Heaven on Earth - Part 2: The Bad Guy is Bound - Part B

If Satan is bound for thousand as I'm in the be no sin at all during the millennium know will be sin will just be quickly challenging, quickly kept in check. Hence the term rod of iron, CW, the devil, the sin comes from your flesh.

Satan simply provides the stimulating environment will be out of the wave of people and their moral bodies will be born with the sin nature and thus the propensity toward sin, though, kept in check until finally Satan is released at the end of the tribulation or end of the millennium, what would the world be like without the influence of Satan will one day will get the chance to experience that person.

One day Satan will be locked away for a job and humanity will enjoy a respite from his deceptive destructive schemes today here in Québec was Skip weekend division Skip Heitzig shares a glimpse of what the time look like and how it will come about. But before we get to that.

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First of all, when Jesus returns his foot is to touch what mountain, Mount of olives say Mountie left the and Zechariah 14 says his foot is gonna hit the Mount of olives. It's going to split into from east to west half the mountain will be removed to the north half the amount of the South in a huge valley will be made between presumably where the nations will be judged at the end of the tribulation. It's also called the Valley of Jehoshaphat the huge valley will be formed. Mount of olives will look the same. Also, a stream of water will gush from the ground from Jerusalem and flow half down toward the Mediterranean Sea and half down toward the Dead Sea.

This is Ezekiel chapter 47, 48, the waters of the Dead Sea are to be healed and of the Dead Sea is called that because it's that not mostly that it's all dead. Nothing lives in it. The salt solution is so high on a few micro bacterial creatures but it's dead. The Bible says the waters will be healed and fishermen will spread their nets down at in Guinea, which is on the shores of the Dead Sea. An abundance of fish will be caught, life-giving Israel will occupy the borders. God promised originally in Genesis chapter 15. That means the land of Israel will then include Lebanon, Syria, parts of Jordan Sinai and Iraq and other leaders of these countries would not be too psyched about that, but that's that's the borders. God promised, if that's the borders are going to take. Moreover, the land will be divided the land of Israel into three sections north, south, and in the middle in the North seven tribes will occupy in the south. The other five and in the middle is for the priest will live, will officiate at the millennial Temple that says Jerusalem second thing in the millennial kingdom is that the animal kingdom will be tamed. You won't need zoos you won't need wild animal parts or cages. The creation will be free from its bondage. Listen to what Isaiah writes in chapter 11 verses six through eight, and that day the wolf and the lamb will live together the leopard and the goat will be at peace calves and yearlings will be safe among lions and a little child will lead them. The cattle graze among the bears, cubs and calves will lie down together and lions will eat grass as the livestock do babies will crawl safely among the poisonous snakes. Yes, a little child will put his hand into a nest of deadly snakes and pull it out unharmed. You get the picture. The curse will be removed. Animals will be docile and tame you member that incident last year at the zoo in China when that young teenager got up against a panda bear cage.

You might've seen it on television.

He just wanted a picture with a panda bears the background but he got close enough that that cuddly sweet little panda bear that wouldn't hurt anybody right reached its claws to the cage and grab that young man, and what were it not for a few quick thinking people had been killed bear simply got his jacket and mangled. I remember one time I was in Kenya and I was in the back of a truck is an old Land Rover and we are driving through the bush. I saw lioness and her cubs, and so the driver pulled lights lives 7 feet away from this family and here's me dumb Skip America rolling the window down sticking my camera out to take pictures of it and the driver just said very firmly but gently close the window. He says that animal looks really nice, but here in her living room right now if you get too close that things in a jump at you and tear your head off so quickly roll the window up I realized I'm not in the millennium yet got away for that. The third thing that you can expect during that kingdom age is this earth is going to look lush and beautiful. The biosphere will be lost like a flowering garden. Just imagine looking out toward the west side of Albuquerque and it looks like a forest rain forest of Oregon. Isaiah 35 even the wilderness will rejoice in those days the desert will blossom with flowers. The deserts will become as green as the mountains of Lebanon and is lovely as Mount Carmel's pastures and the plaintiff, Sharon Springs will gush forth in the wilderness streams will water the desert. The parched ground will become a pool and springs of water will satisfy the thirsty land marsh grass and reeds and rushes will flourish were desert jackals once lived. Can't wait to mountain bike to that for things will be a healing of disabilities. Isaiah 35 continues he will open the eyes of the blind and unstop the ears of the deaf, the lame will leap like a deer in those who cannot speak will shout and sing. There's going to be long jeopardy, as well.

During this time is the fifth thing you can expect health and longevity. Isaiah 65.

Never again will there be in it an infant who lives but a few days, or an old man who does not live out his years. He who dies at 100 will be thought a mere youth. What great news you don't up by all those fancy expensive face creams or get us stretch job on the friend just longevity course for those of us who are believers to be in glorified bodies anyway so this is and can even affect your Constitution, but a well for those who are still in their mortal bodies who have made it through the tribulation, and have children. For those thousand years. Six.

And finally, again, I'm just give me a snapshot. Finally, there's going to be world peace I let those words settle upon as member last week. Will Durrant.

We noted said there's only been 8% of history the same world peace. Out of 3124 years of recorded history 268 have seen no war. The millennial kingdom of Christ will be a time where there will be world peace. Gallup organization says one of the most frequently asked questions generation after generation is when will there ever be, world peace, I can answer that and you can answer that only in the millennial reign of Christ and not before Isaiah chapter 2 verse four says the Lord will at that time settle international disputes. All the nations will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks all wars.

In military training will come to an end next week working to consider more of the governmental structure of the kingdom age because you can be part of it, but here it is in some summary form, it's good to be a government by the Lord of the Lord and for the Lord a total theocracy. He will rule and reign with a rod of iron now question comes up and it's an important one.

If Satan is bound for a thousand years as I'm in the be no sin at all during the millennium.

No, don't be sin. It'll just be quickly challenging, quickly kept in check. Hence the term rule with a rod of iron. See, you don't need the devil. The sin comes from your flesh.

Satan simply provides the stimulating environment and he'll be out of the way but people in their mortal bodies will be born with a sin nature, and thus the propensity toward sin, though, kept in check until finally Satan is released at the end of the tribulation or end of the millennium go back to verse one and verse three for a moment. Just consider the place where Satan will be incarcerated. It's called the bottomless pit that I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand, verse three and he cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up and set a seal on him. What is that both the Greek word applesauce some translation the abyss. Our translation bottomless pit. You know that that was one of my names. My friends used to give me back in the early days when I was a early 20s I ate so much, and I ate quickly.

They just said you are. That was my nickname, the abyss, the bottomless pit, so I probably shouldn't let that out. Should I have because I figure I'll never live that one down. But the bottomless pit or the applesauce is a place of temporary incarceration. Think of it as a holding tank. It's where demons are kept and Satan will be bound temporarily awaiting his final judgment. His final sentence, which will be in the lake of fire. Verse 10 look at that and the devil who deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever. So this is like the intermediate hell before the final hell. It's the same place Peter wrote about in second Peter chapter 2 verse four he spoke about demons who are in chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment.

You member in the gospel stories where Jesus goes from one side of the Lake of Galilee, to the other side and the siding goes to is the eastern side called the Gadarenes or the area of good Dara. There was a demon possessed man who lived in the tombs and that when Jesus saw this man was inhabited by a legion of demons. They spoke to that man and says they begged him that he would not command them to go into the abyss. There were they wanted to be free. They wanted to torment people and their big fear is that Jesus would consign them to this pit awaiting final execution will notice it says in our text, there was a great chain in this angel's hand see Satan is such a great following is wrecked such great havoc on the earth, you need a great chain to bind him. I can't resist this. That story that I just mentioned about the demon possessed man the Gadarenes listen to what Mark writes in Mark chapter 5. No one could bind him, not even with chains because he had often been bound with shackles and chains and the chains had been pulled apart by him and the shackles broken in pieces. Neither could anyone tame.

There's a point, Satan's demons can break the chains of man but even Satan himself will not be able to undo or break this great chain for a thousand years no weaseling out of this one. No Houdini out of this one is bounties incarcerated and why.

What is the purpose.

The purpose is found in verse three so that he should deceive the nations no more until the thousand years were finished. But after these things he must be released for a little while. Why, why is it that Satan has to be bound before the millennium can even be inaugurated because of his deception know what is Satan's primary activity on the earth right now. Given this verse that we just read is deception that the devil's main activity is and to scare little children, or to murder people's main activity is to deceive people.

Jesus called the devil, a liar and the father of lies. In Revelation chapter 12 we read the devil, the Dragon, who deceives the whole world. How does he do that false doctrine. False religious systems. False hope for unbelievers who think they are going to go to heaven but they're not because they never received Christ as their Savior to go climb good enough and only good people go to heaven only save people go to heaven. He deceives the world first John chapter 5 verse 19. John says same guy who wrote this book we know we are of God, and the whole world lies under the sway of the wicked one now.

That's quite a statement to say what we know where of God but everyone in the world is lying under the sway of the wicked one is a deceiver is deceive a lot of people.

Second Corinthians chapter 4 verse four the god of this age present Satan, god of this age has blinded the mind of unbelievers, so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Jesus Christ.

So here's my point for a thousand years no deceptions. The deceptions are over.

That means is not to be any satanic ideologies. No satanic philosophies, no cults, no astrological forecasts no heresies, no false theories of morality. That's all gone. He's out of the picture. It will be understood what is right and what is wrong now.

In closing member.

Last week we talked about three different viewpoints of the millennium. I mentioned that millennialism teaches that were in the kingdom right now. This is the millennium. I'm disappointed, that's true. This is the kingdom age.

Christ is raining over his church right now.

Well, if this is the kingdom age than Satan is what is gotta be bound. If this is the kingdom. Satan is now. I don't think so. If this is Satan being bounties got an awfully long chain and here's why he's not bound.

The Bible says exactly the opposite. Peter rights first Peter chapter 5, your adversary the devil walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. That's not bound, Paul writes in Ephesians chapter 2 about the devil he calls him the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. There many techs like that Satan is not bound. This is not the kingdom's not the kingdom waiting for the kingdom listen when the kingdom comes you'll know you'll know it. Everybody will know the knowledge of God will cover the earth fill the earth as waters cover the sea be very very different scene that it is today. The bad guy will be put away for thousand years. Every now and then I'll encounter some spiritual group, some religious group. Some well-meaning Christian who will try to take authority in and of himself as binding, Satan will even talk to Satan.

I don't even talk to them talk to God.

God bind you Satan do me a favor if you bind Satan bind them for good which are because whatever you're doing is not working. He keeps getting out keeps getting out and I know Jesus said what is bound on earth is bound in heaven that's in the context of church leadership in making binding decisions that are bound also in heaven is the truth you can't bind him.

Only Christ can and will bind him through this strong angel and will happen then. So here's what we have to face. Satan is very active and he's very out in the open and he is not bound and he is loose because he is loose he is deceiving.

Could it be that some here have been deceived about the most important thing in the world most important thing ever and that is eternity. Could it be that summer deceived still here thinking why go to church every week on a good person. I'm a nice guy. I'm not really opposed to God. I said some prayer sometime, somewhere, I think I could be a form of great deception know Jesus that unless a man is born again he can never see the kingdom of God. Born-again Christianity is not a subculture like you got Presbyterians and Catholics and Methodists in the networking group that set flavor of Christianity that new thing. There's only one type of person in heaven.

And that's the born-again type unless a man is born again, he will never see the kingdom of God matter what flavor you are to be born again presbyterian born-again Baptist born-again nondenominational S but you have to be born again and that is where you come to an end of yourself and receive Christ solution for your sin and mine and be saved. Don't be deceived. The deceiver walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour my my strong urge is that you let Christ come into your life is when Christ comes into your life is not going to share that house with the devil. As for the Enlightenment comes as for the freedom for the perspective, what would you like your new perspective, auditorily one division filled with doubt and uncertainty.

Would you like to know exactly what the future has in store for you.

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