Pastor Loran Livingston 🔥The Most Important Warning JESUS Gave Christians in the Last Days

As you can probably tell, there are no musicians here. That's because I fired them. [laughter] >> No, I told them I wanted to sing tonight.

[cheering] >> And [applause] and they refused to be here. [laughter] >> No, I I thought, you know, we have to work everything around on uh Wednesday night. We've got a group singing downstairs, a group here.

They're trying to have choir practice, and it's just all kind of messed up for the first 20 minutes. I said, "Just go to choir practice. We We'll take a couple extra minutes and do Bible study tonight." >> And they did.

So, here we are. Nice to see everybody. How many were not here last Wednesday night?

Oh, >> so this requires review. A little review. I'm sorry.

>> You're in trouble. [laughter] >> I don't know what you're saying. [laughter] >> I've got people talking to you.

>> Tell them to watch it on Oh, yeah. Watch it on Oh, okay. >> Okay.

Let's pray. Almighty God, we are about to enter into a time where we look at your word, your heart, your mind. Nothing more important can be read or heard than this tonight.

Thank you, God, that we know the future. We don't walk around as people in darkness and wonder what's going to happen next. We know that any moment now you could call call your church home and after that you will finish your dealings with Israel and this world and everything is pointing to the day that you step on a throne and you are inaugurated and coronated as the king of the whole earth.

I pray tonight that you will give me the ability to make this clear and may you give us minds that can grasp it. It's wonderful, Lord. This very day as I studied this, I was just overwhelmed that almighty God who knows the end from the beginning has led us in on these secrets of the ages.

Thank you for salvation. Thank you for the hope that one day we will right alongside you rule and reign. Thank you for the hope of eternal life.

Thank you for the promise of a new heaven and a new earth. Praise your name. And the whole church said, "Amen." >> Amen.

>> All right, let's have class. I I think I finished last week. We were talking about the battle of Armageddon.

And we're going to have lots of people streaming in here. So, I'm going to slow down a little bit and give them time to get a seat. We were in the Valley of Megiddo, Armageddon.

We were at Bazra. We went back up to um Jerusalem. We read where Jesus would u tread the wine press of the wrath of Almighty God.

And that's beyond me on it is such a grotesque scene. in my mind to think of the millions of corpses. How about you?

Do do don't you think it's grotesque? >> Millions of corpses. Uh millions of birds eating those corpses and the blood flowing.

And um for for a God who is kind and merciful and grace and just and beautiful, this just doesn't seem right. But we know from scripture that God in his grace and mercy has given man plenty of time to repent. He said to one of the church, he said to someone, Jezebel in one of the churches in Revelation, I gave you time to repent, but you didn't do it.

Now, I'm going to throw you in a bed and kill your children. That's God talking. So, we found ourselves and in that last Wednesday night, and I thought I'd give you a couple more scriptures.

We stayed in the Old Testament quite a bit, but if I go to uh the 14th chapter of Revelation, we're going to try to do better with our scriptures tonight. Most of that's my fault. 14th chapter.

I want to read beginning with verse 14. Revelation 14:14. Uh then I looked and behold a white cloud and on the cloud sat one like the son of man having on his head a golden crown and in his hand a sharp sickle.

And another angel came out of the temple crying with a loud voice to him who sat on the cloud. Thrust in your sickle and reap for the time has come for you to reap for the harvest of the earth is ripe. So he who sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth, and the earth was reaped.

Then another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven also having a sharp sickle. And another angel came out who had the power over fire, and he cried with a loud cry to him who had the sharp sickle, "Thrust in your sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, for her grapes are fully ripe." So the angel thrust his sickle into the earth and gathered the vine of the earth and threw it into the great wine press of the wrath of God. And the wine press was trampled outside the city.

The blood came out of the wine press up to the horse's bridles for 1,600 furongs. And of course from last week we know that's the entire length of the nation of Israel which is 200 miles. Now I read those two passages because you need to see that in verses 14- 16 he is gathering the righteous unto him.

In 17- 20 he is reaping the wicked and they are thrown into the wine press of the wrath of almighty God. So that happens and the wicked are are not only killed but ravaged by nature. And then when all of that cleanup has taken place, the Lord will begin to judge the nations.

We went over that last week. You know the righteous nations are those who treated the Israelites or the Jews during the tribulation with great kindness. They are called the sheep nations.

And those who uh harmed or did not help the Israelites, the Jews uh during the tribulation are called the goat nations. and the goat nations are cast into eternal damnation. So when all of that takes place, the judgment of the nations, then the Lord is going to begin to set up his millennial kingdom.

I did some figuring today. I sometimes I I don't know why I get on these jags and they drive me crazy, >> but I did some figuring. And some of you who are better in math than I am, help me [clears throat] out here.

Uh, right now the population of the earth, they say, is right at 8 million. >> Billion. >> What did I say?

>> Billion. >> Yes, billion. I'm sorry.

8 billion. So, thank you for your kind and quick quip to straighten me out there. [snorts] So, 8 billion.

I I just happen to remember in Revelation 6 verse 7, it says that when the third horse comes out, he's given power to destroy one4th of mankind. You read that 1/4th. All right, let's just I'm doing some This is lightaded figuring here.

Well, that takes it down to six million, right? >> Billion [laughter] billion. Keep keep helping me.

We'll work together. This is an a joint effort here. And then I turned over to Revelation 9:15, the sixth trumpet, and it says a third of mankind was killed with a sword.

[cough] Now, [clears throat] if a fourth is already gone, then you got three. If a third of that is now gone, you got half of the Earth's population. Eight billion now down to four billion.

Right? Uh-oh. Here's some more figuring.

I sound like Andy Griffith, and I don't mean to. What about all the people that just got killed in the in the Battle of Armageddon? the 200 million that came from the east and and all of the others.

Well, it drops considerably. Well, we're forgetting one more thing. What about those who were raptured?

I wonder how many millions that would be or billions that would be. So what we're looking at here, and this is very coarse, we're looking at a a a decimated human population that will be left to go into the millennial kingdom of Jesus Christ. Now, a little side note here, uh when Christ comes back, the second, you know, his second coming, the Old Testament saints will be resurrected and martyed saints will be resurrected.

So that adds back to the number. But think about this. The slaughter, the decimation of this war fought by one man only, Jesus.

And to think that he will begin his millennial kingdom with so many so much less than the earth had walking on it. But God has doing is doing some cleaning up to get ready for his son to rule and reign. I want to show you something else before he sets up his kingdom.

And if you were here, maybe did I do this three years ago, maybe three years ago, I I showed this chart here. I think someone in the back is going to put this up here. Now, I got chastised last week because I went to this side every time and the people over here went, "Hey, what's up with that?" So, I'll go to this side tonight.

>> Okay. So, and I want to go slowly and I want to be careful. I don't want to misspeak tonight.

So, we know that during the 70th week of Daniel, we've been through that. That's the last seven years of God's dealing with Israel. That's the tribulation.

It's divided into um it's one week, three and a half years, 1,260 days. It's it's all the tribulation, but the second half is the great tribulation. And of course, that's when Satan is kicked out of the sky.

He's already been demoted once, you know, he kicked out of heaven and then he's been residing in the air. He's the prince of the power of the air ever since. But in Romans uh Revelation 12, he's going to be once again kicked out of a higher place and thrown down to the earth.

And that's when he will actually uh in incarnate himself into this man of sin called the antichrist. supernatural powers un listen by the way um what happened this week in the Middle East is like nothing I've ever seen in my entire life. Do you know what I'm talking about?

>> When all of these nations came together and it it honestly it doesn't make sense. That is a an odd and supernatural thing. And I was amazed at how they they fawned at the feet of the president.

Everybody wanted to get their picture with him. And I I think that if if you'll be realistic, that is but a glimmer of what the Antichrist car uh charisma will be when he gets here. He will be able to cause cause nations to literally bow down at his feet as he creates a new world empire.

And that will be in force in the middle of the tribulation period. So when this time is over, this last seven years, and God through Christ is about to set up his kingdom on this earth for 1,000 years, we go to a passage in Daniel. Got your Bible?

>> Uh maybe I gave Daniel 12 to Avery. Is it up there? Daniel chapter 12.

And we'll read that together. Daniel chapter 12, I will begin with verse number one. At that time, Michael shall stand up.

The great prince who stands watch over the sons of your people. Okay, now I'm going to get tangled up again. Everybody needs to understand this is about Israel.

The church has been gone. The church is in heaven. You are not here.

Not a saved person will be left on this earth when the rapture takes place. Did you hear me? >> There won't be one believer left on this earth when the trumpet sounds and Jesus calls the church home.

So the whole earth is nothing but unbelief and darkness and and antichrist and supernatural power. So Daniel is telling um I'm sorry the the the Lord the angel is telling Daniel at that time Michael shall stand up the great prince who watches over the sons of your people. Michael is the protector of the nation of Israel and there shall be a time of trouble such as never was since there was a nation even to that time.

And at that time your people, who's he talking about? >> Israel. Everyone who is found written in the book, and many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake.

That's resurrection. Some to everlasting life, and some to everlasting shame and contempt. Here's a good verse.

Listen. Those who are wise shall shine. Oh, I want to be wise.

like the brightness of the firmament and those who turn many to righteousness. Oh, I want to do that. I want to turn as many people as I can to the Lord to righteousness.

And if you do that, you'll be like the stars forever and ever. Then he told Daniel, "Shut up the words and seal the book until the time of the end." And that's where we are now. This is why we're calling this end times.

We understand it now. It's not a closed book. Many shall run to and fro and knowledge shall increase.

And now I'm going to go over to verse nine. Go your way, Daniel. Verse nine.

Are they there? [clears throat] Yeah. Go your way, Daniel, for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.

Folks, you have no idea how blessed we are to be able to see these things. know these things and understand these things. Many shall be purified, made white, and refined, but the wicked shall do wickedly, and none of the wicked shall understand, but the wise shall understand.

And from the time that the daily sacrifice is taken away, that's when the antichrist then tells Israel, "No more Judaism. I am God." and the abomination of desolation is set up. That's when he, the antichrist, will go into the temple in Jerusalem and declare that he is God.

There shall be 100 I'm sorry, there shall be 1,200 days. So, we just added 30 days to 1,260. Right?

Are you with me? >> That's not good. But see, I don't Are you with me?

>> Okay. Blessed is he who waits and comes to 1,335 days. Uh-huh.

But you go your way till the end, Daniel. For you shall rest and will arise to your inheritance at the end of the days. So when Jesus comes back, Daniel will be resurrected along with all of the Old Testament saints that were righteous.

So why do we have this 1,000? You can put the chart back up there, please, ma'am. Please, sir.

Why do we have this 1,260 days and then there's an addition of 30 days and then another addition of 45 days? Here's what the Bible teaches. Here's what most scholars believe.

The Lord is going to take 30 days to cleanse the temple. He's going to go into the temple that has been the sight of one of the most horrendous things that has ever happened. When a human being full of the devil goes in and declares that he is God, that he's the God of the earth, he will do abominable things, despicable things in that temple.

And Jesus Christ is going to take one month to clean it out. There's your 1,290 days. But then we studied this last week.

Matthew chapter 25. This is where he now judges the nations, the sheep, goats, I'm sorry, the sheep nations and the goat nations. This is when the Lord sits on a throne in Jerusalem.

This is not fiction. This is real. This is as real as anything else in the Bible.

The Lord himself will sit and he will call the nations before him, those nations that are left. And he will say to them, uh, how did you treat my people during the tribulation? And of course, he knows all the answers.

and he will know which nations were violent towards them and did not help them and he'll say to the left and just like in a courtroom the the angelic baiffs will take those nations and cast them into everlasting fire. That's called hell. It's called the lake of fire.

The ones that are left are called the sheep nations. They are the ones that will be present when Jesus Christ says, "Now it's time to begin my thousand year reign with far fewer people and with a clean temple." And by this time, all of the corpses and the bodies and the blood and all of that has been cleansed by God's uh heavenly sanitation system. the birds and the uh beasts of the earth.

God will not start anything until the land is clean and the bones are buried. And so he begins at that point to rule and reign. He sets up his government.

I think I brought this out last time. It's it's interesting. I can't prove it.

I just like it. Um it it's interesting to note that by from the day that the president of the United States is elected until the day that he is sworn into office 75 days. Did you know that?

Yeah. I don't know if our founding will take for Christ Jesus to come to this earth, clean it up, straighten it out, set up his government, and then begin to rule. Now, this is where we come in.

We will rule with him. We will have assignments according to the lives we've lived and the works we've done. We will be given specific assignments and roles and we will help Jesus Christ rule and reign on this earth.

So, we are in this is important. We are in glorified bodies. You remember what a glorified body is?

When the trumpet sounds and the rapture takes place, we have a body just like Jesus at that point. We have a body that can walk through walls, that can disappear and appear. A body that can eat if it wants to, not eat if it doesn't want to.

Jesus proved that when he was raised from the dead. You know, he met with his apostles. They were cowering in dark rooms behind locked doors after he was crucified because they they knew that the Roman soldiers and the Pharisees were looking for them to kill them.

And Jesus knew where they were. And the Bible says while they were together, he just showed up. The door was locked, but Jesus just walked in.

And then Jesus said, "I'm hungry." And several times we read where Jesus ate. Didn't have to eat to stay alive. Because when you're glorified, eating is a pure pleasure, not a necessity.

You get to eat because God designed the tongue and everything else for the pleasure of eating. But now we have to eat to stay alive, don't we? >> And some of you think you're going to die.

So you just you're piled driving it. [laughter] Oh, I'm going to die. I think I'll eat another burger here.

I love burgers. I love Cheeits. I love those things.

I love them. Anything with cheese on it, give it to me. So now I knew if I got off on a a tangent, I'd forget my train of thought.

Where are we? Or glorified bodies. So here we are with our our savior, our king.

We're in bodies like his. And now he's setting up his kingdom. And the amazing thing about this is the people that go in, the nations that are allowed to stay and be a part of the millennial reign of Christ are not glorified people.

They are in mortal bodies just like the ones we have now. Except some things are going to change and we'll talk about that in just a moment. So please understand when when Jesus begins his millennial reign with and I said a reduced number of earthly inhabitants.

Those people will go into the reign of Christ. They will marry. They will have babies.

Right? And the problem with maybe not the problem, the fact of the matter is life is prolonged in the millennium of Christ. People won't live 50 or 75 years anymore.

They'll live 200, 300 years. U it will kind of go back to the way it was before Noah's flood. And so what you have even though the population is greatly reduced, people start having children and they live a long time and they have lots of children, >> right?

And then the children have children and it just goes on and on. And I think I brought this up one time before. Uh this country is what is it?

300. How old is United States? What?

>> Right? >> Look at the population of this country in just this amount of time in two and a half uh centuries. What what are what is our population?

300 million. >> Yeah. Not billion.

Million in just 250 years. Now think in a thousand years when people are living longer, having more babies, think how exponentially the population will replenish itself. But here's the problem.

These people will have to be saved just like the people that went into the millennial. the children, the grandchildren, great great grandchildren will have to be saved. They will have to believe in the Jesus that's sitting on a throne in Jerusalem.

They will have to believe. If they don't, they're not saved. And here's the deal.

when the end of this thousand-year reign comes and you know Satan is led out of of the uh abyss or the bottomless pit where he's been for a thousand years. Isn't it strange how that all he has to do is come out and suddenly he's got people wanting to join his ranks. We'll get to it.

And the Bible says that untold numbers like the sand of the sea will rise up with Satan and try to rush Jerusalem and kill the saints. A rebellion. It's called the Gog and Magog.

That is unbelievable that people could live in a perfect world and still hate Jesus Christ as King and Lord. Why does God let this happen? Because God is a good God.

God is a merciful God. God is a just God. And God is, hey, it's not just us in the universe.

There are untold numberless beings in the universe who are watching what's going on on this earth. This earth is a theater. And in this theater, God Almighty, we're the actors.

He's the director. He is showing the remainder of the universe his love, his mercy, his kindness, his grace. He's also showing the universe the depravity, the depths of vileeness and wickedness that's in the human heart.

That's what's going on here. God says, "I'm gonna show you one more time why people go to hell." He doesn't send anybody to hell, right? >> They choose to go.

People choose to go to hell when they reject Jesus Christ. Jesus said, "I didn't come into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world." Well, why didn't he come in to condemn it? It's already condemned.

It's already under condemnation. So God almighty lets his holy son who rules and reigns in righteousness who has given people a perfect planet now. It's all clean.

No smog, no poison, no disease, no no doctors. Hey folks, no police. I shouldn't have said it that way, but I'm from Anderson County.

down there. We just say the law. Here comes the law.

Better get out of here. And and and no funeral homes. What else can I No cancer.

Great day. No politics. No politicians.

Whoopee. And yet that many people as as many as the sand of the sea decide to go with Satan and try to overthrow God. And this is how stupid sorry I have parents say, you know, pastor, we love you, but we wish you wouldn't say stupid in front of our children.

We don't use that word at home. Okay, I'll try my best. We We did use it at home, [laughter] but we apologized later and everybody was in love and it's just a beautiful, beautiful situation.

Satan has no clue that this will not work. He thinks that if he gets enough of these people to rebel against Almighty God and Jesus that he can take Jerusalem and finally be God. And you know what's going to happen?

There won't be a fight there either. God will go and fire will burn every one of them up and Satan will be thrown into the lake of fire. Who else is there?

The Antichrist or the beast and the false prophet are there. Which just shows you you don't burn up in hell. It also shows you that people are real in hell.

They're there after a thousand years and now Satan is in there with them. That ought to be a fun time. And then the once again the Lord will create a new heaven and a new earth and there won't be any more sin ever.

The the idea of sin will no longer even exist. There will be a day, my brother, my sister, when we won't even remember this. This will be gone forever.

Isaiah said, "The former things will not be remembered." Somebody said, "How can that be?" I liken it to this. I came into this world the same way you did. We all came into the same the same way, did we not?

But for the life of me, I can't remember being inside my mother. [laughter] I know what they say is in there and what babies do and all. I don't remember it.

Do you? >> No. All I remember is uh I'm here.

I think that might just be the way it is. This is kind of like the womb here. The pain, the agony, the constrictions.

And one day when all of that is gone, we are birthed into a new heaven and a new earth where we have no idea of what this was all about. Isn't that great? >> Isn't that great?

Let's talk for a few moment. Anybody got a question? Good.

Let's go on. I want to talk about some of the aspects, if you don't mind, of u of the millennium. Now, this is called end times.

And somebody said last week, I thought it was last times. And I went, it's all end times. Somebody asked me again, did what happened this week over in uh in the Middle East fulfill any prophecy?

Everybody listen. Everything that happens in the world fulfills prophecy. There is nothing that is not a part of the prophetic movement, the prophetic thing.

It's just like, let's go back to expectant moms. Once that baby is there, did you know that body the whole point of that body is moving toward that day when that child is delivered? And so that's where we are in the world.

There is nothing that is uh inconsequential. There's nothing in the world that doesn't matter. We know for us all things work together for good to those who love God, who are the called according to his purpose.

But it's also working in the world that knows not God. He's bringing everything to fruition. Let me tell you what it's all about.

The day when he Jesus, praise God, stands and the masses are in awe of his beauty and power and he turns and looks at a throne and finally sits down and throws his robes across his legs and every knee bows and every tongue confesses that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. That's everything is moving towards that moment. In fact, I want to go to Psalm two.

Psalm number two. Do you have it? Psalm number two.

This is one of the greatest messianic psalms you will read. And if you don't mind, I'm going to read most of it. By the way, while you're turning, let me say, if you are claiming any promise in the Old Testament, you are claiming an inferior promise.

If you are claiming anything in the Old Testament, I don't care what book it is, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Joel, those promises are for Israel. The promises you have are they far exceed any promise God ever made to Israel. We are the body of Christ.

The whole book of Hebrews is about better. Everything we have in the New Testament under the New Covenant is better than anything under the Old Testament. >> Well, pastor, I've been claiming Isaiah 51:12 for Okay, fine.

But you're claiming a an inferior promise. No weapon formed against me shall prosper. Paul said that four times.

Thanks be to God who has given us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. You already have victory. There's you don't Am I making any sense?

>> Okay, then I won't do it anymore. I'll just go on and read it. Psalm number two.

This is a great messianic psalm. David wrote this. Why do the nations rage and the people plot a vain thing?

Nations and people. The kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against his anointed, saying, "Let us break their bonds and pieces and cast away their cords from us." That's the nation saying, "We will not have this man over us. We will not let this Jesus rule over us." What does God say about that?

Is he ringing his hands? Is he saying, "I wish they wouldn't do that. He who sits in the heavens shall laugh." The Lord shall hold them in derision.

Then he shall speak to them in his wrath and distress them in his deep displeasure. Yet here it is. I have set my king on my holy hill of Zion.

That's the Lord Jesus Christ. I will declare the decree. The Lord has said to me, you are my son today.

I have begotten you. This is God the Father talking to Jesus. Are ready?

Ask of me and I will give you the nations for your inheritance and the ends of the earth for your possession. The father says to the son, "Sit here until I make your enemies your foottool. Ask me, I'll give you the whole earth.

Every nation will bow before you." Verse number nine. You shall break them with a rod of iron. Uhoh.

Hello. Is that me? Please don't let that me be be me, God.

Okay. You [clears throat] shall break them with a rod of iron. You shall dash them to pieces like a potter's vessel.

What does that mean? I think I'll just go ahead and tell you now. Although this is a perfect paradise that we're going into, and I mentioned all of those wonderful aspects of the millennial reign.

Jesus is going to reign with vengeance. That's why he calls it a rod of iron. There will be rebels.

They will not wish to comply with the laws of the Lord. He he calls all the shots. The Bible said the law of righteousness will come from his mouth.

The law of the nations will come from his tongue. He will rule them with what he says. And he will rule in righteousness and judgment.

And if people don't obey, that rod of iron is there for a reason. He will dash them like a a potter's vessel. That's Jesus.

That's not the first time it's mentioned either. Let me see if I can find this. Um, Revelation 2 26 and 27.

I'll find it if if I can. Revelation 22 26 and 27. Revelation 2 20.

You know, I mark all this stuff and then I lose it. Revelation 2, Lauran 26 and 27. Here we go.

He who he who overcomes and keeps my works until the end. To him will I give power over the nations. See, we're going to rule and reign with him.

This is written to the church. You overcome. Stay faithful to the end.

I'll give you power over the nations. And then he quotes David. He shall rule them with a rod of iron.

They shall be dashed to pieces like the potter's vessel. Isn't that amazing? Here's another verse of scripture.

How about Revelation 12? Revelation 12, which says, "I saw a great sign up in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a garland of 12 stars." Who is that? Israel.

Israel. Then being with child, she cried out in labor and in pain to give birth. Who is the child?

Who came from Israel? >> Yeshua Hamashiach. Jesus the Messiah.

And another sign appeared in heaven. Behold, a great fiery red dragon having seven heads and 10 horns and seven diadems on his head. Who is that?

>> That's the Antichrist. That's Satan using the Antichrist. And he goes on to say his tail drew a third of the stars.

What is that? >> That's when sa Lucifer, Satan, rebelled against God, wanted to be like the most high God, was ousted from heaven, and took a third of the angels with him. These are literal numbers.

Onethird of the angels fell with Lucifer. And you know what that old saying is for every devil that comes against you. I'm sorry.

Every angel that every evil angel that comes against you, there are two that are for you. >> So I I didn't say that right and I wish I hadn't said it now. >> Did it make any sense to anybody?

>> Two to one is what I'm trying to get at you. Billion million. Who knows?

And the dragon stood before the woman who was ready to give birth to devour her child as soon as it was born. That's Satan wanting to to be rid of Jesus the Christ. She bore a male child child who was to rule all nations with what?

>> Iron rod of iron. And her child was caught up to God and to his throne. And I'll just read this.

Then the woman fled into the wilderness where she has a place prepared by God. And they should feed her there for 1,260 days. Sounds like the great tribulation.

God has a remnant. That Israel that's over there now is not the remnant. That Israel that's in power now is just another nation as far as corruption goes and government and all of that.

But out of that nation will come the holy remnant of God's choice Israelites. Twothirds if the Lord were to come now and all this were to start right now. Twothirds of the Jewish population in the world will be destroyed.

One-third will be preserved. It is this third where they will go to Petra Bazra. Remember last week?

And God will find a way to preserve that Jewish remnant and they will come out at the end as they were supposed to be when God called Abraham. So, uh, she's taken care of for 1,260 days. There you have this rod of iron thing.

A lot of people think, "Oh, when we get in the millennium, uh, everybody's just going to be perfect and nice and sweet and obedient and law-abiding." Wrong. Wrong. In Zechariah, I can't remember the reference.

The Bible says the slain of the Lord will be many. He believes in capital punishment. Okay?

And the Lord will kill people. You keep his law or you get killed. You keep his law, obey his law to the letter of the law.

And it's not hard because you're in a perfect society. Now, see, all God asks is that you keep the law, keep his commandments. So, Jesus is is going to actually have a enforcers.

Some of us will be those enforcers. You want to be one? Anybody want to be a a rod carrying enforcer?

Sometimes I do. I want a big one, too. I want I want a high-powered 16cylinder nuclear stick.

Sometimes when I see these people riding in the streets, let me get back to the scriptures here. None of that will happen. I promise you this.

When Jesus is on the throne, it won't happen. And he will enforce his law. There are some other aspects of the millennium that I think it would be interesting to talk about here tonight.

This is the thousand-year reign of Christ. What is the form of government? It's a theocracy.

Jesus, he's the only one. No Congress. >> Let's don't do Let's don't talk about that.

Somebody stop me now. [laughter] No Congress. no parliament, no Knesset, uh no nothing like that.

People don't rule anymore. They don't make decisions. They don't bicker and fight and steal and they don't cheat people anymore.

And they don't uh Let's get back to it. It will be a theocracy. Here's what we learned from our Christmas story.

The angel said to Mary, "You'll bring forth a son who will call his name Jesus. He will be great. He will be called the son of the highest.

And the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David. And he shall reign over the house of Jacob forever. And his of his kingdom there shall be no end.

Wow. This is from Daniel. I saw in the night visions, and behold, one like the Son of Man came with clouds of heaven, and came to the ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.

And there was given him, this is Jesus, dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages should serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion which shall not pass away. And his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.

That's our Lord. That's what we're a part of right now. Praise God.

One more. Jesus said in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit on the throne of his glory, he's talking to the disciples here. You also shall sit upon 12 thrones judging the 12 tribes of Israel.

So, here's what we got. Jesus is the king. He's Lord.

We're going to find out in a moment. David will rule over Israel. Yes, David, the one that wrote the Psalms.

And then the twel apostles will have different uh what is the word? Areas, I'll put it that way. They will rule over the 12 tribes of Israel.

So God's got his government. He's going to set it right up. Where will the seat of government be?

Jerusalem. Jerusalem is to be trotten down of the Gentiles. That's what's going on right now.

Gentiles have controlled uh Jerusalem since the days that Nebuchadnezzar took the Israelites into bondage. But one day Gentiles will no longer trod over, stomp over, disrespect the city of Jerusalem. I have a lot of statistics here about how big the city will be.

uh the the measurements of the city, the measurements of the temple, the measurements of of where Jesus will live. I don't want to get into that tonight, but that's going to be a beautiful place over there when he rebuilds it all. Um then there will be a new temple.

There will be a new sanctuary. Prophet Zachchariah said, "Living waters." Don't you think it's wonderful? He didn't just say water, clean water, pure water.

He said living waters. What's living water? It's water that you drink that makes you live.

The kind of water you drink since you have a glorified body. It has no chlorine in it. I don't know if RFK can handle this or not.

living waters shall go out from Jerusalem. Listen, half of them toward the former sea, which is the Red Sea. We don't have a map, do we?

In your mind, though, you know where the Red Sea is. The the waters, the river will split and half of it will go to the Red Sea and the other half will go to the Mediterranean Sea. That's up there.

Okay, do the best you can. But these living waters will have its source in Jerusalem. It will actually come up out of the earth from the throne of God out from under the throne of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Now everybody knows the Dead Sea is dead, right? >> Nothing can live in the Dead Sea. It is uh 26% salt.

The Pacific Ocean is 3%. The Atlantic Ocean is about 3%. The Dead Sea is 26.

I've been in it. Have you? >> I floated in it.

You can float in it. For you that don't know, I sat I'm sorry. I laid on my back in the Dead Sea with a newspaper and read it.

You can't sink because the mineral the mineral composite is so thick, the salt is so thick, you you can't you can't sink and nothing can live there. And they warn you, don't go in with nice jewelry on because when you come out, it may not be there. It eats it right up.

But this scripture says, one day the Dead Sea is going to be full of life. Let me read it to you. He said to me, "These waters go, these waters go down into the desert by way of Jerusalem and go into the Dead Sea, which being brought forth into the sea, the waters of the Dead Sea shall be healed." I don't We don't have the verse up there, do we?

I'm sorry. It means it will lose its saltiness, and everything shall live where the river comes. It shall come to pass.

This is the Dead Sea now. That fishermen shall stand on it from Inggeti on the west shore to Iglam on the east shore. And they shall spread their nets.

Their fish shall be according to their kinds as the fish of the great sea or the Mediterranean. It will have as much fish in it as the Mediterranean does for its size. And it just goes on.

and by the river upon the banks thereof on this side and on that side shall grow all trees for food. It's going to be paradise. Have you been there?

That is at one arid dry wilderness place right now. But one day it's going to be a paradise. Uh leaf the leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit be consumed.

It shall bring forth fruit according to its months. And it just goes on and on and on. That's just another one of the things that's that's going to happen when Jesus sets up his kingdom.

Then I don't know what to cover here because time is running out. Uh God will Jesus will restore temple worship. Uh the Jews, the Israelites will carry on their regular feasts and festivals.

And the Bible says once a year all the nations have to come to to Jerusalem and celebrate the feast of tabernacles. You don't get to turn this invitation down. So, whoever the leader of whatever nation is, when he knows that it's that time of the year and it's time for him to get in his whatever he's riding or driving or carrying, get his entourage and go to Jerusalem and worship King Jesus.

And if they don't do it, the Bible says he won't let it rain on their country. They'll just dry up. That's amazing to me.

And then one of the great things about the millennium, I've got three minutes. Satan will be bound. There will be no Satan.

You have no idea what I just said. Neither do I. We came into a world with Satan breathing down our neck.

The whole world is moving according to the prince of the power of the air. John said, "The whole world is under the sway of the evil one." We don't have any idea what it's like not to have a bad thought, say a bad word, have a bad day, have a a lustful temptation. We don't know.

We've had to fight flesh ever since we've been saved. But one day, there will be no Satan. And nobody can say, "The devil made me do it." If you do it, it's because it's in you.

>> Satan doesn't make anybody sin. Did you know that? >> We're already sinners.

It's in us. He just kind of claps when we do and helps us along. He knows how to put the right fodder uh in our cannons and Okay, my time is up.

I really want to get into but I can't. We'll do it next week if unless Jesus comes. If he does, I'll let Pastor Baker finish these [applause] and and the singers can sing next week.

[laughter] I want to thank Did you just turn me off there? I want to thank everybody for tuning in tonight. Uh several thousand of you did and I thank you for doing that.

Next week we're going to continue this study. Don't know exactly what to call it, but we thank you for tuning in. We thank you for coming tonight.

Class is over. Thank you, Jesus. [applause]