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Am I on now? Yeah. Good.

It's 7 o'clock. It's time to start again. We have no singers.

So, I'll tell you what we'll do. Um, if we have time at the end, Pastor Greg and I will sing a duet. [applause and cheering] and and I will play I'll play the piano if we if we have time at the end.

It's nice to see everybody. And so many people have asked about Sandra. I'll just tell everybody she's here tonight.

She's she's having to wear a [applause] she's having to wear a back brace and she just bent over to pick something up and I heard her scream and I said, "What's wrong? She couldn't talk and it pulled her back out." So I was dizzy with vertigo. She was bent over screaming and I thought, "Now, isn't this a pretty picture?

She can't help me and I can't help her. >> Good to see you tonight. You ready?

>> Uh I might do a little just a little bit of backtracking for my own uh sake tonight. So, Father, we thank you for once again the knowledge that you have given us. You've told us the future.

Thank you that we want to know it. Thank you that we have minds and hearts that crave it. And so I ask for the ability, Lord Jesus, to teach this in a way that people can just receive it and be thrilled by it.

Thank you, Christ, for everything. And everybody said, "Amen." >> Amen. >> When we closed last week, we were beginning to talk about aspects of the millennium, the thousand-year reign of Christ.

Is that correct? >> Okay. What I'm going to do very quickly because we have some people streaming in.

I I'm going to pick up the timeline. I think our technical people are in another building. It's the timeline.

Do you see it? Yeah. Here we go.

This will be very quick. Here's here's what we're doing. We're here now.

Church age. The rapture takes place. We go up and we receive our rewards from Christ.

He calls he calls it the marriage of the lamb to the bride. That's the church. Seven-year period on earth.

The antichrist comes to power. He signs a a contract with Israel and Israel's doom is sealed. And so the last half of this seven-year period is called the great tribulation.

And this is when the antichrist will do his best to obliterate Israel from the earth and all people who do not worship him. That's when you'll have tremendous numbers killed uh by being beheaded, martyed, etc. And so when we get to the end of that, the val uh the battle of Armageddon, we talked about all of that gross stuff, all the blood, all the birds, all the bodies and the [clears throat] the corpses.

Jesus Christ will come back. He will throw the beast and the false prophet in the lake of fire. Satan himself will be thrown into the bottomless pit [cough and clears throat] for 1,000 years.

Because Christ is beginning his thousand-year reign of peace. We have the marriage supper. That's when the bride and the groom come and they actually invite those in the millennial in the millennium to come and be a part of that feast.

Christ has also judged the nations. The millennium begins with all believers. All are that are sinners who have rejected Christ at the beginning of the thousand-year reign are now uh in the lake of fire.

And it's just believers. But remember what I told you, it starts out with believers, but they are in mortal bodies. We are in glorified bodies, bodies like Jesus.

So the mortals start out with allegiance to Christ who will sit on the throne in Jerusalem. And as they begin to propagate, have children, grandchildren, on and on and on and on, uh those people, those offspring will not be so happy with Jesus. They will resent the fact that one man sits on throne in Jerusalem and rules the whole world and tells them what to do.

So as time goes on, more and more rebellion begins to manifest itself in the people in the millennium. When the thousand years is over, Satan is loosed for a little season, the Bible says, and he'll start right back doing what he was doing since Jesus kicked him out of heaven. He will be causing rebellion and gathering those rebellious people with him to come and fight against the Lord Jesus Christ.

And that you know how that ends not well for Satan at all. It's a very brief battle. He kills him with the breath of his own mouth, whatever that means.

And then he Satan is thrown into the lake of fire with the false beast. I'm sorry, the false prophet and the antichrist. So those three are out of here >> forever.

And then the [clears throat] unbelievers will face uh the Lord Jesus on the throne. The white throne judgment is for unbelievers only. That's when everybody who was ever lived, who has not believed on Christ, will stand before God.

And as I said last week, they're not on trial. They've already had their trial. They're about to receive their verdict.

And that verdict is, "Depart from me. I do not know you." And they will be cast into the lake of fire with Satan and the false prophet and uh Antichrist. And by the way, there are untold numbers of evil angels who are also in that.

And after that, God is going to make a new heaven and a new earth. We have a description of the city. We have a description of the new earth, a new heaven.

But it's beyond me to be really honest with you because we're talking about eternity and sinless glorified people with God for the rest well for eternity. We have access to God the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit. It's a common thing.

uh we help him with whatever God does throughout the endless ages. Whatever things he has created that needs to be governed, that's what we will do. We will be his the wife of Jesus.

And of course, we get special privileges and we will rule and reign with him. So, that's just a brief summary of the last days. So, last week we were in the the thousand-year reign, the millennial reign of Jesus.

Pardon me if I stutter. Am I stuttering? >> It sure sounds like it to me.

>> And I think I want to start tonight with what uh Israel, Palestine, the Middle East will look like during the millennial reign of Jesus. So, uh, Stephen or whoever it is back there, if you could put up the division of the 12 tribes in the millennium during in Palestine. Yes, we got three screens tonight.

Isn't that beautiful? Yeah, I can do this. So, here's the way the way it is.

Jesus will live and rule from here. Um Jesus will be the king of the world. David, King David, who will be resurrected and was promised when he was alive that you will reign over Israel.

The scepter will not depart from your your family, your hand will reign under Jesus and he will reign over the 12 tribes of Israel. Now, this is where it gets h I don't know why the Lord did this, but you see, you have your 12 tribes. I I really don't I don't understand this.

This belongs to Issachar. Kind of looks like the state of North Carolina, doesn't it? Maybe a little bloated state of North Carolina.

But in the thousand-year reign, each tribe will have their own territory, live in their own area, and the 12 apostles of Christ will rule over the 12 tribes of Israel. So, if you were, if I had the the map I thought I had, right? Now, [clears throat] this is this is uh Israel right in here, right?

Can you imagine? Honestly, I have to bring this up again. This one little tiny nation surrounded by all these people that hate them and want them exterminated.

They are wealthy. They are militarily superior. They are smart.

You can't get rid of them. If there's ever a proof that the Bible is true, all you got to say is Jew. >> That's right.

>> Every nation, every nation has tried to destroy Israel. They've they've done their best to annihilate them, their culture, everything else. You can't do it.

Why? Because when God puts his hand on you, >> it doesn't matter who comes against you. >> So, we'll just quote that scripture.

If God is for you, who can be against you? >> So, there you are. Honestly, folks, I I I am amazed at this the little tiny dot over there called Israel.

And they make mighty nations tremble. I promise you they are I mean this they are superior militarily to this country. I promise you they have weapons of warfare that they haven't even told you know who about.

>> These people don't play because they survive. So God says, "I will not I will never break my covenant with Abraham's children, with the seed of Abraham, which is Israel." He said, "The sun will go out before I break my covenant. The sun will stop rising and falling before I break my covenant with Israel." Folks, God doesn't change his mind.

God doesn't break his promises. And that makes me happy because he made a covenant with me >> through the blood of Jesus Christ. >> And he made a covenant with you.

And aren't you glad that God is not >> what is a good word? He's not moody. >> There you go.

So God has made this covenant with Israel. And while it may just uh be this part of the of Palestine now, during the thousand-year reign, the land will go all the way over to the Euphrates River, all the way back down to the Dead Sea and of course all the way up this way up to Lebanon. So, it's going to Israel's land will be multiplied greatly.

And what's important is [clears throat] that we remember we're talking about a time when the earth will not look like it does now. It's been through the tribulation. Earthquakes, uh, tsunamis, the mountains will be lowered, valleys will be raised, the whole uh face of the earth will be different because of the great tribulation.

Israel in in fact the the city of Jerusalem because of some great earthquake is going to be elevated higher than it is now so that when the light of that city which is Jesus Christ when people come within the hundreds of miles they'll see it glowing the city of God. But it will also not be in this arid dry country anymore. It will not be that again.

The Bible says when the Lord Jesus comes back, it let me just read the scriptures. It shall come to pass in that day that the mountains shall drop with new wine. That's a euphemism for grapes are going to be all over the mountain sides.

The hills shall flow with milk. That's another euphemism that even the mountains are going to be so productive, agriculture is going to explode and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, rivers everywhere, rivers that are siphoned off from the this water of life that's coming from the throne of God. and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the Lord, and shall water the valley of Chhatim, the country about the Dead Sea, all of that area.

Now, if you've been there, you know it's just dried up rocks everywhere and dried up dust and dirt. But one of these days, it's going to be paradise again. It will be what the Garden of Eden was before Adam and Eve fell.

I've got a number of scriptures here. Uh then the then shall the earth yield her increase and the floors shall be full of wheat. The vat shall overflow with wine and oil.

And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten. Ah boy. And the cankerworm and the caterpillar and the palmer worm.

My great army which I sent among you. And you shall eat in plenty and be satisfied. And you shall praise the name of the Lord your God that hath dealt wondrously with you.

My people shall never again be ashamed or intimidated. So God is, this is a great promise right here. What it looks like you've lost in the past, God is actually going to restore it in the future.

That's what he said. what it looks like the caterpillar ate up and the locust and the canker worm over all these years God said I'm going to make up for it during the millennium I'm going to make Palestine so prosperous it's going to be so rich until you in fact he says one of these days the plowman will overtake the reaper I think I'll read that here in just a moment meaning before they can actually get one field harvested, the the plers and the planters will be saying, "Hurry up. We got to plant some more seed here until Israel will become absolutely I hate to use the word filthy, filthy rich.

The nations will borrow from them. All of the world will revolve around what's happening in the holy land. There will be some other changes.

These are hard to grasp. There will be an uh changes in the animal kingdom. These are the ones that fascinate a lot of people.

The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb. Can you imagine that? And the leopard shall lie down with the kid.

A leopard and a baby lamb or a baby sheep. and the young lion and the calf and the fatling together, and a little child shall lead them. Can you imagine a little child walking around with a lion >> or riding on a bear and nobody's afraid?

And the cow and the bear shall feed. Their young ones shall lie down together and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. God is going to take away the bloodthirstiness of the animal kingdom.

There will be no more predator and prey. God's going to design it, I don't know how, so that cats and carnivores, I should say, will eat grass and straw just like the herbivores. How does that work?

And the suckling child shall play on the hole of the asp. You get that? A a baby crawling around can stick his hand down in the hole of a so-called poisonous snake and nobody's worried about it.

And the child's the winged child shall put his hand on the cockatric's den. That's another poisonous animal. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain.

That's Jerusalem. For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea. >> Again, I I don't have what it takes to say what I feel here tonight.

One of these days, the whole earth is going to be righteous. One of these days there will be no more filth, vulgarity, violence, theft, um, adultery. One of these days when we're back into this paradise that God is creating, it says the the knowledge of the Lord will cover the whole earth.

Everybody's going to know about God. Everybody's going to talk about Jesus. That will be the conversation.

And if there are any reporters or Christian TV media or they'll be talking about Jesus. >> By the way, Pastor Greg wanted me to inform all of you he's here tonight. So, the rapture didn't take place.

Did he leave? There he is. Aren't you glad he's here tonight?

Somebody must have told you what I said. It was on the internet. That's right.

But I'm glad he's here. We know according to Paul. Ready?

Chapter 8 verse 23. Listen. We know that the whole creation right now, brothers and sisters, the whole creation is groaning and travailing in pain together until now.

That means that the earth, the creation of God, the skies, the animal kingdom is groaning because it doesn't realize it's under a curse. The curse is the curse of sin and death. The curse came when Adam and Eve disobeyed God.

The curse came when man became infected with the sin gene. And the whole earth knows it's not supposed to be this way. God created the earth to be a happy place, a joyful place to where his redeemed and his beloved could enjoy life and him.

But because of the curse of sin and death, the whole earth is groaning. It's like a woman travailing in pain. He said the creation of God longs for the day when the curse will be lifted.

And it will be lifted. Human life will be prolonged. Isaiah 65 says, "There shall be no more an infant of days, for the child shall die a hundred years old." Now, I need to explain that in the millennia in the millennium, righteous people don't die.

Only rebels and unrighteous people because I told you last week, the Lord's into capital punishment. And those people who have the rod uh those judges which include us will be responsible for prosecuting bringing to the attention of the Lord these rebels who rebel against his word and his commandments. So there will be death but it won't be the death of the righteous.

In fact, this scripture says the longevity of life will be so increased that if one were to die at a hundred years old, they would be considered a baby. That's what that means. And so we're we're talking about when especially us who know Christ, we're never going to die.

I don't know if you've thought about that today or not. You're never going to die. Uh, you're going to exist for eternity.

But but what about the grave? What about I didn't say you wouldn't be put in a grave. That's your body.

But you are going to live forever. >> He gave you eternal life, folks. He didn't give you temporary life.

He didn't give you life if you can hang on. He didn't give you life if you can keep every rule right. He gave you eternal life because you believed on the son of God.

>> Hallelujah to God. >> Here's another scripture in Zechariah. Uh, thus sayith the Lord, there shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and every man with his staff in his hand for very age.

Meaning, after hundreds and hundreds of years, people will still be operating just like they always have. This this aging thing is over for the righteous. Praise God.

>> We might ought to talk about this for just a moment. I was asked last week, where do people go when they die? The answer is very simple.

If you're saved, you go immediately to heaven. If you're not, you go immediately to hell. This is scripture.

This is Jesus. Now, [clears throat] there are those that say until the day the Lord comes back, people sleep. They call it soul sleep.

They're not really alert or conscious and they're asleep. No, that's not right. The Catholic Church made that foolishness up about purgatory.

That's one thing. And then uh others talk about being in limbo, right? >> No such thing.

When you die, if you're righteous, first person you see is Jesus. >> If you die and you don't know Jesus, the first thing you're going to see is flames because Satan hasn't arrived there yet. So, it's very important we understand how simple this is.

Now in in the Bible uh the it talks about uh Shiel and Hades and Gehenna and Tartarus. Those are four bad places. You know the grave is always referred to uh as Shol and hell.

Then you have what we call Hades which is the the place of eternal judgment and fire. This is where people go when they when they're waiting on it's gone. The great white throne judgment.

It's kind of a holding cell, but it's it's torment. It's like you you know you're in a holding cell till you go to the penitentiary. What?

>> Okay. Now, what was I going to do with it? >> Holding.

Yes. Oh yes. When you die, there there is a place and it's called Hades.

You It's where the rich man went. I've preached on that so much. You ought to know when he died.

And you know, um Lazarus went to heaven. The rich man went to hell immediately. Then there's another place called Gehenna.

That is the lake of fire. Gehenna. And that's everything Jesus said it was.

Uh, it's darkness, its eternal torment, its misery, its fire, its agony, its pain, its regret, its great memory. You're going to remember every sermon you ever heard. You're going to remember every opportunity you had when somebody said, "Jesus loves you." And all you have to do is believe.

You'll remember every one of those things. Now, here's the thing. I told my daughter one time, I tried to scare her.

Uh because you know all of your children don't do right all of the time. Anybody on this side? Instead of being a a kind of a soft pastoral daddy, I just said, "Let me tell you something." Because that's how we say it in county.

you. Let me tell you something. If you go to hell, I won't remember you, but you sure will remember me.

>> Cuz when we go to heaven, we're not thinking about who went to hell. We're not thinking about the former things. We're in a new heaven, a new earth.

We won't even remember people, but they sure will remember us. And that is part of the agony of hell. And that is the place we call gehenna.

And you don't get out. and it's for eternity. There's one more place that Peter mentions.

It's called Tartarus. And that's where evil, the evilst of angels have been consigned. I think back in Genesis chapter 6, maybe the Bible says the sons of God uh interacted or uh how should I say it in public?

Uh they they merged with the sons of men. They left their first estate. They were angels that took on human bodies and they procreated with women of earth.

And that was such a horrible such an obnoxious thing that God cast them into a place called Tartarus where they are chained in deepest darkness until the day of judgment. What about that day of judgment? Got some scriptures for you.

Want to hear it? >> Here we go. >> Let's go to Revelation chapter 20.

I'm not going to ask if you're having fun, but are you hearing anything? >> Yes, sir. >> Here we go again.

Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven having the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. Think about that. an angel with a key to the bottomless pit.

It's got a lock on it and a great chain in his hand. How big must that chain be? [snorts] He laid hold on the dragon.

Uh there you are. He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the devil, and Satan. Any questions >> as to who this is?

And bound him for a thousand years. You know what's a great insult to Satan? Jesus doesn't do this.

He just says to an angel, "Uh, go wrap him up in a chain and throw him in the bottomless pit." Hey, and he cast him into the bottomless pit and shut him up and set a seal on him so that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years were finished. But after these things, he must be released for a little while. Are we good with all that?

You know where we are. Next verse. And I saw thrones and they sat on them and judgment was committed to them.

Who is them? It's not angels. We are they.

I thought I'd use correct grammar that time. We are the ones sitting on these thrones. What are we about to do here?

Judge. Who are we judging? I want somebody to turn quickly to Hebrews chapter 2.

Stephen in the back. Hebrews 2:5. Hebrews 2 verse 5.

And then if you'll turn to 1 Corinthians 6 verses 2 and three. We got it. First, Hebrews 2:5.

This is amazing. For he has not put the world to come, of which we speak, in subjection to angels. The world that's coming will not be under the rulership of angels.

The world that's coming, did you hear me? will not be under angelic authority. All of the things that angels do now like they minister to the heirs of salvation.

They are messengers of God. Um we kind of step up a notch and take their place. Look at first Corinthians chapter 6 verses 2 and three.

You see it? I don't. Oh, here's Paul.

Do Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world will be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matter? Do you not know that we shall judge angels?

How much more things that pertain to this life? Kind of kind of a correction because you know those Corinthians argued about everything. Oh, they were arguing and they couldn't get along about anything.

They were taking each other to court. This this guy would sue this guy and then they'd come to church and try to worship God. And Paul was saying, "What's wrong with you people?

One day you're going to judge the world and angels. You mean you can't settle this matter between yourselves? Is there not two or three holy righteous men that can help you settle this matter?

So that was the that's the context of that there. He wanted everybody to know that one day the people who sit on these thrones h are are given judgment and it's committed to them. So we're going to judge the world.

That means and that's one way I think that Christ is going to be able to uh efficiently judge the nations. When he does that, he's going to have a whole lot of help. And then we're going to judge angels.

What angels? Well, the good angels don't need judging. [snorts] It's the bad angels.

Who are the bad angels? They are the ones that followed Lucifer in his attempt at a coup with Almighty God. Now, these are bad angels.

These are demons. These are evil spirits. They they work their way into people.

There are demon-possessed people. People who give themselves to astrology, seances, palm reading, tarot cards. Oh no, I could just go on and on and on.

Halloween. >> What's wrong? I'm more vehement about it now than I've ever been in my life.

And I've had several people say to me, "It seems like the images, the caricatures, the characters are more evil now than I've ever seen them in my life. And they're doing it earlier and earlier." I tell you, it stunned me one day when we were talking to some friends from Romania and they were saying, "We came to this country. We were horrified when they we got in our friend's car and we were driving down the street and we s all of saw all of this demonic stuff.

We were scared." Say, "We don't." They say, "We don't do that over there." What's wrong with America? [clears throat] Can somebody help me? What has What is wrong with this country?

And when you see these people marching in the street, you know, and they're throwing bottles and rocket grenades at ICE agents, but they're dressed up like these uh I don't want to use any ugly words or [clears throat] bad words. Um, tell me what what am I supposed to say here? Little green dinosaurs and all kinds of stuff.

That's wicked, ladies and gentlemen. The actions are wicked, but the people in those costumes are wicked. And they are wicked because they have opened themselves up to demon spirits.

How do you do that? Well, you feed on this world. You feed on this world.

You feed on violent, nasty movies. You feed on dirty politics. Yeah.

Um, you you you let your flesh determine your life. And see, as time goes on, the deceptive power is getting greater and greater. I I don't I may overstep my boundary here.

I know that I'm not very conversant with what I'm about to say, but at least I'm going to ignite something in you. I don't I don't know who this uh brother was that sent me this envelope the other day. It's about this thick.

And when I first saw it, I said, I don't have time to read this. But as I perused it, I couldn't take I couldn't put it down. He is an astrophysicist believer, spiritfilled believer.

And in all these pages, he was telling me the studies he's been involved in with many other very smart people who are who are believers. Bottom line is AI is going to be the thing that deceives the world into worshiping the antichrist. That's not all he said.

He said, "Right now, governments, yes, even ours, military, yes, even ours, are working on strange things to change people's thinking. They have waves of ways of sending waves and they've experimented on people to make you think some. You think you thought it, but they put it in your mind." He said they have a way, and it's been experimented with that they can put a gigantic hologram in the sky that looks like Jesus standing there or an angel or something.

And I if I go on and on, I'll just trip myself up. But it it got me stirred up to realize. And this is what I want you to realize.

Can you hear me? >> Read your Bible. Read your Bible.

>> Because if you read your Bible and follow Christ, you cannot be deceived. [applause] >> But if you don't, you'll open yourself up to these fascinating. WOW.

I can pull my phone out right now if I had it. And I did it the other day and I asked a question. How many people have ever lived on the earth?

Before I finished Earth, it came out and said 100 billion billion. I didn't have to go look at an encyclopedia. I just said, "How many people live?" 100 billion.

Folks, there's information out there >> and it's not all correct. I don't know about that one, but I'm telling you, you can mess around with AI and this this super brilliant stuff. You can get messed up.

Um, I'm going to do what I did at 8:30 Sunday. I I don't know why the Lord didn't lead me to say this at 10:30. I know so I know some people in this church that have fed themselves so much with politics.

I know one especially uh has served Christ, married family, been in the choir on and on and on. But this individual has gotten so caught up in the politics of the day, they've started following people on Instagram, YouTube, etc. that hate the present administration.

They have simply gone off the rail. They're into race, politics. They're angry.

It's not even the same person I knew. It's not the same person that used to come to my house and eat with us. That's what can happen if you take your eyes off Jesus.

>> If you close your Bible >> and you start listening to this world because this world is controlled by the devil. >> Do you know that? >> Didn't mean to fuss.

I'm just asking. The the Bible says the whole world lies under the sway of the evil one. He's the prince of the power of the air.

>> So you can't afford to play around, Christian. You can't you can't you can't joke around with your soul. >> You can't play church.

>> You need to be a soldier and get up and do it every single day. >> There's a man sitting in this congregation I consider a great friend. and um I'm not going to call his name, but he's he's a great friend.

And he told me when the co virus hit. Uh he he was involved in some studies in Washington. This was part of his job at that time.

And he told me when it hit, China did it. We knew they were going to do it. See, none of that was accidental.

>> And the next one won't be accidental either. >> Somebody's planning something to control humanity. >> I'm being as vague as I can with all of this stuff.

But when you try to tell the leaders, they don't want to hear it. They just want to stay in office. when you when you when they tried to tell people what could save [snorts] lives and our way of life now it's been totally changed.

The politicians don't want to hear it. They got what they want and they want to keep it. And you know what that is, don't you?

>> Power. Money. >> You don't get an office.

You don't go in and into an office with $16,000 in your bank account and five years have $30 million in your bank account. You kidding me? Should I be doing this?

>> Somebody help me get back on track here. [laughter] >> The millennial. >> Yes.

Oh, we're judging angels. That's right. Well, I think there's enough.

One of these days, and I'll [clears throat] get I'll get back to it. One of these days, you will be sitting on a throne and an angel, a de a a devil will be brought before you and he will hiss and snarl at you and you will send him to hell. Woo.

[applause] >> The Old Testament says that Jesus will have a scepter of righteousness, but in the millennium, it's going to be an iron scepter. It's symbolic of his justice and he demands obedience. That's how Jesus is going to rule.

And for those that don't wish to be under his command or control or his government, it's going to be a tough life. But for us who love him and know that he is the source of all joy, what a day that will be when we interact with him. Can you imagine?

Anyway, [laughter] honestly, can you imagine Jerusalem and and you have an office there? And we go back and forth from the city in heaven to earth because we can do that then. See, and we go in and we shake hands with Jesus and hug his neck and he says, "I want you to do something for me today." And he calls you by your name.

And that goes on for eternity. You have that kind of interaction with the Lord Jesus Christ. And even the Bible says one day we will see the face of the father.

>> He hallelujah. >> He will no longer be a mystery. We will see his face.

>> Hallelujah. >> Let's keep going. We're in the millennium.

I'd like for Stephen to pull up Isaiah 2 1-4. Isaiah 2 1-4. >> [cough] >> Got it, Stephen.

Thank you. I'm in Ecclesiastes. >> It's my bad is the word that Isaiah the son of Amos saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

Now it shall come to pass in the latter days, everybody listen. Latter days are these days. Latter days are last days.

You're in the last days. >> The last days started when Jesus came. >> Hallelujah.

>> Hallelujah. [clears throat] that it that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established on top of the mountains and shall be exalted above the hills and all nations shall flow to it. Many people shall come and say, "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob.

He will teach us his ways and we shall walk in his paths. For out of Zion and for those of you that are new to all this, Zion is Jerusalem. Zion is where the Lord will rule from.

Zion is that part of of of the mountain in Jerusalem where Jesus will live. and he'll have an office, a throne room, if you will. Let's get back to it.

For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. He shall judge between the nations, and rebuke many people. He's the man.

I I don't know if I should have said it that way. He is the ruler. He does the judging between the nations.

No ambassadors. Jesus. Here it is.

They shall beat their swords into plowshares. And their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation.

Neither shall they learn war anymore. Hallelu. The la What's the last battle that's going to be fought on this earth?

>> Armageddon. You're right. Because [clears throat] the next I don't know why I have these throat problems.

Somebody said take a chew in three weeks. Oh, that's on the internet. Oh, dude.

[laughter] Delete it, >> please. It's a joke. It's a joke.

>> My poor sister was on the phone today 30 minutes with some lady that took issue with something I said. And 30 minutes, I said, "Janice, why are you doing this?" She just looked at me like, "It's your fault." >> [laughter] >> Let's talk about a couple of these aspects here. >> They shall beat their swords in the plowshares.

That means they'll go from fighting to harvesting. What a mighty thing that is. Does anybody have any idea what this country would spend on defense or the military in a year?

>> Anybody? Hey Siri, [laughter] that's my phone. I I didn't What' you get?

>> I didn't do it. >> Did you do it, Joe? >> 850 billion.

>> 850 billion. That's 850,000 millions, right? >> Wow.

Think of China, Russia, all the nations. Think of the trillions of dollars that are spent making swords, quote unquote. Think of the wealth that will then flow into the world and around the world when there are no more guns, no more ammo, no more tanks, no more B-52s.

Uh, and my favorite plane of all time, no A-10 wartthogs. Those are the best planes they ever made. Oh my god, I love them.

In World War II, it was a P-51 Mustang. Oh, what a plane. Oh, [laughter] what a plane.

I was a plain nut for a while. And ju just think none of that. No uniforms, no armies to feed, no forts, no barracks, nothing.

Think of the wealth. You say, "Well, are we going to need wealth?" Yeah. I Jesus said, "Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven." So I the something we're doing something with this to use it for something.

But think about it. The last war fought will be Armageddon and then people will just be done with fighting because it says nation shall not lift up sword against nation. No more war.

No more war. My whole life I've never been alive five minutes there that there wasn't a war somewhere. Now, not world wars, but tribal wars in Africa and lots of other places.

People have been at war since the beginning. But this says, "Nation shall not lift up sword against nation." And watch this. Neither shall they learn war anymore.

>> You won't even you won't have to learn how to fight. You won't have to learn logistics and all these other technical things. All of our energy will be diverted from fighting and defending and attacking to planting and building and loving and enjoying God's great creation.

>> Wow. [applause] I will tell you I the military fascinates me to no end and I've had some great experiences in my life and I just if I started I wouldn't be able to stop but to fly on uh on the helicopters and shoot with special ops snipers. I got to do that one time.

Oh my, I could just go on and on. That stuff fascinates me. But it costs money.

The track on a tank. Do you know what? Let me tell you something.

I got a friend, another friend here who was a he's an Lieutenant Colonel in the Air Force. I don't think he's here tonight, but he became an instructor in all fixed wing and helicopter aircraft. He was an instructor.

He called me over to one of the airports one day, well hangers, National Guard hangers, and he just wanted me to see the stuff. And there was one of those helicopter rotors lying out on the floor there. He said, "Do you know what that costs?" I said, "I HAVE NO IDEA." ONE I I'm sorry I yelled.

One rotor. You military guys know what I'm talking about. The rotor $100,000.

>> That's what he said. Do you know how many of those are on helicopters? One is $100,000.

Now, we all know that there's a lot of graph and theft built into all of these these contracts, but I'm trying. Is that for me? If you'll tell them, I'll be finished in just a minute.

[laughter] There you go. That's right. Say, "Hey, sweetie." >> $100,000.

>> Just think, ladies and gentlemen, when we have to learn war no more >> and we get up every day with these glorified bodies, >> lungs are full of fresh air. >> Wow. I'm not If I go to this, it'll make a little more sense.

You see, uh, during the millennial, there will be a sevenfold increase of light. Here's what it says in Isaiah 30. Moreover, the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, the light of the sun shall be sevenfold versus the as as the light of seven days.

In the day that the Lord binds up the breach of his people and heals the stroke of their wound, meaning the earth is going to be so different, we won't get skin cancer. uh there won't be those UV rays and the sun's going to shine seven times brighter, which is one reason for the great harvest that's going to take place. And the moon will be as bright as the sun, but it won't matter because the face of Jesus will outshine them all.

>> Everything's going to change, you see. So, we get up every day in glorified bodies. This one, it'll just look better than it does now.

>> Really, it will. It'll be glorified and you can take deep breaths of clean air and drink the water, the pure water from the river of life. And if you want to just walk down the boulevard there in Jerusalem and pick some fruit or whatever you want to do or you may just decide to go to Mars, who knows?

And just there we are. Now, that's being a little silly there. But folks, the blood of Jesus has guaranteed that one of these days, as good as life is at times for us now, oh, it is so bleak and hopeless compared to what is coming.

>> Hallelujah. [applause] Um, I don't think I can comment any more on that because it I get into imagination when I do. But to think you will never have another pain.

>> Nothing. My neck hurts right now. Anybody got a pain right now?

Whoa. We need a prayer service. [applause] Yeah.

No more headaches. Does anybody have headaches? >> Bad vision.

>> Hearing, [laughter] bad thoughts. Oh yeah, bad thoughts. One day you'll never have one.

>> How can that be? Satan is gone. >> Evil is gone.

The spirit of God is our life. We are not flesh and blood anymore. >> We are spirit and glorified body.

>> The blood flows through us now and keeps us alive. Won't be any blood. Then it'll be the spirit of God flowing through our veins.

That's as good as I can do tonight. God bless you. [applause] It's Thank you for join us joining us online.

God bless you till we meet again Sunday. Lord, let your best be upon every one of these as they travel home tonight. Amen.

>> Amen. >> Love you, church.