledge that we do not
18:10 obtain. So he didn't set Adam and Eve up,
18:12 he gave them the right to chose their destiny.
18:15 You know and I think, you know this is really what faith
18:18 is all about and we think about it,
18:19 God is going nothing different with us.
18:21 Right. Because, the same thing he told Adam and Eve,
18:26 either you don't eat and live or you eat and then
18:29 you'll die. He says here that if you obey me,
18:32 I'll bless you if you disobey me the result is the curse.
18:37 Right, that you brought on yourself.
18:39 That you brought on yourself and here's the issue,
18:40 because God knows there are only choices,
18:44 it's either him who created you, who loved you,
18:49 who care for you and provide for you or Satan
18:51 who hates you, wants to kill you and bring you down.
18:54 That's right. There is no middle ground.
18:56 There is no independence here because we were created
18:58 beings, that means we have a dependence upon our
19:02 creator, that's the natural results of any creation
19:06 is that it depends upon it's creator for sustenance.
19:09 That's right. So when God is saying these things
19:10 you know we make him out sometimes to be this dictator,
19:13 how you know he's telling us what to do,
19:15 if you don't obey him you know and people have this
19:17 problem with authority, but that's not,
19:19 that's not even the spirit with which God is saying this.
19:22 God is saying I created you, I'm the only one that
19:25 can keep you and sustain you and it gives you life
19:28 won't you obey me rather than disobey and reap
19:33 the consequences of Satan and his rebellion.
19:38 That's right. So he's pleading with us to do that
19:40 and so many of us don't like this oh well
19:43 they were tested, it's just the way that God sees
19:46 and knows things and loves and cares for us
19:49 that this is the way he is and he does this.
19:53 Well friends, there you have it, all said and done
19:54 when the Lord was gonna give the gift of eternal life
19:56 to Adam and Eve, it was also based on the whether
19:58 are not they would be obedient, but in the end it
20:01 is a gift we cannot earn it, we cannot purchase it,
20:05 eternal life is a gift, they were not naturally immortal,
20:09 but in order for them to pass on to their posterity,
20:12 whatever they had, they had to be tested to be proven
20:17 that they were obedient and loyal to God.
20:19 And the whole good, the good thing at the end of all this,
20:22 this test, the great controversy, all that is,
20:24 that as Nahem says, Nahem says, affliction will not rise
20:29 up a second time, so there will be a security developed
20:33 in the universe or as a result there will be security
20:36 in the universe from sin. That's right.
20:39 That it did not have before sin entered the world.
20:43 And so that's I would never call the beauty of sin,
20:46 'cause that's not the case but that's the beauty
20:48 of how God is doing this. He is teaching his people,
20:51 he is teaching the universe and all it's
20:54 inhabitants what sin really does and how his way
20:58 is so much better. A thought just came
21:00 to my mind that really gives the story in Revelation,
21:05 if you are unjust you will be unjust still,
21:08 if you are righteous you will be righteous still,
21:11 that's when the mortality factor is added to it.
21:14 That's what the end is gonna to be,
21:16 which is different from the Garden of Eden. Right, good.
21:20 I have a question here is somebody says sent
21:22 from a Black Berry by AT&T. Al, thank you for your
21:25 question, I've been watching 3ABN for a while,
21:28 I've heard preaches on the 3ABN network say that
21:31 the churches that observe on Sunday instead
21:34 of Saturday will be lost. I don't agree with that,
21:37 the scripture reads you must be born again.
21:40 Now that's the main issue not what day you go
21:42 to church on. I'm in church all day on Sunday,
21:46 Tuesday night Bible study, Friday night service.
21:49 I'm born again and have the baptism of the Holy Ghost.
21:54 God bless you, peace and love. Well thank you so much Al,
21:58 for you commit. The fact of the matter is right now
22:02 Sunday observance is not a test to any Christian
22:05 at all in the world. When it becomes a test and this
22:09 is the key when the issue of the Sabbath comes
22:13 to the forefront and God's commandment is exalted
22:18 because now let's just let's get away from the Sabbath
22:21 for a moment. I know you're ready to,
22:22 and this just a moment John, but when you think
22:23 about the other commandments,
22:25 think of which one we can honestly ignore and still be
22:29 saved, we cannot, but many have narrowed
22:33 down the Sabbath command to a day rather than
22:36 the loyalty of choosing who your God is. And the
22:40 commandment says, the seventh day is the Sabbath
22:43 of the Lord your God. So the question is not what
22:47 day you chose, because you can't chose a day God's
22:50 already done that. That's another problem.
22:52 A lot of people say, I chose Sunday well you
22:54 can't chose a day that because God didn't bless
22:59 the first day of the week as a holy day.
23:02 He's already chosen the seventh day of the week.
23:06 He's blessed it and he said remember the Sabbath day
23:09 to keep it holy further on, the seventh day is a Sabbath
23:12 of the Lord your God. So the question is not what day,
23:16 but who is the Lord your God, who is your God.
23:20 If the Lord who created the world is your God then
23:22 the Sabbath is the day. you'll not be in eternity
23:27 by choosing to serve another God and the real
23:29 issue about Saturday and Sunday is who your God is?
23:33 That's really it. And the important thing here's here,
23:35 what you've already said it, the test it is in a
23:37 test to everyone yet. Right. To the world's inhabitants
23:41 and many of you who know who've been watching
23:45 3ABN and other programming, we clearly to define
23:49 Babylon in Revelation as a system of a apostate
23:56 worship, it's a religious system that is a false
23:59 religious system. That's right.
24:00 Not the people, in fact the people command
24:02 in the second angels message and then of course
24:05 in Revelation 18 is that Babylon has fallen that
24:08 religious system is fallen, come out of her my people.
24:11 That's right. So, even in with Babylon today,
24:14 God's people reside and when that last test comes
24:18 that's when it will be proclaimed come out of her
24:21 my people that's the test. And so right now,
24:24 we agree and we understand your, your concern on this,
24:30 in fact I would even encourage you with this that the
24:33 Seventh-day Adventist church does not teach that only
24:36 Adventists are saved, that's not what we teach.
24:39 Right. But we do teach that in the end when
24:41 the final test comes during the time of trouble,
24:44 that those who hear the call, the proclamation call
24:48 that is brought out to the world as a test of loyalty
24:52 between God the Creator or the false system
24:55 of worship, the false day they've set up,
24:57 then it would be determined, clearly the line will
25:00 be drawn as to who is sided with whom.
25:03 It's a matter of fact, James 4 verse 17 says it this way,
25:07 "Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does
25:11 not do it, to him it is sin. So when you think about
25:15 that when you know what's right and you don't do it,
25:19 it sin it's not based on how many times you go to church,
25:22 you can go to church, you can stay in church from
25:24 Sunday to Sunday or from Saturday to Saturday,
25:27 you can stay in church all week long,
25:28 it doesn't merit your salvation, the Bible makes it
25:31 very, very clear. In something that's been pushed
25:33 out of lot of Christendom today is this simple
25:36 word obedience. Obedience, if we obey Isaiah 1 says,
25:43 if we are willing and obedient we will eat of the good
25:47 of the land and there's so much disobedience
25:49 now in Christianity and we try to patch it by
25:52 saying I go to church all different days of the week,
25:55 you know I do this, I'm baptized and those are all
25:58 are very important and good things,
26:00 but it doesn't negate the importance of listening
26:03 to the word of God. You know John, I,
26:05 just yesterday I was listening to a survey on CBS
26:09 of how America is one of the most if not the most
26:13 religious country in the world, but it's the most
26:17 religiously ignorant country in the world.
26:20 And there are some people that frankly do not
26:22 believe that it is important what the Bible says,
26:25 it's about their faith, it's about emotion,
26:28 it's about worship, it's about lights, cameras,
26:31 action in some circles, and the Bible is least
26:35 significant to the exercise of Christianity nowadays
26:38 then in times past like the reformers.
26:42 In the days of Martin Luther and Zwingli and Huss
26:45 and Jerome and Wickliffe, and the American Bible
26:47 Society. It was not a movement back to church,
26:52 it was a movement back to the Bible, but today
26:55 it's about you know what feels good, lights,
26:58 camera, action, it's about business,
27:00 it's about enterprise, it's very little in Bible
27:06 inclusion in the involvement of Christian exercise today.
27:09 Yeah, and there are preachers out there that
27:12 are telling their congregations it'll fine,
27:13 because the rapture is going to come,
27:15 Christ will take his church out.
27:17 They won't have to endure the great test at the end
27:21 of time the time of trouble. And I wanted to point
27:25 this out to you because this is really a key if
27:27 you don't understand that this time of trouble
27:30 is coming and that there is going to be a great
27:32 test that occurs within that, you are going to miss
27:35 out on the book of revelation and what it says
27:37 about what is it to come. Let me share something
27:40 here with you, because people have a lot of interest
27:44 in the mark of the beast in fact you look around
27:47 and people here you know what is the mark
27:48 of the beast, is it some super computer,
27:50 is it some microchip in your forehead or your head
27:53 or what is it. And they miss something that is really
27:56 almost blatantly obvious and that is that worship
28:01 at the end of Revelation 13, worship that is commanded
28:05 by this false system that Satan is behind it says
28:09 clearly that this beast coming up out of the earth
28:13 and the second beast of Revelation 13 has two horns
28:15 like a lamb and spoke like a dragon,
28:17 he looks like he is very religious,
28:20 he is very Christ like but when he speaks,
28:22 when he commands, when he brings his authority
28:24 it's like the dragon, Satan himself.
28:27 And he forces, he compels worship to the point where,
28:31 if you look at verse 15, he was granted power
28:36 to give birth to the image of the beast,
28:37 that the image of the beast should both speak
28:39 and cause as many as would not worship the image
28:42 of the beast to be killed. And that they might
28:45 receive the mark verse 17 or the name of the beast
28:49 or the number of his name. So those are the things
28:52 that God is trying to enlighten us to give us
28:58 understanding of. So that we can resist that time,
29:01 but notice here, it says the mark.
29:02 The mark, and throughout the book of Revelation
29:06 too you find a connection to the saints,
29:08 keeping the commandments of God.
29:09 Let me read this to you, it says here in same language
29:14 found in Revelation 13 and Revelation 14 I would add too,
29:19 but let me read to you from Deuteronomy chapter 6,
29:23 if you start with verse 1, it talks about the
29:25 commandments of God, to fear God, keep his
29:28 commandments verse 2 and then it says in verse 4,
29:32 hear O'Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one,
29:36 you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart,
29:38 with all your soul and with all your strength.
29:40 John that's loyalty, that's a commitment to God
29:43 and to follow him with all your heart.
29:46 And these words it says verse 6 which I command
29:48 you today will be in your heart,
29:50 you shall teach them diligently to your children.
29:52 Something like you said we are not doing in America.
29:55 We are not teaching our kids the way of the Lord.
29:59 And shall talk of them when you sit in your house,
30:02 when you walk by the way when you lie down
30:03 and when you rise up, verse 8 listen to this,
30:07 you shall bind them as a sign on your hand and they
30:12 shall be as front lids between your eyes.
30:16 This is the seal, the sign that God for his people,
30:21 those who teach and preach and keep the commandments
30:24 of God, including the forth. That's right.
30:27 And the forth is the only at issue,
30:29 no one in their right mind is gonna to sit around
30:31 and say you know it's okay to kill, it's okay to steal,
30:33 it's okay to commit adultery.
30:35 To keep doing all these things you can do that
30:38 and go to heaven no, no one will say that but
30:39 they will say it's okay to not observe the seventh day
30:43 as the Sabbath. Yet that's the commandment.
30:46 You know, I had heard one guy said to me,
30:50 are you telling me that you have to keep Sabbath
30:52 to be saved? And I said well, whatever answer
30:57 you give about any of the other commandments
31:00 I give you with regard to the forth.
31:03 So ask yourself the question, do I have to stop murdering
31:07 to be saved, do I have to stop stealing,
31:09 do I have to stop committing adultery to be saved.
31:11 Can't I bow down to idols and be saved?
31:14 How about coveting and treating my parents with
31:18 respect and love? Do I have into those to be saved?
31:21 Well, every Christian would tell you yeah that's the
31:23 way of God. That's right. So what's the problem
31:25 with the fourth commandment, the
31:27 seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God
31:29 and yet people don't understand in the last days
31:32 that is going to be a test of loyalty to see if people
31:37 will keep all of the commandments of God or not.
31:39 That's right. You know, the reason why we haven't
31:42 cut this one loose yet is because this is a very vitally
31:45 powerful issue here. Josiah 4 verse 6 and they
31:49 are lot of Christians as CBS just said,
31:53 we are ignorant America, ignorant religiously.
31:58 We are concerned about religion and religiosity,
32:02 but one professor says in America they are many people
32:05 that love Jesus they many people that carry the bible,
32:08 but they just don't read it, they are spiritually
32:11 and literally ignorant of what God's word says.
32:14 Now what is the danger of that? Hosea 4 verse 6,
32:18 notice how the Lord says just like he says in Revelation
32:20 18 come out from my people he says in Hosea 4:6,
32:24 my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
32:28 Because you have rejected knowledge,
32:31 I will reject you from being priests for me;
32:35 because you have forgotten the law of your God,
32:38 notice the law of your God I will forget your children.
32:42 And they don't have any idea John,
32:44 many of our viewers and listeners don't have any idea
32:46 that the day is coming where America and the
32:48 world is gonna go through a tremendous famine
32:50 not for bread and water. Here it is in Amos 8
32:54 verse 11 and 12 Behold, the days are coming,
32:56 says the Lord that I will send a famine on the land,
32:59 not a famine of bread, or a thirst for water
33:02 but of hearing the words of the Lord.
33:06 They shall wander from sea to sea, and from north to
33:09 south and from north to east; they shall run to and
33:13 fro, seeking the word of the Lord,
33:16 but shall not find it and then you'll see that people
33:19 have say hey it's valuable to me, but right now friends
33:23 is the time to study God's word, because the day
33:25 is coming when it will be outlawed, it won't be popular
33:28 and only then will people realize that they have been
33:31 dubbed into ignorance and they will be destroyed
33:35 not because God wants to but they've chosen
33:39 a lack of knowledge. You know you've brought
33:42 that up lack of knowledge, I just want to bring
33:44 a reference to this study that you talked about,
33:46 you know ignorance of religion ignorance. Yes.
33:49 It's a result of a new US religious knowledge survey
33:54 that was released on September 28th, 2010. Okay.
33:59 Just so they have reference point,
34:00 well why do we say that, it is a new survey they
34:02 just came out from this US, it's called US religious
34:07 knowledge survey, and we find, they found that
34:12 Americans are predominantly ignorant of religion.
34:15 And that's reality. Interesting, Yeah.
34:17 And the churches support that in the sense that
34:20 they say to people when a pastor stands up and says
34:22 it doesn't matter, he is saying stay ignorant
34:24 you'll make it to heaven anyway. When he says
34:26 God Sabbath doesn't matter stay ignorant just enjoy
34:29 the service anyway, I think we have to transition
34:34 to our topic. Friends ignorant is not the way of the Lord.
34:37 Ignorance is not the way of the Lord,
34:40 there is a way that seems right to a man but
34:42 in the end there off is the way of death.
34:45 don't do what seems right, make sure you are right,
34:49 if Jesus resisted the devil by saying it is written
34:52 how are you gonna resist the devil by saying
34:54 I don't know what's written.
34:57 Well, and we're asking everyone to go back
34:59 to the word to establish the truth. Back to the word.
35:02 Not to go to their pastor.
35:04 Not even to go to us I mean we are tying to because
35:07 provoke you to study the word.
35:09 We are not trying to say believe us.
35:10 We are telling you what we have found
35:14 and we're asking you go to the word to confirm it
35:17 or reject it, that's what the Bible calls you to do.
35:19 The Berean Church reference there,
35:22 they heard the words, the messages of Paul
35:24 in the time of the early church and then daily
35:27 they would search the scriptures to see whether
35:29 or not those things that were being told were
35:31 true. And people aren't doing it anything more.
35:33 You know, so much is going through my mind
35:36 right now, I'm like a water fountain that just keeps
35:38 spilling here and I want to make sure I'm going
35:40 in the right in the direction, it reminds me of the
35:44 wilderness experience with Satan and Jesus when
35:46 he came to attempt Jesus, Jesus resisted him
35:48 by the word. People nowadays are not reading
35:51 and they are being told by the ministers all you got
35:53 to say is I rebuke you devil. Like you have some
35:56 authority, the devil didn't respond to Christ like
35:59 I rebuke thee, the Lord said it is written,
36:02 it is written, it is written, and we have a
36:03 generation that don't know what's written,
36:05 don't know what's written, don't know what's written,
36:07 we're just going to rebuke the devil and he is going
36:09 to stand there and laugh at us because
36:11 he has nothing to fear us for.
36:14 As the example of the person that tried to step up
36:18 to rebuke the devil in the New Testament
36:20 and the devil undressed him, he dressed him
36:23 down and left him naked. That's right, he says.
36:25 Who are you? He said Paul,
36:27 Jesus I know and Paul I know, well who are you.
36:31 And the demons whipped him and stripped him
36:32 and send him running into the streets naked.
36:35 You do not want to be naked, the word of God
36:37 is the power by which we can be clothed,
36:40 also in his righteousness anyway.
36:44 Thank you for that question you really got our motives
36:46 going but that's the important thing, get back
36:48 to the word, stop being an ignorant Christian
36:50 because you could not perform your day by day
36:52 job in the atmosphere of ignorance and really
36:55 get paid for it. If you have any questions
36:58 if we've stimulated your mind to think about
37:00 anything send those questions to
37:02 housecalls@3ABN.org, that's housecalls@3ABN.org
37:09 and then we will continue to answer from the word
37:12 of God those questions thank you very much.
37:15 Now John, transitions for us into our topic on the
37:18 millennium what we are going to do today,
37:21 we are going to cover three actual,
37:24 yeah we have a couple more programs
37:25 that we are going to do on the millennium, okay.
37:27 And we've already covered aspects of the events
37:30 leading up to the millennium, but there is a few
37:32 things we haven't covered yet,
37:33 so we're going to kind of cover the last few events
37:36 leading up to the entrance or the time of the millennium,
37:39 alright, the thousand years and then we are going to,
37:43 then talk a little bit about what happens during
37:45 the 1000 years, alright, and so let's do this we've
37:49 already learned that Jesus is going to return visibly,
37:54 audibly, literally at the end to call the saints,
37:59 who sleep in Jesus up from the grave,
38:01 those who are alive in Christ will remain alive
38:04 and could be caught up with him to meet the Lord
38:06 in the air, they will be received by the Lord as we
38:09 talked about, they are met, they meet God but
38:12 Jesus but Jesus receives them into his kingdom
38:14 that is he takes them back and gives them they
38:18 have this great supper of the lamb and they enter
38:20 into the glory of the Lord and the heavenly
38:23 kingdom. They all receive immortal bodies,
38:27 we read First Corinthians 15, how immortality is given,
38:31 saints at the resurrection and also how at that
38:35 time and we didn't really elaborate on this too much,
38:38 but those who were not in Christ who had,
38:42 who were dead were not resurrected, that's right,
38:45 and those who were not in Christ at the time
38:48 of his return, they actually died by the brightness
38:51 of Christ return of his coming, because anybody
38:55 that retains or holds on to sin, is going to naturally
38:58 perish as in the presence of the holy God.
39:01 So, when Jesus appears in his glory they
39:03 won't be able to stand that in fact,
39:05 if you look at Revelation 6, it talks about
39:07 what their response is to the coming of Christ.
39:11 That's right let's go there, Revelation Chapter 6.
39:15 We are going to look at how they do not really
39:18 want to see Jesus, they are not going to greet him,
39:20 they just don't want to. Revelation 6,
39:23 verse 12 describes what happens on the earth
39:29 just immediately preceding the coming of Christ
39:31 and what happens when they see Jesus in the clouds
39:35 of glory coming back. Verse 12, this is the sixth
39:38 seal now. I looked when he opened the sixth seal
39:41 and behold there was a great earthquake;
39:44 and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair,
39:46 and the moon became like blood;
39:48 and the stars of Heaven fell to the Earth,
39:50 as a fig tree drops it's late figs when it is
39:53 shaken by a mighty wind. Then the sky receded
39:57 as a scroll, when it is rolled up,
39:58 and every mountain and island was moved
40:01 out of its place. That also is a description
40:04 elsewhere in scriptures about what happens
40:06 when Christ returns. That's right.
40:08 Verse 15, and the Kings of the Earth, the great men,
40:11 the rich men, the commanders,
40:12 the mighty men, every slave and every free men
40:14 hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks
40:17 of the mountains and said to the mountains
40:19 and rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the
40:23 face of him who sits on the throne and from
40:26 the wrath of the Lamb! For his, for the great
40:29 day of his wrath has come, and who is able to stand?
40:34 So there we see John a description of the response
40:38 of the wicked who are alive at that time,
40:40 they don't want to see Christ, they are trying
40:42 hide from Him, but they cannot hide from
40:45 his wrath, they will perish right there and then
40:47 as Jeremiah talks about there will be bodies
40:50 just thrown on the ground. That's right.
40:53 So let's recap that, the second coming of Jesus
40:55 is for his saints. The righteous dead are raised
40:59 to life, the righteous are given immortality;
41:04 the righteous are given bodies like Jesus.
41:07 All righteous caught up into the clouds and the
41:11 living wicked slain by the breath of the Lord's mouth,
41:15 that is by the power that comes to him by his word
41:17 actually that's what that means.
41:19 The wicked that are in the grave remain
41:21 there until the end of the 1000 years.
41:23 And we talked about that. Last day revelation 20
41:26 the rest of the dead did not live again until
41:29 1000 years were finished. And Jesus takes the
41:32 righteous to Heaven and then something else Satan
41:36 is bound. Would you spend sometimes on this?
41:38 We are going to do that one, Satan is bound
41:39 for 1000 years, that's a very important topic
41:42 because you know well let's break it down to the
41:46 first when he was first kicked out of Heaven,
41:50 then cast to the Earth, then released, then finally
41:54 bound. Okay, because there is a whole lot in the Bible
41:57 that is talked about in order for us to appreciate
41:59 the fact that he is gonna to be bound for 1000 years.
42:02 We have to look at some of things that the Bible says,
42:05 how did he get to the Earth, and what process
42:09 was used to restrict him or what process is used
42:14 to restrict his activity on the Earth,
42:16 because we know that if he had free reign all of us
42:18 will be dead. Yeah. So, what happened to restrict him,
42:21 how did he get to the Earth. I think it would be good
42:23 to go ahead and look at that and I think a good
42:26 place to begin is Revelation 12,
42:27 Do you want to start there? Sure.
42:28 Let's go to Revelation chapter 12,
42:30 and look at what happened for Satan to be kicked out
42:35 and brought down here. Let's see we could begin
42:39 actually, if you want to in verse 7,
42:42 go ahead read that for us John.
42:44 And war broke out in Heaven,
42:46 Michael and his Angels fight with the dragon and the
42:49 dragon and his angels fought, but they did not
42:52 prevail, nor was a place found for them in Heaven
42:54 any longer. So the great dragon was cast out,
42:58 that serpent of old called the Devil and Satan,
43:01 who deceives the whole world. He was cast to Earth,
43:04 and his angels were cast out with him.
43:07 Then I heard a loud voice saying in Heaven,
43:09 now salvation and strength and the kingdom of our God
43:13 and the power of his Christ have come,
43:14 for the accuser of our brethren who accused them
43:18 before our God day and night has been cast down.
43:24 And so you see I would actually gone from
43:26 verse 7 to 9, because verse 10 gives us a glimpse
43:30 into the casting down not just the casting out,
43:34 but the casting down. Right, right, casting out of Heaven
43:37 verse 10 cast down. Exactly and the difference
43:40 there would be Jesus made sure that Satan would not
43:44 have continued preeminence as the court and court
43:48 ruler of this world, as the prince of this world.
43:51 You know let me read John 12:31.
43:54 Okay let's g to John 12:31.
43:56 It's not to necessary get off of course here but
43:58 it's got to be, it's connecting verse here.
44:02 Alright. John 12 verse 31, Now is the judgment
44:09 of this world: now the ruler of this world will be
44:12 cast out, And if I am lifted up from the Earth,
44:17 I will draw all peoples to myself, so connecting
44:20 the event of Christ's crucifixion and he uses the
44:25 language here that Satan is cast out and in other words,
44:30 he is put down, his authority is taken away from him.
44:34 He no longer can even claim authority on this Earth,
44:37 but Jesus by virtue of his sacrifice has purchased
44:43 back all who by faith declare their,
44:46 their belief and their trust in him.
44:47 And that what that actually does it,
44:51 it takes away from Satan the authority that he thought
44:54 he had as John just reiterated.
44:56 What I want to point out here, is obviously
44:59 he didn't win the battle on Heaven,
45:00 praise the Lord for that and the part of that I extremely
45:03 like is where it says nor was a place found for them
45:07 in Heaven any longer. Which means if there if Satan
45:11 and his angels are no longer in Heaven,
45:13 sin won't be there, temptation won't be there.
45:17 So there will be no opportunity even no chance
45:22 of temptation existing. In the lives of perfectly
45:27 Holy and perfectly righteous beings.
45:30 You know when I add to that too,
45:31 he was cast to the Earth and some would say,
45:33 why did he, why did he do that? Why did he send
45:35 them here? That wasn't the issue so much,
45:40 the issue it's talking about there is that once sin
45:43 became prevalent in the world because Satan
45:46 did come to tempt and try and gain authority
45:48 over this world, once he gained that,
45:51 he became restricted to this Earth. That's right.
45:54 This is the only place that he could tempt,
45:56 that he could sow the seed of his rebellion
46:00 and try to increase his kingdom and that's why
46:04 it says he was cast to the Earth,
46:06 because this is where he was restricted to.
46:09 And this is the only place that man had not been
46:12 tempted at that time and had not fallen yet.
46:15 So the test this whole controversy happened
46:17 during the time of the creation, but I want you
46:20 to notice something because we find
46:21 in Revelation that Satan is bound with chains,
46:25 but go with me to Second Peter chapter 2,
46:30 Second Peter chapter 2, I want you to see that
46:32 this is not a new concept Second Peter chapter 2,
46:36 and it says in verse 4, for if God did not spare
46:41 the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell
46:47 and delivered them into chains of darkness to be
46:49 reserved for judgment. Notice what happens,
46:54 they were cast down to hell and delivered
46:59 into chains of darkness. So if you would ask the question
47:03 today, are Satan's angels in hell? Let's not go
47:09 too fast here. We are not talking about the grave;
47:14 we are not talking about the lack of fire,
47:16 because the single word hell in the English language
47:19 is not as diverse as the words in Greek and Hebrew.
47:24 Shield you find in the Old Testament,
47:27 the grave but the New Testament you find
47:29 Gehenna and Hades. You find Gehenna and Hades
47:34 that are translated into the English hell,
47:37 but you find one other word Tartaros and the only
47:40 place in the new testament where that
47:42 word is used is right here in First Peter chap,
47:45 Second Peter chapter 2 verse 4,
47:47 when it says to Tartaros it means Satan
47:50 and his angels are bound in the abyss,
47:55 translated the bottomless pit. They are already there.
47:59 Right. They are already bound in the spirit realm,
48:02 where they cannot freely exercise all of their
48:06 authority. The word the Tartaros is the spirit world
48:11 and if you look at Jesus and his dialogue when he cast
48:13 out demons one of the demons said to Jesus
48:16 have you come to torment us before our time?
48:20 Do not cast us into the Abyss. So in essence the
48:24 limitation had that, that he placed on them to limit
48:28 their power to let them know you can only go but
48:31 so far they were terrified that they would be bound
48:34 even further that they would be cast into the Abyss.
48:37 So this Tartaros is lending itself to reference that
48:41 we find later on, Satan is gonna to be bound for
48:44 1000 years. But he was bound, he is gonna to be
48:46 bound in chains again, he was bound in chains,
48:49 and today he is presently bound in chains.
48:52 Now there are times that they are permitted
48:55 to be released slightly from that and there is one
48:58 evidence in that of that occurring in
49:00 Matthew chapter 8. Let's go there.
49:02 With the demon possession of this young man,
49:07 he was demon possessed it says that he lived
49:09 in tombs, he was exceedingly fierce and I'm reading
49:13 from Matthew 8:28, so that no one could pass
49:16 that way he was totally consumed by demonic
49:20 possession. And it says that as just Jesus came
49:26 their to the shore to the meet him,
49:30 that they cried out saying what have we to do
49:33 and these are the demons now with him.
49:35 What are, have we to do with you Jesus,
49:37 you son of God have you come here to torment
49:40 us before the time, see they knew their
49:43 time was coming too. Now a good way off from there,
49:47 there was herd of many swine feedings so the
49:50 demons begged him, because Jesus now is delivering
49:53 this demon possessed man, the demons begged
49:55 him saying if you cast us out permit us to go away
49:59 into the herd of swine. And he said to them go,
50:03 and so what we find here is that in the story
50:09 they did not want to be cast into the Abyss,
50:14 they didn't want to go back to the restrictive
50:15 elements of the Abyss. They would rather go
50:18 somewhere else, they rather posses another
50:20 entity and God permitted them to posses swine.
50:24 But there is another scripture that uses and
50:27 I don't remember which gospel's uses,
50:30 it talks about these demons pleading not to be
50:32 sent into the Abyss. Looking here for that
50:36 do you. Yeah here it is in Luke, Luke chapter.
50:39 Luke chapter 8 verse 31, and they begged him
50:41 that he would not command them to go out into
50:44 the Abyss. The King James Version uses the
50:47 word the deep. Right. Okay, and the deep in fact
50:51 some people will say well that's the ocean,
50:53 some people will say the deep also refers to the deep
50:57 bottomless pit, I'm adding the word deep there
51:00 because that's not the word that is used in Revelation,
51:02 but simply saying they knew that the Lord was going
51:06 to bind them. He said don't do it yet,
51:09 please and so it says here and he broke the bonds
51:14 and was driven by demons into the wilderness.
51:16 Well, one day the demon is gonna to be driven into
51:19 the wilderness themselves, we're gonna to be talking
51:21 about that as what's happening during the 1000
51:24 years. You're gonna to see that word wildness
51:26 very significant to that. So there is a realm
51:28 and in let's finish up Second Peter, sure,
51:31 there is a realm that is a spirit realm.
51:35 Highly restricted a spiritual whelm, that we restricts
51:39 Satan and his angels from doing what they want
51:42 to do? And this realm the restriction there is referred
51:46 to as chains, chains of darkness and so that
51:52 is something that we're going to read about here as
51:54 we get to Revelation 20 at the very beginning
51:58 of the 1000 years and should we go ahead
51:59 and go there at this time? Yes let's do that.
52:02 It's a matter of fact, while you going there I just
52:03 want to mention this, Abyss that they were pleading not
52:09 to be commend and not to be bound into,
52:12 you find in Revelation 9 that the Abyss was open. Right.
52:17 You see, so chained and hurled into a spirit whelm
52:22 that men could not see them, but released for a
52:24 short season, Revelation 9 and then bound again
52:27 for the 1000 years in Revelation chapter 20,
52:31 which allows us to transition now into what happens
52:33 during them 1000 year period.
52:34 Yeah, because and here is the reasoning with what
52:37 we are about to read, if they are chained or they were
52:40 cast down into chains of darkness and then at some
52:45 point later on Satan is grabbed and the dragon
52:49 is grabbed as we're gonna to read here in chained
52:51 again, he is got to be loose.
52:53 Right, if I chain my dog.
52:55 That being that loose is Revelation 9.
52:57 If I chain my dog last week,
53:00 and I have to chain my dog again next week my
53:02 neighbors would say, why are you chaining your dog
53:05 next week again, why are you chaining your dog this week,
53:07 didn't you chain him last week?
53:08 And you have to say well he got loose. Right.
53:12 At some point if you would chained,
53:15 if he was delivered into chains of darkness that
53:17 was the key delivered into chains of darkness cannot
53:21 be seen that's why the word darkness is so
53:23 significant there because, he is in a spirit realm
53:26 where he cannot be seen, it's dark to us.
53:28 Paul says we see dimly, it is dark to us
53:32 we cannot see that spirit whelm, but that's spirit
53:35 whelm is gonna to be removed and Satan will appear
53:39 and crock himself as an angel of light.
53:41 So we will see him and his demonic angels will do
53:44 the same throughout the Earth, but then they are
53:46 gonna to be bound again during the 1000
53:48 years and good John taken us through
53:50 those very quick points in Revelation.
53:53 If you read and we've talked about this before
53:54 Revelation 19 is about the second coming of Jesus,
53:58 then you move to Revelation 20 and here
54:00 is what happens at this just right after the second
54:02 coming, what happens with Satan, it say in verse 1,
54:06 Then I saw an angel coming down from Heaven,
54:08 having the key to the bottomless pit.
54:11 Now that the word bottomless there
54:13 is the Abyss. Abyss and a Greek, the abyss and a
54:19 Greek chain in his hand, he laid hold of the dragon,
54:22 that serpent of old, who is the Devil, and Satan,
54:24 and bound him for a thousand years,
54:28 And he cast him into the bottomless pit,
54:30 and shut him up and set a seal on him,
54:32 so that he could deceive the nations no more,
54:34 till the thousand years were finished and after
54:36 these things he must be released for a little while,
54:39 he would be released again.
54:40 That's right. Here we are finding at the beginning
54:42 of the 1000 years, he is bound,
54:44 he is chained to the abyss the bottomless pit.
54:47 And that Abyss is the desolate earth.
54:52 Thank you. The reason he cannot tempt anyone
54:54 is because no one is alive. That's right.
54:57 And he is left to contemplate the actions,
55:01 his actions for the past 6,000 plus years for that
55:07 1000 years period. Yeah, nothing is worst
55:09 than a thief having no one to steal from,
55:12 a murderer having a no one to murder,
55:15 a liar having no one to deceive, and a tempter
55:19 having no one to tempt. Yeah and this issue here
55:22 is further clarified and for the saints aren't here.
55:25 No, they are not here. The millennium remember,
55:27 we talked about this before the millennium is not a
55:29 millennium of peace on the Earth where Satan
55:31 or where Jesus rules and Satan's kingdom is put
55:35 down. It is a time of the saints to dwell with Christ
55:40 in the Heavenly kingdom with a city prepared
55:44 by God for them and that's very clear here.
55:47 And as a matter of fact you read Jeremiah 4,
55:50 but I just recap two verses there Jeremiah 4
55:53 verse 23, I beheld the Earth, and lo and indeed it
55:56 was without form and void; and the Heavens
55:58 they had no light. I beheld the mountains,
56:01 and indeed they trembled, and all the hills
56:02 moved back and forth. Verse 25, I beheld,
56:04 and indeed there was no man, and all the birds
56:07 of the Heavens had fled and if you keep going further
56:10 down to verse 27, For thus says the Lord said,
56:13 The whole land shall be desolate;
56:16 yet I will not make a full end. And so what happens
56:20 is during that 1000 years, the Earth is gonna
56:22 to be desolate but there is not it, it's not done
56:24 yet, because is one more step that is to be carried
56:28 out and that happens at the end of 1000 years.
56:31 Which we'll be covering in our next program
56:34 That's right. And we'll share a few things with you
56:37 that occurred during the 1000 years,
56:39 although we have already touched on that,
56:41 which is that the saints are residing with Christ
56:45 in Heaven and we will see what is happening during
56:49 that time. You know, John this is a subject that
56:52 I think the enemy doesn't want people to know
56:55 about. And he is got everybody so deceived
56:57 about not only the rapture, but the millennium
57:00 and everything going on there.
57:01 This program is vitally important for people
57:06 not only to hear the information,
57:07 but to study the Bible. That's right.
57:08 About what is to come, the whole book of Revelation
57:11 is about and end time, time of trouble that God
57:15 wants his people to know about.
57:16 That's right and people are thinking that he devil
57:18 is gonna to be that they're gonna be down
57:20 here during the 1000 years will tend to your
57:22 house calls we lay it out based on what the Bible
57:24 says so study the word of God yourself understand,
57:27 what it means for yourself so that when Jesus
57:30 comes you will be ready. God bless
57:33 you and make that decision today.


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