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Psalm 37 please.

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737.

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Quiet, Lord, my trueward heart.

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Make me teachable and mild, upright, simple, free

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from ought.

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Make me as a little child from distrust

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and envy free, pleased with all that pleases

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Thee.

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737 please.

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Welcome to the book of the Revelation, chapter

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20, again this evening.

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Book of the Revelation, chapter 20.

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And we looked at the first three verses

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last Tuesday.

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We commence at verse 4 this evening, and

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going right through to the end of verse

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10.

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We have seven verses this evening, and if

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you give me five minutes for each verse,

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that's thirty-five.

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And if I take ten minutes at each

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verse, then it's twice thirty-five.

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And maybe some of them would need more

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than ten minutes.

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But we have seven verses, and I think

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if you look carefully at these seven verses,

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we have six doctrines.

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I'm teaching a cloud of young and up

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-and-coming preachers out of the Bible school

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we have, and I'm teaching them as we

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look down the passage, we must find all

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the doctrines.

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We take a good look at the passage

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and we try to find the doctrines, and

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that's most important.

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And in these seven verses, we have six

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doctrines.

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There is the doctrine of the resurrection of

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the saints, I have put it.

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It's called, in verse 5, this is the

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first resurrection.

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And people who think about a general resurrection

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should think again when they see the word

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first.

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If there was going to be a general

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resurrection, why would you use the word first?

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And this doctrine of the resurrection of the

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saints is here.

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And then, of course, the doctrine of the

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reign of Christ is here.

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It says at the end of verse 4,

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and they lived and reigned with Christ a

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thousand years.

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And then there is the doctrine of the

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rest of the dead, see verse 5, but

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the rest of the dead lived not again

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until the thousand years were finished.

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And people who believe in a general judgment

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and a general resurrection, you're bound to have

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trouble with a phrase like that, the rest

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of the dead lived not again.

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Most of trouble with that, because it's absolutely

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declaring to you that some have come out

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from among the dead, and then the rest

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of the dead lived not again.

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Until the thousand years were finished.

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I can't understand the mentality that believes in

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the general judgment, and the general resurrection.

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And then we have not only the resurrection

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of the saints, and the reign of Christ,

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and the rest of the dead, we have

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the return of Satan.

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See verse 7, it says, and when the

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thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed.

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Wonder what you would loosen for if there

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was a general resurrection, and a general judgment.

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That would be the big idea now, letting

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them loose again.

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I've never heard anyone trying to attempt this

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who believed in the general resurrection, and in

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the general judgment.

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So that you have these doctrines, the resurrection

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of the saints, the reign of Christ, the

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rest of the dead, the return of Satan,

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the rebellion of the nations.

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You see verse 8 says, Satan shall go

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out to deceive the nations which are in

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the four quarters of the earth.

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These are nations on earth.

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After the one thousand years reign, after Satan

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has been locked up for a thousand years,

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he's being loosed, he can go out, he

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can deceive the nations again.

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And so these doctrines are here, and the

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removal of Satan, you see.

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Verse 10, the devil not deceived then, was

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cast into the lake of fire and brimstone,

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where the beast and the false prophet are.

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And you remember the beast and the false

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prophet were cast alive before the thousand years

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began.

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And they're still there at the end of

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the thousand years, and they'll be there for

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all eternity.

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And the old devil shall be fermented day

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and night, forever and ever.

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These are the doctrines that lie in this

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paragraph this evening, 7 verses, 6 doctrines.

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But let's read from verse 4 as we

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get down to the resurrection of the saints.

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God said, and I saw thrones, and they

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sat upon them, and judgment was given unto

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them.

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And I saw the souls of them that

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were beheaded for the witness of Jesus.

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And you must underline the word souls there,

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because when we talk about beheading, we're talking

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about the body.

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And the Russell Acts cannot differentiate between body

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and soul.

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But John says, I saw the souls of

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them that were beheaded.

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You remember our Lord Jesus Christ said in

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one occasion, fear not them, which are able

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to kill the body, but cannot kill the

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soul.

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So, there is a difference, you know, between

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body and soul.

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And John's just seeing the souls of them

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that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus,

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and for the word of God, and which

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had not worshipped the beast made of his

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image, neither had received his mark upon the

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foreheads or in the hands.

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And they moved and reigned with Christ a

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thousand years, but the rest are the dead.

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He's differentiating between these people who died in

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Christ, and the people who died without whom.

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But the rest of the dead lived not

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again until the thousand years were finished.

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Then he makes this statement, this is the

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first resurrection.

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I want to be mean by that, because

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we need to take all the scriptures with

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us in this great race.

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Now, I want to make this perfectly clear

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to you, so let's go back and start

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at Matthew's gospel.

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Matthew chapter 27.

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The gospel by Matthew, and at the 27th

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chapter, and you must know that when you're

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in the 27th chapter of Matthew, you're at

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the cross.

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And just the same time, verse 50.

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Matthew 27, verse 50.

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Jesus, when he had cried again with a

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loud voice, Jesus yielded up the ghost.

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It was just at that moment in the

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crucifixion, when he cried, it is finished.

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It was just then that he dismissed his

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spirit, as one of the other gospels puts

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it.

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And it's something that you and I can't

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do.

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You know, he actually died for the ongoing.

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We use a phraseology sometimes that's not just

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correct, but we understand what it means.

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We say, did you hear that so-and

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-so died this morning?

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Oh no, he didn't, you know.

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So-and-so lived as long as he

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could, and at last, in weakness, death overcame

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him.

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Because nobody steps into it that I know

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of.

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When Jesus died, he dismissed his spirit, he

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gave up the ghost.

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It's a tremendous thing.

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He laid down his life, no man took

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it from him.

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And it says, just at that moment, verse

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51, and behold the veil of the temple

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was rent in twin from the top to

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the bottom.

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You know, something happened here.

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The moment that Jesus Christ died outside the

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city wall, the moment that he dismissed his

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spirit, the moment that he gave up the

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ghost, away back there in the temple, inside

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the wall, the veil just rent in twin

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from the top.

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Mind you, that's a long way up from

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the top of the veil, if we were

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measuring it this evening, higher than the roofing,

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so that no man took it.

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This was something that was divine, from the

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top to the bottom.

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It was God that was making the way

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open into the holiest of all.

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Through the death of Christ, of course.

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It says, and the graves, verse 52, and

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the graves were opened.

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There's a lot of openings there.

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You'll find that the veil was opened, and

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you'll find that the earthquake and the rocks

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were opened, and then the graves were opened,

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and many bodies, let's get this bit, because

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the Russellites don't believe in bodily resurrection, and

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many bodies of the saints which slept on

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earth, and just mark who they are now.

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They're the bodies of saints.

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No unsaved people came out at that moment,

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just the bodies of saints which slept, arose,

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and came out of the graves after his

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resurrection.

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Let's get that bit in very carefully, because

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that must be put in.

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You see, when Christ died on the cross,

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the veil of the temple was rent entwined

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from top to the bottom over in the

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temple, and the whole earth shook, and the

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rocks went, and after he rose from the

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dead, after his resurrection, these bodies of the

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saints rose.

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Don't let's make any mistake in how the

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order is here.

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For you see, in resurrection, Christ must have

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the pre-eminence.

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He came out first, then after his resurrection.

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Somebody argued with me once and said, you

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know, you're not right in saying that Christ

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came out first.

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Surely Lazarus was brought back from the dead,

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surely the widow's son was brought back from

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the dead.

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Now, any resurrections we have in the Gospels,

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remember these people died again.

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Remember when Christ arose, he abolished death.

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Death had no more dominion over him.

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He was the first to rise in the

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power of an endless life.

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And after his resurrection, just there, you know,

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these bodies of the saints arose, and came

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out of the graves after the resurrection, and

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went into the holy city, went into Jerusalem,

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and appeared unto many.

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My, I tell you, that would be a

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frightening experience, wouldn't it?

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Some fellow that had died maybe thirty years

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ago, that he had gone to school, but

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you see him walking around one night, put

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the fear into you, wouldn't it?

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I remember, you know, there used to be

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a story in New Tarnage that there was

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a wee white woman appeared in one of

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the streets.

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All the days of my life they talked

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about this wee white woman.

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And I used to teach the Bible class

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of young fellows, about two hundred of them

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in my early days, and the Bible class

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meant like this, that as I read you

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could stand up anywhere and ask questions.

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And sometimes it went on to two in

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the morning.

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And I was coming home one morning, Bible

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below my arm, it was nearly three in

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the morning, talking to myself about some of

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the questions, turned into the street, you know.

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It was an old gas lamp that was

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at the end of the street, and it

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was going out, and then, you know, it

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made you feel funny in the dark.

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I turned into the street, not thinking, and

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then I saw this wee white woman on

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the side of the footpath.

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My, I can actually remember my hair moving.

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I had hair in those days, yes.

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And I could hear my heart, you know.

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It was going like that.

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I had the touch of her, but it

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was going like that.

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And I saw this wee thing, and then

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I said to myself, sure, I don't believe

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this.

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I don't believe there's a wee white woman.

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And then the wee white woman moved from

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that side of the street over to that

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one.

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And that made me sit up and take

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notice.

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And then it came back again, and it

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came back nearer me, from back here to

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the wall of me.

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And I was very nearly going to run,

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you know.

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And then I took a breath, and I

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said to myself, well, I don't care what

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you are.

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I'll see what you are.

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I didn't do this very bravely.

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I went slowly.

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I had my head thrown up, you know.

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And there was a wee color in his

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pajamas, walking in his sleep.

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And you know, I'm so glad I didn't

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run.

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If I had run around that corner, and

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down and out of the next street, you

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know, I would have believed to this day

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that I saw this wee white woman.

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Well, this was no wee white woman.

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There he was, standing with a lovely set

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of pajamas on.

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He must have been about three, sound asleep

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he was.

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And I looked at him and said, what

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are you doing out at this time of

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the night?

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I don't think he heard me.

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But he turned, and on up the street,

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and I followed him.

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Looked over his bare feet.

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You couldn't hear him go.

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It was funny.

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And he walked in there, an open door.

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And on up the stairs.

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The stairs just started at the bottom of

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the hall, and went on up the stairs.

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And I watched them go on.

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And then I ruffled the door.

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I said, is there anybody there?

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No lady came to the top of the

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stairs.

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She says, but we'd never let her out

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again.

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So if you're going home, and you see

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something white, don't get excited.

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You won't see anything this night worse looking

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than me.

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You're all right.

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But I can tell you that on this

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occasion, the bodies of the saints which slept,

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arose, and went into the city.

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Now let's get this quite clear.

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These are saints.

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They've been raised from the dead.

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This is resurrection.

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This is bodily resurrection.

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Because our Lord is going to ascend to

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heaven.

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And I'm telling you, he's taking some of

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the saints in with him.

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Just taking a few out.

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These are the first fruits.

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And he's going to march into heaven.

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And he's going to show them heaven.

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What the cross can do.

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What a lovely little army he walked in

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with.

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They're there yet, you know.

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These were saints.

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Didn't raise them all at that time.

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Just some of the bodies of saints which

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slept, arose.

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Not them all.

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Just the last few.

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The first fruits of Calvary.

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Must have been a lovely sight as he

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walked into heaven with these saints.

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He had put away their sin.

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He had defeated the devil.

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He had overcome the grave.

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He had abolished death.

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He walked in a perfect victory.

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Now, you remember when we were looking the

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other evening, let's go over a bit to

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1 Thessalonians chapter 4.

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1 Thessalonians chapter 4.

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Paul's writing to young believers here.

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Sometimes young believers get things mixed up.

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Paul didn't like them to get things mixed

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up.

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And in 1 Thessalonians chapter 4 verse 13

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he said this, But I would not have

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you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which

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are asleep.

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That ye fall or not, even as others

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which have no hope.

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You see, he's talking to them about some

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of their friends who have fallen asleep in

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Jesus.

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He says, For if we believe that Jesus

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died and rose again, and we most certainly

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do, even so then also would sleep in

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Jesus.

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That's the crowd we're talking about.

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We're just not talking about all the people

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that died.

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We're just talking about folks that die in

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the Lord, asleep in Jesus.

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He doesn't want them to be ignorant about

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this.

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He says, For this we say unto you

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by the word of the Lord, that we

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believers which are alive and remain unto the

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coming of the Lord.

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You know, we might be that very crowd

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that he was talking about.

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I'm very sure you know that the coming

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of the Lord is very near.

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And if we're going to be a part

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of this great company of believers, how are

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we going to be alive and remain when

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Christ comes?

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I'm sure that will be.

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He says, that we which are alive and

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remain unto the coming of the Lord shall

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not prevent them which are asleep.

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And the word prevent is an old word

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in the Greek, and the word prevent is

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all out of shape as to what it

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was in that day.

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It means we shall not go before them.

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David talks about preventing the sun rising with

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his prayers.

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He didn't mean that he kept the sun

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from rising.

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He meant that he was up before the

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sun was up.

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And this is what Paul's talking about.

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He says, you know, we'll not go before

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them.

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They're asleep.

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It's true.

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Their bodies are in there.

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We'll not run away and leave them.

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When Jesus comes, you know, and he could

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come this night.

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And we believers which are alive and remain,

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00:27:02,420 --> 00:27:04,860
you know, we'll not go before these saints

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that are in the grave.

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Here's what will happen, verse 16.

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For the Lord himself, and I love that

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00:27:14,620 --> 00:27:19,780
bit, the Lord himself shall defend from heaven

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with a shout.

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00:27:22,260 --> 00:27:25,380
You know, if that shout just rang through

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the heavens now, every believer in this building

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00:27:29,940 --> 00:27:33,340
would move out through the roof and on

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up into the sky to meet the Lord.

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And some of you would be left here.

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00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:42,320
You can see what you're like with this

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00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:42,720
church.

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Nobody will be worried about it.

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00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:49,140
It's stupid.

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00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:51,620
Have a club in it.

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Do whatever you like.

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You'll be okay.

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We'll not come and die.

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We'll leave.

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And if we leave you tonight sitting there,

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you'll be damned for all eternity.

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You've fiddled about too long.

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You'll be left behind and the door will

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be shut in your face.

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When the Lord shouts, cry out with the

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shepherd of the sheep, and the sheep will

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hear his voice.

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All the sheep will move, black and white

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and red and yellow.

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Go, go.

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But I'll tell you this, there's a bit

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more there.

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It says, for the Lord himself shall descend

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from heaven with a shout, with the voice

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of the archangel.

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What's he got to do with it anyway?

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Surely the Lord's another.

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Oh, you know, the archangel's a very wonderful

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person in the heavens.

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Sometimes I hear the preachers talking about the

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archangels.

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Well, there are no archangels, sir.

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There's just one archangel.

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His name is Michael.

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Very special character he is.

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And you know, if we were to go

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through the doctrine of the archangel Michael this

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evening, you would find that right from the

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time that God called Abraham out of all

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of the Calves, he gave a job, a

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special job, to this archangel to look after

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these Jews.

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Why, when the body of Moses had to

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be raised, and he was a Jew, the

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archangel had to come down, and then the

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devil says, now you can't take them out

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of this grave.

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The devil disputed with the archangel.

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And you know, it tells me that not

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only all the bodies of all the saints

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00:29:59,890 --> 00:30:03,710
of this church age will rise because they're

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the sheep of Christ's pasture, but it tells

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me all the bodies of the Old Testament

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00:30:10,210 --> 00:30:13,530
saints will rise, because the voice of the

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archangel will call them out.

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Now we've got something.

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You see, we've got all the saints from

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the beginning right down to the moment that

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Christ comes.

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But only saints.

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Don't get it mixed up, you know.

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It's just the bodies of saints again.

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The bodies of saints of the church age.

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Bodies of saints, Old Testament saints, for they

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with us, you know, will not be made

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perfect.

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Now, you see, when we come along to

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00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:59,780
Revenation 20, where we are tonight, you see,

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these are the bodies of the tribulation saints.

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How many of you know this?

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00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:07,060
Now sit steady for a moment.

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00:31:08,500 --> 00:31:11,180
You see, when Jesus died and rose again,

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the bodies, some of the bodies of the

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saints, just some of the bodies, this is

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00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:19,160
this first group.

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00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:21,680
I don't know how many were in this

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group.

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00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:25,280
The Lord took them out just to let

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all heaven see what he would do eventually

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one day.

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And we're nearly at the spot where Christ

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00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:35,620
will come again, and there are all the

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00:31:35,620 --> 00:31:38,200
Old Testament and all the New Testament saints

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00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:39,080
who are alive.

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00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:43,920
You know, a tremendous lot of saints.

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00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:45,080
They're all out.

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00:31:46,220 --> 00:31:48,940
And the moment we go marching into heaven,

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00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:51,700
the tribulation will start down here.

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00:31:52,580 --> 00:31:54,300
And God is going to have a lot

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00:31:54,300 --> 00:31:56,700
of witnesses down here who were not in

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00:31:56,700 --> 00:31:57,600
the church at all.

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00:31:58,200 --> 00:31:59,600
And they're going to die.

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00:31:59,900 --> 00:32:03,600
They're going to be beheaded for their witness.

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00:32:04,900 --> 00:32:07,020
They're not going to receive the mark of

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00:32:07,020 --> 00:32:09,240
a beast, and they'll be beheaded, and their

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00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:10,760
bodies will be left out of nowhere.

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00:32:13,230 --> 00:32:16,850
Oh, well, you see, at the end of

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00:32:16,850 --> 00:32:19,450
the tribulation period where we are in Revelation

550
00:32:19,450 --> 00:32:22,670
20, you know, he's going to raise the

551
00:32:22,670 --> 00:32:26,370
bodies of these saints so that you have

552
00:32:26,370 --> 00:32:30,930
these few at the cross, then you have

553
00:32:30,930 --> 00:32:34,090
this tremendous company when he comes to the

554
00:32:34,090 --> 00:32:36,950
air, and all the Old Testament saints, and

555
00:32:36,950 --> 00:32:39,530
then you have all the bodies now of

556
00:32:39,530 --> 00:32:42,450
the tribulation saints, and all the saints that

557
00:32:42,450 --> 00:32:44,130
ever were are out.

558
00:32:44,570 --> 00:32:45,070
They're all out.

559
00:32:45,370 --> 00:32:49,510
This is the first resurrection.

560
00:32:51,310 --> 00:32:53,950
The first resurrection has to do with saints.

561
00:32:55,530 --> 00:32:58,250
There may be many departments of it, but

562
00:32:58,250 --> 00:33:00,750
this is the first resurrection.

563
00:33:01,150 --> 00:33:03,370
When we get all the bodies of all

564
00:33:03,370 --> 00:33:05,310
the saints that ever died, when we get

565
00:33:05,310 --> 00:33:08,590
them out, this is the first resurrection.

566
00:33:09,770 --> 00:33:11,090
That's what he's talking about.

567
00:33:13,090 --> 00:33:14,270
He's got the whole of that.

568
00:33:14,710 --> 00:33:16,210
Because I don't think you could make any

569
00:33:16,210 --> 00:33:17,310
mistakes about that.

570
00:33:18,750 --> 00:33:21,150
Well, look at Revelation 20 again.

571
00:33:30,670 --> 00:33:33,070
He says, And I saw thrones, and they

572
00:33:33,070 --> 00:33:35,690
sat upon them, and judgment was given unto

573
00:33:35,690 --> 00:33:36,030
them.

574
00:33:36,710 --> 00:33:38,790
And I saw the souls of them that

575
00:33:38,790 --> 00:33:41,650
were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and

576
00:33:41,650 --> 00:33:44,190
for the word of God, which had not

577
00:33:44,190 --> 00:33:45,330
worshipped the beast.

578
00:33:46,370 --> 00:33:48,290
These people lived in the time of the

579
00:33:48,290 --> 00:33:49,450
beast, the Antichrist.

580
00:33:49,970 --> 00:33:53,450
Neither his image, neither had received his mark

581
00:33:53,450 --> 00:33:55,990
upon the collared, or in their hands.

582
00:33:56,550 --> 00:34:00,070
And they lived, and reigned with Christ a

583
00:34:00,070 --> 00:34:00,850
thousand years.

584
00:34:01,150 --> 00:34:02,270
Now, let's get the hold of this.

585
00:34:02,730 --> 00:34:06,970
But the last of the dead lived not

586
00:34:06,970 --> 00:34:09,130
again until the thousand years were finished.

587
00:34:09,409 --> 00:34:11,030
This is the first resurrection.

588
00:34:12,330 --> 00:34:13,870
You see, when you get all the saints

589
00:34:13,870 --> 00:34:17,989
out, that's the first resurrection complete.

590
00:34:18,210 --> 00:34:20,090
There's no more of them to get out.

591
00:34:20,250 --> 00:34:21,250
They're all out now.

592
00:34:22,230 --> 00:34:23,469
That's what they're up to.

593
00:34:23,610 --> 00:34:27,210
Meaning, in the Greek way, this is the

594
00:34:27,210 --> 00:34:29,590
first resurrection complete.

595
00:34:30,570 --> 00:34:32,310
That's what it is.

596
00:34:32,790 --> 00:34:35,250
They're all on the resurrection of saints.

597
00:34:37,030 --> 00:34:39,630
You see, next phase, the rest of the

598
00:34:39,630 --> 00:34:40,010
dead.

599
00:34:41,429 --> 00:34:43,870
Oh, well, you see, next Tuesday we're going

600
00:34:43,870 --> 00:34:46,190
to look at the resurrection of the rest

601
00:34:46,190 --> 00:34:46,670
of the dead.

602
00:34:46,710 --> 00:34:47,730
Look at verse 11.

603
00:34:48,050 --> 00:34:49,630
We'll not take anything out of it.

604
00:34:50,210 --> 00:34:52,690
And I saw, John's watching, isn't he?

605
00:34:52,909 --> 00:34:54,969
A great white throne, and him that sat

606
00:34:54,969 --> 00:34:57,050
on it, from whose face the earth and

607
00:34:57,050 --> 00:34:59,210
the heavens fled away, and there was found

608
00:34:59,210 --> 00:35:00,190
no place for them.

609
00:35:00,390 --> 00:35:02,250
And I saw the dead.

610
00:35:03,630 --> 00:35:05,470
Oh, that's the rest of the dead.

611
00:35:06,230 --> 00:35:08,930
Small and clay, stand before God.

612
00:35:09,650 --> 00:35:11,250
The books are going to be opened.

613
00:35:11,590 --> 00:35:13,550
This cloud is going to be damned.

614
00:35:15,110 --> 00:35:17,490
Oh, we'll look into that very carefully next

615
00:35:17,490 --> 00:35:18,530
Tuesday, won't we?

616
00:35:18,770 --> 00:35:20,550
Because that's the rest of the dead.

617
00:35:20,730 --> 00:35:23,430
Small and clay, stand before God, and the

618
00:35:23,430 --> 00:35:24,150
books will be opened.

619
00:35:24,450 --> 00:35:27,150
Look, it's not about the saints, that there'll

620
00:35:27,150 --> 00:35:31,210
be no condemnation, you know, for them that

621
00:35:31,210 --> 00:35:31,930
are in Christ.

622
00:35:31,990 --> 00:35:34,150
Nobody opening books on them, you know.

623
00:35:35,430 --> 00:35:36,550
They're going to be judged.

624
00:35:36,710 --> 00:35:38,410
Their judgment fell on Christ.

625
00:35:39,210 --> 00:35:41,970
Somebody took my place, and took the wrath

626
00:35:41,970 --> 00:35:43,130
that was due to me.

627
00:35:43,590 --> 00:35:46,170
And time and God can't trust in man.

628
00:35:47,650 --> 00:35:51,650
First at my bleeding surety hand, then again

629
00:35:51,650 --> 00:35:52,190
at mine.

630
00:35:54,250 --> 00:35:56,910
But I want you to get this thousand

631
00:35:56,910 --> 00:35:59,590
-year reign into your heart, you know.

632
00:36:01,390 --> 00:36:03,530
Because this is a tremendous thing.

633
00:36:04,230 --> 00:36:09,550
They lived, and reigned with Christ a thousand

634
00:36:09,550 --> 00:36:09,950
years.

635
00:36:11,230 --> 00:36:13,610
You remember we were looking last week at

636
00:36:13,610 --> 00:36:15,910
the angel coming down from heaven?

637
00:36:17,050 --> 00:36:19,410
You remember how verse 2 said, he laid

638
00:36:19,410 --> 00:36:25,590
hold on the dread, that old serpent which

639
00:36:25,590 --> 00:36:28,730
is the devil, and set him, and binds

640
00:36:28,730 --> 00:36:31,070
him a thousand years.

641
00:36:32,250 --> 00:36:34,970
Sometimes they come and argue with me about

642
00:36:34,970 --> 00:36:37,510
this, that there's not a thing here literal.

643
00:36:38,230 --> 00:36:41,370
And then I say, is the angel literal?

644
00:36:42,470 --> 00:36:44,210
Is heaven literal?

645
00:36:44,770 --> 00:36:46,390
Is the devil literal?

646
00:36:48,170 --> 00:36:50,450
Surely you wouldn't dare to say that they

647
00:36:50,450 --> 00:36:50,990
were not.

648
00:36:51,970 --> 00:36:55,530
So angels are real, you know, and heaven

649
00:36:55,530 --> 00:36:58,830
is real, and the old serpent is only

650
00:36:58,830 --> 00:36:59,550
too real.

651
00:37:00,090 --> 00:37:02,770
Well the angel laid hold on him a

652
00:37:02,770 --> 00:37:03,130
check.

653
00:37:03,850 --> 00:37:05,970
I like that bit, you know, came near

654
00:37:05,970 --> 00:37:07,210
and laid hold on him.

655
00:37:08,810 --> 00:37:11,370
And it says, and bound him.

656
00:37:12,310 --> 00:37:16,330
And it says, and cast him into the

657
00:37:16,330 --> 00:37:17,230
bottomless pit.

658
00:37:17,310 --> 00:37:20,110
And we went into that last Monday, last

659
00:37:20,110 --> 00:37:20,630
Tuesday.

660
00:37:21,070 --> 00:37:23,990
We went into this, the bottomless pit was

661
00:37:23,990 --> 00:37:26,430
too green, wasn't it, when we examined it.

662
00:37:28,250 --> 00:37:32,190
Now while he's bound for a thousand years,

663
00:37:33,650 --> 00:37:36,590
you know, Christ is going to set up

664
00:37:36,590 --> 00:37:38,810
his throne on this earth, and reign for

665
00:37:38,810 --> 00:37:39,670
a thousand years.

666
00:37:41,310 --> 00:37:42,930
So many things will happen.

667
00:37:43,470 --> 00:37:45,970
You know, my friends who argue with me,

668
00:37:46,030 --> 00:37:48,330
they try to spiritualize all this.

669
00:37:51,340 --> 00:37:54,020
I ask one in a month, what way

670
00:37:54,020 --> 00:37:59,840
would you spiritualize the devil being shut away

671
00:37:59,840 --> 00:38:03,040
for a thousand years, so that he could

672
00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:04,520
deceive the nations no more?

673
00:38:06,870 --> 00:38:08,370
And you know, there's not one who can

674
00:38:08,370 --> 00:38:09,470
make a mark on that.

675
00:38:10,990 --> 00:38:12,630
Because you know, they try to go back

676
00:38:12,630 --> 00:38:14,650
to Calvary, and then I show them just

677
00:38:14,650 --> 00:38:17,250
how much deception has been going on right

678
00:38:17,250 --> 00:38:18,730
down through the church age.

679
00:38:19,950 --> 00:38:22,430
Why it was the devil that put into

680
00:38:22,430 --> 00:38:24,990
the heart of Ananias and Sapphira to tell

681
00:38:24,990 --> 00:38:25,530
the lies.

682
00:38:25,850 --> 00:38:27,030
He wasn't bound that day.

683
00:38:27,950 --> 00:38:29,670
But we went into that last week.

684
00:38:31,660 --> 00:38:34,240
Now we're going to have a thousand years

685
00:38:34,240 --> 00:38:37,240
down here, and there's going to be a

686
00:38:37,240 --> 00:38:39,080
change in the spirit world.

687
00:38:39,380 --> 00:38:40,640
There's going to be no devil.

688
00:38:43,090 --> 00:38:44,830
My, we can get rid of him, you

689
00:38:44,830 --> 00:38:45,810
know, it'll be wonderful.

690
00:38:46,490 --> 00:38:49,170
No devil for a thousand years.

691
00:38:49,770 --> 00:38:54,970
You know, some god made this world, and

692
00:38:54,970 --> 00:38:59,130
created man, male and female, and placed them

693
00:38:59,130 --> 00:38:59,790
in the garden.

694
00:39:00,190 --> 00:39:01,710
We've always had a devil.

695
00:39:03,110 --> 00:39:06,870
And right down from the Beguiled Age, that's

696
00:39:06,870 --> 00:39:10,230
what the New Testament says, right to this

697
00:39:10,230 --> 00:39:15,230
moment, right on through the tribulation, right to

698
00:39:15,230 --> 00:39:18,210
the end of the tribulation, we'll have the

699
00:39:18,210 --> 00:39:18,550
devil.

700
00:39:18,970 --> 00:39:21,170
But God is going to take them all

701
00:39:21,170 --> 00:39:23,470
for a thousand years.

702
00:39:23,770 --> 00:39:26,710
That will be a change in the spirit

703
00:39:26,710 --> 00:39:27,030
world.

704
00:39:28,390 --> 00:39:30,250
Now let me show you a few changes

705
00:39:30,250 --> 00:39:32,330
that will take place at the same time,

706
00:39:32,410 --> 00:39:34,450
just in case you would try to spiritualize

707
00:39:34,450 --> 00:39:34,790
it.

708
00:39:35,490 --> 00:39:38,170
Have a look at Isaiah chapter 2 please.

709
00:39:40,270 --> 00:39:46,250
Prophecy of Isaiah, and we're at the second

710
00:39:46,250 --> 00:39:55,510
chapter, verse 1.

711
00:39:56,270 --> 00:40:01,430
The word that Isaiah, the son of Amos,

712
00:40:01,810 --> 00:40:05,410
saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

713
00:40:07,150 --> 00:40:08,770
Oh, you need to read it just like

714
00:40:08,770 --> 00:40:08,990
that.

715
00:40:09,130 --> 00:40:11,930
Don't be thinking that Judah is something else,

716
00:40:12,050 --> 00:40:14,390
and don't be daring to think that Jerusalem

717
00:40:14,390 --> 00:40:15,350
is something else.

718
00:40:16,810 --> 00:40:18,770
This is a Jewish prophet, and he can

719
00:40:18,770 --> 00:40:22,990
see Judah, the two tribes, and Jerusalem, the

720
00:40:22,990 --> 00:40:23,270
city.

721
00:40:24,850 --> 00:40:26,670
And he says it shall come to pass

722
00:40:26,670 --> 00:40:27,970
in the last days.

723
00:40:29,630 --> 00:40:32,730
Mind you, the last days of Israel's history

724
00:40:32,730 --> 00:40:34,330
is something worth thinking about.

725
00:40:35,990 --> 00:40:38,290
That the mountain of the Lord's house shall

726
00:40:38,290 --> 00:40:40,550
be established in the top of the mountains,

727
00:40:41,410 --> 00:40:44,670
and shall be exalted above the hills, and

728
00:40:44,670 --> 00:40:47,590
all nations shall fall into it.

729
00:40:48,050 --> 00:40:50,410
And many people shall go and say, come

730
00:40:50,410 --> 00:40:51,970
and let us go up to the mountain

731
00:40:51,970 --> 00:40:53,950
of the Lord, to the house of the

732
00:40:53,950 --> 00:40:54,910
God of Jacob.

733
00:40:55,750 --> 00:40:58,650
And he will teach us his ways, and

734
00:40:58,650 --> 00:41:00,090
we will walk in his path.

735
00:41:00,210 --> 00:41:02,290
For out of Zion shall go forth the

736
00:41:02,290 --> 00:41:05,470
law, and the word of the Lord from

737
00:41:05,470 --> 00:41:05,970
Jerusalem.

738
00:41:06,530 --> 00:41:09,710
And he shall judge among the nations.

739
00:41:10,930 --> 00:41:13,630
Now, he didn't do that the last time

740
00:41:13,630 --> 00:41:14,250
he was here.

741
00:41:15,110 --> 00:41:17,630
And even though he's calling out the people

742
00:41:17,630 --> 00:41:19,790
for his name, he's not doing that yet.

743
00:41:21,070 --> 00:41:25,590
And shall rebuke many people, and they shall

744
00:41:25,590 --> 00:41:29,130
beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears

745
00:41:29,130 --> 00:41:30,630
into pruning hooks.

746
00:41:31,050 --> 00:41:34,730
Nations shall not lift up sword against nation,

747
00:41:35,190 --> 00:41:37,270
neither shall I learn war anymore.

748
00:41:37,650 --> 00:41:39,490
You wouldn't like to take me through history,

749
00:41:39,690 --> 00:41:41,550
and tell me where it happened, would you?

750
00:41:43,210 --> 00:41:46,130
Because all you great historians, I would defy

751
00:41:46,130 --> 00:41:47,150
you to do it, you know.

752
00:41:48,030 --> 00:41:49,870
Just go right back as far as you

753
00:41:49,870 --> 00:41:52,650
like, and find me the spot where the

754
00:41:52,650 --> 00:41:56,050
nations learned war no more, just find it

755
00:41:56,050 --> 00:41:56,350
now.

756
00:41:58,660 --> 00:42:01,340
You see, we're going to have a change

757
00:42:01,340 --> 00:42:04,840
in the spirit realm when Jesus reigns.

758
00:42:04,880 --> 00:42:06,280
Oh devil, the mob are there.

759
00:42:06,660 --> 00:42:09,180
We're going to have a change in the

760
00:42:09,180 --> 00:42:10,320
national realm.

761
00:42:11,960 --> 00:42:13,600
The nations will be changed.

762
00:42:13,780 --> 00:42:16,440
My, look across your nations tonight.

763
00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:20,560
Why, there's war, and rumors of war in

764
00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:21,200
every house.

765
00:42:22,640 --> 00:42:24,940
And not only that, let's get this bit

766
00:42:24,940 --> 00:42:25,240
in.

767
00:42:26,140 --> 00:42:30,680
Let's have a look at Isaiah 65, prophecy

768
00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:31,640
of Isaiah.

769
00:42:32,540 --> 00:42:37,520
And we're at 65, way near the end

770
00:42:37,520 --> 00:42:38,600
of the book now.

771
00:42:40,440 --> 00:42:50,530
Isaiah 65, down

772
00:42:50,530 --> 00:42:59,570
the chapter, says here, verse 17, For behold,

773
00:43:00,410 --> 00:43:05,530
I create new heavens and a new earth.

774
00:43:07,270 --> 00:43:09,110
Just leave that on the side for a

775
00:43:09,110 --> 00:43:09,350
moment.

776
00:43:09,850 --> 00:43:12,410
The former shall not be remembered, nor come

777
00:43:12,410 --> 00:43:13,090
into mind.

778
00:43:14,650 --> 00:43:18,310
But be ye glad and rejoice forever in

779
00:43:18,310 --> 00:43:19,530
that which I create.

780
00:43:19,530 --> 00:43:22,130
For behold, I create Jerusalem.

781
00:43:23,390 --> 00:43:25,670
Couldn't it do something with Jerusalem?

782
00:43:26,390 --> 00:43:29,330
A rejoicing, and for people a joy.

783
00:43:30,250 --> 00:43:33,570
And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy

784
00:43:33,570 --> 00:43:34,990
in my people.

785
00:43:35,690 --> 00:43:38,650
And the voice of weeping shall be no

786
00:43:38,650 --> 00:43:41,010
more heard in her, nor the voice of

787
00:43:41,010 --> 00:43:41,510
crying.

788
00:43:41,970 --> 00:43:45,430
There shall be no more sense, an infant

789
00:43:45,430 --> 00:43:49,910
of days, nor an old man that hath

790
00:43:49,910 --> 00:43:51,610
not felled his days.

791
00:43:52,470 --> 00:43:56,750
For the child shall die an hundred years

792
00:43:56,750 --> 00:43:57,210
old.

793
00:43:58,550 --> 00:44:02,410
My, even dying at a hundred, you'd be

794
00:44:02,410 --> 00:44:03,270
like a child.

795
00:44:04,310 --> 00:44:07,670
But the sinner, being an hundred years old,

796
00:44:07,710 --> 00:44:08,490
shall be accursed.

797
00:44:09,390 --> 00:44:12,070
And they shall build houses, and inhabit them.

798
00:44:13,050 --> 00:44:16,270
They shall plant vineyards, and eat of the

799
00:44:16,270 --> 00:44:16,970
fruit of them.

800
00:44:17,430 --> 00:44:19,550
They shall not build, and another inhabit.

801
00:44:19,990 --> 00:44:21,910
They shall not plant, and another eat.

802
00:44:22,350 --> 00:44:25,910
For of the days of a tree are

803
00:44:25,910 --> 00:44:27,630
the days of my people.

804
00:44:28,890 --> 00:44:30,950
You know, there's not only going to be

805
00:44:30,950 --> 00:44:34,990
a change in the spirit world, and a

806
00:44:34,990 --> 00:44:37,090
change in the national world, but there's going

807
00:44:37,090 --> 00:44:38,450
to be a change in the physical.

808
00:44:39,910 --> 00:44:42,050
You know, we think that when a fellow

809
00:44:42,050 --> 00:44:44,190
reaches a hundred years of age now, he's

810
00:44:44,190 --> 00:44:44,990
doing pretty well.

811
00:44:47,130 --> 00:44:48,930
You know, when we go back to the

812
00:44:48,930 --> 00:44:53,090
beginning of Genesis, we find that man lived

813
00:44:53,090 --> 00:44:54,210
a long time.

814
00:44:55,670 --> 00:45:00,830
Methuselah, nine hundred and sixty-nine years.

815
00:45:02,330 --> 00:45:05,010
He wasn't far from a thousand, mind you.

816
00:45:06,330 --> 00:45:10,390
But when Christ comes, and the devil's taken

817
00:45:10,390 --> 00:45:12,830
out, and the nations learn more and more,

818
00:45:13,250 --> 00:45:15,270
there's going to be a change in the

819
00:45:15,270 --> 00:45:17,110
physical well-being of men.

820
00:45:17,510 --> 00:45:20,250
Some of them will live the whole millennium

821
00:45:20,250 --> 00:45:23,050
right through, as old as a tree.

822
00:45:24,910 --> 00:45:26,190
Ah, there'll be changes.

823
00:45:26,890 --> 00:45:30,330
You see, when Jesus reigns, there'll be changes.

824
00:45:31,630 --> 00:45:35,310
Change in the spirit world, change in the

825
00:45:35,310 --> 00:45:40,090
national world, change in the physical, change in

826
00:45:40,090 --> 00:45:40,730
the animal.

827
00:45:41,470 --> 00:45:44,030
Why, the lion will lie down in peace

828
00:45:44,030 --> 00:45:44,750
with the lamb.

829
00:45:46,030 --> 00:45:48,130
Oh, they're wild beasts for my people.

830
00:45:49,030 --> 00:45:51,170
The Lord will change wild things.

831
00:45:51,490 --> 00:45:53,590
You know, when he was here in the

832
00:45:53,590 --> 00:45:55,670
days of his flesh, and he was in

833
00:45:55,670 --> 00:45:58,690
the wilderness, forty days and forty nights being

834
00:45:58,690 --> 00:46:02,710
unhungered, it said in Mark's Gospel, chapter one,

835
00:46:03,150 --> 00:46:07,150
the wild beasts will descend.

836
00:46:08,510 --> 00:46:10,450
He just came and left all around his

837
00:46:10,450 --> 00:46:11,110
feet, you know.

838
00:46:12,630 --> 00:46:13,770
He was the Lord.

839
00:46:16,320 --> 00:46:19,260
He's going to reign one day, and the

840
00:46:19,260 --> 00:46:21,120
lion will lie down with the lamb.

841
00:46:21,380 --> 00:46:23,440
There'll be a change in the animal world.

842
00:46:24,720 --> 00:46:26,340
You know, there'll be a change in the

843
00:46:26,340 --> 00:46:27,640
vegetable world.

844
00:46:28,140 --> 00:46:31,780
The book of Amos, chapter nine, says that

845
00:46:31,780 --> 00:46:34,300
the sower will overtake the reaper.

846
00:46:35,700 --> 00:46:37,620
What a harvest we're going to have.

847
00:46:38,460 --> 00:46:40,520
You won't be able to gather it in.

848
00:46:41,660 --> 00:46:44,960
When you have barley these days, and you're

849
00:46:44,960 --> 00:46:48,200
getting too dumb for the echo, you're licking

850
00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:48,920
your lips.

851
00:46:50,920 --> 00:46:51,780
Well, you might.

852
00:46:52,920 --> 00:46:56,200
I'll tell you this, when the sower is

853
00:46:56,200 --> 00:47:01,080
overtaking the reaper, you're getting some harvest.

854
00:47:02,260 --> 00:47:04,380
It's going to be a change, you see.

855
00:47:05,780 --> 00:47:07,760
You know, would you like to try to

856
00:47:07,760 --> 00:47:10,580
spiritualize all this, because I would put a

857
00:47:10,580 --> 00:47:12,140
thumb before you, you would be in the

858
00:47:12,140 --> 00:47:12,360
picture.

859
00:47:12,500 --> 00:47:13,700
One fellow said to me, do you see

860
00:47:13,700 --> 00:47:14,860
all these things that you're doing?

861
00:47:15,420 --> 00:47:16,240
This is heaven.

862
00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:17,720
This is heaven.

863
00:47:18,700 --> 00:47:20,520
So I said, they're going to die in

864
00:47:20,520 --> 00:47:21,360
heaven, aren't they?

865
00:47:21,820 --> 00:47:23,700
The child's going to die in heaven.

866
00:47:24,100 --> 00:47:24,760
You're heaven.

867
00:47:26,220 --> 00:47:28,880
And his fiend was all upset, just because

868
00:47:28,880 --> 00:47:30,560
I said the child was going to die.

869
00:47:31,300 --> 00:47:32,440
He said, you're daft.

870
00:47:33,840 --> 00:47:34,920
Can you not read?

871
00:47:36,580 --> 00:47:40,100
Oh, and all the Lord's coming back, and

872
00:47:40,100 --> 00:47:42,940
he's coming to take the throne of his

873
00:47:42,940 --> 00:47:46,100
father David, and he's going to reign for

874
00:47:46,100 --> 00:47:49,620
one thousand years, and the devil will be

875
00:47:49,620 --> 00:47:52,240
put out, and the nations will learn war

876
00:47:52,240 --> 00:47:52,640
no more.

877
00:47:52,800 --> 00:47:56,340
The Prince of Peace will be here, and

878
00:47:56,340 --> 00:47:58,480
there'll be a change in the physical well

879
00:47:58,480 --> 00:48:01,220
-being of people, and there'll be a change

880
00:48:01,220 --> 00:48:03,280
in the animal world, and there'll be a

881
00:48:03,280 --> 00:48:05,520
change in the vegetable world.

882
00:48:06,320 --> 00:48:08,380
What a wonderful thing it will be for

883
00:48:08,380 --> 00:48:09,280
a thousand years.

884
00:48:11,100 --> 00:48:15,960
Now, let's go back to Revelation 20, and

885
00:48:15,960 --> 00:48:17,200
let's see this bit.

886
00:48:20,170 --> 00:48:27,800
Revelation 20, we'll find this, we'll not touch

887
00:48:27,800 --> 00:48:29,840
the rest of the dead tonight.

888
00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:33,800
That will come in next Tuesday, if the

889
00:48:33,800 --> 00:48:34,360
Lord will.

890
00:48:35,860 --> 00:48:39,880
And it says at verse 7, and then

891
00:48:39,880 --> 00:48:43,000
the thousand years are expired.

892
00:48:44,040 --> 00:48:45,720
They'll go past, you know.

893
00:48:47,600 --> 00:48:50,960
Satan shall be loosed out of his prison.

894
00:48:52,460 --> 00:48:54,340
My, they're going to let him loose again.

895
00:48:56,220 --> 00:48:59,060
Now, isn't that really strange, you know?

896
00:48:59,560 --> 00:49:03,040
Every time that I talk to these amillennialists,

897
00:49:03,040 --> 00:49:05,960
you know, and I say, you know, they're

898
00:49:05,960 --> 00:49:11,220
going to lock Satan up, they say, this

899
00:49:11,220 --> 00:49:13,280
is just, this is just a spiritual thing.

900
00:49:13,420 --> 00:49:15,040
One fellow said to me the other day,

901
00:49:15,140 --> 00:49:19,380
you know, Satan's bound now, bound to Calvary.

902
00:49:20,900 --> 00:49:23,280
I says, I'll tell you what Peter says,

903
00:49:24,440 --> 00:49:27,760
you'll have to say, the devil goes about

904
00:49:27,760 --> 00:49:30,620
as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may

905
00:49:30,620 --> 00:49:31,120
devour.

906
00:49:31,780 --> 00:49:34,740
Who do you think I'll believe, you or

907
00:49:34,740 --> 00:49:35,180
the book?

908
00:49:36,980 --> 00:49:40,320
I don't talk trite, because we haven't time

909
00:49:40,320 --> 00:49:40,920
for trite.

910
00:49:43,700 --> 00:49:46,260
Who's carrying on the business if he's bound?

911
00:49:49,060 --> 00:49:53,720
Oh no, when Christ comes to take up

912
00:49:53,720 --> 00:49:55,220
the throne, he'll be bound.

913
00:49:57,180 --> 00:49:59,860
Why will we let him loose again, is

914
00:49:59,860 --> 00:50:00,720
the fair question.

915
00:50:03,240 --> 00:50:06,160
You see, God has worked with men right

916
00:50:06,160 --> 00:50:07,460
down through the ages.

917
00:50:07,640 --> 00:50:10,740
He's tried them every conceivable way.

918
00:50:11,980 --> 00:50:16,900
You see, in Eden's garden, he tried the

919
00:50:16,900 --> 00:50:18,260
age of innocence.

920
00:50:20,060 --> 00:50:21,060
Oh, they were innocent.

921
00:50:22,340 --> 00:50:24,260
I'll tell you how the age of innocence

922
00:50:24,260 --> 00:50:24,880
ended.

923
00:50:26,120 --> 00:50:28,780
It ended with God having to drive the

924
00:50:28,780 --> 00:50:30,060
two of them out of the garden.

925
00:50:31,750 --> 00:50:33,710
They had to put them out.

926
00:50:35,330 --> 00:50:40,290
And then came a period from there, right

927
00:50:40,290 --> 00:50:43,850
up to the floods, when he tried men

928
00:50:43,850 --> 00:50:44,990
with uncle Otto.

929
00:50:46,510 --> 00:50:49,230
They were not under law, you know, quite

930
00:50:49,230 --> 00:50:49,610
law.

931
00:50:51,520 --> 00:50:56,080
And it ended with them being possessed of

932
00:50:56,080 --> 00:50:58,820
demons, and God had to bring a flood

933
00:50:58,820 --> 00:50:59,760
to destroy them.

934
00:51:02,060 --> 00:51:06,840
Then after more, came this great period when

935
00:51:06,840 --> 00:51:09,460
he would call out Abraham and form the

936
00:51:09,460 --> 00:51:09,820
nation.

937
00:51:11,180 --> 00:51:13,380
And he was taking a nation now, and

938
00:51:13,380 --> 00:51:16,420
he left nation, and he put them under

939
00:51:16,420 --> 00:51:17,800
the law, the ten commandments.

940
00:51:20,520 --> 00:51:22,680
Do you know how the age of law

941
00:51:22,680 --> 00:51:23,180
ended?

942
00:51:24,400 --> 00:51:25,940
Just like the rest of them.

943
00:51:26,880 --> 00:51:30,700
It ended with God having to reject Israel,

944
00:51:31,800 --> 00:51:33,040
and cast them off.

945
00:51:34,580 --> 00:51:37,960
So that when God tried men under innocence,

946
00:51:38,880 --> 00:51:39,740
it doesn't work.

947
00:51:41,280 --> 00:51:44,760
When God tried men without law, it doesn't

948
00:51:44,760 --> 00:51:45,100
work.

949
00:51:45,760 --> 00:51:48,380
When God tried men under law, it doesn't

950
00:51:48,380 --> 00:51:48,720
work.

951
00:51:49,700 --> 00:51:51,180
See where we are tonight.

952
00:51:51,420 --> 00:51:52,840
We're under grace tonight.

953
00:51:52,840 --> 00:51:56,760
But my God has given us every blessing

954
00:51:56,760 --> 00:51:59,000
that we're ever going to need in Christ.

955
00:51:59,680 --> 00:52:04,620
And there's all powerful, and wisdom, and blessing,

956
00:52:05,300 --> 00:52:06,180
and everything.

957
00:52:06,400 --> 00:52:09,500
God's just lavishing it upon our heads, and

958
00:52:09,500 --> 00:52:10,900
it's all ours for the taking.

959
00:52:11,420 --> 00:52:13,160
And you know there's some of us living

960
00:52:13,160 --> 00:52:15,400
as miserable as the Jews were living under

961
00:52:15,400 --> 00:52:15,860
the law.

962
00:52:16,960 --> 00:52:19,120
I'll tell you that churches go to end

963
00:52:19,120 --> 00:52:20,080
in a lair of sin.

964
00:52:22,040 --> 00:52:23,720
As lukewarm as can be.

965
00:52:26,030 --> 00:52:28,150
Oh we do a lot of talking, and

966
00:52:28,150 --> 00:52:30,010
we do a lot of shouting, and we

967
00:52:30,010 --> 00:52:33,190
do a lot of bi-beliefing, and we

968
00:52:33,190 --> 00:52:34,250
do very little else.

969
00:52:38,030 --> 00:52:39,790
That's just how this age is going to

970
00:52:39,790 --> 00:52:39,970
end.

971
00:52:40,050 --> 00:52:41,490
You'll have to come and take the church

972
00:52:41,490 --> 00:52:41,810
away.

973
00:52:44,350 --> 00:52:48,390
And in the tribulation periods, it's going to

974
00:52:48,390 --> 00:52:51,710
have to come in judgment upon the Antichrist

975
00:52:51,710 --> 00:52:52,490
and the beast.

976
00:52:54,330 --> 00:52:57,550
And then when the millennial runs for a

977
00:52:57,550 --> 00:53:01,190
thousand years with Christ on the throne, and

978
00:53:01,190 --> 00:53:05,750
no devil, and everything going well, I'll tell

979
00:53:05,750 --> 00:53:07,810
you the minute that the devil is let

980
00:53:07,810 --> 00:53:10,950
loose, you know, in a world that has

981
00:53:10,950 --> 00:53:14,690
had Christ for a thousand years, the devil

982
00:53:14,690 --> 00:53:16,350
can get an army in the next day.

983
00:53:19,420 --> 00:53:21,140
Somebody said to me once, you know, if

984
00:53:21,140 --> 00:53:24,500
all these people were brought into this millennial

985
00:53:24,500 --> 00:53:27,580
kingdom, and they were all righteous people at

986
00:53:27,580 --> 00:53:29,880
the beginning, how is the devil going to

987
00:53:29,880 --> 00:53:30,600
get this army?

988
00:53:31,220 --> 00:53:32,500
I don't think there's any problem.

989
00:53:34,260 --> 00:53:36,100
You know, as long as we're on this

990
00:53:36,100 --> 00:53:42,560
earth, and families are going to grow, you

991
00:53:42,560 --> 00:53:45,820
see, in the millennial reign, there won't be

992
00:53:45,820 --> 00:53:46,900
too many deaths.

993
00:53:48,180 --> 00:53:50,760
But the people will live almost a thousand

994
00:53:50,760 --> 00:53:51,700
years right through.

995
00:53:53,680 --> 00:53:55,500
And if they're going to live, they're going

996
00:53:55,500 --> 00:53:56,680
to have a lot of children.

997
00:53:58,600 --> 00:54:01,380
But, Martha, it doesn't make a matter of

998
00:54:01,380 --> 00:54:04,280
where you're born, or what dispensation you're born

999
00:54:04,280 --> 00:54:04,580
in.

1000
00:54:05,240 --> 00:54:07,520
When you're born, you're born a sinner.

1001
00:54:10,320 --> 00:54:11,920
You stick to all of that, you know,

1002
00:54:11,960 --> 00:54:13,720
when a wee tiny thought comes into her

1003
00:54:13,720 --> 00:54:14,100
heart.

1004
00:54:18,700 --> 00:54:20,320
And at our church, she's in the meeting

1005
00:54:20,320 --> 00:54:21,140
now, bless her.

1006
00:54:22,280 --> 00:54:24,540
I think she had her first baby, bigger

1007
00:54:24,540 --> 00:54:25,140
than ours.

1008
00:54:26,780 --> 00:54:29,520
She's just out and down the street in

1009
00:54:29,520 --> 00:54:31,140
the prom the first day, and came to

1010
00:54:31,140 --> 00:54:32,900
see me, and I'm lying in bed, I

1011
00:54:32,900 --> 00:54:33,540
wasn't well.

1012
00:54:34,720 --> 00:54:36,180
I heard her talking to Miss Moore, and

1013
00:54:36,180 --> 00:54:37,520
then she brings them up and puts them

1014
00:54:37,520 --> 00:54:38,900
on the bed beside me.

1015
00:54:39,340 --> 00:54:41,460
You know, she was so delighted, her eyes

1016
00:54:41,460 --> 00:54:42,900
were Why wouldn't she be?

1017
00:54:44,180 --> 00:54:45,660
She says to me, isn't he nice, Mr.

1018
00:54:45,760 --> 00:54:45,920
Moore?

1019
00:54:47,970 --> 00:54:49,750
And I thought I would test her out,

1020
00:54:49,830 --> 00:54:50,050
you know.

1021
00:54:51,150 --> 00:54:52,270
I said, he's a sinner.

1022
00:54:54,350 --> 00:54:55,490
She says, he's not a sinner.

1023
00:54:56,550 --> 00:54:57,230
He says, he is.

1024
00:54:59,230 --> 00:55:02,050
She says, he hasn't said anything wrong.

1025
00:55:03,290 --> 00:55:03,910
That's right.

1026
00:55:06,540 --> 00:55:08,040
I said, I'll tell you what's more.

1027
00:55:08,460 --> 00:55:10,200
He hasn't thought anything wrong either.

1028
00:55:11,220 --> 00:55:13,280
I'll tell you what's more, he hasn't done

1029
00:55:13,280 --> 00:55:17,140
anything wrong, neither in thought or word or

1030
00:55:17,140 --> 00:55:18,620
deed, says he or she.

1031
00:55:19,680 --> 00:55:21,640
I'll tell you there's a thing inside that

1032
00:55:21,640 --> 00:55:23,560
you can't see, it's called an old mason.

1033
00:55:25,100 --> 00:55:26,800
And you'll not have to teach him to

1034
00:55:26,800 --> 00:55:27,700
tell lies, you know.

1035
00:55:29,000 --> 00:55:30,800
Somehow you get the grip of that.

1036
00:55:32,740 --> 00:55:34,760
You'll not have to teach him to say

1037
00:55:34,760 --> 00:55:35,820
naughty words, dear.

1038
00:55:37,120 --> 00:55:39,020
You'll have to try to stop him before

1039
00:55:39,020 --> 00:55:39,780
he's much older.

1040
00:55:41,560 --> 00:55:44,920
A farmer never tried to teach young ducks

1041
00:55:44,920 --> 00:55:48,620
to swim yet, because they've got a nature,

1042
00:55:48,780 --> 00:55:50,040
they just walk into the water.

1043
00:55:50,580 --> 00:55:52,960
The chickens don't bother, they know better.

1044
00:55:56,540 --> 00:55:57,480
Funny, isn't it?

1045
00:55:58,620 --> 00:56:00,160
Yeah, that's what you call nature.

1046
00:56:02,540 --> 00:56:04,140
I'll tell you what it says in this

1047
00:56:04,140 --> 00:56:10,580
book, by nature we were children of wrath.

1048
00:56:12,240 --> 00:56:14,380
You see, I wasn't a sinner because I

1049
00:56:14,380 --> 00:56:15,380
sinned.

1050
00:56:16,360 --> 00:56:19,820
I was a sinner because I had a

1051
00:56:19,820 --> 00:56:21,120
sinful nature inside.

1052
00:56:22,920 --> 00:56:24,800
You know, when I say things like that,

1053
00:56:24,960 --> 00:56:26,860
I know there are mothers in the meeting

1054
00:56:26,860 --> 00:56:30,660
and they begin to think they lost a

1055
00:56:30,660 --> 00:56:31,260
young baby.

1056
00:56:33,770 --> 00:56:38,400
Mother said to me once, why can't death

1057
00:56:38,400 --> 00:56:40,280
come and take my soul?

1058
00:56:43,600 --> 00:56:46,340
Because of a thing called sin, dear.

1059
00:56:47,640 --> 00:56:51,480
The wages of sin is always death.

1060
00:56:53,820 --> 00:56:58,020
And you know, wee babies die, and mother

1061
00:56:58,020 --> 00:56:59,560
parts are broken.

1062
00:57:00,800 --> 00:57:04,680
So, tell your son, sir, you see this

1063
00:57:04,680 --> 00:57:08,100
wee baby, 24 inches long, he's got dimples

1064
00:57:08,100 --> 00:57:11,780
in his cheeks, he's an innocent wee thing,

1065
00:57:12,860 --> 00:57:14,320
and he dies.

1066
00:57:16,840 --> 00:57:20,100
The only reason that death can claim him

1067
00:57:20,100 --> 00:57:23,860
is because there's a thing inside called sin.

1068
00:57:25,890 --> 00:57:27,450
Now make a difference, please.

1069
00:57:28,350 --> 00:57:30,610
I'm not talking about sins.

1070
00:57:31,790 --> 00:57:33,850
He hasn't any sins.

1071
00:57:35,530 --> 00:57:38,330
He is just a thing called sin.

1072
00:57:41,270 --> 00:57:42,090
That's his nature.

1073
00:57:43,130 --> 00:57:44,510
That's what condemns him.

1074
00:57:45,510 --> 00:57:48,070
When our Lord Jesus came to this world,

1075
00:57:49,610 --> 00:57:54,110
he became the Lamb of God to bear

1076
00:57:54,110 --> 00:57:58,310
away the sin of the world.

1077
00:57:59,890 --> 00:58:03,770
There's no child will go to hell because

1078
00:58:03,770 --> 00:58:05,530
it dies in childhood.

1079
00:58:07,430 --> 00:58:11,210
My, it will go to heaven because Jesus

1080
00:58:11,210 --> 00:58:12,250
died for it.

1081
00:58:13,690 --> 00:58:17,110
I, you mothers, should praise God for the

1082
00:58:17,110 --> 00:58:21,960
Lamb of God, for he bore away.

1083
00:58:23,680 --> 00:58:29,220
The sins of the earth, the sins of

1084
00:58:29,220 --> 00:58:32,920
the world, that's all dealt with enough.

1085
00:58:34,000 --> 00:58:35,760
But when the kid grows up a bit

1086
00:58:35,760 --> 00:58:39,020
and comes to the years of responsibility, it

1087
00:58:39,020 --> 00:58:40,820
changes from sin to sins.

1088
00:58:41,260 --> 00:58:43,860
Some of you old fellows are sinners, by

1089
00:58:43,860 --> 00:58:44,440
practice.

1090
00:58:44,440 --> 00:58:48,400
If you die in your sins where Jesus

1091
00:58:48,400 --> 00:58:49,400
is, you'll never be.

1092
00:58:52,390 --> 00:58:55,110
See, I believe this this evening, that on

1093
00:58:55,110 --> 00:58:58,430
the cross he became the Lamb of God

1094
00:58:58,430 --> 00:59:01,990
to bear away my sin, that thing that

1095
00:59:01,990 --> 00:59:03,430
condemned me when I was born.

1096
00:59:05,170 --> 00:59:09,030
But then I also believe now, although I

1097
00:59:09,030 --> 00:59:11,810
committed terrible things and got drunk every night

1098
00:59:11,810 --> 00:59:14,110
and was in all sorts of things I

1099
00:59:14,110 --> 00:59:17,110
shouldn't have been in, I believe that he

1100
00:59:17,110 --> 00:59:19,450
his own self bear my sins.

1101
00:59:19,810 --> 00:59:20,670
That's different.

1102
00:59:22,870 --> 00:59:25,350
Bear my sins in his own body of

1103
00:59:25,350 --> 00:59:25,750
the truth.

1104
00:59:27,170 --> 00:59:29,150
He saved me there, you know.

1105
00:59:30,010 --> 00:59:31,130
And where are sins?

1106
00:59:31,990 --> 00:59:33,650
And we're asking on the work of the

1107
00:59:33,650 --> 00:59:36,490
cross, not on popish water.

1108
00:59:38,050 --> 00:59:39,390
Oh, not at all.

1109
00:59:40,190 --> 00:59:42,050
They run with the kid now to get

1110
00:59:42,050 --> 00:59:44,310
him christened, as they say, in case he's

1111
00:59:44,310 --> 00:59:45,390
damned, I'll blur it.

1112
00:59:46,430 --> 00:59:48,070
Water wouldn't save him anyway.

1113
00:59:49,370 --> 00:59:51,290
It's the blood of the Lamb to save

1114
00:59:51,290 --> 00:59:52,510
him, whether he's young or old.

1115
00:59:53,910 --> 00:59:55,170
Oh no, what do we go on with

1116
00:59:55,170 --> 00:59:56,710
this popish nonsense for?

1117
00:59:58,900 --> 01:00:03,840
Friend, you know when they're born in the

1118
01:00:03,840 --> 01:00:07,300
millennial, and men live for so long, and

1119
01:00:07,300 --> 01:00:09,860
families will get so big, all the kids

1120
01:00:09,860 --> 01:00:12,060
that were born in there are born sinners.

1121
01:00:13,920 --> 01:00:15,800
Oh, the devil will no bother getting an

1122
01:00:15,800 --> 01:00:16,040
army.

1123
01:00:17,440 --> 01:00:19,260
And he's let loose, there'll be a crowd

1124
01:00:19,260 --> 01:00:19,580
of them.

1125
01:00:20,140 --> 01:00:22,380
He only needs to go round with his

1126
01:00:22,380 --> 01:00:25,840
detection again, and they have an army on

1127
01:00:25,840 --> 01:00:29,800
the fields, from every quarter of this earth

1128
01:00:29,800 --> 01:00:30,360
of ours.

1129
01:00:30,900 --> 01:00:33,260
He'd go to the four quarters, it says.

1130
01:00:34,320 --> 01:00:35,260
Verse 8.

1131
01:00:35,920 --> 01:00:38,720
And shall go out to defeat the nations,

1132
01:00:39,000 --> 01:00:41,960
and mark the nations which are in the

1133
01:00:41,960 --> 01:00:44,560
four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog.

1134
01:00:45,060 --> 01:00:48,580
To gather them together to battle, the number

1135
01:00:48,580 --> 01:00:50,280
of whom is of the sand of the

1136
01:00:50,280 --> 01:00:50,500
sea.

1137
01:00:50,880 --> 01:00:52,840
He'll get the big army the next day.

1138
01:00:54,080 --> 01:00:56,040
In fact, they'll go up after him.

1139
01:00:56,560 --> 01:00:58,160
They went up on the breads of the

1140
01:00:58,160 --> 01:01:02,700
earth, encompassed the camp of the saints about

1141
01:01:02,700 --> 01:01:03,780
under beloved city.

1142
01:01:06,350 --> 01:01:08,610
And you know when they marched behind the

1143
01:01:08,610 --> 01:01:11,010
devil on this occasion, it's the last march.

1144
01:01:12,890 --> 01:01:15,690
Fire will come down from God out of

1145
01:01:15,690 --> 01:01:16,930
heaven and evolve.

1146
01:01:19,560 --> 01:01:21,760
I'll tell you that'll be the most dreadful

1147
01:01:21,760 --> 01:01:23,620
day this world will ever see.

1148
01:01:24,840 --> 01:01:27,400
Where the very elements will melt that day.

1149
01:01:28,280 --> 01:01:30,920
The seven stars will melt.

1150
01:01:32,000 --> 01:01:35,060
And all the oil down in the barrels

1151
01:01:35,060 --> 01:01:37,160
of the earth will go to the flood.

1152
01:01:38,240 --> 01:01:42,300
And the atmosphere that's so full of atomic

1153
01:01:42,300 --> 01:01:43,760
energy will blast.

1154
01:01:45,200 --> 01:01:46,540
What a day it'll be.

1155
01:01:46,760 --> 01:01:47,840
Hope you'll not be there.

1156
01:01:50,680 --> 01:01:52,360
And God will deal with the devil.

1157
01:01:54,020 --> 01:01:56,280
That's where we're ending tonight at verse 10.

1158
01:01:56,360 --> 01:01:59,300
And the devil that received them was cast

1159
01:01:59,300 --> 01:02:01,540
into the lake of fire and brimstone.

1160
01:02:02,600 --> 01:02:05,340
Where the beast and the false prophet are,

1161
01:02:05,900 --> 01:02:09,180
we saw them both being thrown in one

1162
01:02:09,180 --> 01:02:11,160
thousand years before this.

1163
01:02:12,120 --> 01:02:13,240
They're there still.

1164
01:02:13,600 --> 01:02:14,240
They're there.

1165
01:02:14,540 --> 01:02:16,160
They'll be there for all eternity.

1166
01:02:18,340 --> 01:02:22,640
My, they talk to me about there's no

1167
01:02:22,640 --> 01:02:24,240
torment itself here.

1168
01:02:24,800 --> 01:02:27,640
He shall be tormented day and night forever

1169
01:02:27,640 --> 01:02:28,140
and ever.

1170
01:02:28,380 --> 01:02:30,200
And people in hell to might are in

1171
01:02:30,200 --> 01:02:30,540
torment.

1172
01:02:32,340 --> 01:02:36,000
And next Tuesday, the Lord will see the

1173
01:02:36,000 --> 01:02:40,120
rest of the dead at the great white

1174
01:02:40,120 --> 01:02:40,640
throne.

1175
01:02:41,120 --> 01:02:47,660
Then two verses, two verses of 1084.

1176
01:02:48,600 --> 01:02:54,220
On the 84, 1084, Jesus shall reign forever

1177
01:02:54,220 --> 01:02:55,300
from death.

1178
01:02:55,480 --> 01:02:57,860
The success of journey's wrong.

1179
01:02:58,040 --> 01:02:59,600
We'll sing the first two verses.

1180
01:03:00,780 --> 01:03:02,220
1084 please.