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00:03 by the friends of the Amazing Facts Ministry. 00:07 ♪♪♪ 00:08 Doug Batchelor: You probably know sometimes notorious 00:10 criminals will receive a prison sentence that's far longer than 00:14 the average human lifespan. 00:16 Some stretch to more than 1,000 years, but the longest prison 00:20 sentence on record was handed to Chamoy Thipyaso, a woman in 00:24 Thailand who defrauded more than 16,000 of her countrymen out of 00:29 hundreds of millions of dollars back in the 1980s. 00:33 Her sentence was more than 140,000 years. 00:37 Remarkably, after an appeal to challenge the legality of the 00:40 sentence, her epic prison term was reduced to 20 years, and she 00:44 ended up only serving about 8 years. 00:47 The Bible book of Revelation explains that following the 00:50 Second Coming of Jesus, the most notorious criminal of all time, 00:54 the devil, will be handed a sentence of 1,000 years, after 00:59 which, he's briefly paroled, but where is this prison, and why 01:04 would God briefly let him out, and what's happening on Earth 01:08 during this 1,000 years when Satan is bound? 01:11 Join me now as we take a closer look at this fascinating Bible 01:15 prophesy topic known as "The Millennium." 01:23 Doug: Tonight's subject is one of my favorites, and it's 01:26 based on a passage you find in Revelation chapter 20. 01:29 We're calling it the devil's dungeon. 01:32 I think it was George Washington Carver who was famous because 01:36 he really helped an economic resurrection in the South 01:38 following the Civil War. 01:40 The sharecroppers, they kept farming cotton, cotton, cotton, 01:43 and it sapped the ground from its nutrients, and Carver said 01:47 you got to let the land lay fallow. 01:49 You got to let it recover and so that it can generate more 01:53 nitrogen, and he had them introduce crops like sweet 01:55 potatoes and peanuts, and that really was an economic salvation 02:00 for them when they finally realized you got to rest the 02:02 land, you can't keep farming the same thing all the time. 02:07 The Lord told the children of Israel when they came out of 02:09 Egypt, Moses said, Exodus 23: "Six years you will sow your 02:13 land and gather its produce, but the seventh year you shall let 02:19 it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat." 02:23 They were to rest the land. 02:24 They used to have a farming Sabbath every seventh year, 02:28 don't farm. 02:30 Well, it's kind of hard sometimes to ask farmers not to 02:32 farm because it represents and economic loss, and evidently, 02:38 the children of Israel often ignored this law, and so you 02:42 find that from the time of King David up until the time of the 02:46 Babylonian captivity, they were farming the land year after year 02:51 after year, were not letting it keep the Sabbath, and so when 02:54 God finally brought judgment on them 490 years after David, 02:58 "then they burned the house of God and broke down the wall of 03:01 Jerusalem, and burned all of its palaces with fire--" notice this 03:04 very carefully--"and those who escaped from the sword he 03:08 carried off to Babylon until the land had enjoyed her Sabbaths. 03:15 As long as she lay desolate she kept Sabbath, 03:18 to fulfill seventy years." 03:21 So if you've got 490 years, how many annual Sabbaths 03:26 would you have? 03:27 How many 7-year Sabbaths would you have in 490 years? 03:30 Seventy. 03:32 So for every year that they neglected to let the land rest, 03:35 God said, "You're going to spend a year in captivity. 03:37 Jerusalem and the people--Jerusalem is going 03:41 to be uninhabited. 03:43 The land is going to rest." 03:45 It's very interesting. 03:47 You can read about this Nehemiah 1:3, "The wall of Jerusalem is 03:49 broken down. 03:51 The gates are burned with fire." 03:53 So God sort of compelled the land to rest. 03:57 You know, the Bible tells us that for about 6,000 years now, 04:02 Jesus has been sowing the gospel seed. 04:05 Revelation tells us that he's coming with a sickle to harvest 04:07 the earth. 04:09 Several parables, Jesus talks about farming and harvesting, 04:14 and during that time after we are caught up to meet the Lord, 04:18 the Lord is going to keep--the land is going to keep, or the 04:21 earth, a 1,000-year Sabbath when it is desolate. 04:25 Sometimes it's referred to as the millennium. 04:29 First question, what events mark the beginning of this 1,000-year 04:32 period, what we call the millennium? 04:34 It begins with the coming of the Lord. 04:37 It tells us "for the LORD Himself will descend from heaven 04:40 with a shout, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 04:44 We shall not all sleep, but we will all be changed," and you 04:50 read on here 1 Corinthians 15:52, "In a moment, in the 04:53 twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet, for the trumpet will 04:58 sound, and the dead shall be raised." 05:01 Now, those who are dead, they're raised, they're given 05:03 glorified bodies. 05:05 Those of us who are alive, we get new bodies. 05:08 You read in Philippians 3:21, "Who will transform our 05:12 lowly body that it might be conformed to His glorious body." 05:16 This verse wasn't near as important to me when I was, 05:18 like, 19 years old as it is now. 05:23 The older you get, the better this verse looks, amen? 05:27 "And then this lawless one will happen so the wicked--then that 05:30 lawless one will be revealed whom the Lord will destroy with 05:34 the brightness of His coming." 05:36 And so you've got the righteous who are alive. 05:39 They're transformed. 05:40 The righteous dead are resurrected. 05:42 The wicked who are dead stay dead. 05:44 The wicked who are alive are destroyed, and we are caught up 05:49 to meet the Lord in the air. 05:50 What is the condition of the earth during the 1,000 years? 05:54 Now, this is where a lot of people are surprised. 05:57 Look at this: "I beheld the earth and indeed it was without 06:00 form, and void, and the heavens, they had no light." 06:03 If I stop right there, you'll think he's describing 06:05 before creation. 06:07 Oh, keep reading, he's not. 06:09 It says, "I beheld the mountains and indeed they trembled. 06:12 I beheld and, indeed, there was no man, and all the birds of 06:16 heaven had fled, and the fruitful place was a wilderness, 06:20 and all its cities were broken down." 06:22 There were people there, but they're not there anymore. 06:25 The birds have all fled. 06:27 "And the cities are broken down--" what caused all 06:29 this devastation? 06:32 It says the presence of the Lord and by His fierce anger. 06:35 Look at this verse in Jeremiah 25:33, "And at that day the 06:39 slain of the Lord shall be from one end of the earth even 06:43 to the other end of the earth. 06:45 They are not be lamented, or gathered, or buried," why? 06:49 There's no one alive to gather, lament, or bury them. 06:54 See, what happens is when Jesus comes back, what 06:56 direction do we go? 06:58 We go up. What happens to the wicked? 07:00 They're destroyed by the brightness of his coming. 07:04 This earth is going to get a 1,000-year Sabbath. 07:05 We are not living and reigning here on the earth 07:07 over the wicked. 07:09 I don't know about you, but I have no desire to reign 07:10 over sinners. 07:12 We are living and reigning with Christ and His ambassadors. 07:16 He says, "I've gone to prepare a place for you." 07:18 We go up when He comes. 07:20 "And an angel laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who 07:23 is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years." 07:27 So we see that Satan is captured, he's bound. 07:29 Now, where is he bound? 07:31 It tells us that the devil is cast into this--what is it? 07:34 Bottomless pit, that word there, "bottomless pit" has confused a 07:38 lot of people, and folks wonder, "Is it a black hole out in the 07:41 universe somewhere, and is it a wormhole, and what is 07:44 this bottomless pit?" 07:46 Well, the word in Greek is abussos, and the word 07:50 simply means abyss. 07:51 It means a place where the devil has no one to inhabit. 07:55 It is the same word that is used in the Greek Septuagint that is 07:59 for "when the earth is without form and void." 08:03 It describes our world in a state of chaos. 08:07 The earth is a dark chaotic mess. 08:09 Satan is bound on the void, this abussos. 08:13 Where will the saints be during the 1,000 years 08:17 and what are they doing? 08:18 All right, Jesus said, "I will come again and receive you to 08:22 Myself; that where I am--" 08:25 He's on-- up in heaven with the Father 08:27 in the mansions He's prepared-- "you may be also." 08:31 So as the dead in Christ rise, we're caught up, we meet Him in 08:34 the air, we go with Him to that place. 08:37 We've got glorified bodies now. 08:40 What are we doing? 08:42 "I saw thrones, and they that sat upon them, and judgment was 08:46 given to them, and they lived and reigned with Christ 08:50 for a thousand years." 08:52 So what are we doing during the 1,000 years? 08:55 Well, someone said there's going to be three big surprises 08:59 in heaven. 09:00 I think I mentioned this. 09:02 One surprise is that you're there. 09:04 The other surprise is that you're going to see people there 09:06 that you never dreamed would be there, and the third surprise is 09:10 that there are going to be people missing that you thought 09:13 would be leading the parade in heaven. 09:15 Now, suppose you get to heaven and you got your uncle Elmer, 09:21 and he seemed like such a godly man, deacon in the church, 09:24 smiled all the time, carried his Bible under his arm, and you 09:27 thought that, "Wow, he's going to be in heaven." 09:29 You're going to get to heaven, say, "Where's Uncle Elmer?" 09:32 And the angel's going to put his eyes down, say, "Well, you know, 09:35 I got some sad news. 09:37 He's not here." 09:39 "What?" "Come with me." 09:42 The Bible says there's books. 09:44 I don't know if God is going to have old-fashioned books or a 09:47 video or how He's going to show us, but He'll show us 09:49 everything's recorded, and the angel's going to play back. 09:54 You realize the Bible says everything done in secret will 09:56 be proclaimed from the housetops. 09:59 Unless your sins are under the blood, you're in trouble. 10:02 I don't want you seeing my book, and you don't want me 10:04 seeing yours. 10:05 Can you say amen? 10:07 But if you're lost, your book is going to be opened, because your 10:10 sins are not covered by the blood, and you're going to look 10:13 and see Uncle Elmer, ooh, he looked real good in public, 10:16 but there was some private sin. 10:18 "Well, Lord, but why didn't you save him?" 10:19 You'll see everywhere in his life where God tried to reach 10:22 him, and he hardened his heart, and finally you'll say, "Lord, 10:26 You did the right thing. 10:27 You had no choice." 10:29 See, during that 1,000 years, we're going to have 10:30 a lot of questions. 10:32 The Lord wants us to enter eternity trusting His judgment. 10:37 The Bible says in the book of Revelation, chapter 15, "Thy 10:41 judgments have been made manifest." 10:44 All that God's judgments will be open so that we can trust Him 10:48 as we enter eternity. 10:50 What will happen at the close of the 1,000 years? 10:53 "Behold, the day of the Lord is coming, and in that day His feet 10:58 will stand on the Mount of Olives--" this is Zechariah 14, 11:01 verses 1, 4, 5, 9--"His feet will stand on the Mount of 11:04 Olives, which faces Jerusalem on the east. 11:07 And the Mount of Olives will split in two." 11:09 This is one of those apocalyptic prophesies in the Old Testament 11:12 where Zechariah pictures the Savior coming down. 11:15 It's at the end of the 1,000 years. 11:18 Feet touch the Mount of Olives. 11:19 Why the Mount of Olives? 11:21 This was a place that was especially precious to Jesus. 11:25 Now, He was born in Bethlehem. 11:27 It was just down the hill from the southern side of 11:30 the Mount of Olives. 11:32 On the Mount of Olives He told His disciples about the fall of 11:36 Jerusalem and the signs of His Second Coming. 11:38 It was on the Mount of Olives that Jesus wept over Jerusalem 11:41 when they came in and had the triumphal entry. 11:44 It was on the Mount of Olives you've got the garden of 11:46 Gethsemane, where He was arrested, and He sweat and 11:50 prayed "Not My will, Thy will be done." 11:54 And it was from the Mount of Olives by Bethany when He 11:57 ascended to heaven. 11:59 He said, "As I left, I'm coming back." 12:01 That's what the angel said in Acts chapter 1. 12:04 So Jesus is coming back. 12:06 He'll be visible, He'll be real, and He's coming back the same 12:10 place He left. 12:12 Doug: Don't go anywhere, friends. 12:13 In just a moment we're going to return for the rest of 12:15 today's presentation. 12:17 What happens before and after the millennium, and how does it 12:21 fit in with the two resurrections that are mentioned 12:23 in the book of Revelation, and where will Satan and the fallen 12:27 angels be during this time, and what about humans, the saved 12:30 and the lost? 12:32 We have an amazing free resource that we'd like to give you that 12:35 addresses this wonderful topic. 12:37 It's called "Satan in Chains." 12:41 This resource will give you and exciting, detailed look at what 12:45 happens on earth and in heaven during the millennium. 12:48 It'll answer your questions and bring hope to your heart. 12:51 To get your free copy, call the phone number on your screen and 12:55 ask for offer number 197, or visit the web address on the 12:59 screen and after you read this incredible resource, make sure 13:02 and share it with a friend. 13:04 Well, let's get back to today's presentation and learn some more 13:07 amazing facts about the Word of God. 13:11 Doug: And when His feet touched the Mount of Olives, 13:12 something happens. 13:14 You know, the earth is already a mess. 13:15 You know, when bulldozers come in and they try and rebuild 13:18 after a terrible earthquake, they just clear a big area. 13:22 Jesus's feet touch that mountain and it splits. 13:26 There's seismic activity. 13:27 It splits and it forms a tremendous valley, and in that 13:31 valley, the New Jerusalem comes down. 13:35 What happens next to free Satan from his prison? 13:40 The Bible says that when Jesus comes down, not only does a new 13:44 Jerusalem descend but the rest of the dead don't live again 13:48 until the thousand years are finished. 13:50 There you've got it, Revelation 20, verse 5, which means what? 13:53 At the end of the 1,000 years, the devil's released 13:57 from his prison. 13:58 You know one reason the earth is called a prison for Satan, 14:02 a bottomless pit during the 1,000 years? 14:04 Satan is a workaholic. 14:07 Would you agree? 14:09 You ever heard someone say, "He works like the devil"? 14:12 I remember hearing a story where it talked about this man. 14:15 He worked in an office where there was a lady, and she was 14:19 always a positive, upbeat Christian. 14:22 This man was kind of a negative atheist, and whenever he'd say, 14:25 "Aw man, it's pouring cats and dogs out there," she was 14:26 always positive. 14:28 She'd say, "Yeah, the flowers are going to be beautiful 14:29 in May." 14:31 And he said "You know, what the politicians are 14:33 doing is terrible." 14:34 She said, "I'm so thankful for the freedoms that we enjoy." 14:36 And he used to get so irritated at her because everything he 14:38 said where he's just complaining, she'd always 14:40 turn it positive. 14:42 One day he thought, "I got her. 14:44 She's a Christian." 14:45 And one day he went into the office, he says, "Boy, that 14:47 devil, isn't he terrible?" 14:50 And she said, "Well, he certainly is busy." 14:54 He can't stand to be idle. 14:57 Do you realize what is going on? 14:59 Why is Satan being released from his prison? 15:01 Why is he bound like this for 1,000 years? 15:03 Why doesn't Jesus just destroy him? 15:08 You realize that for 1,000 years Satan and his angels are bound. 15:12 The Lucifer--the devil Lucifer, he told these other angels, 15:16 "If you follow me, I've got a better government. 15:18 I can do better than God." 15:19 Satan said, "Six thousand years in this world" to demonstrate 15:22 what his government would be like. 15:24 I know you're thinking it's not fair that it happened here 15:27 to us, but our first parents chose to listen to Lucifer 15:30 instead of God. 15:32 God said, "Don't eat it." 15:33 The devil said, "Eat it," and they listened to the devil, 15:37 and whoever you obey, that's whose servants you are. 15:39 Satan set up his rebellion here on this planet, and look 15:42 at what's happened to our world under his leadership. 15:45 Now, for 1,000 years, Satan and his angels need to roam this 15:49 dark, cold planet, and they look at the results of the rebellion: 15:53 broken-down cities, the earth is all cracked. 15:56 It was a paradise, and his government of self-first 16:00 selfishness destroyed everything. 16:03 So at the end of the 1,000 years when the New Jerusalem comes 16:07 down, Jesus's feet like a hypodermic needle, He brings all 16:10 the dead back to life. 16:11 He calls them back to life. 16:13 The devil can't resurrect anybody. 16:15 Even Jesus is the only one who can resurrect the lost. 16:19 He brings him forth. 16:20 Now all the people who have ever lived through the ages, we got 16:24 almost eight billion people alive on the world today, you 16:27 add that up with all the people who have lived through history, 16:30 you've got billions of people that are coming out 16:31 of the grave. 16:33 What will Satan do when the wicked are raised? 16:36 "He'll go out to deceive the nations that are in the four 16:39 corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them 16:42 together to battle. 16:44 The number is as the sand of the sea." 16:47 And they went up on the breadth of the earth. 16:50 This is a global army. 16:51 It's not just one nation. 16:53 "And they surround the camp of the saints, the beloved city, 16:55 the new Jerusalem." 16:57 Now, friends, this is where it gets really interesting. 17:02 Everybody here this evening, do you know we are all going to 17:05 meet again someday. 17:07 I promise you. 17:09 See, there's only four kinds of people. 17:12 You've got the righteous alive and the righteous dead. 17:15 You've got the wicked alive and the wicked dead. 17:18 This is an event where everybody will be present 17:21 and accounted for. 17:23 You've got God and Christ and the good angels. 17:27 You've got the devil and his fallen angels, all present and 17:30 accounted for at this event. 17:34 And this is going to be a time that is going to be very 17:36 profound, and there will be some very sober situations there when 17:40 everybody meets again, and I think there's going to be a lot 17:43 of revelation, everything that the lost have ever done against 17:48 anybody is going to be playing. 17:50 You're going to see fights breaking out among the lost. 17:53 "I'm here because of you. 17:54 Why didn't you tell me?" 17:56 Parents, they said to their kids, "Oh, you can go to church 18:00 if you want to, but we're staying home." 18:03 And the kids grow up and they go wild, and they said, 18:06 "Why didn't you tell me? 18:08 Why didn't you lead me to God?" 18:10 It's going to be a very sobering time. 18:14 Says, "You will come up against My people Israel like a cloud to 18:17 cover the land," all the wicked who've ever lived. 18:21 At this crucial moment, what stops everything, before Satan 18:24 launches his final attack? 18:26 I don't know if he's going to have enough intelligence or 18:29 materials or resources to build weapons or put together 18:32 nuclear bombs. 18:33 I don't know, but he's going to try and launch this attack 18:36 against the new Jerusalem. 18:39 At this crucial moment, just before they launch their final 18:41 attack, and Satan says charge, let's attack the city, the only 18:46 chance they've got is attacking the city and listening 18:48 to Lucifer. 18:49 They know they're doomed otherwise. 18:52 You read in Revelation 20, verse 11, now. 18:54 "I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, and the dead 18:59 were judged according to their works by the things that were 19:03 written in their books." 19:04 We are saved by grace through faith, but if we're not saved, 19:07 we're judged by our works. 19:09 Matter of fact, even the saved are judged by their works 19:12 because their works show whether they're saved, even if that work 19:15 is a work of believing. 19:17 Now, Jesus once said, "This is the work you shall do. 19:19 Believe on the one the Father has sent." 19:22 Now, can the Lord save 3,000 people at one time at Pentecost? 19:27 Can He judge 1,000 people at one time? 19:30 I think sometime we think of the judgment, God's going to say, 19:33 "Okay, line up, take a number--" like when you go to 19:36 Baskin-Robbins or the parts store, and everybody's waiting, 19:41 "Okay, next," the bailiff says, the angel there, and you come up 19:44 and they open the books. 19:46 God is going to play out in the heavens the whole thing. 19:51 There just before Satan launches attack, Christ is going to be 19:54 exalted above the city where everybody in the world can see 19:57 Him, enthroned, the right hand of the glory of the Father, and 20:03 in the sky and panorama of the great controversy between good 20:07 and evil is going to play out, how God sent His own Son, and 20:11 all the sufferings of Christ, and the opportunities in every 20:14 person's life to be saved. 20:16 I think you've heard one person almost dies, their life flashes 20:19 before them, happens very quickly. 20:22 This may not be so quick. 20:25 God is going to take people all through the history. 20:27 Their memories are going to be restored. 20:28 They're going to see everything God did to try to save them, and 20:31 they would not, and ultimately, they realize there's nothing 20:37 else that God could do. 20:39 What will happen after the wicked are judged? 20:42 "As I live, says the Lord, every knee will bow to Me, and every 20:47 tongue will confess to God." 20:50 See, Satan, he wanted to be God. 20:53 He told Jesus, "Bow down, worship me, and I'll give you 20:54 the world." 20:56 Christ said, "Though shalt not worship anyone but God." 20:59 And Satan wanted Christ's position. 21:04 Ultimately, everybody's going to be brought to the point where 21:06 they bow down and they confess. 21:08 Now, for the righteous, if you repent and confess Jesus's name 21:12 before he comes, you can be saved. 21:15 Those who confess the name of Jesus afterward are confessing 21:18 like Judas confessed, when he went into the temple and he 21:22 threw down the blood money, and he said, "I have betrayed 21:23 innocent blood." 21:25 That was too late. 21:26 He was just overwhelmed with a sense of his guilt and the 21:29 foreboding of his punishment. 21:32 That is the wrong kind of repentance. 21:34 It's like when the Pharaoh repented when all 21:36 the plagues began to fall. 21:38 That repentance won't save you. 21:39 It says, "I heard a loud voice," Revelation 19:1 and 2, "I heard 21:43 a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven saying, 21:46 'True and righteous are His judgments.'" 21:51 Before we enter eternity, 21:53 God wants us to see that He is just, that He is 21:56 fair, that He is good, that He is love, and even in 22:02 the punishment of the wicked, 22:04 He is doing the loving, just thing. 22:06 God has no alternative but to do that. 22:09 So everybody's going to meet again that day. 22:12 What happens next? 22:16 "Fire comes down from God out of heaven and devours them." 22:20 Before they ever get the fire off the first shot, after they 22:23 all kneel and they say Jesus Christ is Lord, after this 22:27 white-throne judgment where everyone's life passes before 22:30 them and they see that God did all he could to save them, but 22:33 they kept procrastinating. 22:34 They would not surrender. 22:35 They would not trust Jesus, and God rains fire down 22:39 upon the wicked, and it says it devours them. 22:43 Now, different people are going to suffer different lengths 22:47 of time. 22:48 He that sinned much will suffer much. 22:51 To whom much is given, much is required. 22:53 There will be some people that will probably die very quickly. 22:55 They had very little light or knowledge in their lives, and 22:59 who do you think is going to suffer the longest? 23:01 The devil. 23:04 He has on his back the guilt of the whole world and all 23:08 the fallen angels he led and he instigated. 23:11 You know, all of us have an influence for good or evil. 23:16 I want my life to tell for good. 23:18 I spent too many years in my youth having an evil influence, 23:22 and but everybody, the Bible says that we'll answer 23:26 for those things. 23:27 If your sins are not forgiven and under the blood, 23:30 there's a punishment for that. 23:31 So everyone is going to be rewarded according to what 23:33 they deserve. 23:34 There will be some lost, young people that maybe did not have 23:36 knowledge. 23:38 They'll die very quickly. 23:39 Adolf Hitler, Idi Amin and others? 23:42 They're going to look at the millions that died. 23:45 Joseph Stalin? 23:46 Millions that died because of their evil leadership. 23:50 "And anyone who is not written in the Book of Life was cast 23:54 into the lake of fire." 23:55 As that fire rains down, it continues to build up until it 23:58 forms a lake. 23:59 We saw that happen here in California about a week ago, how 24:02 that famine in the land--and then we had a downpour, and now 24:05 there's lakes where there was dust. 24:08 Have you noticed? 24:10 And the wicked are then devoured. 24:12 This is the second death. 24:15 Now, let's just review what's going on here. 24:17 Beginning of the 1,000 years, First Resurrection, Second 24:20 Coming of Jesus; the end of the 1,000 years, the wicked Second 24:25 Resurrection, Holy Spirit--a holy city descends, a new 24:29 Jerusalem comes down to earth. 24:31 During the millennium, the righteous are in heaven, we're 24:34 engaged in judgment, having our questions answered, enjoying 24:36 a 1,000-year Sabbath with the Lord. 24:40 For 6,000 years you have this battle between good and evil 24:44 here in the world, right? 24:45 We're going to get a millennial rest with the Lord 24:48 during that time. 24:49 The earth is desolate. 24:51 It is keeping Sabbath during that time. 24:53 After the fire goes out, what will God do for His people? 24:57 Ah, friends, I want to see this. 24:59 The Bible says, "For I create a new heavens and a new earth." 25:04 Eventually, the fire goes out. 25:08 Bible says there will not be a coal to warm at. 25:11 Christ then creates a new heavens and a new earth. 25:14 Whether He'll do it in six days or not, I don't know, but you 25:17 and I will get to watch God speak a new paradise into 25:21 existence from these balcony seats of the new Jerusalem. 25:25 On the wall, we'll see a beautiful, new environment 25:27 for us. 25:29 The Bible says, "Blessed are the meek. 25:31 They will inherit the earth." 25:33 It's an earth made new, amen? 25:35 "You shall go forth from the gates of the new Jerusalem." 25:38 It says, "You shall go forth and thread upon the wicked, for they 25:41 are ashes under the soles of your feet." 25:44 If that's clear, please say amen. 25:46 So they're being, they're receiving their judgment 25:50 here in this world. 25:52 "We, according to His promise, look for a new earth in which 25:56 dwells righteousness." 25:59 We've just seen how things are going to play out in 26:01 the last days. 26:03 And God--this is not very far in the distance, friend. 26:06 You know, the Bible tells us a day with the Lord is 26:09 like 1,000 years. 26:11 Here we are now about 6,000 years into human history based 26:14 on Bible times, and then we're going to live and reign with 26:19 Christ for 1,000 years. 26:20 We are at the sundown, right now, of the sixth day. 26:26 That millennial Sabbath is going to begin soon. 26:29 Jesus is going to come. 26:30 There's going to be a resurrection. 26:32 Those that serve him are going to be transformed and caught up 26:35 to meet him in the air. 26:37 Says, "Wherefore, comfort one another with these words." 26:39 Friends, I find comfort in that, don't you? 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