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Revelation chapter 20. Let us pray.
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Father, here we are again. Lord, I pray in the mighty name
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of Jesus today. God, I pray that you'll come and
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shower us with your presence. Lord, come and lead us, Father,
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in paths of righteousness. God, I pray in the mighty name
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of Jesus that you'll help us, God, help us to gird up our
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loins. Help us to stand in your holy
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presence. Help us, Father God, to know
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that you're near and you're fighting our battles and the
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best is yet to come. And we do not fight for victory,
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but from victory. God, as we ascend the hill
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today, God, I pray that the still small voice will come and
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will wreck us. Lord, overwhelm us with your
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presence. Father, I pray for the pillar of
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fire by night, God, in the cloud by day.
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God, I pray that you'll lead us, Lord, into the promised land for
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where you are. Father, we desire to be you and
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us and us and you. Abide in God.
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We abide today. We're connected today.
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Help us to produce fruit today. Father, I pray for the full
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armor. God, let us stand on truth
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today. God protect our hearts.
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Lord, I pray that we'll remember our salvation, God, and the
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testimony that you've given us, and we will overcome by the
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blood of the Lamb and the words of our testimony.
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And we do not think anything of our life.
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Lord, we're willing to give it up for your name's sake.
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Father, we do not love our life more than we love you.
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God, I pray for the shoes, Lord, to run this race.
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God, help us to finish it well. Lord, I pray for the peace that
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comes from the atonement. Father, I pray that we can lift
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up our faith today higher than emotions.
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Lift up our faith today higher than our own will and all of our
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own thoughts. Lord, we lift faith today higher
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Lord, and I pray we could rightly divide the word.
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As we get into your word today, let Your word get into us.
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We have hidden Your word in our hearts so that we might not sin
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against you. God, I pray that You will help
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us to understand every syllable. Help us to understand every jot
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and every title. God, heaven and earth shall pass
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away, but not one of these words.
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So, God, I pray for the ability to rightly discern it.
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I decrease as you increase. Holy Spirit, fill us today,
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overflowing into the highways and the hedges and the byways,
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into our neighborhoods, God, into our workplaces.
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Father, I pray that your will will be done here on this earth
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just as it is there in heaven. Forgive us, God, for all the
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times that we've got it wrong, all the times that we have
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sinned against you and against heaven.
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God, I pray for forgiveness. Lord, Forgiveness 70 I'm 7 for
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our brothers and sisters in Christ.
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Lord, I pray that you'll protect us, form a hedge of protection
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around us. God, I pray that you will catch
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us up. Lord, we want to see a glimpse
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of you. Father, We want to see your eyes
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like fire and hair like wool, the rainbow in the sea of glass
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mingle with fire, fields of Thunder and lightnings.
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God, we cry out, holy, holy, holy.
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It's the Lamb that was slain before the foundations of the
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earth. We cry holy worthy glory unto
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you, the all sufficient sacrifice, the omnipotent 1 We
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love you Father, You are the most high God.
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Every other God is an idol, cannot see and cannot hear, but
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you are the one true living God. And we surrender unto you.
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We surrender all. Search us God, search our
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hearts, search our minds, search our databases.
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Father, search all of our transactions.
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God search our very motives. Father, search our minds, Lord,
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our thoughts, Lord, our emotions and feelings.
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God and purge out in the refiners fire anything that is
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not of you and from you and for you and to you, because we only
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want you. Father, we thank you for the
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sacrifice on the cross. We thank you for the blood that
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covers us. Lord, we remember what Christ
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has done. We eat sumptuously upon the
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bread of life today. Give us our manna.
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Give us our quail. God, give us our bread.
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Give us water from the rock God. Let us build our lives upon the
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solid rock. God, I pray that you will come
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and crush all the opposition, Lord, crush all of the satanic
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revolt, Father. And I pray, Lord Jesus, in the
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mighty name of you, Yeshua, that you will reign supreme forever
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and ever. And it's in your holy and
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precious and powerful name that I pray.
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Amen. Let's start in verse one, and I
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saw an Angel come down from heaven having the key of the
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bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
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Who is this Angel? It is an unnamed Angel, just an
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Angel, friends. And you see that Satan is
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powerless in the presence of Almighty God.
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He only is allowed by God to do the things that he is doing.
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And this is a hard concept for most who see that Satan and God
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are equals. And it is a cat and mouse game.
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And there's this big celestial chess game that's happening and
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they're all trying to outwit and outpace their opponent.
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You need to understand that Satan is a created being and
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that he was thrown down to the earth and it all is for God's
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glory, Friends, He's trying and testing the Saints and he is
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purging and pulling out the things that don't belong and
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he's using Satan. He's getting played, friends,
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and that is what you need to understand.
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He is absolutely debased and he has no understanding of the
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things of God and that is why we do not fear him.
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In the mighty name of Jesus Christ, He flees.
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We resist him, we flee from temptation, we resist the devil.
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We do not back down. We use scripture and scripture
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will be the best weapon to counter attack any of the
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deception of the enemy. He twists the scripture, but he
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always leaves a calling card to let you know that there is a lie
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that's wrapped up in the truth, and you need to be looking for
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those red light indicators that go off when someone is speaking
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to you, when you're listening to something, when you're reading
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something extra biblical, you need to be looking and have your
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radar on and your antenna up so that you can tell whenever the
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deception comes. Verse 2.
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And he laid hold of the dragon, that old serpent, which is the
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devil Satan, and bound him 1000 years.
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This is a literal 1000 years. Friends.
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We see that the beast and the false prophet were thrown into
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the lake of fire. And we saw that Satan here is
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bound, not thrown into the lake of fire yet, but bound and
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thrown into prison. 3 And cast him into the bottomless pit, and
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shut him up, and set a seal upon him that he should deceive the
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nation's no more until the thousand years should be
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fulfilled, and after that he must be loosed a little season.
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Probably one of the hardest verses in all of the Bible.
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God finally has him and he finally has him bound and he
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finally has him in a chain and he finally has him from being
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able to go out and deceive the nations and then he looses him
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at the end of 1000 years. Why God, why you have him?
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But you need to understand is that God is not powerless
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against Satan. He allows Satan, and you can
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find this out in the book of Job, but he allows Satan to do
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what he does for a purpose. And that is a hard concept for
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our soda can sized finite minds to wrap our minds around because
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we have always been taught and we see it as this celestial
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match between God and the devil and it is not.
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God is sovereign, God is omnipotent, God is omniscient.
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God is omnipresent, friends, and he is everywhere and he is all
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knowing and all powerful and nothing escapes him.
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And even all the way back before he even made mankind out of dust
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and breathed into his mouth and made Eve out of his rib, before
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that even happened, friends, he had thrown Satan and 1/3 of the
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angels down to the earth. What an amazing thought.
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And it all is for God's ultimate greatest amount of glory.
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And He loves when we choose him and when we choose to obey him.
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He loves whenever a man finally gives up and he finally
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surrenders and he's in dwelled with the Holy Spirit and can
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finally see the world all around him the way that God wants him
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to and the way that God sees and hears this world.
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And that is what brings God the most amount of glory and he'll
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never force it upon you. For.
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And I saw Thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was
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given to them. And I saw the souls of them that
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were beheaded for the witness of Jesus and for the word of God,
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and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image,
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neither had received his mark upon their foreheads or in their
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hands. And they lived and reigned with
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Christ 1000 years. What an amazing thought,
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friends, that we are going to rule and reign with Christ Jesus
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Christ Himself. When he was talking to John the
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Baptist disciples, he said that there was no one greater than
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John the Baptist born of woman. But the least in the Kingdom of
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God is greater than John the Baptist.
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Because we have the indwelling of the Holy Spirit inside of us.
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We're going to go up and we're going to suffer the judgment of
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the righteous at the Bema seat and receive our celestial
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bodies, receive our immortal bodies and we will come back and
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rule and reign with him. And here is a great
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encouragement to all those that are having to go through the
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seven-year tribulation. He says that they will also rule
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and reign with him. What an amazing thought.
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We will be given charge over cities.
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What an amazing thought. Five.
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But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand
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years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
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So you need to understand here friends, that if you are not in
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Christ, you will not be resurrected to your immortal
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bodies to rule and reign with Him for 1000 years.
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The only way that you will be part of the first resurrection
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is if you have placed your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and
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that can be now and that can be during the seven-year
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tribulation friends. And there will be the dead in
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Christ will rise 1st and go up and then we who are alive will
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go up afterwards. But nonetheless, this is the
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first resurrection that is mentioned here.
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Six blessed and holy is he that has part in the first
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resurrection on such the power, the second death has no power,
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but they shall be priest of God and of Christ and shall reign
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with him 1000 years. So you need to understand,
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friends, that if you are resurrected in this first
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resurrection, you will not have to suffer death again.
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This is the dead in Christ and those who remain alive caught up
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to receive their imperishable tent.
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And Isaiah gives us a beautiful lesson in what the thousand year
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reign of Christ will look like, friends.
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And we'll go to Isaiah and we will be in chapter 2 where it
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says, this is Isaiah chapter 2 verses 4 says, And he shall
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judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people, and
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they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their
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Spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not lift up sword
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against nation, and neither shall they learn war anymore.
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And also again in Isaiah Chapter 11, verses 6 through 9, says The
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wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie
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down with the kid and the calf, and the young lion and the fat
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laying together. And the little child shall lead
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them. And the cow and the bear shall
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feed. Their young ones shall lie down
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together. And the lion shall eat straw
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like the ox, and the sucking child shall play on the whole of
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the ASP, and the weaned child shall put his hand in the
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cockatrice, den 9. And they shall not hurt nor
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destroy in all my holy mountain. For the earth shall be full of
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the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.
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And then again in Isaiah 65 he says verses 17 through 25 says
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it this way. For behold, I create new heavens
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and new earth, and the former shall not be remembered nor come
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to mind, but be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create.
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For behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy,
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and I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people.
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And the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the
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voice of crying. There shall be no more thence an
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infant of days, nor an old man that has not filled his days.
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For this child shall die at 100 years old.
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But the Sinner being 100 years old, shall be a curse.
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And they shall build houses and inhabit them, and they shall
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plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them they shall not
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build, and another inhabit. They shall not plant, and
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another eat. For as the days of a tree are
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the days of my people, and my elect shall long enjoy the work
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of their hands, they shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth
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for trouble. For they are the seed of the
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blessing of the Lord, and their offspring with them.
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And they shall come to pass it that that before they call I
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will answer, and while they are yet speaking I will hear.
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The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat
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straw like the bull, and dust shall be the serpent's meat.
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They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, says
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the Lord. This is a picture of what the
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thousand year reign of Christ will look like friends.
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It will be majestic and beautiful.
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Jerusalem will be the center of the world and all the nations
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will flow into it to learn of Yeshua and all of the things of
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Yeshua. And there will be the temple,
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the 4th temple, Ezekiel Temple during this time, friends, and
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it will be a mile square. And David will have reign over
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that city. He will have charge over that
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city. And it will be something that
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the Bible has described in detail, but it is still so
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incredibly rich that we have barely started to comprehend the
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beauty and the majesty of King Jesus on this earth, ruling and
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reigning and the tempter taken out of the way, friends.
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And we got to see a snapshot of it on the Mount of
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Transfiguration, when Jesus said to his disciples that some of
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you will not see death before you see the Kingdom of God come
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to this earth. And he took them up and he was
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transfigured and his glory was revealed to them.
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And there was Moses and Elijah, which was the.
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Imperishable tents of men, one who had been taken up and the
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other one who had died and come back in resurrected body form
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that was immortal. And then there was also the
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mortals there, represented by the disciples, and Jesus was
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showing them what the thousand year reign of Christ will look
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like. And it is a beautiful picture,
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friends. 7 And when the 1000 years are
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expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, 8 and shall
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go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters
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of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle,
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the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
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So this is a pivotal point in the timeline of how things will
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go. You need to understand here that
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Armageddon has already happened. It happened right before the
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thousand year reign of Christ and that is where the sharp
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sword came out of Jesus Christ mouth and he did away with all
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opposition and he brought in the thousand year reign.
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Now at the end of the thousand year reign, the purpose of Satan
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being released is because there will be a lot of false pseudo
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worship and allegiance unto Jesus Christ because he is the
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one world leader, the one world King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
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And you need to understand that there will be many who give him
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false alliance. And the purpose of Satan getting
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re released from his prison is to gather together all those who
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are not actually serving him and they are hiding it in their
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hearts. And Satan gets them to bring
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those things out of their hearts that they have concealed.
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And that is the purpose of Satan even today, friends, is he
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brings out of the storehouse what is stored in your heart.
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And many of us looked the part, but they are ravenous wolves in
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sheep's clothing. And that is what you need to
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understand, friends, is that God knows what he's doing and he has
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Satan here on this earth for a purpose.
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When the rebellion broke out in Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28, he
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could have easily cast him and 1/3 of the demonic fallen angels
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down into the lake of fire for eternal torment at that moment.
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But he did not because God had a plan.
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And it is hard for us to understand, because we do not
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understand Satan in His rightful place as subject unto a holy
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God. And you see this Gog and Magog,
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you see all the nations innumerable coming to war
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against the Lamb, and against all of his elect. 9 And they
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went up on the breath of the earth, and encompassed the camp
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of the Saints about, and the beloved city and fire came down
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from God out of heaven and devoured them.
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It's very anti climatic trends. All it is is the amassment of
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evil again. Just like we saw an Armageddon
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to 1 literal geographical spot on planet earth so that God can
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effectively do away with evil. 10 and the devil that deceived
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them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the
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beast and the false prophet are and shall be tormented day and
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night forever and ever and again.
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We see in Isaiah friends in the 14th chapter we see this scene
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that Revelation 20 gives us. It's chapter 14 verses 6 through
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11, says he who smote the people in wrath with the continual
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stroke. He that ruled the nations in
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anger is persecuted and none hinders. 7 The whole earth is at
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rest and is quiet. They break forth into singing
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Eight Yeah, the fir trees rejoice at you, and the Cedars
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of Lebanon, saying, Since you are laid down, no feller has
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come up against us. And then we see a nine Hell from
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beneath is moved for you to meet you at your coming.
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It stirs up the dead for you, even all the chief ones of the
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earth. It has raised up from their
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Thrones all the kings of the nations. 10 And they shall
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speak, and say unto you, Are you also become weak as we are?
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You become like unto us. Your pomp is brought down to the
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grave, and the noise of your vials, the worm is spread under
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you, and the worms cover you. So we can see here from
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Revelation chapter 20, what is mentioned when he says that the
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devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and
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brimstone, where the beasts and the false prophet are, and they
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shall be tormented day and night, forever and ever.
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And here's what you need to understand about this.
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Forever and ever. There is a period at the end of
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it. It's not a comma.
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There's no more to Satan's story.
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It is forever and ever. God told him all the way back in
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the garden that he would bruise Jesus's heel, which is what he
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did at the cross, but that he will crush his head.
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And that is what has happened here in this verse in chapter
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2011. And I saw a great white throne
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and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the
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heavens fled away, and there was found no place for them.
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We saw that back in Revelation, where the people were trying to
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hide from the face of God, and they were going into caves.
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They were trying to find a place, but no man could, because
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God is everywhere all at once. He's omnipresent, friends.
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This great white throne is the judgment for all those who
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refuse to put their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
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But for those of us who have, for those of us who are
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Christian, for those of us who actually have the indwelling of
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the Holy Spirit, friends, and for every righteous St. we will
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only suffer at the Bema seat. This the judgment of the
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righteous here, this great white throne, is for the wicked. 12
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And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God, and the
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books were open, and another book was open, which is the book
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of life, And the dead were judged out of those things which
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were written in the books according to their works.
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So you need to understand that all of creation proclaims his
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name. So that man is without excuse.
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We're not going to get to call God into the courtroom and tell
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God to give us an account. Quite the contrary, God is going
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to lay out systematically every single opportunity that you had
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to give your life over to the Lord Jesus Christ and be saved.
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And it will be a tragedy, because there is no more chance
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beyond your last breath. 13 And the sea gave up the dead which
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were in it, and death and hell delivered up the dead which were
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in them, and they were judged every man according to their
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works. There's a lot of
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philanthropists, there's a lot of humanitarian efforts, but it
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will amount to absolutely nothing.
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There's a lot of religious activity where people say, Lord,
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Lord, we prophesied in your name, we cast out demons in your
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name, we perform miracles in your name.
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And he will say, depart from me, for I never knew you.
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It is not enough to know about Jesus Christ.
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We must be known by him, Friends. 14 and death and hell
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were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
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So for every single blood bot born again believer, we will not
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have to go through the second death.
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We die once, friends, That's it. And some of us will be taken up.
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We'll end on 15. Whosoever was not found in the
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book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.
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When Jesus's disciples came back, they were marvelling that
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the demons were subject to him or to them, And Jesus told them,
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do not marvel that the demons are subject to you, but marvel
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that your name is written in the Lamb's book of Life.
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I pray that yours is. I pray that today is the day of
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salvation for you. I pray that you stop playing
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games with God and actually get real and surrender all to him.
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Not some and not part, not most, but every single breath and
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every moment and every single thought unto the Lord God
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Almighty, and let Him in dwell and house you, and use you for
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great good in this earth. He's worthy, He is worthy, He is
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worthy of one man completely sold out to him.
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And the whole world will be flipped up, right side up if
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we'll sell out to him. Not look left and not look right
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and not look back. Lock eyes with Jesus.
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Put your hand to the plow, live sold out for him.
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I pray that you've been blessed by this amazing chapter in God's
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Word. I know I sure have many times
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over. What a great encouragement to us
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to know that God was so incredibly kind that He gave us
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these words. And there's so much more to it
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that we won't even get to understand until we're there.
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But that is faith, friends. We don't need to know what it's
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all going to be about before we make the decision.
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The Holy Spirit is the only one that can help you understand
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these words. And there are many who are
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turned around in their doctrine and theology and they're
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believing that all this is in the past and it's garbage.
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Friends, this is great encouragement for the St. and I
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pray that you will be there with us.
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I love you, praying for you. God bless you.
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We'll see you back here tomorrow.