Participants: Pr. John Carter
Series Code: CR
Program Code: CR001630A
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00:14 We're so glad that you're here today.
00:17 The topic is 00:18 "The Next 1,000 years in Bible Prophecy." 00:22 This 1,000 years period is commonly called 00:25 the millennium. 00:27 I also have gotten another topic, 00:29 another name for this topic 00:31 and that is "The Devil and His Wife on Vacation." 00:38 What are you laughing for? 00:39 You know that devil has got a wife. 00:42 We gonna talk about that today. 00:44 The devil and his wife on vacation. 00:46 I want you to the come to the apocalypse 00:48 to Revelation 17:4, 00:51 it's the last book in the Bible. 00:53 Revelation 17. 00:55 As we talk about the millennium 00:58 and the devil and his wife on vacation. 01:00 Revelation 17:4. 01:03 The Bible says, if you got the text says, 01:06 "The women was arrayed in purple and scarlet, 01:09 colors in the Bible of a prostitute, 01:13 and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, 01:17 having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations 01:21 and filthiness of her fornication." 01:26 There are two women mentioned in Bible prophecy, 01:29 one woman represents the bride of Christ 01:33 and the other woman represents the great apostate church. 01:38 I want you to come over here 01:39 to Revelation 21:9 and 10, dear folks. 01:46 The Bible says, "Then one of the seven angels 01:49 who had the seven bowls filled with the seven last plagues 01:52 came to me and talked with me saying, "Come, 01:56 I will show you the bride, the Lamb's wife." 02:00 Christ's wife. 02:01 The devil has got a wife too, and verse 10 says, 02:05 "He carried me away in the Spirit 02:06 to a great and high mountain, and showed me the great city, 02:10 the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God." 02:16 So the Bible tells us here, 02:18 that just as the devil has got a wife 02:21 who is the great apostate church. 02:24 The Bible tells us that Christ has got a bride 02:28 and the Bible says that's the New Jerusalem, 02:33 but this text seems a little confusing 02:36 because how could a person be married to a city. 02:41 I guess that's not so hard to understand, 02:43 when you take a woman shopping. 02:48 But the Bible tells us here 02:50 that Christ is married to a city. 02:52 What does this mean? 02:53 Come over hear, Revelation 20:9, 02:58 this explains, "They went up on the breadth of the earth 03:02 and surrounded the camp of the saints 03:06 and the beloved city." 03:09 So the Bible teaches that inside the city, 03:12 the wonderful city, the beloved city, 03:14 the new Jerusalem, 03:15 the city of the stars are the people of God. 03:20 And so Christ is married to the people of God. 03:24 In Bible prophecy, you have two very distinctive women. 03:31 One is the bride of Christ 03:33 that represents the people of God, 03:36 represents God's church. 03:41 She is a pure, clean, decent, faithful woman. 03:45 But the Bible teaches that the devil has a wife, 03:50 and this system is called in the Bible a church. 03:57 It is a great apostate church. 04:01 The Bible makes it plain that often the devil hides 04:07 in the grab of religion. 04:11 We're gonna see this today. 04:12 You got two churches, you got two systems, 04:16 and two great characters, 04:19 Lucifer and Christ. 04:24 Now the greatness truth in the Bible 04:26 is not the truth about the antichrist. 04:29 I want you to know this. 04:31 The greatest truth in the Bible, here it is, 04:33 it's the truth that there is a God and He loves us. 04:37 That's the greatest truth. 04:39 Greatest text, for God so loved the world. 04:41 So I want you to know today 04:43 that you are special and God loves you. 04:47 Today we're going to notice some amazing events 04:51 almost too hard to believe. 04:54 Do you see this guy here? See the look on his face. 04:59 This guy is gobsmacked. Ever heard this term before? 05:05 Google it, gobsmacked. 05:07 That means, he is totally and absolutely amazed 05:10 at what he is going to hear in this program. 05:12 We're going to talk today about the two resurrections. 05:16 The Bible says, "If you don't come up in the first, 05:18 you come up with the second." 05:19 We're gonna talk about the 1,000 years 05:21 when Satan is bound in the bottomless pit. 05:24 We're going to talk about earth's last great battle. 05:29 We're going to talk about the death of Satan. 05:33 Satan does not live on, being tortured by God, 05:37 for trillions of years. 05:38 The Bible says that Satan is going to stop living. 05:44 We're going to talk about the end of evil, 05:47 the destruction of planet earth, 05:51 the creation of a brand new world 05:56 and the coming of the great city of the stars. 06:01 Now the millennium. 06:02 Would you please come to Revelation 20:1-3, 06:06 dear hearts and gentle people, Revelation 20:1-3. 06:11 The Bible says, 06:13 "Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, 06:15 having the key to the bottomless pit, 06:18 the abyss, and a great chain in his hand. 06:21 He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, 06:24 who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him" 06:27 for how long "thousand years, 06:30 he cast him into the bottomless pit 06:32 and shut him up, set a seal on him, 06:34 so that he should deceive the nations no more 06:37 till the thousands years were finished. 06:39 But after these things 06:41 he must be released for a little while." 06:46 Look at me. 06:48 The Bible says that Lucifer is cast down 06:53 into the bottomless pit 06:56 and the Bible says that during the time, 07:00 he is cast down into the abyss or the bottomless pit. 07:05 He can deceive the nations no more. 07:10 I remember a person saying to me 07:13 "We're now in the time of the millennium 07:16 and Satan is bound." 07:18 I said, "If he is bound, may the Lord have mercy upon us 07:22 if he ever gets loose." 07:24 Let's talk about this personality 07:27 whose name is Satan, who was bound for 1,000 years. 07:33 Who is Satan? He is a real person. 07:38 This is not a figure of speech. 07:41 In the Book of Isaiah, he is called Lucifer 07:45 or the shining one. 07:47 Under God he was once in charge of our universe 07:51 and everything beyond under God. 07:53 He became the great rebel and arch deceiver. 07:58 He is the originator of sin, evil, suffering and death. 08:05 He is the enemy of God and the enemy of men and women. 08:11 And the Bible says, 08:12 he is going to be cast into the bottomless pit 08:14 for 1,000 years. 08:17 Let us think for a moment of the differences 08:19 between God and Satan. 08:23 God is love, never coerces the conscience. 08:26 You know what I'm talking about, 08:27 forces the conscience. 08:29 He never forces us to obey. He is the God of freedom. 08:36 We're free to choose. 08:38 God is the God of righteousness and truth and mercy. 08:43 Satan lies and deceives and hides 08:48 mainly in religion. 08:51 He believes in forcing the conscience. 08:55 He is the power behind... 08:56 Listen to this, religious intolerance. 08:59 Plenty of that today in the world and in America. 09:02 Religious intolerance, hatred and persecution. 09:06 He is the real power behind, 09:09 he was the real power behind the inquisition, 09:15 which was church run thing. 09:18 And today he is the god of ISIS. 09:23 What is more, Satan is the god of torture 09:28 and religious hatred. 09:31 I'm utterly amazed when I hear Christians 09:33 talking about bringing back torture. 09:37 There was a black chapter in the history 09:38 of the United States of America, 09:41 when we tortured our enemies, 09:45 went against everything that is taught in the Bible, 09:48 everything Christian, everything decent, 09:51 everything American. 09:54 And some say, "We ought to bring it back 09:57 and torture our enemies." 09:59 That is the voice of Satan, not the voice of God. 10:06 Christ said, "Love your enemies." 10:07 People say, "It's impossible." 10:10 We'll look at the alternative 10:12 and see what we have done with the alternative. 10:15 Every person needs to know the judgment day is coming. 10:19 Lucifer has a judgment day coming, 10:21 and we have a judgment day coming. 10:24 One of the great founding fathers 10:26 of the United States of America, 10:29 Thomas Jefferson said these immortal words, 10:35 "Indeed I tremble for my country 10:37 when I reflect that God is just, 10:41 that his is justice cannot sleep forever." 10:48 People can scorn, they can scuff, 10:51 they can blaspheme, 10:55 but their day is coming. 10:59 The day is coming 11:01 when God is going to eradicate evil from the universe. 11:05 When does the millennium take place? 11:07 Revelation 20:4 and 5. 11:09 Look it in the Bible, Revelation 20:4 and 5, 11:13 "And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, 11:16 and judgment was committed to them. 11:17 It's judgment. 11:19 Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded 11:21 for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, 11:25 who had not worshipped the beast or his image, 11:27 and not received his mark on their foreheads 11:30 or on their hands." 11:31 And this is the picture of the martyrs, all the saints. 11:36 And the text says, "And they lived or came to life, 11:39 and reigned with Christ for a thousand years." 11:42 Therefore the millennium commences 11:45 with the resurrection of the righteous. 11:48 And verse 5 says, 11:50 "But the rest of the dead did not live again 11:52 until the thousand years were finished. 11:54 This is the first resurrection," 11:56 referring back to verse 4. 11:59 So listen carefully, look at me. 12:02 This is of tremendous importance, 12:04 because this is the subject where some people are confused. 12:08 The Bible tells me 12:10 that the millennium starts with the resurrection 12:13 and it ends with the resurrection." 12:18 And the Bible tells me that it starts 12:21 with the resurrection of the righteous. 12:25 We just read this text. 12:28 "Blessed and holy it says, 12:30 is he who is part in the first resurrection." 12:34 The saints who were put to death 12:35 because they would not worship the beast are resurrected 12:40 and they reign with Christ for thousand years. 12:43 This tells me a number of truths. 12:44 It tells me there will be martyrs in the last days. 12:49 Am I right to think about that? 12:51 All the saints of God are going to be raptured on to glory. 12:54 No, no, no, no, it's not taught in the Bible. 12:58 It's a part 13:00 of an easy going lying superficial religion. 13:05 Tell it to people who suffer. 13:08 It's religion of the spiritually illiterate. 13:14 The Bible says God's saints, many of them will be martyred 13:20 because it says they wouldn't worship the beast. 13:23 At least they understood the Bible prophecies 13:25 which is more than most Christians do today. 13:28 Most Christians don't read the Bible prophecies 13:30 because they are so asleep. 13:34 But the Bible says, the saints of God 13:37 who are martyred in the last days, 13:38 they lived and they reigned with Christ for 1.000 years, 13:42 therefore there will be blood in the streets 13:46 in the last days. 13:49 But the Bible says God's people are going to live again. 13:55 So millennium starts 13:57 with the resurrection of the righteous. 13:59 When are the righteous raised? 14:01 Easy, come over here to 1 Thessalonians 4:16, 14:07 dear hearts and gentle people. 14:10 1 Thessalonians 4:16 14:16 it says, "For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven 14:22 with a shout, 14:23 with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, 14:28 and the dead in Christ will rise first." 14:31 The righteous are raised at the second coming, 14:38 that's when the millennium commences, 14:42 it's as plain as the nose on your face. 14:47 Come over here to Revelation 20:6, 14:50 Revelation 20:6, dear hearts and gentle people. 14:56 Revelation 20:6, "Blessed and holy 15:00 is he who has part in the first resurrection." 15:04 That's when Christ comes. 15:07 "Over such the second death has no power." 15:09 There are two deaths, unless you are born twins, 15:12 you will die twice. 15:15 That's what the Bible teaches. 15:17 "On to over such the second death has no power, 15:20 but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, 15:23 and shall reign with Him a thousand years." 15:27 Hallelujah, what a morning 15:29 it is going to be when Jesus comes. 15:32 So when Jesus comes, 15:34 there is the mighty resurrection 15:37 and when Jesus comes, 15:39 He commences the punishment of Satan in the bottomless pit, 15:46 and from the time Jesus comes 15:49 and you have the first resurrection, 15:52 you have a thousand years. 15:57 That's as plain, so plain 15:59 that even my grandchildren could understand it. 16:05 The human race can be divided into two camps. 16:09 And here we're not talking about religions or churches. 16:15 God is far bigger than our thinking usually. 16:21 Yeah, it's not the case of, 16:23 "hey, this belong to this church, 16:25 they are going to glory, this belong to that church, 16:27 they are going to hell." 16:30 The human race, that's very superficial, 16:32 human race can be divided into two camps. 16:36 The good and the bad. 16:40 The righteous and the wicked. The saved and the lost. 16:45 The penitent and the smug lost self righteous. 16:56 Now this can be divided again or subdivided. 17:00 Want you to see this. 17:02 You have the righteous dead, 17:07 the saints of God who have died 17:11 and they are sleeping in the grave. 17:14 The righteous dead, the righteous living. 17:17 God's people, the Bible calls them the saints. 17:21 Saint is not a sinless person. 17:24 The saint is a person who was saved and in Christ. 17:30 Don't forget this. 17:31 Righteous dead, righteous living. 17:34 And on the other side you have the wicked dead, 17:38 a vast, vast number. 17:41 They think that's the end. 17:43 Oh, no, hasn't started yet. 17:46 The wicked dead and the wicked living. 17:51 So you have some awake and some asleep. 17:56 Living and dead, the good, 18:01 the bad and the ugly. 18:07 Couldn't help myself there. 18:09 Okay, let us therefore consider the faith 18:13 of each group of humanity when Christ returns. 18:17 We've the righteous dead. We've spoken about this. 18:20 When Jesus comes back, 18:23 the righteous dead are going to be raised in glory. 18:29 If they died with cancer, 18:30 they're not coming up with cancer. 18:33 They're coming up full of the glory of God. 18:39 My mother and my father, 18:40 I'm confident of their salvation 18:43 not because of their membership in the church, 18:47 not because of their membership in Christ. 18:51 I think of my old friend Graham Bradford, 18:55 one of the great saints of God. 18:59 The Bible tells me he is sleeping, 19:02 he is unconscious. 19:06 No longer in time 19:07 but he will be raised in glory. 19:13 Immortal. 19:16 When I visited Siberia, 19:18 I have been there many times in the midst of winter. 19:21 I like going in the midst of winter to Siberia. 19:24 I like going to Lake Baikal 19:26 where it's often minus 40 degrees plus the wind. 19:33 One of the most beautiful places in the world. 19:35 Have you heard of it? 19:37 It's the largest fresh water lake in all the world. 19:39 It contains about a fifth of all the surface fresh water 19:42 in the world. 19:44 It's more than a mile deep. 19:47 When I go there, it has 2 meters or 6 feet of ice 19:51 on the top of it. 19:53 They've sometimes put down a railway tracks 19:55 to run across it. 19:58 Now I've stood there in Siberia 20:03 which is one of the most beautiful countries 20:05 in the world. 20:06 Very much like Canada. 20:08 The Taiga Forest in Siberia is so vast, 20:13 it is bigger than the United States of America. 20:17 That's the forest in Russia, the Taiga Forest. 20:22 And I've gone to the seminaries 20:25 and I've stood up to my waist in snow. 20:29 Standing in the presence of millions of people. 20:39 People say, "We want atheism again." 20:43 How foolish, how little they know. 20:46 The atheist put to death in Russia had in Ukraine, 20:52 around 50 million people, 20:55 including millions, and millions, and millions 20:58 our devout Christians who died for their faith. 21:01 Read the works of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. 21:06 But the day is coming when the mossy old graves 21:09 where the pilgrims sleep 21:10 shall be opened as wide as before. 21:14 And the millions have sleep in the mighty deep 21:16 shall live on this earth once more. 21:20 Number two, the righteous living. 21:22 What happens to them? 21:23 Come now to 1 Thessalonians Chapter 4, 21:26 what a great subject this is, dear hearts and gentle people. 21:30 Chapter 4:16 and 17, 21:33 "For the Lord himself will descend from heaven 21:35 with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, 21:39 and with the trumpet of God. 21:40 And the dead in Christ will rise first. 21:42 This is the first resurrection. 21:45 Then we who are alive 21:47 and remain shall be caught up together with them 21:49 in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. 21:52 And thus we shall always be with the Lord." 21:57 The Bible tells me when Christ comes back, 22:00 the dead saints are resurrected 22:03 and the living saints are translated. 22:07 Caught up in the clouds, 22:09 they do not spend the millennium on this earth. 22:12 As this is taught in popular theology. 22:16 The Bible teaches that the saints are caught up, 22:19 the living saints are changed. 22:25 All the cancer, all the heartache, 22:28 all the heart disease, it's gone. 22:32 It's gone. 22:35 These are the survivors, 22:37 the people who lives through to the second coming. 22:38 I would like to be alive when Jesus comes, 22:42 but then you have the wicked living, 22:45 the people who shake their fists at God... 22:54 and treat him like a benevolent grandfather. 23:00 Never read their Bibles, 23:01 the fear of God is not before their eyes. 23:04 Would you please come to 2Thessalonians 1:6-10? 23:10 We give you a lots of text because we want your faith 23:12 to be in the word of God, not in a church, 23:15 not in a preacher, not in a television evangelist, 23:18 not in a priest, not in a pope but in Christ. 23:22 2 Thessalonians 1:6-10. 23:25 "Since it is a righteous with God 23:27 to repay with tribulation those who trouble you, 23:31 and to give you who are troubled rest of us 23:33 when the lord Jesus is revealed from heaven 23:36 with His mighty angels in flaming fire 23:38 taking vengeance on those who do not know God, 23:40 and on those who do not obey the gospel 23:42 of our Lord Jesus Christ. 23:44 These shall be punished with everlasting destruction 23:47 from the presence of the Lord 23:48 and from the glory of His power. 23:50 When He comes, in that Day, to be glorified in His saints 23:54 and to be admired among all those who believe, 23:57 because our testimony among you was believed." 24:00 The Bible teaches that when Christ returns, 24:05 the fire that comes from the throne of God 24:10 is so great and so powerful 24:14 that the wicked those outside of the kingdom of God 24:21 are destroyed. 24:27 And the earth might fret, 24:31 the earth becomes the bottomless pit. 24:37 People say, "I want to spend the millennium on this earth." 24:44 The earth is destroyed 24:48 by the glory of Christ. 24:54 The saints are resurrected and translated. 25:00 You and I may come up with some good reasons 25:02 why we shouldn't follow God and follow Christ. 25:07 That reason will not endure the fire that is coming. 25:13 Now in our next 30 minutes segment, 25:18 amazing facts about the end of Lucifer 25:25 and the creation of a new world. 25:43 Hello, friend. 25:45 I'm John Carter in Havana, Cuba. 25:48 I'm standing here in Revolutionary Square. 25:53 This great square is dedicated 25:55 to the great communist revolution under Fidel 25:58 that came to this country back 50, 60 years ago. 26:02 This place is still undergoing a revolution. 26:06 We've come to check out the reality of the situation. 26:11 Freedom of speech is not allowed here still. 26:15 Preaching the gospel out of doors 26:17 is not allowed here, 26:18 still whatever you hear about reconciliation, 26:22 nothing has really changed. 26:25 We've been told, we cannot run public campaigns in Cuba 26:31 in any part of this world. 26:33 We can run meetings in churches, that's allowed. 26:37 So what are we going to do? 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