well before we get to our lesson let's begin with the word of Prayer your father indeed we are grateful that we have this opportunity to study your word together thank you for this beautiful Sabbath and also for the scriptures in particular the book of Revelation which is our subject today talking about the home of the redeemed and we ask your special blessing as we look at this wonderful subject we ask the soul in Jesus name Amen now for those of you who have been joining us over the past few weeks you probably know by now that the book of Revelation is one of my favorite books in the New Testament and I think you also know that it's one of pass the Dougs favorite books in the New Testament so we've been doing a little bit of dual teaching on the subject so past that I can we invite you to come forward and we'll get ready for our study today thank you pastor Ross and again want to welcome everybody and you know we have a number of people who are really online members or Granite Bay want to welcome them as well as we travel we frequently run into folks who say there's no local church I can attend some of these folks are shut-ins and there's no church nearby and they say this study is their Sabbath school program and so we want to give you a special welcome if you're interested in what you might do if you want to be one of our online members you can simply go to Granite Bay SDA dot o-r-g and there's some information there now as pastor Ross mentioned our study today is the last in our quarterly on Revelation we did something different this time because any Adventist pastor worth his salt has sermons on Revelation and not only do we have sermons we've got slides but we've got slides on each chapter now I don't often do this but I want to take issue with the publishers of the Sabbath School quarterly because they want us to cover the Millennium in 50 minutes today millenniums a thousand years it's really hard to cover a thousand years and 50 minutes but we not only have Revelation chapter 19 to cover we've got revelation 20 which is where you find the Millennium 21 and 22 so you you pray that we could experience time travel right now and we'll see how far we yeah we've got a presentation we're gonna do the little tag-team you're gonna be going through the slides on our study today and we haven't rehearsed this well take turns reading some of the scriptures I'll let you know in advance we have a hundred and twenty five slides that we're gonna try to get through so let's get right into it our lesson today is lesson 13 the book of Revelation Jesus making all things new our mission is to kind of cover chapters 40 I'm sorry chapter 19 through the end of the book and we have a memory verse and the memory verse is revelation 21:5 if you would like to say that with me you have it on the screen and in your Bibles I believe this is the New King James Version here we go then he was sat on the throne said behold I make all things new and he said to me write for these words are true and faithful all right in the first section here is talking about the wedding supper of the Lamb now in the previous chapters we've noticed that just a lot of things have happened and there's a lot of overlap in Revelation when you get into the seven last plagues you're entering the end of time there's an all-out effort made by the beast power well if they can't buy or sell they don't cooperate they should ultimately be killed and just as this critical moment comes when they're going to be destroyed God intervenes and fights for them now do we see that happening many times in Bible history at the last minute when it looks like it's hopeless there at the Red Sea and the enemies coming they're all about to be slain God turns the table so they're not only delivered but the enemy is slain the book of Esther a.dataset when all of God's people will be killed but at the last minute as their intercedes with the King and there's that's a very strange occurrence with the dinner with Haman and the king and Esther and instead of Mordecai being hung Haman is hung on Mordecai eyes gallows and instead of God's people being destroyed the enemies of God's people are destroyed even though it looks hopeless God turns the tables at the this is what happens at the end of the time of time God's people who smaller in number than the multitudes have lost death decree and when it looks like they're about to be annihilated Jesus comes at the last minute to deliver and that's where you get this picture here in Revelation 19 you want to read this first pass revelation 19 verse 7 and 8 it says I just I went backwards right there you see it's let us be glad and rejoice and give glory to him for the marriage of the lamb has come and his wife has made herself ready and to her it was granted to be arrayed in fine linen clean and bright for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints so you'll notice that the second coming of the Lord and this event is referred to as a marriage and you'll find as we go on it's talked about New Jerusalem is compared to a bride adorned for her husband this language is also found in John 14 verse 1 through 3 now you all know this pastor Russell read it for you John 14 beginning in verse 1 it says let not your hearts be troubled you believe in God believe also in me in my father's house there are many mansions if it were not so I would have told you I go to prepare a place for you and if I go and prepare a place for you I will come again and receive you to myself that where I am there you may be also so the second coming of Jesus is sort of in the context of a Hebrew wedding what would happen in a Hebrew wedding is the groom might give the young lady a cup of grape juice and as she drank from it there was a ceremony where she accepted the proposal any of you been to a Jewish wedding where they fold the glass and the man stomps on it it means no one else is to drink from that glass that's after the two of them drink from it and then he was to go that wasn't there the honeymoon didn't happen right then then he was to go to his father's house and build a honeymoon chamber on his father's house when that was done and they never knew exactly when it was done he would come and pick up his bride so the language here that you see in John 14 is the language of a wedding and so Christ is saying would a groom build a honeymoon chamber and then say now what am I supposed this is there someone I'm supposed to pick up who would that be he's saying I'm not gonna forget about you any more than a groom would forget about his bride you know pastor Doug in Matthew chapter 22 you can read the same idea of a marriage where it talks about a certain king arranging a marriage for his son and all the guests were invited and they came in to the marriage Hall it was finally filled with guests then it says the king came in to see the guests and he saw a man that didn't have on the wedding garment the king said how did you come in here not wearing the wedding garment if you read the story it says the man was speechless probably because he was given the wedding garment but he didn't take the time to put it on and then the judgment is given take him bind him hand and foot and thrown out so here you have the likening of a wedding at least a wedding gathering and celebration and that's the wedding supper of the Lamb just prior to this there is a judgment that occurs where the King comes and examines the guess well we understand from Bible prophecy that we're living in that time of examination or judging that's why Revelation chapter 14 says fear God give glory to him the hour of his judgment has come so we see a parallel there with Matthew chapter 22 as well as the promise that Jesus made in John chapter 14 yeah so we have Jesus coming then in chapter 19 he's riding on his white horse he's coming to rescue his bride you remember if you read in chapter 12 there's this beautiful woman clothed in light and the dragon is not only he wants to devour a child but he can't so he then exerts his fury on the woman and so this is where it says here Armageddon ends but it's really Armageddon ends on earth Armageddon is a battle that actually goes over into the end of the millennium as well a couple of different battles of Armageddon you might say so Jesus is coming he's the rider on the white horse who comes to rescue and you read in Revelation 19:11 now I saw heaven opened and behold a white horse and he that sat upon him was called faithful and true and in righteousness he judges and makes war now keep in mind things were happening in quick succession says he makes war what he read at the end Revelation chapter 12 or 17 and the dragon was wroth with the woman he goes to make war so it's in this war the dragon against the woman and Christ against the dragon finally culminates in this battle of har mageddon our harmik gideon they're not sure if it's a reference to Gideon's battle in Megiddo or the valley of Megiddo both cases it was a time where God completely turned the tables and delivered his people the first time Jesus came he came as our Savior he came as a babe born in Bethlehem but the second time Jesus comes now it's described as him coming on a white horse as king of kings and Lord of lords he's coming as a victorious Conqueror to deliver his people and when that happens it says the wicked are destroyed with the brightness of his coming we'll probably get to that in just a few moments so Jesus comes now not as a suffering servant but as a conquering King all right and then his coming we've had a study on this that were caught up to meet the Lord in the air and then you enter chapter 20 and let me just read I'm gonna read verses 1 through this is the Millennium the word Millennium was a composite of two words mil I meaning thousand and I'm meaning years then I saw in the word millennium is not found in the Bible just like you don't front the word Bible in the Bible or rapture or Trinity a lot of teachings are not found in the Bible teachings are there the words right there then I saw the angel coming down from heaven having the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand and he laid hold on the dragon that serpent of old who is the devil and Satan and bound him for a thousand years and he cast him into the bottomless pit we'll talk about what that is and shut him up and set a seal on him that he should deceive the nation's No More until the thousand years are finished but after these things he must be released for a little while all right so now you'll see on the screen we got one this is like question 1 we're gonna be teaching with the Socratic method and there's gonna be about 20 questions you're heard of 20 questions that's what we're doing and we'll sort of be answering these with scriptures all right first of all what marks the beginning of the 1000 years and maybe pastor Ross will read this verse for us 1st Thessalonians chapter 4 verse 6 for the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout and then it goes on to say and the dead in Christ shall rise first so one thing that happens to mark the beginning is there is the coming of the Lord there's a resurrection and what happens in Revelation 20 verse 4 and 5 and we have a couple of slides on this first pass that I could says and they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years but the rest of the Dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished this is the first resurrection so if if the dead in Christ rise when Jesus comes who are the rest of the Dead the only option if you take away all the righteous who are the rest it's the wicked and so the wicked they do not rise in the first resurrection and you read a little later in chapter 20 it tells us that the rest of the Dead don't live again until the thousand years and a thousand years I mentioned this mill i annum that represents simply a thousand years starts with the first resurrection and it ends with the second resurrection so the 1000 years the main thing that separates them like bookends is two resurrections now when I first heard that it kind of surprised me I always thought there was a resurrection then I realized Jesus said don't marvel but the hour is coming in which all that are in their graves shall hear his voice they that have done good the resurrection of life name is John chapter 5 they that have done evil the resurrection of damnation two resurrections Daniel chapter 12 and he that's sleep in the dust of your shall awake some to everlasting life some de shame and everlasting contempt and so all through the Bible it tells us there's really two resurrections you don't want to be in the second resurrection it's also interest to note that each resurrection is connected with a coming of Christ the second coming you have the resurrection of the righteous then we have what we call the third coming at the end of the 1,000 years where the New Jerusalem comes down over heaven then you have the second resurrection which is the resurrect for the wicked so connected but the resurrection is the coming of Christ to the earth all right what else happens at the first resurrection okay you wanna read that first Corinthians chapter 15 verse 51 through 253 it says we shall not all sleep but we shall all be changed in a moment at the last Trump for the trumpet shall sound and the dead shall be raised incorruptible and we shall be changed for this corruptible must put on incorruption and this mortal must put on immortality alright so there's the resurrection we are talking about now what kind of bodies do the raised have when Jesus comes Philippians 3:21 who will change our vile body that it might be fashioned like unto his glorious body what kind of body did Jesus have when he rose from the dead how many remember when he appeared in the upper room to the apostles and they were scared because they thought they saw a ghost and he said asked you have anything to eat and he ate in front of me says a spirit doesn't have flesh and bone as you see that I have so did Jesus have a real body will we have real bodies did Adam and Eve have real bodies isn't the whole idea that the Lord is gonna restore his original plan so the idea that when he comes we're all kind of ethereal ghosts that are disembodied and we're living in the bosom of Abraham for you know while that's really not taught in the Bible you can read in Luke 24:39 with this is when Jesus appeared to the disciples in the upper room behold my hands my feet that it is I myself handled me and see for a spirit hath not flesh and bones as he see me have okay and then you read in 2nd Thessalonians 2 then what happens to the wicked those who are dead are raised those who are alive or transformed what about the wicked when Jesus comes it says and then shall that wicked one be revealed whom the Lord shall consume with the brightness of his coming and the whole world is imploding at this point your head pastor Revelation 16 says this is 16 18 20 21 it says and there was a great earthquake such as not since they were men upon the earth so mighty an earthquake and so great it says every island away and the mountains were not found and they fell upon men a great hail out of heaven every stone about the weight of a talent that is some 75 pounds and we did an amazing fact of the radio program last week about a recent this year hailstorm in Texas where they had baseball sized hail and it did like four hundred and fifty million dollars worth of damage to homes and cars it just destroys cars when that happened so it's really gonna happen yeah all right revelation 20 verse 1 and 2 this is where we read that at this point this is where Satan is bound over let's find out what it means when Satan is bound that old certain called the devil and Satan and binds him a thousand years so it the word is he's bound in the abussos and the King James translators for whatever reason they chose the word bottomless pit to describe this now it's something of a mystery why they chose that word because the same word has translated other places for example some of you read in Luke 8 31 the story of the demoniac pastoruri that says and they besought him that is Jesus that he would not command them to go out into the deep there's this demon-possessed man and the demons asked Jesus don't send us out into the deep the word deep there is abou so same word in Revelation 20 it simply means a place where devils have no one to tempt or manipulate and for 1,000 years Satan has no one to tempt and manipulate it's not some black hole or cavern off in the cosmos where Satan is chained in this big musso's he's on the world now there's some other verses that explain that you realize when God made the planet in the beginning the Septuagint you know when it says the earth was void without form in Genesis the Greek version says the earth was an abussos and so it's describing the world think about the condition of the earth after Jesus comes all the righteous where do they go so let me go up Christ said I'm coming to receive you unto myself that where I am you may be what happens to the wicked the wicked who are dead stay dead the wicked who are alive are destroyed by the brightness of his so how many people are alive on the planet none and the Bible says the heaven ceases to shine it's a dark destroyed chaos and this is where Satan's Bell talks about the cities being broken down by this great earthquake and the distraction from the hail and of course all the wicked are destroyed the earth is dark empty broken down and here is the devil and his angels bound on planet earth for a thousand years yeah I think we've got those verses coming it says who will be raised then in the second resurrection and what takes place we've covered this pretty well already those that are in the graves will hear his voice and come forth those that have done good at resurrection of life evil the resurrection of damnation and what happens is the rest of the death I'll read that revelation 25 but the rest of the dead that would be the wicked lived not again until the thousand years were finished which means they do live after the thousand years are finished you won't read that question wish number four says in what condition will the earth be left after the devastating earthquake and the hailstorm that begins the 1,000 year period and we touched on a few of these but here's the actual verses Isaiah 21 verse 1 and the in verse 19 behold the Lord maketh the earth empty and make of it waste and turn it upside down the earth is utterly broken down and there's that verse you have in German yes Jeremiah chapter 4 verse 23 to 26 says and behold the earth and lo it was without form and void and the heavens they had no light I beheld the mountains and lo they trembled and there was no man and all the birds of the heaven were fled and the fruitful place was a wilderness in all the cities thereof were broken down notice the next part by the presence of the Lord and by his fierce anger yeah and then in Jeremiah 25 33 and the slain of the Lord shall be at that day from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth they'll not be lamented or gathered or buried why nobody to conduct the funerals first time in history no funeral parlor will be open now the the Left Behind scenario you know what I mean when I say the Left Behind scenario you know a lot of dear evangelicals believe that there's gonna be a secret rapture how many of you aware of that and that the Saints are caught up there's a time of trouble for seven years here on earth the middle of that seven years the Antichrist is enthroned in the temple the juniors are preaching the gospel the plagues are falling at the end of that Christ comes down here on earth he establishes their earthly Kingdom and the thousand years are spent here on earth now that's a pretty big difference for one thing we along with many traditional Protestants believe the thousand years we live and reign with Christ in heaven says I'm taking you to my father's house I'm taking you away when the resurrection happens and that time begins the other group thinks we spend the thousand years here with the righteous reigning over the wicked we've got immortal bodies but they don't so they continue to be born and die why would you want to reign over the wicked now one reason I mentioned that is according to these verses we just read there is a time right as a said the earth is utterly emptied the slain of the Lord covered the Earth from one end to another all the cities are broken down there is no man there is a time prophecy tells us when the earth is totally depopulated the Left Behind scenario makes no provision for that time it just they can't explain it it doesn't appear in their in their chronology and so that's one reason I've got problems with that all right let's move along here you wanna read that one question number five says where will the Saints be during the 1,000 years and what will they be doing John chapter 14 verse 3 jesus said I will come again and receive you to myself that where I am there ye may be also in Revelation 20 verse 4 and I saw Thrones and they that set upon them and judgment was given unto them and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years so we're in throne not here on earth but we are living in reign where is the New Jerusalem now it's in heaven that's where Christ lives that's where we'll be during that time and we live and reign with Christ and we're doing we're involved in something some act of judgment now we had a pause here on this slide for a minute it says they are 1st Corinthians 6 2 & 3 what don't you know that you will judge angels that the Saints will judge the world now that doesn't mean we are deciding who is saved and lost but in one sense we are affirming the judgments of God but we're also going to be doing some of evaluating for example someone said once there's gonna be three surprises when you get to heaven first surprise is that you're there a second surprise is there's some people there you never thought would be there I always thought just imagine the look on on Stevens face you know Stephen the first martyr when he gets to heaven he sees a big parade and he's asking the angel what's going on they said oh they're honoring one of the great apostles said really I wonder is it Peter is it Matthew which one is it he goes over he sees her carrying Paul around and Stephen says to the angel you guys have made a terrible mistake last I saw him he was public enemy number one trying to destroy the Christian Church and the angel says hero let's show you what happened it's all your fault Stephen you prayed that God would forgive him and he did and he was converted and now he became an apostle he wrote half the New Testament so you're gonna have questions and you're gonna look at the books and those things will be answered and then there'll be some people who you thought would be leading the parade and they're not there at all and you think how come that pastor that evangelists a great Christian is not there or maybe a family member and the angel will say come we'll show you the books and we will be looking at or judging the judgments of God in a sense and looking at the books and seen this person had some unrepented of unconfessed sin if they hid from everybody but not from God that's why Christ said the hour is coming when those things done in secret will be proclaimed from the housetops and the secret things will be made plain everything's gonna be exposed at that point so this is the time of a judgement going on now the Bible speaks about a time coming and we'll get to that a little later where every tear will be wiped from every eye but it's interesting to note that that occurs at the end of that 1,000 years in other words there might be some kind and there might be some feelings of sadness during this 1000 year time period where you're reviewing is past that I've mentioned the records and maybe there are people that you thought would be there that's not there but the angel will come and explain to you why they're not there so it's a time of investigation it's they have every question answered that the righteous would have all right so what else happens at the close of the 1000 years you read in Zechariah 14 and this is the first four or five nine we're just taking some excerpts here the day of the Lord will come and his feet will stand in that day on the Mount of Olives which is before Jerusalem on the east and the Mount of Olives will cleave in the midst so where's the last place Jesus feet touched when he ascended to heaven Mount of Olives right and where he says I'm gonna come in as I left even comes back when he actually touches the earth to the very same place where did the Lord predict the second coming to the disciples in Matthew 24 from the Mount of Olives where did he weep in the Garden of Gethsemane that's on the Mount of Olives so it's a very special location by the way it's the most expensive cemetery in the world is a mount of olives because even the Jews believe the Messiah will come because of this verse they all want to be buried where the Messiah is feet are gonna touch you read that revelation 21 - and I sold John writes and I John saw the holy city the New Jerusalem coming down from God out of heaven prepared as a bride adorned for a husband and so here's that verse where after Jesus feet touch the Mount of Olives there's an earthquake it creates a great plane it must be very large because you'll see in a moment the dimensions of the New Jerusalem are roughly 1500 miles around 12,000 furlongs I think that's 375 miles on each side and by the way didn't Jesus promise to Abraham that you will inherit this land but he was a pill pilgrim and he said you know he didn't really get to inherit it during his life but he looked for a city that had foundations that's also Moses whose builder and maker is God the the borders of the land that God promised the Abraham will all be encompassed within the dimensions of a New Jerusalem so they really will literally get that spot pass it up before we go onto the next question here just to add one more thought on that it's interesting there's a principle that you find in the Bible in 2nd Peter chapter 3 Peter writes but beloved do not forget this one thing that one day with the Lord is this a thousand years and a thousand day I should say a thousand years and a thousand years is as one day that's the principle thousand years is as one day with the Lord then he goes on in verse nine and the Lord is not slack concerning his promise as some count slackness but is long-suffering towards us not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance then it says but the day of the Lord will come now we find an interesting principle in the Bible where work for six and then you rest on the seventh god created the earth in six days he rested on the seventh day so we have the earth inhabited for about 6,000 years then Jesus comes and the righteous get to go to heaven for a thousand years a Sabbath rest in heaven then at the end of that the end of the thousand years then the New Jerusalem comes down from heaven and that's where the wicked are resurrected for the final judgment so we see an interesting principle of seventh in the Bible and it ties in to this 1000 year period as well yeah you know Oh God told Adam and Eve in the day you eat thereof you will surely die how long did Adam live did any who's the oldest man who ever lived actually Methuselah was son Enoch because he's still alive that was a trick question but you know I met so the only but who knows the oldest man who ever died not the oldest man who ever lived so did any man ever live beyond one millennium in the day you eat thereof you will die six days you work thousand-year rest at the end of the New Testament it tells us the children I'm sorry the end of second Chronicles it tells us the children of Israel were carried off to Babylon for 70 years and while they were in battle in the land kept Sabbath while it was desolate the land was desolate and it kept Sabbath what is the condition of the world during the 1,000 years desolate it is keeping like a thousand year Sabbath at which point God makes a new heaven and new earth and maybe we'll even get to that today ok what will happen next to free Satan from his prison want to read that revelation 25 says but the rest of the Dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished so this would be the wicked revelation 27 says and when the thousand years are expired Satan shall be loosed out of his prison so what's imprisoned Satan is he's had nobody to tempt or manipulate he and his demons all have to put up with each other and can you imagine those conversations the demons are saying Lucifer you told us if we followed you things would go better that we could overthrow God that we would have more power and they're chasing him all over the planet cuz they're really mad so at the end of the 1000 years now they've got someone to tempt and manipulate again you remember the demon said to Jesus don't cast us into the abou snows cast us into the pigs give us something to tempt and to manipulate and just quick little amazing fact I dropped in here people are wondering why doesn't God just destroy the devil when he comes why is he giving them a thousand years and letting him out of prison see no Napoleon he kind of rampage all over Europe and tried to establish the Dominion of the Romans once again he was defeated by the European powers and they sent him to Elba but he escaped after about nine months came back to France relaunched a battle that took about a hundred days and at Waterloo he was then finally destroyed then they sent him to Saint Elena the middle of nowhere where he died five years later but it's like when he came back Napoleon couldn't change he went right back to war and it's amazing they didn't just kill him but they've twice they sent him off but this is what the devil does God says I'm gonna show the universe I have no choice in dealing with a wicked other than what I'm doing because as soon as Satan's out of his prison he goes back to his bad behavior which we're about to see happen here something else very interesting happens during the 1,000 years you have a a distinction between two kingdoms you have the kingdom of God and it's in heaven where the righteous are and they living and reigning with Christ for the thousand years and the direct opposite of that is Satan's Kingdom and what's happening in his kingdom well it's all broken down is death everywhere it's decayed there's darkness and so before the whole onlooking universe it's quite clear the kingdom of God versus the kingdom that Satan wants to establish its clean everyone's mind that indeed Satan's away results in death destruction and sorrow so when that judgment occurs at the end of the thousand years there's no lingering question in the mind of any person in the universe as to is God fair and just it's evident that yes God is fair he's done everything he can to save mankind and yet he has no choice everyone understands God it doesn't want to do it alright question eight what will Satan do when the wicked are raised King go ahead it says revelation twenty eight and nine it's and he shall go out deceive the nations which on the four corners of the earth Gog and Magog to gather them to battle the number of whom is as the sand of the sea I just want to pause here real quick gog and magog people who's gog and may god you go back to the Old Testament and it talks about gog and magog you read about them in Ezekiel chapter 37 38 you find them in I think it's Genesis 10 and the genealogies they were ancient enemies of God's people now you're gonna meet you'll hear some evangelical pastors that are gonna say GOG is the Chinese and Magog that's Moscow it's the Russians and they're going to come together and attack Jerusalem literal Jerusalem and it's you know it's very popular but it's not at all biblical Gog and may God keep in mind the names in Revelation are almost all spiritual they're all symbolic Gog and Magog were ancient enemies of God's people you read in Ezekiel that they covered the earth like a cloud they attacked the City of God there's no battle in Old Testament history where Gog and Magog did that and so here but those names are used to sort of be a summary of the ammonites which were the people that inhabited Canaan that they were going to attack the City of God and they cover the earth like a cloud because it's all the wicked who've ever lived or resurrected season they went up on the Brits of the earth and they compass the camp of the saints about the beloved city now just before they launch their attack something interesting happens oh by the way here's that exact e alert e 8 talks about gog and magog thou shalt come up against my people of israel as a cloud to cover the land same language you find in Revelation is what Ezekiel is prophesying about at this crucial moment what stops everything revelation 20 verse 11 and 12 and I saw a great white throne and he that sat upon it and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books according to their works right so I'll give you a picture real quick at the end of the 1000 years the New Jerusalem comes and well first Jesus comes down he touches the feet his feet on the Mount of Olives great earthquake creates a great valley the New Jerusalem then settles into that Valley and Christ at that moment when he comes back to earth all the wicked who've ever lived a call back to life for judgment remember we said our Bible says the rest of the dead don't live until the thousand years are finished meaning when the thousand years are finished they do live now Satan sees his vast army imagine how many people are in the world today almost 8 billion this is all the wicked who have ever lived through history 3 billions of people and he thinks you know we assume some of those are saved but there's a lot better lost they've gone the wide road to destruction and Satan's he says our man you know you probably have Napoleon there and Hitler maybe Alexander the Great and really you see you got the great leaders and military minds and we don't know how long this period is it calls it a little season and he says look there's so many of us we outnumber the ones in the city we can conquer them and so before he launches this attack maybe they have time to build armaments but before they launch this attack on the city of God Christ is exalted above the city he appears on a white throne and they see him in all of his glory and everyone's lives pass before them and there's a panorama of Christ's sacrifice in the heavens where we all see the gospel and the battle between good and evil laid out before us you know sometimes we picture the white throne judgment we think that you're waiting in court like you're at the DMV you're in a long line one by one they hit the gavel say next take your number next I think how long that judgement would take can God save a thousand people at once like at Pentecost can he judge a billion at once yeah so that's what's gonna be going on during this time and everything is written in books and that's why you want your name in the book of life question number 10 says what will happen after the wicked are judged Romans chapter 14 11 as I live saith the Lord this amazing verse every knee shall bow to me and every tongue shall confess to God so at the conclusion of this judgement when everyone sees that Christ was just that he did everything he could to save every individual ultimately they're gonna see Christ in his glory everyone will bow everyone outside the city everyone inside the city you realize there is a time when we will all be together again no matter what happens after today everybody saved a loss we'll be together again because this is the crucial moment when Christ separates the sheep from the goats all the saved God and the good angels are in the city all the lost Satan and the bad angels are outside the city so everyone involved in the plan of salvation is there and every knee will bow to Christ at that point and confess that he is God and here's another one from Philippi Philippians chapter 2 10 and 11 it says that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow of things in heaven and things in earth and things under the earth and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father so once that great confession happens you can read in Revelation 19 1 and 2 I heard a voice of much people and have insane true and righteous are thy judgments everyone is going to agree with what God has to do next which is the judgment of the wicked what will happen next alright pastor awesome 29 says fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them revelation 20:15 and whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire so as this fire rains down everywhere outside of the City of God you remember when the plagues fell on Egypt sometimes God protected Goshen nothing happened to God's people in Goshen but it rained fire and hail on the Egyptians and God is able to do that you ever see it rain across the street but not on your house you know Jesus said to Nicodemus in John chapter 3 except a man be born of water and of the spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God of course water a symbol of baptism the spirit the holy spirit it's also seems to denote the earth it was washed with water during the time of the flood and now the earth is washed with fire at the end of the 1,000 years just like in order for us to be born again we need the water and the fire so the earth to be recreated you have the washing of the water and the washing of fire at the end of the 1,000 years then the earth is recreated it's a new heavens and a new earth and we've got a picture of the earth being washed by fire right there revelation 20:14 it says this is the second death so as the wicked are cast into the lake of fire do they burn forever and ever bible says every man is rewarded according to his works and so different works different periods of suffering different intensity different time who do you think will burn and suffer the longest Satan and Idi Amin a few others so Joseph Stalin Adolf Hitler but they said says this is the second death now who is it that said if you're only born once you will die twice but if you're born twice you only die once unless you're alive when Christ comes in you you're saved so just review the Millenium you've got the first resurrection starts the beginning of the millennium the second resurrection marks the end the first coming then you got like a second coming when the holy city descends question twelve go ahead and read that after the fire goes out what will God do for his people and the verse there is Isaiah 65 17 for behold I create a new heavens and a new earth here's where it gets happy revelation 21:1 and i saw in new heavens and a new earth for the first heaven and the first Earth were passed away now why does it say new heaven does that mean that the heaven where God lives now there's something wrong with it that word heaven there is a word for atmosphere remember in the beginning God separated the waters from the waters by a heaven it means he put an atmosphere in there and so when he says I make a new heaven he says a new earth a new atmosphere around the earth the air that we breathe the place where the birds fly that's sometimes called the first heavens in Hebrew literature so we're looking for a new heavens and a new earth wherein dwells righteousness 2nd Peter 3:13 where will God and the righteous finally live revelation 21:3 it says behold the tabernacle of God is with men and he will dwell with them wow that just always leaves me speechless that of all the infinite cosmos that God has created he's gonna move the capital to our world sin has separated us from God but through Christ we're gonna be reunited not only where we can commune with God but he's gonna dwell with us and God Himself will be with them and we shall see his face can you fathom that what that's gonna mean there's one little planet in rebellion against heaven right now on the Satan's Dominion after the plan of redemption is met its full will be elevated to be the center of if you like the universe because this is where God is gonna dwell right here it's an incredible thought it's where Christ humbled himself the most this humble place is going to become the capital and ultimately it says the meek will inherit the earth we don't float forever out in the clouds ultimately things happen here on earth go ahead Hebrews 11 16 it says for he hath prepared prepared for them a city and this is talking about the New Jerusalem not the International space station people wonder how can how can God make a city that will come down from heaven oh we got a city create a little city up there in a space station now people believe man can do it they don't think God can do it fact I heard this week in the news that Elon Musk's his company was at SpaceX that they finally successfully brought at least a dummy human up to space so now they're gonna start shuttling humans from America we've had to pay the Russians to bring our astronauts up for years now since the Space Shuttle was retired and everyone's talking about putting a plantation on the moon or on Mars and we think man can do it well God has a city in space it says they'll build houses and inhabit them are we gonna just be floating on clouds like naked babies for know we're doing real things what else is gonna happen oh there's the naked baby I there it is huh yes heaven is a real place the Bible is pretty clear up on that alright next question what more do we know about the city now we're gonna go quickly through a number of things that we want to cover just to share some of the good news pastor Ross revelation 21 16 it stays in the city lieth full square and he measured the city with the reed 12,000 furlongs the length and the breadth and the height of it are all equal now you have 8 million people in New York City folks hey you know there's probably no room in heaven for me here you've got a city 375 miles on each side that's as big as the state of Oregon one city are you aware amazing fact the dallas-fort Worth Airport is bigger than Manhattan the land on which you find the DFW Airport is bigger than the island of Manhattan and there's 8 million people there so those don't worry about there not being and he'll have skyscrapers they gave me plenty of room I hear there's more people that live below street level in New York City than the whole state of Montana I don't know if it's true but it sounds really good no III didn't read that somewhere great revelation 21 2 says and I John saw the holy city the New Jerusalem coming down from God out of heaven now typically when we think of a city that doesn't really get us excited because cities are concentrations of people where you've got crying and drugs and horns and traffic and but these are people where there is no sin there's no death there's no disease it is gonna be a beautiful place and the Bible describes it and some of the things it has beautiful walls great and high and twelve gates and each gate it says it's made of one pearl just a quick amazing fact a guy named Alan goal Ash was going through a basket of costume jewelry in an antique store in Rhode Island and he found this brooch and he recognized it was worth more than the fourteen dollars that he paid for it turns out that it is two very rare Quahog purple pearls and it's called the I think it's called the pearl of Venus and it was studded with diamonds and gold and I think it was worth two million dollars paid fourteen for it you know the story merchant finds a pearl of great price he sells everything to get it is heaven gonna be worth everything what's in would you cling to that would be worth more than heaven revelation 21 21 it says in the streets of the city of made of pure gold 15 says question 15 what does the Bible say about the city's water and food supply revelation 22 1 he showed me a pure river of water of life and as far as the food supply revelation 22 2 on either side of the river there was a the tree of life which bought twelve manner of fruits so if you got twelve manner of fruits each month that's 144 fruits right and it's better than 31 flavors maybe if I had baskin-robbins but it said the tree singular is on either side of the river the only way I reconcile that is you ever seen tree branches where they grow together vais ficus and some others do that and a matter of fact I was cutting the tree just on the church property the other day and I found a place where the Oaks grew together and then has circle in the middle of it I cut it and I saved it I think the tree is gonna grow together at the top and the rent roots go together at the bottom and it's a massive tree because all the state would eat from it think bigger than redwood and the river rote flows through it from the throne of God talking about the tree it says as pastor Doug you mentioned yeah Heels fruit every month and the leaves of the tree are also for the healing of the nation's that's a quote from Ezekiel Shane I think it's chapter 40 where it says and the leaves of the tree are for medicine and it's saying that everything about this tree is good and everywhere the water runs Ezekiel says everywhere the water runs things live so it really is a river of life question 16 how will the living in heaven be different than living here on earth well we'll go back and forth on these I'll tag team with y'all you a the eyes of the blind will be open in the ears of the Deaf will be unstopped and then shall the lame man leap as a heart of hearts a dear light creature and the tongue of the dumb shall sing that means I'll be singing and speaking of the animals they shall not hurt nor destroy when I hear an amazing fact he you ever heard the expression lions and tigers and bears all my and you've been watching The Wizard of Oz if you heard that they're actually they they raided a drug lords home in Atlanta and in the bat the basement they found these three a line a tiger and a bear living in squalor but they were had been together since cubs and they put them in this Nature Reserve adopted them and they are all friends they all get along a lion a tiger and a bear in heaven will the animals eat each other and by the way they called them BLT bear lion tiger your turn it says Isaiah 11:6 the wolf also shall dwell with the lamb and the little child shall lead them there's nothing gonna hurt or destroy are we gonna kill animals and eat them in heaven everyone's gonna be a vegetarian there even the animals are vegetarians they eat straw like the Ox so shouldn't we get ready for that now talking of the vegetation the desert shall bloom as the rose so be no desolate place everything is going to be the worst places on earth now will be a garden there then it says the inhabitant will not say I'm sick think of all the real estate we're gonna save with no hospitals no cemeteries and no golf courses ah some people just turn channel question 17 we'll sad or painful memories from this life trouble people in heaven promise is the former will not be remembered or come into mind now does that mean we're gonna forget that God saved us no we'll always remember the redemption but no painful memories as the ceaseless ages roll by wave after wave of glory pleasures at his right hand forevermore we'll painful memories will be absorbed you know how time heals you've heard that expression when you go through a hard time you think I'll never get over this but after a while it's fun when you find a teenager to get a crush on someone smiling okay first corinthians oh and then people say how you know i'm not gonna recognize grandma in heaven because she's gonna be young and have how are we gonna know each other in heaven will we recognize each other I'll read that one first Corinthians 13:12 says then shall I know even as I am known we will not have less discernment in heaven will have more discernment to identify the people that we love and you know I see we're out of time but I'm just gonna race through some of these quickly what other thrilling promises does God give us regarding his kingdom the ransomed of the Lord shall come design with joy and everlasting joy pleasures at his right hand forevermore boys and girls playing in the street will there be children in heaven so the child will play on the whole of the venomous serpent and not be hurt they'll run and not be weary walk and not faint mount up with wings like eagles will we be able to fly like the angels you know that song rocket ages it says will soar to Worlds I know I know it's not in the Bible it's a song but it's I believe it's true go ahead revelation 21:3 it says God Himself will be with them can be adequately described God's new kingdom with words 1st Corinthians 2:9 says you know this verse I has not seen nor ear heard neither entered into the heart of man the things that God is preparing for those that love him you can't imagine what he has for us but the only thing that will keep you out of heaven is sin nothing will enter into that city that will be file nor will there be any lie liars on the lake of fire the Bible says so if we want to be there I want to be there don't you you man we've got that deal with sin and the answer to that is he that comes to me he that overcomes will inherit all these things Christ promises that if we confess our sins to him if we repent turn from our sins confess our sins he will cleanse us from all unrighteousness and then we're adopted as his children and we can be in his kingdom we hope that's the prayer of those that are watching pastor Ross reminded sort of our special offer a free offer today it's called a colossal city in space it's part of the amazing fact study guide series in order to receive this call eight six six seven eight eight three nine six six and ask for offer number one one five or you can text the code sh one to two to the number four zero five four four and you'll be able to get a download of the study guide well thank you friends we've run out of time for our study today God willing we'll study his word together with you again next week god bless don't forget to request today's life-changing free resource not only can you receive this free gift in the mail you can download a digital copy straight to your computer or a mobile device to get your digital copy of today's simply text the keyword on your screen to four zero five four four or visit the web address 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