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The Final Judgment – How God Will Judge the World and Show His Divine Justice _ Bible Stories · truthunedited

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Speaker 1: It is the most anticipated and feared moment in human history.
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Speaker 1: Imagine a court room where every secret will be revealed,
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Speaker 1: every action judged, and no lawyer can alter the truth.
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Speaker 1: The final judgment is not just a distant chapter of
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Speaker 1: the future, but the climax to which the entire Biblical
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Speaker 1: narrative has pointed since Genesis. Did you know that over
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Speaker 1: one thousand, eight hundred verses in scripture mention this event,
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Speaker 1: Jesus spoke more about judgment than about heaven. Why would
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Speaker 1: a God of love emphasize a day of reckoning so much?
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Speaker 1: What will truly happen when the Ancient of days sits
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Speaker 1: on his throne and the books are opened. In this video,
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Speaker 1: we unravel the mysteries that have intrigued prophets, apostles, and
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Speaker 1: saints throughout the centuries. Get ready for a journey through
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Speaker 1: time to the moment when time will end. What you
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Speaker 1: discover may not only change your view of the future,
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Speaker 1: but transform how you live in the present. After all,
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Speaker 1: a sea Lewis said in the end, there are only
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Speaker 1: two kinds of people, those who say to God, thy
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Speaker 1: will be done, and those to whom God says thy
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Speaker 1: will be done. To understand the signs of the end times.
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Speaker 1: We need to return to the Book of Daniel, written
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Speaker 1: during the Babylonian exile. Daniel received extraordinary visions about the
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Speaker 1: future of world kingdoms. In his most well known vision,
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Speaker 1: he saw a statue with a head of gold, chest
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Speaker 1: and arms of silver, belly and thighs of bronze, legs
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Speaker 1: of iron, and feet of iron mixed with clay. Each
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Speaker 1: part represented a world kingdom Babylon gold, meadow, Persia silver,
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Speaker 1: Greece bronze, and Rome iron. In the days of these kingdoms,
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Speaker 1: a stone not cut by human hands would strike the statue,
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Speaker 1: completely destroying it, and this stone would become a great
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Speaker 1: mountain that would fill the whole earth. This stone represents
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Speaker 1: the Kingdom of God that will be a stablish by
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Speaker 1: Christ at his second coming, a kingdom that will never
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Speaker 1: be destroyed. Daniel also saw four beasts coming out of
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Speaker 1: the sea, representing the same four world kingdoms, but showing
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Speaker 1: their brutal and oppressive nature. After these beasts, he beheld
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Speaker 1: the Ancient of Days sitting on his throne, and one
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Speaker 1: like the Son of Man approaching him and receiving dominion,
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Speaker 1: glory and a kingdom, so that all peoples, nations, and
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Speaker 1: languages should serve him. This kingdom, the Angel told Daniel,
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Speaker 1: would be eternal and would never pass to another people.
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Speaker 1: Centuries later, Jesus was sitting with his disciples on the
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Speaker 1: Mount of Olives, looking at the majestic Temple of Jerusalem.
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Speaker 1: The disciples, amazed by the beauty of the construction, commented
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Speaker 1: on the great stones. Jesus then made a shocking statement,
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Speaker 1: not one stone will be left on another. Everyone will
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Speaker 1: be thrown down. Astonished, the descisiples asked when this would
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Speaker 1: happen and what would be the sign of his coming
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Speaker 1: and the end of the age. Jesus response, known as
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Speaker 1: the Olivet Discourse, is recorded in Matthew twenty four, Mark thirteen,
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Speaker 1: and Luke twenty one. He first warned, watch out that
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Speaker 1: no one deceives you. Many would come in his name
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Speaker 1: claiming to be the Christ and would deceive many. This
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Speaker 1: is a continuous warning through the ages. False messiahs would arise,
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Speaker 1: trying to lead the faithful astray. Indeed, history records hundreds
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Speaker 1: of impostors who claim to be Christ or have special
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Speaker 1: revelations about his coming. Jesus then described the general signs
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Speaker 1: that would characterize the era between his ascension and his return,
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Speaker 1: you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. Human
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Speaker 1: history has been marked by continuous conflicts. In the twentieth
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Speaker 1: century alone, the Two World Wars caused more than seventy
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Speaker 1: million deaths. Even today, dozens of armed conflicts are happening
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Speaker 1: simultaneously around the world. There will be famines and earthquakes
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Speaker 1: in various places, Jesus continued. These natural calamities have occurred
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Speaker 1: throughout history, but many Biblical scholars note an increase in
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Speaker 1: their frequency and intensity in modern times. Every year, millions
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Speaker 1: of people are affected by natural disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes,
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Speaker 1: and severe droughts. Jesus also spoke of plagues or epidemics.
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Speaker 1: Humanity has faced several devastating pandemics, from the Black Death
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Speaker 1: in the Middle Ages to the recent global pandemic. These
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Speaker 1: public health crises have a profound impact on society, the economy,
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Speaker 1: and the collective psychology. One of the most concerning signs
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Speaker 1: mentioned by Jesus was because of the increase of wickedness,
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Speaker 1: the love of most will grow cold as we approach
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Speaker 1: the end. There will be a widespread moral decline people
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Speaker 1: will become increasingly lovers of themselves, greedy, boastful, proud, abusive,
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Speaker 1: disobedient to their parents, ungrateful without love for goodness, unforgiving, slanderous,
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Speaker 1: without self control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited,
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Speaker 1: lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, as Paul
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Speaker 1: described in Sewod Timothy three year one to five. Jesus
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Speaker 1: also mentions signs in the heavens. The sun will be darkened,
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Speaker 1: the moon will not give its light, the stars will
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Speaker 1: fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.
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Speaker 1: These extraordinary cosmic events will mark the period immediately before
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Speaker 1: his return. Many scholars interpret these signs literally, while others
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Speaker 1: see them as apocalyptic language symbolizing great political and social changes.
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Speaker 1: After these initial signs, Jesus spoke of a period of
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Speaker 1: unprecedented distress. For then there will be great distress, unequaled
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Speaker 1: from the beginning of the world until now, and never
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Speaker 1: to be equalled again. This terrible period, known as the
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Speaker 1: Great Tribulation, will be the peak of human suffering before
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Speaker 1: Christ's return. During this time, a sinister figure known in
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Speaker 1: scripture as the Antichrist will emerge. Daniel describes him as
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Speaker 1: a little horn who who will speak against the most high,
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Speaker 1: oppress the saints, and try to change the set times
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Speaker 1: and the laws. Paul calls him the man of lawlessness
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Speaker 1: and the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself
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Speaker 1: over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so
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Speaker 1: that he sets himself up in God's temple, proclaiming himself
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Speaker 1: to be God. In Revelation, John sees him as a
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Speaker 1: beast rising from the sea, receiving power, a throne, and
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Speaker 1: great authority from the dragon Satan. This beast will have
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Speaker 1: global influence. It was given authority over every tribe, people, language,
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Speaker 1: and nation. Using political, economic, and religious power, he will
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Speaker 1: establish an oppressive worldwide system. One of the most abominable
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Speaker 1: acts of the Antichrist will be what Jesus called the
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Speaker 1: abomination of desolation in the Holy Place. Daniel also prophesied
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Speaker 1: this event when a wicked ruler would desecrate the temple
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Speaker 1: in Jerusalem. Many believe this will require the rebuilding of
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Speaker 1: the Jewish Temple, currently nonexistent, where the Dome of the
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Speaker 1: Rock stands in Jerusalem. This sacrilegious act will mark the
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Speaker 1: beginning of the most intense phase of the tribulation. During
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Speaker 1: this period, there will be unprecedented persecution of the faithful.
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Speaker 1: Jesus warned, then they will deliver you to tribulation and
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Speaker 1: will kill you, and you will be hated by all
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Speaker 1: nations because of my name. John saw the souls of
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Speaker 1: those who had been slain because of the word of
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Speaker 1: God and because of the testimony they had maintained. The
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Speaker 1: Church's history has witnessed many persecutions, but this one will
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Speaker 1: be global and extremely severe. The scriptures indicate that this
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Speaker 1: period will last one thoudud chuddrendon sixty days or forty
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Speaker 1: two months, or a time times and half a time
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Speaker 1: different expressions, for three and a half years. During this time,
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Speaker 1: two special witnesses will appear in Jerusalem with extraordinary power
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Speaker 1: to perform miracles and prophesy like Moses. They will have
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Speaker 1: the power to turn water into blood and strike the
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Speaker 1: earth with plagues like Elijah. They will be able to
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Speaker 1: shut the heavens so that it does not rain. After
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Speaker 1: completing their testimony, they will be killed by the beast.
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Speaker 1: Their bodies will lie exposed for three and a half days,
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Speaker 1: and then they will rise and ascend to heaven before
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Speaker 1: their enemies. Amid this tribulation, many biblical scholars believe the
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Speaker 1: rapture of the Church will occur when living believers will
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Speaker 1: be caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord
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Speaker 1: in the air. Paul describes in a moment in the
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Speaker 1: twinkling of an eye, at the sound of the last trumpet,
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Speaker 1: the dead will be raised, imperishable, and we will be changed.
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Speaker 1: This miraculous event will remove the faithful from the earth
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Speaker 1: before the final outpouring of God's wrath. However, some believers
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Speaker 1: will remain on earth as a faithful remnant, especially among
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Speaker 1: the Jewish people. God will protect this remnant supernaturally. As
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Speaker 1: John describes in Revelation, the woman was given the two
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Speaker 1: wings of the Great Eagle so that she might fly
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Speaker 1: to the place prepared for her in the wilderness, where
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Speaker 1: she would be taken care of for a time times
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Speaker 1: and half a time out of the serpent's reach. As
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Speaker 1: the tribulation reaches its climax, the forces of evil will
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Speaker 1: gather for a final battle. The apostle John saw unclean
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Speaker 1: spirits that go out to the kings of the whole
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Speaker 1: world to gather them for the battle on the Great
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Speaker 1: Day of God Almighty. Then they gathered the kings together
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Speaker 1: to the place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon. Armageddon
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Speaker 1: refers to the Valley of Megido, a vast plain in
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Speaker 1: northern Israel where many decisive battles have been fought throughout history.
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Speaker 1: This strategic location, at the cross roads of ancient trade routes,
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Speaker 1: has witnessed conflicts from Ancient Egypt to World War I.
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Speaker 1: This valley will become the stage for the final show
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Speaker 1: down between the forces of evil and the returning Messiah.
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Speaker 1: The nations of the world, led by the Antichrist, will
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Speaker 1: gather their armies against Jerusalem. As Zechariah prophesied, I will
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Speaker 1: gather all the nations to fight against Jerusalem. The city
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Speaker 1: will be captured, the houses ransacked, and the women raped.
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Speaker 1: This siege of the Holy City will represent the last
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Speaker 1: attempt by the forces of evil to thwart the Divine plan.
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Speaker 1: During this period, God will pour out the seven bowls
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Speaker 1: of his wrath, the final and most severe judgments described
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Speaker 1: in Revelation. These terrible plagues include painful sores on the
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Speaker 1: beast's worshippers, the sea turning into blood like that of
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Speaker 1: a corpse, rivers and springs of water also becoming blood,
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Speaker 1: the Sun's scorching people with intense heat, darkness over the beasts, hingdom,
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Speaker 1: the Euphrates River drying up to prepare the way for
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Speaker 1: the Kings of the East, and finally, a great earthquake
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Speaker 1: accompanied by enormous hailstones. Amid these judgments, the fall of
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Speaker 1: Babylon the Great will occur. Described in Revelation as a
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Speaker 1: powerful city and a harlot drunk with the blood of
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Speaker 1: the saints, many interpreters see Babylon as a corrupt world system, political, economic,
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Speaker 1: and religious that opposes God. Its fall will be sudden
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Speaker 1: and complete. In one hour, your judgment has come. The
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Speaker 1: kings and merchants of the earth, who had grown rich
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Speaker 1: from Babylon's luxury, will mourn its fall. Woe woe to
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Speaker 1: the great city, dressed in fine linen, purple and scarlet,
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Speaker 1: and glittering with gold, precious stones, and pearls. In one hour,
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Speaker 1: such great wealth has been brought to ruin. This global
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Speaker 1: economic destruction will provoke despair among the powerful of this world.
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Speaker 1: Faced with divine judgments and the imminent appearance of Christ,
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Speaker 1: there will be widespread panic. John describes the kings of
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Speaker 1: the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich and the powerful,
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Speaker 1: hiding in caves and among the rocks of the mountains,
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Speaker 1: crying out. Fall on us and hide us from the
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Speaker 1: face of Him who sits on the throne, and from
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Speaker 1: the wrath of the lamb. For the great day of
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Speaker 1: their wrath has come, and who can withstand it? Despite
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Speaker 1: this terror, the forces of evil will make one last
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Speaker 1: desperate stand against God. John saw the beast and the
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Speaker 1: kings of the earth, with their armies, gathered to wage
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Speaker 1: war against the rider on the horse and his army.
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Speaker 1: This final resistance demonstrates the depth of human rebellion against
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Speaker 1: the Creator, persisting even in the face of undeniable evidence
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Speaker 1: of his power. At the most critical moment in human history,
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Speaker 1: when the forces of darkness seem poised to triumph, the
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Speaker 1: most glorious event will occur, the second coming of Christ.
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Speaker 1: John describes this majestic scene. I saw heaven standing open,
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Speaker 1: and there before me was a white horse, whose rider
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Speaker 1: is called Faithful and True. With justice, he judges and
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Speaker 1: wages bah Christ's appearance will be visible to all, as
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Speaker 1: Jesus himself said, For as the lightning comes from the
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Speaker 1: east and flashes to the west. So will be the
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Speaker 1: coming of the Son of Man. And again all the
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Speaker 1: peoples of the earth will mourn when they see the
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Speaker 1: Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with
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Speaker 1: power and great glory. It will not be a secret event,
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Speaker 1: but a cosmic spectacle that no one will be able
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Speaker 1: to ignore. The Christ who returns will not come as
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Speaker 1: the humble carpenter of Nazareth, but as the King of
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Speaker 1: kings and Lord of lords. John saw him with eyes
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Speaker 1: like a flame of fire, many crowns on his head,
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Speaker 1: dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and with a
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Speaker 1: name written that no one knows except himself. From his
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Speaker 1: mouth comes a sharp sword with which he will strike
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Speaker 1: down the nations. Accompanying the victorious Messiah will be the
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Speaker 1: heavenly armies. The armies of Heaven were following him, dressed
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Speaker 1: in fine linen, white and pure, and riding on white horses.
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Speaker 1: These may include angels and glorified saints, forming a royal
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Speaker 1: entourage for the King who returns to claim his earthly throne.
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Speaker 1: When Christ appears, he will give a shout of triumph.
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Speaker 1: Paul describes, for the Lord himself will come down from
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Speaker 1: heaven with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel,
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Speaker 1: and with the trumpet call of God. This shout will
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Speaker 1: mark the end of Evil's reign and the beginning of
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Speaker 1: the reign of righteousness. The tea sword that comes out
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Speaker 1: of Christ's mouth represents the power of his word. With
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Speaker 1: a simple command, he will defeat the armies gathered against him.
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Speaker 1: As Isiah prophesied, he will strike the earth with the
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Speaker 1: rod of his mouth, with the breath of his lips,
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Speaker 1: he will slay the wicked. No prolonged battle will be necessary.
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Speaker 1: The mere word of the Lord will destroy his enemies.
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Speaker 1: In this glorious moment, the beast, the Antichrist, and the
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Speaker 1: false Prophet will be captured. John reports, But the beast
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Speaker 1: was captured, and with it the false Prophet, who had
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Speaker 1: performed the miraculous signs on its behalf. The two of
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Speaker 1: them were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning
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Speaker 1: sulfur andree. Their dreadful fate marks the end of their
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Speaker 1: brief reign of terror. Satan, the instigator of the cosmic
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Speaker 1: rebellion against God, will also be subdued. An angel seized
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Speaker 1: the dragon, that ancient serpent who is the devil or Satan,
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Speaker 1: and bound him for a thousand years. He threw him
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Speaker 1: into the abyss and locked and sealed it over him
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Speaker 1: to keep him from deceiving the nations anymore until the
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Speaker 1: thousand years were ended. This temporary imprisonment of the adversary
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Speaker 1: will allow for an unprecedented period of peace on earth.
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Speaker 1: The defeat of God's enemies will be followed by the
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Speaker 1: first Resurrection. Saw the souls of those who had been
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Speaker 1: beheaded because of their testimony for Jesus and because of
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Speaker 1: the word of God. They had not worshiped the Beast
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Speaker 1: or his image, and had not received His mark on
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Speaker 1: their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and
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Speaker 1: reigned with Christ a thousand years. This resurrection will include
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Speaker 1: the martyrs of the Tribulation and possibly all saints of
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Speaker 1: all ages. With the capture of the Beast and the
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Speaker 1: false prophet, the imprisonment of Satan and the resurrection of
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Speaker 1: the saints, the millennial Kingdom of Christ on Earth begins.
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Speaker 1: This thousand year period mentioned six times in Revelation Chapter twenty,
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Speaker 1: will be an era of unprecedented peace, righteousness, and prosperity.
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Speaker 1: At the start of the millennial Kingdom. Christ will establish
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Speaker 1: his throne in Jerusalem, fulfilling the prophecies of the Messiah,
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Speaker 1: reigning from the throne of David. As the Angel Gabriel
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Speaker 1: announced to Mary, the Lord God will give him the
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Speaker 1: throne of his father David, and he will reign over
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Speaker 1: the House of Jacob forever. His kingdom will never end. Jerusalem,
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Speaker 1: which witnessed the crucifixion of Jesus, will now become the
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Speaker 1: administrative center of his global government. This will be the
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Speaker 1: time of the full restoration of Israel. As Paul wrote,
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Speaker 1: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full
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Speaker 1: number of the gentiles has come in, and in this
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Speaker 1: way all Israel will be saved. The promises made to Abraham,
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Speaker 1: Isaac and Jacob will finally be fulfilled in their entirety.
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Speaker 1: The remnant of Israel will recognize Jesus as their Messiah.
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Speaker 1: As Zechariah prophesied. They will look on me, the one
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Speaker 1: they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as
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Speaker 1: one mourns for an only child. The new Covenant prophesied
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Speaker 1: by Jeremiah will be fully realized. I will put my
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Speaker 1: law in their minds and write it on their hearts.
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Speaker 1: I will be their God, and they will be my people.
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Speaker 1: For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their
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Speaker 1: sins no more. This spiritual transformation of the Jewish people
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Speaker 1: will be one of the hallmarks of the Millennial Kingdom.
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Speaker 1: One of the most extraordinary features of this kingdom will
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Speaker 1: be the radical transformation of nature itself. Isaiah describes a
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Speaker 1: time when the wolf will live with the lamb, the
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Speaker 1: leopard will lie down with the goat. The calf and
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Speaker 1: the lion and the yearling together, and a little child
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Speaker 1: will lead them. The hostility between species a result of
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Speaker 1: man's fall, will be removed. The lion will eat straw
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Speaker 1: like the ox. They will neither harm nor destroy on
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Speaker 1: all my holy mountain. During the Millennial Kingdom, the nations
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Speaker 1: will be subject to the Messiah's scepter of righteousness. As
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Speaker 1: Psalm too proclaims, God will say to the missas desire,
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Speaker 1: ask me, and I will make the nations your inheritance,
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Speaker 1: the ends of the earth your possession. You will rule
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Speaker 1: them with an iron scepter. You will dash them to
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Speaker 1: pieces like pottery. All the nations that survive the judgments
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Speaker 1: of the Tribulation will be under Christ's direct rule the
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Speaker 1: Messianic Kingdom will also bring profound changes to human health.
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Speaker 1: Isiah prophesies. No longer will violence be heard in your land,
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Speaker 1: nor ruin or destruction within your borders. The Lord will
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Speaker 1: be your everlasting light. Your days of sorrow will end.
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Speaker 1: The one who dies at a hundred will be thought
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Speaker 1: a mere youth. Longevity will be restored approaching pre flood times,
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Speaker 1: and many of the diseases that afflict humanity will disappear.
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Speaker 1: The earth itself will experience an extraordinary renewal, being liberated
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Speaker 1: from the curse imposed after Adam's fall. Paul wrote that
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Speaker 1: the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay.
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Speaker 1: Agricultural productivity will increase dramatically. There will be an abundance
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Speaker 1: of grain in the land, flourishing even on the hilltops.
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Speaker 1: The crops will thrive like the forests of Lebanon, and
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Speaker 1: the people of the cities will flourish like the grass
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Speaker 1: of the earth. Isiah ads the desert and the parched
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Speaker 1: land will be glad. The wilderness will rejoice and blossom
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Speaker 1: like the rose. During the Millennial Kingdom. Christ will not
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Speaker 1: rule alone. John saw thrones and those who sat on
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Speaker 1: them had been given authority to judge. In particular, authority
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Speaker 1: was given to those who had not worshiped the Beast
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Speaker 1: or his image, and had not received his mark. These
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Speaker 1: resurrected saints will share in the administration of the kingdom
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Speaker 1: with Christ. The martyrs of the Tribulation will hold special
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Speaker 1: positions in this government, having demonstrate it is supreme faithfulness
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Speaker 1: during the most challenging period of human history, they will
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Speaker 1: receive special honor in the Kingdom. Blessed and holy are
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Speaker 1: those who share in the First Resurrection. The second death
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Speaker 1: has no power over them, but they will be priests
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Speaker 1: of God and of Christ, and will reign with Him
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Speaker 1: for a thousand years. The twelve Apostles will have specific
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Speaker 1: roles in the Millennial government. Jesus promised them at the
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Speaker 1: Renewal of all things, when the Son of Man sits
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Speaker 1: on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will
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Speaker 1: also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
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Speaker 1: This promise indicates the restoration of the twelve tribes and
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Speaker 1: a system of government that honors the original structure of
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Speaker 1: the nation of Israel. The administration of the kingdom will
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Speaker 1: be characterized by perfect justice, as Isaiah prophesied about the Messiah,
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Speaker 1: with righteousness. He willjudge the needy with justice. He will
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Speaker 1: give decisions for the poor of the earth die. There
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Speaker 1: will be no corruption, bribery, or favoritism. He will not
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Speaker 1: judge by what he sees with his eyes or decide
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Speaker 1: by what he hears with his ears. But with righteousness.
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Speaker 1: He will judge the needy with justice. He will give
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Speaker 1: decisions for the poor of the earth. A central aspect
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Speaker 1: of the kingdom will be the universal teaching of God's law.
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Speaker 1: Many peoples will come and say, come, let us go
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Speaker 1: The word of God will not be obscure or restricted
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Speaker 1: During the millennium, a magnificent temple will be built in Jerusalem,
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Speaker 1: the sacrificial system will be restored, albeit with a commemorative
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Speaker 1: originally commemorated God's provision during Israel's wilderness journey, will become
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Speaker 1: a global celebration of God's presence among his people. Worship
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Speaker 1: of King Jesus will be universal, as Psalm eighty six anticipates,
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Speaker 1: The knowledge of God will not be the privilege of
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Speaker 1: This universality of divine knowledge will contrast dramatically with the
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Speaker 1: who will enter the Kingdom in their natural bodies. These people,
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Speaker 1: although living in ideal conditions under Christ's perfect government, will
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Speaker 1: not have to believe in a savior they cannot see,
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Speaker 1: merely external conformity. This will be humanity's final test. Even
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Speaker 1: Life under Christ's government will be characterized by immediate justice
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Speaker 1: his lips. He will slay the wicked life the current
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Speaker 1: Millennial Kingdom, justice will be swift and decisive. A crucial
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Speaker 1: After a thousand years of peace and justice under Christ's
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Speaker 1: direct reign, a surprising event will occur. When the thousand
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Speaker 1: years are over. Satan will be released from his prison
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Speaker 1: and do This extraordinary event is part of the divine
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Speaker 1: plan to definitively demonstrate the incorrigible wickedness of the adversary
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Speaker 1: and the righteousness of God's final judgment. Once released, Satan
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Speaker 1: The terms Gog and Magog appear in Ezekiel's Prophecy chapters
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Speaker 1: unite in this final rebellion. John saw that their number
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Speaker 1: is like the sand on the sea shore, indicating an
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Speaker 1: uncountable multitude. These deceived nations will march against the beloved
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Speaker 1: city Jerusalem and surround the camp of the Saints. This
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Speaker 1: final act of rebellion against God will demonstrate that even
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Speaker 1: after a millennium of divine goodness, the unregenerate human heart
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Speaker 1: having experienced only the justice and peace of the Messianic Kingdom,
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Speaker 1: devoured them. Unlike other battles described in the Bible, there
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Speaker 1: eternal fate. The devil who deceived them was thrown into
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Speaker 1: and night, forever and ever. This definite judgment of the
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Speaker 1: This final rebellion and its divine suppression set the stage
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Speaker 1: all the dead will be resurrected and judged according to
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Speaker 1: After Satan's definitive defeat and the end of the Final Rebellion,
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Speaker 1: this Second Resurrection will encompass all other dead of all
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Speaker 1: mark the awakening of all who have ever lived and
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Speaker 1: died without participating in the First Resurrection. All those who
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Speaker 1: as Jesus himself announced, do not be amazed at this,
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Speaker 1: their graves will hear his voice and come out. Those
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Speaker 1: who have done what his good will rise to live,
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Speaker 1: and resurrection, the souls of the unsaved remained in a
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Speaker 1: Jesus illustrated this reality in the story of the rich
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Speaker 1: experience torment and separation from God even before the final judgment. Now,
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Speaker 1: these souls will be reunited with resurrected bodies to face
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Speaker 1: divine judgment. An impressive aspect of this resurrection is that
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Speaker 1: no one will be forgotten. John saw that the sea
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Speaker 1: gave up the dead that were in it, and death
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Speaker 1: Even those whose bodies were lost at sea, consumed by fire,
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Speaker 1: or completely decomposed, will be resurrected by the power of
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Speaker 1: confused with the resurrection of the saved. Paul makes a
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Speaker 1: Christ all will be made alive, but each in turn
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Speaker 1: the resurrection of life, while this second resurrection is called
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Speaker 1: the resurrection of condemnation. Although both involved the reunion of
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Speaker 1: the soul with a body, the purposes and outcomes are
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Speaker 1: the intermediate state of souls. Until this moment, the souls
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Speaker 1: of the unsaved were in hades, a place of conscious torment,
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Speaker 1: but had not yet faced the final judgment. Now, with
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Speaker 1: the reunion of soul and body, each person will appear
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Speaker 1: This universal resurrection demonstrates that no one can escape accountability
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Speaker 1: All who lived and died without Christ will now confront
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Speaker 1: the reality they may have tried to avoid their entire lives,
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Speaker 1: the existence of a holy God who demands accountability from
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Speaker 1: his creatures. After the Second Resurrection, John beheld a solemn vision.
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Speaker 1: Then I saw a great white throne, and him who
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Speaker 1: from his presence, and there was no place for them.
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Speaker 1: This majestic throne represents God's supreme authority to judge all humanity.
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Speaker 1: Its white color symbolizes the perfect purity and holiness of
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Speaker 1: overwhelming that the earth and the heavens fled from his presence,
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Speaker 1: and this apocalyptic language suggests the end of the current
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Speaker 1: order of creation. The physical universe as we know it
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Speaker 1: Peter wrote, the heavens will disappear with a roar, The
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Speaker 1: elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and
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Speaker 1: everything done in it will be laid bare. Who is
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Speaker 1: the occupant of this great white throne? While some interpreters
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Speaker 1: the judge will be Jesus Christ. Jesus himself declared Moreover,
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Speaker 1: the Father judges no one, but has entrusted all judgment
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Speaker 1: a day when he will judge the world with justice
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Speaker 1: The choice of Christ as judge is deeply significant. The
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Speaker 1: was refused now administers justice. As John said, they will
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Speaker 1: look on the one they have pierced. Moreover, being fully
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Speaker 1: divine and fully human, Christ is the perfect judge. As God,
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Speaker 1: he possesses complete knowledge. As man, He understands our human condition.
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Speaker 1: The Judge's eyes are like a flame of fire, penetrating
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Speaker 1: beyond external appearances to the deepest thoughts and intentions of
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Speaker 1: the heart. Nothing can be hidden from the one who
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Speaker 1: searches minds and hearts. As Paul wrote, he will bring
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Speaker 1: to light what is hidden in darkness, and will expose
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Speaker 1: the motives of the heart. The impartiality of this judgment
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Speaker 1: will be perfect. There will be no favoritism or bias.
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Speaker 1: As Peter acknowledged, God does not show favoritism, but accepts
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Speaker 1: what is right. Social status, wealth, education, nationality, or any
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Speaker 1: other human factor will not influence this judgment. Each person
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Speaker 1: will be judged with perfect fairness. The authority of the
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Speaker 1: judge is supreme and unappealable. There will be no higher
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Speaker 1: court to which one can appeal his decisions. As Jesus said,
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Speaker 1: all authority in heaven and on earth has been given
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Speaker 1: to me. Paul added that God exalted him to the
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Speaker 1: highest place and gave him the name that is above
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Speaker 1: every name. That at the name of Jesus, every knee
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Speaker 1: and every tongue acknowledged that Jesus Christ is Lord to
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Speaker 1: the glory of God the Father. In the solemn scene
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Speaker 1: of judgment, John saw that books were opened. Another book
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Speaker 1: in the books. This image of books represents the perfect
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Speaker 1: divine knowledge of every human life. Nothing escapes the divine record,
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Speaker 1: no thought, word, or action. The first mentioned is the
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Speaker 1: Book of Deeds, containing the detailed record of everything each
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Speaker 1: every empty word they have spoken. Paul added that God
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Speaker 1: will repay each person according to what they have done.
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Speaker 1: Every action, every word, every thought. Everything is recalled did
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Speaker 1: with perfect accuracy. This record includes not only external actions,
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Speaker 1: in human eyes will be revealed as selfish or hypocritical
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Speaker 1: He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness
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Speaker 1: Jesus told his disciples, rejoice that your names are written
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Speaker 1: a fundamental principle of divine judgment. God's law serves as
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Speaker 1: the standard. As Paul explained, all who sin apart from
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Speaker 1: the law will also perish apart from the law, and
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Speaker 1: all who sin under the law will be judged by
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Speaker 1: the law. The divine law, summarized in the Ten Commandments
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Speaker 1: is the measure by which all will be evaluated. It
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Speaker 1: is important to note that the judgment will take into
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Speaker 1: account the degree of knowledge and opportunity each person received.
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Speaker 1: Jesus said, the servant who knows the master's will and
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Speaker 1: does not get ready or does not do what the
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Speaker 1: Master wants, will be beaten with many blows. But the
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Speaker 1: one who does not know and does things deserving punishment
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Speaker 1: will be beaten with few blows. From everyone who has
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Speaker 1: been given much much will be demanded, and from the
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Speaker 1: one who has been entrusted with much much more will
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Speaker 1: be asked. Paul explains that even those who never heard
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Speaker 1: the written law have God's law written on their hearts
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Speaker 1: through conscience. When gentiles who do not have the law
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Speaker 1: do by nature things required by the law, they are
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Speaker 1: a law for themselves. Even though they do not have
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Speaker 1: the law, they show that the requirements of the law
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Speaker 1: are written on their hearts. Thus everyone has some knowledge
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Speaker 1: of God's will, though to varying degrees. The judgment will
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Speaker 1: be according to truth, not based on appearances or human perceptions.
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Speaker 1: As Samuel learned, the lad does not look at the
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Speaker 1: things people look at. People look at the outward appearance,
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Speaker 1: but the Lord looks at the heart. Many who seemed
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Speaker 1: righteous in human eyes will be exposed as hypocrites, while
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Speaker 1: others who were despised may be vindicated. On this revealing day,
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Speaker 1: all hidden secrets and heart intentions will be exposed. As
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Speaker 1: Paul added that God will judge people's secrets through Jesus Christ.
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Speaker 1: This complete exposure will demonstrate the perfect justice of divine judgment,
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Speaker 1: It is important to understand that salvation is never obtained
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Speaker 1: by works, but always by faith in Christ, as Paul clarified,
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Speaker 1: for it is by grace you have been saved through faith,
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Speaker 1: of God, not by works, so that no one can
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Speaker 1: boast faith in Christ manifested in the acceptance of his
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Speaker 1: atoning sacrifice, is the only basis for salvation. However, works
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Speaker 1: serve as evidence of the presence or absence of this
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Speaker 1: saving faith. As James explained, faith without works is dead.
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Speaker 1: Genuine faith necessarily produces fruits of obedience and love. Jesus
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Speaker 1: warned about those who merely profess faith. Not every one
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Speaker 1: who says to me, Lord Lord will enter the Kingdom
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Speaker 1: of my Father, who is in heaven. A specific criterion
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Speaker 1: In the Parable of the Sheep and the Goats, Jesus declares,
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Speaker 1: for I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat.
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Speaker 1: I was thirsty, and you gave me something to drink.
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Speaker 1: I was a stranger and you invited me in. I
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Speaker 1: you looked after me. I was in prison, and you
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Speaker 1: came to visit me. Whatever you did for one of
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Speaker 1: the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you
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Speaker 1: did for me the treatment given to Christ's followers reveals
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Speaker 1: the attitude of the heart toward Christ himself. Another criterion
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Speaker 1: parable of the talents, Jesus teaches that each person receives
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Speaker 1: different abilities and opportunities, and will be judged according to
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Speaker 1: their faithfulness in using what they have received. The Master
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Speaker 1: praises the faithful servants. Well done, good and faithful servant.
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Speaker 1: You have been faithful with a few things. I will
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Speaker 1: put you in charge of many things. However, the servant
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Speaker 1: who buried his talent is severely condemned. It is not
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Speaker 1: the absolute quantity of achievements that matters, but the faithfulness
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Speaker 1: in using what God has granted. The response to the
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Speaker 1: light received and the opportunities given is also crucial. Jesus
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Speaker 1: rebuked the cities that witnessed his miracles and did not repent.
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Speaker 1: Woe to you Chorazin, Woe to you Bethsida, For if
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Speaker 1: in tire and side on, they would have repented long
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Speaker 1: ago in sackcloth and ashes. But it will be more
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Speaker 1: bearable for tire and sidon on the day of judgment
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Speaker 1: than for you, greater knowledge brings greater responsibility. At the
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Speaker 1: the summary of the entire law. The judgment will reveal
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Speaker 1: in love for God and others. As Paul wrote, love
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Speaker 1: True repentance, a change of mind and heart regarding sin
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Speaker 1: is essential for forgiveness, as Jesus proclaimed, But unless you repent,
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Speaker 1: you too will all perish by the hardened heart that
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Speaker 1: persists in rebellion against God, refusing to acknowledge its sin
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Speaker 1: and need for a savior, cannot expect mercy on the
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Speaker 1: absolutely just, taking all these factors into account, Every person
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Speaker 1: As Abraham rhetorically asked, will not the judge of all
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Speaker 1: those whose names are not written in the Book of Life.
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Speaker 1: Anyone whose name was not found written in the Book
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Speaker 1: of Life was thrown into the Lake of fire. This
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Speaker 1: place of final judgment is described as the lake of
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Speaker 1: fire burning with sulfur, a place of eternal torment, originally
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Speaker 1: prepared for the devil and his angels, but which will
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Speaker 1: also be the final destination of all who rejected the
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Speaker 1: salvation offered in Christ. The exact nature of this lake
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Speaker 1: of fire has been the subject of much discussion. Some
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Speaker 1: as a metaphor for a spiritual reality even more terrible
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Speaker 1: than literal fire. Regardless of the specific interpretation, Scripture makes
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Speaker 1: not quenched, emphasizing the permanence of the torment. John saw
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Speaker 1: that death and hades were thrown into the lake of fire.
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Speaker 1: The lake of fire is the second death. This second
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Speaker 1: death is not annihilation or the end of existence, but
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Speaker 1: represents the definitive and eternal separation from God, the source
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Speaker 1: of all life and goodness. It is called death because
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Speaker 1: it is the complete absence of the true life that
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Speaker 1: only exists in God's presence. The severity of this eternal
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Speaker 1: punishment has led many to question its justice. How can
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Speaker 1: a temporary sin deserve eternal punishment? The Biblical answer involves
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Speaker 1: understanding the infinite gravity of sin against an infinitely holy God.
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Speaker 1: As Anselm explained in the eleventh century, the gravity of
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Speaker 1: an offense is measured not only by the offense itself,
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Speaker 1: but by the dignity of the person offended. Sinning against
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Speaker 1: the infinite and eternal Creator therefore deserves infinite and eternal consequences.
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Speaker 1: Scripture indicates that there will be degrees of punishment according
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Speaker 1: blows versus few blows, depending on their knowledge of the
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Speaker 1: Master's will. He also declared that it would be more
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Speaker 1: tolerable on the day of judgment for sodom than for
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Speaker 1: cities that rejected his ministry. This suggests that while all
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Speaker 1: in the Lake of Fire experience eternal torment, the severity
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Speaker 1: varies according to individual culpability. The most terrifying characteristic of
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Speaker 1: the Lake of Fire is the eternal separation from God's presence.
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Speaker 1: Paul describes the condemned as suffering the punishment of eternal
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Speaker 1: destruction away from the presence of the Lord and from
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Speaker 1: the glory of his might. God is the source of
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Speaker 1: all goodness, all beauty, all truth, and all love. Being
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Speaker 1: eternally separated from Him means being eternally deprived of everything
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Speaker 1: good and meaningful. The Bible indicates that those in the
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Speaker 1: Lake of Fire will remain in a state of perpetual consciousness.
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Speaker 1: Jesus spoke of the rich man in the Parable who
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Speaker 1: in torment could see, speak, feel, and remember. Revelation describes
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Speaker 1: the Antichrist and the false Prophet being tormented day and night,
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Speaker 1: forever and ever. This eternal consciousness makes the punishment even
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Speaker 1: more solemn, as it includes eternal remorse for lost opportunities
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Speaker 1: and a clear understanding of the justice of divine judgment.
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Speaker 1: The Lake of Fire represents the ultimate manifestation of divine justice.
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Speaker 1: As Paul wrote, God is just, He will pay back
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Speaker 1: trouble to those who trouble you. In a moral universe
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Speaker 1: governed by a holy God, there must be definitive consequences
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Speaker 1: for persistent rebellion. The eternal punishment of the impenitent demonstrates
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Speaker 1: that God takes both sin and human freedom to reject
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Speaker 1: him seriously. In stark contrast to the fate of the condemned,
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Speaker 1: John witnessed a magnificent vision. Then I saw a new
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Speaker 1: heaven and a new Earth, for the first heaven and
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Speaker 1: the first Earth had passed away. This new creation represents
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Speaker 1: the final fulfillment of God's redemptive plan, the fulfillment of
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Speaker 1: Isaiah's promise. See I will create new heavens and a
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Speaker 1: new Earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor
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Speaker 1: will they come to mind. This new creation will not
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Speaker 1: just be a renewal or reform of the current world,
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Speaker 1: but a radical transformation. Peter explains, the heavens will disappear
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Speaker 1: with a roar, the elements will be destroyed by fire,
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Speaker 1: and the earth and everything done in it will be
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Speaker 1: laid bare. But in keeping with his promise, we are
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Speaker 1: looking forward to a new heaven and a new Earth
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Speaker 1: where righteousness dwells. The current created order tainted by sin,
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Speaker 1: will give way to a new order, where perfect righteousness
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Speaker 1: will be the norm. A remarkable feature of this new
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Speaker 1: creation is the absence of the sea, and the sea
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Speaker 1: was no more. In Biblical cosmology, especially in Revelation, the
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Speaker 1: sea often symbolizes chaos, instability, and danger, a source of storms,
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Speaker 1: home to monsters, a barrier to communication, and a place
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Speaker 1: of shipwrecks. Its absence suggests a world of perfect order, security,
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Speaker 1: and uninterrupted communion. The new Creation will mean the full
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Speaker 1: liberation of creation from the bondage of corruption. As Paul wrote,
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Speaker 1: the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to
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Speaker 1: decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children
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Speaker 1: of God. Since the Fall, the entire physical universe has
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Speaker 1: suffered the effects of human sin. In the new Creation,
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Speaker 1: even the physical nature will participate in the final redemption.
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Speaker 1: The physical laws we know may be radically different in
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Speaker 1: the New Creation. Isaiah suggests dramatic changes when he speaks
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Speaker 1: of the wolf and the lamb grazing together and the
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Speaker 1: lion eating straw. Like the ox entropy, cell death, physical deterioration,
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Speaker 1: and other aspects of the second law of thermodynamics may
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Speaker 1: no longer operate. This radical transformation of the natural order
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Speaker 1: will result in a world without disease, decay, or death.
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Speaker 1: The new creation will have eternal permanence, Unlike the current
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Speaker 1: universe destined to an end. This new order will last forever.
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Speaker 1: As Isaiah prophesied, as the new heavens and the new
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Speaker 1: Earth that I make will endure before me, so will
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Speaker 1: your name and descendants endure. This is the final and
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Speaker 1: permanent universe that God always intended, free from the contamination
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Speaker 1: of sin and death. The center of this new creation
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Speaker 1: will be the New Jerusalem, which John saw coming down
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Speaker 1: out of Heaven from God prepared as a bride beautifully
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Speaker 1: dressed for her husband. This celestial city represents the eternal
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Speaker 1: dwelling of God with his Redeemed people. It is not
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Speaker 1: merely a literal city, but symbolizes the perfect communion between
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Speaker 1: God and the Redeemed. The dimensions of this city are impressive,
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Speaker 1: twelve thousand stadia approximately twenty two hundred kilometers in each direction,
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Speaker 1: forming a perfect cube. This cube evokes the Holy of
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Speaker 1: Holies of Solomon's Temple, which also had a cubic shape,
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Speaker 1: suggesting that the entire new Jerusalem is the place of
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Speaker 1: God's manifest presence. Its gigantic proportions indicate that it will
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Speaker 1: house countless multitudes of the redeemed. The city is described
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Speaker 1: as built with materials of unimaginable beauty and value. Its
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Speaker 1: walls are of jasper, and the city itself is pure gold,
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Speaker 1: as pure as glass. Its foundations are adorned with every
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Speaker 1: kind of precious stone jasper, sapphire, cl seddony, emerald, sardonyx, Carnelian, chrysolite, beryl, topaz, chrysoprase, jacinth,
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Speaker 1: and amethyst. Each of its twelve gates is made of
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Speaker 1: a single pearl. These descriptions convey transcendent beauty, value, and
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Speaker 1: glory surpassing any earthly splendor. The twelve gates of the
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Speaker 1: city bear the names of the twelve tribes of Israel,
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Speaker 1: and the twelve foundations carry the names of the twelve
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Speaker 1: apostles of the Lamb. This reference to both Israel and
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Speaker 1: the Church demonstrates the unity of God's people throughout the ages.
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Speaker 1: Although God has worked in different ways in different dispensations,
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Speaker 1: there is one redeemed people who will share eternity with him. Notably,
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Speaker 1: John observes I did not see a temple in the
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Speaker 1: city because the Lord, God Almighty and the Lamb are
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Speaker 1: its temple. Throughout Biblical history, temples served as designated places
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Speaker 1: to encounter God's presence. In the New Jerusalem, such a
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Speaker 1: structure is unnecessary, as God's presence will permeate the entire city.
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Speaker 1: Every corner of the New Jerusalem will be as holy
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Speaker 1: as the Holy of Holies in the ancient Temple. Similarly,
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Speaker 1: the city does not need the sun or the moon
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Speaker 1: to shine on it, for the glory of God gives
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Speaker 1: it light, and the Lamb is its lamp. This divine
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Speaker 1: light will never diminish or go out, for there will
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Speaker 1: be no night there. The alternation of day and night
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Speaker 1: so fundamental to our current experience, will not be necessary.
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Speaker 1: In eternity. The perpetual light symbolizes the absence of evil, error,
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Speaker 1: or sorrow. At the center of the city, John saw
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Speaker 1: the river of the Water of Life, as clear as crystal,
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Speaker 1: flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb.
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Speaker 1: This water represents eternal life that flows directly from God
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Speaker 1: to his people. Along its banks grows the Tree of Life,
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Speaker 1: bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month,
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Speaker 1: and the leaves of the tree are for the healing
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Speaker 1: of the nations. This image evokes the Garden of Eden,
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Speaker 1: suggesting that the New Jerusalem represents the restoration and surpassing
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Speaker 1: of the original paradise lost to sin. The most glorious
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Speaker 1: aspect of the New Jerusalem will be the immediate presence
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Speaker 1: of God with his people. John heard a voice proclaiming, Look,
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Speaker 1: God's dwelling places now among the people, and He will
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Speaker 1: dwell with them. They will be his people, and God
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Speaker 1: himself will be with them and be their God. The
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Speaker 1: term dwelling evokes the tabernacle of divine presence in the
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Speaker 1: wilderness when God dwelt among Israel. Now this presence will
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Speaker 1: be permanent and without any barrier. In this perfect communion,
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Speaker 1: God will wipe every tear from their eyes. The sources
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Speaker 1: of sorrow we know now, loss, painppointment, betrayal, failure will
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Speaker 1: all be eliminated. The divine promise continues, there will be
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Speaker 1: no more death or mourning, or crying or pain, for
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Speaker 1: the old order of things has passed away. All the
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Speaker 1: consequences of the fall will be finally and completely removed.
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Speaker 1: The supreme blessing of eternity will be seeing God face
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Speaker 1: to face. Paul wrote, for now we see only a reflection,
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Speaker 1: as in a mirror. Then we shall see face to face.
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Speaker 1: Now I know in part, Then I shall know fully
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Speaker 1: even as I am fully known. Moses could only see
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Speaker 1: God's back, for no man could see God's face and
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Speaker 1: live in eternity. However, the Redeemed will directly behold the
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Speaker 1: face of the one who sits on the throne. Eternal
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Speaker 1: life will not be a state of idleness or boredom,
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Speaker 1: but of meaningful service. John saw that God's servants will
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Speaker 1: serve him in the New Jerusalem. This service will not
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Speaker 1: be tiring or frustrating, but perfectly satisfying, utilizing all our
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Speaker 1: capacities for the glory of God. Jesus suggested this continuity
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Speaker 1: of service when he said to the faithful servants, well done.
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Speaker 1: You are a good and faithful servant. You have been
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Speaker 1: faithful with a few things. I will put you in
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Speaker 1: charge of many things. An extraordinary aspect of this eternal
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Speaker 1: communion is that the Redeemed will reign forever and ever.
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Speaker 1: This perpetual reign was prefigured by the original dominion given
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Speaker 1: to Adam and Eve in the garden, but will be
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Speaker 1: fulfilled on a cosmic scale in eternity. The exact nature
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Speaker 1: of this reign is not specified, but it suggests responsibility, authority,
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Speaker 1: and active participation in the divine governance of the new universe.
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Speaker 1: Happiness in the presence of the Creator will be complete
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Speaker 1: and infinite, as David Anti dissipated. In your presence, there
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Speaker 1: is fullness of joy. At your right hand are pleasures forevermore.
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Speaker 1: This joy will not be fleeting or superficial, like earthly pleasures,
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Speaker 1: but deep, permanent, and ever renewing. The Psalmists declared, they
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Speaker 1: feast on the abundance of your house, and you give
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Speaker 1: them drink from the river of your delights, For with
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Speaker 1: you is the fountain of life. In your light we
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Speaker 1: see light. The fellowship among the redeemed will also be perfect.
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Speaker 1: All barriers that now divide people, prejudices, misunderstanding, selfishness, envy,
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Speaker 1: will be removed. John saw that the nations will walk
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Speaker 1: by its light, and the kings of the earth will
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Speaker 1: bring their glory to it, and the glory and honor
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Speaker 1: of the nations will be brought into it. This vision
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Speaker 1: suggests that cultural diversity will enrich eternity, with each nation
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Speaker 1: contributing its unique gifts to the glory of God. In
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Speaker 1: the New Jerusalem, communion with God and with other redeemed
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Speaker 1: souls will be uninterrupted and perfectly satisfying the original purpose
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Speaker 1: of human creation. To know, love, serve, and glorify God
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Speaker 1: will be fully realized. Every aspect of human nature will
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Speaker 1: find its perfect expression in the presence of the Creator.
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Speaker 1: The Bible concludes with these words of hope. He who
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Speaker 1: testifies to these things says, yes, I Am coming soon. Amen, Come,
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Speaker 1: Lord Jesus. The grace of the Lord Jesus be withal Amen.
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Speaker 1: This final prayer expresses the longing of God's people for
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Speaker 1: the day when redemption will be complete. Justice will be
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Speaker 1: established forever, and all who love God will enjoy His
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Speaker 1: presence eternally. This is the sure hope of all who
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Speaker 1: trust in Christ. As Paul wrote, what no eye has seen,
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Speaker 1: what no ear has heard, and what no human mind
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Speaker 1: has conceived are the things God has prepared for those
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Speaker 1: who love Him. The story does not end in tragedy,
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Speaker 1: but in triumph, not with destruction but with recreation, not
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Speaker 1: with separation from God but with eternal union with Him.
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Speaker 1: And so in light of these solemn truths about judgment
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Speaker 1: and these glorious promises about eternity. We are called to
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Speaker 1: live to day with wisdom, faith and hope, knowing that
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Speaker 1: our response to Christ now will determine our destiny in eternity.
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Speaker 1: To conclude this detailed study on the Final Judgment, reflect
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Speaker 1: on these solemn biblical truths we have just explored, from
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Speaker 1: the signs of the end times to the glorious New Jerusalem.
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Speaker 1: God's word reveals not only what will happen, but also
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Speaker 1: how we should live today in the light of eternity.
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Speaker 1: The way we respond now to these truths will determine
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Speaker 1: our eternal destiny. Each of us will either stand before
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Speaker 1: the great White Throne or enjoy eternal fellowship with God.
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Speaker 1: There is no middle ground, no third option. If this
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