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Prophetic Witness Movement International's Tim Palmer gives a fascinating slideshow presentation on the Millennial reign of King Jesus. Tim is a Bible translator for New Tribes Mission, a teacher at North Cotes College, and an American polyglot.
PWMI YouTube Playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeLtfVhcCUFuyGKFjFuMvHYisBgJ82CXP
Chartridge Mission Church, a beacon of faith, was founded in 1844 and remains in the village of Chartridge, just outside Chesham, in the picturesque Chiltern Hills of Buckinghamshire, England, UK.
We are a warm and welcoming fellowship and would be delighted to have you visit us in person. Join us for our Sunday service at 6 pm, followed by refreshments.
Our Church is fully accessible, with wheelchair ramps and an accessible toilet, ensuring everyone can participate in our services.
Chartridge Mission Church, Chapel Lane, Chartridge, Chesham, Buckinghamshire, HP5 2TH
The village Church with an international audience.
Support our work at Chartridge Mission Church:
Donations via Stewardship.org.uk:
https://www.stewardship.org.uk/partners/20005300
Please make cheques payable to Chartridge Mission Church and send them to the address above, attention Pastor Barry Kempson.
Recorded on Sunday, 23rd August 2026.
Join us for our Sunday service at 6 pm.
www.Chartridge.UK
The Friendliest Fellowship.
Prophetic Witness Movement International's Tim Palmer gives a fascinating slideshow presentation on the Millennial reign of King Jesus. Tim is a Bible translator for New Tribes Mission, a teacher at North Cotes College, and an American polyglot.
PWMI YouTube Playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeLtfVhcCUFuyGKFjFuMvHYisBgJ82CXP
Chartridge Mission Church, a beacon of faith, was founded in 1844 and remains in the village of Chartridge, just outside Chesham, in the picturesque Chiltern Hills of Buckinghamshire, England, UK.
We are a warm and welcoming fellowship and would be delighted to have you visit us in person. Join us for our Sunday service at 6 pm, followed by refreshments.
Our Church is fully accessible, with wheelchair ramps and an accessible toilet, ensuring everyone can participate in our services.
Chartridge Mission Church, Chapel Lane, Chartridge, Chesham, Buckinghamshire, HP5 2TH
The village Church with an international audience.
Support our work at Chartridge Mission Church:
Donations via Stewardship.org.uk:
https://www.stewardship.org.uk/partners/20005300
Please make cheques payable to Chartridge Mission Church and send them to the address above, attention Pastor Barry Kempson.
Recorded on Sunday, 23rd August 2026.
Join us for our Sunday service at 6 pm.
www.Chartridge.UK
The Friendliest Fellowship.
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00:00:00I will enter His gates with thanksgiving in my heart, and I will enter His courts with praise.
00:00:09I will say this is the day that the Lord has made, I will make us for He has made
00:00:17me glad.
00:00:20He has made me glad, He has made me glad, I will make us for He has made me glad.
00:00:30He has made me glad, He has made me glad, I will make us for He has made me glad.
00:00:40It's good to be here with you, I'll just share a little bit with you.
00:00:43I'm a teacher.
00:00:44So this is myself and my lovely wife.
00:00:46We met back in the 80s in Senegal, West Africa.
00:00:50I was a single missionary out there.
00:00:53I had gone to do church planting.
00:00:55The organization that I work with in the UK is New Tribes Mission.
00:00:58We have other names in other countries around the world, but there are still over 2,000 language groups that
00:01:05do not have any of God's Word.
00:01:07And our goal is to have a thriving church in every people group around the world.
00:01:12There will be some from every tribe, every tongue, every people, and every nation that stands before the throne of
00:01:19God.
00:01:20And that's a promise from the scripture that we know.
00:01:23So I set out to do things that happened.
00:01:26I ended up that God had a different plan for me.
00:01:29So my wife and I have been here over 26 years.
00:01:33And we're at North Coates College.
00:01:35North Coates College in Lincolnshire.
00:01:37If you know a little bit about Grimsby, we say to our students,
00:01:41from the end of the earth to the ends of the earth.
00:01:44And we're training this year.
00:01:46Thankfully, we have 38 new students joining us.
00:01:50We're the European Training Center.
00:01:52So that would be the United Kingdom and the continent and a few other places.
00:01:56We get Canadians and Americans that come over to train with us.
00:02:00All of our training centers around the world all teach exactly the same thing,
00:02:05the same doctrine with the same purpose.
00:02:07And that is that we might establish believers in every language group around the world.
00:02:15Still 2,000 don't even have John 3.16 of all the language groups.
00:02:20And so North Coates College is starting next week.
00:02:23And we use a unique approach.
00:02:25We use the approach that Jesus used on the road to Emmaus.
00:02:30Beginning with Moses and all the prophets,
00:02:33he explained to them all the things concerning himself.
00:02:36So I will begin.
00:02:37I already have my lessons prepped.
00:02:39My wife has printed my handouts.
00:02:41And with all the new students, I'll start in Genesis 1.1.
00:02:44In the beginning, God.
00:02:47Right?
00:02:48So you're an introduction to God.
00:02:50In the very first verse of the Bible,
00:02:52created the heavens and the earth.
00:02:54And so I'm looking forward to that.
00:02:55And we'll take that timeline and go all the way through the Bible.
00:02:59And so my last lesson in July is Revelation.
00:03:03Revelation.
00:03:03So I get to start out in Genesis and I get to end up in Revelation.
00:03:07And I primarily do that.
00:03:09And we say, you know, why do we do this?
00:03:11Well, we do what in theological terms is called foundational teaching.
00:03:14We teach the foundational truths of the Bible.
00:03:17And again, and we do that by giving.
00:03:20And again, this is a new word that everybody's using, the metanarrative,
00:03:24the worldview metanarrative.
00:03:26You know, what has God been saying from Genesis 1.1 all the way through the Bible?
00:03:31Our approach is the exact approach I'm going to use tonight.
00:03:36We believe in a consistent literal hermeneutic.
00:03:40Now, everyone believes in a literal hermeneutic.
00:03:44But you will find, like with our message tonight, when we talk about the millennium,
00:03:49not everyone holds, in my opinion and that of others, to consistently being literal.
00:03:55There are those that feel at times they'd rather allegorize the Bible.
00:04:01Now, we believe that causes problems.
00:04:04That causes problems.
00:04:05Now, I'm not trying to be rude or mean or anything.
00:04:07I spend my life talking to students.
00:04:09I'm sure there will be lots of bold conversations with students over this next year
00:04:15that are coming from all walks of life, all kinds of denominations,
00:04:18all kinds of different churches from various countries all around the world.
00:04:23And they will have some different opinions, as I say.
00:04:27And I hope my weird humor doesn't offend you, okay?
00:04:30I say that the most consistently quoted book is the Book of Second Opinions.
00:04:36Everyone has an opinion on something.
00:04:39But the opinion doesn't matter.
00:04:41The Word of God does.
00:04:43It's the Word of God that we're looking at.
00:04:46And so we're going to focus on the gospel and focus on a life and a ministry glorifying God.
00:04:54And really, that leads us well into what we want to do tonight.
00:04:59We want to look at the Bible.
00:05:01And as the Word goes, so what people are talking about today, the worldview, metanarrative.
00:05:06What's the big picture?
00:05:08What's God doing?
00:05:10What's God's plan?
00:05:11Now, we all believe God has everything in control.
00:05:15God lives outside of time.
00:05:16You see, you and I are bound by time.
00:05:19God isn't.
00:05:21God can still see Genesis 1-1 right now because God is timeless.
00:05:26He lives outside of time.
00:05:27God sees eternities, eternities, eternity because He's God.
00:05:32And that's who He is.
00:05:34And God has everything in control.
00:05:36And as we see here, we want to look and we want to talk about the kingdom.
00:05:41Now, the kingdom is talked about all through the Old Testament.
00:05:44It's talked about through the Gospels.
00:05:46But a little bit it's talked about in the epistles, but not an awful lot.
00:05:51But then when you come to the book of the Revelation,
00:05:54we're going to see that it's talked about again.
00:05:56And we want to look at this and we want to say, if we're consistent, can we understand it?
00:06:03You see, some people, when they approach the Bible, they look and they think,
00:06:07well, there are things that God doesn't mean for us to understand.
00:06:11That's not how God puts it forth.
00:06:13Thessalonians makes it very clearly.
00:06:14I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep.
00:06:20And actually, that terminology is used in other places.
00:06:24The Lord asks questions.
00:06:26And again, when I teach students, how do you share your faith?
00:06:29How do you witness?
00:06:30How did the Lord do it?
00:06:31He asked them questions.
00:06:33And so tonight, we'll have to think about some of those things.
00:06:37What's the nature of his kingdom?
00:06:39What are the timings of his kingdom?
00:06:42And then what are the results of his kingdom?
00:06:44Now, again, we just hope tonight, all we really can do,
00:06:47it is like with the teaching that we do in the mission is hit the mountain tips.
00:06:52You know, the tops, the very tops of the mountains.
00:06:54We'll look tonight.
00:06:55But what I'm convinced of, and because I've seen for over 43, 45 years now of full-time ministry,
00:07:03is I've seen people say that wasn't really that difficult.
00:07:08Believe it or not, I tell the students that when we study the book of Revelation,
00:07:12it's going to be quite easy for you.
00:07:14The book of Revelation is one of the easiest books in the Bible to translate into another language.
00:07:20It's straightforward narrative.
00:07:22It doesn't use a lot of language.
00:07:25It doesn't use a lot of big words.
00:07:28It's very straightforward.
00:07:29And so for translators, like that was my goal, was to translate from the I am language to give them
00:07:35God's word.
00:07:36And of course, it is just about done now.
00:07:39My coworkers are just waiting for someone that can check the translation to make sure of its perfect accuracy,
00:07:47or at least as accurate as we can be in a translation.
00:07:51And so as we come along and we think about this,
00:07:54when we look at the first point,
00:07:56now I realize, you know, that not everybody believes that.
00:08:00I tend to ask the students some questions as we go along,
00:08:04and I'm going to do that as we go along.
00:08:06Now, you don't have to answer back to me.
00:08:08You can think about them yourself.
00:08:09But all the covenants of Israel must be literally fulfilled.
00:08:16Otherwise, we have some problems.
00:08:18We have some problems that God said he was going to do this thing,
00:08:23and then if he doesn't do it, he's not been truthful.
00:08:27Now, none of us would say that.
00:08:30We know that he is the God who cannot lie.
00:08:33And we know this to be true.
00:08:35And we'll think about the prophecies in Scripture.
00:08:38Should they not all be fulfilled?
00:08:40Should they not all be fulfilled?
00:08:43Actually, in a literal way.
00:08:45And then my final point for this one, which we'll look at all these four,
00:08:49in just a little tiny bit of detail,
00:08:51all rule and authority must be brought under Christ.
00:08:55You see, there are different opinions.
00:08:58You see, when it comes to a kingdom,
00:09:01some believe we're in the kingdom now.
00:09:05That's a term that's called amillennialism.
00:09:08This is preterism, if you like.
00:09:10I don't want to be too technical with you.
00:09:12But there are those that believe.
00:09:13I have friends, pastor friends, who hold to that view.
00:09:17Some believe that Christ is going to establish his kingdom
00:09:22at the end of a golden era.
00:09:25That's called postmillennialism.
00:09:28In other words, the earth must be evangelized.
00:09:31And then Christ will come back to take his throne.
00:09:36Some believe amillennialism, Christ is on his throne now.
00:09:41I hold to the view, in PWMI, we hold to the view called premillennialism.
00:09:47And that is that God has a distinct plan.
00:09:51In a nutshell, the Bible is very clear when we come to the New Testament,
00:09:55and particularly in the book of the Revelation.
00:09:58We're told in places to give no offense to the Jew,
00:10:01to the Gentile, nor to the church of God.
00:10:04And again, when God's creation started out,
00:10:07everyone were Gentiles, non-Jews.
00:10:09And we can go through with Adam and Eve and all the way through Noah and Abram
00:10:15and all the way through until you come to Abram.
00:10:18And then suddenly we have the Jewish people.
00:10:21And again, and then from that point onward,
00:10:24we understand that when we come into the New Testament,
00:10:28something new began.
00:10:29That's the language of the Acts of the Apostles.
00:10:32The body of Christ.
00:10:33Jesus gave a promise to his disciples that his spirit would be what would make the difference.
00:10:41The indwelling Holy Spirit.
00:10:42In the Old Testament, the Holy Spirit only came upon individuals,
00:10:46or left individuals, for divine tasks.
00:10:51King Saul is an example of that.
00:10:53That at the beginning of his kingdom, he had God's spirit, but then he lost it.
00:10:57And again, and we can see at various times, you know,
00:11:01when you come along and you look at Scripture with David.
00:11:04David was a believer.
00:11:06He was a man after God's own heart.
00:11:08But David struggled with sin.
00:11:11And when David sinned, he didn't say in Psalms, right?
00:11:16Psalms 51.
00:11:16Lord, say me again.
00:11:18No, he asked God for forgiveness against thee and thee only have I sinned and done this wicked thing.
00:11:24And he asked the Lord to restore to him the joy of his salvation.
00:11:30You see, he was saved, but he had lost the joy because sin separated him from walking with God.
00:11:39But he didn't lose his salvation.
00:11:41Well, the same is true of us as believers today in the church age.
00:11:44The only difference is we have God's spirit given to us as an earnest, as a guarantee of our salvation.
00:11:52And so just to think a little bit about each of these points, okay?
00:11:57Just to think a little bit, the purpose of the kingdom.
00:12:00Why have a kingdom?
00:12:02Now, again, are a millennialist correct?
00:12:05Or post-millennials?
00:12:07That'd be John Calvin.
00:12:08John Calvin would have basically been a post-millennialist.
00:12:11He would have believed that the earth would have to be Christianized before Christ would come back.
00:12:17Whereas there are those that took the opinion that, hang on, this is the kingdom that was established around A
00:12:25.D. 70.
00:12:26That's their opinion.
00:12:27I don't hold that opinion because there's a lot of verses that tell us.
00:12:32For example, in Matthew 5, verse 18,
00:12:47Now, you have to understand, in the Old Testament, you know, we have the Tanakh, right?
00:12:53The Tanakh, the Jewish people break their Bible into three parts.
00:12:58The Torah, the Nebaiyem, and the Ketuvan.
00:13:02Tanakh.
00:13:03That's Torah, Nebaiyem, Ketuvan.
00:13:06And the Old Testament, the law, is the books of Moses.
00:13:10The Germans refer to it that way.
00:13:12I get a lot of German students.
00:13:13And they'll often say, I'm reading out of 2nd Moses now, which is Exodus.
00:13:19And again, because they'll talk about the books of Moses, right?
00:13:23The law.
00:13:24So all the law is fulfilled.
00:13:25There's lots of things in the law that have not literally been fulfilled.
00:13:32But everything must be literally fulfilled.
00:13:36Again, if you look a bit further in Matthew 24, verse 55, he says,
00:13:42Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my word shall not pass away.
00:13:46Now, I would say to you that there's a promise of heaven and earth passing away,
00:13:52melting with fervent heat.
00:13:532 Peter 3.
00:13:55I take that to be literal.
00:13:57These heavens and this earth are going to melt with fervent feet.
00:14:01I believe in the Big Bang.
00:14:04I just don't believe the Big Bang happened in the beginning.
00:14:07I think it's going to happen at the end.
00:14:09You see, because I believe God created everything in six literal days.
00:14:14The reason I believe that is I believe that's the view that science upholds,
00:14:20and I believe that's the view that the Bible upholds.
00:14:23Six literal days of creation.
00:14:27Otherwise, there's no way to come about it, okay?
00:14:29Now, again, I get to talk to students, and I'm sure I'm going to have lots of students this year
00:14:33that are going to want to argue that with me.
00:14:35And that's okay.
00:14:36I don't mind, because I can only stand on the authority of God's Word.
00:14:42And every jot and every tittle.
00:14:44That's the little accents over either the Hebrew or the Greek letters as they come forth here.
00:14:52And God has to bring it all about.
00:14:55Romans 11, 28 and 29.
00:14:58Again, concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes, but touching the election.
00:15:05They are, he says here, beloved for the Father's sakes, for the gifts and the callings of God are without
00:15:14repentance.
00:15:14Or, as many translations change it, without a change of mind.
00:15:18Metanoio, the word repentance means to change the mind.
00:15:23That's what the word literally means.
00:15:25And, again, when we look at these verses, we have to look at them in their context.
00:15:30God's promise is to Israel.
00:15:33Now, listen, if you want to hear more, in September, the PWMI conference is up in Preston.
00:15:39And there are three of us that are going to take on Romans 9, that's me, Romans 10, John Williams,
00:15:45and Stephen Borland, Romans 11.
00:15:47And every one of us are going to look at that in its consistently literal context to how God is
00:15:55speaking to Israel.
00:15:57It deals with Romans 9, what I will be doing, their past.
00:16:02Okay, Romans 10, Israel's present.
00:16:06And Romans 11, their future.
00:16:08And we understand here that God chose Abram when he was, and he tested Abram with his son Isaac.
00:16:18And Abram passed the test, right?
00:16:21And, again, the scriptures are very clear to us.
00:16:24In Genesis 15, that when Abraham believed God, his faith was accounted to him for righteousness.
00:16:32You see, there's always only ever been one means of salvation by grace through faith.
00:16:36And Abram came to the place that he believed the promises of God, and he was saved.
00:16:43He was saved.
00:16:44Just you as I get saved.
00:16:45And we can see here, point number two under this is very clearly that all the covenants of Israel must
00:16:54be fulfilled.
00:16:54Now, again, this is like opening up a big kettle of worms, some people would say.
00:17:00You see, now, I know, I understand, and I know where I came from in my history of what I
00:17:05used to believe.
00:17:06And where I've come to believing that the Bible must consistently be interpreted in a literal approach.
00:17:13And so when we come to this, you see, there's a theory called covenant theology.
00:17:19Now, I'm not here to thump covenant theology, but I can tell you in scripture that you can't find a
00:17:26covenant of works and a covenant of grace and a covenant of redemption ever mentioned in those words all throughout
00:17:33scripture.
00:17:33But I understand the whole system is based on that.
00:17:38What you can find are literal covenants.
00:17:41Covenants are agreements.
00:17:43God made an agreement with Abraham.
00:17:45But you'll note that the agreement, the covenant given to Abraham couldn't be fulfilled until he came to faith in
00:17:54Genesis 15.
00:17:55In Genesis 12, God said, this is what I'm going to do with you, Abram.
00:17:59But it isn't until he came to faith in God that actually Abram became Abraham.
00:18:07And until after Sarah's, Sarai's, laugh of unbelief, and she laughed in faith and God gave her laughter, right?
00:18:18Which is the name of her son in Hebrew, right?
00:18:21And Isaac means laughter.
00:18:23You see, her sorrows turn to joy.
00:18:26So again, because God is going to accomplish his will and he's going to do it very clearly.
00:18:33And the Abrahamic covenant actually draws us Gentiles.
00:18:37Now, I don't know, maybe someone's here of Jewish descent.
00:18:40I don't know.
00:18:40I'm not.
00:18:41I come, my dad used to say a long list of either Irish or Scottish thieves, but I don't know
00:18:47if that was true or not.
00:18:48But, you know, again, we understand that in you, Abraham was told, all the nations of the earth shall be
00:18:57blessed.
00:18:58And again, the gospel goes out, again, to the Jew, to the Gentile, to the church of God.
00:19:03Everyone who's saved today, right?
00:19:06But we don't join Israel.
00:19:08We don't proselytize.
00:19:09You know, we're not going to Jerusalem and trying to do sacrifices, right?
00:19:15We understand that if we walk in love, Ephesians 5, verse 2, as Christ loved us, that it's an offering
00:19:23to God as a sweet aroma.
00:19:25Just as the Jewish sacrifices were in Leviticus.
00:19:30And again, we see that there's a land's covenant.
00:19:33Now, again, in Deuteronomy, it states these are the words of the covenant which the Lord commanded Moses to make
00:19:39with the children of Israel in the lands of Moab beside the covenant.
00:19:45Which he made with them in Horeb.
00:19:47God has promised to Moses lands.
00:19:52And again, in other passages in scripture, that's from the river of Egypt to the Euphrates.
00:19:58Now, the Euphrates is in the news these days, right?
00:20:02All that's happening in Iraq and Iran, ancient Persia.
00:20:06And from the sea to the south, to the mountains to the north, there's never been a time when, even
00:20:13under Solomon, although some have tried to say that there were, some have tried to change the rivers.
00:20:19But if we're consistently literal, Israel has never held the land.
00:20:25As a matter of fact, what we see happening today is a biblical proportion.
00:20:30Why?
00:20:31Because God has said, in the last days, the people of Israel will be brought back into the land, but
00:20:39in unbelief.
00:20:41They will try to establish their own nation.
00:20:45They're going to have something, their own temple in Jerusalem.
00:20:49And you know what?
00:20:49Today, the Temple Mount Society is ready to do that.
00:20:54But we know one thing for sure.
00:20:57There's going to be something missing.
00:20:59You see, they can build their brazen altar.
00:21:02They can have a menorah.
00:21:03They already have it.
00:21:04They can wear the priesthood garments.
00:21:06But the Shekinah glory of the Lord won't be there.
00:21:10You see, the glory of the Lord was there in Ezekiel's day.
00:21:15And when the sin got so ripe in Israel, God removed, if you read the book of Ezekiel, you see
00:21:22that he removed his glory.
00:21:24And it went to the door.
00:21:26And then it went up on the Mount of Olives.
00:21:28And then it departed Israel.
00:21:30And it didn't return.
00:21:32Not under Zerubbabel's temple.
00:21:35And they still made offerings.
00:21:37Under Herod's temple, they still made offerings.
00:21:41But you know what was missing?
00:21:42The glory of among us.
00:21:45And we beheld his glory.
00:21:47The glory of the only begotten of the Father.
00:21:50Full of grace and truth.
00:21:52And then the glory returned to Israel.
00:21:55And that glory was seen on the Mount of Transfiguration.
00:21:57Jesus, with his three closest disciples, saw that glory that had been veiled.
00:22:03And they were saying, hey, let's build tabernacles.
00:22:05Let's have that last festival.
00:22:07The Feast of Tabernacles.
00:22:09But it wasn't the time.
00:22:11Because he had not yet given his life for sin.
00:22:16It's amazing that every jot and every tittle of the whole law must be fulfilled.
00:22:22You see, the end of the book of Ezekiel leaves us with the glory returning through the eastern gate.
00:22:28Now, isn't it the eastern gate?
00:22:30He bricked it up because no God, no king could ever go over the grave signs, the dead bodies.
00:22:38They would be unclean.
00:22:40But the Bible tells us when the Lord Jesus Christ comes back to establish his kingdom,
00:22:44there's going to be an earth plague that's going to divide that side of the Mount of Olives.
00:22:49And that earth is going to just move away so that the Lord Jesus can enter through the eastern gate.
00:22:55Now, you can't make this stuff up.
00:22:57It didn't happen in A.D. 70.
00:23:01Again, so that's what I would say to my pastor friends, you know, that would hold to amillennialism.
00:23:07You have a real hard time.
00:23:09Well, but that's all about the glory in us.
00:23:12No, that's a really hard way to allegorize scripture.
00:23:16Because we believe that all the Old Testament prophecies that spoke about the incarnation,
00:23:22about the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, happened exactly the way he said they did.
00:23:28Well, why wouldn't the others about his second coming?
00:23:32Why wouldn't they happen?
00:23:33And I often, I love to ask this, we'll come to it in a little bit,
00:23:36because I love to ask one question.
00:23:38Do we all believe that the plagues of Egypt happened?
00:23:43We do, right?
00:23:44We all believe that.
00:23:45We actually all believe that God told him beforehand what was going to happen.
00:23:50In most of the plagues, Moses told him beforehand what was going to happen.
00:23:54And they all happened.
00:23:56You see, that's my argument for the whole Bible.
00:23:59Those things in the Old Testament, which haven't literally happened, they must literally happen,
00:24:06just as God said they would.
00:24:08Otherwise, God's word can't be trusted.
00:24:12You see, otherwise, his word can't be trusted.
00:24:15And we know that the land has never been held by them.
00:24:19We understand the Davidic covenant.
00:24:21And it says in Samuel, now listen, I know I've talked to a lot of people.
00:24:28I have conversations just about every year for this one.
00:24:322 Samuel 7, verse 12 and 13.
00:24:35And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers,
00:24:40I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of your vows,
00:24:46and I will establish his kingdom.
00:24:47He shall build a house for my name, and will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
00:24:54Listen, I've studied languages.
00:24:56I speak a number of languages.
00:24:58I'm losing it.
00:24:59I'm getting a bit old here.
00:25:00But the definition of forever in the Bible is forever.
00:25:06It's not that difficult.
00:25:07For all time.
00:25:09You see, again, forever.
00:25:11He's going to establish other passages.
00:25:14Talk about someone from the loins of David.
00:25:16Now, we understand who that is.
00:25:19That's the Lord Jesus Christ.
00:25:21And there has to be a king.
00:25:23Listen, David's throne is always spoken of on Mount Zion.
00:25:31It's always in Israel.
00:25:33It's not the right hand of the Father.
00:25:35Those are promises given.
00:25:3719 times, I think it is.
00:25:39Where's Jesus Christ right now?
00:25:40I ask my students this.
00:25:41Where's the Lord Jesus Christ right now?
00:25:43I know exactly where he is.
00:25:44Because 19 times in the New Testament, when he ascended up, right, he's seated at the right hand of the
00:25:51Father.
00:25:52He's making intercession for us.
00:25:54And when we don't know how to pray, he helps us.
00:25:57And the Spirit helps us to pray.
00:25:59You know, we don't know sometimes how we should pray.
00:26:02Sometimes we ask them this, to get things of our own selves, right, which are not his will.
00:26:08But if we can trust God, that's why we pray.
00:26:11When we pray, according to his will, we're told he hears us.
00:26:16God hears our prayers.
00:26:18But I want to pray, Lord, not as Jesus did.
00:26:21Not my will be done, but your will be done.
00:26:25You see, the Lord came to do the will of the Father.
00:26:28Father, we see again in the New Covenant.
00:26:32Now, again, I love to talk about the New Covenant.
00:26:35I believe today that the church receives benefits in Abraham of the New Covenant.
00:26:41We have the indwelling Holy Spirit.
00:26:43We have the Spirit of God that seals us until the day of redemption.
00:26:47You know, not until the day we stop believing.
00:26:49But his sealing is until that time he comes to take us to be with him.
00:26:55Until we're changed in the moment.
00:26:57In the downbeat of an eyebrow.
00:26:59When the last trumpet blasts for the church.
00:27:01You see, there's loads of trumpets used in the Old Testament for Israel.
00:27:06Israel had trumpets that were blown for sad occasions.
00:27:10Trumpets for war.
00:27:12The feast of trumpets was blown until the day of atonement.
00:27:16There's solemn feasts where they mourned for sin.
00:27:19Where they put on their sackcloth and ashes.
00:27:22But other festivals were joyous occasions.
00:27:25See, there's good trumpets and bad trumpets in the book of Revelation.
00:27:29There's seven trumpets, again, that are called woes.
00:27:34Ezekiel talks about those woes.
00:27:36Other prophets in the Old Testament talk about those woes.
00:27:41Those are the not so nice trumpets.
00:27:44But ours is a blessed hope and a glorious appearing of our great God and our Savior.
00:27:51It's with joy that we look to see him.
00:27:54And he says in Jeremiah 31, verse 31.
00:27:59Behold, the days come, saith the Lord.
00:28:02Then I will make a new covenant.
00:28:04Now, notice who he says here.
00:28:07With the church?
00:28:08No.
00:28:08With the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.
00:28:12Now, can I just say to you, we know what happened in Israel, right?
00:28:16The kingdom divided.
00:28:18The northern kingdom became Israel.
00:28:21The basic ten northern tribes.
00:28:24And the southern kingdom became Judah.
00:28:27And the northern kingdom never had any good kings.
00:28:30They were taken away captives by the Assyrians.
00:28:32And God judged them.
00:28:34And God used the Assyrians, Sennacherib, and some of the other leaders of the Assyrians to judge Israel.
00:28:40Israel then took in and intermarried.
00:28:43And that's where we get Samaritans from.
00:28:45Which was a thing God had told them not to do.
00:28:50Not to be unequally yoked together.
00:28:52Which is the same thing that we have as believers in the church age.
00:28:56We shouldn't be unequally yoked together with unbelievers.
00:29:00The southern kingdom had a little bit of a reprieve.
00:29:04And again, some of the prophets that go along speak about when God had finished his time with the Assyrians.
00:29:10God allowed Nebuchadnezzar, the Babylonians, to judge the Assyrians.
00:29:15And then God turned his attention through Nebuchadnezzar and through his grandson and others, right, to bring on judgment.
00:29:24Because God is a faithful judge.
00:29:26You see, every job and every tittle.
00:29:29And it's amazing.
00:29:30You know, it's interesting.
00:29:31You know the Jewish people in the Tanakh?
00:29:33They do not put the book of Daniel in the Nebuchadnezzar.
00:29:39They put it in the Ketubim.
00:29:41So they don't put it in with the prophets.
00:29:43They don't believe Daniel's a prophet.
00:29:46They can't.
00:29:47Because if they made Daniel a prophet, instead of they put him in with Song of Solomon and Psalms and
00:29:54Proverbs, you know, even though we believe they're God's word and they're really pure.
00:29:59Daniel tells to the very day that the Lord would make his triumphant entry into Jerusalem.
00:30:07And he did that 483 years later after, right, a Medo-Persian emperor made a decree.
00:30:17Now, I can prove that all to you.
00:30:19I can prove it to the day using the 30-day calendar month years from the book of Daniel.
00:30:26To the day.
00:30:27And then we know Messiah will be cut off, but not for himself.
00:30:32And then we know there's still, that's 69 weeks.
00:30:36And it goes all the way up, 483 years.
00:30:40But there still is a week.
00:30:43Because, you see, the Bible leaves us, I believe, for time.
00:30:47The church gets the blessings of the new covenant.
00:30:50Every time we remember the Lord, we take communion, we break bread, we remember it, we benefit spiritually from that.
00:30:59But guess what?
00:31:00This covenant is given to Israel.
00:31:04But Israel has not accepted Yeshua, Jesus, as their Messiah.
00:31:12But Zechariah says it.
00:31:14Paul says it in Romans.
00:31:16They will look on him in whom they have pierced.
00:31:21And all Israel will be saved.
00:31:23How are they going to be saved?
00:31:24They're going to understand.
00:31:25It's going to come to them that Yeshua, Hamashiach, Jesus was the Messiah.
00:31:31Our family crucified him.
00:31:33Now, we recognize we're all guilty.
00:31:35Right?
00:31:36Unless we come to the place of understanding, as 1 Corinthians 15 says,
00:31:42He died for our sins, according to the scriptures.
00:31:47Right?
00:31:47The death, burial, and resurrection of Christ is all through the Old Testament.
00:31:50You go back to Genesis 3, 15.
00:31:52There's a promise of a deliverer.
00:31:54Someone that will crush the head of the serpent.
00:31:57You look at the Psalms.
00:31:58And the psalmist speaks about someone who will come.
00:32:03The sure mercies of David.
00:32:04You know, you look at Daniel chapter 9.
00:32:07And you see, Messiah shall be cut off.
00:32:09But not for himself.
00:32:10See, Jesus didn't die for his own sin.
00:32:13Because he who knew no sin became sin for us.
00:32:18But the nation of Israel, whom the covenant was given to,
00:32:22has not yet looked on their Messiah.
00:32:26And seen, as doubting Thomas did, the prince in his hands are in his side.
00:32:32But they will.
00:32:33They will.
00:32:34And this covenant will be fulfilled for them.
00:32:38When we look at our third point here.
00:32:42Again, all prophecy of scripture must be fulfilled.
00:32:47Daniel chapter 9 clearly says this.
00:32:50Now look, if you start out, the book of Daniel is amazing.
00:32:53I could spend days, I do spend days, going through Daniel.
00:32:57Hours and hours.
00:32:59Because again, it's written in a literary form.
00:33:01It's written as two types of Chaiism.
00:33:04One, the first part, is written to the Jewish people.
00:33:09Right?
00:33:10Or actually to the Gentiles.
00:33:11The second part is written to the Jewish people.
00:33:14The first part is written in Aramaic.
00:33:17Ancient Syrian.
00:33:18The second part is written in Hebrew.
00:33:21And the Chaiism of chapter 2.
00:33:23It parallels chapter 7.
00:33:26And chapter 3 parallels chapter 6.
00:33:29And chapter 4 parallels chapter 5.
00:33:32And you can see that kings see themselves as gold, silver, bronze, and iron.
00:33:40And then iron mixed with clay.
00:33:42But chapter 7 sees these kingdoms as wild beasts that will be destroyed.
00:33:49And a kingdom which will be established, which shall never end.
00:33:55Now again, this is very interesting, right?
00:33:57Because in the book of Daniel, it lists six reasons.
00:34:02Actually, I would say three and three.
00:34:04I can't get my fingers to bend.
00:34:06Three and three.
00:34:07Arthritis doesn't help as you get over, right?
00:34:09Three and three.
00:34:10But interesting, the first beginning of chapter 9, what is the language that God uses?
00:34:17The sin.
00:34:18Daniel, as he's praying, our sin.
00:34:20We have sinned.
00:34:22We have sinned.
00:34:23Your people have sinned.
00:34:25And then he continues in the beginning of chapter 9.
00:34:28Righteousness belongs to you.
00:34:30And this is exactly what these points make in Daniel.
00:34:34In chapter 9, he says,
00:34:3670 weeks are literally, 77s are determined.
00:34:4277s are determined.
00:34:44He says, upon your people, your holy city.
00:34:49He says, to finish the transgression.
00:34:52He says, to make an end of sins.
00:34:55And to make reconciliation for iniquity.
00:34:58That's three.
00:34:59To bring in everlasting righteousness.
00:35:02Seal out vision and prophecy.
00:35:04And to anoint the most holy.
00:35:07Now, look, I'll just pop these down here.
00:35:11You know, it's interesting.
00:35:12All through the Old Testament in Hebrew.
00:35:15And all through the New Testament in Greek.
00:35:18There's these two things that are talked about.
00:35:21There's sin.
00:35:23In Greek, we say, hey, martia.
00:35:25Missing the mark.
00:35:26Okay.
00:35:27And again, trespass.
00:35:29Peripatoma.
00:35:31Right?
00:35:31Every sin.
00:35:32You break a standard.
00:35:34There's a penalty.
00:35:36So sin is God's standard.
00:35:39And peripatoma, trespass, is breaking the standard.
00:35:42Which requires payment.
00:35:46And then iniquity is how horrible sin and trespass are.
00:35:51In the Old Testament, that's the principle.
00:35:53You get sin, trespass, and iniquity.
00:35:57But you see, the other side of it is.
00:35:59God wants to deal with the sin of Israel.
00:36:02How do we know that?
00:36:04Seventy weeks are determined for what?
00:36:06Your holy people.
00:36:08Your holy city.
00:36:10Now, look.
00:36:12Every jot and every tittle of the whole wall.
00:36:14Daniel could only understand this to be the nation of Israel.
00:36:19Which God promised in the beginning books of the Bible.
00:36:23In the first two books of Moses, Genesis and Exodus.
00:36:26That if they sinned, he would chasten them.
00:36:30But Leviticus says he'll do it seven times.
00:36:34And seven times more.
00:36:36And still seven times more.
00:36:38So the seventy-sevens becomes very clear for dealing with Israel.
00:36:43You know, it's going to be interesting.
00:36:45When you look at the book of the Revelation, you'll never understand it.
00:36:48If you don't understand, the seven is the key to understanding it.
00:36:53Because it's addressing, it's written to the church.
00:36:56Why?
00:36:57We will rule and reign with him in his kingdom.
00:37:00But it's about God fulfilling every jot and every tittle of the whole wall.
00:37:07And again, those sevens are going to come about because God's got to bring in the righteousness of the ages.
00:37:13He's got to seal up or finish up all vision and all prophecy.
00:37:17And he's got to anoint the most holy.
00:37:22You see, again, this is Ezekiel 40 to 48.
00:37:25I wish we had time.
00:37:26Sometimes I do talks on Ezekiel.
00:37:29But God's purpose is very clear, right?
00:37:33And again, we see here that all the Bible and all authority must be brought under the Lord Jesus Christ.
00:37:41Now, here's my argument for postmillennialism and amillennialism.
00:37:46For amillennialism, if this is the kingdom now, God's word is not true.
00:37:53Because the promises that we see in his kingdom are very clear of what that kingdom will look like.
00:38:03Revelation 19, he says,
00:38:05Hallelujah, for the Lord God omnipotent reigns.
00:38:10If Christ is reigning in his kingdom now, and that's not what we see in the epistles.
00:38:16Or even the beginning of the revelation, now Christ is ministering to the church.
00:38:22The church that began at Pentecost with the coming of the Holy Spirit.
00:38:27And I would argue that when the restrainer is taken away, right?
00:38:32Then again, God's attention is going to turn again to the nation of Israel.
00:38:38For why?
00:38:39To fulfill all vision and prophecy.
00:38:42All the Old Testament.
00:38:43You see, it says in Isaiah, in Isaiah 6.
00:38:48For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government will be upon his
00:38:54shoulders.
00:38:54And his name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
00:39:00Of the increase of the increase of his government and peace, there will be no end.
00:39:06Upon the throne of David and over his kingdom to order and establish it with judgment and justice from that
00:39:15time forward.
00:39:17Now again, Christ is not in Jerusalem.
00:39:20He's not sitting on David's throne.
00:39:23There's not universal peace, right?
00:39:25Do you watch the BBC, the Bad Broadcasting Network, or CNN, the Communist Network News?
00:39:32Right?
00:39:32And again, I can go on.
00:39:33I've got loads of them.
00:39:34You know, we've got them in the States, right?
00:39:37Again, I used to say, in my church, our sending church is missionaries in the States.
00:39:42We have some solicitors and lawyers.
00:39:44And I would tell all my, you know, the only good solicitor.
00:39:48The thing I can say about newsreaders is I can use those same jokes.
00:39:51You know, a good start is if they're six feet under because, unfortunately, they don't tell the truth.
00:39:58You see, his government, there's going to be worldwide peace.
00:40:02Why?
00:40:03He's going to rule with a rod of iron.
00:40:06Again, he says, the earth, he's going to rule with a rod of iron.
00:40:11Now again, Isaiah 11, 4 and 5, but with righteousness, he will judge the poor.
00:40:16He will decide with equity for the meek on the earth.
00:40:19He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips, he shall
00:40:24slay the wicked.
00:40:26Righteousness shall be the belt of his loins, and faithfulness the belt of his waist.
00:40:31I literally believe one day the Lord Jesus Christ is coming back to the earth.
00:40:38One day he's going to end the millennial reign of Christ.
00:40:41He's going to have his throne on David's throne in Jerusalem.
00:40:47And he's not going to accept sin at all.
00:40:51He's going to strike the earth with the rod of his mouth.
00:40:55He's going to bring justice and righteousness.
00:40:58And if I'm living in a land of perfect peace, please help me.
00:41:03Take me out of here.
00:41:04Because this, you know, you know, everything, you know, started going, you know, my hair fell out, and then it
00:41:12slid down to my chin.
00:41:13And then, you know, and my teeth and everything else, right?
00:41:17It all goes.
00:41:18Right?
00:41:19This is not the kingdom where everything is righteous and just and holy.
00:41:25And it's not here yet.
00:41:27And if it is, it's not good.
00:41:31He will rule.
00:41:33Revelation says it in chapter 2.
00:41:35He will rule them with a rod of iron.
00:41:37He's quoting from Isaiah.
00:41:39He's speaking to one of the churches of the Revelation.
00:41:43They shall be dashed to pieces like the potter's vessels, as I also have received from my father.
00:41:51Again, you see, when the Lord comes, I believe Revelation 19 addresses that for us.
00:41:58In Revelation 19, it tells us very clearly, verse 15.
00:42:04Now out of his mouth goes a sharp sword, and with it he shall strike the nations.
00:42:09He himself will rule them with a rod of iron.
00:42:12He himself treads the winepress of the fierceness of the wrath of the Almighty God.
00:42:17All you have to do is read Zechariah.
00:42:19All you have to do is read Isaiah.
00:42:22Now these are promises of a final battle at the valley of Megiddo, the valley of Megiddo, called Armageddon.
00:42:30It's right there in Israel today.
00:42:32And one day, the nation of Israel is going to appear to be without any help at all,
00:42:38when the Lord Jesus Christ is going to come from heaven, with the armies of heaven.
00:42:44And he's going to bring his kingdom.
00:42:48He's going to strike those who would seek to annihilate his elect servant.
00:42:55The Bible says very clearly that God says, I didn't choose you because you were the largest of all peoples.
00:43:03Now again, what was the choice of God there?
00:43:05It wasn't justification.
00:43:07His election wasn't to choose them for salvation.
00:43:10It was choosing the nation of Israel was chosen to be the vessel to display his glory amongst the nations,
00:43:17the Gentiles.
00:43:19But they were an utter failure.
00:43:22And again, even today, this people group that moves back into the land of Israel, God has told us it's
00:43:29going to happen.
00:43:30But they're going to be gathered in unbelief.
00:43:32They can talk big words.
00:43:34They can build their temple.
00:43:36But until the Lord Jesus Christ comes, until they face near annihilation,
00:43:42which is taught both in the Old and in the New Testament, it isn't going to happen.
00:43:49Just for a minute, and this won't take long.
00:43:52These other points won't take long.
00:43:54What does the kingdom look like?
00:43:56What's the nature of the kingdom?
00:43:59Again, we see things about Genesis.
00:44:03We believe when we look at Genesis before the flood, there was animal harmony.
00:44:08Right?
00:44:09Again, there was all kinds of harmony that took place.
00:44:13And again, God had to judge them.
00:44:15God had to judge them a second time at the Tower of Babel.
00:44:19Right?
00:44:19Again, because God had told them to scatter, and it says they did.
00:44:24But then suddenly they came back to the land of Babylon.
00:44:29And in the days of Peleg, Peleg means division.
00:44:33Right?
00:44:33And again, he divided them again.
00:44:36He confounded their languages.
00:44:37I love science.
00:44:38I have a son that's a scientist.
00:44:40Okay?
00:44:41And again, he studied science at university.
00:44:44And again, it's quite hard for him sometimes being a Christian,
00:44:48because people believe science.
00:44:50You know the Bible and science has absolutely no contradictions.
00:44:56Okay?
00:44:57The Bible and scientists have a lot.
00:44:59Because they're human beings that make things up.
00:45:04But again, empirical science, everything with science can be proven by testing it.
00:45:10And again, we can test things like the age of the earth.
00:45:14We can test things.
00:45:16Language is an amazing thing.
00:45:17And again, I work for a missionary organization that specializes in learning and translating languages.
00:45:24And again, there are languages that are completely distinct, that have no similarities at all.
00:45:31Well, my language that I learned has 36 noun classes.
00:45:34Now, most of us know a little bit about French and Spanish.
00:45:37You know, masculine and feminine.
00:45:40Banuk has 36 noun classes.
00:45:42I can't even begin to explain it to you, because it's very complex.
00:45:45But then there are languages that are easy, called Pidgin.
00:45:50You know, very easy to understand from Papua New Guinea and Malaysian Pidgin.
00:45:54You know, these are easier languages to learn.
00:45:57But God is the one, the confounded languages.
00:46:01And God is the one that knows all language.
00:46:05And so these are the points.
00:46:07I just want to look at each one just for a minute.
00:46:10The Genesis curse.
00:46:11Again, in Isaiah chapter 11, the wolf also shall dwell with the lamb.
00:46:16The leopard shall lie with the young goat.
00:46:18The calf and the young lion and the fatling together.
00:46:22And a little child shall lead them.
00:46:24The cow and the bear shall graze.
00:46:26Their young ones shall lie down together.
00:46:28I might have the wrong reference here.
00:46:30But anyway, the nursing child shall lay by the cobra's hole.
00:46:35Now, I'm not going to read all this.
00:46:37But I would assume we all believe the Genesis account.
00:46:41I would assume we all believe until we come up to Genesis 8, 9, to the flood.
00:46:46That there was harmony.
00:46:48That it was only after the flood that suddenly there became this division between the animal kingdom and human beings.
00:46:56John Mackay is a Christian scientist.
00:46:59And he has some great information about that.
00:47:02It says, the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord.
00:47:08And it shall cover even the seas.
00:47:11Isaiah 65, verse 25 says, and the wolf and the lamb shall feed.
00:47:18They shall seek together and they shall be as a serpent's food.
00:47:23They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountains, says the Lord.
00:47:27Now, look, I always say this.
00:47:29I've lived.
00:47:30You guys know I was a missionary, right?
00:47:32I've lived in the world.
00:47:33I've lived in the two top places in the world where there's more poisonous snakes and poisonous animals than anywhere
00:47:41in the world.
00:47:42So, Senegal, per capita, I don't even want to tell you, I hope you don't offend anybody, how many cobras
00:47:49I've done in.
00:47:50How many mambas I've done in, black and green.
00:47:53They were everywhere.
00:47:54Scorpions, everywhere.
00:47:57But I've also lived in Orlando, Florida.
00:48:01Did you know that Florida has the highest per capita snakes?
00:48:06Now, there's so many human beings that go around, you don't see them because they hide.
00:48:11But I can tell you, everybody wants to go to Florida for their holiday.
00:48:15Look it up.
00:48:16Don't just believe me.
00:48:17Google it.
00:48:18How many snakes?
00:48:19Now, particularly down in the Everglades.
00:48:21And I've been down to some of those places.
00:48:24And I've been to Lake Okeechoge.
00:48:25And I mean, full of snakes.
00:48:27But everybody wants to go there for their holiday.
00:48:29Lots of poisonous snakes, okay?
00:48:31But again, God is in control.
00:48:35You know, it tells us here that the Lord says that he's going to heal the deformed.
00:48:41Now, I don't know about you, but I've had major surgeries.
00:48:44I've been close to death three times.
00:48:46I've been told three different times, I may not pull through this.
00:48:51Now, God in his grace still has me around.
00:48:54God in his grace still has me around here.
00:48:58But it says in Isaiah 29, verse 17,
00:49:01Is it not yet a little while till Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field?
00:49:07And the fruitful field shall be esteemed.
00:49:10And that day the deaths shall hear the words on the hook.
00:49:13Wouldn't that be great?
00:49:14I wear hearing aids.
00:49:16And the eyes of the blind shall see in obscurity out of the darkness.
00:49:21The humble also shall increase their joy to the Lord.
00:49:24And the poor amongst men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
00:49:29Now, has this happened?
00:49:31Have the deformed been healed?
00:49:35You see, in that integral time, the Lord is going to do this.
00:49:40You see, it speaks about a time when illness will be healed.
00:49:45Now, this is a kingdom promise.
00:49:47And the inhabitants shall not say, I am sick.
00:49:50The people who dwell in the land will be forgiven their iniquity and healed.
00:49:56The life standard.
00:49:58It talks about in Isaiah 65, and I won't read the verses.
00:50:02It says a child of a hundred.
00:50:05Now, we understand from Revelation, the kingdom of the Lord, the millennial reign of Christ,
00:50:11is, I believe, six times.
00:50:13It says that in Revelation 20 is a thousand years.
00:50:16That doesn't stop the kingdom of God.
00:50:18Now, the nature of the kingdom carries on through eternity with this heavens and this earth melt with fervent heat.
00:50:27We see in the kingdom, and I'll just flip these down here.
00:50:32Come, behold the works of the Lord.
00:50:35What desolations have been made in the earth?
00:50:38He maketh wars to cease unto the ends of the earth.
00:50:42He breaks the bow.
00:50:44He cuts the spear asunder.
00:50:46He burns the chariots in the earth.
00:50:51It says truth shall avail, and mercy shall be the throne that is established, and he shall sit upon it.
00:51:00Truth shall be the tabernacle of David, judging and seeking judgment and hastening righteousness.
00:51:06He speaks of joy.
00:51:09In Isaiah, he talks about the increase of joy, the joy before thee, according to the joy of the harvest,
00:51:17and men shall rejoice when they divide the spoils.
00:51:20Now, did that happen in the land of Israel?
00:51:24You see, these are promises of his kingdom.
00:51:28He talks about holiness shall come to pass that what's left in Zion and that what remains in Jerusalem shall
00:51:39be called holy.
00:51:41Now, this is a promise of Zechariah.
00:51:44It's a promise of Isaiah.
00:51:46That holiness is going to rule.
00:51:48If this is what's happening now, why is there so thievery?
00:51:53Why are politicians so corrupt?
00:51:56Which one can we trust?
00:51:57From which country?
00:52:00You see, in his kingdom, when Christ is ruling, these things must happen.
00:52:07Why?
00:52:07Every jot and every tittle of the whole law must be fulfilled.
00:52:15Listen, worship of God is going to center in Jerusalem.
00:52:22And again, these are the promises, I believe, which we see.
00:52:28Isaiah 2, and it shall come to pass in the last days that the mountain of the Lord's house shall
00:52:33be established on the top of the mountains,
00:52:35and he shall be exalted above the hills, and all the nations shall flow into it.
00:52:41Now, notice these are Gentiles.
00:52:44You see, the Gentiles are going to come to worship.
00:52:47That's Ezekiel 40.
00:52:48You know, Ezekiel 40 to 48 addresses there are priests of Israel, but also Gentile priests.
00:52:57You see, because God wants all to worship.
00:53:02Now, we understand in the church age today, we're a distinct thing.
00:53:06We're Jew and Gentile are one in the body of Christ.
00:53:11We're accepted in the beloved.
00:53:14We understand, again, that Christ is going to rule, as Revelation 19 says.
00:53:21We've already read those verses.
00:53:22Christ is going to be a king on David's throne.
00:53:27These are all truths that are established all through Scripture.
00:53:31He will rule them with a rod of iron.
00:53:33Luke chapter 1, verse 32.
00:53:36He shall be great, and he shall be called the son of the highest.
00:53:39And the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father, David.
00:53:44That's not the right hand of the father in heaven.
00:53:48That would be allegorizing.
00:53:50That's what all millennialism does.
00:53:52And I would even say what post-millennialism does.
00:53:56It has to allegorize because it can't find a literal meaning.
00:54:01We see here, I would love to talk about Ezekiel's tent law.
00:54:06Just say this.
00:54:07People get really hung up.
00:54:09Why are there sacrifices in the millennial reign of Christ?
00:54:13It's really easy.
00:54:15The book of Leviticus starts out with what?
00:54:18Sin and trespass offerings?
00:54:20Never does it.
00:54:21It starts out with burnt offerings, which are worship, peace offerings, which are worship, and grain offerings, which are worship.
00:54:34Then it says, if someone does an unintentional sin offering or trespass offering, they have to cleanse it.
00:54:43And afterwards, they will do, depending upon whether it's a sin or a trespass, a burnt offering or a peace
00:54:50offering, why, to renew fellowship.
00:54:53God starts the book of Leviticus with fellowship and worship.
00:54:58Why are there offerings in the millennial kingdom?
00:55:02They're not for sin.
00:55:04They're not found there.
00:55:06There's no day of atonement in Ezekiel's temple.
00:55:09It's not mentioned.
00:55:11Why?
00:55:11He died for sin once for all.
00:55:15There remaineth, therefore, no more sacrifice for sin.
00:55:18No more atonement.
00:55:19But there is worship.
00:55:22And again, the cleansing sacrifices are very interesting.
00:55:27There's a new priesthood.
00:55:29There's a new temple.
00:55:32Again, and it's completely different.
00:55:34You know, it's interesting.
00:55:35There's no ark.
00:55:36There's no veil.
00:55:37There's no lampstand.
00:55:39There's no showbread.
00:55:40Why?
00:55:41He's the bread of life.
00:55:43He's the light of the world.
00:55:44There's no ark of the covenant with the Shekinah Lord.
00:55:47Why?
00:55:48Because Christ is the king.
00:55:49These are not mentioned in Ezekiel's temple.
00:55:52Don't take my word for it.
00:55:53Read the scholarly work of Arnold Frucht & Baum.
00:55:55So clearly brings these things out, right?
00:55:59But there still is worship.
00:56:02Just like we worship the Lord today, Ephesians 5.
00:56:06We walk in love as Christ loved us and gave himself as an offering and a sacrifice to God as
00:56:13a sweet aroma.
00:56:13Every time we serve, we worship.
00:56:18Did you know, worship, I'm sorry, I don't want to get in trouble.
00:56:22I get in trouble with young people for this, is not singing.
00:56:26Worship is service, right?
00:56:29Worship is service.
00:56:30And this is an important part of what we see here.
00:56:34An important part of what we see here.
00:56:36Now, I'm not going to stop and take any much time here on these, but Satan is going to be
00:56:43locked away.
00:56:44You know, I grew up in the South of the States.
00:56:46When I was a little boy in the States, before I became a believer, I was taught this thing.
00:56:50You know, Timmy, don't worry about it.
00:56:53The devil made you do it.
00:56:55Now, that is so unbiblical.
00:56:57The devil can't make you do anything.
00:57:01Every man sins, James tells us, when he's drawn away by his own lust and enticed.
00:57:07And sin takes a hold of it.
00:57:09Who can lay a charge against God's elect?
00:57:11If God is for us, who or what can be against us?
00:57:15What was he persuaded of?
00:57:17Nothing could separate it.
00:57:20We understand if we need difficulty in trials, ask of God, who gives to all men liberally and doesn't hold
00:57:27back.
00:57:28I was told, you know, the devil made you do it.
00:57:30The devil can't make you do it.
00:57:32Sin is a choice.
00:57:34Sin is a choice.
00:57:36And we understand this as we come up here.
00:57:40There's a couple of little points I'm going to make at the end here.
00:57:42But as we come up to this, that Satan is locked away.
00:57:46He's locked away for a thousand years.
00:57:49Okay.
00:57:50The demons are held.
00:57:52Revelation 18 makes it very clear that Jeremiah is going to be fulfilled.
00:57:57No more shepherds will ever be in the land of Persia.
00:58:01They're not going to be there anymore.
00:58:03They are there now today.
00:58:05So that hasn't been fulfilled.
00:58:07But they're there today because the demons are going to be locked away there.
00:58:13So again, that has to literally happen.
00:58:16So the devil will have no sway during the kingdom.
00:58:22The kingdom inhabitants won't be able to say, the devil made me do it.
00:58:28You see, the Old Testament tells us that the Gentiles can bring their offerings to God.
00:58:35Zechariah says the Gentiles will bring their offerings to God.
00:58:39In Jerusalem, if they do not bring their offerings, he will withhold rain from them.
00:58:45See, there will be a cost to not choosing to worship or follow the Lord, even during his kingdom.
00:58:52Because there are human beings on the earth.
00:58:55You see, even if you come to the other rapture views, there's problems with people who would say they're pre
00:59:01-millennialists,
00:59:02but don't hold to a pre-tribulational rapture.
00:59:06Because they then begin to allegorize scripture.
00:59:10See, post-tribulationalists that believe the Lord's going to come back at the end,
00:59:14they have no human beings on the earth to inhabit the kingdom, to have children, to be able to sin.
00:59:21Because if we're all resurrected, no one can sin.
00:59:25But there's going to be human beings on the earth that can choose to sin.
00:59:31This is my favorite.
00:59:33Again, I said this to you before.
00:59:35If you look at the plagues in Egypt, I get to teach Exodus.
00:59:39I'm already prepping.
00:59:40Well, I'm prepping for, I'm already prepped for Genesis.
00:59:42I haven't started prepping for Exodus yet, because I've got a while to teach through Genesis.
00:59:47But listen, we believe before the plagues happened, God told Moses what was going to happen.
00:59:53He told him to go in and to say to Pharaoh what was going to happen.
00:59:58And you know, the plagues happened in a series of three.
01:00:02Actually, they were two in one.
01:00:05Okay, Aaron used his staff.
01:00:07And the first plagues were very inconvenient.
01:00:11Water to blood, frogs, and then biting insects.
01:00:14And then the next three, they were a little bit more serious.
01:00:18Swarms of flies, disease, and boils.
01:00:20And then the next three became pretty frightening.
01:00:26Hailstones, locusts, and darkness.
01:00:28So horrible that you could feel it.
01:00:30And then finally, the death of the firstborn.
01:00:33And again, these plagues happened.
01:00:35And God said they were going to happen beforehand.
01:00:38And they happened in two in one.
01:00:39There was a warning, a warning for the first two in each series.
01:00:43I don't know what order.
01:00:45And they started out, and they got more serious.
01:00:49You know, when you look at Bible prophecy, and you see this progression, I wish I had time to go
01:00:56into this.
01:00:57But if you see with Exodus, you see God's judgment coming, you can see the same thing happening in the
01:01:04book of Daniel chapter 9.
01:01:06You can see a covenant is made with many for a week.
01:01:10In the middle of the week, there's an abomination of desolation.
01:01:13And Israel finds herself under serious turmoil.
01:01:17And then it ends with the war of desolations.
01:01:21And then his kingdom is established.
01:01:23Which chapter 2 and chapter 7 says that.
01:01:26A kingdom which will never end.
01:01:28You know, the same thing happens in Matthew.
01:01:31In Matthew 24, you see the beginning of sorrows.
01:01:35Then Jesus says in the middle, when you see what Daniel the prophet has spoken of happening in the holy
01:01:40place.
01:01:41The abomination of desolation.
01:01:43And then when you look at the end, it ends with wars that devastate the earth.
01:01:48And the coming of the Son of Man.
01:01:50You see, there's a progression in God's judgment.
01:01:52You know, the book of the Revelation is written exactly the same way.
01:01:57Matter of fact, I can prove it to you.
01:02:00You know, the book of the Revelation happens in a series.
01:02:03Not two and ones, but fours and threes.
01:02:06And when you look at the seals, they're divided into the four horsemen of the apocalypse and the last three
01:02:12seals.
01:02:13They strike a quarter of the earth.
01:02:16And then the trumpets come.
01:02:18And the trumpets happen in a likewise manner.
01:02:22The trumpets, there's the first four and three.
01:02:25And they strike a third of the earth.
01:02:27And then the last final bowls of God's wrath poured out.
01:02:31Our brother prayed for us earlier tonight.
01:02:34He took our wrath.
01:02:36The church doesn't go through the wrath of God ever.
01:02:39He took our wrath upon himself.
01:02:42You see, because the church is going to rule and reign with him in his kingdom.
01:02:46And as a matter of fact, you see a very similar way that actually in the book of the Revelation,
01:02:52in between each of the sixes and ones, there's a pause.
01:02:59Because God is a clear communicator where he looks back to the beginning before everything begins.
01:03:06And then he looks to the end.
01:03:08And I've sort of marked this out a little bit.
01:03:11But that happens with the seals.
01:03:13It happens with the trumpets.
01:03:15And it happens with the bowls.
01:03:18See, God is not the author of confusion.
01:03:22And God's judgment comes exactly the same way.
01:03:27God is consistent always.
01:03:31His word is always clear.
01:03:33Yes, he uses allegory.
01:03:35I love to have these discussions with students.
01:03:37And they'll say, oh, it's all allegory.
01:03:39And I'll say, well, look.
01:03:42Do you believe Jesus was the bread of life?
01:03:44No, of course I do.
01:03:46So you believe he was a loaf of bread?
01:03:49Do you believe he was?
01:03:51You know, we could go through.
01:03:53Do you look and illustrate?
01:03:54Do you believe you're a cultivatable field?
01:03:57No, we understand that's allegory.
01:04:00But it has a real meaning.
01:04:03Just like the dragon does in Revelation.
01:04:06You see, again, I find it really funny that when we come to the final book of the Bible,
01:04:10the book that puts together all visions and prophecies,
01:04:14all the Old Testament and all the New Testament,
01:04:17and it puts it together in one book.
01:04:21God is showing us that he's got it in control.
01:04:24You know, I'm not going to look at that.
01:04:26Sorry.
01:04:27I was going to look at this one.
01:04:29You see, here's Tim LaHaye's book in his book.
01:04:33It's a very good book.
01:04:35And he's got laid out what's going to happen during the millennial reign of Christ.
01:04:41Yes, it's a thousand years.
01:04:43It's a thousand years on the earth.
01:04:45But the nature of the kingdom is going to carry on through eternity with a new heavens,
01:04:52a new earth.
01:04:53And, you know, it's interesting in Revelation 21 and 22, when it says new,
01:04:57it uses the Greek word kinos.
01:05:00He could have used the Greek word nuos, which just means fixed up.
01:05:06The millennial kingdom is a fixed up heavens and earth where God restores to this earth.
01:05:13But ultimately, as 2 Peter 3 says, this earth, we're going to read that in just a second,
01:05:19just to finish things off here.
01:05:21It's amazing that our final point that's sort of here is all of God's word has to literally
01:05:28be fulfilled.
01:05:30All the covenants of Israel have to be literally fulfilled.
01:05:37All the prophecies of scripture have to be literally fulfilled.
01:05:43And again, all rule and all authority must be brought under the Lord Jesus Christ.
01:05:49Two verses to end with.
01:05:50It says here, but each in his own order, Christ, the firstfruits afterwards, those who are Christ
01:05:58at his coming.
01:06:00Then comes the end when he delivers the kingdom to God, the father.
01:06:05When he says he puts an end to all rule and all authority and all power, for he must reign
01:06:14till he has put all his enemies under his feet.
01:06:19The last enemy that will be destroyed is death.
01:06:22Now again, Revelation 20 makes it very clear that finally, after the millennial reign of Christ,
01:06:28when the Lord Jesus Christ is ruled and reigned, that he's going to judge Hades.
01:06:36He's going to judge all those that rebel at the end of the millennium.
01:06:40He's going to judge all the unbelievers that have died.
01:06:44And not the beam of seed of Christ where we're rewarded for the things done in the body.
01:06:48But he's going to judge the lost and books will be opened and the book of life and everyone
01:06:57will be judged according to his work.
01:06:59You see, I witness to people and people say to me, I just want to be judged according to
01:07:03what I've done.
01:07:05You will be.
01:07:05I tell him, the Bible says you want to take part in the first resurrection and the final,
01:07:11the final verse here is in 2 Peter, but the day of the Lord will come as a thief in
01:07:18the
01:07:18night in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise.
01:07:23You see the end of the day of Jehovah, the day of the Lord, the end of that is it's
01:07:28going
01:07:28to melt with fervent heat, both the earth and all its works.
01:07:33And it says that it will be burned up.
01:07:37Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you
01:07:45to be in holy conduct and godliness looking for and hastening the coming of the day of
01:07:51God?
01:07:52Now he introduces another day.
01:07:54The day of the Lord is his kingdom and the end of the tribulation and his judgment and
01:07:59then his kingdom.
01:08:00But the day of God is the eternal state.
01:08:03And the challenge to us is, how should we live?
01:08:07Because of these things, what manner of persons should we to be?
01:08:12The elements will melt with fervent heat.
01:08:15We, according to his promise, look for a new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness
01:08:23dwells.
01:08:24Now, now look, he uses the word kinos, new heavens and new earth, brand new.
01:08:31That's what the word means in the Greek.
01:08:33Not this heavens and this earth, which will have his kingdom, but he will rule.
01:08:40Well, I know we've gone on there for a bit and I thank you.
01:08:44And if at any time you guys want to ask any questions, you feel free to let me know.
01:08:51You have my contact details there or my wife and we'll happily do that with you.
01:08:56I will enter these gates with thanksgiving in my heart.
01:09:02I will enter these homes with praise.
01:09:07I will say this is the day that the Lord has made.
01:09:31I will enter these gates with thanksgiving in my heart.
01:09:42And the answer these calls with praise.
01:09:47I will say this is the day that the Lord has made.
01:09:53I will do this for he has made me back.
01:09:57He has made me back, he has made me back.
01:10:02I will do this for he has made me back.
01:10:08He has made me proud, he has made me proud, and we're with us once he has made me proud.