Psalm 37 please.
737.
Quiet, Lord, my trueward heart.
Make me teachable and mild, upright, simple, free
from ought.
Make me as a little child from distrust
and envy free, pleased with all that pleases
Thee.
737 please.
Welcome to the book of the Revelation, chapter
20, again this evening.
Book of the Revelation, chapter 20.
And we looked at the first three verses
last Tuesday.
We commence at verse 4 this evening, and
going right through to the end of verse
10.
We have seven verses this evening, and if
you give me five minutes for each verse,
that's thirty-five.
And if I take ten minutes at each
verse, then it's twice thirty-five.
And maybe some of them would need more
than ten minutes.
But we have seven verses, and I think
if you look carefully at these seven verses,
we have six doctrines.
I'm teaching a cloud of young and up
-and-coming preachers out of the Bible school
we have, and I'm teaching them as we
look down the passage, we must find all
the doctrines.
We take a good look at the passage
and we try to find the doctrines, and
that's most important.
And in these seven verses, we have six
doctrines.
There is the doctrine of the resurrection of
the saints, I have put it.
It's called, in verse 5, this is the
first resurrection.
And people who think about a general resurrection
should think again when they see the word
first.
If there was going to be a general
resurrection, why would you use the word first?
And this doctrine of the resurrection of the
saints is here.
And then, of course, the doctrine of the
reign of Christ is here.
It says at the end of verse 4,
and they lived and reigned with Christ a
thousand years.
And then there is the doctrine of the
rest of the dead, see verse 5, but
the rest of the dead lived not again
until the thousand years were finished.
And people who believe in a general judgment
and a general resurrection, you're bound to have
trouble with a phrase like that, the rest
of the dead lived not again.
Most of trouble with that, because it's absolutely
declaring to you that some have come out
from among the dead, and then the rest
of the dead lived not again.
Until the thousand years were finished.
I can't understand the mentality that believes in
the general judgment, and the general resurrection.
And then we have not only the resurrection
of the saints, and the reign of Christ,
and the rest of the dead, we have
the return of Satan.
See verse 7, it says, and when the
thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed.
Wonder what you would loosen for if there
was a general resurrection, and a general judgment.
That would be the big idea now, letting
them loose again.
I've never heard anyone trying to attempt this
who believed in the general resurrection, and in
the general judgment.
So that you have these doctrines, the resurrection
of the saints, the reign of Christ, the
rest of the dead, the return of Satan,
the rebellion of the nations.
You see verse 8 says, Satan shall go
out to deceive the nations which are in
the four quarters of the earth.
These are nations on earth.
After the one thousand years reign, after Satan
has been locked up for a thousand years,
he's being loosed, he can go out, he
can deceive the nations again.
And so these doctrines are here, and the
removal of Satan, you see.
Verse 10, the devil not deceived then, was
cast into the lake of fire and brimstone,
where the beast and the false prophet are.
And you remember the beast and the false
prophet were cast alive before the thousand years
began.
And they're still there at the end of
the thousand years, and they'll be there for
all eternity.
And the old devil shall be fermented day
and night, forever and ever.
These are the doctrines that lie in this
paragraph this evening, 7 verses, 6 doctrines.
But let's read from verse 4 as we
get down to the resurrection of the saints.
God said, and I saw thrones, and they
sat upon them, and judgment was given unto
them.
And I saw the souls of them that
were beheaded for the witness of Jesus.
And you must underline the word souls there,
because when we talk about beheading, we're talking
about the body.
And the Russell Acts cannot differentiate between body
and soul.
But John says, I saw the souls of
them that were beheaded.
You remember our Lord Jesus Christ said in
one occasion, fear not them, which are able
to kill the body, but cannot kill the
soul.
So, there is a difference, you know, between
body and soul.
And John's just seeing the souls of them
that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus,
and for the word of God, and which
had not worshipped the beast made of his
image, neither had received his mark upon the
foreheads or in the hands.
And they moved and reigned with Christ a
thousand years, but the rest are the dead.
He's differentiating between these people who died in
Christ, and the people who died without whom.
But the rest of the dead lived not
again until the thousand years were finished.
Then he makes this statement, this is the
first resurrection.
I want to be mean by that, because
we need to take all the scriptures with
us in this great race.
Now, I want to make this perfectly clear
to you, so let's go back and start
at Matthew's gospel.
Matthew chapter 27.
The gospel by Matthew, and at the 27th
chapter, and you must know that when you're
in the 27th chapter of Matthew, you're at
the cross.
And just the same time, verse 50.
Matthew 27, verse 50.
Jesus, when he had cried again with a
loud voice, Jesus yielded up the ghost.
It was just at that moment in the
crucifixion, when he cried, it is finished.
It was just then that he dismissed his
spirit, as one of the other gospels puts
it.
And it's something that you and I can't
do.
You know, he actually died for the ongoing.
We use a phraseology sometimes that's not just
correct, but we understand what it means.
We say, did you hear that so-and
-so died this morning?
Oh no, he didn't, you know.
So-and-so lived as long as he
could, and at last, in weakness, death overcame
him.
Because nobody steps into it that I know
of.
When Jesus died, he dismissed his spirit, he
gave up the ghost.
It's a tremendous thing.
He laid down his life, no man took
it from him.
And it says, just at that moment, verse
51, and behold the veil of the temple
was rent in twin from the top to
the bottom.
You know, something happened here.
The moment that Jesus Christ died outside the
city wall, the moment that he dismissed his
spirit, the moment that he gave up the
ghost, away back there in the temple, inside
the wall, the veil just rent in twin
from the top.
Mind you, that's a long way up from
the top of the veil, if we were
measuring it this evening, higher than the roofing,
so that no man took it.
This was something that was divine, from the
top to the bottom.
It was God that was making the way
open into the holiest of all.
Through the death of Christ, of course.
It says, and the graves, verse 52, and
the graves were opened.
There's a lot of openings there.
You'll find that the veil was opened, and
you'll find that the earthquake and the rocks
were opened, and then the graves were opened,
and many bodies, let's get this bit, because
the Russellites don't believe in bodily resurrection, and
many bodies of the saints which slept on
earth, and just mark who they are now.
They're the bodies of saints.
No unsaved people came out at that moment,
just the bodies of saints which slept, arose,
and came out of the graves after his
resurrection.
Let's get that bit in very carefully, because
that must be put in.
You see, when Christ died on the cross,
the veil of the temple was rent entwined
from top to the bottom over in the
temple, and the whole earth shook, and the
rocks went, and after he rose from the
dead, after his resurrection, these bodies of the
saints rose.
Don't let's make any mistake in how the
order is here.
For you see, in resurrection, Christ must have
the pre-eminence.
He came out first, then after his resurrection.
Somebody argued with me once and said, you
know, you're not right in saying that Christ
came out first.
Surely Lazarus was brought back from the dead,
surely the widow's son was brought back from
the dead.
Now, any resurrections we have in the Gospels,
remember these people died again.
Remember when Christ arose, he abolished death.
Death had no more dominion over him.
He was the first to rise in the
power of an endless life.
And after his resurrection, just there, you know,
these bodies of the saints arose, and came
out of the graves after the resurrection, and
went into the holy city, went into Jerusalem,
and appeared unto many.
My, I tell you, that would be a
frightening experience, wouldn't it?
Some fellow that had died maybe thirty years
ago, that he had gone to school, but
you see him walking around one night, put
the fear into you, wouldn't it?
I remember, you know, there used to be
a story in New Tarnage that there was
a wee white woman appeared in one of
the streets.
All the days of my life they talked
about this wee white woman.
And I used to teach the Bible class
of young fellows, about two hundred of them
in my early days, and the Bible class
meant like this, that as I read you
could stand up anywhere and ask questions.
And sometimes it went on to two in
the morning.
And I was coming home one morning, Bible
below my arm, it was nearly three in
the morning, talking to myself about some of
the questions, turned into the street, you know.
It was an old gas lamp that was
at the end of the street, and it
was going out, and then, you know, it
made you feel funny in the dark.
I turned into the street, not thinking, and
then I saw this wee white woman on
the side of the footpath.
My, I can actually remember my hair moving.
I had hair in those days, yes.
And I could hear my heart, you know.
It was going like that.
I had the touch of her, but it
was going like that.
And I saw this wee thing, and then
I said to myself, sure, I don't believe
this.
I don't believe there's a wee white woman.
And then the wee white woman moved from
that side of the street over to that
one.
And that made me sit up and take
notice.
And then it came back again, and it
came back nearer me, from back here to
the wall of me.
And I was very nearly going to run,
you know.
And then I took a breath, and I
said to myself, well, I don't care what
you are.
I'll see what you are.
I didn't do this very bravely.
I went slowly.
I had my head thrown up, you know.
And there was a wee color in his
pajamas, walking in his sleep.
And you know, I'm so glad I didn't
run.
If I had run around that corner, and
down and out of the next street, you
know, I would have believed to this day
that I saw this wee white woman.
Well, this was no wee white woman.
There he was, standing with a lovely set
of pajamas on.
He must have been about three, sound asleep
he was.
And I looked at him and said, what
are you doing out at this time of
the night?
I don't think he heard me.
But he turned, and on up the street,
and I followed him.
Looked over his bare feet.
You couldn't hear him go.
It was funny.
And he walked in there, an open door.
And on up the stairs.
The stairs just started at the bottom of
the hall, and went on up the stairs.
And I watched them go on.
And then I ruffled the door.
I said, is there anybody there?
No lady came to the top of the
stairs.
She says, but we'd never let her out
again.
So if you're going home, and you see
something white, don't get excited.
You won't see anything this night worse looking
than me.
You're all right.
But I can tell you that on this
occasion, the bodies of the saints which slept,
arose, and went into the city.
Now let's get this quite clear.
These are saints.
They've been raised from the dead.
This is resurrection.
This is bodily resurrection.
Because our Lord is going to ascend to
heaven.
And I'm telling you, he's taking some of
the saints in with him.
Just taking a few out.
These are the first fruits.
And he's going to march into heaven.
And he's going to show them heaven.
What the cross can do.
What a lovely little army he walked in
with.
They're there yet, you know.
These were saints.
Didn't raise them all at that time.
Just some of the bodies of saints which
slept, arose.
Not them all.
Just the last few.
The first fruits of Calvary.
Must have been a lovely sight as he
walked into heaven with these saints.
He had put away their sin.
He had defeated the devil.
He had overcome the grave.
He had abolished death.
He walked in a perfect victory.
Now, you remember when we were looking the
other evening, let's go over a bit to
1 Thessalonians chapter 4.
Paul's writing to young believers here.
Sometimes young believers get things mixed up.
Paul didn't like them to get things mixed
up.
And in 1 Thessalonians chapter 4 verse 13
he said this, But I would not have
you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which
are asleep.
That ye fall or not, even as others
which have no hope.
You see, he's talking to them about some
of their friends who have fallen asleep in
Jesus.
He says, For if we believe that Jesus
died and rose again, and we most certainly
do, even so then also would sleep in
Jesus.
That's the crowd we're talking about.
We're just not talking about all the people
that died.
We're just talking about folks that die in
the Lord, asleep in Jesus.
He doesn't want them to be ignorant about
this.
He says, For this we say unto you
by the word of the Lord, that we
believers which are alive and remain unto the
coming of the Lord.
You know, we might be that very crowd
that he was talking about.
I'm very sure you know that the coming
of the Lord is very near.
And if we're going to be a part
of this great company of believers, how are
we going to be alive and remain when
Christ comes?
I'm sure that will be.
He says, that we which are alive and
remain unto the coming of the Lord shall
not prevent them which are asleep.
And the word prevent is an old word
in the Greek, and the word prevent is
all out of shape as to what it
was in that day.
It means we shall not go before them.
David talks about preventing the sun rising with
his prayers.
He didn't mean that he kept the sun
from rising.
He meant that he was up before the
sun was up.
And this is what Paul's talking about.
He says, you know, we'll not go before
them.
They're asleep.
It's true.
Their bodies are in there.
We'll not run away and leave them.
When Jesus comes, you know, and he could
come this night.
And we believers which are alive and remain,
you know, we'll not go before these saints
that are in the grave.
Here's what will happen, verse 16.
For the Lord himself, and I love that
bit, the Lord himself shall defend from heaven
with a shout.
You know, if that shout just rang through
the heavens now, every believer in this building
would move out through the roof and on
up into the sky to meet the Lord.
And some of you would be left here.
You can see what you're like with this
church.
Nobody will be worried about it.
It's stupid.
Have a club in it.
Do whatever you like.
You'll be okay.
We'll not come and die.
We'll leave.
And if we leave you tonight sitting there,
you'll be damned for all eternity.
You've fiddled about too long.
You'll be left behind and the door will
be shut in your face.
When the Lord shouts, cry out with the
shepherd of the sheep, and the sheep will
hear his voice.
All the sheep will move, black and white
and red and yellow.
Go, go.
But I'll tell you this, there's a bit
more there.
It says, for the Lord himself shall descend
from heaven with a shout, with the voice
of the archangel.
What's he got to do with it anyway?
Surely the Lord's another.
Oh, you know, the archangel's a very wonderful
person in the heavens.
Sometimes I hear the preachers talking about the
archangels.
Well, there are no archangels, sir.
There's just one archangel.
His name is Michael.
Very special character he is.
And you know, if we were to go
through the doctrine of the archangel Michael this
evening, you would find that right from the
time that God called Abraham out of all
of the Calves, he gave a job, a
special job, to this archangel to look after
these Jews.
Why, when the body of Moses had to
be raised, and he was a Jew, the
archangel had to come down, and then the
devil says, now you can't take them out
of this grave.
The devil disputed with the archangel.
And you know, it tells me that not
only all the bodies of all the saints
of this church age will rise because they're
the sheep of Christ's pasture, but it tells
me all the bodies of the Old Testament
saints will rise, because the voice of the
archangel will call them out.
Now we've got something.
You see, we've got all the saints from
the beginning right down to the moment that
Christ comes.
But only saints.
Don't get it mixed up, you know.
It's just the bodies of saints again.
The bodies of saints of the church age.
Bodies of saints, Old Testament saints, for they
with us, you know, will not be made
perfect.
Now, you see, when we come along to
Revenation 20, where we are tonight, you see,
these are the bodies of the tribulation saints.
How many of you know this?
Now sit steady for a moment.
You see, when Jesus died and rose again,
the bodies, some of the bodies of the
saints, just some of the bodies, this is
this first group.
I don't know how many were in this
group.
The Lord took them out just to let
all heaven see what he would do eventually
one day.
And we're nearly at the spot where Christ
will come again, and there are all the
Old Testament and all the New Testament saints
who are alive.
You know, a tremendous lot of saints.
They're all out.
And the moment we go marching into heaven,
the tribulation will start down here.
And God is going to have a lot
of witnesses down here who were not in
the church at all.
And they're going to die.
They're going to be beheaded for their witness.
They're not going to receive the mark of
a beast, and they'll be beheaded, and their
bodies will be left out of nowhere.
Oh, well, you see, at the end of
the tribulation period where we are in Revelation
20, you know, he's going to raise the
bodies of these saints so that you have
these few at the cross, then you have
this tremendous company when he comes to the
air, and all the Old Testament saints, and
then you have all the bodies now of
the tribulation saints, and all the saints that
ever were are out.
They're all out.
This is the first resurrection.
The first resurrection has to do with saints.
There may be many departments of it, but
this is the first resurrection.
When we get all the bodies of all
the saints that ever died, when we get
them out, this is the first resurrection.
That's what he's talking about.
He's got the whole of that.
Because I don't think you could make any
mistakes about that.
Well, look at Revelation 20 again.
He says, And I saw thrones, and they
sat upon them, and judgment was given unto
them.
And I saw the souls of them that
were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and
for the word of God, which had not
worshipped the beast.
These people lived in the time of the
beast, the Antichrist.
Neither his image, neither had received his mark
upon the collared, or in their hands.
And they lived, and reigned with Christ a
thousand years.
Now, let's get the hold of this.
But the last of the dead lived not
again until the thousand years were finished.
This is the first resurrection.
You see, when you get all the saints
out, that's the first resurrection complete.
There's no more of them to get out.
They're all out now.
That's what they're up to.
Meaning, in the Greek way, this is the
first resurrection complete.
That's what it is.
They're all on the resurrection of saints.
You see, next phase, the rest of the
dead.
Oh, well, you see, next Tuesday we're going
to look at the resurrection of the rest
of the dead.
Look at verse 11.
We'll not take anything out of it.
And I saw, John's watching, isn't he?
A great white throne, and him that sat
on it, from whose face the earth and
the heavens fled away, and there was found
no place for them.
And I saw the dead.
Oh, that's the rest of the dead.
Small and clay, stand before God.
The books are going to be opened.
This cloud is going to be damned.
Oh, we'll look into that very carefully next
Tuesday, won't we?
Because that's the rest of the dead.
Small and clay, stand before God, and the
books will be opened.
Look, it's not about the saints, that there'll
be no condemnation, you know, for them that
are in Christ.
Nobody opening books on them, you know.
They're going to be judged.
Their judgment fell on Christ.
Somebody took my place, and took the wrath
that was due to me.
And time and God can't trust in man.
First at my bleeding surety hand, then again
at mine.
But I want you to get this thousand
-year reign into your heart, you know.
Because this is a tremendous thing.
They lived, and reigned with Christ a thousand
years.
You remember we were looking last week at
the angel coming down from heaven?
You remember how verse 2 said, he laid
hold on the dread, that old serpent which
is the devil, and set him, and binds
him a thousand years.
Sometimes they come and argue with me about
this, that there's not a thing here literal.
And then I say, is the angel literal?
Is heaven literal?
Is the devil literal?
Surely you wouldn't dare to say that they
were not.
So angels are real, you know, and heaven
is real, and the old serpent is only
too real.
Well the angel laid hold on him a
check.
I like that bit, you know, came near
and laid hold on him.
And it says, and bound him.
And it says, and cast him into the
bottomless pit.
And we went into that last Monday, last
Tuesday.
We went into this, the bottomless pit was
too green, wasn't it, when we examined it.
Now while he's bound for a thousand years,
you know, Christ is going to set up
his throne on this earth, and reign for
a thousand years.
So many things will happen.
You know, my friends who argue with me,
they try to spiritualize all this.
I ask one in a month, what way
would you spiritualize the devil being shut away
for a thousand years, so that he could
deceive the nations no more?
And you know, there's not one who can
make a mark on that.
Because you know, they try to go back
to Calvary, and then I show them just
how much deception has been going on right
down through the church age.
Why it was the devil that put into
the heart of Ananias and Sapphira to tell
the lies.
He wasn't bound that day.
But we went into that last week.
Now we're going to have a thousand years
down here, and there's going to be a
change in the spirit world.
There's going to be no devil.
My, we can get rid of him, you
know, it'll be wonderful.
No devil for a thousand years.
You know, some god made this world, and
created man, male and female, and placed them
in the garden.
We've always had a devil.
And right down from the Beguiled Age, that's
what the New Testament says, right to this
moment, right on through the tribulation, right to
the end of the tribulation, we'll have the
devil.
But God is going to take them all
for a thousand years.
That will be a change in the spirit
world.
Now let me show you a few changes
that will take place at the same time,
just in case you would try to spiritualize
it.
Have a look at Isaiah chapter 2 please.
Prophecy of Isaiah, and we're at the second
chapter, verse 1.
The word that Isaiah, the son of Amos,
saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
Oh, you need to read it just like
that.
Don't be thinking that Judah is something else,
and don't be daring to think that Jerusalem
is something else.
This is a Jewish prophet, and he can
see Judah, the two tribes, and Jerusalem, the
city.
And he says it shall come to pass
in the last days.
Mind you, the last days of Israel's history
is something worth thinking about.
That the mountain of the Lord's house shall
be established in the top of the mountains,
and shall be exalted above the hills, and
all nations shall fall into it.
And many people shall go and say, come
and let us go up to the mountain
of the Lord, to the house of the
God of Jacob.
And he will teach us his ways, and
we will walk in his path.
For out of Zion shall go forth the
law, and the word of the Lord from
Jerusalem.
And he shall judge among the nations.
Now, he didn't do that the last time
he was here.
And even though he's calling out the people
for his name, he's not doing that yet.
And shall rebuke many people, and they shall
beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears
into pruning hooks.
Nations shall not lift up sword against nation,
neither shall I learn war anymore.
You wouldn't like to take me through history,
and tell me where it happened, would you?
Because all you great historians, I would defy
you to do it, you know.
Just go right back as far as you
like, and find me the spot where the
nations learned war no more, just find it
now.
You see, we're going to have a change
in the spirit realm when Jesus reigns.
Oh devil, the mob are there.
We're going to have a change in the
national realm.
The nations will be changed.
My, look across your nations tonight.
Why, there's war, and rumors of war in
every house.
And not only that, let's get this bit
in.
Let's have a look at Isaiah 65, prophecy
of Isaiah.
And we're at 65, way near the end
of the book now.
Isaiah 65, down
the chapter, says here, verse 17, For behold,
I create new heavens and a new earth.
Just leave that on the side for a
moment.
The former shall not be remembered, nor come
into mind.
But be ye glad and rejoice forever in
that which I create.
For behold, I create Jerusalem.
Couldn't it do something with Jerusalem?
A rejoicing, and for people a joy.
And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy
in my people.
And the voice of weeping shall be no
more heard in her, nor the voice of
crying.
There shall be no more sense, an infant
of days, nor an old man that hath
not felled his days.
For the child shall die an hundred years
old.
My, even dying at a hundred, you'd be
like a child.
But the sinner, being an hundred years old,
shall be accursed.
And they shall build houses, and inhabit them.
They shall plant vineyards, and eat of the
fruit of them.
They shall not build, and another inhabit.
They shall not plant, and another eat.
For of the days of a tree are
the days of my people.
You know, there's not only going to be
a change in the spirit world, and a
change in the national world, but there's going
to be a change in the physical.
You know, we think that when a fellow
reaches a hundred years of age now, he's
doing pretty well.
You know, when we go back to the
beginning of Genesis, we find that man lived
a long time.
Methuselah, nine hundred and sixty-nine years.
He wasn't far from a thousand, mind you.
But when Christ comes, and the devil's taken
out, and the nations learn more and more,
there's going to be a change in the
physical well-being of men.
Some of them will live the whole millennium
right through, as old as a tree.
Ah, there'll be changes.
You see, when Jesus reigns, there'll be changes.
Change in the spirit world, change in the
national world, change in the physical, change in
the animal.
Why, the lion will lie down in peace
with the lamb.
Oh, they're wild beasts for my people.
The Lord will change wild things.
You know, when he was here in the
days of his flesh, and he was in
the wilderness, forty days and forty nights being
unhungered, it said in Mark's Gospel, chapter one,
the wild beasts will descend.
He just came and left all around his
feet, you know.
He was the Lord.
He's going to reign one day, and the
lion will lie down with the lamb.
There'll be a change in the animal world.
You know, there'll be a change in the
vegetable world.
The book of Amos, chapter nine, says that
the sower will overtake the reaper.
What a harvest we're going to have.
You won't be able to gather it in.
When you have barley these days, and you're
getting too dumb for the echo, you're licking
your lips.
Well, you might.
I'll tell you this, when the sower is
overtaking the reaper, you're getting some harvest.
It's going to be a change, you see.
You know, would you like to try to
spiritualize all this, because I would put a
thumb before you, you would be in the
picture.
One fellow said to me, do you see
all these things that you're doing?
This is heaven.
So I said, they're going to die in
heaven, aren't they?
The child's going to die in heaven.
You're heaven.
And his fiend was all upset, just because
I said the child was going to die.
He said, you're daft.
Can you not read?
Oh, and all the Lord's coming back, and
he's coming to take the throne of his
father David, and he's going to reign for
one thousand years, and the devil will be
put out, and the nations will learn war
no more.
The Prince of Peace will be here, and
there'll be a change in the physical well
-being of people, and there'll be a change
in the animal world, and there'll be a
change in the vegetable world.
What a wonderful thing it will be for
a thousand years.
Now, let's go back to Revelation 20, and
let's see this bit.
Revelation 20, we'll find this, we'll not touch
the rest of the dead tonight.
That will come in next Tuesday, if the
Lord will.
And it says at verse 7, and then
the thousand years are expired.
They'll go past, you know.
Satan shall be loosed out of his prison.
My, they're going to let him loose again.
Now, isn't that really strange, you know?
Every time that I talk to these amillennialists,
you know, and I say, you know, they're
going to lock Satan up, they say, this
is just, this is just a spiritual thing.
One fellow said to me the other day,
you know, Satan's bound now, bound to Calvary.
I says, I'll tell you what Peter says,
you'll have to say, the devil goes about
as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may
devour.
Who do you think I'll believe, you or
the book?
I don't talk trite, because we haven't time
for trite.
Who's carrying on the business if he's bound?
Oh no, when Christ comes to take up
the throne, he'll be bound.
Why will we let him loose again, is
the fair question.
You see, God has worked with men right
down through the ages.
He's tried them every conceivable way.
You see, in Eden's garden, he tried the
age of innocence.
Oh, they were innocent.
I'll tell you how the age of innocence
ended.
It ended with God having to drive the
two of them out of the garden.
They had to put them out.
And then came a period from there, right
up to the floods, when he tried men
with uncle Otto.
They were not under law, you know, quite
law.
And it ended with them being possessed of
demons, and God had to bring a flood
to destroy them.
Then after more, came this great period when
he would call out Abraham and form the
nation.
And he was taking a nation now, and
he left nation, and he put them under
the law, the ten commandments.
Do you know how the age of law
ended?
Just like the rest of them.
It ended with God having to reject Israel,
and cast them off.
So that when God tried men under innocence,
it doesn't work.
When God tried men without law, it doesn't
work.
When God tried men under law, it doesn't
work.
See where we are tonight.
We're under grace tonight.
But my God has given us every blessing
that we're ever going to need in Christ.
And there's all powerful, and wisdom, and blessing,
and everything.
God's just lavishing it upon our heads, and
it's all ours for the taking.
And you know there's some of us living
as miserable as the Jews were living under
the law.
I'll tell you that churches go to end
in a lair of sin.
As lukewarm as can be.
Oh we do a lot of talking, and
we do a lot of shouting, and we
do a lot of bi-beliefing, and we
do very little else.
That's just how this age is going to
end.
You'll have to come and take the church
away.
And in the tribulation periods, it's going to
have to come in judgment upon the Antichrist
and the beast.
And then when the millennial runs for a
thousand years with Christ on the throne, and
no devil, and everything going well, I'll tell
you the minute that the devil is let
loose, you know, in a world that has
had Christ for a thousand years, the devil
can get an army in the next day.
Somebody said to me once, you know, if
all these people were brought into this millennial
kingdom, and they were all righteous people at
the beginning, how is the devil going to
get this army?
I don't think there's any problem.
You know, as long as we're on this
earth, and families are going to grow, you
see, in the millennial reign, there won't be
too many deaths.
But the people will live almost a thousand
years right through.
And if they're going to live, they're going
to have a lot of children.
But, Martha, it doesn't make a matter of
where you're born, or what dispensation you're born
in.
When you're born, you're born a sinner.
You stick to all of that, you know,
when a wee tiny thought comes into her
heart.
And at our church, she's in the meeting
now, bless her.
I think she had her first baby, bigger
than ours.
She's just out and down the street in
the prom the first day, and came to
see me, and I'm lying in bed, I
wasn't well.
I heard her talking to Miss Moore, and
then she brings them up and puts them
on the bed beside me.
You know, she was so delighted, her eyes
were Why wouldn't she be?
She says to me, isn't he nice, Mr.
Moore?
And I thought I would test her out,
you know.
I said, he's a sinner.
She says, he's not a sinner.
He says, he is.
She says, he hasn't said anything wrong.
That's right.
I said, I'll tell you what's more.
He hasn't thought anything wrong either.
I'll tell you what's more, he hasn't done
anything wrong, neither in thought or word or
deed, says he or she.
I'll tell you there's a thing inside that
you can't see, it's called an old mason.
And you'll not have to teach him to
tell lies, you know.
Somehow you get the grip of that.
You'll not have to teach him to say
naughty words, dear.
You'll have to try to stop him before
he's much older.
A farmer never tried to teach young ducks
to swim yet, because they've got a nature,
they just walk into the water.
The chickens don't bother, they know better.
Funny, isn't it?
Yeah, that's what you call nature.
I'll tell you what it says in this
book, by nature we were children of wrath.
You see, I wasn't a sinner because I
sinned.
I was a sinner because I had a
sinful nature inside.
You know, when I say things like that,
I know there are mothers in the meeting
and they begin to think they lost a
young baby.
Mother said to me once, why can't death
come and take my soul?
Because of a thing called sin, dear.
The wages of sin is always death.
And you know, wee babies die, and mother
parts are broken.
So, tell your son, sir, you see this
wee baby, 24 inches long, he's got dimples
in his cheeks, he's an innocent wee thing,
and he dies.
The only reason that death can claim him
is because there's a thing inside called sin.
Now make a difference, please.
I'm not talking about sins.
He hasn't any sins.
He is just a thing called sin.
That's his nature.
That's what condemns him.
When our Lord Jesus came to this world,
he became the Lamb of God to bear
away the sin of the world.
There's no child will go to hell because
it dies in childhood.
My, it will go to heaven because Jesus
died for it.
I, you mothers, should praise God for the
Lamb of God, for he bore away.
The sins of the earth, the sins of
the world, that's all dealt with enough.
But when the kid grows up a bit
and comes to the years of responsibility, it
changes from sin to sins.
Some of you old fellows are sinners, by
practice.
If you die in your sins where Jesus
is, you'll never be.
See, I believe this this evening, that on
the cross he became the Lamb of God
to bear away my sin, that thing that
condemned me when I was born.
But then I also believe now, although I
committed terrible things and got drunk every night
and was in all sorts of things I
shouldn't have been in, I believe that he
his own self bear my sins.
That's different.
Bear my sins in his own body of
the truth.
He saved me there, you know.
And where are sins?
And we're asking on the work of the
cross, not on popish water.
Oh, not at all.
They run with the kid now to get
him christened, as they say, in case he's
damned, I'll blur it.
Water wouldn't save him anyway.
It's the blood of the Lamb to save
him, whether he's young or old.
Oh no, what do we go on with
this popish nonsense for?
Friend, you know when they're born in the
millennial, and men live for so long, and
families will get so big, all the kids
that were born in there are born sinners.
Oh, the devil will no bother getting an
army.
And he's let loose, there'll be a crowd
of them.
He only needs to go round with his
detection again, and they have an army on
the fields, from every quarter of this earth
of ours.
He'd go to the four quarters, it says.
Verse 8.
And shall go out to defeat the nations,
and mark the nations which are in the
four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog.
To gather them together to battle, the number
of whom is of the sand of the
sea.
He'll get the big army the next day.
In fact, they'll go up after him.
They went up on the breads of the
earth, encompassed the camp of the saints about
under beloved city.
And you know when they marched behind the
devil on this occasion, it's the last march.
Fire will come down from God out of
heaven and evolve.
I'll tell you that'll be the most dreadful
day this world will ever see.
Where the very elements will melt that day.
The seven stars will melt.
And all the oil down in the barrels
of the earth will go to the flood.
And the atmosphere that's so full of atomic
energy will blast.
What a day it'll be.
Hope you'll not be there.
And God will deal with the devil.
That's where we're ending tonight at verse 10.
And the devil that received them was cast
into the lake of fire and brimstone.
Where the beast and the false prophet are,
we saw them both being thrown in one
thousand years before this.
They're there still.
They're there.
They'll be there for all eternity.
My, they talk to me about there's no
torment itself here.
He shall be tormented day and night forever
and ever.
And people in hell to might are in
torment.
And next Tuesday, the Lord will see the
rest of the dead at the great white
throne.
Then two verses, two verses of 1084.
On the 84, 1084, Jesus shall reign forever
from death.
The success of journey's wrong.
We'll sing the first two verses.
1084 please.