Participants: John Lomacang (Host), John Stanton
Series Code: HCL
Program Code: HCL100024
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00:01 Hello friends grab your Bible and a friend and
00:03 sit back as we explore God's word together on 00:05 this addition of House Calls. 00:23 Welcome to another exciting program of 00:26 House Calls and if you don't know what that 00:28 means, that means we're in your house, that's 00:30 why you watching us. And it's just not just me 00:33 I'm one John but that's John number two, good 00:35 to have you here John number two. 00:37 He's here. John Stanton my good 00:40 pastor friend and I'm John Lomacang and 00:43 we're here together to share with you what the 00:45 word of God has to say. So get your Bibles, get 00:48 you pens, sit back and enjoy a very 00:51 informative and a very challenging program. 00:53 One thing we chose not to do is to skirt the 00:56 issues. We meet them head on in a loving way 00:59 so sit down and enjoy the program with us, 01:01 but with we also do before we get into the 01:03 Bible is we have prayer. So John, have a pray for us. 01:07 Dear Father, in heaven we thank you for 01:08 another day, a day of life. Where we can 01:11 spend time in your presence. But we pray 01:13 that you be with us here during this program, 01:15 that you would guide and direct our thoughts 01:17 and our minds, our hearts and guide us also 01:20 through the scriptures on these importance 01:22 subjects that you want us to know. And Lord 01:24 we pray that you'll be with those who are 01:26 viewing, who are listening to the program that you 01:28 would guide and direct them in the way, everlasting, 01:31 in Jesus name we pray, amen. Amen. 01:33 Now friends some people don't know it, 01:35 but I'm sure you do if you watched the 01:37 program before your Bible questions make a 01:39 major difference in this program. So, if for any 01:43 reasons we stimulate your thoughts about a 01:44 question or maybe you already have a question 01:47 you want to sent to us. Send that question to 01:50 Housecalls@3abn.org, that's housecalls@3abn.org, 01:55 we will go to that website download your 01:57 question and we will hopefully get to cover it 01:59 on one of the programs either, if your fortunate 02:02 it could be today. If we've already 02:04 downloaded it but surely in the future 02:06 somehow we'll cover that. So today we're 02:08 gonna to begin our program and we have 02:09 an exciting topic we're gonna to continue on 02:11 the topic of the millennium, the 1000 02:14 years. What does the Bible say happened at 02:16 the beginning during and at the end of the 02:19 1000 years, stay tuned for that in the second 02:22 half of our program, but John I think you have 02:24 Bible questions for us what do you have? 02:26 I do this one is from Jan and a real good 02:29 question here. She says, she enjoys House Calls, 02:33 thank you very much. She is little perplexed 02:36 about something. Why did God put the tree, 02:39 excuse me, of knowledge of good and 02:42 evil in the Garden at all? When he being the 02:45 alpha and omega knowing the beginning 02:47 from the end of course knew what would 02:49 happen? Why even put it there to tempt Adam 02:52 and Eve when he created them to live 02:54 forever? I know that some people say it was 02:57 to test, if they were faithful to God, but then 03:00 that begs the question why did the humans to 03:03 begin with. You know why create. 03:06 For why create, excuse me, the humans to 03:08 begin with. When he knew what was going to 03:10 happen and the heartache and sorrow resulting from it 03:14 Why did he give the Devil a chance to get up 03:16 foot hold. I realize at this could very well be one 03:19 o those things that we remain a mystery until 03:21 we can ask Jesus himself, but I like to 03:23 thought it out there and see what you take is on. 03:25 Okay. So, there are several things that really she is 03:28 asking here and she did elude to one answer and 03:32 that is as a test. And the Lord, the Lord is first 03:38 and foremost one who is a stanch believer, his 03:43 foundational principle is for love is choice, 03:48 freedom of choice. That's right. 03:50 And so Adam and Eve whenever there is a 03:52 freedom to choose there always is a choice, 03:55 Adam and Eve were given a choice to follow 03:57 the Lord who created them or to follow the 03:59 arch enemy Satan, who sort to bring sin into 04:03 this world. They were given that choice and 04:06 they chose to disbelieve God and believe Satan 04:09 and his lies, which has gotten us to where we 04:11 are today. That's right. 04:13 So the questions asked why would he put the 04:15 garden in there. In the first place when He 04:18 knew what would happen. You know, I 04:20 would add something a little bit more to that. 04:22 Why did he even create Satan? If he knew Satan 04:25 was going to bring sin to the world. 04:27 Or more specifically Lucifer. 04:29 Lucifer, at the time yes. Before he became 04:31 Satan. So that question has to be asked as well. 04:35 It's not just with regard to this world, but it's 04:37 with regard to the entire sin issue form the very 04:41 beginning. Now, this goes back to freedom of 04:45 choice again, because even the angels had a 04:47 freedom to chose whether or not to serve 04:49 God or to walk away and rebel against God 04:53 and we found and we've talked about in other 04:56 programs, how Lucifer who was perfect when 05:01 he was created still made a decision, kind 05:04 of his heart lifted him up because of himself, 05:07 he saw it with pride, an element of pride came 05:09 in, he saw himself for more than he was. And 05:12 distrusted God and rebelled and then took a 05:15 third of the angels from heaven with him and 05:17 from that point on, they have been seeking to 05:20 destroy and take kingdom's down what 05:23 happens to be that our earth was the one that 05:25 was brought under his deception through the 05:28 disobedience of Adam and Eve. So, again the 05:31 question is why do God put the tree there in the 05:34 Garden of Eden. And now what was the first 05:36 in foremost because of he believes in choice, a 05:38 freedom of choice for all humanity that they 05:42 must chose to love him of their own free will 05:44 not just become a robot or one that is forced to 05:48 love them. That's right in the common 05:49 time and time so to speak. Here's the other aspect 05:52 though. The Bible is indicating very clearly 05:55 throughout its pages that there is a 05:56 controversy going on between Christ and 05:59 Satan that begin when Satan rebelled and 06:03 Christ and him fought against each other in 06:06 heaven before Satan was cast out and then of 06:09 course that battle continued on the earth 06:11 as the earth fell under his deception and 06:14 delusions. This great controversy is playing 06:18 out not only for this world, not only for the 06:21 angels in heaven not only for God himself, 06:23 but it's playing out. I believe, for the universe 06:26 and here's where maybe some may, we can call 06:32 it disagree but maybe there is a different 06:34 understanding that we have, that's Seventh 06:36 Day Adventist pastors about the great 06:38 controversy then many do about our world and 06:40 about heaven. And that is this, the earth is not 06:44 the only world that was created. 06:46 Right. There were other worlds that god has 06:50 created and I believe they went through that 06:52 same test. And if they passed that test and 06:56 remained sinless, followers, obedient to 06:58 God. They also have an interesting what's 07:01 happening here because we did not. And so, 07:05 God is going more than what we see happening 07:07 on this earth. God is creating a safety for the 07:11 entire universe to allow them to see what the 07:16 true end result is of sin of what Satan's allegations 07:21 were against God. Remember, in a way God's 07:23 on trial here. Right not, not so much us. 07:26 Yeah, God is on trial here because Satan alleged 07:28 listen you're not fair. You're forcing us to obey, 07:30 your laws are not good, they are just self serving 07:33 you and so these things are playing out and 07:35 we're finding that Satan was wrong. God is loving, 07:38 he is caring, his way is the best, but not only 07:41 does this is world need to find that out but the universe 07:43 needs to know what Satan's allegations really, 07:47 really are. And also with the fruit of his course 07:52 and his decision is. And so let's just give you, 07:54 let's give a couple of verses. Sure go ahead. 07:57 About the world's being, there are other worlds 07:59 being created. Let's turn first of all to Hebrews 08:01 chapter 1 and let's take a look at verse 1 and 2, 08:12 Hebrews 1, verses 1 and 2, God, who at various times 08:14 and in various ways spoke in time past to the 08:18 Fathers by the prophets, has in his last days 08:21 spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed 08:24 heir of all things, through whom also He made 08:28 the worlds; and this is a plural form of the, 08:35 of a planet or a world established, 08:37 inhabited world established by God or created 08:39 by God. So it's not just the earth that has been 08:42 created it is several worlds that have been created. 08:45 We don't know how many that is. We believe, 08:47 we'll find out one day. But to see a further example 08:51 of this you've got to turned to Job and you'll 08:56 see the great controversy playing out in the first 08:59 chapter of job because Satan sought to bring 09:02 Job down, Job was a committed follower of God, 09:07 he was obedient to him, he trusted him and 09:10 God blessed him as a result of that and here 09:11 Satan appears and he asked God, he says to God, 09:17 basically you've protect Job that's why he serves 09:20 you, you see it's this forced obedience thing. 09:22 If I were to bring upon him, these pain and 09:28 suffering and take these things you blessed him 09:29 with away he will curse you, he will not follow 09:32 you and so the great controversy than that 09:34 allegation that was made from the beginning 09:36 by Satan is played out in this, in the life of Job 09:40 and we find in Job chapter 1, look at verse 6, 09:44 it says now there was a day when the sons of God 09:49 came to present themselves before the Lord, 09:51 and Satan also came among them. 09:55 And the Lord said to Satan, from where do you 09:58 come? So Satan answered the Lord, and said, 10:01 From going to and fro on the earth, 10:03 and from walking back and forth on it. 10:07 If most scholars as they look at the last part 10:09 of that second verse what Satan was really 10:11 saying here and there is a lot of dialogue on this, 10:13 but most have come with conclusion that when 10:15 he is saying his walking for through forth, 10:17 to and fro, back and forth on the earth. 10:18 He is claiming authority over the earth. Right. 10:22 He is saying I own the earth, this is mine, 10:24 I walk in forth, I govern, I make sure I oversee 10:27 what's happening, the earth is mine. 10:30 And of course then the responses in verse 8, 10:34 the Lord said to Satan, Well you have considered 10:37 my servant Job, that there is none like him on the 10:40 earth, a blameless and upright man who fears God 10:43 and shuns evil? See so God is saying you don't own 10:47 the earth. There are people on the earth 10:49 that serve me. Right. Job was a perfect example 10:51 and then the controversy plays out there 10:54 in Job's life and we don't have time of course 10:56 to go through all that, but I want you to notice 10:58 a few things from this, number 1, 11:01 the sons of God came to present themselves before 11:04 the Lord and Satan came among them. 11:06 Satan included himself in his authority over the 11:10 earth among the sons of God, those who were 11:13 the leaders of other worlds that God has created, 11:16 who presented themselves before this council 11:18 that was before God, they were the ones that 11:21 were given the authority. We read in, in Genesis 11:23 1 that Adam or Genesis 2, that Adam was given 11:27 authority over the earth, over the beasts 11:29 of the field, over the things that happen to govern 11:31 the earth, were these sons of God which is never 11:34 referred to in the Bible as anything being, 11:36 as anything related to anything but, 11:40 but those who serve the Lord. Never against, 11:43 some would say the sons of God are angels but 11:46 that's, that's only once in the scripture is it mentioned 11:49 that. And it mentions that in regard to the angels 11:52 that serve God, not the ones that serve Satan. 11:55 Right. But anyway so, around about way 11:58 of saying this here is there is evidence in scripture 12:00 that there are other worlds, there is clear evidence, 12:02 there is a great controversy going on, 12:03 that just doesn't include this world but includes 12:05 the universe. And that we are part of that 12:08 and this is why each world is given a test due 12:12 to freedom of choice to see whether or not 12:14 they're going to side with Christ in this great 12:17 controversy or Satan in the great controversy. 12:22 I want to add some thing also to the beginning 12:23 at the question. When the person asked why 12:26 even put it there, that's why even put the tree 12:28 of the knowledge good and evil there. 12:33 To tempt Adam and Eve when he created them 12:35 to live forever. First of all God didn't create Adam 12:38 and Eve to live forever, that forever living would 12:42 be based on this test. That's the one thing that 12:45 people often forget when God created Adam and Eve 12:48 they were not created with immortality, 12:50 immortality was the gift that would follow passing 12:55 the test, that's the main reason why God put 12:59 the tree there, not to tempt them. In the same sense, 13:03 a parent would test his or her child to know whether 13:08 or not they could extend these privileges to them, 13:10 not to make them crash the car so to speak 13:14 from using the cars in illustration. 13:16 The parent would say okay here is the keys go crash 13:18 the car into the neighbor's garage, 13:20 that's not why the parent gives the child the key 13:24 but the parent knows that is a great possibility 13:27 what the percentage 50/50 and some cases 13:29 if he kid is reckless the parents says, 13:30 there is a 90 percent chances he is gonna to hit 13:32 something before he gets back home. 13:33 But I've got to find out, so I'm going to give him 13:36 the oldest car, so if he hits anything 13:38 we haven't lost anything. 13:40 I'm not going to let him go too far either. 13:42 Right, and so there's some parents. 13:44 So in the same sense the Lord wanted to extend 13:47 to Adam and Eve what they did not yet have, 13:49 but he couldn't do it unless he put them to the test, 13:55 he could not say okay you worthy of eternal life. 13:59 Because remember the text we often think of 14:01 this as something that happened way down the road, 14:04 but Romans 6:23 give the perfect picture 14:06 of in the garden. The wages of sin is death the 14:11 Lord said you know I'll show you that here, 14:14 in Genesis chapter 2, the Bible says in verse 14:16 15 if you turn there with us, Then the Lord God 14:20 took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden 14:22 to tend and keep it, that is the keep the garden 14:24 and the Lord commanded the man saying this 14:29 is before the woman came along. 14:31 He commanded Adam, he gave him a heads up 14:34 about that, And the Lord commanded the man, 14:37 saying, Of every tree of the garden you may 14:40 freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge 14:43 of good and evil, you shall not eat: 14:46 for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die. 14:50 And then it goes on, it says and the Lord says 14:53 it is not good that man should be alone. 14:54 So God told that to Adam before Eve came along. 14:57 He said to Adam, I'm telling you that there 15:00 is a tree there. I'm telling you not to eat it. 15:02 I'm telling you exactly what's is going to happen 15:05 when you eat it. If you do, chose to disobey me 15:08 this is the results of that disobedience. 15:11 But I want you to see another text, 15:13 because we find in the Bible, when I said a moment ago, 15:15 they didn't have eternal life the wages of sin is death, 15:18 but the gift of God is eternal life. 15:20 It was going to be a gift, if they had already had 15:24 immortality then they couldn't die. 15:27 That's why God did not create them with naturally 15:29 immortality and if you remember the story well 15:31 in Genesis, the moment that they sinned he barred 15:35 the tree of life, because that tree gave vitality 15:39 to both Adam and Eve so that they can continue 15:41 living and God did not want to "immortalize sin." 15:47 So he instantly dispatched an angel to bar the tree 15:50 of life, but here's the text that you'll see 15:54 that God is fair. As a matter of fact John, 15:56 if you can do me a favor and go to Ezekiel 18, 16:00 I want to show a couple of verses here, 16:01 but I'm gonna read Deuteronomy chapter 30 16:03 and verse 19, here is the way that the Lord even 16:06 does it even to his very day, showing that God is the 16:09 same yesterday, today and forever. 16:12 He says in Deuteronomy 30:19, I call heaven and earth 16:16 as a witness today against you, 16:19 I have set before you life and death, 16:21 blessings and cursings; but get this he doesn't 16:24 say make a choice he says, chose life, that both you 16:28 and your decedents may live. He not only puts both 16:31 roads, but he says here is the one to chose 16:33 and I'm sure he made it clear to Adam, 16:37 if you eat of this tree you'll die. 16:39 So which one am I telling you to chose. 16:41 Chose not to eat of this tree and so God is not unfair. 16:44 And in Ezekiel chapter 18, read verse 23, 16:50 and then verse 25 for us. Okay, verse 23. 16:55 Do I have any pleasure at all that wicked should die? 16:59 Says the Lord God: and not that he should turn 17:01 from his ways, and live? And in verse 25, Yet you say, 17:06 The way of the Lord is not fair. 17:07 Hear now, O house of Israel; Is not my way which 17:11 is fair and your ways which are not fair?. 17:13 Okay. So you see right away, the Lord saying, 17:16 hey what's the deal here. I'm fair, 17:18 I put two roads before you I said chose life, 17:22 but here is what the Lord; and I tend to believe there 17:26 is the pole is out on this one God knew what could 17:31 happen, but before imparted to them life or before 17:36 they imparted to themselves, before they brought 17:38 the penalty of death upon themselves. 17:40 He had to give them the choice, he has foreknowledge 17:44 but he does not pre-program us to do one thing 17:46 or the other. That's right. That's the difference. 17:48 Standing on top of a building and seeing both cars 17:51 coming from different angles speeding and somebody 17:54 removes the stops sign you know what's going to happen, 17:57 you didn't pre-program it, but you can tell way ahead 18:00 of time that they're heading toward a collision, 18:02 in the same way God not only has, he is not only 18:06 all knowing but he has foreknowledge that we do not 18:10 obtain. So he didn't set Adam and Eve up, 18:12 he gave them the right to chose their destiny. 18:15 You know and I think, you know this is really what faith 18:18 is all about and we think about it, 18:19 God is going nothing different with us. 18:21 Right. Because, the same thing he told Adam and Eve, 18:26 either you don't eat and live or you eat and then 18:29 you'll die. He says here that if you obey me, 18:32 I'll bless you if you disobey me the result is the curse. 18:37 Right, that you brought on yourself. 18:39 That you brought on yourself and here's the issue, 18:40 because God knows there are only choices, 18:44 it's either him who created you, who loved you, 18:49 who care for you and provide for you or Satan 18:51 who hates you, wants to kill you and bring you down. 18:54 That's right. There is no middle ground. 18:56 There is no independence here because we were created 18:58 beings, that means we have a dependence upon our 19:02 creator, that's the natural results of any creation 19:06 is that it depends upon it's creator for sustenance. 19:09 That's right. So when God is saying these things 19:10 you know we make him out sometimes to be this dictator, 19:13 how you know he's telling us what to do, 19:15 if you don't obey him you know and people have this 19:17 problem with authority, but that's not, 19:19 that's not even the spirit with which God is saying this. 19:22 God is saying I created you, I'm the only one that 19:25 can keep you and sustain you and it gives you life 19:28 won't you obey me rather than disobey and reap 19:33 the consequences of Satan and his rebellion. 19:38 That's right. So he's pleading with us to do that 19:40 and so many of us don't like this oh well 19:43 they were tested, it's just the way that God sees 19:46 and knows things and loves and cares for us 19:49 that this is the way he is and he does this. 19:53 Well friends, there you have it, all said and done 19:54 when the Lord was gonna give the gift of eternal life 19:56 to Adam and Eve, it was also based on the whether 19:58 are not they would be obedient, but in the end it 20:01 is a gift we cannot earn it, we cannot purchase it, 20:05 eternal life is a gift, they were not naturally immortal, 20:09 but in order for them to pass on to their posterity, 20:12 whatever they had, they had to be tested to be proven 20:17 that they were obedient and loyal to God. 20:19 And the whole good, the good thing at the end of all this, 20:22 this test, the great controversy, all that is, 20:24 that as Nahem says, Nahem says, affliction will not rise 20:29 up a second time, so there will be a security developed 20:33 in the universe or as a result there will be security 20:36 in the universe from sin. That's right. 20:39 That it did not have before sin entered the world. 20:43 And so that's I would never call the beauty of sin, 20:46 'cause that's not the case but that's the beauty 20:48 of how God is doing this. He is teaching his people, 20:51 he is teaching the universe and all it's 20:54 inhabitants what sin really does and how his way 20:58 is so much better. A thought just came 21:00 to my mind that really gives the story in Revelation, 21:05 if you are unjust you will be unjust still, 21:08 if you are righteous you will be righteous still, 21:11 that's when the mortality factor is added to it. 21:14 That's what the end is gonna to be, 21:16 which is different from the Garden of Eden. Right, good. 21:20 I have a question here is somebody says sent 21:22 from a Black Berry by AT&T. Al, thank you for your 21:25 question, I've been watching 3ABN for a while, 21:28 I've heard preaches on the 3ABN network say that 21:31 the churches that observe on Sunday instead 21:34 of Saturday will be lost. I don't agree with that, 21:37 the scripture reads you must be born again. 21:40 Now that's the main issue not what day you go 21:42 to church on. I'm in church all day on Sunday, 21:46 Tuesday night Bible study, Friday night service. 21:49 I'm born again and have the baptism of the Holy Ghost. 21:54 God bless you, peace and love. Well thank you so much Al, 21:58 for you commit. The fact of the matter is right now 22:02 Sunday observance is not a test to any Christian 22:05 at all in the world. When it becomes a test and this 22:09 is the key when the issue of the Sabbath comes 22:13 to the forefront and God's commandment is exalted 22:18 because now let's just let's get away from the Sabbath 22:21 for a moment. I know you're ready to, 22:22 and this just a moment John, but when you think 22:23 about the other commandments, 22:25 think of which one we can honestly ignore and still be 22:29 saved, we cannot, but many have narrowed 22:33 down the Sabbath command to a day rather than 22:36 the loyalty of choosing who your God is. And the 22:40 commandment says, the seventh day is the Sabbath 22:43 of the Lord your God. So the question is not what 22:47 day you chose, because you can't chose a day God's 22:50 already done that. That's another problem. 22:52 A lot of people say, I chose Sunday well you 22:54 can't chose a day that because God didn't bless 22:59 the first day of the week as a holy day. 23:02 He's already chosen the seventh day of the week. 23:06 He's blessed it and he said remember the Sabbath day 23:09 to keep it holy further on, the seventh day is a Sabbath 23:12 of the Lord your God. So the question is not what day, 23:16 but who is the Lord your God, who is your God. 23:20 If the Lord who created the world is your God then 23:22 the Sabbath is the day. you'll not be in eternity 23:27 by choosing to serve another God and the real 23:29 issue about Saturday and Sunday is who your God is? 23:33 That's really it. And the important thing here's here, 23:35 what you've already said it, the test it is in a 23:37 test to everyone yet. Right. To the world's inhabitants 23:41 and many of you who know who've been watching 23:45 3ABN and other programming, we clearly to define 23:49 Babylon in Revelation as a system of a apostate 23:56 worship, it's a religious system that is a false 23:59 religious system. That's right. 24:00 Not the people, in fact the people command 24:02 in the second angels message and then of course 24:05 in Revelation 18 is that Babylon has fallen that 24:08 religious system is fallen, come out of her my people. 24:11 That's right. So, even in with Babylon today, 24:14 God's people reside and when that last test comes 24:18 that's when it will be proclaimed come out of her 24:21 my people that's the test. And so right now, 24:24 we agree and we understand your, your concern on this, 24:30 in fact I would even encourage you with this that the 24:33 Seventh-day Adventist church does not teach that only 24:36 Adventists are saved, that's not what we teach. 24:39 Right. But we do teach that in the end when 24:41 the final test comes during the time of trouble, 24:44 that those who hear the call, the proclamation call 24:48 that is brought out to the world as a test of loyalty 24:52 between God the Creator or the false system 24:55 of worship, the false day they've set up, 24:57 then it would be determined, clearly the line will 25:00 be drawn as to who is sided with whom. 25:03 It's a matter of fact, James 4 verse 17 says it this way, 25:07 "Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does 25:11 not do it, to him it is sin. So when you think about 25:15 that when you know what's right and you don't do it, 25:19 it sin it's not based on how many times you go to church, 25:22 you can go to church, you can stay in church from 25:24 Sunday to Sunday or from Saturday to Saturday, 25:27 you can stay in church all week long, 25:28 it doesn't merit your salvation, the Bible makes it 25:31 very, very clear. In something that's been pushed 25:33 out of lot of Christendom today is this simple 25:36 word obedience. Obedience, if we obey Isaiah 1 says, 25:43 if we are willing and obedient we will eat of the good 25:47 of the land and there's so much disobedience 25:49 now in Christianity and we try to patch it by 25:52 saying I go to church all different days of the week, 25:55 you know I do this, I'm baptized and those are all 25:58 are very important and good things, 26:00 but it doesn't negate the importance of listening 26:03 to the word of God. You know John, I, 26:05 just yesterday I was listening to a survey on CBS 26:09 of how America is one of the most if not the most 26:13 religious country in the world, but it's the most 26:17 religiously ignorant country in the world. 26:20 And there are some people that frankly do not 26:22 believe that it is important what the Bible says, 26:25 it's about their faith, it's about emotion, 26:28 it's about worship, it's about lights, cameras, 26:31 action in some circles, and the Bible is least 26:35 significant to the exercise of Christianity nowadays 26:38 then in times past like the reformers. 26:42 In the days of Martin Luther and Zwingli and Huss 26:45 and Jerome and Wickliffe, and the American Bible 26:47 Society. It was not a movement back to church, 26:52 it was a movement back to the Bible, but today 26:55 it's about you know what feels good, lights, 26:58 camera, action, it's about business, 27:00 it's about enterprise, it's very little in Bible 27:06 inclusion in the involvement of Christian exercise today. 27:09 Yeah, and there are preachers out there that 27:12 are telling their congregations it'll fine, 27:13 because the rapture is going to come, 27:15 Christ will take his church out. 27:17 They won't have to endure the great test at the end 27:21 of time the time of trouble. And I wanted to point 27:25 this out to you because this is really a key if 27:27 you don't understand that this time of trouble 27:30 is coming and that there is going to be a great 27:32 test that occurs within that, you are going to miss 27:35 out on the book of revelation and what it says 27:37 about what is it to come. Let me share something 27:40 here with you, because people have a lot of interest 27:44 in the mark of the beast in fact you look around 27:47 and people here you know what is the mark 27:48 of the beast, is it some super computer, 27:50 is it some microchip in your forehead or your head 27:53 or what is it. And they miss something that is really 27:56 almost blatantly obvious and that is that worship 28:01 at the end of Revelation 13, worship that is commanded 28:05 by this false system that Satan is behind it says 28:09 clearly that this beast coming up out of the earth 28:13 and the second beast of Revelation 13 has two horns 28:15 like a lamb and spoke like a dragon, 28:17 he looks like he is very religious, 28:20 he is very Christ like but when he speaks, 28:22 when he commands, when he brings his authority 28:24 it's like the dragon, Satan himself. 28:27 And he forces, he compels worship to the point where, 28:31 if you look at verse 15, he was granted power 28:36 to give birth to the image of the beast, 28:37 that the image of the beast should both speak 28:39 and cause as many as would not worship the image 28:42 of the beast to be killed. And that they might 28:45 receive the mark verse 17 or the name of the beast 28:49 or the number of his name. So those are the things 28:52 that God is trying to enlighten us to give us 28:58 understanding of. So that we can resist that time, 29:01 but notice here, it says the mark. 29:02 The mark, and throughout the book of Revelation 29:06 too you find a connection to the saints, 29:08 keeping the commandments of God. 29:09 Let me read this to you, it says here in same language 29:14 found in Revelation 13 and Revelation 14 I would add too, 29:19 but let me read to you from Deuteronomy chapter 6, 29:23 if you start with verse 1, it talks about the 29:25 commandments of God, to fear God, keep his 29:28 commandments verse 2 and then it says in verse 4, 29:32 hear O'Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one, 29:36 you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, 29:38 with all your soul and with all your strength. 29:40 John that's loyalty, that's a commitment to God 29:43 and to follow him with all your heart. 29:46 And these words it says verse 6 which I command 29:48 you today will be in your heart, 29:50 you shall teach them diligently to your children. 29:52 Something like you said we are not doing in America. 29:55 We are not teaching our kids the way of the Lord. 29:59 And shall talk of them when you sit in your house, 30:02 when you walk by the way when you lie down 30:03 and when you rise up, verse 8 listen to this, 30:07 you shall bind them as a sign on your hand and they 30:12 shall be as front lids between your eyes. 30:16 This is the seal, the sign that God for his people, 30:21 those who teach and preach and keep the commandments 30:24 of God, including the forth. That's right. 30:27 And the forth is the only at issue, 30:29 no one in their right mind is gonna to sit around 30:31 and say you know it's okay to kill, it's okay to steal, 30:33 it's okay to commit adultery. 30:35 To keep doing all these things you can do that 30:38 and go to heaven no, no one will say that but 30:39 they will say it's okay to not observe the seventh day 30:43 as the Sabbath. Yet that's the commandment. 30:46 You know, I had heard one guy said to me, 30:50 are you telling me that you have to keep Sabbath 30:52 to be saved? And I said well, whatever answer 30:57 you give about any of the other commandments 31:00 I give you with regard to the forth. 31:03 So ask yourself the question, do I have to stop murdering 31:07 to be saved, do I have to stop stealing, 31:09 do I have to stop committing adultery to be saved. 31:11 Can't I bow down to idols and be saved? 31:14 How about coveting and treating my parents with 31:18 respect and love? Do I have into those to be saved? 31:21 Well, every Christian would tell you yeah that's the 31:23 way of God. That's right. So what's the problem 31:25 with the fourth commandment, the 31:27 seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God 31:29 and yet people don't understand in the last days 31:32 that is going to be a test of loyalty to see if people 31:37 will keep all of the commandments of God or not. 31:39 That's right. You know, the reason why we haven't 31:42 cut this one loose yet is because this is a very vitally 31:45 powerful issue here. Josiah 4 verse 6 and they 31:49 are lot of Christians as CBS just said, 31:53 we are ignorant America, ignorant religiously. 31:58 We are concerned about religion and religiosity, 32:02 but one professor says in America they are many people 32:05 that love Jesus they many people that carry the bible, 32:08 but they just don't read it, they are spiritually 32:11 and literally ignorant of what God's word says. 32:14 Now what is the danger of that? Hosea 4 verse 6, 32:18 notice how the Lord says just like he says in Revelation 32:20 18 come out from my people he says in Hosea 4:6, 32:24 my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. 32:28 Because you have rejected knowledge, 32:31 I will reject you from being priests for me; 32:35 because you have forgotten the law of your God, 32:38 notice the law of your God I will forget your children. 32:42 And they don't have any idea John, 32:44 many of our viewers and listeners don't have any idea 32:46 that the day is coming where America and the 32:48 world is gonna go through a tremendous famine 32:50 not for bread and water. Here it is in Amos 8 32:54 verse 11 and 12 Behold, the days are coming, 32:56 says the Lord that I will send a famine on the land, 32:59 not a famine of bread, or a thirst for water 33:02 but of hearing the words of the Lord. 33:06 They shall wander from sea to sea, and from north to 33:09 south and from north to east; they shall run to and 33:13 fro, seeking the word of the Lord, 33:16 but shall not find it and then you'll see that people 33:19 have say hey it's valuable to me, but right now friends 33:23 is the time to study God's word, because the day 33:25 is coming when it will be outlawed, it won't be popular 33:28 and only then will people realize that they have been 33:31 dubbed into ignorance and they will be destroyed 33:35 not because God wants to but they've chosen 33:39 a lack of knowledge. You know you've brought 33:42 that up lack of knowledge, I just want to bring 33:44 a reference to this study that you talked about, 33:46 you know ignorance of religion ignorance. Yes. 33:49 It's a result of a new US religious knowledge survey 33:54 that was released on September 28th, 2010. Okay. 33:59 Just so they have reference point, 34:00 well why do we say that, it is a new survey they 34:02 just came out from this US, it's called US religious 34:07 knowledge survey, and we find, they found that 34:12 Americans are predominantly ignorant of religion. 34:15 And that's reality. Interesting, Yeah. 34:17 And the churches support that in the sense that 34:20 they say to people when a pastor stands up and says 34:22 it doesn't matter, he is saying stay ignorant 34:24 you'll make it to heaven anyway. When he says 34:26 God Sabbath doesn't matter stay ignorant just enjoy 34:29 the service anyway, I think we have to transition 34:34 to our topic. Friends ignorant is not the way of the Lord. 34:37 Ignorance is not the way of the Lord, 34:40 there is a way that seems right to a man but 34:42 in the end there off is the way of death. 34:45 don't do what seems right, make sure you are right, 34:49 if Jesus resisted the devil by saying it is written 34:52 how are you gonna resist the devil by saying 34:54 I don't know what's written. 34:57 Well, and we're asking everyone to go back 34:59 to the word to establish the truth. Back to the word. 35:02 Not to go to their pastor. 35:04 Not even to go to us I mean we are tying to because 35:07 provoke you to study the word. 35:09 We are not trying to say believe us. 35:10 We are telling you what we have found 35:14 and we're asking you go to the word to confirm it 35:17 or reject it, that's what the Bible calls you to do. 35:19 The Berean Church reference there, 35:22 they heard the words, the messages of Paul 35:24 in the time of the early church and then daily 35:27 they would search the scriptures to see whether 35:29 or not those things that were being told were 35:31 true. And people aren't doing it anything more. 35:33 You know, so much is going through my mind 35:36 right now, I'm like a water fountain that just keeps 35:38 spilling here and I want to make sure I'm going 35:40 in the right in the direction, it reminds me of the 35:44 wilderness experience with Satan and Jesus when 35:46 he came to attempt Jesus, Jesus resisted him 35:48 by the word. People nowadays are not reading 35:51 and they are being told by the ministers all you got 35:53 to say is I rebuke you devil. Like you have some 35:56 authority, the devil didn't respond to Christ like 35:59 I rebuke thee, the Lord said it is written, 36:02 it is written, it is written, and we have a 36:03 generation that don't know what's written, 36:05 don't know what's written, don't know what's written, 36:07 we're just going to rebuke the devil and he is going 36:09 to stand there and laugh at us because 36:11 he has nothing to fear us for. 36:14 As the example of the person that tried to step up 36:18 to rebuke the devil in the New Testament 36:20 and the devil undressed him, he dressed him 36:23 down and left him naked. That's right, he says. 36:25 Who are you? He said Paul, 36:27 Jesus I know and Paul I know, well who are you. 36:31 And the demons whipped him and stripped him 36:32 and send him running into the streets naked. 36:35 You do not want to be naked, the word of God 36:37 is the power by which we can be clothed, 36:40 also in his righteousness anyway. 36:44 Thank you for that question you really got our motives 36:46 going but that's the important thing, get back 36:48 to the word, stop being an ignorant Christian 36:50 because you could not perform your day by day 36:52 job in the atmosphere of ignorance and really 36:55 get paid for it. If you have any questions 36:58 if we've stimulated your mind to think about 37:00 anything send those questions to 37:02 housecalls@3ABN.org, that's housecalls@3ABN.org 37:09 and then we will continue to answer from the word 37:12 of God those questions thank you very much. 37:15 Now John, transitions for us into our topic on the 37:18 millennium what we are going to do today, 37:21 we are going to cover three actual, 37:24 yeah we have a couple more programs 37:25 that we are going to do on the millennium, okay. 37:27 And we've already covered aspects of the events 37:30 leading up to the millennium, but there is a few 37:32 things we haven't covered yet, 37:33 so we're going to kind of cover the last few events 37:36 leading up to the entrance or the time of the millennium, 37:39 alright, the thousand years and then we are going to, 37:43 then talk a little bit about what happens during 37:45 the 1000 years, alright, and so let's do this we've 37:49 already learned that Jesus is going to return visibly, 37:54 audibly, literally at the end to call the saints, 37:59 who sleep in Jesus up from the grave, 38:01 those who are alive in Christ will remain alive 38:04 and could be caught up with him to meet the Lord 38:06 in the air, they will be received by the Lord as we 38:09 talked about, they are met, they meet God but 38:12 Jesus but Jesus receives them into his kingdom 38:14 that is he takes them back and gives them they 38:18 have this great supper of the lamb and they enter 38:20 into the glory of the Lord and the heavenly 38:23 kingdom. They all receive immortal bodies, 38:27 we read First Corinthians 15, how immortality is given, 38:31 saints at the resurrection and also how at that 38:35 time and we didn't really elaborate on this too much, 38:38 but those who were not in Christ who had, 38:42 who were dead were not resurrected, that's right, 38:45 and those who were not in Christ at the time 38:48 of his return, they actually died by the brightness 38:51 of Christ return of his coming, because anybody 38:55 that retains or holds on to sin, is going to naturally 38:58 perish as in the presence of the holy God. 39:01 So, when Jesus appears in his glory they 39:03 won't be able to stand that in fact, 39:05 if you look at Revelation 6, it talks about 39:07 what their response is to the coming of Christ. 39:11 That's right let's go there, Revelation Chapter 6. 39:15 We are going to look at how they do not really 39:18 want to see Jesus, they are not going to greet him, 39:20 they just don't want to. Revelation 6, 39:23 verse 12 describes what happens on the earth 39:29 just immediately preceding the coming of Christ 39:31 and what happens when they see Jesus in the clouds 39:35 of glory coming back. Verse 12, this is the sixth 39:38 seal now. I looked when he opened the sixth seal 39:41 and behold there was a great earthquake; 39:44 and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, 39:46 and the moon became like blood; 39:48 and the stars of Heaven fell to the Earth, 39:50 as a fig tree drops it's late figs when it is 39:53 shaken by a mighty wind. Then the sky receded 39:57 as a scroll, when it is rolled up, 39:58 and every mountain and island was moved 40:01 out of its place. That also is a description 40:04 elsewhere in scriptures about what happens 40:06 when Christ returns. That's right. 40:08 Verse 15, and the Kings of the Earth, the great men, 40:11 the rich men, the commanders, 40:12 the mighty men, every slave and every free men 40:14 hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks 40:17 of the mountains and said to the mountains 40:19 and rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the 40:23 face of him who sits on the throne and from 40:26 the wrath of the Lamb! For his, for the great 40:29 day of his wrath has come, and who is able to stand? 40:34 So there we see John a description of the response 40:38 of the wicked who are alive at that time, 40:40 they don't want to see Christ, they are trying 40:42 hide from Him, but they cannot hide from 40:45 his wrath, they will perish right there and then 40:47 as Jeremiah talks about there will be bodies 40:50 just thrown on the ground. That's right. 40:53 So let's recap that, the second coming of Jesus 40:55 is for his saints. The righteous dead are raised 40:59 to life, the righteous are given immortality; 41:04 the righteous are given bodies like Jesus. 41:07 All righteous caught up into the clouds and the 41:11 living wicked slain by the breath of the Lord's mouth, 41:15 that is by the power that comes to him by his word 41:17 actually that's what that means. 41:19 The wicked that are in the grave remain 41:21 there until the end of the 1000 years. 41:23 And we talked about that. Last day revelation 20 41:26 the rest of the dead did not live again until 41:29 1000 years were finished. And Jesus takes the 41:32 righteous to Heaven and then something else Satan 41:36 is bound. Would you spend sometimes on this? 41:38 We are going to do that one, Satan is bound 41:39 for 1000 years, that's a very important topic 41:42 because you know well let's break it down to the 41:46 first when he was first kicked out of Heaven, 41:50 then cast to the Earth, then released, then finally 41:54 bound. Okay, because there is a whole lot in the Bible 41:57 that is talked about in order for us to appreciate 41:59 the fact that he is gonna to be bound for 1000 years. 42:02 We have to look at some of things that the Bible says, 42:05 how did he get to the Earth, and what process 42:09 was used to restrict him or what process is used 42:14 to restrict his activity on the Earth, 42:16 because we know that if he had free reign all of us 42:18 will be dead. Yeah. So, what happened to restrict him, 42:21 how did he get to the Earth. I think it would be good 42:23 to go ahead and look at that and I think a good 42:26 place to begin is Revelation 12, 42:27 Do you want to start there? Sure. 42:28 Let's go to Revelation chapter 12, 42:30 and look at what happened for Satan to be kicked out 42:35 and brought down here. Let's see we could begin 42:39 actually, if you want to in verse 7, 42:42 go ahead read that for us John. 42:44 And war broke out in Heaven, 42:46 Michael and his Angels fight with the dragon and the 42:49 dragon and his angels fought, but they did not 42:52 prevail, nor was a place found for them in Heaven 42:54 any longer. So the great dragon was cast out, 42:58 that serpent of old called the Devil and Satan, 43:01 who deceives the whole world. He was cast to Earth, 43:04 and his angels were cast out with him. 43:07 Then I heard a loud voice saying in Heaven, 43:09 now salvation and strength and the kingdom of our God 43:13 and the power of his Christ have come, 43:14 for the accuser of our brethren who accused them 43:18 before our God day and night has been cast down. 43:24 And so you see I would actually gone from 43:26 verse 7 to 9, because verse 10 gives us a glimpse 43:30 into the casting down not just the casting out, 43:34 but the casting down. Right, right, casting out of Heaven 43:37 verse 10 cast down. Exactly and the difference 43:40 there would be Jesus made sure that Satan would not 43:44 have continued preeminence as the court and court 43:48 ruler of this world, as the prince of this world. 43:51 You know let me read John 12:31. 43:54 Okay let's g to John 12:31. 43:56 It's not to necessary get off of course here but 43:58 it's got to be, it's connecting verse here. 44:02 Alright. John 12 verse 31, Now is the judgment 44:09 of this world: now the ruler of this world will be 44:12 cast out, And if I am lifted up from the Earth, 44:17 I will draw all peoples to myself, so connecting 44:20 the event of Christ's crucifixion and he uses the 44:25 language here that Satan is cast out and in other words, 44:30 he is put down, his authority is taken away from him. 44:34 He no longer can even claim authority on this Earth, 44:37 but Jesus by virtue of his sacrifice has purchased 44:43 back all who by faith declare their, 44:46 their belief and their trust in him. 44:47 And that what that actually does it, 44:51 it takes away from Satan the authority that he thought 44:54 he had as John just reiterated. 44:56 What I want to point out here, is obviously 44:59 he didn't win the battle on Heaven, 45:00 praise the Lord for that and the part of that I extremely 45:03 like is where it says nor was a place found for them 45:07 in Heaven any longer. Which means if there if Satan 45:11 and his angels are no longer in Heaven, 45:13 sin won't be there, temptation won't be there. 45:17 So there will be no opportunity even no chance 45:22 of temptation existing. In the lives of perfectly 45:27 Holy and perfectly righteous beings. 45:30 You know when I add to that too, 45:31 he was cast to the Earth and some would say, 45:33 why did he, why did he do that? Why did he send 45:35 them here? That wasn't the issue so much, 45:40 the issue it's talking about there is that once sin 45:43 became prevalent in the world because Satan 45:46 did come to tempt and try and gain authority 45:48 over this world, once he gained that, 45:51 he became restricted to this Earth. That's right. 45:54 This is the only place that he could tempt, 45:56 that he could sow the seed of his rebellion 46:00 and try to increase his kingdom and that's why 46:04 it says he was cast to the Earth, 46:06 because this is where he was restricted to. 46:09 And this is the only place that man had not been 46:12 tempted at that time and had not fallen yet. 46:15 So the test this whole controversy happened 46:17 during the time of the creation, but I want you 46:20 to notice something because we find 46:21 in Revelation that Satan is bound with chains, 46:25 but go with me to Second Peter chapter 2, 46:30 Second Peter chapter 2, I want you to see that 46:32 this is not a new concept Second Peter chapter 2, 46:36 and it says in verse 4, for if God did not spare 46:41 the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell 46:47 and delivered them into chains of darkness to be 46:49 reserved for judgment. Notice what happens, 46:54 they were cast down to hell and delivered 46:59 into chains of darkness. So if you would ask the question 47:03 today, are Satan's angels in hell? Let's not go 47:09 too fast here. We are not talking about the grave; 47:14 we are not talking about the lack of fire, 47:16 because the single word hell in the English language 47:19 is not as diverse as the words in Greek and Hebrew. 47:24 Shield you find in the Old Testament, 47:27 the grave but the New Testament you find 47:29 Gehenna and Hades. You find Gehenna and Hades 47:34 that are translated into the English hell, 47:37 but you find one other word Tartaros and the only 47:40 place in the new testament where that 47:42 word is used is right here in First Peter chap, 47:45 Second Peter chapter 2 verse 4, 47:47 when it says to Tartaros it means Satan 47:50 and his angels are bound in the abyss, 47:55 translated the bottomless pit. They are already there. 47:59 Right. They are already bound in the spirit realm, 48:02 where they cannot freely exercise all of their 48:06 authority. The word the Tartaros is the spirit world 48:11 and if you look at Jesus and his dialogue when he cast 48:13 out demons one of the demons said to Jesus 48:16 have you come to torment us before our time? 48:20 Do not cast us into the Abyss. So in essence the 48:24 limitation had that, that he placed on them to limit 48:28 their power to let them know you can only go but 48:31 so far they were terrified that they would be bound 48:34 even further that they would be cast into the Abyss. 48:37 So this Tartaros is lending itself to reference that 48:41 we find later on, Satan is gonna to be bound for 48:44 1000 years. But he was bound, he is gonna to be 48:46 bound in chains again, he was bound in chains, 48:49 and today he is presently bound in chains. 48:52 Now there are times that they are permitted 48:55 to be released slightly from that and there is one 48:58 evidence in that of that occurring in 49:00 Matthew chapter 8. Let's go there. 49:02 With the demon possession of this young man, 49:07 he was demon possessed it says that he lived 49:09 in tombs, he was exceedingly fierce and I'm reading 49:13 from Matthew 8:28, so that no one could pass 49:16 that way he was totally consumed by demonic 49:20 possession. And it says that as just Jesus came 49:26 their to the shore to the meet him, 49:30 that they cried out saying what have we to do 49:33 and these are the demons now with him. 49:35 What are, have we to do with you Jesus, 49:37 you son of God have you come here to torment 49:40 us before the time, see they knew their 49:43 time was coming too. Now a good way off from there, 49:47 there was herd of many swine feedings so the 49:50 demons begged him, because Jesus now is delivering 49:53 this demon possessed man, the demons begged 49:55 him saying if you cast us out permit us to go away 49:59 into the herd of swine. And he said to them go, 50:03 and so what we find here is that in the story 50:09 they did not want to be cast into the Abyss, 50:14 they didn't want to go back to the restrictive 50:15 elements of the Abyss. They would rather go 50:18 somewhere else, they rather posses another 50:20 entity and God permitted them to posses swine. 50:24 But there is another scripture that uses and 50:27 I don't remember which gospel's uses, 50:30 it talks about these demons pleading not to be 50:32 sent into the Abyss. Looking here for that 50:36 do you. Yeah here it is in Luke, Luke chapter. 50:39 Luke chapter 8 verse 31, and they begged him 50:41 that he would not command them to go out into 50:44 the Abyss. The King James Version uses the 50:47 word the deep. Right. Okay, and the deep in fact 50:51 some people will say well that's the ocean, 50:53 some people will say the deep also refers to the deep 50:57 bottomless pit, I'm adding the word deep there 51:00 because that's not the word that is used in Revelation, 51:02 but simply saying they knew that the Lord was going 51:06 to bind them. He said don't do it yet, 51:09 please and so it says here and he broke the bonds 51:14 and was driven by demons into the wilderness. 51:16 Well, one day the demon is gonna to be driven into 51:19 the wilderness themselves, we're gonna to be talking 51:21 about that as what's happening during the 1000 51:24 years. You're gonna to see that word wildness 51:26 very significant to that. So there is a realm 51:28 and in let's finish up Second Peter, sure, 51:31 there is a realm that is a spirit realm. 51:35 Highly restricted a spiritual whelm, that we restricts 51:39 Satan and his angels from doing what they want 51:42 to do? And this realm the restriction there is referred 51:46 to as chains, chains of darkness and so that 51:52 is something that we're going to read about here as 51:54 we get to Revelation 20 at the very beginning 51:58 of the 1000 years and should we go ahead 51:59 and go there at this time? Yes let's do that. 52:02 It's a matter of fact, while you going there I just 52:03 want to mention this, Abyss that they were pleading not 52:09 to be commend and not to be bound into, 52:12 you find in Revelation 9 that the Abyss was open. Right. 52:17 You see, so chained and hurled into a spirit whelm 52:22 that men could not see them, but released for a 52:24 short season, Revelation 9 and then bound again 52:27 for the 1000 years in Revelation chapter 20, 52:31 which allows us to transition now into what happens 52:33 during them 1000 year period. 52:34 Yeah, because and here is the reasoning with what 52:37 we are about to read, if they are chained or they were 52:40 cast down into chains of darkness and then at some 52:45 point later on Satan is grabbed and the dragon 52:49 is grabbed as we're gonna to read here in chained 52:51 again, he is got to be loose. 52:53 Right, if I chain my dog. 52:55 That being that loose is Revelation 9. 52:57 If I chain my dog last week, 53:00 and I have to chain my dog again next week my 53:02 neighbors would say, why are you chaining your dog 53:05 next week again, why are you chaining your dog this week, 53:07 didn't you chain him last week? 53:08 And you have to say well he got loose. Right. 53:12 At some point if you would chained, 53:15 if he was delivered into chains of darkness that 53:17 was the key delivered into chains of darkness cannot 53:21 be seen that's why the word darkness is so 53:23 significant there because, he is in a spirit realm 53:26 where he cannot be seen, it's dark to us. 53:28 Paul says we see dimly, it is dark to us 53:32 we cannot see that spirit whelm, but that's spirit 53:35 whelm is gonna to be removed and Satan will appear 53:39 and crock himself as an angel of light. 53:41 So we will see him and his demonic angels will do 53:44 the same throughout the Earth, but then they are 53:46 gonna to be bound again during the 1000 53:48 years and good John taken us through 53:50 those very quick points in Revelation. 53:53 If you read and we've talked about this before 53:54 Revelation 19 is about the second coming of Jesus, 53:58 then you move to Revelation 20 and here 54:00 is what happens at this just right after the second 54:02 coming, what happens with Satan, it say in verse 1, 54:06 Then I saw an angel coming down from Heaven, 54:08 having the key to the bottomless pit. 54:11 Now that the word bottomless there 54:13 is the Abyss. Abyss and a Greek, the abyss and a 54:19 Greek chain in his hand, he laid hold of the dragon, 54:22 that serpent of old, who is the Devil, and Satan, 54:24 and bound him for a thousand years, 54:28 And he cast him into the bottomless pit, 54:30 and shut him up and set a seal on him, 54:32 so that he could deceive the nations no more, 54:34 till the thousand years were finished and after 54:36 these things he must be released for a little while, 54:39 he would be released again. 54:40 That's right. Here we are finding at the beginning 54:42 of the 1000 years, he is bound, 54:44 he is chained to the abyss the bottomless pit. 54:47 And that Abyss is the desolate earth. 54:52 Thank you. The reason he cannot tempt anyone 54:54 is because no one is alive. That's right. 54:57 And he is left to contemplate the actions, 55:01 his actions for the past 6,000 plus years for that 55:07 1000 years period. Yeah, nothing is worst 55:09 than a thief having no one to steal from, 55:12 a murderer having a no one to murder, 55:15 a liar having no one to deceive, and a tempter 55:19 having no one to tempt. Yeah and this issue here 55:22 is further clarified and for the saints aren't here. 55:25 No, they are not here. The millennium remember, 55:27 we talked about this before the millennium is not a 55:29 millennium of peace on the Earth where Satan 55:31 or where Jesus rules and Satan's kingdom is put 55:35 down. It is a time of the saints to dwell with Christ 55:40 in the Heavenly kingdom with a city prepared 55:44 by God for them and that's very clear here. 55:47 And as a matter of fact you read Jeremiah 4, 55:50 but I just recap two verses there Jeremiah 4 55:53 verse 23, I beheld the Earth, and lo and indeed it 55:56 was without form and void; and the Heavens 55:58 they had no light. I beheld the mountains, 56:01 and indeed they trembled, and all the hills 56:02 moved back and forth. Verse 25, I beheld, 56:04 and indeed there was no man, and all the birds 56:07 of the Heavens had fled and if you keep going further 56:10 down to verse 27, For thus says the Lord said, 56:13 The whole land shall be desolate; 56:16 yet I will not make a full end. And so what happens 56:20 is during that 1000 years, the Earth is gonna 56:22 to be desolate but there is not it, it's not done 56:24 yet, because is one more step that is to be carried 56:28 out and that happens at the end of 1000 years. 56:31 Which we'll be covering in our next program 56:34 That's right. And we'll share a few things with you 56:37 that occurred during the 1000 years, 56:39 although we have already touched on that, 56:41 which is that the saints are residing with Christ 56:45 in Heaven and we will see what is happening during 56:49 that time. You know, John this is a subject that 56:52 I think the enemy doesn't want people to know 56:55 about. And he is got everybody so deceived 56:57 about not only the rapture, but the millennium 57:00 and everything going on there. 57:01 This program is vitally important for people 57:06 not only to hear the information, 57:07 but to study the Bible. That's right. 57:08 About what is to come, the whole book of Revelation 57:11 is about and end time, time of trouble that God 57:15 wants his people to know about. 57:16 That's right and people are thinking that he devil 57:18 is gonna to be that they're gonna be down 57:20 here during the 1000 years will tend to your 57:22 house calls we lay it out based on what the Bible 57:24 says so study the word of God yourself understand, 57:27 what it means for yourself so that when Jesus 57:30 comes you will be ready. God bless 57:33 you and make that decision today. |
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