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Amazing Facts | Doug Batchelor - The Great Judgement Day (Part 1) | August 24, 2025
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- Male announcer: coming to you from new york city at the
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- Historic manhattan center with your host, doug batchelor.
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- Join this exciting journey of discovery as we learn the truth
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- About bible prophecy, explore the timeless wisdom of god's
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- Word, and see how it relates to our lives today.
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- Stay tuned.
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- Your "amazing facts" adventure begins now.
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- Doug batchelor: i just finished reading a book about napoleon,
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- Who was quite a character, famous and infamous.
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- He conquered much of europe in the 19th century.
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- And he started out as a brilliant corporal, he was
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- Dealing with artillery, from corsica, he wasn't from france.
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- And he rose through the ranks of the french army during the
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- French revolution, and he was extremely intelligent.
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- He was a prodigy,
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- And he managed to work his way into control of
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- The nation of france and the army, and then he went from
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- Battle to battle until he had conquered much of europe.
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- And he implemented, actually, some good changes in the
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- Government that are still kept, some of the napoleonic laws, but
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- Thousands of people died in those wars.
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- Ultimately, some of the other nations in europe, led
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- Principally by england, fought with him and he was defeated.
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- And then they banished him to the island of elba and in 1813,
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- He was defeated and he was sent there and he was supposed to
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- Live out his days.
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- They gave him a certain amount of budget and some freedom,
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- He abdicated.
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- But you know, he couldn't stand this isolation.
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- He was so used to being the emperor, to having all of that
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- Power and suddenly to lose it all.
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- But after about a year, he managed a daring escape.
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- He had about 1000 soldiers that joined him.
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- He entered back into paris again, retook the government,
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- And managed to fight another 100-day war against europe.
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- It looked like he might take over again, but he was
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- Finally defeated.
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- Even after given time to think about it, he could not change.
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- He wanted to be the ruler of the world.
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- And then they banished him to the island of saint helena, the
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- Most remote outpost in the british dominion, out in the
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- Middle of nowhere, where he ultimately died.
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- Well, it makes me think about a story in the bible.
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- And so, if you have your bibles, turn with me to the book of
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- Revelation chapter 20.
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- Obviously, we're getting near the end of the bible.
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- Revelation 22 is the end of the bible.
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- Chapter 20 talks about something called the millennium.
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- And it is connected with the great judgment day.
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- Take your bibles, verse 1, chapter 20, revelation: "then i
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- Saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key to the
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- Bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
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- And he laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the
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- Devil and satan, and bound him for a thousand years, and he
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- Cast him into the bottomless pit and shut him up and set a seal
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- Upon him that he should deceive the nations no more till the
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- 1000 years were finished.
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- But after these things he must be released for a little while."
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- You can jump to verse 7: "now when the 1000 years have
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- Expired, satan will be released from his prison, and he will go
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- Out to deceive the nations once again which are on the four
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- Corners of the earth, gog and magog, to gather them together
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- To battle the number of whom is like the sand of the sea," they
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- Cover the earth like a cloud, "and they went up on the breadth
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- Of the earth, and they surround the camp of the saints, the
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- Beloved city."
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- This is the new jerusalem that comes down in the next chapter.
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- "and fire comes down from god out of heaven and devours them.
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- And the devil who deceived them was cast into the lake of fire
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- And brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are, and
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- They will be tormented day and night forever and ever."
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- What is this talking about?
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- How is it that the devil is bound for a thousand years?
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- And if you got the devil tied up, why in the world would you
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- Ever let him go, right?
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- Some are wondering why did god make a devil?
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- We've studied that, right?
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- We realized god did not make a devil.
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- All right, well, we're going to get into that, but before we do,
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- Sometimes it's fun to find out what do people on the street
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- Think about these subjects.
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- So we've got a few comments on the subject of the millennium
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- And the 1000 years.
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- Male: jesus said to us, "the kingdom is at hand."
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- If something's at hand, does that mean it's far away or
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- Right here?
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- Means it's right here.
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- So if he says the kingdom is at hand, the heaven that most
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- People think of in the sky with angels is nonsense, and we're
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- Talking about something we do here and now, and it's a
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- Practice and a commitment and a behavior that we either adhere
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- To or don't, and it's a way of being, it's a state of being,
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- Essentially, i guess, is what i'm trying to say.
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- It's a state of being.
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- Male: oh yeah, that's my next stop.
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- I hope it is.
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- Female: i like to hope so.
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- Male: possibly.
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- Male: something exists.
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- Male: i think the book of life is the book that you want your
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- Name written in, so you're saved.
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- Female: so i guess the names that are written on the book is
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- The people that are saved.
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- Female: i guess to teach you that the--just teach you about
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- Different lessons, right?
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- Like, are the lessons that you think are important are maybe
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- Not as important and--.
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- Female: i don't know anything about the book of life unless
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- You're talking about the bible.
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- Female: it's like mocha java ice cream is really my heaven.
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- Male: it's a mythical place where believers think they're
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- Going to go when they die.
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- Female: i think it's kind of like a positive image for me.
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- I'm a very realistic person, so i guess it's kind of like
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- Something above, i guess.
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- Female: home.
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- Female: heaven, oh my gosh, it's like everything.
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- I'm christian.
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- I love jesus and heaven is my future, the future of everybody.
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- We hope we can make it over there one day.
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- Male: the millennium, you mean the cut of--after life?
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- The afterlife.
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- Male: i guess is that referring to, like, when the end times,
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- When we get that here on earth.
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- Female: it's after chaos.
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- Female: well, it's the time that the bad people are on the earth.
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- Male: righteous?
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- Well, heaven with god and in space for him, yeah.
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- Female: kevin.
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- Male: i don't--i'm not really a christian, so i don't know too
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- Much about that.
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- Male: in heaven.
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- Doug: yeah, a lot of people don't know much about the
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- Millennium even though it's a 1000-year period in the bible
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- That is very prominent.
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- Now some of you were not here earlier and so you may not have
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- Seen where i illustrated that there are--there are seven
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- Epochs in bible history.
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- The bible tells us in 2 peter chapter 3: "a day with the lord
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- Is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like a day," and
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- Peter is quoting from psalm 90, where it says: "a thousand years
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- In his sight are like a day when it is gone."
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- And so when you add up the ages in the bible, it tells us adam
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- Lived 930 years.
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- And you start with adam, and then you go 2000 years and you
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- Come to the time of abraham.
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- So for the first 2000 years, you got the epoch of the patriarchs.
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- God shares the gospel through the patriarchs, adam, enoch,
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- Methuselah, noah.
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- There were some faithful people, seth, so forth.
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- Then abraham, he is called out of ur of the chaldees.
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- And god calls abraham, says, "i'm going to give your nation
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- The oracles of truth.
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- The messiah will come through your descendants."
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- For the next 2000 years from about 2000 bc till 4 bc, well,
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- Actually, from 2004 bc to 4 bc is when jesus is born, another
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- 2000 years.
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- The next epoch, you've got god preaching the gospel through the
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- Jewish nation.
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- They're the guardians of the word, they introduced jesus as
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- The messiah to the world, and the bible's then--the
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- Scripture's spread everywhere.
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- Then christ is born about 4 bc.
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- I know you're wondering how could jesus be born 4 years
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- Before christ?
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- When they established this dating method, they took an
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- Educated guess.
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- Years later they found out that they were off because we know
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- Herod the great that wanted to kill jesus as a baby, he died in
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- 2 bc.
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- Christ had to be born before he died, and we know that jesus was
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- Baptized in the 15th year of tiberius caesar, 27 ad when he
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- Was 30 years old.
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- So don't let the--that confuse you.
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- I think i already confused you.
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- Anyway, so there's 2000 years from abraham to christ.
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- Now here we are today, 2000 years after christ.
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- Total of 6000 if you--a day was--the lord's like 1000 years
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- Were--were like a 6000 years, and then we live and reign with
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- Christ for like a 1000-year sabbath.
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- You know, the jews had a program where you farm your land for 6
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- Years and then you leave it desolate for 1 year.
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- Let me read something to you in the bible.
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- If you have your bibles on you or those watching at home, you
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- Go to the last chapter in 2 chronicles is a very interesting
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- Statement where it talks about what was going to happen to the
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- Children of israel here.
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- Let me go back.
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- I got all these little tabs marking the different
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- Passages here.
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- 2 chronicles, chapter 36, children of israel are carried
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- Off to babylon.
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- They had not been keeping the annual 7-year sabbath.
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- Every 6 years they would farm their land, they were supposed
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- To then let it rest.
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- Every 6 years they could have a hebrew servant, but they were
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- Supposed to let him go free.
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- They had not been letting them go free, they'd not been resting
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- The land, and god said, "look, if you're not going to do it
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- Voluntarily, i'm going to force it.
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- And for those 490 years you've not been resting the land, i'm
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- Going to take 1 year and put you in captivity, and make the land
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- Keep sabbath."
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- Here's what it says.
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- I'm in 2 chronicles chapter 36, reading verse 21: "to fulfill
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- The word of the lord by the mouth of jeremiah until the land
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- Had enjoyed her sabbaths as long as she lay desolate for 70
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- Years, she kept sabbath to fulfill 70 years."
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- So, when the land of israel was desolate, the bible says it's
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- Keeping sabbath.
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- During the millennium, this world is desolate, it is
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- Keeping sabbath.
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- That means we're on the verge, you might say it's sundown for
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- The world, and then there's going to be 1000 years we will
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- Live and reign with christ.
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- So this millennial period, let's get into our lesson.
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- Question number one: "what begins, what events mark the
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- Beginning of the 1000 years?"
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- Answer: 1 thessalonians 4:16, don't forget you can say the
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- Answers in blue.
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- It helps other people fill them in.
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- "the lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, and
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- The dead in christ will rise."
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- The millennium beginning is marked with the coming of
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- The lord.
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- This is that supreme event in history that's going to mark
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- That out.
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- And i don't know about you, friends, but i'm looking forward
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- To that.
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- You know, in acts chapter 1, it said that the disciples saw
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- Jesus go up in the clouds.
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- And he's going to return in the clouds the same way he came, but
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- His feet do not touch the ground.
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- He told the disciples, john 14: "i go to prepare a place for
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- You, and if i go and prepare a place for you, i will
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- Come again."
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- Do you believe jesus?
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- "and receive you unto myself that where i am, you may
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- Be also."
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- Matter of fact, we got a little vision of the second coming
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- Right here.
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- I'm wondering if i could jump in that hole, what would happen?
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- It's amazing, the reality that they've got going on here.
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- You've got the second coming of jesus.
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- You know, what are the clouds?
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- Is it h2o?
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- No, it says in--if you look in psalm 104, "his ministers, the
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- Angels, his ministering spirits."
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- He's coming in clouds of glory, angels are shining beings.
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- It's clouds of light.
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- Angels are sometimes called stars.
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- What do you think the star was that the wise men followed?
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- It wasn't an asteroid or a comet that was hovering over the house
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- In bethlehem.
- 00:13:19.917 --> 00:13:21.619
- It was a band of angels that looked to them like stars, "and
- 00:13:21.619 --> 00:13:26.791
- So christ is coming," it says, "all the angels with him."
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- How bright do you think that'll be?
- 00:13:30.661 --> 00:13:33.331
- So--but his feet do not touch the ground as we are caught up.
- 00:13:33.331 --> 00:13:38.202
- So if someone starts walking around saying they're jesus,
- 00:13:38.202 --> 00:13:40.872
- Didn't christ say there'll be many false christs?
- 00:13:40.872 --> 00:13:43.708
- Don't be deceived by that.
- 00:13:43.708 --> 00:13:45.810
- The lord himself will descend from heaven, dead in
- 00:13:45.810 --> 00:13:48.212
- Christ rise.
- 00:13:48.212 --> 00:13:49.547
- In revelation 20, they do what?
- 00:13:49.547 --> 00:13:51.282
- "they live and they reign with christ for a thousand years."
- 00:13:51.282 --> 00:13:57.221
- Now, in prophecy sometimes a day equals a year and so some are
- 00:13:57.221 --> 00:14:01.092
- Wondering, is this a spiritual thousand years or is it a
- 00:14:01.092 --> 00:14:04.262
- Literal thousand years?
- 00:14:04.262 --> 00:14:06.030
- We believe it's a literal thousand years for a couple
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- Of reasons.
- 00:14:09.066 --> 00:14:10.401
- Once jesus comes, we have entered eternity.
- 00:14:10.401 --> 00:14:13.504
- We have our glorified bodies.
- 00:14:13.504 --> 00:14:15.573
- God is not using the bible to talk to us anymore.
- 00:14:15.573 --> 00:14:18.409
- We are talking to him face to face.
- 00:14:18.409 --> 00:14:20.845
- And so this is a literal 1000 years just like it is a literal
- 00:14:20.845 --> 00:14:24.682
- 6000 years from the time of adam to our present day.
- 00:14:24.682 --> 00:14:28.586
- And again, we're giving you approximates here.
- 00:14:28.586 --> 00:14:30.554
- No man knows the day or the hour, amen, of jesus's coming.
- 00:14:30.554 --> 00:14:34.492
- Could be later than you think, because the bible says he's
- 00:14:34.492 --> 00:14:37.361
- Longsuffering to us.
- 00:14:37.361 --> 00:14:38.829
- We're not willing that any should perish.
- 00:14:38.829 --> 00:14:40.831
- He's waiting as long as he can to save as many as he can.
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- It may be sooner than you think.
- 00:14:45.569 --> 00:14:47.805
- For he said in such an hour as you think not the son of man
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- Comes, and he will cut it short in righteousness.
- 00:14:50.241 --> 00:14:54.412
- So don't try to peg the day or the hour of christ's coming.
- 00:14:54.412 --> 00:14:58.215
- Now, you're going to hear me use the word "millennium."
- 00:14:58.215 --> 00:15:01.552
- The word "millennium" doesn't appear in the bible.
- 00:15:01.552 --> 00:15:03.487
- It's just a theological term.
- 00:15:03.487 --> 00:15:05.489
- It's a composite of two greek words, mille--i think it's
- 00:15:05.489 --> 00:15:09.293
- Latin actually, mille and anum, and it just means 1000 years.
- 00:15:09.293 --> 00:15:15.333
- So if you hear me say millennium, it just means the
- 00:15:15.333 --> 00:15:17.835
- 1000-year period that we're talking about.
- 00:15:17.835 --> 00:15:20.504
- It's principally found in revelation chapter 20.
- 00:15:20.504 --> 00:15:23.574
- "they live with christ for a thousand years.
- 00:15:23.574 --> 00:15:25.142
- But the rest of the dead do not live again until," when?
- 00:15:25.142 --> 00:15:29.347
- "the thousand years were finished.
- 00:15:29.347 --> 00:15:31.515
- This is the first resurrection."
- 00:15:31.515 --> 00:15:33.117
- Now, i'm glad i read that, that's very important.
- 00:15:33.117 --> 00:15:35.720
- If the dead in christ rise first, and they're the saved,
- 00:15:35.720 --> 00:15:39.290
- Who are the rest of the dead?
- 00:15:39.290 --> 00:15:42.360
- They're the lost.
- 00:15:42.360 --> 00:15:43.694
- There's only one other group left, right?
- 00:15:43.694 --> 00:15:45.062
- If all the good are saved, then what's left?
- 00:15:45.062 --> 00:15:48.532
- The bad.
- 00:15:48.532 --> 00:15:49.867
- And so they don't come forth until the end.
- 00:15:49.867 --> 00:15:52.870
- Jesus said there are two resurrections.
- 00:15:52.870 --> 00:15:55.272
- The hour is coming in which all that are in the graves will hear
- 00:15:55.272 --> 00:15:57.942
- His voice and come forth.
- 00:15:57.942 --> 00:15:59.443
- They that have done good, the resurrection of life.
- 00:15:59.443 --> 00:16:03.481
- They that have done evil, the resurrection of damnation or the
- 00:16:03.481 --> 00:16:06.650
- Resurrection of condemnation.
- 00:16:06.650 --> 00:16:08.019
- You find this also in daniel chapter 12.
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- At that time, michael will stand up, the great prince that stands
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- For the sons of thy people, and there'll be a time of trouble
- 00:16:14.258 --> 00:16:17.094
- Such as there never has been since there was a nation, even
- 00:16:17.094 --> 00:16:20.364
- Unto that same time.
- 00:16:20.364 --> 00:16:22.033
- And at that time, many that sleep in the dust of the earth
- 00:16:22.033 --> 00:16:25.169
- Will awake.
- 00:16:25.169 --> 00:16:26.570
- Some to everlasting life, some to shame and
- 00:16:26.570 --> 00:16:30.474
- Everlasting contempt.
- 00:16:30.474 --> 00:16:31.809
- The bible separates these resurrections by a
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- Thousand years.
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- We got more on that coming.
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- Number 2: "what else will happen at the first resurrection?"
- 00:16:37.248 --> 00:16:42.453
- Answer: 1 corinthians 15, verse 51: "we shall not all sleep, but
- 00:16:42.453 --> 00:16:48.492
- We shall all be," what?
- 00:16:48.492 --> 00:16:50.561
- "changed--in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the
- 00:16:50.561 --> 00:16:54.465
- Last trumpet.
- 00:16:54.465 --> 00:16:55.833
- For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be
- 00:16:55.833 --> 00:16:58.135
- Raised incorruptible."
- 00:16:58.135 --> 00:17:00.671
- It says: "he will transform our lowly body that it might be
- 00:17:00.671 --> 00:17:04.442
- Conformed to his glorious body."
- 00:17:04.442 --> 00:17:07.678
- Now, friends, i don't know if you've ever thought about this,
- 00:17:07.678 --> 00:17:09.613
- But there will be a generation of people living in the world
- 00:17:09.613 --> 00:17:13.517
- That will not die.
- 00:17:13.517 --> 00:17:17.354
- I'm not necessarily scared of death, but if i could choose, i
- 00:17:17.354 --> 00:17:20.257
- Would rather be in that group.
- 00:17:20.257 --> 00:17:23.294
- I think we all naturally have an aversion to death.
- 00:17:23.294 --> 00:17:27.098
- I think woody allen said, "i'm not afraid of death.
- 00:17:27.098 --> 00:17:29.433
- I just don't want to be there when it happens."
- 00:17:29.433 --> 00:17:32.937
- So, i shouldn't be quoting him, sorry.
- 00:17:32.937 --> 00:17:36.507
- But--so, you know, there's an experience where jesus appears
- 00:17:36.507 --> 00:17:42.313
- On the mount of transfiguration.
- 00:17:42.313 --> 00:17:45.883
- Or rather, jesus is on the mount of transfiguration and moses and
- 00:17:45.883 --> 00:17:49.186
- Elijah appear.
- 00:17:49.186 --> 00:17:51.088
- Moses died, but he is resurrected.
- 00:17:51.088 --> 00:17:54.158
- A special resurrection.
- 00:17:54.158 --> 00:17:55.493
- You read about it in the book of jude, verse 9.
- 00:17:55.493 --> 00:17:58.996
- Elijah does not die. he is translated.
- 00:17:58.996 --> 00:18:02.333
- That means he's caught up and he goes to heaven without dying.
- 00:18:02.333 --> 00:18:05.202
- Who else went to heaven without dying?
- 00:18:05.202 --> 00:18:07.905
- Enoch.
- 00:18:07.905 --> 00:18:09.273
- So there's a couple of people and there'll be a whole group of
- 00:18:09.273 --> 00:18:11.976
- People at the second coming that do not die, but in a moment, in
- 00:18:11.976 --> 00:18:16.280
- The twinkling of an eye, we get our glorified bodies and we are
- 00:18:16.280 --> 00:18:21.218
- Caught up in the air to meet those who have just been
- 00:18:21.218 --> 00:18:23.921
- Resurrected, amen?
- 00:18:23.921 --> 00:18:25.823
- I want to be in that group.
- 00:18:25.823 --> 00:18:27.591
- If the lord asks me, that's my first choice.
- 00:18:27.591 --> 00:18:31.595
- But i just want to be saved, amen?
- 00:18:31.595 --> 00:18:34.231
- What happens to the wicked?
- 00:18:34.231 --> 00:18:36.066
- You can read about that in 2 thessalonians 2, verse 8: "then
- 00:18:36.066 --> 00:18:39.570
- The lawless one," this means the antichrist.
- 00:18:39.570 --> 00:18:42.006
- It's not specifically talking about the devil here, means the
- 00:18:42.006 --> 00:18:46.177
- Human element.
- 00:18:46.177 --> 00:18:47.545
- "then the lawless one," and all the wicked, "whom the lord
- 00:18:47.545 --> 00:18:51.815
- Will," do what?
- 00:18:51.815 --> 00:18:53.250
- "destroy with the brightness of his coming."
- 00:18:53.250 --> 00:18:56.820
- Christ's coming and the glory of god is going to be like a
- 00:18:56.820 --> 00:18:59.323
- Flamethrower for the wicked.
- 00:18:59.323 --> 00:19:02.526
- But it's not going to hurt the righteous.
- 00:19:02.526 --> 00:19:05.095
- How many remember when those three hebrews were in a fiery
- 00:19:05.095 --> 00:19:08.332
- Furnace with jesus and they were not burnt at all?
- 00:19:08.332 --> 00:19:11.936
- The only thing that was burnt was the ropes that bound them.
- 00:19:11.936 --> 00:19:17.107
- You may go through the fire, but christ says, i will go with you.
- 00:19:17.107 --> 00:19:21.145
- Some through the fire, some through the flood, some through
- 00:19:21.145 --> 00:19:24.014
- The water, but all through the blood, amen?
- 00:19:24.014 --> 00:19:27.585
- All right, and then you can read in revelation 16, verse 18,
- 00:19:27.585 --> 00:19:30.721
- Verse 20 and 21: "there was a great earthquake."
- 00:19:30.721 --> 00:19:34.758
- This is what you call--in california they always say,
- 00:19:34.758 --> 00:19:37.094
- "someday we're going to have the big one."
- 00:19:37.094 --> 00:19:40.664
- They think if we ever have an earthquake in san francisco like
- 00:19:40.664 --> 00:19:43.801
- What they had in alaska in 1964 or what happened there in 2004
- 00:19:43.801 --> 00:19:49.406
- In indonesia, if we have something 9 on the richter
- 00:19:49.406 --> 00:19:52.576
- Scale, it is going to just completely level the function or
- 00:19:52.576 --> 00:19:56.447
- In los angeles we live on a fault zone there.
- 00:19:56.447 --> 00:20:00.517
- Not so much sacramento where we live.
- 00:20:00.517 --> 00:20:02.219
- We will have beachfront property if that happens.
- 00:20:02.219 --> 00:20:04.955
- But those people that are, like, in the san andreas fault,
- 00:20:04.955 --> 00:20:07.925
- They're going to have a big one.
- 00:20:07.925 --> 00:20:09.293
- That's nothing compared to this one.
- 00:20:09.293 --> 00:20:11.595
- This one's going to be 55 on the richter scale.
- 00:20:11.595 --> 00:20:15.332
- Mountains are swallowed up.
- 00:20:15.332 --> 00:20:16.734
- Islands disappear.
- 00:20:16.734 --> 00:20:18.535
- The whole earth is shaking like a reed in the wind, the bible
- 00:20:18.535 --> 00:20:21.538
- Says, "like an earthquake such as not has been since men were
- 00:20:21.538 --> 00:20:26.043
- On the earth, every island fled away, and the mountains were not
- 00:20:26.043 --> 00:20:29.546
- Found, and a great hail falls from heaven upon men."
- 00:20:29.546 --> 00:20:33.884
- Says the hailstones weigh a talent.
- 00:20:33.884 --> 00:20:36.820
- Now there's some disagreement among scholars because they've
- 00:20:36.820 --> 00:20:39.957
- Got the egyptian talent and the hebrew talent and the
- 00:20:39.957 --> 00:20:42.760
- Babylonian talent.
- 00:20:42.760 --> 00:20:44.295
- But it doesn't matter because they're somewhere between 55 and
- 00:20:44.295 --> 00:20:47.898
- 75 pounds.
- 00:20:47.898 --> 00:20:50.467
- Hailstones, if you can imagine that.
- 00:20:50.467 --> 00:20:54.805
- Revelation 20, verse 1 and 2: and during this time, "an
- 00:20:54.805 --> 00:20:59.043
- Angel," probably gabriel, who took lucifer's position, he
- 00:20:59.043 --> 00:21:03.847
- "laid hold on that dragon, that serpent of old, who is the devil
- 00:21:03.847 --> 00:21:07.184
- And satan, and bound him for a thousand years."
- 00:21:07.184 --> 00:21:11.755
- Now we're going to talk in a minute about how he's bound and
- 00:21:11.755 --> 00:21:14.058
- Where he's bound.
- 00:21:14.058 --> 00:21:15.392
- Question number 3: "who will be raised in the second
- 00:21:15.392 --> 00:21:18.429
- Resurrection, and when will that take place?"
- 00:21:18.429 --> 00:21:21.865
- We touched on it, but let's read the verses.
- 00:21:21.865 --> 00:21:25.302
- "all who are in the graves will hear his voice and come forth--
- 00:21:25.302 --> 00:21:28.739
- Those that have done good, to the resurrection of life, and
- 00:21:28.739 --> 00:21:32.009
- Those that have done evil," they've done what?
- 00:21:32.009 --> 00:21:35.145
- Evil.
- 00:21:35.145 --> 00:21:36.480
- So who's in this resurrection?
- 00:21:36.480 --> 00:21:38.015
- The lost, they have not confessed and turned from
- 00:21:38.015 --> 00:21:40.417
- Their sins.
- 00:21:40.417 --> 00:21:41.919
- The resurrection of condemnation.
- 00:21:41.919 --> 00:21:43.520
- Now, how many here have done evil?
- 00:21:43.520 --> 00:21:45.622
- All of us have sinned.
- 00:21:45.622 --> 00:21:47.257
- So our only hope is to have our sins forgiven.
- 00:21:47.257 --> 00:21:50.828
- But if we're not under the blood, if we have not
- 00:21:50.828 --> 00:21:53.297
- Surrendered to jesus, we are in the wrong resurrection.
- 00:21:53.297 --> 00:21:56.333
- By the way, if you come out of the grave and you still have
- 00:21:56.333 --> 00:21:59.036
- Wrinkles, it's not good.
- 00:21:59.036 --> 00:22:02.139
- You are in the wrong resurrection.
- 00:22:02.139 --> 00:22:05.209
- If you come out of the grave and you look in the grave next to
- 00:22:05.209 --> 00:22:07.544
- You and there's adolf hitler, that's not good.
- 00:22:07.544 --> 00:22:10.214
- You're in the wrong resurrection.
- 00:22:10.214 --> 00:22:13.851
- It says--oh, i don't think i read it.
- 00:22:13.851 --> 00:22:16.353
- Evil and the resurrection of-- the bible calls it condemnation,
- 00:22:16.353 --> 00:22:19.423
- The condemned.
- 00:22:19.423 --> 00:22:21.158
- You know, jesus said, "i did not come into the world to condemn
- 00:22:21.158 --> 00:22:23.827
- The world, but to save the world."
- 00:22:23.827 --> 00:22:26.029
- We're already condemned by our sin, we must be saved from
- 00:22:26.029 --> 00:22:28.966
- That condemnation.
- 00:22:28.966 --> 00:22:30.567
- We're under the law.
- 00:22:30.567 --> 00:22:31.935
- Jesus wants to save us from the penalty of the law, amen?
- 00:22:31.935 --> 00:22:37.107
- "the rest of the dead," revelation 25, "do not live
- 00:22:37.107 --> 00:22:40.878
- Again until the thousand years are finished," which means when
- 00:22:40.878 --> 00:22:44.748
- The thousand years are finished, the wicked are raised for a
- 00:22:44.748 --> 00:22:49.620
- Judgment, but it's more than just the judgment.
- 00:22:49.620 --> 00:22:53.424
- Notice here.
- 00:22:53.424 --> 00:22:54.792
- Number 4: "what is the condition of the world during the 1000
- 00:22:54.792 --> 00:22:59.062
- Years," right?
- 00:22:59.062 --> 00:23:00.397
- We talked about the events that begin the 1000 years.
- 00:23:00.397 --> 00:23:02.699
- Jesus comes, we're caught up to meet him if we're alive, we get
- 00:23:02.699 --> 00:23:05.536
- Our glorified bodies.
- 00:23:05.536 --> 00:23:06.904
- The dead in christ rise with glorified bodies.
- 00:23:06.904 --> 00:23:11.675
- I remember showing a picture, i think i showed it a minute ago
- 00:23:11.675 --> 00:23:14.978
- On the screen, of a mother embracing her baby in
- 00:23:14.978 --> 00:23:18.282
- The resurrection.
- 00:23:18.282 --> 00:23:19.883
- And after the program, a lady came to me in tears and she
- 00:23:19.883 --> 00:23:22.653
- Said, "can you get me that picture?"
- 00:23:22.653 --> 00:23:24.922
- She says, "i have lost two children."
- 00:23:24.922 --> 00:23:27.724
- And she said, "i just--my hope is that i will see them again in
- 00:23:27.724 --> 00:23:32.596
- The resurrection."
- 00:23:32.596 --> 00:23:34.431
- And there'll be some great reunions in that time, friends.
- 00:23:34.431 --> 00:23:38.635
- So what's the condition of the world during the 1000 years?
- 00:23:38.635 --> 00:23:43.307
- "behold, the lord makes the earth," what?
- 00:23:43.307 --> 00:23:47.144
- "empty and makes it waste."
- 00:23:47.144 --> 00:23:49.012
- No, wait, wait, wait.
- 00:23:49.012 --> 00:23:50.380
- Some of you are saying, "pastor doug, i thought we live and
- 00:23:50.380 --> 00:23:53.183
- Reign with christ down here."
- 00:23:53.183 --> 00:23:55.919
- You know, there are good christians out there.
- 00:23:55.919 --> 00:23:58.055
- There are two principal camps.
- 00:23:58.055 --> 00:23:59.957
- One group believes that we are here on the earth.
- 00:23:59.957 --> 00:24:03.927
- If you read the "left behind" books or follow hal lindsey or
- 00:24:03.927 --> 00:24:07.965
- Tim lahaye, they believe we're here on the earth during the
- 00:24:07.965 --> 00:24:10.901
- 1000 years.
- 00:24:10.901 --> 00:24:12.302
- Traditional protestants believe that we are living and reigning
- 00:24:12.302 --> 00:24:15.305
- With christ in glory during the 1000 years.
- 00:24:15.305 --> 00:24:19.276
- The bible says that we are with him, the wicked are destroyed.
- 00:24:19.276 --> 00:24:23.447
- The left behind group says you got the righteous who have
- 00:24:23.447 --> 00:24:25.916
- Eternal life reigning over the wicked who are still dying.
- 00:24:25.916 --> 00:24:29.119
- I don't know about you, but i don't want to reign over
- 00:24:29.119 --> 00:24:31.255
- The wicked.
- 00:24:31.255 --> 00:24:33.090
- I want to be with christ.
- 00:24:33.090 --> 00:24:35.225
- Let's find out what the bible says.
- 00:24:35.225 --> 00:24:37.427
- The bible says--what is the condition of the earth?
- 00:24:37.427 --> 00:24:40.931
- "behold, the lord makes the earth empty.
- 00:24:40.931 --> 00:24:44.701
- He makes it waste."
- 00:24:44.701 --> 00:24:47.004
- Reading jeremiah 4, verse 23: "i beheld the earth, and indeed it
- 00:24:47.004 --> 00:24:51.341
- Was without form, and void."
- 00:24:51.341 --> 00:24:52.676
- Now if i stop right there, you're going to think, "well,
- 00:24:52.676 --> 00:24:55.646
- That sounds like genesis."
- 00:24:55.646 --> 00:24:57.614
- Got to keep reading.
- 00:24:57.614 --> 00:24:59.783
- "and the heavens, and they had no light.
- 00:24:59.783 --> 00:25:02.452
- I beheld the mountains, and indeed they trembled, and there
- 00:25:02.452 --> 00:25:06.056
- Was no man, and all the birds of heaven had fled."
- 00:25:06.056 --> 00:25:10.294
- Doug: you know, jesus came into our world for three reasons.
- 00:25:10.360 --> 00:25:13.797
- First of all, he came as our example, to live a life that we
- 00:25:13.797 --> 00:25:17.267
- Might follow his steps.
- 00:25:17.267 --> 00:25:18.936
- He came to show us the father.
- 00:25:18.936 --> 00:25:20.871
- He said, "if you've seen me, you've seen the father."
- 00:25:20.871 --> 00:25:23.874
- And then he came as our sacrifice.
- 00:25:23.874 --> 00:25:26.176
- He died on the cross as a substitute for all our sins, but
- 00:25:26.176 --> 00:25:29.980
- We must come to him.
- 00:25:29.980 --> 00:25:31.348
- We repent of our sins, we confess.
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- He'll receive us with loving arms.
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- Why don't you ask him now?
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- Doug: what you've seen just now is only part one in
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- This presentation.
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- Make sure and join us for part two in our next broadcast for
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- Until then, god bless.
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