Participants: Pr. John Carter
Series Code: CR
Program Code: CR001631A
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00:14 Today, we are talking about the next 1,000 years
00:18 in Bible Prophecy. 00:20 We're gonna talk about the end of evil, 00:23 the end of Lucifer, the end of sin. 00:27 We're going to talk about 00:29 the greatest resurrection of them all 00:32 and the last great battle. 00:35 Right now, I'm talking about what happens to the wicked dead 00:40 when Christ comes the second time? 00:42 This is a continuation so you need to see part one. 00:46 We're going to come over now to Revelation 20:5. 00:50 Revelation 20:5. 00:57 Now the Bible talks about God's people being raised 01:01 at the second coming which commences the millennium. 01:05 This verse says 01:07 Revelation 20:5, you see it. 01:12 But the rest of the dead, that's the wicked. 01:16 We've already dealt with the righteous. 01:19 See that on the first program. 01:21 "But the rest of the dead did not live again 01:25 until the thousand years were finished." 01:30 The vast multitude of those outside the kingdom of God 01:36 are oblivious to the return of Christ. 01:41 They sleep on, the long sleep of death. 01:48 Stalin, knows nothing about it, but his day is coming. 01:52 Hitler, every man who is chosen 01:54 to follow the way of Satan's kingdom, 01:57 all of these people are completely oblivious, 02:03 but for them this is not the end 02:06 and all have a judgment day. 02:09 All have a day in court. 02:12 That is what the Bible teaches. 02:15 I've met people who said things like this. 02:18 I met a man once in Australia, he said, Ah-ah, he said. 02:23 When I die, I go six feet under and that's the end of me. 02:29 No, it's not. 02:31 It's a start of him, because the Bible teaches 02:36 that there is a coming judgment day 02:39 and everyone of us in our studio today, 02:42 every person in the world who has ever drawn breath 02:45 is going to come back and they're going to face God. 02:49 Okay, we noticed what happens at the start of the millennium. 02:53 Now, what happens during the millennium? 02:57 The Bible tells us, we read the text in the last session 03:00 that Satan is bound. 03:03 The Bible says he is bound in the bottomless pit 03:08 with a mighty chain. 03:10 This is symbolic language. 03:12 This is a chain of his own devising. 03:18 If I would have said you, 03:19 I can't come because I'm tied up. 03:21 You wouldn't think Beverly had me tied up 03:23 to the kitchen chair. 03:25 You would know that we were using symbolic language. 03:28 When it says that the devil is bound for a thousand years, 03:32 it means he is bound with a chain 03:36 of his own forging, you see. 03:40 Now, the righteous are in heaven 03:43 during the millennium. 03:44 The wicked are on the earth 03:46 as dust or corpses, okay? 03:52 Righteous are in heaven during the millennium, 03:55 the wicked are on the earth as dust or corpses. 04:00 Satan has no one to tempt. 04:05 And because he has no one to tempt, 04:08 the Bible says he is bound with a chain. 04:14 He made that chain. 04:16 The earth is reduced to a state of chaos. 04:18 It becomes the Abusos or the bottomless pit. 04:21 Come over hear to Jeremiah 25, 04:23 have some important passages to show you. 04:25 Come over here to Jeremiah 25. 04:27 If you understand this, 04:29 so many things are going to become plain to you. 04:32 Jeremiah 25:32, 33, "Thus says the Lord of hosts: 04:37 "Behold disaster shall go forth from nation to nation, 04:40 And a great whirlwind shall be raised up 04:42 from the farthest ends of the earth. 04:45 And at that day 04:46 the slain of the Lord shall be from one end of the earth 04:49 even to the other end of the earth. 04:51 They shall not be lamented, or gathered, or buried..." 04:55 They, they're not buried, why? 04:56 There's no one there to bury them. 04:58 They shall become refuse or dung on the ground, 05:03 mass slaughter. 05:05 Come now to Jeremiah 4:23-27, 05:09 Jeremiah 4:23-27, "Behold I beheld the earth, 05:15 and indeed it was without form and void." 05:18 This word in the Greek in the Septuagint 05:22 is the Abusos, bottomless pit. 05:25 "And the heavens, they had no light. 05:27 I beheld the mountains, and indeed they trembled. 05:31 And all the hills moved back and forth. 05:34 I beheld, and indeed there was no man..." 05:38 Nobody is there. 05:39 Nobody is sleeping on the earth. 05:41 "And all the birds of the heavens had fled. 05:43 I beheld, and indeed the fruitful land 05:45 was a wilderness, 05:46 and all its cities were broken down 05:48 at the presence of the Lord, by His fierce anger. 05:50 For thus says the Lord: 05:52 "The whole land will be desolate, 05:54 Yet I will not make a full end." 05:56 The earth is completely broken down, 06:00 this becomes the home of the wicked as corpses 06:07 and also Lucifer and his angels. 06:10 Come over now to Revelation 16:15-21, 06:14 it describes the last day, 06:16 and onwards Revelation 16:15 06:23 and onwards Revelation 16:15 and onwards. 06:28 "Behold, I am coming as a thief, 06:29 Blessed is he who watches, 06:31 and keep his garments lest he walk naked 06:33 and they see his shame.' 06:34 And they gathered them together 06:36 to the place called in Hebrew, Armageddon. 06:39 Then the seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, 06:41 and a loud voice came from the temple of God, 06:43 from the temple of heaven, from the throne, 06:45 saying, "It is done!" 06:47 This is the end. 06:48 And there were noises and thunderings and lightnings, 06:50 and there was a great earthquake, 06:52 such as so mighty, 06:54 an earthquake so great as it not occurred 06:56 since men were on the earth. 06:58 Now the great city was divided into three parts, 07:01 and the cities of the nations fell." 07:02 Moscow, New York, Los Angeles. 07:05 "And great Babylon was remembered before God, 07:07 to giver her the cup of the wine 07:10 of the fierceness of His wrath. 07:12 Then every island fled away, 07:13 and the mountains were not found. 07:15 And great hail from heaven fell upon men, 07:19 every hailstone about the weight of a talent, 07:22 around 100 pounds. 07:24 Men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, 07:28 since that plague was exceedingly great." 07:34 You know what this teaches me? 07:37 Not to trust in uncertain riches. 07:41 People go through lives, 07:42 they call themselves Christians, 07:43 all they think always give me, give me more. 07:47 What do you want? I want more. Where you gonna take it? 07:51 The Bible tells me, my friend, 07:53 it is all going to be destroyed. 08:01 This becomes the home of the devil. 08:05 A hailing wilderness, decedent and forsaken, 08:08 dead bodies and evil angels. 08:12 This is a question we should ask ourselves 08:14 and we have the courage to do so. 08:17 Where will I spend the millennium? 08:21 What is important to me? 08:24 The Bible says the love of money 08:25 is the root of all evil, 08:26 didn't say money but the love of money. 08:30 How many people do not love it? 08:33 Jesus said a man's life consisteth 08:37 not in the abundance of the things 08:39 which he possesseth in the KJV. 08:45 One day people will recognize that the most important thing 08:50 is not their possession, 08:52 not their position in the church, 08:55 not the sort of car that they drive 08:59 and not the stocks and the bonds 09:01 and all the rest of the junk. 09:04 The one thing that really counts 09:06 is a right relationship with Christ... 09:13 which the devil once had but he lost it. 09:19 Now we come to the close of the millennium. 09:21 Look at Revelation 20:3, the close of the millennium. 09:26 Remember, during the millennium the saints were in heaven, 09:29 the wicked are on the earth with the devil. 09:31 Revelation 20:3. 09:34 "Cast him into the bottomless pit, 09:36 shut him up, and set a seal on him, 09:39 so that he should deceive the nations no more, 09:42 till the thousand years were finished. 09:45 But after these things he must be released 09:47 for a little while." 09:49 The nations could not be deceived 09:51 because the nations were dead. 09:55 Now, my friend, look at verse 7, 09:58 "Now when the thousand years have expired, 10:01 Satan will be released from his prison." 10:06 And verse 5 says, "But the rest of the dead, 10:10 that's the wicked, did not live again 10:13 until the thousand years were finished." 10:17 Try to imagine this if you can. 10:22 After the thousand years, 10:25 Christ returns 10:30 and He comes with overwhelming power and glory 10:36 and when He comes back, He raises the wicked dead. 10:43 How many? 10:44 Billions not millions, billions. 10:48 The Bible says 10:50 they're like the sand of the sea on the shore. 10:56 They do not come up with immortal bodies. 10:59 They come up as they died 11:03 with the same thoughts. 11:07 It is true, billions raised. 11:10 Stalin, one person said to me, 11:12 "Oh, you can't say things like that, 11:13 Stalin may be saved." 11:15 Who you kidding? You ever read your Bible? 11:20 One lady, a doctor wrote me, she said, 11:22 "Everybody is gonna be saved, even the devil." 11:29 No, no, it's, it's a form of spiritual insanity. 11:36 Billions raised, Stalin, Hitler, Nero, Pilate, 11:41 Judas, Caiaphas, the high priest. 11:47 The priest who betrayed Christ. 11:50 The leaders of the inquisition, all good questions. 11:56 Exploiters of the power, 11:59 heartless and unscrupulous capitalists. 12:07 Not many amens in America for that one. 12:10 Heartless and unscrupulous capitalists, 12:16 ISIS, drug dealers, 12:22 and many ordinary people like you and me. 12:26 A vast army of those belong to the wrong kingdom. 12:32 And then something amazing takes place. 12:37 The city of God at this stage, Christ is back, 12:44 but now the city of God descends. 12:49 Wow! 12:51 And inside the city of God, you've got the saints of God. 12:56 What's the saint? 12:58 Well, a saint is a person 13:00 who has given his life to Christ. 13:02 People say no, no, no, no, 13:04 you got a canonized and go through this process. 13:06 Now that's humbug. It's not true, pardon my saint. 13:11 Remind me to speak plainly. 13:13 The saints of God, 13:16 a saint of God is a housewife, a doctor, 13:19 a baker, a candlestick maker. 13:22 A person who has given his life to Christ, 13:25 not a sinless people, or else they'd be no saints. 13:32 People will say the sinless are diluted. 13:35 Spiritually completely diluted. 13:40 Ask their families who got to live with them. 13:43 I'm telling you, ask their families. 13:45 Your husband has told me, he is sinless. 13:47 I said to the wife. 13:50 She says... 13:52 She said, I got to live with this guy. 13:55 I say you just committed another one, did they? 13:57 Yeah, another sin, yeah, spiritual pride, 14:00 the saints of God. 14:02 The saints of God are inside the city 14:05 and then the vast horde that has just been resurrected, 14:10 is marshaled into armies and led by Lucifer 14:15 to knock God off His throne. 14:18 This is a last great showdown. 14:24 Look at Revelation 20:7 and 8. 14:26 Wonder why I run evangelistic campaigns? 14:31 Nothing else counts but saving souls for eternity. 14:35 Revelation 20:7 and 8. 14:37 "And when the thousand years have expired, 14:39 Satan will be released from his prison." 14:42 He lost the people to tempt. Now he's got them back. 14:45 They're all back, they're all resurrected. 14:47 "And will go out to deceive the nations 14:49 which were in the four corners of the earth." 14:51 They've been raised. 14:53 "Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, 14:56 the number is as the sand of the sea." 15:00 Now, look at me, I'm gonna tell you something. 15:02 Not popular here in America, what I'm going to say. 15:06 Not popular anywhere where you've got lots of religion. 15:13 It is believed by the vast majority... 15:15 It is taught in a million pulpits, 15:18 it is taught by every leader in America, 15:22 who becomes a president, everybody is gonna be saved. 15:26 Yeah, yeah, everybody is saved. 15:27 If you get killed, cliche, you go straight to heaven. 15:30 All of the soldiers... 15:33 Everybody is saved irrespective. 15:39 I don't know they squared with this text. 15:42 The billions are the sand of the sea 15:45 and see what Jesus said. 15:47 Jesus said, "Narrow is the way that leads to life eternal 15:51 and few there be that find it." 15:53 Can you understand while as a pastor more than 50 years. 15:56 I've said to my congregation over and over and over 16:00 till they got sick of it. 16:02 Read your Bible everyday 16:04 and get away from this superficial religion 16:07 that we call Christianity. 16:11 So here is the vast number that comes forth. 16:16 To gather them together to battle, 16:17 the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. 16:21 How long will this take? We are not told. 16:24 There'll be mighty generals 16:25 under the greatest general Lucifer. 16:28 The leader is Prince Lucifer. 16:33 I don't know how long it's gonna take, 16:34 it may take a long time. 16:36 I don't even know if they're gonna use nuclear, 16:37 maybe they will. 16:40 Maybe they will make hydrogen bombs 16:42 and rockets and outside the city 16:46 will stand the disciples of the great rebel. 16:55 Rebellion today 16:57 is in the air you breathe. 17:02 Now I want to tell you folk something. 17:05 If you and I never meet again, 17:07 and you're watching this program on television, 17:10 better listen up and take this seriously 17:12 'cause this is not a fairytale. 17:14 If you and I never meet again, we're going to meet here. 17:19 Every person who has ever lived is going to be here. 17:22 Some inside the city 17:24 and a vast number outside the city, 17:27 every person. 17:29 If you and I don't meet again, we're going to meet there. 17:34 Even I can make playing good excuses, 17:36 being pull the wall over peoples eyes. 17:39 But every one of us is going to meet here, 17:43 and the people outside will be able to look inside 17:47 and say I could have been there... 17:51 would have been there. 17:54 And then the last great judgment takes place 17:56 Revelation 20:11-13, 17:59 "And I saw a great white throne, 18:01 and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth 18:03 and the heaven fled away, 18:05 and there was found no place for them. 18:06 And I saw the dead, small and great, 18:09 stand before God, they're resurrected, 18:11 and books were opened..." 18:13 Book, books, this is legalism. No, this is the truth. 18:16 " Books were opened, and another book was opened, 18:19 which is the Book of Life. 18:20 And the dead were judged according to their works." 18:23 The works show what sort of person you are, 18:26 this is not legalism, this is commonsense. 18:32 "The dead were judged according to their works, 18:34 by the things which were written in the books." 18:37 The works show 18:38 whether you are genuine or just a put on. 18:45 "The seas gave up the dead who were in it." 18:47 People buried at sea will come back. 18:52 "And Death and Hades delivered up the dead 18:54 who were in them. 18:56 And they were judged, each one according to his works." 19:01 So before the swaying multitude, 19:05 Christ is the judge. 19:09 Every person is judged according to his works. 19:15 And every person knows, I'm here 19:19 and I deserve to be here. 19:22 I had my opportunities but I said no. 19:27 My religion is good enough for me 19:30 and I'm an elder in the church and that will get me home. 19:33 Judas, Pilate, Caiaphas, 19:35 the priest and lots of ordinary people, 19:39 and then the spell is broken after the judgment 19:44 and a billion people led by the arch-rival 19:47 march against the city of God. 19:51 You can read about it here in Revelation 20:9. 19:57 "They went up on the breadth of the earth, 19:59 and surrounded the camp of the saints, 20:01 and the beloved city: 20:04 and fire came down from God out of heaven, 20:08 and devoured them." 20:11 There is a roar 20:15 from the skies and the fire falls. 20:26 And the Bible teaches 20:27 that in that supernatural fire, 20:33 Lucifer himself is consumed 20:40 and sin and sinners will be no more. 20:49 This is the word of the Lord. 20:54 The earth is cleansed and renewed 20:56 and then God speaks. 20:58 And when God speaks, God makes, my friend, 21:03 a brand new world. 21:05 God speaks as He did in creation. 21:09 This is Genesis 1:1 all over again 21:12 and God Christ speaks 21:17 and by the power of His divinity, 21:21 a brand new world is created. 21:27 Amazing, isn't it? 21:29 Think about what saint are going to see. 21:31 They are going to see Genesis 1 repeated, 21:34 going to see brand new world. 21:38 Here are the great issues, Christ and Satan. 21:42 With Christ have first resurrection. 21:49 In Christ, the people go to heaven. 21:52 In Christ, they are inside the city. 21:55 With Satan, they come up in the second resurrection 21:59 but they come up, they spend the millennium on the earth 22:05 and when Christ returns the third time, 22:09 they are outside the city. 22:13 This is a Revelation from God that shows us 22:19 the two great camps of humanity. 22:27 And it makes me think, because it is decision time. 22:34 I'm here at Revelation 22:12 and onwards. 22:38 "Behold, I'm coming quickly, my reward is with me, 22:42 to give every one according as his work. 22:44 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, 22:47 the first and the last. 22:48 Blessed are those who do his commandments, 22:50 or wash their robes, 22:52 that they may have right to the tree of life, 22:54 and may enter through the gates into the city. 22:56 But outside are dogs, and sorcerers, 23:00 sexually immoral, and murderers, and idolaters, 23:03 who ever loves and practices a lie. 23:07 I, Jesus have sent My angel to testify to you these things 23:10 in the churches. 23:11 I am the root and the offspring of David, 23:13 and Bright and Morning Star. 23:15 And the Spirit and the bride say, 'Come! 23:19 And let him who hears say, "Come!" 23:22 And let him who thirst come. 23:27 Whosoever desires, let him take 23:31 the water of life freely." 23:37 At the very end, my friend, it's going to be glory. 23:46 The Bible starts with a new heaven 23:49 and a new earth 23:51 had a perfect, happy, holy, and healthy people. 23:58 And it finishes in exactly the same way 24:03 with a new heaven and a new earth 24:06 with a happy, healthy, and holy people. 24:14 And you can't earn it. You can't buy it. 24:19 You can't bribe your way in. 24:23 It says, if you're thirsty. 24:30 When you get thirsty enough, hard to get people thirsty, 24:37 but when you get thirsty enough, the Bible says, 24:41 you can come and because of Christ 24:45 and His atoning sacrifice on the cross, praise God. 24:50 The Bible says, because of the blood of Christ 24:55 is forgiveness, every sin 25:00 and renewal inside. 25:05 And at the end of the road, 25:08 there is a bright shining light. 25:14 It shines from the city of God. 25:18 Would you bow your heads with me, we're gonna pray. 25:21 Now Father, we thank You for this amazing, 25:23 amazing Bible prophecy. 25:25 It tells us about the choices. 25:29 We thank You that we can be in the first resurrection, 25:33 that we can be raised forever and we can be translated, 25:38 that we can go home to glory 25:40 and spend the millennium with Christ and the angels. 25:43 That at the end of the millennium, 25:45 we can be in the New Jerusalem. 25:47 And at last we can have a home in the paradise of God, 25:54 because Christ made it possible. 25:57 We accept You today. 25:59 We bless You and we thank You, and we come to You 26:03 because we're thirsty in Jesus' name. 26:08 Amen and Amen. 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