Robert Jeffress - Heaven On Earth (Part 1)

April 27, 2026 | 27:29

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  • Male announcer: from the pulpit of the first baptist church of
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  • Dallas, texas, this is
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  • "pathway to victory," with dr. robert jeffress.
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  • Dr. robert jeffress: hi, i'm robert jeffress, and welcome
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  • Again to "pathway to victory."
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  • Next to the rapture, no prophetic event has caused more
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  • Controversy among bible scholars than the subject of
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  • The millennium.
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  • Will christ actually rule over a renovated earth for 1,000 years
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  • And fulfill his promise to believing israel?
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  • If so, what difference does this future event called the
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  • Millennium make in my life today?
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  • Those are the questions i'm going to answer during the next
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  • Half hour.
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  • My message is titled, "heaven on earth," on today's edition of
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  • "pathway to victory."
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  • Jeffress: a mother wrote a letter to an advice columnist in
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  • The newspaper questioning the goodness of god after she had
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  • Lost her beautiful 22 year old daughter to a drunk driver.
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  • The mother said in the letter that she, after her daughter
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  • Died, got on her on her knees and pleaded with god to bring
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  • Her daughter back to life.
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  • "you can do anything, god.
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  • You can perform miracles.
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  • Please, god, let me trade places with her.
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  • Please let me lie in that coffin and let her live out her life
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  • In peace."
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  • But god refused to answer the mother's request.
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  • At times, the mother said in her letter, she thought about
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  • Suicide, but she lacked the courage to pull the trigger.
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  • Meanwhile, the drunk driver that had killed her daughter spent
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  • Less than six months behind bars.
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  • Today, the mother wrote, "he walks in the sun while my little
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  • Girl is in a dark grave."
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  • The mother closed her letter to the advice columnist by saying,
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  • "god didn't answer my prayers, and i resent being told that i
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  • Have no right to question god.
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  • If there is a god and if i ever get to meet him face to face,
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  • You can bet your life, i will have plenty of 'whys' for him
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  • To answer.
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  • I wanna know why my little girl died and that drunk was allowed
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  • To go on living.
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  • I loved her more than my life and i miss her so.
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  • I am mad that i'm having to live in a world where she no
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  • Longer lives.
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  • I want to know why.
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  • I don't fear god, and i don't fear hell either.
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  • I know what hell is like.
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  • I've already been there since the day my precious daughter
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  • Was killed."
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  • Even though we might wince at that mother's defiant attitude
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  • Toward god, we can empathize with her questions about the
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  • Goodness of god.
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  • I mean, if there is a god, why does he allow a world like the
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  • World in which we live?
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  • A world where babies are sexually abused.
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  • Where millions of people go to bed hungry every night around
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  • The world.
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  • Why typhoons, like the one we just saw in the philippines,
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  • Kills 10,000 innocent people.
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  • Why is it god doesn't create a world where peace and freedom
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  • From conflict and perfect righteousness reign?
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  • We know from reading genesis 1 and 2 that at one time such
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  • A world did exist, but sin destroyed that world.
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  • Sin caused that paradise to be lost, but it hasn't been
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  • Lost forever.
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  • The bible says that one day jesus christ is coming back to
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  • This world, and he is going to establish a new world order in
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  • Which peace and justice and righteousness reigned.
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  • And it's that period of time when christ comes back and
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  • Establishes that brand new world order that he promised that is
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  • The focus of our study today.
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  • If you have your bibles, i want you to turn to revelation
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  • Chapter 19 as we talk about what is going to be,
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  • In a sense, a type of heaven on earth.
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  • It's a period of time we call in bible prophecy
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  • The millennium.
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  • I would suppose that outside of the rapture, no topic causes
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  • More debate in bible prophecy than the subject of
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  • The millennium.
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  • You may have heard that term before, "millennium."
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  • What does the word "millennium" mean?
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  • The english word comes from two latin words: "milli," which
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  • Means a thousand, and "annum," which means year.
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  • A millennium is a thousand years.
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  • And when we come to bible prophecy, jot down this
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  • Definition: "the millennium is the thousand-year period of
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  • Time, during which christ will reign on the earth, fulfilling
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  • God's promises to abraham and his believing descendants.
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  • The thousand-year period of time when christ will rule on the
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  • Earth, fulfilling his promises to abraham and the
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  • Believing descendants."
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  • Now, even though the word "millennium" is not found in the
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  • Bible, just like the word "trinity" is not found in the
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  • Bible, the concept of the thousand-year reign of christ is
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  • Found throughout the bible and especially in the passage we're
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  • Going to look at today.
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  • Now, look what happens when christ returns at the climax of
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  • Armageddon: revelation 19, verse 20, "and the beast,"
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  • That's the antichrist, "was seized, and with him the false
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  • Prophet who performed the signs in his presence, by whom he
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  • Deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those
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  • Who worshiped his image; and these two," the beast and the
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  • False prophet, "they were thrown alive into the lake of fire
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  • Which burns with brimstone."
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  • Now, remember i said, there are three parts of that satanic
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  • Trinity: the beast, that is antichrist; the false prophet,
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  • His lieutenant; but also satan, who is the power behind the
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  • Beast and the antichrist.
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  • What happens to satan?
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  • Well, he's not cast into the lake of fire, not at this
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  • Point, anyway.
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  • It continues in revelation 20, verses 1 and 6.
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  • Here's what happened to satan: john says, "and i saw an angel
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  • Coming down from heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great
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  • Chain in his hand.
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  • And he laid hold of the dragon, that is
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  • The serpent of old, who is the devil and satan, and he bound
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  • Him for a thousand years."
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  • Underline that phrase, "a thousand years," in your bible.
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  • Verse three, "and he threw him into the abyss, and he shut it
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  • And he sealed it over him, so that he should not deceive the
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  • Nations any longer, until the," underline it again, "thousand
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  • Years were completed; after these things he must be released
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  • For a short time.
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  • And i saw thrones, and they that sat upon them, and
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  • Judgment was given to them.
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  • And i saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of the
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  • Testimony of jesus and because of the word of god, and those
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  • Who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not
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  • Received the mark upon their forehead and upon their hand;
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  • And they came to life and reigned with christ for,"
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  • How long?
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  • Underline it again.
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  • "a thousand years."
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  • Verse 5, "the rest of the dead did not come to life until
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  • The," underline it again, "thousand years were completed.
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  • This is the first resurrection.
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  • Blessed and holy is the one who has a part in the first
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  • Resurrection; over these the second death has no power, but
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  • They will be priests of god and of christ and will reign with
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  • Him for," one more time, "a thousand years."
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  • Now, we're gonna talk about the characteristics of this
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  • Thousand-year period of time on the earth in just a moment.
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  • But here's the point i want to make right now, john could not
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  • Be any clearer about how long this period of time is.
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  • Five times in just six verses he says, "a thousand years", "a
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  • Thousand years", "a thousand years", "a thousand years", "a
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  • Thousand years", "a thousand years".
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  • And yet today, there are people, christians who study the bible
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  • And say, "well, i'm not sure how long the millennium really is.
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  • I'm not sure."
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  • Well, it says it six times in five verses, "a thousand years."
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  • Let me illustrate that for you.
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  • Let's say you write a letter,
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  • Send it this week to your brother, who lives in a distant
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  • City, and you say, "my family and i would like to come visit
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  • You and your family the day after christmas, and we would
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  • Like to stay for thirteen years, thirteen days."
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  • Years, no way, but days.
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  • "we're gonna stay with you for thirteen days.
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  • For thirteen days we look forward to having fellowship
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  • With you because we haven't seen you in a long time.
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  • Now, if thirteen days is too long, please let me know.
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  • Otherwise we'll be arriving the day after christmas and we'll be
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  • Staying for thirteen days."
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  • So, you arrive at your brother's house the day after christmas.
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  • You all enjoy about three days together.
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  • On the fourth day, your brother gets up, packs up his family and
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  • Says, "well, i guess it's time to go."
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  • You say, "what do you mean?"
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  • He said, "well, we've scheduled a ski trip.
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  • We're gonna be gone for the next two weeks."
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  • You said, "well, wait a minute, didn't you get my letter?"
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  • "yeah, i got your letter."
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  • "didn't you read the part that said we're gonna stay for
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  • Thirteen days?"
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  • "well, yeah, i read it, but i didn't know you were
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  • Speaking literally.
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  • I thought you were speaking figuratively.
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  • I didn't know you really meant you were gonna stay for
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  • Thirteen days."
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  • Well, how could you have been any more clear?
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  • You said it over and over and over again, "thirteen days."
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  • Well, it's the same thing with the millennium.
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  • People who scratch their head and say, "well, i'm not sure
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  • About this millennium.
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  • How long is it?"
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  • Listen, let's just suppose there really is a millennium, a
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  • Thousand-year reign of christ on the earth.
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  • How could john have said it any more clearly than he says it
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  • Right here?
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  • He says, "it's going to last for a a thousand years," six
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  • Different times in these five verses.
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  • Nevertheless, even though the teaching of the return of
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  • Christ, after the tribulation, for a thousand years, even
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  • Though it's clear in scripture,
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  • Many people debate the subject of the millennium.
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  • Now, you have probably heard the terms before, pre-millennial,
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  • Post-millennial, amillennial, and you wondered what in the
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  • World do those terms mean?
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  • The whole question of "pre" and "post" and "amillennialism" is a
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  • Question of when does jesus christ return in relationship to
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  • The millennium?
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  • When is the return of christ in relationship to the millennium?
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  • The pre-millennial position, the pre-millennial position,
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  • That word "pre," that prefix, means "before."
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  • The pre-millennial position is jesus's second coming is before
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  • The thousand-year reign of his on the earth.
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  • It comes before his thousand-year reign.
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  • He comes first and then he establishes his kingdom.
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  • That is the pre-millennial position.
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  • But the pre-millennial position, the one i hold to, is one that
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  • Is much more than just simply a question of timing about the
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  • Return of christ.
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  • It has to do with what you believe about god's promise to
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  • Believing israel.
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  • You see, the pre-millennialist believes that one day jesus is
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  • Coming to earth and will literally rule on the throne of
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  • David, in jerusalem in order to fulfill his promises to
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  • Believing israel.
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  • Pre-millennialists believe that god made an unconditional
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  • Promise to abraham and to abraham's believing descendants
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  • Back in genesis 12.
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  • And even though you and i, who are part of the church of jesus
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  • Christ, those saved from pentecost until the rapture,
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  • Even though we benefit from some of those promises, god has some
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  • Unique promises to believing israel such as they're gonna
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  • Dwell finally in the land that god promised them.
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  • One of their descendants, the messiah, will literally sit on
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  • The throne of david and rule from jerusalem.
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  • Pre-millennialists believe that god will fulfill their promise,
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  • His promise to israel.
  • 00:13:08.644 --> 00:13:10.479
  • Pre-millennialists see a distinction between the church,
  • 00:13:10.479 --> 00:13:14.049
  • Those saved from pentecost to the rapture, and the believing
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  • Descendants of abraham.
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  • That's the pre-millennial position.
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  • There's a second position: the post-millennial position.
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  • "post" is a prefix that means what?
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  • It means "after,"
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  • And that is the post-millennial position is that jesus christ
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  • Comes to earth after this thousand-year time.
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  • You say, well, how could that be?
  • 00:13:40.142 --> 00:13:41.844
  • Well, the post-millennialsist believes that if christians work
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  • Hard enough, things will get better and better and better on
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  • Earth and finally, we'll create kind of a utopia, a "heaven on
  • 00:13:49.852 --> 00:13:53.923
  • Earth," and the world will be such a perfect place that it
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  • Will be prepared for christ's arrival.
  • 00:13:57.159 --> 00:14:00.362
  • Now, post-millennialism was popular beginning in the
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  • Seventeenth century, all the way to about the midpoint of the
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  • Twentieth century.
  • 00:14:08.003 --> 00:14:09.538
  • But once we got into the twentieth century, and the world
  • 00:14:09.538 --> 00:14:12.308
  • Had gone through two world wars, the idea of the world getting
  • 00:14:12.308 --> 00:14:15.744
  • Better has been pretty much extinguished.
  • 00:14:15.744 --> 00:14:18.213
  • And so post-millennialism, by and large, is a dead view.
  • 00:14:18.213 --> 00:14:22.251
  • Many people don't hold to post-millennialism.
  • 00:14:22.251 --> 00:14:25.821
  • By the way, dr. truett, who was a pastor here for fifty years,
  • 00:14:25.821 --> 00:14:29.024
  • Was a post-millennialist; he believed that.
  • 00:14:29.024 --> 00:14:31.827
  • He was a product of his times.
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  • There is great excitement at the beginning of the twentieth
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  • Century that would eventually diminish after two world wars.
  • 00:14:37.266 --> 00:14:41.670
  • But i do believe, to the extent that our nation reverences god
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  • And respects his law, we can postpone god's judgment upon our
  • 00:14:46.208 --> 00:14:51.213
  • Country so that we have time to preach the gospel to as many
  • 00:14:51.213 --> 00:14:54.616
  • People as possible.
  • 00:14:54.616 --> 00:14:55.985
  • But i'm under no illusion that we are going to usher in the
  • 00:14:55.985 --> 00:14:59.154
  • Second coming of christ by creating a utopia here.
  • 00:14:59.154 --> 00:15:02.257
  • That's the difference from what we believe, that we're to be
  • 00:15:02.257 --> 00:15:05.027
  • Salt and light, and what the post-millennialist believes
  • 00:15:05.027 --> 00:15:08.630
  • About creating utopia here on earth.
  • 00:15:08.630 --> 00:15:11.600
  • The third position about the millennium is the
  • 00:15:11.600 --> 00:15:14.803
  • Amillennial position.
  • 00:15:14.803 --> 00:15:16.772
  • Now, that letter "a" before "millennial," in greek, is an
  • 00:15:16.772 --> 00:15:20.976
  • Alpha privative.
  • 00:15:20.976 --> 00:15:22.578
  • It means "no" or "without."
  • 00:15:22.578 --> 00:15:25.514
  • For example, what is a theist?
  • 00:15:25.514 --> 00:15:27.950
  • A theist is somebody who believes in god.
  • 00:15:27.950 --> 00:15:30.386
  • But if you put that alpha primitive before it, "a," an
  • 00:15:30.386 --> 00:15:34.456
  • Atheist is someone who believes in no god, or he sees the world
  • 00:15:34.456 --> 00:15:39.261
  • Without god.
  • 00:15:39.261 --> 00:15:41.330
  • Atheist; without god, no god.
  • 00:15:41.330 --> 00:15:43.599
  • When you put that letter before "millennium," amillennial,
  • 00:15:43.599 --> 00:15:47.770
  • Amillennial, it means, "no millennium."
  • 00:15:47.770 --> 00:15:52.641
  • Now, historically, there are many christians who have been
  • 00:15:52.641 --> 00:15:55.911
  • Amillennials and in all fairness, we have some of our
  • 00:15:55.911 --> 00:15:59.481
  • Church members who adopt an amillennial position.
  • 00:15:59.481 --> 00:16:03.552
  • And to be fair to them, it's not that they don't believe in a
  • 00:16:03.552 --> 00:16:06.822
  • Rule of christ, but it's a spiritual, rather than a
  • 00:16:06.822 --> 00:16:10.359
  • Physical rule of christ.
  • 00:16:10.359 --> 00:16:12.694
  • The amillennialist believes that the rule of christ described in
  • 00:16:12.694 --> 00:16:17.132
  • Revelation 20 is his rule in our own hearts after we
  • 00:16:17.132 --> 00:16:21.170
  • Accept christ as our savior.
  • 00:16:21.170 --> 00:16:23.172
  • They do not believe that there is a literal thousand-year
  • 00:16:23.172 --> 00:16:26.041
  • Period when christ will rule on the earth.
  • 00:16:26.041 --> 00:16:28.544
  • They see things as there'll be time of tribulation, there'll be
  • 00:16:28.544 --> 00:16:31.747
  • The second coming of christ, and then there'll be a new heaven
  • 00:16:31.747 --> 00:16:34.616
  • And new earth.
  • 00:16:34.616 --> 00:16:35.951
  • They see no rapture, and they
  • 00:16:35.951 --> 00:16:37.286
  • See no thousand-year reign of christ here on the earth.
  • 00:16:37.286 --> 00:16:40.355
  • What the amillennialist believes is this: he will say, "well,
  • 00:16:40.355 --> 00:16:43.692
  • Yes, god did make some promises to israel, no doubt about it, in
  • 00:16:43.692 --> 00:16:47.329
  • Genesis 12, but when israel rejected christ, god transferred
  • 00:16:47.329 --> 00:16:53.735
  • Those blessings that should have gone to israel, and he made
  • 00:16:53.735 --> 00:16:57.272
  • Them applicable to the church of jesus christ."
  • 00:16:57.272 --> 00:16:59.942
  • So, he transferred the blessings from israel to the church, and
  • 00:16:59.942 --> 00:17:04.813
  • He transformed those promises from literal, physical promises
  • 00:17:04.813 --> 00:17:09.651
  • To spiritual promises.
  • 00:17:09.651 --> 00:17:12.020
  • Thus, when the old testament talks about god's people, the
  • 00:17:12.020 --> 00:17:17.226
  • Israelites, inheriting the land one day,
  • 00:17:17.226 --> 00:17:20.229
  • Well, no longer does that apply to believing israel; it applies
  • 00:17:20.229 --> 00:17:23.332
  • To the church.
  • 00:17:23.332 --> 00:17:24.700
  • And no longer is it that piece of real estate in palestine;
  • 00:17:24.700 --> 00:17:28.003
  • It's heaven that the promises have been transformed to.
  • 00:17:28.003 --> 00:17:31.340
  • So, the idea of jews inhabiting the promised land really means
  • 00:17:31.340 --> 00:17:35.944
  • Christians going to heaven, the heavenly jerusalem, and that's
  • 00:17:35.944 --> 00:17:40.382
  • Why we say, "we're marching to zion, beautiful, beautiful zion,
  • 00:17:40.382 --> 00:17:43.318
  • We're marching upward to zion, the beautiful city of god."
  • 00:17:43.318 --> 00:17:46.121
  • They think that means heaven.
  • 00:17:46.121 --> 00:17:48.991
  • And that's how we take it instead of a literal heaven on
  • 00:17:48.991 --> 00:17:53.629
  • Earth, a jerusalem that god is going to create here.
  • 00:17:53.629 --> 00:17:57.032
  • The amillennialist sees no distinction between the church
  • 00:17:57.032 --> 00:18:00.469
  • And israel.
  • 00:18:00.469 --> 00:18:01.803
  • When you read about israel, the new israel, he's talking about
  • 00:18:01.803 --> 00:18:05.174
  • The church, not the believing descendants of abraham.
  • 00:18:05.174 --> 00:18:08.844
  • Now, here's the problem i have with that view,
  • 00:18:08.844 --> 00:18:12.581
  • And that is, that the promise god made to abraham and his
  • 00:18:12.581 --> 00:18:16.318
  • Descendants was not a conditional promise, it was an
  • 00:18:16.318 --> 00:18:20.455
  • Unconditional promise.
  • 00:18:20.455 --> 00:18:22.524
  • Remember in genesis 12, after god promised abraham,
  • 00:18:22.524 --> 00:18:25.694
  • "i'll make you the father of a great nation, a land, a seed and
  • 00:18:25.694 --> 00:18:28.397
  • A blessing," and remember how god ratified that covenant
  • 00:18:28.397 --> 00:18:31.600
  • With abraham?
  • 00:18:31.600 --> 00:18:32.968
  • In genesis 15, it says that god put abraham to sleep.
  • 00:18:32.968 --> 00:18:36.205
  • And remember, god walked through those animal pieces by himself,
  • 00:18:36.205 --> 00:18:40.242
  • Signify the ratification of that treaty.
  • 00:18:40.242 --> 00:18:43.178
  • In the old testament times, if there was a conditional treaty
  • 00:18:43.178 --> 00:18:46.448
  • Between two kings, both kings would walk together, signifying
  • 00:18:46.448 --> 00:18:50.152
  • That the covenant depended upon the faithfulness of each king
  • 00:18:50.152 --> 00:18:53.188
  • Fulfilling his part of the deal.
  • 00:18:53.188 --> 00:18:55.023
  • But when god made his promise to abraham, he put abraham to sleep
  • 00:18:55.023 --> 00:18:58.827
  • And god went through those animal pieces by himself,
  • 00:18:58.827 --> 00:19:01.697
  • Signifying that god's promise to israel had nothing to do with
  • 00:19:01.697 --> 00:19:06.068
  • Israel's faithfulness, but everything to do with the
  • 00:19:06.068 --> 00:19:08.403
  • Faithfulness of god.
  • 00:19:08.403 --> 00:19:09.905
  • And remember, david reiterated this in psalm 89, in
  • 00:19:09.905 --> 00:19:14.009
  • Verses 30 to 36.
  • 00:19:14.009 --> 00:19:16.044
  • "if his sons," talking about israel
  • 00:19:16.044 --> 00:19:18.347
  • "forsake my law," god said, "and do not walk in my judgments, if
  • 00:19:18.347 --> 00:19:22.718
  • They violate my statutes and don't keep my commandments, then
  • 00:19:22.718 --> 00:19:26.021
  • I will visit their transgressions with the rod and
  • 00:19:26.021 --> 00:19:28.924
  • With the iniquity with stripes," that is,
  • 00:19:28.924 --> 00:19:31.293
  • "i will discipline israel when they disobey me."
  • 00:19:31.293 --> 00:19:35.063
  • But look at verse 33,
  • 00:19:35.063 --> 00:19:37.766
  • "but i will not break off my loving kindness from him, nor
  • 00:19:37.766 --> 00:19:41.603
  • Deal falsely in my faithfulness.
  • 00:19:41.603 --> 00:19:43.905
  • My covenant i will not violate, nor will i alter the utterance
  • 00:19:43.905 --> 00:19:48.644
  • Of my lips.
  • 00:19:48.644 --> 00:19:50.012
  • Once i have sworn by my holiness; i will not lie
  • 00:19:50.012 --> 00:19:53.415
  • To david.
  • 00:19:53.415 --> 00:19:54.750
  • His descendants," the jews,
  • 00:19:54.750 --> 00:19:56.351
  • "will endure forever as the throne as the sun before me."
  • 00:19:56.351 --> 00:20:02.724
  • The bible says god's promise to abraham and his believing
  • 00:20:02.724 --> 00:20:07.029
  • Descendants was an unconditional promise.
  • 00:20:07.029 --> 00:20:09.898
  • And if god doesn't fulfill these promises, literally, that he
  • 00:20:09.898 --> 00:20:13.435
  • Made to be believe in israel, how can i know he's gonna
  • 00:20:13.435 --> 00:20:16.171
  • Fulfill his promises to me?
  • 00:20:16.171 --> 00:20:18.540
  • When you look in the old testament, just about every old
  • 00:20:18.540 --> 00:20:21.343
  • Testament prophet looked forward to the coming rule of messiah,
  • 00:20:21.343 --> 00:20:25.947
  • Not in heaven, but here on earth for that thousand-year period
  • 00:20:25.947 --> 00:20:29.318
  • Of time.
  • 00:20:29.318 --> 00:20:30.686
  • I want you to jot down these scriptures, we don't have time
  • 00:20:30.686 --> 00:20:32.554
  • To look at all of them, but,
  • 00:20:32.554 --> 00:20:33.922
  • Isaiah 2 verse 4, by the way, these words are chiseled on
  • 00:20:33.922 --> 00:20:37.859
  • A wall across the street from the united nations.
  • 00:20:37.859 --> 00:20:40.629
  • "and he will judge between the nations, and will render
  • 00:20:40.629 --> 00:20:43.632
  • Decisions for many peoples; and they will hammer their swords
  • 00:20:43.632 --> 00:20:46.902
  • Into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.
  • 00:20:46.902 --> 00:20:50.038
  • Nation will not lift up sword against nation, and they will
  • 00:20:50.038 --> 00:20:54.142
  • Never learn of war."
  • 00:20:54.142 --> 00:20:56.678
  • That's a period of time, known as the millennium, perfect peace
  • 00:20:56.678 --> 00:20:59.815
  • On the earth.
  • 00:20:59.815 --> 00:21:01.149
  • Isaiah 11, that we read about, the wolf and the lamb
  • 00:21:01.149 --> 00:21:03.919
  • Lying down together.
  • 00:21:03.919 --> 00:21:05.487
  • Or jeremiah 31 verse 33 and 34, "'but
  • 00:21:05.487 --> 00:21:09.424
  • This is the covenant which i will make with the house of
  • 00:21:09.424 --> 00:21:11.960
  • Israel after those days,' declares the lord, "i will put
  • 00:21:11.960 --> 00:21:15.997
  • My law within them and on their heart, i will write it; and i
  • 00:21:15.997 --> 00:21:20.135
  • Will be their god, and they shall be my people.
  • 00:21:20.135 --> 00:21:22.838
  • And they shall not teach again, each man his neighbor and each
  • 00:21:22.838 --> 00:21:26.641
  • Man his brother, saying, 'know the lord,' for they shall all
  • 00:21:26.641 --> 00:21:29.745
  • Know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, for i
  • 00:21:29.745 --> 00:21:33.548
  • Will forgive their iniquity and their sin i will remember
  • 00:21:33.548 --> 00:21:35.984
  • No more."
  • 00:21:35.984 --> 00:21:37.319
  • He was talking about a time here on earth when everybody will
  • 00:21:37.319 --> 00:21:41.022
  • Know the lord; there'll be no need for preachers anymore
  • 00:21:41.022 --> 00:21:43.658
  • Because everybody will have the lord.
  • 00:21:43.658 --> 00:21:46.361
  • God's law will be written on every human heart.
  • 00:21:46.361 --> 00:21:49.297
  • Everybody will reverence god.
  • 00:21:49.297 --> 00:21:51.633
  • Or look at the promise of zechariah 2, verses 10 to
  • 00:21:51.633 --> 00:21:55.203
  • 12, "'sing for joy and be glad, o daughter of zion; for
  • 00:21:55.203 --> 00:21:58.673
  • Behold i am coming.
  • 00:21:58.673 --> 00:22:00.008
  • I will dwell in your midst,' declares the lord, 'and many
  • 00:22:00.008 --> 00:22:02.811
  • Nations will join themselves to the lord and become my people.
  • 00:22:02.811 --> 00:22:06.314
  • Then i will dwell in your midst, and you will know that the lord
  • 00:22:06.314 --> 00:22:09.050
  • Of hosts has sent me to you.
  • 00:22:09.050 --> 00:22:10.652
  • And the lord will possess judah as his portion in
  • 00:22:10.652 --> 00:22:14.389
  • The holy land, and will again choose jerusalem.'"
  • 00:22:14.389 --> 00:22:18.593
  • Now, some people will say that all of these prophecies made to
  • 00:22:18.593 --> 00:22:22.230
  • Israel were already fulfilled.
  • 00:22:22.230 --> 00:22:24.132
  • But anyone who knows history knows that wasn't true.
  • 00:22:24.132 --> 00:22:28.437
  • Jeffress: i know someone is listening to today's message
  • 00:22:32.607 --> 00:22:35.544
  • Who's beginning to understand the urgency and relevance of
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  • Biblical prophecy.
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  • My sincere desire and prayer for you is that you will place your
  • 00:22:40.749 --> 00:22:44.319
  • Complete trust in jesus christ as your savior, so that your
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  • Future is secure in him.
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  • Times, that period of time between christ's birth and his
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  • Second coming.
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  • Until that day of christ's return, it's our responsibility
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  • Jeffress: the word "millennium" may not appear in the bible, but
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  • Throughout scripture.
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  • And i think this passage in revelation chapter 20
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  • Makes it crystal clear that jesus will rule here on this
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  • Earth for 1,000 years before the creation of the new
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  • Heaven and the new earth.
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  • Well, i know all these terms can be confusing, pre-millennialist,
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  • Post-millennialist, and so forth.
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  • So, next time, i'll continue to outline these differing views
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  • And also give a clear argument for why the millennium is a
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  • Literal thousand-year period of time when christ will rule
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  • On earth.
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  • Stay tuned for a preview of what's coming up next in our
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  • Series, "perfect ending."
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  • Jeffress: when jesus came to--get this.
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  • When jesus came, the first time on earth, he offered to set up
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  • His kingdom on earth.
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  • Had the jews received him and acknowledged him as messiah, his
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  • Kingdom could have begun at that time.
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  • You say, "well, now, wait a minute,
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  • If they had accepted him, instead of rejected him, that
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  • Would have meant no crucifixion.
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  • And if there was no crucifixion, there would have been
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  • No salvation."
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  • Exactly.
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  • You alaska.
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  • I've been there before, and every time i witness those
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  • Massive glaciers and towering mountains, i'm reminded of how
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  • Incredibly creative our god is.
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