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The End Times Scenario - Session 5 - Chuck Missler

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We're in session five continuing and uh

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so uh in this session we're going to

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explore

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the millennium.

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So with that let's bow our hearts for a

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word of prayer.

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Father we thank you for your word and we

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thank you for your holy spirit. We

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solicit that. Father is elicit your

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presence that you would guide our

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thoughts and keep us from error and help

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us to understand what you would have us

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take away from these studies as we

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commit this time and ourselves into your

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hands in the name of Yeshua our coming

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king indeed. Amen.

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Well, okay. We're going to talk about

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the millennium where Satan is bound as

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you know. We'll touch on ammillennialism

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again just to keep that in focus. And

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that at the end of that we'll also have

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the second Mog rebellion and we'll talk

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a little bit about that. The great white

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throne finishes it off and then the

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millennial temple. We'll talk a little

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bit about that. And then the new

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Jerusalem is a is a touchstone. So, and

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then we'll recap where we stand and uh

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uh that will finish this this session

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for the day for for this day. The

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millennium and uh most of what we know

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about the millennium is not from

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Revelation 20. Many churches sort of

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dismiss it because well, it's just in

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that one chapter of the Bible. No, it

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isn't. It's a major thrust all through

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the Bible. And most of what we know

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about it comes from Isaiah 65,

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not Revelation chapter 20. And the more

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you learn about it, the more questions

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it raises. And uh now most of the

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denominations acrewing from the

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reformation unfortunately have inherited

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an amalennial viewpoint from Augustine

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and all that that follows. And so there

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are problems with amalennialism.

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And as I've pointed out before, there

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major major problems because you got

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1845 references at least in the Old

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Testament and 318 in the New Testament.

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And we've touched on that, but I just

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want to keep that in front of us. And if

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you take Christ's first coming

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seriously, it was it fulfilled literally

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hundreds of specific specifications.

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And for each one of those there's seven

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or eight for the second coming which

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will be fulfilled just as literally just

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as precisely as the first. And uh so and

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as I mentioned before origin was a pious

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popular and he's very persuasive and he

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was one of the great figures of the 3

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century church but you needed to

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understand how a couple of things the

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early church became very anti-semitic

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and when you get to the crusades later

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they had contests of how many Jewish

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babies you could get on a sword. You and

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I have no grasp of the abuse

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of of Jewishness in all its forms. Um

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were abused by people showing the banner

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of Christ. Hitler was a Christian and

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never excommunicated from the church.

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You have to understand the the the the

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Jewish mentality. You need to understand

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that before you visit Israel for a lot

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of reasons. But anyway, the early church

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became very anti-semitic. If you tried

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to worship

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on Passover, the Jewish Passover on the

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14th in Nissan, you were called a court

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of Latin for a 14er. You were

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exccommunicated from the church. It's

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hard for us to realize how anti-Semitic

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the early church was. That's just the

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reality. It was tragic for the Jew, of

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course, but by the way, it was also

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tragic for the church because we lost

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our Jewish roots. And now Christians who

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are studying the Bible seriously are

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discovering the seven feasts of Moses

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and the incredible richness of that

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heritage. And so anyway anyway origin

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was one of those. and he uh he uh wrote

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papers uh presenting Christian doctrine

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in Greek terms in hellistic terms and

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tragically he established an extreme

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allegorization of scripture as his style

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and that was to influence Augustine in

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future years and Augustine was the

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bishop of Hippo a very very prominent

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influential leader of the early church.

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His famous city of God document

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portrayed the church as a new civic

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order during the ruins of the Roman

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Empire. And so although his writings

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indeed defeated many very serious

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heresies of the times, unfortunately his

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allegorical reposturing left an

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amalennial esquetology in its wake and

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so that's the tragedy of Augustine from

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our point of view. And you can trail

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uh see the trail from Augustine to

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Achvitz. Origin allegorizes scripture.

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Augustine gave us amalennialism and that

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gave us the medieval esquetology and the

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reformation failed to address the

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escatological problems. So most

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Protestant denominations are amalennial

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in their esqueological views. And that's

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tragic of course because the Holocaust

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in Germany needs to be put at the feet

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of the silent pulpit in Germany. But

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there's a lot of problems anyway. The

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messianic promises are throughout the

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Old Testament. All those messianic

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promises have their fulfillment in Jesus

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Christ and that includes having a his

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rule in the millennium. The destiny of

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Israel and God's covenant are

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questionable in the almillennial

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perspective. They have no grasp of the

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role of Israel in God's program. And uh

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the promise given to Mary by Gabriel,

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we've talked about that last time. And

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all these things are not just Old

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Testament ideas. is there we they're

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confirmed throughout the New Testament.

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We went through all of that and I talked

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to you about all the divisions of of

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theology and if you go through a

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pastor's thing you would discover the

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one that's missing is Israel which

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involves five six of the Bible. So we

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covered that before too and the is the

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dis distinctives between Israel and the

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church are important. They have

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different origins.

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Israel was born in the Exodus. They went

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down as a family and came out as a

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nation. and they have slightly different

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missions and they certainly have

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different destinies. The destiny of

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Israel is one thing. The destiny of the

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church is quite another. And so the idea

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that the church somehow replaces Israel

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is a heresy out of the pit of hell. And

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uh it denies Israel's place in God's

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program, which tragically someone that

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holds that view doesn't realize it

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probably, but he's making God a liar

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because you're he's making a denial of

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all the things God promised in the New

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as well as the Old Testament. And so and

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that uh anyway, so the 70 weeks that

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we've been talking about, I want to

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remind you is a the focus of it is

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Israel, not the church. The church falls

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in that interval. But the prophecy

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itself is aimed at the Israel, the

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nation in the city of Jerusalem. And of

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course, Paul talks about three groups.

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Jews, Gentiles, and the church. That

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tricotomy ends with the rapture. And in

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from that point on, from Revelation 4

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on, there's no church. There's Jews and

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Gentiles. And so, the distinctives

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reappear after Revelation chapter 4. And

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we'll be focusing on chapter 2 and three

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in the session six uh tomorrow.

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But uh the order of events the 70th week

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we've talked about obviously the

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harpatsu occurs sometime prior to that

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and we don't know how much and uh so we

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really we've gone we've covered all this

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before great tribulation and so on.

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Armageddon is what it ends with and that

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gets interrupted by the second coming of

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Jesus Christ and that involves Satan

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being bound. his cohorts, the first and

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second beasts of Revelation 13 are

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thrown in Gehenna, not Hades, Gehenna.

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And uh Satan though is bound for a

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while, for a thousand years. And at the

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millennium, then uh there's these 1290

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and 335 days that everybody asks, they

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show up in Daniel 12. What do they stand

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for? We're not sure. A lot of

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conjectures. Nothing nothing with any

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persuasive uh weight on it that I've

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been able to find. But uh we have the

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sheep and goat judgments and we have the

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marriage supper of the lamb. Okay. At

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the end of the millennium, Satan is

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released

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and he succeeds in getting the world to

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rebel against God and then gets finally

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put down.

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I was once on a speaking platform of

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Albert Israeli and we got a discussion

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in the green room and he asked me an

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interesting question. He says, "What is

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the most evil of all the dispensations?"

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We have all the classical seven

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dispensations if you've studied that.

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Which one is the most evil? And he

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argued interestingly that the millennium

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is. And I was surprised because we sort

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of think of that as a utopian period

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somehow.

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Not really because there's no shortages.

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No, there's no need. There's nothing.

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All the needs are met. There's no

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shortage of the word of God

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and there's there's good justice and

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it's ruled and all that. And yet at the

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end of a perfect administration, we

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rebel again with no excuse this time.

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See, that was his point of view. And it

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was an interesting point of view. I

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never thought of it that way. In any

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case, the millennium is a final test of

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humanity in some sense. And at the very,

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very end, we have a number of things.

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There's a final rebellion that Satan

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succeeds in leading and when he's

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released. And there's another Gog and

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Magog event. Many people get confused

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because of the Gog and Magog reference

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back there in Revelation 21

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um with the Gog and Magog event of

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Ezekiel 38.

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Now

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there is obviously the view that it part

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of Armageddon and I have a difference if

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you but that's not the point. What many

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people overlook is that there's a it's

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become an idiom. Now how can Mog survive

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a thousand years? Because it's it's an

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ancestry. It's an it's an ethnic root.

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Gog is a demon title. You don't discover

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that in the English translation of the

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of the Tanakh, the Old Testament. But if

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you look at Amos chapter 7 verse one in

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the uh Septuagent, you discover that Gog

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is the king of the locusts. And we know

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that locusts aren't literal locust,

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they're demon locusts because of

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Proverbs 30 27.

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And uh we didn't get that in the book.

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We probably should have so you could

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track those things down. But in any

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case, the point is that Gog is a demon

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title. That's how we can survive a

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thousand years. So I believe there's two

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Mag Gog and Magog events. There's the

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first one that occurs, of course, prior

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to Armageddon, and there is a uh that

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becomes an idiom that's echoed, if you

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will, at the end of the thousand years.

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And that's our that's our view. Now,

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there's other good scholars that have a

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different view, but I share that with

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you for what it might be worth. And so,

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and of course, the the real the big

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climax is the great white throne

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judgment. The judgment of the unsaved

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dead are included in that, of course.

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So, that's a big to-do, the great white

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throne. Don't confuse it with the other

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judgments that we'll talk about. And

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that's then followed by a new heavens

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and a new earth. And let me underscore

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that it's not just you and I that are

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redeemed.

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Heaven is there's is a new heaven.

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One that didn't have Satan around.

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See, it's a lot going on cosmically far

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beyond our imagining. There's a new

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heavens and a new earth. So, this one's

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going to burn.

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And now that we've beginning to

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discover, if if David Bow's correct and

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some of the experiments in in Europe are

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correct and the atomic accelerators are

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worth, they're beginning to give

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credence to the idea that the universe

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is some kind of super hologram. Well, to

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the extent that they confirm that,

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that's good news for us because that

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helps us explain the Bible

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because in a hologram distances are

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synthetic. The billions and billions of

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light years are synthetic and uh we know

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that this physical universe is a digital

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simulation that that's when we get into

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boundaries of reality and all that

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stuff. So as you have background in that

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this seems not only does revel does

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Genesis chapter 1 read more comfortably

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if you know all that Revelation 21 and

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22 also read more comfortably when all

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the stars fall from heaven in terms of

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modern astronomy that's crazy

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some of those stars are bigger than the

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whole solar system how can they all fall

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here but if it's a hologram in the first

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place that has a whole different

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signification

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so new heavens and new earth and of

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course that's then followed if you will

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by the new Jerusalem coming down from

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heaven. And so that's the panorama that

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Revelation 21:22 lay out for us. And so

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um now the uh that leaves us with some

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other things to talk about.

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What goes on during the 70th week in

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heaven? We've talked about on the earth

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and the tribulation and the temple being

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rebuilt, whatever.

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Up in heaven, what's going on? What is

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the first thing that happens to you and

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me after the rapture?

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Let's assume that the rapture happened

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tomorrow morning.

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What happens in the days that follow not

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on the earth with us in heaven? The

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answer, the first thing is according to

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second Corinthians 5:10 is the bema seat

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of Christ. We're all going to face a

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final exam.

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And by the way, we want we'll talk about

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that in session six.

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But to relieve the suspense here, let me

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point out that everybody present at that

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judgment seat will be saved

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or they that's everybody there saved

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because their salvation was resolved

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2,000 years ago on a cross. Their

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salvation's not the issue.

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Their fruit bearing is I won't say works

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because that confuses people. and our

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fruit bearing is going to be assessed

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and some people will be rewarded and

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some people won't. Okay? Inheritances

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can be lost. We're going to get into all

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of that on session six. But the other

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thing, of course, is the marriage of the

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lamb. I want you to notice something

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here. Don't Well, first of all, there's

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there are here three judgments to

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understand the differences. The beimma

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seat we'll talk about in session six.

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the sheep and goat judgments. We'll

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summarize just briefly, but you can

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check it out in Matthew 25 yourself.

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Recognize there's three groups of

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people. The sheep, the goats, and my

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brethren. Jesus praises the sheep and

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the goats as to how they treated his

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brethren during the tribulation. The

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ones that helped, they didn't realize

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they were being blessing, but they

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helped. They are the sheep and they get

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rewarded. The ones that didn't help the

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Jews in the crushing experience called

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the great tribulation are going to be

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judged. They're judged by works. That's

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a scary thing from the point of Pauline

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theology. But we're beyond that. Now

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we're outside that. And of course, the

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great white throne is a whole another

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thing. But those three judgments. You

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need to understand the differences. And

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the great the bema seat of course is 2

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Corinthians 5:10. There's the key

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reference, rewards, crowns, and

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assignments. And we'll talk more about

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that. And the call of the bride. There

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is a suspicion. I won't say it's a

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teaching because it's very

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controversial. And a lot of good

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scholars don't agree with me, but I

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personally believe that the body of

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Christ and the bride of Christ are not

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synonymous. And we'll talk more about

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that in session six. And so the sheep

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and goat judgment is in Matthew 25. That

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takes place on the earth. And there's

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three separate parties involved I

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mentioned. And there are mortals that

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are judged on the basis of how they

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treated the Jews during the tribulation.

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That's what he says. And you can check

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it out yourself. And of course, the

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great white throne is the big deal at

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the end of the millennium of the unsaved

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dead among others.

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And then of course, we have the new

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heavens, new earth, and a whole new era.

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Okay, now let's talk about the

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millennial temple. Um, the last nine

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chapters of the book of Ezekiel are a

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real enigma to many people. In fact, it

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almost didn't make it into the canon.

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And yet, there's some strange things.

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The Levites are trivial. The sons of

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Zadok are bigger. There's also this

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mysterious guy, the prince. Who is he?

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He has genealogy and he has offspring.

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Who is that? And there's a lot of

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questions that it still raises

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nevertheless. But but um the uh

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so we're going to look at the

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description of the millennial temple.

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I'm going to suggest that it's highly

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detailed. So it's not simply symbolic.

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Okay. The topography of the region is

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totally altered from what it is today.

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And uh so we're going to find a lot of

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interesting. All nations will worship

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there.

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That makes sense. But you know that the

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temp the temple is not open on Sunday.

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It's only open on Shabbat, Saturday, and

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the new moon.

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That's going to that's one of the things

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the Seventh Day Adventists probably have

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correct.

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The offerings and sacrifices are

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resumed. And that shocks a lot of

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people. Why is there offerings? For the

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same reason he had offerings in the Old

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Testament, the offerings in the Old

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Testament were anticipatory pointers to

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the cross. These are memorial of what

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the cross, the whole universe is judged

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by that cross that was erected in Judea

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some 2,000 years ago. And of course,

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it's only open on Sabbath day and new

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moons as I mentioned. So, let's take a

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look at the tabernacle to get a

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perspective here. I'm putting west at

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the top and east on the bottom. This is

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a conventional way of representing this.

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And of course we have it's about the

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original tabernet was aboutund about 75

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ft wide and 150 ft long in rough terms

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if and as my my British friends remind

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me if God wanted us on the metric system

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he would have had 10 disciples. So I'm

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I'm going to use the English system

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here. All right. But um

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if you take the perimeter of that it

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happens to be the length of Noah's arc.

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And I don't know what you do with that

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information but we'll move on. As you

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enter the one door outside, you just see

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righteousness white. But if you enter,

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you come to the uh altar of sacrifice. A

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little further you have the labor to

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wash. This was the original tabernacle.

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And then we have the the now the uh

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temple proper if you will, the building,

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a portable building designed for

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mobility. Inside of which there was the

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uh uh menora to the left and the table

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of showbread to the right. And ahead of

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you was the golden altar, the altar of

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incense. Through a veil you again

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entered the holy of holies which had the

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ark of the covenant and on top of it a

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separate item called the mercy seat

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always mentioned separately. If we zero

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in on that for its architecture it's

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pretty straightforward. We have the holy

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place being the main space and then the

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holy of holies the inside space and we

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have the menor to the left and we have

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this table of showbread to the right and

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we have the golden altar and and then

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the head of the veil and then inside the

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holy of holies we have the ark of the

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covenant and a separate entity on top of

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it called the mercy seat and u the um

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boy we could spend the whole weekend on

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the topics of just these items but I'll

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spare you that because you can dig that

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out on your own. But Jesus made a claim

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to be each one of these. He says, "I am

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the door. Anybody that enters by me is a

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thief and a robber." He says, "I am the

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light of the world. I am the bread of

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life." He makes intercession for us.

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He's our sin bearer. And he's also the

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propitiation for our sins. So he's

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connected to every detail. Um even the

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sockets the thing rests on are silver

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which is redemption the silver

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redemption and so every every piece of

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material every color points to Jesus

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Christ it's one of the richest studies

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you can undertake to really get into

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behind that but of course that

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tabernacle gets replaced by a permanent

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structure by Solomon called this the

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Solomon's temple and it gets destroyed

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by the Babylonians and it is later

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rebuilt under Zerubbabible which what

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people call the second temple but it's a

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pretty meager representation of the

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previous one. So Herod in a way to try

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to

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raise his ratings, he rebuilt, he

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remodels the whole thing. We still call

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it the second temple. You and I would

20:28

tend to call it the third, but the

20:29

academic nomenclature. It's just a an

20:32

expansion and modernization of the of

20:34

the Zerubbable temple. That's Herod's

20:36

temple. The ark of the covenant was not

20:38

in there, by the way. That's another

20:39

whole thing to get into. But uh again we

20:43

have the same kind of architecture as

20:45

the tabernacle all the way through this

20:48

and we uh have the holy place except we

20:50

have more of them in Solomon's temple.

20:52

We have an inner court. We have the

20:54

holocaust altar. We have the molten sea

20:57

and for washing the labors of bronze and

20:59

then an outer court. So it has similar

21:02

but expanded representations what was

21:05

the original tabernacle. But we have

21:07

some other things going on in here. We

21:10

have a thing called the porch which has

21:12

been added and that has all kinds of

21:14

spiritual significance and if you really

21:16

want to get into this you want to see my

21:18

wife's book uh the way of agape and be

21:20

transformed because the the she

21:22

redevelops the spiritual application of

21:25

all of these things and you have the

21:27

wooden storooms around that where the

21:29

priests hid their own private things.

21:31

That's where they hid their idols and so

21:33

forth. And we have these two pillars

21:35

that don't hold up anything. They're

21:36

symbolically Yakan and Boaz. in in in

21:40

his counsel and his strength and so

21:42

forth. Personal stories for the priest.

21:44

These all have implications in our own

21:46

architecture

21:47

and my wife has developed that in

21:50

phenomenal ways. So I encourage you to

21:51

take a look at that. But let's talk

21:53

about Ezekiel because his his patterning

21:56

is pretty much very similar and I'm

21:58

laying it on a side because it's going

21:59

to be easier for us to draw it that way.

22:02

So I've shifted it a little bit. But

22:04

again, we have the the uh the uh

22:07

chambers for the singers identified and

22:10

we have the uh priest chambers

22:13

identified and uh we have the priest's

22:17

kitchens. Boy, they love to eat. So, in

22:20

any ways, it's pretty cool. And

22:22

expanding this further, we have the

22:23

inner gates and then we have a thing

22:26

called the outer gates.

22:28

And one of the things you need to

22:30

understand, there are passages in the

22:32

kingdom from heaven which have to do

22:34

with people that are excluded from the

22:37

wedding feast forcibly

22:40

and they're cast in the outer darkness.

22:43

And that's a mistransation of the Greek.

22:45

It's a very strange construction of the

22:47

Greek. They it's the the imagery that's

22:51

being portrayed there is the imagery of

22:54

the house of God but you're not in the

22:56

presence of the sheana.

22:58

So you can be in God's house but not in

23:00

the place of illumination if you will in

23:03

the darkness that's outside in effect.

23:05

And strange it may seem uh that's that

23:08

is the

23:10

consensus of the experts. We have

23:12

chambers of the outer court and we have

23:15

people's kitchens in the corners and we

23:18

have the outer gates and we have the

23:20

darkness that's outside. That's not

23:22

that's not Hades as we often jump to

23:25

that conclusion. Um it's a very strange

23:28

Greek translation for the darkness

23:30

that's outside. That's 23 times in the

23:32

Septuagent translation and it's a very

23:35

controversial rendering here. The Greek

23:38

term scottos is literally the shadow or

23:41

darkness. It's a relative term. It's the

23:43

outside place. It's a comparative

23:45

adjective, which means exo outside.

23:49

More accurately rendered, it's the

23:50

darkness further away, implying a place

23:52

that entails lesser illumination than

23:54

places closer in. That's the flavor of

23:56

the Greek. It's a very strange

23:58

construction. Septuagent employs this

24:00

over 20 times in the final chapters of

24:02

Ezekiel, which particularly deals with

24:04

the millennial temple. And so, the

24:06

darkness further away is the way the

24:08

International Standard Version Bible has

24:09

it. Not just any darkness, but darkness

24:11

that is outside some specific region of

24:13

light is the concept from GH Lang. In

24:16

that place, there'll be weeping and

24:17

nashing of teeth. Don't confuse that

24:19

with hell. That's a classic Hebrew

24:22

expression of extreme disappointment.

24:25

Weeping and nashing of teeth is not

24:27

necessarily satiological.

24:29

It's just extreme disappointment. And

24:32

apparently going to be some people that

24:33

are not going to be able to be

24:35

participants at the wedding supper that

24:37

are really upset about it. And so

24:40

this is denial of privileged access. So

24:43

it's frustration, disappointment, yet no

24:45

mention of torment or anything like

24:46

that. There's an inability to cope with

24:49

this situation is not necessarily

24:50

permanent by the way. So this is a very

24:53

controversial point of view. Darkness

24:55

outside is not hell. They experts in the

24:59

Greek English lexicon agrees with this.

25:01

Kenneth Wuest in his expanded

25:03

translation of Greek New Testament a

25:04

major major pivotal authority agrees

25:08

with what I was telling you. Sparzades

25:10

is his complete word study of the New

25:12

Testament agrees with this. The

25:14

International Standard Version Bible

25:16

leans on this pretty strongly. That's

25:18

where I got most of my counsel here.

25:20

Warren Wearsby his expositional

25:23

commentary Charles Stanley Edward Lutzer

25:26

the head of Moody also agrees and uh

25:29

there are other experts too. Joseph

25:31

Dillow is one of the first to highlight

25:33

this in his reign of the servant kings.

25:35

GH Lang and Ed a Edward Wilson are the

25:39

authorities here. So this is not a

25:40

fringe point of view. In fact, it's the

25:42

most enlightened uh of the of the

25:44

bonafide experts here. I say that

25:47

because I'm on the review committee for

25:48

the ISV and that's where I really got

25:51

into all of this. Now, let's talk about

25:54

the holy district as described in

25:55

Ezekiel 45. There's an area about 25,000

25:59

cubits square. The top 10,000 and the

26:03

middle 10,000. There's temple is is

26:06

probably about 50 miles away from

26:09

Jerusalem to the north. And the Levites

26:13

have an area to the north. Living

26:15

quarters for the sons of Zadok is where

26:16

the temple is and there the caravan.

26:18

Jerusalem is to the south. So it's a

26:21

very different geography in Ezekiel. And

26:24

there's some food food growing areas of

26:26

course. And there's a some portion aside

26:28

to the prince. Who is the prince? We're

26:29

not sure. It's a very strange

26:31

appellation. And uh what is that all

26:34

about? Water flows from the temple uh to

26:38

Jerusalem and then it flows to the

26:40

Mediterranean to the west and to the

26:42

Dead Sea to the east. And if we back up

26:45

a little bit, we find the land is

26:47

assigned then to the 12 tribes. And uh

26:52

Dan for the first time in uh in the

26:55

scripture is given first but but further

26:58

in the north and if you study the tribe

27:00

of Dan and the way the Holy Spirit

27:01

treats the tribe of Dan that in itself

27:03

is quite a study I'll let you get into

27:04

it but anyway there's a a portionment of

27:06

the land and so we get into there came

27:10

one of the seven angels which had the

27:11

seven vials full of the seven last

27:13

plagues and talked with me and saying

27:14

come hither and I will show thee the

27:16

bride the lamb's wife. Great. But where

27:20

does he take him to see her? And that's

27:22

into the new New Jerusalem. And so

27:25

that's where she goes. And so he carried

27:28

me away in the spirit to the great and

27:30

the high mountain and showed me the

27:31

great city, the holy Jerusalem,

27:33

descending out of heaven from God. Wow.

27:37

Having the glory of God. And her light

27:39

was like unto the stone most precious,

27:41

even the jasper stone clear as crystal.

27:43

My goodness. You know, it's interesting.

27:45

This city is what Abraham looked for.

27:48

And there's in contrast to the false

27:50

bride, the prostitute called mystery

27:52

Babylon, which is both a city and a

27:55

woman. Also here we have both a city and

27:57

a woman associated. The new Jerusalem

27:59

will be to eternity what the earthly

28:00

Jerusalem is to the millennium. He and

28:03

she that hath the bridegroom is the

28:05

bride. And so the citizens are

28:08

identified in the city in Revelation 22

28:11

ascending out of heaven and so forth.

28:13

And by the way, there's no reason to

28:15

limit it to any specific number of

28:17

dimensions.

28:18

Many artists who try to deal with this

28:20

presume it's at least three-dimensional,

28:22

maybe more. And it's not stated that it

28:25

comes to the earth. It's over the earth.

28:27

And so on it goes. There's there's

28:29

there's more mysteries hidden behind

28:31

each of the specifications here. John

28:32

was told to measure the city. That's

28:34

interesting. And it's 12,000 furlongs

28:37

cubed. That's why we always visualize it

28:40

in at least three dimensions. And if

28:43

it's taken a if a u a furlong is 606

28:46

feet measures different in that in

28:49

ancient days the me the city would be

28:51

about 1,400 miles on on a side

28:56

in three dimensions. Is it a cube? We

28:58

don't know. The Holy of Holies was a

29:01

cube. So that's sort of an appealing

29:03

parallel, but we're we're not sure. This

29:07

is one rendering, but it's just a guess

29:09

of some artists of the

29:12

New Jerusalem hovering over the earth.

29:15

So, we're dealing with some different

29:16

dimensionalities here. And if it's 1400

29:20

miles on a side, that turns out to be

29:22

2.7

29:24

times 109 cubic miles. And that means

29:26

there's about uh if you give every

29:29

person a quarter a half a cubic mile per

29:31

person, you've got six billion total.

29:33

That's kind of interesting. And uh we

29:35

can get into all kinds of wild

29:38

conjectures, but they're really pretty

29:39

meaningless because we're way out in

29:40

left field here. John was told to

29:43

measure the city. There is a cube that's

29:45

a four-dimensional cube. And it might be

29:47

interesting for us to understand that

29:49

because you and I can only think in

29:50

three dimensions. And I want to talk a

29:53

little bit about that. There is a thing

29:55

called a tesseract, which is a a

29:57

four-dimensional cube unraveled into

29:59

three dimensions.

30:01

Now, this gets into some hyperspace

30:03

things, and I don't want to get into a

30:04

whole offset here, but just to give you

30:06

a little bit of perspective, if you if

30:08

you are trying to communicate to a

30:10

two-dimensional universe, a

30:11

three-dimensional object, how would you

30:13

do that? Well, there's one way to do it,

30:15

and that's to unravel your three

30:16

dimensions into two dimensions. You

30:18

could take a box and you could unravel

30:20

it, lay it out flat, and that would be

30:22

one way to communicate to a

30:24

two-dimensional universe a

30:26

three-dimensional object. Well, you can

30:28

do that. You can take a four-dimensional

30:30

cube and unravel it into three

30:31

dimensions. And that happens to be

30:33

called a tesseract. It would look like

30:35

something like this. A four-dimensional

30:38

cube rave three dimensions. This is not

30:40

just a mathematical oddity. The only

30:43

place I've ever actually seen a

30:46

tesseract actually used

30:49

was by Salvador Dolly. And I was stunned

30:53

to realize that he was that

30:54

mathematically sophisticated to

30:56

understand what he was doing because he

30:58

uses a tesseract in his famous painting

31:00

of Corpus Christie.

31:02

He recognized that the dimensionality of

31:05

the crucifixion was in more than three

31:08

dimensions.

31:10

The bulls of Bashan encircled me. Jesus

31:12

says in Psalm 22, those are demons.

31:16

What he endured is beyond our imagining.

31:20

in Salvador Dolly sense that it was

31:22

hyperspace involved and so he unravels a

31:25

four-dimensional cube in a three

31:26

dimensions to give him to use his his uh

31:30

uh as his kernel idea here for this

31:33

famous painting. So that's kind of

31:35

interesting. So

31:39

obviously we're beyond our depth in

31:42

terms of trying to visualize these

31:43

things.

31:45

uh we do have some very relevant

31:47

materials but they go up vastly exceed

31:49

the the uh scope of what we're dealing

31:51

with here in the session and that has to

31:54

do with hyperspaces

31:56

and transdimensional travel and there we

31:59

know a great deal about those topics.

32:02

The more you know about those topics

32:04

from a mathematics or physics point of

32:06

view the more comfortable these topics

32:08

become from Revelation 21 and 22 and so

32:12

forth. But it's hard to summarize it

32:15

briefly as at least as in terms of a

32:17

scenario is concerned. Um it's also a

32:20

rather thin area of scriptural insight

32:23

because what we have is right there in

32:26

Revelation um 21 and 22. You can read it

32:29

yourself. But the more sophistication

32:32

you bring to that reading from the point

32:34

of view of understanding hyperspaces,

32:36

those are simply spaces of more than

32:38

three dimensions, the more comfortable

32:40

that all becomes because we're right on

32:42

the boundaries of the reality, the very

32:44

limited uh virtual digital reality we

32:47

live in. But to get into those topics

32:50

requires background that far exceeds the

32:52

foundation that we've laid for this

32:53

little conference. But we do point you

32:56

to our boundaries of reality series of

32:58

of materials. Um, if you want just a

33:01

quick summary of that, the first of the

33:02

four sessions on angels deals with that

33:05

with the macrocosm, the microcosm, and

33:07

the metacosm. What we mean by those

33:09

things, you'll find that illuminating if

33:11

that's an area of interest.

33:16

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