Revelation 19

here we have these interesting greek words after these things after what things after the things of god's judgment upon the earth after the judgment of the great babylon commercial system the system of the antichrist after these things i heard a great voice of many people in heaven so we have moved back to the heavenly scene now when john wrote the book of revelation chapter 1 verse 19 he was commanded to write the things which he saw the things which are and the things which will be after these things meta tauto so in chapter 1 he wrote the vision that which he saw chapter 2 and 3 he wrote of the things of the ministry of the church on the earth chapter 4 begins with the words metatalk after these things it was there after the church things that john was taken into heaven and he beheld the heavenly scene in chapters 4 and 5. then we came back to the earth we saw the judgments of god chapter 6 through 18 as god poured out his judgments his wrath upon a christ rejecting god aiding sinful world now the judgments are complete so after these things we go back to heaven we come back into the heavenly scene and the first thing the great voice of many people in heaven saying hallelujah hallelujah is a hebrew word hallelujah and it is praise the lord hallelujah hello let's praise lou the yah or yahweh praise the lord and this is the first time the word hallelujah is used in the new testament it is used quite frequently throughout the psalms because of course they were in hebrew but now this hebrew word praise the lord hallelujah salvation and glory and honor and power unto the lord our god it's interesting how that throughout the book of revelation as god is worshiped there are certain characteristics that are recognized and and are honored in the fourth chapter as the cherubim are worshiping god the 24 elders respond to that worship saying thou art worthy to receive glory honor praise when jesus takes the scroll out of the right hand of him who sits upon the throne the church declares worthy is the lamb to take the scroll and to loose the seals for he has redeemed us by his blood out of every nation tribe tongue and people and has made us unto our gods kings and priests and we shall reign with him upon the earth and then as the other heavenly beings join in the praise to jesus they declare the worthiness to receive the glory the honor the power the dominions and all that are to be given to him so back in the heavenly scene what are we doing praising the lord still hallelujah because salvation glory honor power belong to the lord our god for true and righteous are his judgments it's interesting to me how throughout the book of revelation which is a book that deals with god's fierce judgments that he's going to meet out upon the earth that all the way through these judgments there is the recognition the acknowledgement the declaration of the faithfulness of god's judgments true and righteous are your judgments there are some people who challenge the judgments of god there is oftentimes an insinuation by the question the insinuation that god isn't fair how could a god of love why would a god of love and whenever you get questions like that there is an undertone of a challenge of the fairness of god now i'll tell you something i don't really put much trust in the judgments of man or in the fairness or in the righteousness of the judgments of man i've read some judgments and i say surely justice is blind i mean i can't believe some of the judgments that are meted out by man but i am absolutely certain that what god does is right whatever god does is right and all the way through there is the attesting to the fairness of god the righteousness of god in his judgments no one can say that they got a bum rap from god when god judges us it will be according to righteousness and so true and righteous are his judgments because he has judged this which is the false church chapter 17 the judgment of the which did corrupt the earth with her fornication and has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand this false religious system that has suppressed the gospel that has held people in bondage that has been as lenin described the opiate of the people bringing them into a blind stupor and causing them to trust in the system rather than in the living god and so the declaration of the righteousness of god's judgment as he judged this great false religious system and again they said hallelujah actually we have four of them here in the book of 19th chapter again they said hallelujah now you say but it says alleluia in the greek there's a little sort of uh backwards apostrophe at the beginning of vowels the a and the e that give to them a h sound and so it is really a lot of people say oh alleluia but it is if you're reading it in the greek it is hallelujah in the hebrew it is halle luyah hallel luyah so uh it's hallelujah again and her smoke rose up forever and ever the smoke of the judgment of god upon this great system and the 24 elders we were introduced to them back in chapter four representing the church and the four living creatures the cherubim that are around the throne worshiping god they fell down and worshiped god and sat who sat upon the throne saying so be it hallelujah it's interesting in the worship of god these 24 elders representative of the church are always falling down and worshipping god in the fourth chapter as the cherubim are saying holy holy holy lord god almighty which is which was which is to come the 24 elders fell on their faces casting their golden crowns on the glassy sea saying thou art worthy o lord to receive the glory and honor again we find them now falling on the ground as they worship god responding to the worship of the people as they say so be it hallelujah and the voice came out of the throne saying now here's encouragement if we needed it i don't think we will praise our god all ye his servants and ye that fear him both small and great calling on all to praise god you know i think that in the psalms we are constantly being exhorted to praise and we are given different things for which we should be praising the lord and the different ways by which we should be praising the lord praising him with instruments praising him with our voices praising him for his mercy endureth forever praising him for his goodness praising him for so many things and and thus again we are here exhorted to praise the lord this voice from the throne of god and ye that fear him both small and great all that fear the lord are encouraged and enjoined now to praise the lord and i heard as it were the voice of a great multitude and as the voice of many waters as the voice of mighty thunderings saying hallelujah for the lord god omnipotent raina the time has come the earth has been languishing under the reign of satan for almost 6 000 years it was approximately six thousand years ago when adam forfeited the right and the title to the earth over to satan where satan began his deadly rule over the earth his destructive rule and the world has suffered all of the sickness all of the maladies all of the suffering that we see in the world you can trace back to satan's reign his ruling over the earth all of the wars all of the bloodshed all of the strife all of the jealousies all of these things that make life miserable trace back to the rule of satan no wonder they are saying praise the lord because the lord god omnipotent reigneth the time has come when he is going to establish now his kingdom upon the earth the time has come when he is going to rule over the earth and thus the rejoicing in heaven because the time has come when the lord god omnipotent will again reign over all over the earth let us be glad and rejoice and give honor to him for the marriage of the lamb has come and his wife has made herself ready throughout the new testament the figure of a husband and wife is used to depict the relationship of christ to his church paul said to the corinthians that i have espoused you unto the husband unto jesus christ and i have a godly jealousy over you because my desire is to present you as a chaste virgin unto him now whenever you get into the symbolisms or the analogies of the husband and the wife there is to be a full and complete and single devotion unto the husband unto jesus christ our worship is to be directed to him our love for him must exceed all other loves and if there develops in our life a love for some thing or some experience that exceeds our love for the lord we are committing adultery because our first love is to be to him and for him and if your first love is directed toward anything else that it constitutes spiritual adultery and so throughout the new testament you notice that the false religious system the false church was called the great why because she was entertaining other gods the gods of power the gods of wealth and and because she was embracing those gods seeking to exercise power over the earth and exercising and using her wealth she was worshiping those things and thus comes under judgment because her first love wasn't for the lord so be glad and rejoice give honor to him for the marriage of the lamb has come his wife has made herself ready over and over again as jesus talked about his second coming he was telling them that they needed to be watching and they needed to be ready for in such an hour as you think not he said i'm coming and so his bride his wife has made herself ready ready for the marriage and it was and to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen pure and white clean and white for the fine linen is the righteousness of the saints paul when he was writing to the philippians talked about the righteousness that he was seeking to achieve through the law and he said if any man can boast in himself of his own righteousness i can more than all of you because i was a hebrew of the hebrews i was a pharisee i had great zeal for god and as far as the righteousness which can come by the law i was blameless but those things which were once important to me i looked on as positive things i counted loss for the excellency of the knowledge of jesus christ here was paul on his way to damascus we were told that he was breathing out threats of murder hating these christians he was so zealous for the law and these christians were worshiping jesus and it incensed him and he was breathing out murders what he was going to do when he got hold of them he was commissioned he had papers from the high priest that empowered him to imprison those in damascus the church that was worshiping the lord there but on the road to damascus paul met jesus about noonday there was this bright light that was brighter than the sun and the voice that spoke to him and said saul saul why are you persecuting me it's been hard for you to kick against the goats paul said who are you lord that i might serve you he said i am jesus whom you are persecuting and jesus began to reveal to paul the righteousness that he provided through his death he fulfilled the law completely god made him to be sin for us who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of god through him and the lord began to reveal to paul the righteousness which is of faith and paul began to see the old testament in a new light looking back at abraham he realized that god said that abraham's faith was accounted to him for righteousness and this whole new revelation that i don't have to work to be righteous i have to believe i have to believe in jesus christ one day they asked jesus what work must we do in order to do the work of god and jesus responded this is the work of god just believe on him who he has sent you see god has made righteousness something that is available for all of us even a child can believe in jesus and be accounted righteous oh thank god for this new and living way when jesus took the cup he said this is a new covenant a covenant whereby you can relate to god a covenant whereby you can become a child of god this is a new covenant it's in my blood it's shed for the remission of sins and so god has established through jesus christ a new covenant a way by which i can approach god a way by which i can come to god and it is through the righteousness of jesus christ that is imputed to me by my faith in christ so the bride adorned in the beautiful gown the righteousness of jesus christ paul said to be found in him not having my own righteousness which is of the law but the righteousness which is of christ through faith and he saith unto me now the angel is talking to john here and he says unto me write blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the lamb the word blessed means oh how happy and i don't believe that we can even imagine the rapture and the joy that we will experience when we are there in heaven clothed in the righteousness of jesus christ we hear the invitation to come because the marriage of the lamb the bride has made herself ready clothed in righteousness and there we stand clothed in the righteousness of jesus with exceeding joy he's going to present us to the father and jude writes now unto him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy i don't think that that really does it exceeding joy i think you need to sort of stretch it out exceeding joy far beyond anything you've ever experienced here on earth far beyond the greatest experience that you've ever had of elation and joy will be the joy of that moment when that time has come when we are to be accepted as the bride of jesus christ oh how happy are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the lamb and then because it is so absolutely beyond our capacity to imagine it's almost sounds like a wonderful dream the angel affirms to john these are the true sayings of god you know throughout the bible whenever you get to those things that are so wonderful and so spectacular there is often that little affirmation that this is god's word and it shall come to pass it's interesting in the 30 sixth chapter of ezekiel as the lord tells of the sort of rejuvenating of the land of israel the agricultural development that will take place in the last days prophesying to the mountains you're going to be covered with trees to the valleys you're going to be filled with grain fields you're going to be tilled and sown and the desolate land the barren mountains will become forest and green and fertile and having made these prophecies that when the land lay desolate for two thousand years was stripped of all of the trees because the turks when they had control charged a tax for every tree you had in your yard so what would you do if you were taxed for every tree in your yard you do what they did they chopped them down and so the hills were barren of trees and yet god is prophesying that they're going to be covered with trees the desert will blossom like a rose the barren land will become like the garden of eden and having said these things it seems so totally improbable god said i said it and i will do it i mean it just sort of hey i said it i'll do it now you go over to israel today and what you discover he did it the forest on the hillsides oh the trees the fruit trees the uh the the green fields the agriculture and and the fruit and all that it comes in now from they are the fourth largest exporter of fruit of the nations of the world they rank fourth and yet they are by far the smallest of the nations that export fruit so small about the size of new jersey and yet as god promised in isaiah they that come of jacob will blossom and bud and fill the earth with fruit god said i said it i'll do it i like when god brags about what he's going to do he did it and so just to uh when daniel interpreted for nebuchadnezzar his dream he said the dream is true or the dream is certain and the interpretation is true and as you look at history you see how that the dream of nebuchadnezzar has come to pass in the empires that have ruled the world so when god affirms the truth it's just to sort of bolster that that much more in your heart glorious things oh how happy are those who have been called to the marriage supper of the lamb and he saith unto me these are the true sayings of god and so john said i fell at his feet to worship him and he said unto me don't do that i am your fellow servant and of your brethren that have the testimony of jesus worship god for the testimony of jesus is the spirit of prophecy now god is to be worshiped under the law the lord said you shall worship the lord thy god and him only you remember when satan was tempting jesus took him up to a high mountain showed him the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them and promised to give them to jesus if jesus would just bow down and worship him jesus responding to satan said it is written thou shalt worship the lord thy god and him only shalt thou serve only god is to be worshipped and yet we read in matthew 2 11 that when the wise men came to the house where jesus was they knelt down and worshiped him in matthew 8 12 8 2 we read of the leper that came running to jesus and knelt and worshipped him we read of the ruler of the synagogue in capernaum jairus who came to jesus and he fell at jesus feet and he worshipped him we read of how that when jesus walked in the on the water when he got into the ship the disciples came and they worshiped him you read of how the women who were returning from the empty tomb when jesus appeared to them they held him by the feet and they worshiped him and then when jesus appeared to the disciples in matthew 28 17 we read that they worshipped him if you're only to worship god and jesus allowed worship of himself what does that tell you jesus is god it's quite obvious and thus the fact that he received worship only proving that he is god you remember when these four fellows brought their friend on a stretcher to jesus who was there in capernaum teaching in a house their friend had the palsy he had become an invalid the palsy was one of the advanced stages of syphilis disease and when they came to the house they saw that there was such a crowd they couldn't get their friend through the crowd to jesus so being inventive they climbed up on the roof of the house they lifted some of the tiles and they let their friend down in front of jesus with robes on his stretcher and jesus looking at him said son your sins are forgiven now i'm sure that those guys that had brought their friend and let him down through the roof were saying no no no we're not worried about that we want you to heal him the reaction of the pharisees was a little different they were upset they said that's blasphemy only god can forgive sins i'm sure the fellow thought for no doubt as the disease progressed and it began more and more to just sap his life don't you know that his sin was tormenting his mind what a fool why did i do that how stupid you know look what i'm going through the misery the suffering now i'm an invalid all because of my lust giving in to my lust and he was tormented by his sin and no doubt the words of jesus just caused his heart to leap my sins are forgiven but to answer the pharisees jesus said to them what is easier to say your sins are forgiven or to say rise take up your cot and go home now what would be easier to say it'd be a lot easier to say your sins are forgiven because no one can see the washing away of the sins it's an inward process that you can't observe so you could walk away and say the guy's loony going around telling people your sins are forgiven but if you say to the fellow rise take up your bed and walk you're putting it on the line if the guy still lies there it's quite obvious there's not much power in your words and so jesus said that you might know that i have power on earth to forgive sins then said to the fellow take up your bed and walk go home and the guy got up took his cotton walked out of the room what did it show jesus didn't dispute that only god can forgive sins but he was proving that he was god when the rich young ruler came and knelt at jesus feet and said good master what must i do to inherit eternal life and jesus said keep the commandments he said which ones and jesus gave him the six commandments of the second table of the law he said i've kept all of these from the time as a little kid but i'm still lacking something jesus said if you would be perfect go and sell everything you have distribute it to the poor come and follow me you'll have treasure in heaven but jesus asked him a strange question when he said good master jesus stopped me and said why did you call me good there's only one good and that's god why did you call me good now what is jesus saying he's saying i'm no good or he is saying i am god and he's trying to awaken the fellow's consciousness to the fact that what he was recognizing in jesus was divinity and thus the question why call you be good he's trying to awaken the guy's consciousness that in seeing jesus there was a quality of life that he was longing for and he was asking how can i obtain this quality this age-abiding life all the way through jesus affirmed that he and the father were one if you have seen me you have seen the father and so here is john ready to worship an angel the angel says no no not me worship god and then he declares that the testimony of jesus is the spirit of prophecy a lot of times people ask me well is the united states in prophecy no the spirit of prophecy is jesus and jesus all of prophecy centers around the person of jesus all of the old testament prophecies centered around the per the person of jesus they were prophesying the messiah that is to come now the conditions that would be going on around israel and so forth because that's where the messiah would be and now the prophecies that we have today are still centered in jesus but they're centered in the second coming of jesus and the world circumstances as they relate to jesus and the second coming but the spirit of prophecy is jesus so john said i saw the heaven open and behold there was a white horse and he that sat upon him was called faithful and true some people wondered will there be animals well my dog being him and i don't know if your dog will be there but there are white horses there he was called faithful and true and in righteousness he does judge and make war and his eyes were as a flame of fire on his head where many crowns are diadems because he is going to be the king of kings and the lord of lords so all of the powers and the crowns will be vested in him and he had a name that was written which no man knew but he himself this mystery name now we are told in jeremiah that in that day his name will be called jehovah to sidney which means the lord our righteousness but there are many names for our lord and here is a name which no man knows but he himself and he's clothed with a vesture that is dipped in blood and his name is called the word of god in the beginning was the word the word was with god the word was god and the same was in the beginning with god and all things were made by him and without him was not anything made that was made clothed in a vesture dipped in blood john said in revelation chapter 5 when the angel had asked who is worthy to take the scroll and loose the seals then no man was found worthy in heaven and earth under the sea and john began to sob the elder said don't weep john behold the lion of the tribe of judah hath prevailed to take the scroll and loose the seals john said i turned and i saw him as a lamb that had been slain his robe dipped in blood his vesture dipped in blood in isaiah 63 isaiah prophesying of our lord and the period of judgment in righteousness and judgment he does make war isaiah 63 he said who is this that comes from edom with dyed garments from bozera this that is glorious in his apparel traveling in the greatness of his strength and the answer is i that speak in righteousness mighty to save the question why are you red in your apparel and why are your garments like him who has been treading the wine fat the answer i have trodden the wine press alone and of the people there was none with me for i will tread them in mine anger and tremble them in my fury and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments and i will stain all my raiment for the day of vengeance is in my heart and the year of my redeemed is come and i looked and there was none to help and i wondered that there was none to uphold therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me and my fury it upheld me and i will tread down the people in mine anger and make them drunk in my fury and i will bring down their strength to the earth in righteousness he doth judge and make war isaiah describes him as he comes to bring his judgment and the final judgment of the earth as he returns when the son of man shall come in his glory with all the holy angels then shall he gather together the nations and he will separate them as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats and to those on his right hand he'll say come ye blessed of the father inherit the kingdom that's been prepared for you from the foundations of the earth to those on his left he'll say depart from me ye workers of iniquity into hell that was prepared for satan and his angels and so when he comes the first order of business will be judgment in daniel chapter 12 where they are talking about the coming again of our lord to establish the kingdom the question is asked how long o lord holy and true before this will happen and the lord tells him that from the time that the abomination that causes desolation is set up that is from the time that the antichrist comes to the rebuilt temple stands in the temple declares that he is god and demands to be worshipped as god stops the daily prayers and the sacrifices from that time it will be 1290 days before the lord returns and then daniel adds blessed is he who comes to the 1335th day what does that mean what's the 45 days all about for the first 45 days when jesus comes back there will be days of judgment where those who have survived the great tribulation will be brought before him and it will be determined at that time which of them will at that time be cast into hell and which of them will be allowed to enter into the kingdom if you're still here after the 1335th day it means that you made it through blessed is he who comes to the 1335th day you've made it through the period of judgment you'll be allowed to enter in to the kingdom age of the lord as he reigns upon the earth there's a lot there that we don't have time to go into tonight but just give you a taste and you can read daniel and find out more the armies which were in heaven followed him on white horses the bible tells us behold he cometh with ten thousands of his saints to execute judgment upon the earth paul said when christ who is our life shall appear then shall we also appear with him in glory coming back with jesus as he comes back to establish god's kingdom on the earth and we shall live and reign with him for a thousand years is our song in revelation chapter five and out of his mouth there went a sharp sword that with it he should smite the nations and he shall rule them with a rod of iron and he treads the wine press of the fierceness of the wrath of almighty god and he has on his vesture and on his thigh a name written king of kings and lord of lords so his name is the word of god there is a name that nobody knows but he and there is also the name on his vesture king of kings and lord of lords out of his mouth there goes the sword we read that the word of god is alive and powerful sharper than a two-edged sword we read that in the beginning god created the heavens and the earth and god said let there be light he spoke light into existence it's called the divine fiat jesus the words that go forth from his mouth are like a sharp sword in other words there is really no battle he comes to make war but all he has to do is speak the words and the enemy is destroyed and so out of his mouth goes the sharp sword with the with it he should smite the nations and he begins to rule them with a rod of iron the rule of christ will be an ironclad rule you know the most efficient form of government is a monarchy and that's good if the monarch is good but it's hell if the monarch is a tyrant but jesus the king of kings and the lord of lords and believe me his will be a righteous rule and a righteous reign it will be forced those who don't want to comply will be dealt with severely and as i understand it as we come back to reign with christ over the earth we will more or less be the enforcers of righteousness that will sort of be we will be given authority over territories here on the earth you remember in the distributing of the talents when the one fellow came back and said lord you gave me five i've increased it here's ten he said good job you've been faithful in a few things now i'll make you ruler over ten cities enter into the joy of the lord and and so uh we will be here to assist christ in his reign it says the kings of the earth will come once a year to jerusalem to sit his feet and learn so we'll see every year in jerusalem because you will reign as kings and priests here on the earth with the lord and and we'll have our annual meeting in jerusalem where we all go to meet with jesus and and just to sit and learn and because throughout the ages to come he's going to be revealing unto us the exceeding richness of his love and mercy towards us in christ jesus so rich so great you'll never learn it in a lifetime it's going to take all eternity to reveal the depth of god's love for you so i saw the angel who was standing in the sun and he cried with a loud voice now they did spirit beings they can stand in the sun you know we we think oh my you know burned up no the spirit beings they can stand there three hebrew children they stood in the burning fiery furnace were not bothered and so i saw the angel standing in the sun and he cried with a loud voice saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great god jesus is coming and the antichrist is going to gather the nations to try to thwart his kingdom multitudes millions the armies of the world gathered under the antichrist to thwart the return of jesus christ and so the birds are invited come to a feast he's going to wipe them all out feast on their carcasses that you might eat of the flesh of the kings in the flesh of the captains and of the mighty men the flesh of horses and those that sit on them the flesh of all men both free and bond both small and great and i saw the beast the antichrist the son of perdition and the kings of the earth and their armies they were gathered together to make war against him that set on the horse and against his army this great battle of armageddon and the beast was taken and with him the false prophet that wrought the miracles before him with which he deceived those that had received the mark of the beast and they that had worshipped his image these both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone now there is a place that is called hell which in the hebrew is sheol and in the greek is hades it's also translated grave or hell either translation it's the place that a person who has died has gone to the grave to shield to hades now prior to the death of jesus this place called hades was in the heart of the earth jesus when he was asked for a sign said no sign will be given except the sign of the prophet jonah as jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale so shall the son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth paul writing to the ephesians chapter 4 said he who has ascended that is jesus ascended into heaven is the same one who first of all descended into the lower parts of the earth and when he ascended he led the captives from their captivity and he gave gifts unto men on the ascension jesus gave the gift of the holy spirit to the church to some of course the gift of apostleship to some evangelists to some prophets to others pastor teachers for the perfecting of the saints jesus describes shield prior to his visiting there in the 16th chapter of luke he speaks of a certain rich man fared sumptuously every day and of a beggar named lazarus who was brought daily by his friends and lying at the gate of the rich man survived off of the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table and the poor man died and was carried by the angels into abraham's bosom moreover the rich man also died and in hell he lifted up his eyes being in torment and seeing lazarus afar off being comforted in abraham's bosom said father abraham have mercy upon me send lazarus then he might take his finger dip it in water touch my tongue i'm tormented in this heat and so the two sections abraham said son remember in your lifetime you had the good things lazarus the evil now he's comforted while you're tormented but beside this there's this gulf that is fixed between these two places it's impossible for those that are here to come over there or for those that are there to come over here when you die that's the way it's going to be you're not going to be able to cross that gulf after death but when jesus died he went and preached to those souls in prison and when he rose he led them from their captivity and the prophecies concerning jesus isaiah 61 he came to open the prison doors to those that were bound to set at liberty those that were captive and so he led the captives from their captivity ephesians 4 as he emptied that section of hades but the unrighteous dead are still there awaiting the great judgment of god and in the next chapter we will read at the judgment throne of god death and hell will deliver up the dead which are in them and they stand before god to be judged and death and hell will be cast into the lake that is burning with fire this is the second death and whosoever's name is not found written in the lamb's book of life will be cast into the lake burning with fire the lake burning with fire is the description of a place known in the scriptures as gehenna now gehenna is a valley just south of jerusalem known as the valley of hinnom and it was really the valley where in the times of apostasy of the nation of israel in their worship of ba al and molech they would build bonfires and they would take their little babies and throw them into the fires for molech and for ba'al it was called causing your children to pass through the fire and the israelites were doing this it was their method of getting rid of unborn or getting rid of born children they didn't have the the skills of abortion in those days and so they would wait until a child was born and then they would throw them into the bonfires in the worship of their god of pleasure horrible practices but later and in the time of christ the valley of hennem became the garbage dump for the city of jerusalem and there were constantly burning the garbage you could always look towards the valley of hennam and you could see the smoke rising day or night the fires of hennam burning as they burn the garbage and the refuse that was thrown there into the valley and thus the name gehenna a place of constant burning it is described as a lake of fire and brimstone now the first occupants of gehenna will be the antichrist and the false prophet they will be there sort of isolated and alone for a thousand years satan when jesus returns will be bound and he will be put in a place called the abuso the shaft the bottomless pit and he will be released we'll get that in the next chapter for a short period from the bottomless pit at the end of the thousand-year reign of christ and we'll go into that next week when we get into chapter 20. but the beast and the false prophet are cast alive into this lake that is burning with fire later satan will be cast in a thousand years later and it says where the beast and the false prophet are not where they were consumed not where they were destroyed but where they are you know some groups that teach of the annihilation of the wicked you won't find that in the scripture you find the scripture says the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever aeonius from ages to the ages so the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat on the horse which sword proceeded out of his mouth and all of the fowls were filled with their flesh the result of the judgment of christ when he returns and puts down those opposing forces that have gathered to thwart the establishing of god's kingdom upon the earth but he shall overcome them because he's the king of kings and the lord of lords father we thank you for these insights into the future we're so glad lord we're on your side that we have surrendered our lives even now and acknowledge that jesus is king he is lord king of our lives we crown thee now thine shall the glory be and lord we see how the world is gathered together against you today we can see how the antichrist is already preparing the hearts of man in rebellion against you the forces of darkness as they are being mustered to try to try to thwart your coming kingdom the lord we thank you that your kingdom shall stand and lord we're so thankful that you've called us to be a part of your glorious kingdom lord help us as we look at history we see how many people and how many times the people turned from you and you warned us of these last days because the iniquity in the earth would abound the love of many would wax cold lord don't let our love wax cold keep us ever fervent in our pursuit of you and in our love for you in jesus name father amen let's stand the pastors are down here in the front tonight to pray for you if you have any kind of need feel free to come down they're here to minister to you this evening maybe you've got a rough week ahead of you and you've been a little apprehensive of the things that you're going to have to deal with this week great thing to do is start in prayer find the help and the strength of the lord he wants to help you and so i would encourage you just come on down and share your need your request and they'll be very happy to pray for you two or three agree on earth concerning any one thing it shall be done and so they're here to agree in prayer with you in this 19th chapter we've had the four hallelujahs of the new testament the praise to the lord let's do it sing hallelujah to the lord [Applause] [Music] hallelujah sing hallelujah to the lord sing hallelujah [Music] [Music] [Music] great warm-up you sound like angels god bless you [Music] [Music] oh and now on behalf of the word for today the broadcast ministry of pastor chuck smith we thank you for joining us in today's broadcast for more pastor chuck's studies and biblical teaching resources visit our website at pastorchuck.org you can contact the word for today at the word for today p.o box 890820 temecula california 92589 or email us at infopastorchuck gmail.com we'll return with more of our verse by verse bible study in our next broadcast with pastor chuck

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