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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Jesus The King | April 7, 2025
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- [announcer] from the pulpit of the first baptist church
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- Of dallas, texas,
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- This is "pathway to victory" with dr. robert jeffress.
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- Hi, i'm robert jeffress
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- And welcome again to "pathway to victory."
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- Throughout history, kings and queens have ruled
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- Over vast empires,
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- But every earthly ruler eventually surrenders their crown.
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- There is, however, one king whose reign will never end,
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- And his name is jesus christ.
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- Today we'll explore what scripture reveals
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- About christ's future 1,000-year reign on earth
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- And what it means for believers today.
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- My message is titled "jesus the king"
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- On today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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- ♪ music ♪
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- ♪ there is a day coming ♪
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- ♪ when the old will pass away ♪
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- ♪ and every wrong will be made right ♪
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- ♪ no darkness, no night ♪
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- ♪ the son will light the way ♪
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- ♪ there is a king coming ♪
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- ♪ the one who conquered death and grave ♪
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- ♪ no more pain and no more sorrow ♪
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- ♪ this hope for tomorrow ♪
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- ♪ is our hope for today ♪
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- ♪ he who was ♪
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- ♪ he who is ♪
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- ♪ he who was ♪
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- ♪ he who is ♪
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- ♪ he who is to come ♪
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- ♪ is christ the son of man ♪
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- ♪ he's riding on the clouds with a crown upon his head ♪
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- ♪ and every eye will see him ♪
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- ♪ with the nail scars in his hands ♪
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- ♪ hallelujah ♪
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- -♪ we sing hallelujah ♪ -♪ hallelujah ♪
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- ♪ he who is to come ♪
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- ♪ is christ the son of man ♪
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- ♪ he's riding on the clouds with a crown upon his head ♪
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- ♪ and every eye will see him ♪
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- ♪ with the nail scars in his hands ♪
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- ♪ hallelujah ♪
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- ♪ sing hallelujah ♪
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- ♪ hallelujah ♪
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- ♪ yes, hallelujah ♪
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- ♪ he's coming back again ♪
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- -♪ hallelujah ♪ -♪ hallelujah ♪
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- -♪ hallelujah ♪ -♪ yeah, hallelujah ♪
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- (applause)
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- [announcer] jesus is the most talked about person
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- In human history,
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- But we can't fully grasp who jesus is
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- Until we understand both his first and his second coming.
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- In his powerful new book
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- "jesus revealed in the end times,"
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- Dr. robert jeffress unveils
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- The glorious return of our savior.
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- Like many of you,
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- I was one of millions
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- Who a few years ago was watching the funeral service
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- For queen elizabeth ii.
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- As i watched that service unfold,
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- I thought about her longevity as queen.
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- During her time,
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- She had 15 different prime ministers who served her,
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- Beginning with winston churchill.
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- Every united states president,
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- From harry truman to joe biden, visited her,
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- With the exception of lyndon johnson.
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- She reigned for 70 years and 214 days,
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- Making her the longest monarch in britain's history.
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- But then she eventually died
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- And she had to relinquish her kingdom to another.
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- Ladies and gentlemen,
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- You and i serve a king who also died,
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- But thank god that's not the end of the story.
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- He rose again from the dead
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- And one day he's returning to reign over this world.
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- He's bringing in a new kingdom that we will be a part of.
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- He is the ruler,
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- The leader that everyone has looked for and longed for,
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- Whether they realize it or not.
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- One who rules in compassion,
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- With absolute justice and with fairness,
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- One who's able to vanquish evil itself.
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- Today we're going to talk about an event in the end times
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- That reveals perhaps more than any other jesus as king,
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- And it's an event called the millennium,
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- The 1,000-year reign of christ on earth.
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- You know, i was talking to our friend david jeremiah
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- A week or two ago,
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- He called to check and see how our church was doing,
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- And we were talking about his new book.
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- He said, "there is such an absence
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- Of books about the millennium
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- That i decided to write one."
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- He beat me to the punch on it,
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- But he's got a book coming out about the millennium,
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- But it's not talked about that much at all,
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- And yet it represents what we've all longed for,
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- A perfect kingdom,
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- One on which jesus christ has complete authority over.
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- Let's look at the events, first of all,
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- That happen right before the millennium.
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- What happens during that first 30 days
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- After christ's return?
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- One thing that happens is the judgment of the nations.
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- God does judge us individually, but he also judges nations.
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- And remember, only believers can enter into the millennium,
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- And there will be plenty of unbelievers who are left
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- After jesus returns who survive the tribulation,
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- So there has to be some kind of judgment.
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- And matthew 25 talks about those judgments that occur
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- When christ returns before the millennium.
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- The judgment of nations is one of those.
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- Next time we're going to talk about
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- The different judgments of jesus christ, jesus the judge.
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- But that's not the only thing that happens
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- During the first 30 days.
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- In addition to the judgments,
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- Notice that the antichrist and false prophet
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- Will be thrown into the lake of fire once jesus returns.
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- Immediately at his second coming
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- The antichrist and false prophet are thrown
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- Into the lake of fire.
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- Look at revelation 19:20.
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- "and the beast," that's the antichrist, "was seized."
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- This is when jesus returns.
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- "the beast, the antichrist was seized,
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- And with him the false prophet
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- Who performed the signs in his presence,
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- By which he deceived those
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- Who had received the mark of the beast
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- And those who worshiped his image.
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- These two," that is the antichrist and the false prophet,
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- "were thrown alive into the lake of fire,
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- Which burns with brimstone."
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- What is the lake of fire?
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- The lake of fire is the final destination
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- Of every unsaved person who has ever lived.
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- It's not hades.
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- If an unbeliever dies today, luke 16 says he goes to hades.
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- He's conscious, it's a place of torment, jesus said,
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- But it's not the final judgment place.
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- The final judgment is the lake of fire.
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- And notice two members of the satanic trinity,
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- Satan, the beast, and the false prophet.
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- Two of those, the false prophet and the beast,
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- Are thrown into the lake of fire.
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- But where does satan go?
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- What happens to him?
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- Well, that's the second thing that happens.
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- Satan is bound and imprisoned in the abyss.
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- What is the abyss?
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- There is a place right now, we don't know where it is,
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- For some especially horrible demons.
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- You would think all demons are horrible, and they are.
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- But some special class of demons are so evil
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- That they were imprisoned already in the abyss.
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- The greek word is abussos.
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- And notice what happened to satan, revelation 23.
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- "and the angel threw satan into the abyss
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- And shut it and sealed it over him,
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- So that he would not deceive the nations any longer,
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- Until the 1,000 years were completed.
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- After these things, he must be released for a short time."
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- We'll get to that in a moment.
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- But this place, the abyss, was so horrible
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- That even demons did not want to be there.
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- Remember the demons who were running around on the earth
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- In jesus' day?
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- In luke 8, jesus was about to dispatch them into the abyss
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- And they pled with jesus,
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- "please, don't send us to that horrible place."
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- They would rather occupy some swine or another human being
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- Than to be into the abyss.
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- That's where the devil is going to end up.
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- He's going to end up in the abyss. why?
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- Because unlike the beast and false prophet,
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- Who are finished at this point,
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- There's more work for satan to be done
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- At the end of the millennium.
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- Again, we'll get to that in a moment.
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- There's a third thing that happens
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- In that first 30 days of christ's return,
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- And that is the resurrection of the old testament
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- And tribulation saints.
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- Now let me be very clear.
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- When a christian dies in any age,
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- Whether it was the old testament,
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- A believer like abraham or moses or ruth or rahab,
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- When somebody died in the old testament,
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- Their spirit went immediately into the presence of god.
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- And the same way for a christian today.
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- When you die, you don't go to sleep,
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- You don't float out there in nothingness.
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- 2 corinthians 5:8 says,
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- "for a christian to be absent from the body
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- Is to immediately be at home with the lord."
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- Our spirits, the real essence of us, go to be with the lord,
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- But our bodies are left behind.
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- But god's not through with our bodies.
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- He's promised to raise them and change them
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- Into imperishable bodies.
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- In 1 corinthians 15, paul said,
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- "as in adam all die,
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- So in christ all shall be made alive,
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- But each one according to his own order."
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- That word order, tagma, is a military term.
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- It refers to a military parade
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- Into which different corps fall into the parade
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- At their assigned spot on the parade route.
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- Just imagine this parade.
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- There's a leader of the parade
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- And others are joining the parade
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- At specific points along the parade route.
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- That's the picture of the first resurrection.
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- Who's in that resurrection parade?
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- Well, it's led by jesus christ.
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- "jesus and the firstfruits," paul said in 1 corinthians 15.
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- Following jesus is the church.
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- That's at the rapture, the dead in christ will be raised.
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- Not their spirits, they're already with the lord.
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- Their bodies will be raised
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- And we who are alive and remain at that time
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- Shall be transformed,
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- Both the dead in christ and those alive at the rapture,
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- We will receive our brand new bodies.
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- So some have already received the resurrection bodies
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- But there's still others who need them,
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- And the first group
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- That will receive the resurrection bodies
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- Will be the old testament saints.
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- Where do i find that? isaiah 26:19.
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- "your dead will live, their corpses will rise.
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- You who lie in the dust, awake and shout for joy,
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- For your dew is as the dew of the dawn,
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- And the earth will give birth to the departed spirits."
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- The other people who will have their bodies resurrected
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- At the end of the tribulation
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- Will be the tribulation martyrs.
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- That is those people who became christians
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- And gave their life because of their faith in jesus christ,
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- The tribulation martyrs.
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- John refers to that in revelation 20:4.
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- "then i saw the thrones, and they that sat upon them,
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- And judgment was given to them.
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- And i saw the souls of those who had been beheaded
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- Because of their testimony of jesus
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- And because of the word of god,
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- And those who had not worshiped the beast or his image
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- And had not received the mark on their forehead
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- And on their hand,
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- And they came to life.
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- That is their bodies came to life,
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- And they reigned with christ for 1,000 years."
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- These resurrection martyrs,
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- Their spirits are right now in heaven,
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- Revelation 6 tells us,
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- But their bodies will be raised,
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- They will be given new bodies at the end of the tribulation
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- So that they can do, what?
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- They're going to be among those who reign with jesus christ
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- During his millennial kingdom.
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- These are all the things that happen
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- During the first 30 days.
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- But notice daniel said there's another period of time,
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- The 45 days.
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- Daniel 12:12, "how blessed is he who keeps waiting
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- And attains to the 1,335 days."
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- We've just gone through 30 days,
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- What happens during the next 45 days?
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- I believe that there's great evidence that this is the time
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- That the government,
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- The new government under jesus christ is being arranged.
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- It doesn't happen immediately,
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- It takes time to institute this new government.
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- This kingdom that we're talking about
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- Is a real government on earth.
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- It's not some ethereal make-believe government,
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- It's a real government.
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- The seat of power will be jerusalem,
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- The throne will be david's throne
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- On which messiah will reign.
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- But there are others who will be reigning with him,
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- The apostles, the tribulation saints.
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- You may have an important responsibility.
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- 2 timothy 2:12 says, "if we endure with him,"
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- We shall also," what?
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- "reign with him."
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- When do we reign?
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- Well, one time is during this millennial kingdom,
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- So i think that 45 days is a time of transition.
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- We've talked about what happens
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- Immediately before the millennium,
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- Let's talk for a few moments about the millennium itself.
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- It's a time of the fulfillment of prophecies
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- That have been written for thousands of years.
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- You know, one question people have is,
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- Why isn't more in the new testament about the millennium?
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- Why didn't john say more?
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- He devotes six short verses in revelation 20,
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- Revelation 20:1-6,
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- To describe the millennium.
- 00:15:34.223 --> 00:15:36.091
- But the most important aspect of the millennium
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- Is the king of the millennium, jesus himself.
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- You know, from his infancy,
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- Jesus was known as the king of the jews.
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- The wise men came searching,
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- "where is he who's been born king of the jews?"
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- When he was being crucified on the cross,
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- The romans put the placard above his head,
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- "behold, the king of the jews."
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- Jesus' role as king is fulfilled during the millennium.
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- There are going to be certain administrative blessings
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- That come when he reigns.
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- He'll have a perfect government.
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- There'll be certain effects of sin that have been removed.
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- He will rule in perfect judgment.
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- Isaiah 11:3 says,
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- "he will delight in the fear of the lord,
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- And he will not judge by what his eye sees
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- Or make decision by what his ears hear,
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- But with righteousness he will judge the poor
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- And decide with fairness the afflicted on the earth."
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- He's the perfect ruler, just think about it.
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- Finally, at last, a government you can be proud of,
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- A government that doesn't disappoint you severely.
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- We all have that longing
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- Because we're made in the image of god.
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- We want a government that's fair and equitable
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- And that you can trust.
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- We'll have that in the millennium.
- 00:16:55.170 --> 00:16:57.406
- As i mentioned, there'll be certain physical blessings.
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- The curse won't be completely lifted.
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- But with satan bound for 1,000 years,
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- Much of the curse will be at least delayed.
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- For example, no longer will we be fearful of wild animals.
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- Isaiah 11:6-8 says, "the wolf will dwell with the lamb."
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- Verse eight says, "the nursing child will play
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- By the hole of the cobra,
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- And the weaned child will put his hand on the viper's den."
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- That's hard to imagine.
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- And there'll be a longevity of life that we talked about.
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- There'll still be death,
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- But it won't be the kind of death that we experience now.
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- What happens during the millennium, ladies and gentlemen,
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- Is that the curse that came from sin in genesis 3,
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- It is partially, not completely, lifted.
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- I've often described the millennium
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- And contrasted it with the new heaven and earth this way.
- 00:17:49.691 --> 00:17:53.228
- The millennium is a renovation of the current earth.
- 00:17:53.228 --> 00:17:57.399
- The new heaven and the new earth
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- Are a recreation of the earth.
- 00:17:59.535 --> 00:18:02.804
- There's a difference between a renovation and a recreation.
- 00:18:02.804 --> 00:18:06.675
- 17 years ago,
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- When i had the privilege of being called
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- To come as your pastor,
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- We talked about what needed to be done first
- 00:18:11.713 --> 00:18:14.149
- And one of the priorities was we've got to do something
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- About that children's area in the truett building.
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- It was in complete disrepair.
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- We couldn't attract young families
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- With a facility like that.
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- And so we immediately began a renovation plan.
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- We needed to do something not tomorrow,
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- Not next year, but now.
- 00:18:33.368 --> 00:18:35.537
- But we also had in mind an eventual recreation
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- Of our campus.
- 00:18:39.608 --> 00:18:41.176
- We did the renovation first and then we blew it all up
- 00:18:41.176 --> 00:18:45.180
- And did the recreation.
- 00:18:45.180 --> 00:18:47.716
- There's a difference between renovation and recreation.
- 00:18:47.716 --> 00:18:51.753
- The millennium is the renovation.
- 00:18:51.753 --> 00:18:54.623
- There are certain spiritual blessings.
- 00:18:54.623 --> 00:18:56.892
- The earth will be filled with the knowledge of the lord.
- 00:18:56.892 --> 00:18:59.795
- The bible says at that day, at that time,
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- Every knee will bow and every tongue will confess
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- That jesus christ is lord.
- 00:19:05.334 --> 00:19:07.669
- Now briefly the events that follow the millennium.
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- After the 1,000 years,
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- Satan is released and leads a minor revolt.
- 00:19:12.374 --> 00:19:15.811
- Well, actually it's a major revolt
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- That lasts only a split second.
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- The children of those who have been born
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- During the millennium,
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- Even though they're living under the rule of jesus christ,
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- You would think that they would follow him,
- 00:19:28.991 --> 00:19:32.127
- But some will choose to rebel against him.
- 00:19:32.127 --> 00:19:35.831
- You see, just being in a perfect environment
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- Is not enough to convert you.
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- It takes the work of the holy spirit.
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- And there will be some of those children
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- Who decide to follow after satan.
- 00:19:46.208 --> 00:19:49.378
- They'll launch a rebellion against jesus on his throne,
- 00:19:49.378 --> 00:19:53.248
- And jesus, just by the word of his mouth,
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- Will send the fire from heaven and destroy them completely.
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- What happens after that?
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- Satan is cast into the lake of fire.
- 00:20:01.857 --> 00:20:04.926
- Look at revelation 20:10.
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- "and the devil who deceived them
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- Was thrown into the lake of fire and brimstone
- 00:20:08.563 --> 00:20:11.400
- Where the beast and the false prophet are also."
- 00:20:11.400 --> 00:20:15.537
- After 1,000 years, they're still alive,
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- And that's the horrible thing about hell.
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- Unbelievers aren't destroyed.
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- They suffer there day and night, forever and ever.
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- 1,000 years after being cast into that lake of fire,
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- The false prophet and the beast are still there.
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- That is the fate of all unbelievers.
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- Following that, there's a resurrection of all the unsaved.
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- They are judged by whether or not
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- Their name is found written in the lamb's book of life.
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- And if any man's name was not found there,
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- He too was cast into the lake of fire.
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- Those who don't know the lord,
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- Those who don't love the lord are accursed
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- And they certainly don't want the lord to come.
- 00:21:02.250 --> 00:21:05.087
- But the heartfelt desire of every christian
- 00:21:05.087 --> 00:21:08.323
- Is that jesus christ come, and come quickly.
- 00:21:08.323 --> 00:21:14.296
- Dr. dave watson is the pastor
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- Of the calvary chapel on staten island.
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- He tells a story about when he was 14 years old
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- He was on the verge of making some very bad decisions.
- 00:21:24.506 --> 00:21:28.777
- And as he was turning those decisions over in his mind,
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- He was walking through his house one day
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- And he noticed a magazine sent to his parents.
- 00:21:33.849 --> 00:21:37.285
- "decision magazine" by billy graham.
- 00:21:37.285 --> 00:21:41.089
- And on the cover was an article that caught his attention.
- 00:21:41.089 --> 00:21:44.559
- "are you ready for the last days?"
- 00:21:44.559 --> 00:21:49.030
- And he sat and read that article.
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- He went to church, he had heard the gospel,
- 00:21:51.600 --> 00:21:54.169
- But never presented against the backdrop of the end times.
- 00:21:54.169 --> 00:21:59.107
- And he was troubled as he read that article
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- And the next day he went to school
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- And there was a coach there who was known to be a christian.
- 00:22:02.978 --> 00:22:07.549
- And david watson asked him about the end times
- 00:22:07.549 --> 00:22:11.052
- And about the events.
- 00:22:11.052 --> 00:22:12.788
- And as a result of what that coach said,
- 00:22:12.788 --> 00:22:15.190
- Dave watson said,
- 00:22:15.190 --> 00:22:16.291
- "i placed my faith and trust
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- In jesus' death and resurrection
- 00:22:18.994 --> 00:22:21.530
- For the forgiveness of my sins and my eternal destiny."
- 00:22:21.530 --> 00:22:26.968
- I'd like to ask you
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- The same question billy graham asked in that article
- 00:22:28.570 --> 00:22:31.206
- More than 50 years ago.
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- Are you ready?
- 00:22:33.775 --> 00:22:35.410
- Are you prepared for the last days?
- 00:22:36.144 --> 00:22:40.315
- Whether we're talking about the last days of planet earth
- 00:22:40.315 --> 00:22:44.519
- Or your last days on planet earth,
- 00:22:44.519 --> 00:22:47.322
- Are you ready, are you prepared?
- 00:22:47.956 --> 00:22:51.159
- The best way to prepare for the last days,
- 00:22:51.159 --> 00:22:54.896
- The best way is to trust in christ as your savior,
- 00:22:55.931 --> 00:22:59.401
- To receive the forgiveness of your sins,
- 00:22:59.401 --> 00:23:01.770
- To receive the assurance
- 00:23:01.770 --> 00:23:03.171
- That you're going to be in heaven one day.
- 00:23:03.171 --> 00:23:05.674
- Why is that so important to do now?
- 00:23:05.674 --> 00:23:09.845
- Because, ladies and gentlemen, the king is coming.
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- Maranatha, o lord, come.
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- While earthly kingdoms and rulers eventually fade away,
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- And next time we're going to look at five specific judgments
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- That jesus will preside over in the end times.
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- Stay tuned for a preview of what's coming up next
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- In our series "jesus revealed in the end times."
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- You know, we have a compassionate savior named jesus christ
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- Who loved you and me so much
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- He voluntarily came and gave his life
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- For the forgiveness of our sins.
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- He's a compassionate savior,
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- But he's always a just judge as well.
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- And one day he's coming to render justice
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- To everyone who doesn't know christ is savior.
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- [announcer] set your dvr and join us next time
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- For the message "jesus the judge"
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- Here on "pathway to victory."
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