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00:01 As you're well aware,
00:03 we're living in unprecedented times. 00:05 Join us now for Today special program. 00:12 I want to spend my life 00:18 Mending broken people 00:23 I want to spend my life 00:29 Removing pain 00:34 Lord, let my words 00:39 Heal a heart that hurts 00:44 I want to spend my life 00:50 Mending broken people 00:55 I want to spend my life 01:00 Mending broken people 01:15 Hello, and welcome to 3ABN Today. 01:18 We are really excited to bring you the teaching, 01:23 a biblical teaching today. 01:26 This is a Bible topic, 01:29 and here's what we will discuss. 01:32 We will show you from Scripture, 01:35 the manner of Christ return is, for some people 01:40 it's surprising because, boy, 01:42 the Scripture says it's visible, 01:44 it's audible, it's glorious, it's cataclysmic. 01:48 Then we're going to talk about 01:50 what happens to the wicked at His return. 01:53 What the condition of the earth is. 01:56 And then what happens to the saints 02:00 and the thousand years that we're going to spend. 02:03 And then we're going to talk about the second resurrection 02:06 and the second death that the Bible talks about. 02:09 There're so many people don't even knows in the Bible, 02:12 and it is going to be, I believe a glorious study. 02:17 Let me introduce my brother who is with me tonight. 02:21 And we're just so excited, Ryan, thank you, Ryan Day, 02:25 evangelist supreme called by God and anointed. 02:30 Praise the Lord. Thank you so much. 02:32 It's a blessing to be a part of this program. 02:34 And what we're discussing today is one of my favorite topics, 02:37 because it talks about a time, 02:38 which we're going to look forward to very soon 02:41 when Jesus comes to get us and makes everything new. 02:43 Amen. 02:45 And I just want to start off this program 02:48 with the last chapter of the Bible, Revelation 22, 02:53 an angel that's guiding John and showing him 02:56 all these things that's going on. 02:58 He says to him, verse 10, 03:02 "Do not seal the words of the prophecy of this book, 03:05 for the time is at hand. 03:07 He who is unjust, let him be unjust still. 03:11 He who is filthy, let him be filthy still. 03:13 He who is righteous, let him be righteous still. 03:17 He who is holy, let him be holy still. 03:20 And this is the time 03:22 when we get to that final point, 03:24 Jesus stands up and He says, 03:26 "And behold, I am coming quickly, 03:29 and My reward is with Me to give to everyone, 03:33 according to his work." 03:35 You know what? 03:36 We're getting close to that time. 03:38 And tonight we want to talk about what you can expect. 03:43 You need to understand 03:45 what the Bible says about Christ's return. 03:48 Ryan, you want to have a prayer for us? 03:49 Absolutely. Let's go to the Lord in prayer. 03:52 Our Father in heaven, Lord, we are so privileged 03:54 and honored as always to be here. 03:56 And we believe in the promise, Lord, 03:58 that where two or three or more gathered in Your name, 04:00 there You are with us, Lord. 04:02 And so, Father, we dare not dive into this topic 04:05 and take on such a powerful subject, 04:08 a series of subjects, 04:09 Lord dealing with the end of time, 04:12 dealing with the great coming of Jesus Christ. 04:14 The second coming 04:16 and dealing with thousand year millennial reign 04:18 and the very final events 04:20 when God deals with this sin issue. 04:22 Lord empower us with Your Spirit. 04:24 Give us the mind of Christ to be able to rightly divide 04:27 Your word of truth. 04:28 Right now we ask in Jesus' holy name. 04:31 Amen. Amen and amen. 04:34 You know, 04:35 we know that the Bible says that Jesus 04:38 is coming like a thief. 04:40 Jesus said it Himself. 04:42 He says in Matthew 24:41-42, 04:47 "Watch, therefore, for you do not know 04:50 what hour your Lord is coming. 04:52 But know this, that if the master of the house 04:55 had known what the hour the thief would come, 04:59 he would have watched 05:00 and not allowed his house to be broken into." 05:03 So we know that His return 05:06 will be unexpected by most, but listen to what` 05:11 Paul wrote to the Thessalonians in 1 Thessalonians 5:4. 05:15 He says, "But you, brethren, are not in darkness." 05:19 Darkness is ignorance. 05:21 It's absence of the light of truth. 05:23 So he's talking to the Christians. 05:24 He says, "You're not in darkness, 05:28 so that this day should overcome you as the thief." 05:33 Ryan, you and I both share something. 05:36 We both believed and were taught a secret rapture. 05:42 Is there anything secret about the coming of the Lord? 05:46 Oh, absolutely not. 05:48 The Bible is overwhelmingly clear that 05:52 when Jesus comes back again, 05:53 every single person on this planet 05:55 who's alive and even those who are in the graves 05:58 who are dead that know Jesus Christ 06:00 or went to sleep in Christ, 06:02 their savior, they will resurrect. 06:03 And so this is going to be an awesome event 06:06 where every single saved person 06:09 and even those alive that are wicked, 06:11 as we're going to get into in just a moment. 06:13 Every eye will see Him. 06:14 Everyone will hear Him. 06:15 It will be a glorious event. 06:17 And we're going to back that up by the Bible in just a moment. 06:18 All right. 06:20 So how do we know that 06:21 He's coming back in visible form? 06:23 Oh, absolutely. 06:24 Well, my favorite passage to start with, 06:26 to kind of kick us off is always Acts 1:9-11. 06:30 So Jesus has just delivered literally 06:32 His final words to His disciples. 06:35 And there's many people on looking 06:37 as He is about to ascend into heaven. 06:39 Of course, the Acts Chapter 1 records this event. 06:43 And so if you go to Acts Chapter 1, 06:44 we're going to start in verse 9. 06:46 Notice what it says. 06:47 It says, "Now when he had spoken these things, 06:50 while they watched, He was taken up, 06:53 and a cloud received Him out of their sight. 06:57 And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven 06:59 as He went up, behold, two men 07:01 stood by them in white apparel." 07:03 Of course, most scholars 07:04 and theologians believe that this is, 07:06 these are angelic hosts, like people. 07:07 Okay. 07:08 So these are angels potentially. 07:10 "So they stood by them in white apparel, 07:12 who also said, 'Men of Galilee, 07:14 why do you stand gazing up into the heaven? 07:17 This same Jesus who was taken up 07:19 from you into heaven," 07:21 and here's the key word, "will so come in like manner 07:26 as you have seen Him go into heaven." 07:29 I love that passage because if you had no other 07:31 scriptures in all the Bible, but you just had those verses, 07:35 it tells you enough to know that as they literally, 07:38 very physically, you know, very visually, audibly. 07:42 I mean, they're taking this in a very literal, 07:44 very clear sense. 07:45 They're seeing Jesus ascend into the heavens. 07:48 And, of course, the angels confirmed that just 07:51 as you see Him leaving, 07:53 He will come in that exact same manner 07:55 when He returns again. 07:57 But yet, as we know, Shelley, 07:58 as you and I were both taught growing up that we were 08:01 taught that when Jesus returns again at this rapture, 08:04 that it's kind of secret and it's silent 08:07 and only the saved will be caught up 08:09 and everyone else is just left bewildered wondering 08:11 what the world's going on. 08:13 But as we go through the Scripture, 08:14 we will see very clearly that there are multiple points 08:17 as Jesus' second coming is very visible. 08:19 It's very audible. 08:21 We're going to go through these points here. 08:22 I don't want to take it all up because I want to share it 08:23 with Shelley here, but it's very clear that Jesus, 08:26 Jesus' second coming is not a secret, silent event. 08:30 It's going to be the most incredible event 08:33 that has ever happened on this planet. 08:34 I mean, this is the glorious. Climax. 08:37 It's climax of the whole gospel 08:41 of God's grace and the redemptive, 08:44 everlasting covenant of redemption. 08:46 I used to... 08:48 I had the whole Left Behind Series. 08:50 I would just confess wonderfully written. 08:52 They were page turners, but you would hear all 08:56 of this about the secret rapture. 08:58 And then I'd read Jesus' words like Matthew 24:27. 09:03 This is what Jesus said. 09:05 He said, "As lightning comes from the east 09:10 and flashes to the west, 09:13 so also will be the coming 09:16 of the Son of Man." 09:19 Is there anything secretive about lightening 09:22 as it flashes across? 09:24 Jesus is saying that 09:27 He's coming and every eye will see Him. 09:30 Tell us about that? Absolutely. 09:31 So Christ's return as we've mentioned, 09:33 and we'll make it very clear at this point. 09:35 It is very visible, right? No one. 09:38 I remember watching that Left Behind Series, 09:40 not to keep referencing it, but I remember 09:42 there's a particular scene in that movie 09:44 where they're all on a plane 09:46 and they're 37, 38,000 feet up in the air. 09:49 And then in a moment in time, these people go missing 09:53 and their loved ones are looking beside 09:55 and the plane basically erupts in chaos because the clothes 09:59 of their loved ones and of their friends 10:01 and of their family are laying behind. 10:02 And no one seems to know what in the world is happening, 10:05 but yet it's interesting 10:07 when you read the biblical record, 10:08 for instance, 10:10 Revelation 1:7, Jesus says these words very clearly, 10:12 behold, speaking of His coming, 10:14 He says, He is coming with clouds 10:16 and every eye will see Him. 10:19 We can take that very literally because it means literally 10:23 every eye will see Him. 10:25 Another great passage there, we were in Matthew 24 10:28 and you read verse 27. 10:29 But if you go down to verse 30, notice what Jesus says here, 10:32 speaking of His second coming. 10:34 He says, 10:35 "Then the sign of the Son of Man 10:36 will appear in heaven. 10:39 And then all the tribes of the earth will mourn. 10:41 And they will see the Son of Man 10:44 coming on the clouds of heaven 10:46 with power and great glory." 10:48 I love that because Jesus is confirming there, 10:51 what is also taught. Well, we just read in Acts 1 10:53 just as they saw Him leave physically there, 10:57 and we all will see Him return in the cloud, 10:59 just like He left. 11:01 Amen. 11:02 And I hope that you at home 11:04 are jotting down these Scripture references 11:07 so that you can talk to your loved ones 11:09 and your friends about this. 11:11 And if we continue on in Matthew 24, 11:14 it's not only a visible return. 11:18 Jesus said, it's an audible return. 11:22 Listen to what He says. 11:24 He will send His angels. 11:26 He's referring to Himself in the first person 11:29 with a great sound of a trumpet. 11:32 And they will gather together 11:34 His elect from the four ends from one 11:38 and of heaven to the other. 11:40 Paul echoes this in 1 Thessalonians 4:. 11:44 He says, "The Lord Himself will descend 11:48 with a shout with the voice of an archangel 11:52 and with the trumpet of God, 11:54 and the dead in Christ will rise first." 11:58 So it's a very audible event 12:01 and Peter had something to say about this too, didn't he? 12:05 He absolutely did. Absolutely. 12:07 So the Peter, I'm sorry, go ahead. 12:09 I'm just going to say 2 Peter 3:10. 12:11 Absolutely. 12:12 So in 2 Peter 3:10, and by the way, 12:14 the scripture she just read. 12:15 I like to just mention 12:17 1 Thessalonians 4:16 and onward. 12:19 That's probably the loudest scripture in all the Bible, 12:22 just because you have, you know, 12:23 Jesus and the voice of the archangel, 12:25 the trump of God, He's coming back with a shout. 12:28 But 2 Peter 3:10 here. This is powerful. 12:31 2 Peter Chapter 3, and again in verse 10, 12:34 and notice what the Bible says here. 12:36 It says, "But the day of the Lord will come 12:37 as a thief in the night in which the heavens will pass 12:40 away with it," here it is, "a great noise, 12:45 and the elements will melt with fervent heat, 12:47 both the earth and the works, 12:49 which are in it will burn or will be burned up." 12:51 So with a great noise, and again, 12:54 my mind is taken back to that, you know, 12:56 that that Left Behind scene 12:57 where all these people are asleep on this plane. 12:59 And I'm thinking to myself, if Jesus just returned 13:02 the people that's going to see and hear Jesus probably 13:05 quicker than anyone else 13:06 is going to be those who are closer to him, 13:09 37, 38,000 feet in the air on a plane. 13:11 They're going to see and hear Him, 13:13 but it's depicted in such 13:14 a way as if no one happens to know. 13:16 No one's aware, they're all bewildered 13:18 and confused at what's happening, but yet, 13:20 my friends, we need to make it clear. 13:23 The Bible is very clear that it's not secret, 13:25 it's not silent. 13:26 Jesus will be seen. 13:27 And as we just read in those texts, 13:29 He definitely will be heard, a great shout, a great noise, 13:34 the voice of an archangel with the trump of God. 13:37 It's going to be so powerful that it's going to shake 13:38 open the graves. 13:39 That's how powerful that noise is. 13:41 Amen. And before we... 13:42 So we're seeing, it's visible, it's audible. 13:45 It's a glorious return. 13:46 Listen to what Revelation 19:11-16 says, 13:51 "I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse. 13:55 And He who sat on him was called Faithful and True, 14:00 and in righteousness He judges and makes war." 14:03 He's talking about Jesus. 14:05 "His eyes were like a flame of fire, 14:07 and on His head were many crowns. 14:09 He had a name written that no one knew except Himself. 14:13 He was clothed in a robe dipped in blood, 14:17 His name is called The Word of God." 14:20 In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, 14:22 the Word was God. 14:24 "And the armies in heaven, clothed in fine linen, 14:28 white and clean, followed Him on white horses. 14:31 And out of His mouth goes a sharp sword, 14:34 that He should strike it with the nations." 14:37 That reminds me of John 12:48 14:39 where Jesus said the words I've spoken will judge you. 14:43 So that sword is the Word. 14:46 And He Himself will rule with the rod of iron. 14:48 He Himself treads the winepress of the fierceness 14:52 and wrath of Almighty God. 14:54 And he has on his robe and on His thigh, 14:58 a name written, King of kings and Lord of lords." 15:03 So we see this is a literal. 15:07 I mean, He is coming in glory 15:11 and it is cataclysmic. 15:13 Read Revelation 6:14-17. Absolutely. 15:18 This is a... 15:19 This is an event that is going to rock this earth. 15:23 It's going to shake this world like no other 15:25 event has in the history of this world. 15:28 And so Revelation Chapter 6 and you said verses, 15:31 what verse was that? 15:33 Fourteen through seventeen. 15:34 Okay, 14 through 17. 15:35 Of course, this is a vision that John is receiving 15:37 of the second coming of Jesus. 15:39 And it says here, "Then the sky receded 15:41 as a scroll when it is rolled up, 15:43 and every mountain and island was moved out of its place. 15:47 And the kings of the earth, the great men, the rich men, 15:50 the commanders, the mighty men, every slave and every free man, 15:54 hid themselves in the caves 15:56 and in the rocks of the mountains, 15:57 and said to the mountains and rocks, 15:59 'Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him, 16:03 and from Him who sits on the throne 16:06 and from the wrath of the Lamb!" 16:09 This is powerful. 16:10 And in verse 17, it says, 16:11 "For the great day of His wrath has come, 16:15 who is able to stand?" 16:17 So it's visible, it's audible. It is glorious. 16:21 It is cataclysmic. 16:23 And you know what Jesus told us in Matthew 24, 16:28 I love this because He tells us these things beforehand 16:33 so that we won't be fooled, and listen to what He says, 16:37 Matthew 24:23, 16:39 "if anyone says to you, 16:41 'Oh, look, here is the Christ!' 16:45 or 'There!' 16:46 do not believe it. 16:47 For false christs and false prophets will rise 16:50 and show great signs and wonders to deceive, 16:53 if possible, even the elect. 16:55 See, I have told you beforehand. 16:59 Therefore if they say to you, 17:01 'Look, He is in the desert!' 17:03 do not go out.'" 17:05 That's not how He's going to return. 17:07 "Or 'Look, He is in the inner rooms!' 17:10 do not believe it.'" 17:11 And that's when He said, 17:13 "As lightening comes from the east to the west." 17:15 So is there anything secret about this? 17:19 Absolutely not. 17:20 And in fact, you know, you just, 17:21 you referenced just a moment ago 17:23 that the Christ is coming back in all of His glory. 17:26 This is a glorious appearing. 17:28 And I think that's something worth mentioning 17:29 just because when Christ came the first time, 17:31 when you start comparing 17:33 His first coming to His second coming, 17:34 He came the first time, He was clothed in the skin 17:37 and enrobed in the flesh of man. 17:39 He gave up His attributes. 17:41 He gave up His glory in heaven, but when He comes back 17:44 the second time, He's coming back not as, 17:46 of course, He's going to be the man Christ, 17:48 but He's coming back in His glorified state. 17:51 And I just want to highlight this with just 17:53 a couple of scriptures, because again, 17:55 my friends, many people, again, 17:56 look at this as Shelley has brought out 17:57 very clearly here, that that many people 17:59 believe this is going to be a secret, 18:01 silent event that it's just going to happen. 18:03 Again, they'll take those words from scriptures in the moment 18:05 and the twinkling of an eye. 18:07 And they think it's just going to be this blink and boom, 18:09 it's going to happen. 18:10 That is communicating a sense of urgency, 18:12 a sense of quickness about this event, 18:15 but make no mistake, my friends, 18:16 no one's going to be looking one moment, 18:18 turn their head the next, and people go missing 18:20 and you not know what in the world's happening. 18:22 As we have seen, you gonna see Him, 18:24 you're going to hear Him. 18:25 It's going to bring a cataclysmic event 18:27 upon this world. 18:29 And you better believe that every single person alive 18:31 is going to see the glory of not only Jesus Christ, 18:35 but notice what Matthew 25:31 says? 18:38 It says, "When the Son of Man comes in His glory," 18:42 but then notice this, 18:43 "and all the holy angels with Him, 18:46 then He will sit on the throne of His glory." 18:49 This is powerful because heaven is going to be emptied. 18:53 Every angel is coming with Him. 18:56 And, my friends, please don't make any mistake 18:58 about how powerful this is and how bright 19:01 and glorious this event is going to be. 19:03 Because I love thinking 19:04 of the story on resurrection Sunday, 19:06 when Jesus was resurrected and those Roman soldiers 19:09 were out there guarding the tomb of Christ. 19:12 And the Bible says that how many angels came? 19:16 They were just, in one case, it was just one angel. 19:19 One angel came and the Bible says 19:21 that all of these men fell. 19:24 It was multitudes of men that were guarding this tomb 19:27 all because of the glory of one angel 19:30 they fell as dead men. 19:31 Not that they died, but they passed out 19:33 at the glory of just one angel. 19:35 My friends, when Jesus comes back, 19:37 not only is He going to be in all of His glory, 19:39 but all of the holy angels with him in heaven, 19:42 it's going to be so awesome, so marvelous to behold, 19:45 and there's going to not be one person on the planet, 19:48 go wait, what's happening, what's occurring? 19:50 They're going to look up in the sky. 19:52 And the sky is going to be lit up 19:53 with the glory of all of heaven. 19:55 Amen. Amen. 19:57 And you know, we want you to understand 20:00 the reason that Jesus is coming. 20:02 Let me read, give you these two scripture references. 20:05 Acts 17:30-31. 20:09 Acts 17:30-31says, 20:12 "Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, 20:15 but now commands all men everywhere to repent, 20:19 because He has appointed 20:22 a day on which He will judge 20:25 the world in righteousness by the Man," 20:29 that's the Man Christ Jesus, 20:31 "whom He has ordained. 20:33 He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him, 20:38 by raising Christ from the dead." 20:41 So He's coming to do a righteous judgment 20:45 and to fulfill His promise of resurrection. 20:48 In John 6:40, Jesus said, 20:51 "This is the will of Him who sent Me, 20:53 that everyone who sees the Son 20:56 and believes in Him may have everlasting life, 21:00 and I will raise him up at the last day." 21:05 But now we want, 21:07 we hope you see there's nothing 21:11 secretive about His return, 21:13 but we want to talk now 21:16 with what happens to the wicked 21:21 when Christ returns. 21:22 I'll turn that over to you. Absolutely. 21:25 So, obviously, the Bible is very, 21:28 very clear about not only 21:30 what happens to the righteous who are alive. 21:33 Obviously, they're caught up to meet Jesus in the air. 21:35 We see that in Matthew 24. Yeah. 21:38 And you'll see that in just a moment in as Shelley 21:40 will bring that and project that back out for us again. 21:44 But I want to take us now to a couple 21:45 of passages just to confirm 21:47 what the Bible teaches about what happens to the wicked. 21:50 First of all, if we go to, let's go to Revelation, 21:54 excuse me, Matthew... 21:56 No, no, Luke 17. 21:57 Let's go to Luke 17 real quick. 21:59 I want to show you here from the scripture, 22:01 what is going to happen to the wicked 22:03 at the second coming of Jesus, at the appearing of Jesus. 22:06 So this is Luke Chapter 17, 22:09 and I actually want to start reading in verse... 22:13 Let's start reading in verse 26, I believe it is. 22:17 Yes, it says, 22:18 "And as it was in the days of Noah, 22:19 so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man: 22:23 They ate, they drank, they married wives, 22:25 they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah 22:27 entered the ark," notice, 22:28 "and the flood came and destroyed them all." 22:32 When it says, destroyed them all, 22:33 who is it speaking to? 22:35 It's speaking about the wicked who were left over, 22:36 those who did not entered the ark by faith, 22:39 they did not trust in the word of the Lord. 22:41 They did not trust in the warnings that God 22:44 had preached through Noah. 22:46 They did not trust in that. And therefore they were... 22:49 They were representative 22:51 of the unrighteous that perished in the flood. 22:53 Jesus says, "Just as in the days of Noah, 22:55 so will it also be in the days of the Son of Man, 22:58 when He comes." 23:00 If you keep reading, 23:01 He also brings up another example. 23:02 He brings up the example of Lot in Sodom and Gomorrah. 23:06 So notice here in verse 28, it says, 23:07 "Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: 23:10 They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, 23:12 they planted, they built, but on the day that Lot 23:15 went out of Sodom it rained fire 23:18 and brimstone from heaven and," 23:19 notice, and they continued on living for a while? 23:22 No, that's not what it says there. 23:24 It says, "And it destroyed them all." 23:27 This all happened during these great cataclysmic events. 23:30 And so Jesus goes to say right here in verse 30, 23:33 He says, "Even so will it be in the day 23:35 when the Son of Man is revealed." 23:38 Now, if you read that and you say, 23:39 "Well, Ryan, that's pertaining to something different." 23:41 You just tie that to what Paul writes 23:43 about over in 2 Thessalonians Chapter 2, 23:46 and you start reading verses 1 and 8. 23:49 When he's talking about the appearing of Christ, 23:51 he makes it very clear 23:52 what will happen to the wicked` 23:54 at the appearing of Jesus Christ. 23:55 So this is 2 Thessalonians 2:1 and 8. 23:59 Paul writes very clearly. 24:00 He says, "Now we beseech you, brethren, 24:02 by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, 24:05 and by our gathering together unto Him." 24:07 So he makes it very clear. 24:08 I'm not going to get into Shelley's part, 24:10 but he makes it very clear. 24:11 The saints are going to gather unto Him, 24:13 but what about the wicked. 24:15 He says, "And then shall that wicked be revealed 24:18 whom the Lord shall..." 24:20 This is verse 8, by the way, 24:22 "Whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit 24:24 of His mouth and shall," 24:26 there's the same word used from Luke we just read, 24:28 "and shall destroy 24:30 with the brightness of His coming." 24:32 When Jesus appears in the clouds, 24:34 my friends, the righteous are going to stand happy, 24:38 joyful, excited, praising. 24:40 And they're going to meet the Lord in the air 24:42 as Shelley's going to bring out in more clarity in just 24:44 a moment, but the wicked, 24:46 they are destroyed by the brightness 24:48 of the coming of God. 24:49 The brightness of the glory of God 24:51 is going to take the breath of life from them. 24:54 And they will be slain at the presence 24:56 of the Lord in that same day. 24:57 You know, it's a sad thing to think that people 25:03 rejected His call. 25:05 They rejected His love. 25:07 And finally divine patience has come to an end. 25:12 And, you know, Jesus is returning 25:15 so that He may complete the plan of salvation. 25:19 He's executing judgment. 25:21 And, you know, the truth be told the people 25:25 who die when He returns, 25:27 the ones who are killed by the sword 25:30 of His mouth, by the brightness 25:31 of His coming, they wouldn't have come to Him 25:34 if He gave them another thousand years. 25:36 But what's beautiful is what happens to the saints. 25:42 In John 5:28-29, Jesus says, 25:45 "Do not marvel at this, for the hour 25:48 is coming in which all 25:50 who are in their graves will hear My voice." 25:55 And then He says, "They will come forth, 25:57 those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, 26:01 and those who have done evil, 26:03 to the resurrection of condemnation." 26:06 I remember reading this to my sister. 26:08 She just, she says, 26:10 "What do you mean all who were in their graves? 26:12 She said, "Are you trying to tell me 26:15 my mother's not in heaven right now?" 26:19 But the Bible says in Daniel 12, 26:22 that all are sleeping in the dust. 26:25 And here's how he says it in Daniel 12:2, 26:27 "Many who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, 26:32 some to everlasting contempt, 26:34 some to shame and everlasting contempt." 26:38 So there's going to be two general resurrections. 26:42 And the resurrection of the righteous 26:45 is at the point of Christ's return. 26:48 But let me tell you something, those who are resurrected 26:52 are not going to precede us 26:55 who remain alive. 26:58 They're not going to go into His presence before we do. 27:01 God's got a plan 27:02 where it's going to happen for all of us at the same time. 27:04 Let me read this to you. 27:06 One of my favorite passages in the whole Bible. 27:09 1 Corinthians 15:51-55. 27:15 He says, Paul speaking to the Corinthians, 27:19 "Behold, I tell you a mystery: 27:21 We shall not all sleep," 27:23 not everybody's going to be in the grave 27:27 when Christ returns, 27:29 "but we shall all be changed in a moment, 27:33 in the twinkling of an eye," when? 27:37 "At the last trumpet." 27:39 We just looked that Jesus said that He's coming with 27:43 the last trumpet, the trumpet is going to sound. 27:46 So this is when Jesus returns and He says, 27:50 "For the trumpet will sound, 27:52 and the dead are gonna be raised incorruptible, 27:56 and we shall be changed." 27:58 Hallelujah. That's right. 27:59 He says, "This corruptible must put on incorruption." 28:04 A corruptible body can decay, but when we get our new bodies, 28:09 they're incorruptible." 28:10 He says, 28:12 "This mortal must put on immortality." 28:17 When does that happen? 28:18 The Bible always says 28:20 we are mortal until Christ returns, 28:24 as Paul says, that's when we put on immortality. 28:29 "So when this corruption has put on incorruption, 28:31 this mortal has put on immortality, 28:36 then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: 28:39 'Death is swallowed up in victory. 28:42 O Death, where is your sting? 28:45 O Hades, that's the grave, where is your victory?'" 28:49 And I just want to add one quick thing here. 28:52 In 1 Thessalonians Chapter 4, 28:56 we all know He's going to return with a shout, 28:59 with the voice of the archangel, 29:00 and the trumpet will sound, but listen to what Paul says, 29:05 just preceding that. 29:07 He says in verse 15, 29:10 "This we say to you by the word of the Lord, 29:14 that we who are alive and remain 29:16 until the coming of the Lord will by no mean 29:22 precede those who are asleep." 29:28 Wait a minute. 29:29 Some people teach they're up there in heaven 29:31 dancing around right now. 29:32 And then Paul said, 29:34 well, you're not going to get to see Him before, 29:36 because then he says the dead in Christ rise first. 29:40 Hallelujah. 29:41 So we, if you're a believer and we look around 29:45 and we see how prophecy is being fulfilled, 29:48 oh, this is an exciting time. 29:50 We're going to soon look up and say, 29:52 "Lo, this is my God. 29:55 We have waited for Him." 29:57 But now, Ryan, 29:59 when the dead 30:02 or when the wicked are slain 30:05 and the unrighteous dead stay in the grave, 30:08 the righteous who are alive, 30:12 and those who are coming up 30:14 the righteous in the first resurrection, 30:16 they're going to go up into the air to meet Jesus. 30:19 What's the condition of the earth at that time? 30:23 Absolutely. 30:24 There's several passages in Scripture 30:25 that clearly communicate to us 30:27 what happens to the earth at the very point that Christ 30:31 returns as Shelley made it very clear, 30:33 if the righteous are meeting the Lord in the air, why? 30:36 Because God's going to take us away to His kingdom, 30:38 where He has a place prepared for us, right? 30:41 He says, "I go away to prepare a place for you, 30:43 that where I am there you may be also." 30:45 We have mansions in heaven waiting for us. 30:47 Jesus is coming to get us. 30:48 And we gather to meet Him in the air. 30:51 And then the wicked, as we just learned 30:53 a few moments ago, the wicked that are left behind alive, 30:56 they're going to be slain at the presence of the Lord. 30:59 And so the question is what happens to the earth? 31:01 And I think the reason why this question is relevant 31:03 and why it's important that we answer this is because, 31:06 you know, I grew up, Shelley, you grew up 31:09 hearing this and believing this, 31:10 you know the idea 31:12 of this pre-tribulation rapture theory. 31:14 And I say that again, 31:15 pre-tribulation rapture theory. 31:17 It's a theory. 31:18 And it's not a proven theory 31:20 because it can't be backed up by Scripture. 31:21 But the idea is that the rapture 31:23 and the second coming are two different events. 31:26 Rather, we know that they're the same 31:28 event in the sense that Jesus only returns 31:30 once to get His people. 31:32 But the pre-tribulation rapture theory 31:35 teaches that the rapture happens 31:37 where God comes and takes the saints that are alive 31:39 at the time that are righteous. 31:41 And then there's seven years of horrible tribulation. 31:43 And then at the end of the seven years, 31:45 then the second coming of Jesus occurs 31:47 where according to this theory, 31:49 again, Jesus and the saints return from heaven 31:53 where they've been the last seven years. 31:55 And those who are, you know, 31:57 who have made it through the seven years of tribulation, 31:59 they'll have another opportunity to, 32:01 you know, give their heart to Jesus. 32:03 And God's going to appear at that time 32:05 and destroy all the wicked 32:06 and then reign with His people on earth for a thousand years. 32:10 Again, this is according to the theory, 32:12 it's at the second coming of Jesus, 32:14 where He's going to remain on this earth 32:16 for a thousand years after He comes. 32:18 Well, we have... 32:20 What we're about to read. 32:21 You're going to see this place is going to be uninhabitable. 32:24 There's no way you can live in these conditions 32:26 based on what the Bible teaches. 32:28 So what is the condition of the earth when Jesus appears? 32:31 Notice what the Bible says here in Jeremiah Chapter 4. 32:33 Jeremiah the prophet was given a vision 32:36 of the second coming of Jesus, 32:37 the appearing of the Lord. 32:39 And this is what he described the earth. 32:40 This is Jeremiah 4:23-26. 32:44 Again, Jeremiah 4:23-26. 32:48 He says, "I beheld the earth, 32:51 and indeed it was without form, and void, and the heavens, 32:55 and they had no light. 32:57 I beheld the mountains, and indeed they trembled." 33:00 Does that not also go in harmony 33:01 with what we read in Revelation 6, 33:03 a few moments ago, okay? 33:05 They trembled and the hills moved back and forth. 33:08 There's going to be a great earthquake. 33:10 This world's going to be shaken when Jesus returns. 33:13 Verse 25, he says, "I beheld, and indeed there was no man." 33:18 Now, what does he mean by that? 33:19 That means there was no living man. 33:21 What happened to the wicked when the Lord returned? 33:24 They were slain. What happened to the righteous? 33:26 They're not on this earth 33:27 because they're going to be with the Lord. 33:29 And so in this case, 33:30 there's no living man on this earth. 33:32 That's why he says, "Indeed there was no man. 33:33 And all the birds of the heavens were fled. 33:35 I beheld, and indeed the fruitful land 33:37 was a wilderness, 33:39 and all the cities were broken down at the presence 33:41 of the Lord, by His fierce anger." 33:45 Now you couple that with what Isaiah saw. 33:47 Isaiah the prophet saw this in Isaiah 24:19-22. 33:53 Notice what Isaiah saw. 33:54 Again, he was shown a vision of coming 33:57 of the Lord and he saw this. 33:58 He says, "The earth is utterly broken down." 34:01 And by the way, if you don't get this, 34:02 I don't know who, I don't know how you 34:04 can miss it because he repeats it over and over 34:06 what he's talking about. 34:07 He's seeing the earth, the earth, the earth. 34:10 So notice what he says here. 34:11 "The earth is utterly broken down. 34:13 The earth is clean dissolved. The earth is moved exceedingly. 34:18 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard 34:21 and shall be removed like a cottage. 34:23 And the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it. 34:26 And it shall fall and not rise again. 34:30 And it shall come to pass in that day 34:33 that the Lord shall punish the host 34:35 of the high ones that are on high 34:37 and the kings of the earth upon the earth." 34:40 And notice verse 22, this is key here 34:43 of what we're about to speak 34:44 about in relation to this thousand years that's going to, 34:48 that's going to come after this event. 34:50 Verse 22 of Isaiah 24, 34:52 it says, "And they shall be gathered," 34:54 speaking of the slain, the wicked who are slain. 34:57 "They shall be gathered together 34:59 as prisoners are gathered in the pit." 35:03 So prisoners like are gathered in a pit 35:06 and shall be shut up in the prison." 35:09 And after many days, notice this, 35:11 after many days we're going to say 35:13 it's a thousand years because that's exactly 35:15 what the Bible says. 35:16 "After many days shall they be visited?" 35:19 What Jeremiah saw, what Isaiah saw, 35:22 what we read earlier in Revelation Chapter 6, 35:25 when the great men and the mighty men are saying, 35:27 you know, let the rocks fall on us 35:28 and hide us from the face of Him. 35:30 My friends, also go read Revelation Chapter 16. 35:33 When you read what happens in that seventh 35:34 and final plague, there is no way in the world 35:38 anyone is living on this planet for any period of time 35:41 after the second coming of Jesus. 35:43 The earth is completely destroyed 35:45 and it's given a horrible make-over 35:49 in just a day's time. 35:50 And so we have to understand, my friends, 35:52 that Jesus takes the saints. 35:54 The wicked are slain and the earth 35:56 is left inhabitable for one thousand years. 35:58 Amen. And, you know, I'm glad we've used that term. 36:02 Inhabitable is what I meant to say. 36:03 I know what you meant. I didn't catch that. 36:08 We're using thousand years, 36:10 because that's what's in the Bible. 36:12 Now we call it millennium. 36:13 That's fine. 36:15 The word millennium is not in the Bible, 36:17 but the thousand years is. 36:19 And we know one thing that Satan 36:22 is still alive during this time, 36:26 because we're going to see in just a moment, 36:28 he is not destroyed until after the second resurrection, 36:32 but let me read what the Bible says in Revelation 20. 36:37 It says, "He laid hold of the dragon, 36:40 that serpent of old, who is the devil and Satan. 36:43 He bound him for a thousand years. 36:46 He cast him into the bottomless pit." 36:48 This is talking about the earth. 36:50 These are chains of circumstances. 36:52 Satan's not going to have any one to tempt. 36:55 So he's going to be roaming around on a destitute earth 37:01 for a thousand years. 37:03 And he said, listen to this. 37:05 "He cast him into the bottomless pit, 37:07 shut him up and set a seal on him, 37:10 so that he should not deceive the nations anymore until 37:15 the thousand years were finished. 37:18 But now after this, 37:19 he will be released for a little while." 37:21 So let's look at what's going on. 37:24 That was Revelation 1-3, what you just read there? 37:26 Revelation... Chapter 20:1-3. 37:29 One to three. There you go. 37:30 Now let's look at Revelation 20:4 37:35 because what's happening for us. 37:39 We who have been resurrected, we are going to be in heaven. 37:44 God is going to open all of the books 37:48 and the saints are going to be reviewing these books. 37:53 Listen to this. 37:54 "I saw thrones they sat on them, 37:57 and judgment was committed to them." 38:01 In 1 Corinthians 6:2-3, Paul says, 38:04 "Do you not know that the saint shall judge the world?" 38:08 That's right. 38:09 We're not judging the righteous. 38:10 What we're doing is, God's going to open 38:13 the books because you know what? 38:14 When we get to heaven that thousand years... 38:20 Somebody asked me the other day, 38:22 "Well, will we notice that somebody is not there?" 38:26 I said, "Yeah, we will." 38:28 And there may be, why is mama not here? 38:33 And God's going to open the books 38:36 and show all of mama's history. 38:41 And we will end up, by the time we review these books, 38:45 we are going to, Daniel 7:22 said, 38:49 "Judgment was given to the saints of the most high, 38:52 we will come into absolute agreement, 38:57 and we pass that sentence." 38:59 Listen to this. 39:00 He said, I'm going on in Revelation 20:4, 39:06 I saw the thrones, they sat on them," 39:08 this is the righteous, 39:09 "judgment was committed to them. 39:11 Then I saw the souls of those who had been 39:13 beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word 39:16 of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, 39:19 who had not received the mark on their foreheads 39:23 or on their hands. 39:24 And they lived 39:26 and reigned with Christ for a thousand years." 39:30 We're in heaven for a thousand years. 39:33 But the rest of the dead did not live 39:39 again until the thousand years were finished. 39:43 There's two general, general resurrections. 39:48 We're going to see that there's two deaths. 39:50 And then it goes on a parenthetical, 39:53 says, this is the first resurrection. 39:55 This is us up there. 39:57 Blessed and holy 39:59 is he who has part in the first resurrection, 40:03 over such the second death has no power. 40:07 They shall be priest of God and of Christ, 40:09 and shall reign with him a thousand years. 40:12 Amen. That's powerful. 40:14 That is powerful stuff when you think about it. 40:18 Now, what happens, 40:22 I believe, you know, 40:25 we know that Revelation 21 says that there's not 40:28 going to be any more tears or sorrow. 40:30 I don't know if you agree with this statement, 40:32 but I believe during this thousand years, 40:34 there may be a few tears and sorrows. 40:36 Of course. Yeah. 40:38 Chronologically speaking, that wiping away 40:40 of the tears comes after the new earth is created. 40:43 Okay. And so, yeah. 40:44 But here's what I like. 40:47 I was taught growing up. 40:49 I was a very active kid. 40:52 I was go, go, go. 40:54 I was taught growing up that when you went to heaven, 40:58 you are going to live the rest of your life, 41:00 playing a harp and floating around on a cloud. 41:03 I used to think how boring could that be? 41:05 Even though I wanted to meet God and Jesus, 41:08 I thought, how boring will that be? 41:11 But what happens after the thousands years? 41:15 So the thousand years have come to completion. 41:19 And the very first thing that happens 41:21 is what we see happening in the opening verses 41:23 of Revelation Chapter 21. 41:25 I'm going to start reading there in verse 2 41:28 and notice what John sees. 41:29 This is powerful. 41:31 He says, "I, John, saw the holy city, 41:34 the new Jerusalem coming down from God out of heaven, 41:38 prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 41:42 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, 41:45 'Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men 41:49 and he will dwell with them, 41:51 and they shall be His people 41:54 and God Himself shall be with them and be their God.'" 41:58 So immediately 42:00 when the thousand years are finished, 42:01 Satan is in total darkness. 42:03 But I could just imagine for, 42:05 you know, there comes that moment 42:06 when the nightlight lights up his whole world, 42:09 as he looks off into the distance 42:11 and he sees this glorified massive, 42:15 huge city, 42:16 1500 miles by 1500 miles by 1500 miles, huge city, 42:21 ascending down out of heaven from God 42:24 down on this broken down desolate earth. 42:27 Okay? 42:28 And then I could imagine at that moment that the devil 42:31 says, time's up. 42:36 Now it's my time again. 42:37 In fact, you read it earlier, Revelation 20:5, 42:40 it says, "But the rest of the dead live 42:42 not again until 42:43 the thousand years were finished." 42:45 This is what Shelley talked about earlier 42:47 as the resurrection of damnation. 42:49 Remember John 5:28-29. 42:52 There's the resurrection of life that happens 42:53 at the beginning of the thousand years. 42:55 Now we're at the end of the thousand years, 42:56 this is the resurrection of damnation. 42:59 All of those that were wicked, 43:02 that died at the second coming of Jesus 43:04 and that have ever lived 43:05 since the beginning of time from Cain, 43:08 all the way forward 43:09 is now going to be resurrected from the grave. 43:11 And you could just imagine that the devil now 43:14 starts back at his work. 43:16 Hey guys look at that, look off in the distance. 43:19 Do you see that bright light? 43:21 That's the new city, that's our city. 43:24 And there's someone in it that don't belong there, 43:25 let's go take it for ourselves because there's a whole lot 43:28 more of us than there are of them. 43:31 And so the Bible actually goes on to talk about 43:33 how they moved toward the city and they actually encamped 43:38 around the city to try to take the city. 43:41 But then something happens before this occurs. 43:44 So let's go to Revelation 20:7. 43:47 Let's read what verse 7 actually has to say. 43:50 It says, "Now when the thousand years have expired, 43:53 Satan will be released from his prison." 43:55 Of course, this is a prison of circumstances. 43:58 For a thousand years, he's had no one to bother, 44:00 no one to tempt, no one to torture, 44:02 no one to lie to, no one to manipulate. 44:05 He's been just him and his minions, 44:06 him and his demons. 44:08 But now all that the wicked have been resurrected. 44:10 Now he's released from that prison. 44:12 His circumstances have changed 44:14 and he's right back to old business again. 44:17 And so it says there in verse 8, 44:19 "And will go out to deceive the nations, 44:21 which are on the four corners of the earth, 44:23 Gog and Magog to gather them together 44:25 to battle 44:27 whose number is as the sand of the sea." 44:29 Now this Gog and Magog, don't get too confused. 44:32 This is a representative language of the enemies of God. 44:35 Okay? These are the people who did not. 44:37 When you go back to the Old Testament, 44:38 those who were from Gog and Magog, 44:40 they were enemies of Jerusalem. 44:41 They were enemies of the children of Israel. 44:43 So it's simply representative of all the wicked 44:46 who are against God, who did not accept Jesus, 44:49 who are not a part of that righteous group 44:52 who are on the inside of the city, 44:54 but then notice what continues to happen? 44:55 Verse 9, "Then they went up on the breadth of the earth 44:59 and surrounded the camp 45:00 of the saints and the beloved city." 45:03 And then here, my friends, 45:05 is what the Bible refers to as hellfire. 45:09 This is hell about what we're about to read about. 45:12 Notice what it says. 45:14 "And fire came down from God 45:16 out of heaven and devoured them." 45:19 Amen. 45:21 It doesn't burn them for ceaseless ages to infinity 45:24 and beyond, it says, it comes down out 45:26 of God from heaven and it devoured them. 45:28 And what does verse 10 say? 45:30 "The devil who deceived them 45:32 was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone 45:34 where the beast and the false prophet are. 45:37 And they will be tormented day and night forever and ever. 45:41 Of course, we know that forever and ever has a definite time. 45:44 It happens until the fires have served its purpose to destroy 45:48 and to burn out the stubble of the wickedness of sin. 45:52 I'm going to stop there and let you have it from here. 45:55 It's a lot, you know, a lot to talk about 45:56 in such a short time. 45:57 And we're just going to back it up a little bit, 45:59 because it's kind of like, hey, this is what's going on, 46:02 but here's the point. 46:04 Every eye will see Him. 46:07 Every tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord. 46:10 Every knee is going to end up bowing to Him 46:12 because there is going to be a great white throne judgment. 46:17 Let me read to you verse... 46:19 Revelation 20:11. 46:22 He says, "I saw a great white throne, 46:24 Him who sat on it, from whose face the earth 46:28 and the heaven fled away. 46:30 And there was found no place for them. 46:32 And I saw the dead, small and great, 46:34 standing before God, books were opened. 46:37 And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. 46:40 And the dead were judged according to their works, 46:42 by the things were written in the books 46:44 and the sea gave up the dead which were in it, 46:46 Death and Hades delivered up the death 46:49 and they were judged according to their works. 46:53 Then Death and Hades," this is the grave. 46:56 I mean, this is representing all those wicked, 46:59 "were cast into the lake of fire." 47:02 That's right. 47:03 Listen to what the Bible says. 47:05 Revelation 20:14, 47:09 "They were cast into the lake of fire." 47:13 This is the second death. 47:18 We're all destined to die once. 47:22 But if you are alive when Christ returns, 47:26 you don't even have to. 47:27 I mean, there's, you won't even die once. 47:31 But the dead 47:32 who are slain at his coming are going to be resurrected 47:37 and there's going to be a second death. 47:41 And it says not ever, 47:44 it says everyone who's not found written. 47:47 This is verse 15, Revelation 20:15, 47:51 "Everyone who's not written in the Book of Life 47:54 was cast into the lake of fire. 47:57 That second death. 47:58 I want to give you just a couple more scriptures. 48:00 Jesus said in Revelation 2:11, 48:06 "He who has an ear, let him hear 48:07 what the Spirit says to the churches. 48:10 He who overcomes shall not be hurt 48:13 by the second death." 48:15 Then he says in Revelation 20:6, 48:20 "Blessed and holy 48:22 is he who has the part in the first resurrection. 48:27 Over such the second death has no power, 48:30 but they shall be priests of God 48:31 and shall reign with Him a thousand years." 48:34 Then we just saw that when the lake of fire, 48:37 God destroyed this world with a lake of water 48:39 during the flood. 48:41 That was the first. 48:42 The second time when He rains down fire and brimstone, 48:45 this earth will be out like a fire. 48:49 And then he says in Revelation 21:7-8, 48:54 "He who overcomes shall inherit all things, 48:55 and I will be his God and he shall be My son. 48:58 And it's cowardly, the unbelieving, 49:01 the abominable, the murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, 49:06 idolaters, and all liars 49:09 shall have their part in the lake 49:13 which burns with fire and brimstone, 49:16 which is the second death." 49:18 Now Malachi makes it so clear that the day 49:23 of the Lord is coming that shall burn like an oven. 49:26 Malachi 4:1. 49:29 And it says, "All the proud, yea, 49:31 all who do wickedly will be stubble." 49:35 That fire is unquenchable 49:37 until its purpose has been fulfilled. 49:41 And it says, "It's going to see the day 49:45 which is coming shall burn them up, 49:47 that will leave them neither root nor branch." 49:52 And then he says, in verse 3, 49:54 "You shall trample the wicked, for they shall be ashes 49:57 under the soles of your feet on the day that I do this, 50:00 says the Lord." 50:02 So now He's going to create a new heaven 50:04 and a new earth, right in front of us. 50:06 That's right. 50:07 You know, what's powerful about that last point you just made. 50:09 A lot of people will... 50:11 It's hard for them to hear 50:12 what we're saying because we're being very clear. 50:14 Let's be very candid here, my friends, 50:16 no one is burning in hell today. 50:18 There is not a hell that is burning now 50:20 where people for ceaseless ages 50:22 and centuries past have been burning 50:24 and burning and burning. 50:26 What we're reading here 50:27 is that God likes this old world up 50:29 in the very end of time 50:31 before He recreates the new earth, 50:33 He likes this world up and it becomes a giant lake 50:37 of fire to deal with the sin. 50:39 In fact, it shouldn't surprise us 50:41 because even Jesus Himself, 50:42 when He told the parable of the wheat and the tares. 50:44 And he talked about the wheat, 50:46 obviously representing the righteous. 50:48 And, of course, the tares representing the wicked. 50:50 And notice what he says in Matthew 13:40, 50:52 talking about the tares. 50:53 He says, "As therefore the tares are gathered 50:56 and burned in the fire, 50:58 so shall it be in the end of this world." 51:02 When is the end of this world? 51:04 It's the end of the thousand years 51:07 what we're describing here. 51:08 It's not at the second coming of Jesus, 51:10 but it's a thousand years later, 51:11 at the end of the thousand years, 51:13 that is the end of this world right here. 51:16 And then, of course, we have the new heaven 51:18 and the new earth that God is going to create. 51:22 And that's verse 1 of Chapter 21, 51:24 Revelation 21:1, I love this. 51:27 He says, "Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, 51:31 for the first heaven and the first earth 51:33 had passed away. 51:35 Also, there was no more sea." 51:38 It's going to be so amazing that we 51:40 who are righteous on the inside of that city. 51:44 We're going to be able to physically see 51:46 God speak this world, this new heaven 51:49 and this new earth into existence, 51:51 just as he did, Shelley, at the very beginning. 51:54 Amen and amen. 51:55 And sin and suffering will come to an end. 51:58 Hallelujah. 52:00 You know, Jesus has saved us from the penalty of sin 52:03 by justifying us by grace. 52:05 He is gonna save, 52:06 or He has saved us from the power of sin, 52:10 sanctification by grace, 52:12 but He's going to save us from the presence of sin. 52:15 And I love what Peter said in 2 Peter 3:13, 52:18 "According to His promise, 52:20 we're looking for a new heavens 52:21 and a new earth in which righteousness dwells." 52:25 Wow! 52:27 We're going to come back in just a second 52:29 for a closing thought. 52:30 Please stay with us. |
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