1 00:00:07,680 --> 00:00:10,040 Revelation chapter 20, please turn there. 2 00:00:10,040 --> 00:00:14,600 What we did just then in worship, and we continue to 3 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:20,080 worship through the teaching of the Word, is we're getting ready 4 00:00:20,080 --> 00:00:21,920 for heaven. When we get to heaven, we're 5 00:00:21,920 --> 00:00:25,240 going to be worshipping the Lord and singing together 6 00:00:25,240 --> 00:00:29,880 collectively. I'm so glad that I am saved by 7 00:00:29,880 --> 00:00:35,520 God, by His mercy. If you hear today and you don't 8 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:41,200 know Jesus Christ, my prayer for you right now is that before you 9 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:44,920 leave today, you would know Him. If you hear today and you're 10 00:00:44,920 --> 00:00:49,400 living in sin, my prayer today is that you would sense the love 11 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:53,960 of God calling you to repent, to change, to come to Him. 12 00:00:54,640 --> 00:00:56,520 He'll cleanse you, He'll forgive you. 13 00:00:57,040 --> 00:01:01,760 He'll wash away every sin and he'll love you and love you and 14 00:01:01,760 --> 00:01:09,240 love you. Revelation 20, the title of this 15 00:01:09,240 --> 00:01:13,800 morning's message, and we have a bit of a chart there for you, is 16 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:18,680 where do you fit in? Where will you belong? 17 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:20,400 We always want to fit in and belong. 18 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:23,440 At school, people fit into certain groups. 19 00:01:23,440 --> 00:01:27,280 You fit in with the, I won't use the American term, the jocks, 20 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:30,080 but in here it's you fit in with the football team or the cricket 21 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:33,640 team, or now they have a new, then the new term came out. 22 00:01:33,640 --> 00:01:36,520 You, you're one of the nerds or you're one of the good kids or 23 00:01:36,520 --> 00:01:40,040 the cool kids or whatever. And it's kind of like as we grow 24 00:01:40,040 --> 00:01:42,600 older too, we're always looking to fit in. 25 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:49,920 Well, the great thing about the Church of Jesus Christ is 26 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:57,320 everybody fits in. Everybody fits in, but most 27 00:01:57,320 --> 00:02:00,360 people have no idea what awaits them after death. 28 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:08,160 Charlie Kirk does. And you, the majority of them 29 00:02:08,160 --> 00:02:09,800 believe that they'll go to heaven. 30 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:15,640 Every funeral, it's always the same. 31 00:02:15,640 --> 00:02:17,360 They're going to see, they're going to catch up. 32 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:23,760 We know where they are, even though that person has never 33 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:29,440 acknowledged Jesus Christ, never lived for God in any way during 34 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:33,760 their life. But the sad fact of the matter 35 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:37,200 is also that the majority of believers, people in church 36 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:42,320 today, this morning, are ignorant of what awaits them 37 00:02:42,320 --> 00:02:48,520 following either the rapture of the church or should we, as 38 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:51,040 Charlie Kirk did, He's gone before the rapture of the 39 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:53,720 church. Should we die before the rapture 40 00:02:56,440 --> 00:02:58,680 this morning? In our text, we'll see in God's 41 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:03,400 words, great detail and information as we journey 42 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:08,080 through Revelation what awaits those who are passionate about 43 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:10,640 their walk. We're in the journey. 44 00:03:10,640 --> 00:03:13,440 We've we've gone through Revelation chapter 1. 45 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:16,760 Jesus appeared to John on the Isle of Patmos. 46 00:03:17,360 --> 00:03:19,960 Chapters 2 and three we had the church age. 47 00:03:21,240 --> 00:03:25,440 The rapture occurred, Chapter 4, the church is in heaven. 48 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:29,200 Chapter 5 and the tribulation begins. 49 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:32,800 Chapter 6, the great tribulation, 6 years, sorry, 50 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:37,400 seven years. We got to chapter 17 and 18, the 51 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:41,160 demolition of religious Babylon and Mystery Babylon. 52 00:03:43,760 --> 00:03:48,160 Then we have in chapter 19 the return of Jesus Christ, the 53 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:52,680 second Coming, and now we're at the point of the next phase. 54 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:59,120 It's called the Millennial mill, meaning 1000 annum per year 55 00:03:59,320 --> 00:04:03,840 years, 1000 years, and now we're in that place. 56 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:06,920 We haven't got to the new heaven and the new earth yet. 57 00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:16,079 That's in the next few chapters we'll cover a period, this 58 00:04:16,079 --> 00:04:21,079 period called the Millennium, the thousand year reign and this 59 00:04:21,079 --> 00:04:24,600 thousand year reign, Kingdom of Christ. 60 00:04:25,200 --> 00:04:29,520 Christians today are totally ignorant of if you say well, you 61 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:30,960 know anything about the Millennium. 62 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:33,720 We've got no idea. I don't know what happens then 63 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:39,640 just I know I'm saved, but I don't know what happens then and 64 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:42,280 they treat it with little importance at all. 65 00:04:43,280 --> 00:04:47,080 All Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is 66 00:04:47,080 --> 00:04:52,000 profitable. Second Timothy 316 Let's look at 67 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:54,560 verse one. We'll get through it now. 68 00:04:54,560 --> 00:05:00,960 John says then I saw an Angel, a vision coming down from heaven 69 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:04,320 having the key. That means he's an Angel of 70 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:09,360 might power, rank. He has authority and he has the 71 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:12,160 key to the bottomless pit, the abyss. 72 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:16,400 You remember when Jesus came across the Galilee and he come 73 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:20,520 across to a place called Ghadera and then this demonic demoniac 74 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:26,560 met him and he knelt the Jesus feet and the the demons spoke 75 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:29,560 through Jesus. That's right to Jesus. 76 00:05:30,920 --> 00:05:34,200 Jesus said who are you? And we said, legion this, now 77 00:05:34,200 --> 00:05:37,440 the 6000 in the legion was this man possessed with 6000, We 78 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:39,240 don't know because demons lie anyway. 79 00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:45,320 But they said please don't cast us out. 80 00:05:45,320 --> 00:05:48,600 Don't take, don't send us to the abyss, Son of God. 81 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:52,400 Remember Jesus cast them and they went into the pigs and the 82 00:05:52,400 --> 00:05:55,040 pigs threw off. And pigs do fly. 83 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:59,640 Pigs went off the Cliff and landed in the Galilee, and that 84 00:05:59,640 --> 00:06:05,720 was the end of them, the bottomless pit, the abyss, the 85 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:09,240 abuso. And a great chain was in the 86 00:06:09,240 --> 00:06:13,280 hand of this Angel, and he laid hold of the dragon. 87 00:06:13,280 --> 00:06:16,800 And now in the Greek it says he grabs him firmly. 88 00:06:17,120 --> 00:06:20,000 I love this because you and I think often people think, well, 89 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:23,680 the devil and and God, there's a struggle between good and evil. 90 00:06:23,880 --> 00:06:28,680 Nah, the devil is a created being and so most likely this 91 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:31,440 Angel who has might and power, it's probably Michael the 92 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:33,240 Archangel. We don't know, we're not told, 93 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:38,680 but he just grabs hold of Satan, grabs, he lays his hand on, he 94 00:06:38,680 --> 00:06:45,320 says come here, chains him up. And to know who this is, we laid 95 00:06:45,320 --> 00:06:50,000 hold of the dragon, the serpent of old Genesis, who is the devil 96 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:53,200 and Satan. So we're clear and bound him, 97 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:57,760 chained him for 1000 years and cast him into the Abuso, the 98 00:06:57,760 --> 00:07:02,680 abyss, the bottomless pit, and locks him in there, shuts him 99 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:08,680 up, puts a seal on him so that he should deceive the nations no 100 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:15,040 more for a period, the period, the millennial reign till the 101 00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:20,840 1000 years were finished. But after these things he must 102 00:07:20,840 --> 00:07:24,000 be released. Note that. 103 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:31,240 So we have the second coming of Jesus, the millennial reign. 104 00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:36,200 But between sandwich between those and it's not on the chart, 105 00:07:36,280 --> 00:07:40,480 there is what's called the judgement of the nations. 106 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:46,320 So when Jesus returns before the millennial reign begins, it's 107 00:07:46,320 --> 00:07:48,320 called the judgement of the nations. 108 00:07:48,520 --> 00:07:51,560 You can turn with me into your Bibles and it's a good thing to 109 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:54,360 have a Bible, especially in church. 110 00:07:55,600 --> 00:08:00,640 Matthew 25 and I'll speak from it and you can follow along and 111 00:08:00,640 --> 00:08:07,200 check it. And Jesus says, verse 31, when 112 00:08:07,200 --> 00:08:11,360 the Son of Man comes in his glory, the second coming, and 113 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:14,280 all the holy angels with him, remember we dealt with that on 114 00:08:14,280 --> 00:08:17,040 Wednesday. All the holy angels are 115 00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:21,800 returning with Jesus and the Church, the armies of heaven, it 116 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:28,240 says, and he will sit on the throne of his glory. 117 00:08:28,240 --> 00:08:35,720 The throne of God's glory, of Christ's glory is Jerusalem, the 118 00:08:35,720 --> 00:08:42,280 city of Jerusalem, and it says all the nations will be gathered 119 00:08:42,280 --> 00:08:45,840 before him. Now it says nations, actually 120 00:08:45,840 --> 00:08:50,800 the Greek is individuals. Every individual who has 121 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:55,800 survived the tribulation up to this point will be gathered 122 00:08:55,800 --> 00:09:02,560 before him, and he will separate them one from another, as a 123 00:09:02,560 --> 00:09:05,880 shepherd divides his sheep from the goats. 124 00:09:05,880 --> 00:09:10,240 Now I was learning to be a livestock buyer back in my 125 00:09:10,640 --> 00:09:13,760 younger years as a job. It was a, a, a good job and we 126 00:09:13,760 --> 00:09:18,040 had to learn how to draught what we call draught draught sheep 127 00:09:18,960 --> 00:09:22,080 and also cattle as well. Cattle you standing from, I hope 128 00:09:22,080 --> 00:09:24,840 they don't run over the top of you, but sheep they run through 129 00:09:24,840 --> 00:09:27,440 and you draught them. And so you have this gate they 130 00:09:27,440 --> 00:09:29,400 run through and you just go Yep, no, Yep. 131 00:09:29,640 --> 00:09:31,000 And they go off in different ways. 132 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:35,480 Well, Jesus is doing this, not drafting, but he is separating. 133 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:42,080 He is the shepherd, and he divides his sheep from the 134 00:09:42,080 --> 00:09:43,960 goats. So there's a gathering of the 135 00:09:43,960 --> 00:09:48,440 nation's individual people. And in this great gathering of 136 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:51,160 the nation's individuals, there are sheep and goats. 137 00:09:51,360 --> 00:09:55,680 Not literal sheep and goats, but they're all people, and he will 138 00:09:55,680 --> 00:10:00,440 separate them one from another. He will set the sheep on his 139 00:10:00,440 --> 00:10:03,760 right hand, but the goats on the left. 140 00:10:05,280 --> 00:10:08,000 So Jesus returns, he takes his throne. 141 00:10:08,520 --> 00:10:14,200 All the nations are gathered and it's called the sheep and goat 142 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:18,960 judgement. These are the survivors of the 143 00:10:18,960 --> 00:10:24,760 tribulation period. Now half of the world's 144 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:27,480 population. So it's it's about 8 now it's 145 00:10:27,480 --> 00:10:30,240 nearly 9. Let's let's round it off, say 8. 146 00:10:30,920 --> 00:10:36,760 Half the population has been decimated by, I think it was a 147 00:10:36,760 --> 00:10:41,240 Revelation chapter 8 by the events 1/4 and 1/3. 148 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:45,040 So it's just 4 billion, let alone all the other incidents 149 00:10:45,040 --> 00:10:49,600 that will wipe out people. So the world's population has 150 00:10:49,600 --> 00:10:53,280 dropped considerably. It's less than 4 billion. 151 00:10:55,800 --> 00:10:59,360 And in this group of the sheep and the goats who survived the 152 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:05,160 tribulation period, both Jews and Gentiles who have trusted 153 00:11:05,680 --> 00:11:11,880 Christ as their Saviour during the tribulation, but also the 154 00:11:11,880 --> 00:11:17,400 people who are not saved but still somehow survive the 155 00:11:17,400 --> 00:11:21,400 tribulation period, the saved people. 156 00:11:21,880 --> 00:11:27,520 Jesus calls them the sheep and he speaks of them in Matthew 25. 157 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:34,240 The unsaved people, people who have not received Christ, but 158 00:11:34,240 --> 00:11:38,280 yet still survived the tribulation period of the goats. 159 00:11:39,480 --> 00:11:44,640 Verse 34 And the king will say to those on his right hand, come 160 00:11:44,880 --> 00:11:50,520 you blessed of my Father, that is those who got saved and 161 00:11:50,520 --> 00:11:52,480 survived during the tribulation period. 162 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:56,720 And he says inherit the Kingdom. This is the thousand year reign 163 00:11:57,080 --> 00:12:01,280 prepared for you from the foundation of the world. 164 00:12:01,560 --> 00:12:04,640 So people surviving the tribulation period who are saved 165 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:10,360 will now be invited into the next 1000 years of living upon 166 00:12:10,360 --> 00:12:16,200 the earth. Come inherit the Kingdom amongst 167 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:21,320 those who remember the 144,000 Jews, remember evangelists went 168 00:12:21,320 --> 00:12:25,760 around the world. These saved survivors will 169 00:12:25,760 --> 00:12:30,360 immediately join Jesus Christ and the Saints because remember, 170 00:12:30,680 --> 00:12:34,040 prior to the Millennium, Jesus has returned. 171 00:12:34,040 --> 00:12:38,920 We cover that on Wednesday and we the Church returned with Him 172 00:12:38,920 --> 00:12:41,880 at the second coming. So then that second coming is 173 00:12:41,880 --> 00:12:45,280 not something where we watch and see it happen because we're 174 00:12:45,280 --> 00:12:50,200 taken to heaven in chapters 4, we see the throne of God worship 175 00:12:50,200 --> 00:12:53,240 God. Chapter 5 tribulation begins in 176 00:12:53,240 --> 00:12:55,880 chapter 6. The church is not mentioned 177 00:12:55,880 --> 00:13:01,120 between chapter 6 and chapter until chapter 19 when we return. 178 00:13:01,280 --> 00:13:08,080 Jude tells us also we we we return on horses, remember with 179 00:13:08,080 --> 00:13:13,200 the Son of God, the angels and the church, the bride return. 180 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:16,920 We've had the wedding and we're returning also and remember for 181 00:13:16,920 --> 00:13:19,520 the marriage feast which will be upon the earth. 182 00:13:19,520 --> 00:13:32,580 And then he says to the goats at Jesus left hand and he 183 00:13:32,580 --> 00:13:38,820 immediately commands them. Verse 41, he'll say to those on 184 00:13:38,820 --> 00:13:45,480 the left hand, depart from me, you cursed into the everlasting 185 00:13:45,480 --> 00:13:51,400 fire, prepared for the devil. It was never prepared for 186 00:13:51,400 --> 00:13:54,560 humanity. This was not what God wanted to 187 00:13:54,560 --> 00:13:58,600 happen. Man chooses to reject God and 188 00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:02,640 ends up going to the place Jesus said that was prepared for the 189 00:14:02,640 --> 00:14:07,560 devil and his angels, the fallen angels, the demons, and these 190 00:14:07,560 --> 00:14:13,240 will go away into everlasting. It's eternal judgement, but the 191 00:14:13,240 --> 00:14:19,520 righteous into eternal life. So to the unsaved survivors, 192 00:14:20,040 --> 00:14:23,680 we'll go to hell to await the final judgement, the great White 193 00:14:23,680 --> 00:14:28,240 throne later. So we have the saved survivors 194 00:14:28,480 --> 00:14:32,800 who lived during the tribulation period and got and and and 195 00:14:32,960 --> 00:14:37,920 survived and saw the coming again, the second coming of 196 00:14:37,920 --> 00:14:40,400 Jesus with the church, with the angels. 197 00:14:42,040 --> 00:14:44,840 Now the people who came to Christ during the tribulation 198 00:14:44,840 --> 00:14:48,320 period, not killed by the Antichrist, that's a separate 199 00:14:48,320 --> 00:14:51,440 group. They join Jesus and his Saints 200 00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:56,080 in the millennial Kingdom. But there's a significant 201 00:14:56,480 --> 00:15:01,080 difference between the people who have survived saved, people 202 00:15:01,320 --> 00:15:04,280 who have survived the Tribulation period, and them 203 00:15:04,280 --> 00:15:08,120 entering the the millennial reign, the millennial Kingdom 204 00:15:08,520 --> 00:15:13,120 and the Church and every all the Saints who returned with Jesus, 205 00:15:13,280 --> 00:15:17,960 who too are now going to live upon planet earth for 1000 years 206 00:15:17,960 --> 00:15:19,960 with Christ as he rules and reigns. 207 00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:25,280 What is the difference? Those who returned with Christ, 208 00:15:25,560 --> 00:15:31,520 the Church, you and I and his second coming will be what in 209 00:15:31,680 --> 00:15:36,880 different bodies, because Paul says, remember, we're going to 210 00:15:36,880 --> 00:15:40,800 change in the twinkling of an eye, this mortal, we'll put on 211 00:15:40,800 --> 00:15:45,640 immortality. 1 Corinthians 15, One Thessalonians chapter 4, 212 00:15:45,800 --> 00:15:48,680 verses 13 to 18 and we're raptured. 213 00:15:50,760 --> 00:15:54,120 We're raptured, we get a brand new body. 214 00:15:55,360 --> 00:16:00,520 We're changed, but the earthly survivors of the tribulation 215 00:16:00,520 --> 00:16:04,680 period, and it's important to know this, are still in their 216 00:16:04,680 --> 00:16:07,040 mortal physical body, just like you and I. 217 00:16:07,040 --> 00:16:10,440 Now we're saved, but I live in a sinful body. 218 00:16:12,840 --> 00:16:17,240 They still have their sin nature as they enter into the 219 00:16:17,240 --> 00:16:20,920 Millennium. They are saved, they receive 220 00:16:20,920 --> 00:16:25,000 Jesus Christ as the Lord and Saviour, but they haven't had 221 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:27,480 the final separation from their bodies. 222 00:16:27,840 --> 00:16:30,760 They're still living in sinful bodies. 223 00:16:32,400 --> 00:16:34,800 So two different groups of saved people. 224 00:16:35,520 --> 00:16:39,560 Now in verse one, Jesus has already cast into the lake of 225 00:16:39,560 --> 00:16:45,000 fire the Antichrist, the Antichrist and the false 226 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:46,080 prophet. He did that. 227 00:16:46,640 --> 00:16:48,520 Remember, We looked at Armageddon. 228 00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:51,640 That was over in a flash, wasn't it? 229 00:16:51,640 --> 00:16:54,320 Jesus spoke. It was done. 230 00:16:55,120 --> 00:16:57,840 They all the armies turned up there, the armies under the 231 00:16:57,840 --> 00:17:00,040 Antichrist turned up to Jerusalem. 232 00:17:00,360 --> 00:17:03,400 They're going to take take the city of Jerusalem. 233 00:17:03,400 --> 00:17:06,640 They're going to conquer Israel. The kings of the East, remember, 234 00:17:06,800 --> 00:17:09,520 had also turned up at the same battle. 235 00:17:09,599 --> 00:17:11,280 They were going to fight the Antichrist. 236 00:17:11,319 --> 00:17:14,520 They'd come through the river Euphrates, which had dried up. 237 00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:20,560 They meet, Jesus returns, they see him, and they all unite and 238 00:17:20,560 --> 00:17:24,240 fight to fight Christ. Christ speaks and they're all 239 00:17:24,240 --> 00:17:30,000 dead, every one of them. The Angel calls for all the 240 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:35,840 carrion birds around the earth come gather to the feast because 241 00:17:35,840 --> 00:17:39,680 there's so many bodies. And Jesus treads out the 242 00:17:39,680 --> 00:17:44,560 winepress himself. A stamping on this judgement 243 00:17:44,560 --> 00:17:49,840 that occurs at Megiddo we call the Battle of Armageddon. 244 00:17:50,040 --> 00:17:56,440 It's over before it happens and the blood flows up to the height 245 00:17:56,920 --> 00:18:02,840 of a bridle on a horse and the blood, remember, was seen on him 246 00:18:03,080 --> 00:18:07,000 riding the White Horse, faithful and true. 247 00:18:08,280 --> 00:18:11,560 And it's the blood of those who's who is crushed at Megiddo. 248 00:18:13,320 --> 00:18:17,360 Armageddon is over now an Angel comes down from heaven. 249 00:18:17,360 --> 00:18:23,520 Chapter 20 with the key to the bottomless pit, a powerful Angel 250 00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:29,760 and a great chain. He grabs hold of Satan, chains 251 00:18:29,760 --> 00:18:36,320 him, casts him not into the lake of fire at this time, but into 252 00:18:36,320 --> 00:18:40,880 the abyss locks it for a season 1000 years. 253 00:18:40,880 --> 00:18:48,080 Verse 4 and I saw Thrones known as plural on a throne, but 254 00:18:48,080 --> 00:18:53,080 Thrones and they so there's many people on the Thrones sat on 255 00:18:53,080 --> 00:18:56,640 them and judgement was committed to them. 256 00:18:56,640 --> 00:19:00,000 In other words, people that sat on all these Thrones, they were 257 00:19:00,320 --> 00:19:03,480 ruling and reigning over the earth during this thousand year 258 00:19:03,480 --> 00:19:07,520 period. At the same time, John says, I 259 00:19:07,520 --> 00:19:12,880 saw the souls of those who had been noticed, how they'll die 260 00:19:13,280 --> 00:19:17,560 during the Tribulation period, people who died for the Lord, 261 00:19:18,440 --> 00:19:24,440 beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God. 262 00:19:25,560 --> 00:19:30,640 This is the people, martyrs who won't receive the mark of the 263 00:19:30,640 --> 00:19:32,560 beast. They won't worship the 264 00:19:32,560 --> 00:19:38,080 Antichrist and they'll die for their faith, just like Charlie 265 00:19:38,080 --> 00:19:41,080 Cook did. They had not worshipped the 266 00:19:41,080 --> 00:19:44,040 beast or his image, had not received the mark on their 267 00:19:44,040 --> 00:19:47,440 foreheads or on their hands, and they lived and reigned with 268 00:19:47,440 --> 00:19:49,760 Christ for 1000 years. So what happens? 269 00:19:50,080 --> 00:19:54,000 These people are resurrected. Remember, before back in 270 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:59,120 Revelation, we saw that these souls were under the throne of 271 00:19:59,120 --> 00:20:01,960 God and they were saying to God, God, when are you going to 272 00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:04,000 avenge the people that have killed us? 273 00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:07,680 You know, and God says not, not, not yet this time there's still 274 00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:11,000 more to join you. Well, that's happened. 275 00:20:11,640 --> 00:20:16,600 They've been avenged. And now they all who died during 276 00:20:16,600 --> 00:20:19,560 the tribulation period for their faith. 277 00:20:19,960 --> 00:20:23,280 They enter into the thousand year reign as well. 278 00:20:24,040 --> 00:20:28,000 So John sees Thrones, he sees the souls of those who have been 279 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:32,640 beheaded for their witness. And God's people now will live 280 00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:37,640 and reign for 1000 years. There will be no devil, he's 281 00:20:37,640 --> 00:20:41,360 locked up. Be no demons locked up. 282 00:20:42,040 --> 00:20:46,960 There'll be no Antichrist lake of fire, no false prophet, lake 283 00:20:46,960 --> 00:20:51,920 of fire. So who will these people on the 284 00:20:51,920 --> 00:20:55,840 Thrones rule during the thousand year reign? 285 00:20:56,760 --> 00:21:00,880 Remember, at the end of the tribulation period, those who 286 00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:05,240 had not died will go into the millennial Kingdom in their 287 00:21:05,280 --> 00:21:07,520 earthly bodies, the sheep and the goat. 288 00:21:07,520 --> 00:21:10,600 Judgement 144,000 Jews to start with. 289 00:21:11,080 --> 00:21:16,680 People who had not, who had received Christ and had not 290 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:22,520 received the mark of the beast, and they are welcomed into 291 00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:27,520 Jesus, says come, come into the Kingdom that has been prepared 292 00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:30,440 for you. So those people begin to live 293 00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:36,760 and populate planet earth. Also the righteous Gentiles who 294 00:21:36,760 --> 00:21:39,640 escaped the tyranny of the Antichrist, which I've 295 00:21:39,640 --> 00:21:47,000 mentioned, but the difference is they will be in human sinful 296 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:52,240 bodies saved because no unsaved going to the millennial reign to 297 00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:56,480 begin with. Save but living in normal sinful 298 00:21:56,480 --> 00:21:59,320 bodies just like you and I. I'm saved now, but I live in a 299 00:21:59,320 --> 00:22:03,120 sinful body. John sees Thrones, many of them 300 00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:06,240 verse 4. Those who sit on the Thrones are 301 00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:13,760 given authority to judge or to rule over the people Now living 302 00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:20,000 in the the millennial period, who who's who's going to be the 303 00:22:20,120 --> 00:22:21,720 who's going to be sitting on the Thrones? 304 00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:27,640 Well, Jesus had said to his disciples in Matthew 1928, 305 00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:35,200 assuredly I say to you that in the regeneration, this is a 306 00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:38,760 millennial period when the Son of Man sits on the throne of his 307 00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:42,040 glory, Jerusalem. You who have followed me will 308 00:22:42,040 --> 00:22:47,800 also sit on 12 Thrones disciples judging the 12 tribes of Israel 309 00:22:47,960 --> 00:22:51,840 so that the the apostles are given 12 Thrones and they're 310 00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:53,960 going to rule over the people of Israel. 311 00:22:55,720 --> 00:23:00,720 But the apostle Paul also said to believers, Christians in 312 00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:03,720 Corinth, that they would help judge the world. 313 00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:06,440 Remember there was a conflict in the church and people were 314 00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:07,800 going, well, I'm going to take you to court. 315 00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:10,440 Well, I'll take you to court. And Paul said, hang on a minute, 316 00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:12,840 you need to be sorting this out and I'll take a brother to 317 00:23:12,840 --> 00:23:16,800 court. And then he goes on to say, do 318 00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:19,360 you not know 1 Corinthians 6 verse 2? 319 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:25,120 Do you not know that the Saints will judge the world, the 320 00:23:25,120 --> 00:23:28,280 Millennium? And if the world will be judged 321 00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:32,000 by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters? 322 00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:39,920 So Thrones, who's ruling and reigning disciples 12 looking 323 00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:44,440 after the nations of Israel, the New Testament Saints, you and I, 324 00:23:45,080 --> 00:23:48,160 I don't know about you, but you can pick a place where you might 325 00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:51,240 think, well, I'd like to actually rule over that place. 326 00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:57,720 I'd like to be the head judge of Mukkabuden, the wheat belt make 327 00:23:57,720 --> 00:24:03,200 it pretty cool. You know, the Old Testament 328 00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:07,400 Saints as well. And the tribulation Saints, 329 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:12,040 remember those souls he's seen. They've been revived. 330 00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:15,320 Now they're in brand new bodies. They're all living in the 331 00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:23,280 Millennium verse 5. But the rest of the dead did not 332 00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:27,600 live again until the 1000 years were finished. 333 00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:33,080 So only into the Millennium at the beginning are save people. 334 00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:37,440 No unsaved. This is the first resurrection. 335 00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:40,600 What's this first resurrection about? 336 00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:44,120 Verse 6? John writes blessed. 337 00:24:44,120 --> 00:24:46,560 It's one of the beatitudes of the Book of Revelation. 338 00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:52,760 Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection 339 00:24:53,560 --> 00:25:00,920 over such the second death has no power, but they shall be 340 00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:03,760 priests of God. That's in there. 341 00:25:04,120 --> 00:25:06,360 You and I as we rule and reign over the earth. 342 00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:09,000 We're representing God's authority. 343 00:25:09,120 --> 00:25:14,400 We do what he asked us to do in that role and of Christ and 344 00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:17,320 shall reign with him. How long do we do this? 345 00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:22,320 Thousand years. You know, it says 6 times, this 346 00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:26,280 is 1000 years, 1000 years. So here's another thing, a 347 00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:29,000 millennials and post millennials, and I'll touch on 348 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:34,960 that on Wednesday, they confuse everything terribly because 349 00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:38,600 they'll come up and say, well, but is it really 1000 years? 350 00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:42,560 Is it, Isn't this just some sort of like just a period of time? 351 00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:46,280 No, because it says it's six times. 352 00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:49,680 God's wanting you to know it's 1000 years. 353 00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:53,280 Otherwise, the moment you make this thousand some sort of, 354 00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:57,920 well, a period of time. Well, so were there 12 apostles 355 00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:04,080 or was it just a rough, was it 6 days or was it just a rough 356 00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:04,960 thing? Seven day. 357 00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:10,160 The moment you make that spiritualization of a figure 358 00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:14,720 that is literal, you are in trouble and in danger, and you 359 00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:18,720 have spooked the rest of the Bible you make because you go, 360 00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:20,880 well, what does this number mean? 361 00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:29,200 Oh, well, I'm not sure, but here it's 1000 years. 1000 means 1000 362 00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:38,600 means 1000. So what is this first 363 00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:41,880 resurrection? The Bible tells us that there 364 00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:51,200 will be two resurrections. One the first covers all saved 365 00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:54,200 people, people who receive Christ as the Lord and Saviour. 366 00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:59,640 The second resurrection and it's called that is for all unsaved 367 00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:00,880 people. It's pretty easy. 368 00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:05,480 John chapter 5 verse 28. Jesus says do not marvel at 369 00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:08,920 this, for the hour is coming which all who are in the graves 370 00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:12,120 will hear his voice and come forth. 371 00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:16,640 Those who have done good to the resurrection of life first. 372 00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:20,800 Those who have done evil to the resurrection of condemnation, 373 00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:25,640 judgement. The first resurrection leads to 374 00:27:25,640 --> 00:27:30,280 life eternal and blessing and takes place in stages. 375 00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:34,720 How is that? It began the first person and it 376 00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:37,680 began the first resurrection. Began with who? 377 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:42,040 Jesus being the first one. Corinthians 1520. 378 00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:47,920 Paul tells us that now Christ is risen from the dead and has 379 00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:52,960 become the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep. 380 00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:57,000 Christians are always never spoken of as being dead, but 381 00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:01,160 asleep. The second phase of the 382 00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:03,320 resurrection. First resurrection is what? 383 00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:08,240 The rapture of the Church. We are seized, we are taken up 384 00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:13,400 to be with the Lord forever, to be with him forever, meet Him in 385 00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:18,160 the air. The third phase of the first 386 00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:21,920 resurrection takes place at the end of the tribulation period, 387 00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:26,360 when those souls who died for their faith, who were martyred 388 00:28:26,360 --> 00:28:29,920 during the tribulation period are resurrected and we see them 389 00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:32,200 and they now enter into the millennial reign. 390 00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:36,520 So what's the second resurrection? 391 00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:42,760 It is of the unsaved and it happens at one time. 392 00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:48,120 We haven't got to it yet. And there is a period of 1000 393 00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:53,320 years between the first resurrection and the second 394 00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:59,440 resurrection, verse 6. John writes blessed and holy, as 395 00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:02,520 he was part in the first resurrection over such the 396 00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:08,000 second death has no power, that is judgement, condemnation, cast 397 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:11,440 into the lake of fire. But they shall be priests of God 398 00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:15,760 and of Christ, and shall reign within 1000 years those who are 399 00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:18,280 in the first resurrection, verse 7. 400 00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:24,240 Now, when the 1000 years have expired, notice he tells us 401 00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:26,360 again, it's 1000, He doesn't say. 402 00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:31,000 And when this period of time is over, it's 1000 years. 403 00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:35,880 So we're moving along now, and we're coming to the end of this 404 00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:39,400 thousand years. Satan will be released. 405 00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:45,160 The Angel will come down, unlock the abyss, unchain the chain 406 00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:48,480 that's on him. Satan, notice what he does. 407 00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:54,600 He will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four 408 00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:59,680 corners of the earth. Gog and Magog to gather them. 409 00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:05,000 What's he going to do to battle? The number of his gathering of 410 00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:08,360 this army is as the sand of the sea so many. 411 00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:11,560 And they went up from the breadth of the earth and 412 00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:15,000 surrounded the camp of the Saints and the beloved city 413 00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:19,080 where Jerusalem, man, it's still on. 414 00:30:21,120 --> 00:30:23,920 But remember, Jesus is ruling and reigning in Jerusalem. 415 00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:28,200 What happens before Satan can go? 416 00:30:28,440 --> 00:30:35,840 Everybody come done. Fire came down from God out of 417 00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:39,240 heaven and devoured them. It's over. 418 00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:46,080 The devil who deceived the nations is now cast into the 419 00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:50,800 lake of fire and brimstone where the beast, the Antichrist, the 420 00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:54,120 false prophet are. And notice how long they'll be 421 00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:57,360 there. And they will be tormented day 422 00:30:57,360 --> 00:31:01,480 and night, forever and ever eternal. 423 00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:08,760 It's over. There has been a common cry from 424 00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:11,520 those who deny the existence of God. 425 00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:17,640 Well, if God exists, why is there evil and suffering? 426 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:22,280 Tell me that answer that why doesn't he just bring a stop to 427 00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:27,760 all evil? And if God is all powerful I had 428 00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:33,600 then he would destroy evil. But evil is not destroyed. 429 00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:39,240 So all I can gather from that is that there is no God and that's 430 00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:46,040 their they walk off. Our text this morning answers 431 00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:50,800 that argument. Here we see God deal decisively 432 00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:56,360 with both evil and sin. He binds Satan for 1000 years 433 00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:05,440 verse powerful Angel chains him, locks him up after 1000 years of 434 00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:10,080 heaven on earth. Jesus ruling with Christ's 435 00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:12,680 ruling. And what will that thousand year 436 00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:15,680 period be like while Satan's trapped? 437 00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:21,360 Well, the Bible says, and there's just loads of scripture 438 00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:22,760 that tell us about the Millennium. 439 00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:27,200 First of all, there will be peace, finally peace on earth 440 00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:31,320 during the 1000 years, a complete cessation of war. 441 00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:36,000 Micah chapter 4 verse 3 says. And he has judged between many 442 00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:39,200 peoples and given a decision to my nations afar off. 443 00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:44,400 They have beaten their swords to ploughshares and their Spears to 444 00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:48,680 pruninghooks. Nation lifts not up sword unto 445 00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:54,320 nation, nor do they learn war anymore, no more. 446 00:32:55,160 --> 00:32:59,920 Secondly, there'll be mass healing and healing throughout 447 00:32:59,920 --> 00:33:03,760 the 1000 years. Healing of the deformed sickness 448 00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:05,920 will be removed during the 1000 years. 449 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:10,440 The prophet Isaiah writes quite a deal about the thousand year 450 00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:13,320 reign. He says in Isaiah chapter 29 451 00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:18,720 verse 18 and in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the 452 00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:23,920 book and the eyes of the blind shall see out of their obscurity 453 00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:27,720 and out of darkness. There will be a one word 454 00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:33,000 language, unified language. Zephaniah chapter 3, verse 9. 455 00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:38,720 For then do I turn unto people's a pure lip to call all of them 456 00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:45,880 by the name of Jehovah. Any overt act of rebellion 457 00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:50,200 against God, against Christ during the 1000 years will be 458 00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:56,200 dealt with swiftly, swiftly judgement. 459 00:33:57,360 --> 00:34:02,920 There will be a mass reversion and a reversal of the current 460 00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:05,560 interaction we have with the animal Kingdom. 461 00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:11,000 The curse will be partially lifted upon our planet. 462 00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:14,120 You know, you go near an animal now you can't. 463 00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:17,480 They fly away. You know, if you see a Mad Dog 464 00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:19,719 in the street, you want to go take off. 465 00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:25,239 Well, Isaiah writes what will happen during the 1000 years. 466 00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:29,719 It says the lame shall leap like a deer and the tongue of the 467 00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:33,639 dumb shall sing. For water shall burst forth in 468 00:34:33,639 --> 00:34:36,360 the wilderness and streams in the desert. 469 00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:39,280 A massive climate change our world. 470 00:34:39,639 --> 00:34:43,480 No more deserts. All the deserts will be spring 471 00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:46,880 out water, and it'll be just green all over the world. 472 00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:51,320 But of the animals, it says in Isaiah 11, verse 6, the wolf 473 00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:56,159 shall dwell with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with the 474 00:34:56,159 --> 00:34:59,840 young goat, the calf and the young lion and the fatling 475 00:34:59,840 --> 00:35:04,360 together, and a little child shall lead them out, and the 476 00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:06,880 lion shall eat straw like the ox. 477 00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:09,160 You see what it is during the thousand year reign. 478 00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:14,320 It's the reversal back to Genesis, how it was, how 479 00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:22,640 paradise was in the beginning. It says, notice this, especially 480 00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:24,440 in Australia where we have a lot of snakes. 481 00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:30,960 The nursing child shall play by the cobra's hole, and the weaned 482 00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:34,120 child shall put his hand in the viper's den. 483 00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:40,880 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain for the 484 00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:42,840 earth. And here's what we pray about. 485 00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:46,000 Shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord. 486 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:49,400 The world will know Jesus is ruling as the waters cover the 487 00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:52,320 sea. There'll be longevity. 488 00:35:54,040 --> 00:35:57,080 People will live many, many years. 489 00:35:57,520 --> 00:36:02,920 Isaiah 6520 No more shall an infant from there live but a few 490 00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:04,840 days. Isn't that wonderful? 491 00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:08,600 Nor an old man who has not fulfilled his days. 492 00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:13,760 For the child shall die 100 You'll be considered young if 493 00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:19,960 you die 100 At the end of this thousand year imprisonment. 494 00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:24,120 All this has been happening. Satan is loose for a season. 495 00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:29,000 You go, Why does he do that? Why did God allow that go out to 496 00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:33,240 the sea of the nations? Because once Satan is released, 497 00:36:33,720 --> 00:36:39,640 the first thing he does is to organise a rebellion, a war 498 00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:44,440 against Christ. The 1000 years of incarceration 499 00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:48,240 did not rehabilitate. He didn't come out and go. 500 00:36:48,240 --> 00:36:50,080 You know what? I'm a changed man. 501 00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:52,960 I'm a changed devil. Oh yeah, That thousand years in 502 00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:58,840 gaol that changed my life. No, gaol doesn't, can't and 503 00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:05,480 won't change an evil nature. Why would God allow Satan to be 504 00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:07,160 released? And that's a good question, 505 00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:13,840 because as a final proof that the heart of the problem is, the 506 00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:17,760 problem of the heart is that the heart of man is desperately 507 00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:21,960 wicked and can be changed only by God's grace. 508 00:37:22,600 --> 00:37:27,040 You see, during the Millennium the world will repopulate. 509 00:37:28,240 --> 00:37:32,920 The living Saints, remember who went into the Millennium in 510 00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:39,640 their natural bodies, will bigot children throughout the age, so 511 00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:41,800 the earth's population will soar. 512 00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:48,280 Those born in the Age will not be born without a sin nature, so 513 00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:53,400 salvation is required. They will live longer lives, 514 00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:57,280 marry, bear children who outwardly during that period 515 00:37:57,440 --> 00:38:03,800 will conform to Christ's rule. But not all of them will become 516 00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:07,240 born again as the Millennium progresses. 517 00:38:07,720 --> 00:38:12,520 And this explains why Satan shall be able to gather a great 518 00:38:12,520 --> 00:38:16,280 army of rebels at the close of the Kingdom age. 519 00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:21,080 People who have been living and note this too, because people 520 00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:24,240 say, well, you don't know my upbringing and that's why, why 521 00:38:24,240 --> 00:38:29,040 am I am the way I am? It's an excuse. 522 00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:34,320 Because people who have been living in a perfect environment 523 00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:39,960 thousand years under the most perfect government, the ruling 524 00:38:39,960 --> 00:38:45,880 of Christ will finally admit their rebelliousness of the 525 00:38:45,880 --> 00:38:49,360 heart and they too will arise against the King. 526 00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:53,400 Isn't it interesting as you go back and a lot of this is in 527 00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:57,840 made me go back to read Genesis, Adam and Eve. 528 00:38:58,240 --> 00:39:01,440 Yes, they sin you think they were godly parents. 529 00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:05,160 What would your opinion Of course they would be when they 530 00:39:05,160 --> 00:39:08,640 walk with God. They made a they made a terrible 531 00:39:08,640 --> 00:39:11,840 sin. Yes, they disobeyed God, but you 532 00:39:11,840 --> 00:39:17,720 think they were godly parents. But notice Cain and Abel. 533 00:39:18,720 --> 00:39:22,120 Abel love the Lord. Sacrifice did everything was 534 00:39:22,120 --> 00:39:25,240 right. Cain, I don't want to do what 535 00:39:25,240 --> 00:39:28,120 I'm supposed to do. All the things the way I want to 536 00:39:28,120 --> 00:39:30,640 do. Yeah, he was in a perfect, 537 00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:34,480 wonderful environment. Same thing here. 538 00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:39,640 It's a problem of the heart. You see, infants born during the 539 00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:43,800 Millennium will live to its conclusion and will not be 540 00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:49,200 required to make a choice, free will choice between the devil 541 00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:53,520 and Christ until the devil is released, released, and then 542 00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:57,600 they go, you know what? I'm joining him, I'm joining 543 00:39:57,600 --> 00:40:05,440 him. Gog and Magog mentioned here is 544 00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:09,680 not the battle of Ezekiel 3839. How do we know that? 545 00:40:10,640 --> 00:40:15,000 For in Ezekiel 3839, that battle which will occur either just 546 00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:17,640 before the Rapture or just after the Rapture. 547 00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:21,440 Is an invasion of armies from the north. 548 00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:28,000 Note Satan here goes to the four corners of the earth and gathers 549 00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:31,000 this massive rebellion against Christ. 550 00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:34,360 Jerusalem once again will be the target. 551 00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:40,960 God deals with it swiftly and it's over in an instant and 552 00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:43,760 Satan is cast into the lake of fire at last. 553 00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:47,680 So as we wrap all this up, you go, well that's good 554 00:40:47,680 --> 00:40:52,560 information. Do you care in 1000 year old 555 00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:56,880 Millennium? So where do you fit in? 556 00:41:00,560 --> 00:41:02,560 Where do you belong in all these events? 557 00:41:03,640 --> 00:41:07,280 Who are you in these events? Because you're somewhere here. 558 00:41:09,040 --> 00:41:11,640 Do you today know Christ as your Lord and Saviour? 559 00:41:12,520 --> 00:41:15,400 If you are, then you're part of the church. 560 00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:18,920 You'll be raptured, or should you die before the rapture, then 561 00:41:18,920 --> 00:41:21,520 you'll return with Christ at the second coming. 562 00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:25,480 The armies of heaven tells us we'll be wearing linen. 563 00:41:25,680 --> 00:41:27,960 Armies don't wear linen when they go off the battle. 564 00:41:28,240 --> 00:41:30,680 That's a nice outfit that you're wearing going off the battle. 565 00:41:34,600 --> 00:41:39,640 The question now is right now, are you a child of God? 566 00:41:42,440 --> 00:41:45,160 What if you we're to live through the tribulation period, 567 00:41:45,160 --> 00:41:48,160 the rapture occurs and you still go well see, I survived. 568 00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:53,880 Are you a sheep? Are you a goat? 569 00:41:55,240 --> 00:41:57,360 How would you stand and the sheep and the goat would Jesus 570 00:41:57,360 --> 00:42:02,680 say come enter in or you go you you just rejected me all your 571 00:42:02,680 --> 00:42:04,480 life. You're gone. 572 00:42:07,880 --> 00:42:13,760 The murderer, or assassination I should say, of 31 year old 573 00:42:13,760 --> 00:42:22,520 Charlie Kirk at the Utah campus in broad daylight simply because 574 00:42:22,520 --> 00:42:28,320 he proclaimed the truth, the gospel of Jesus Christ. 575 00:42:29,280 --> 00:42:36,400 It must have an impact on any truly born again person today. 576 00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:46,840 The death of a young man at a university campus simply because 577 00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:50,920 he proclaimed the Gospel of Christ as the truth. 578 00:42:52,600 --> 00:42:56,920 The Gospel of Christ goes against all the left wing stuff 579 00:42:57,640 --> 00:43:01,680 that is being spewed out upon our educational campuses. 580 00:43:02,600 --> 00:43:07,240 A Dean of one of the major universities in America 581 00:43:07,560 --> 00:43:16,840 celebrated online his murder. This is no game that you and I 582 00:43:16,840 --> 00:43:22,640 sit here today and talk about. We're not playing church by 583 00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:25,920 millennials post millennials. They, they think, well, what 584 00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:29,080 we're going to do is we're we're going to, we're going to just 585 00:43:29,080 --> 00:43:32,000 survive the world and we're going to get into politics. 586 00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:34,480 We're going to change governments and then we're going 587 00:43:34,480 --> 00:43:37,400 to give the world back to Jesus. No, you're not. 588 00:43:40,520 --> 00:43:43,720 That's a game. It's all about you, how good you 589 00:43:43,760 --> 00:43:49,440 are, how good your churches. The outcomes of our decisions 590 00:43:49,440 --> 00:43:53,640 today are eternal, each and every one of us. 591 00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:56,800 The Bible says as a Sinner, there is none righteous, No, not 592 00:43:56,800 --> 00:43:57,960 one. We've all sinned. 593 00:43:57,960 --> 00:43:59,880 We've all fallen short of the glory of God. 594 00:44:01,120 --> 00:44:04,920 We all will. Each and every person here will 595 00:44:04,920 --> 00:44:10,800 face Jesus Christ, either to be rewarded the Bema seat well done 596 00:44:11,680 --> 00:44:14,880 as his servant, or will meet Christ in the second 597 00:44:14,880 --> 00:44:18,920 resurrection face to face. And he'll judge us on what we 598 00:44:18,920 --> 00:44:22,920 did when we ignored his sacrifice at Calvary and we 599 00:44:22,920 --> 00:44:28,200 rejected his love and we, we trod over, trod over his death. 600 00:44:29,760 --> 00:44:31,600 As we see here in the Millennium. 601 00:44:32,240 --> 00:44:36,640 No one can or will be able to lay the blame on their well, I 602 00:44:36,640 --> 00:44:38,480 didn't know on their environment. 603 00:44:38,680 --> 00:44:41,800 It was just how I grew up. It's, it's the way mum and dad 604 00:44:41,800 --> 00:44:44,280 treated me. It's, it's weird, you know, I, 605 00:44:44,280 --> 00:44:48,240 I, I went without and that's why I made my decisions. 606 00:44:49,480 --> 00:44:53,120 It will all be because your decision will be because of our 607 00:44:53,120 --> 00:44:57,800 depraved, sinful nature. All of us have sinned. 608 00:44:58,320 --> 00:45:03,040 Not even 1000 years of peace will cleanse humanity of its 609 00:45:03,040 --> 00:45:05,040 inborn sin. Satan is loose. 610 00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:10,960 It's on again. The futile last gasp rebellion 611 00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:15,640 at the end of the Millennium. The 1000 years demonstrates to 612 00:45:15,640 --> 00:45:20,960 the universe, to you and I, in an unmistakable way, why Christ 613 00:45:20,960 --> 00:45:23,440 had to die. Because man can't save himself. 614 00:45:25,120 --> 00:45:29,640 We all live and we all die. Everyone in this room, 40 people 615 00:45:29,640 --> 00:45:33,680 living today, we'll be in the morgue tomorrow at at the West 616 00:45:33,680 --> 00:45:37,960 Australian Charlie Gardner 40. People walking around, sitting 617 00:45:38,080 --> 00:45:44,280 around will be dead tomorrow 40 A day we all live, we all die 618 00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:53,400 and we'll all be resurrected. But how is the big question you 619 00:45:53,400 --> 00:45:57,800 need to establish today. We will all die, but you don't 620 00:45:57,800 --> 00:46:02,800 have to face the second death. We'll all be resurrected, but 621 00:46:02,840 --> 00:46:06,400 Jesus said some will be raised to life and others to judgement. 622 00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:13,320 The lake of fire was not created for humanity, but for the devil 623 00:46:13,320 --> 00:46:19,600 and the fallen angels heaven. However, God did design for 624 00:46:19,600 --> 00:46:24,880 people to be a place where redeemed men and women created 625 00:46:24,880 --> 00:46:28,520 in His image could spend eternity with Him. 626 00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:36,680 But God leaves the choice. Heaven, hell, first 627 00:46:36,680 --> 00:46:40,800 resurrection, second resurrection, sheep, goat. 628 00:46:41,680 --> 00:46:47,960 He leaves the choice up to us. You choose your final 629 00:46:47,960 --> 00:46:52,840 destination and God will honour your choice. 630 00:46:53,120 --> 00:46:55,320 OK, that's the way you want to go. 631 00:46:55,520 --> 00:47:01,120 It's yours and I pray this morning as we close. 632 00:47:02,400 --> 00:47:07,200 You choose. Well, if you were here today and 633 00:47:07,200 --> 00:47:10,880 you don't know where you are, you don't know if you've saved, 634 00:47:11,920 --> 00:47:17,160 then you have trouble come. If that's you, we'll pray with 635 00:47:17,160 --> 00:47:21,520 you, show you the Scriptures, tell you of the love of Christ, 636 00:47:21,880 --> 00:47:27,440 and then you can leave here, guaranteed, knowing where you 637 00:47:27,440 --> 00:47:32,800 fit in this chart. Let's stand and let's pray. 638 00:47:33,160 --> 00:47:44,440 Heavenly Father, to you. We owe it all, all to Jesus. 639 00:47:44,440 --> 00:47:54,980 I surrender all to him I freely give, for I have decided to 640 00:47:54,980 --> 00:47:58,940 follow Jesus. No turning back, no turning 641 00:47:58,940 --> 00:48:02,900 back, the cross before me, the world behind me. 642 00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:06,400 Where do you stand? Where do you belong? 643 00:48:07,960 --> 00:48:12,760 God has spoken to you today. Make the right choice today.