Heaven on Earth - Part 3: When Politics are Perfect - Part B

The millennial kingdom people ruling and reigning with Christ the rest of the dead live till after the thousand years is bigger resurrected, which means that the millennium begins with all believers, all those who enter into the millennium are either resurrected saints or mortals who are believers and made it through to the end of the tribulation.

No one believers and unbelievers of died there waiting for judgment each and every year when January rolls around people plan on how to go to improve the world for least out of improve themselves, which might help improve the world.

Of course by February or early March. Most of given up on those of brother will come a day when those problems will be so the world will be a better place won't happen through New Year's resolutions. Skip Heitzig shares more about that today here and connect with Skip weekend edition. But before we get started, we have a great resource for you this month from connectwithskip.com holidays and special days of celebration wake us up from the daily grind and provide a backdrop for creating memories beyond traditions time off and intentional family time, holidays can illuminate spiritual tricks as we hear from Skip I think you may not know that Valentine's Day has Christian roots, but time and secular culture have transformed what was a great celebration of those who would stay true to the Christian faith is turned into simply a celebration of romantic love. You can find spiritual significance with happiness, holiness, and holidays for DVD collection of celebration messages from pastor's And our thanks when you get $25 or more to help keep this ministry on the air here Skip with a strong thought on another holiday on our calendar because God is our father. We never because God is our father. I don't have to live selfish myopic life because he is our father in heaven no limit to his power from heaven.

For those of us were on the incredible phrase, our father in call now to request a copy of happiness, holiness, and holidays are. Thanks for your generous gift 800-922-1888, or get online securely connectwithskip.com/offer Revelation chapter 20 spent a majority of our time today so if you open your Bible will join Skip Heitzig as he continues with the study of Christ's millennial way. Notice the second sentence and I saw the souls of them had been beheaded.

So it's as if to say they're included, but they're not the only group who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God would not worship the beast or his image and had not received his mark on their foreheads or their hands. And they lived so they die they were part of another resurrected.

They lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. So all the tribulation believers were martyred will also be among the veils of them. In other words, all the resurrected saints of all the ages will be ruling and reigning with Christ. But in verse six to sort of underscore that blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. I'll explain in a minute.

Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years. So all of them Old Testament saints glorified New Testament saints glorified resurrected tribulation saints martyred glorified resurrected and the apostles will all share in that administrative government, then and only then will there be justice in the courts, then there will be law on the streets. Then there will be truth in the media, then book stands will be filled with self but with truth and righteousness and the media will project that which is true and holy. Now some of you at this point might be thinking man, that sounds like a lot of work was some idea of heaven. If they can look I work now and I hope to retire when all the work is behind me and maybe you have thought that heaven is like one eternal vacation where you do nothing so you hear all this stuff about ruling and reigning in his thinking. I gotta work this is not my idea of heaven will might not be but it's God's idea of heaven. And keep in mind you're going to be glorified will be in a resurrected body.

You can have the energy in the VM and usefulness. Maybe once had.

And this could be fun for some insight. Perhaps into that Jesus said in Luke 19. I will say to them, well done good and faithful servant because you've been trustworthy in a very small matter. Now, take charge of 10 cities to another.

I will say well done good and faithful servant and faithful in a few things now take charge of five cities you can say luck I really don't want to rule anything I might get a being in charge while you think you're gonna mess up any more than what has been done already on this earth number two.

Do you think the apostles are like the not the brightest bulbs in the bunch and they're going to administrate the 12 tribes of Israel. So keep in mind again you get to be in a glorified resurrected renewed state and your capacities will be very different, so in some capacity working to be ruling and reigning having administrative duties carrying out the will of the ultimate sovereign authority Jesus Christ somewhere on this earth, let me just say now for the record, I get dibs on Maui I want to get that out there right now work Hawaii. Either one will take either one of those two islands and vehicle placed at jurisdictional look at verse five verse five verse five takes this to 1/3 condition that underscores the political framework and that is what I'm calling social stability. Let's look at it but the rest of the dead did not live again or get resurrected until the thousand years were finished.

This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is he US part in the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power for the rest of the debt.

Think about if the Old Testament saints who are dead have been resurrected and are reigning if the New Testament saints who have died and are resurrected and reigning. If the tribulation martyred believers are now resurrected in the apostles who have died in a resurrected who does that leave unbelievers. Unbelievers the rest of the dead keep this in mind there's not just a resurrection for believers.

There is a resurrection for unbelievers as well so that they can eternally endure what God meets out to them in terms of judgment and condemnation. Look at verse 11 tells us their fate and I saw a great white throne and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. And it was found no place for them and I saw the dead to the rest of the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the book of life and the dead were judged according to their works, by the things that are written in the books.

The sea gave up the dead who were in it that death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them and they were judged, each one according to his works and then death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire.

This is the second death. And anyone not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.

So John, who writes this book.

John tells us calls the believers resurrection to life. The first resurrection which would mean the second resurrection. A thousand years later for unbelievers is the second resurrection.

This is consistent with all the Scripture Daniel chapter 212 verse two. The prophet writes many who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, that's resurrection, some to everlasting life.

The first resurrection, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. That's the second resurrection. Jesus said the same thing.

John chapter 5 verse 28 for the hour is coming, in which all who are in the graves will hear his voice and come forth with resurrection. Those who have done good to the resurrection of life is the first resurrection, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of condemnation. That's the second resurrection is my point. Entering into the millennial kingdom people ruling and reigning with Christ.

But the rest of the dead didn't live till after the thousand year.

That's when they get resurrected, which means that the millennium begins with all believers, all those who enter into the millennium are either resurrected saints or mortals who were believers and made it through to the end of the tribulation.

No unbelievers and believers have died in their waiting their judgment. So what happened to them all. Well, they were destroyed by the cataclysmic catastrophic judgments of the tribulation. And if you've ever read that book you know that one judgment. 1/3 of mankind is destroyed and another fourth of mankind is destroyed either died.

Then, or they were executed at the battle of Armageddon. Chapter 19 or they were banished in the sheep and goat judgment judgment of the nations outlined in Matthew 25 so there gone.

Also who's bound for a thousand years. Saints if you get all unbelievers out of the way and Satan banished for thousand years. You now have extremely stable social conditions. Right extreme social stability and Isaiah put it this way, the earth will be filled with the knowledge of God. As waters cover the sea and to boot all of the politicians are going to be resurrected.

Saints I know it's real hard to imagine there were three guys that were having an argument. They were trying to argue about whose profession was the oldest profession in the first one to speak with the surgeon. He said well mine is the oldest profession because we read in the Bible that that God carved a rib out of Adam and made a woman so that makes my profession, that of a surgeon. The oldest honors the second guy among the three was an engineer is that go back further, the Bible says that in six days God created their earth out of chaos is the job of an engineer with 1/3 guy in the group was a politician who when he heard that smiled real big and said, but who created the chaos will there will be no chaos for that thousand years because it will be the resurrected believers, apostles, Old Testament, New Testament martyred tribulation saints glorified resurrected who will monitor and help and adjudicate all of those mortals who are on the earth.

During that time to populate the earth and there's gonna be generations born in more generations born in the thousand years of repopulating the planet. Now those mortals though all believers will have children who also have a free will and grandchildren and great-grandchildren also have a free will and I'll have the chance to receive or reject Jesus Christ, and some will receive in some will reject because we read here in our text of it on time to go through today. There will be a rebellion, even at the end of the thousand years now. Last couple days. I never used been watching some of yourselves I been watching the Olympics. I love watching the Olympics and the camera angles they have there like much cooler. Every time a new Olympics is on right what I read it interesting little article that said the security in Beijing is so tight they've installed 300,000 security cameras to cover every inch of Beijing and the software employed in these 300,000 cameras there face recognition software. This is the highest tech security ever.

Plus they have 30,000 police officers and army roaming the streets top security the other night was the opening ceremony did need to catch that 90,000 people 203 nations. Their flight was beautiful in the audience. Our president Vladimir Putin, the head of state of Japan prime ministers from around the world. All of these different politicians who may not agree and may not get together under any circumstance, but there they are to gather it was almost as if it were a little smidgen of the millennium and I was deceiving myself maybe for a moment not thinking of there's peace and there's unity and there's all these leaders course that was all shattered by reading the paper the next day when there was a murder that took place of an American bioterrorist and his tour guide was also murdered. So with all of the security personnel all of the cameras didn't exist. There will be peace and security and how it's all going to work. I don't know you know I gotta tell you, my mind sorta goes to a movie that was put out a few years ago, the minority report. Anybody see that embrace Carl's IMC's movies so I'm one of the premises that there's these pre-cogs and they can they can tell of violent crime is about to be committed date they can see sort of the thoughts of people and even before it's committed.

They stop it. I do know what kind of capacities were all going to have his resurrected beings during the thousand years on earth must be pretty special because were going to rule and reign with him. The Bible says, with a rod of iron. It's an ironclad immediate judicial reign. Very very cool. Let's look at verse six and finish this off the fourth and final mark politically. During this period is there's a spiritual invincibility. Look at verse six. Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection mentioned in verse five also over such the second death is what happens to unbelievers has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

If you know Jesus Christ as your Savior, your to face the first resurrection. The resurrection to life will never face ever eternal death, and this is an answer to a question I got a couple weeks ago and somebody said so, how does it work like in the millennium are we to be able to like blow it and send and then then begin banished no way you can have glorified resurrected body without the capacity to sin without the capacity to dissent. There's no little trial. Work you know what I gave you those five cities you really blew it big time you're out here. Not at all at this point are spiritually invincible. You'll never be judged for sin, you will always be serving him as Paul wrote, he will save us from the wrath that is to come.

So this leaves a question that I have been well skirting or putting off for a few weeks.

Here's a question okay so with all this perfection on earth thousand years, peace why verse seven.

Why would God allow verse seven and when the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison.

I gotta tell y'all be honest I don't like that verse.

This is one of the imponderables of Scripture. But I love with Dr. Lewis Perry Schaefer who was the dean of Dallas seminary once it if you tell me why God released in the first time that I'll tell you why God releases in the second.

I think there's good wisdom in that. Probably for the same reasons or at least in part, not to give you an answer. And I've been saying for couple weeks will look at that next regatta look at that next watt runner weeks so I gotta give you something. It probably won't be a satisfying answer. There's a couple things I can think number one this is good to demonstrate that even after a thousand years of incarceration, the nature of the devil has not changed. He still rubble. He wants to bring people down. He wants to disgrace God and he will start a rebellion and insurrection. Number two. This is going to demonstrate that the essential nature and character of man doesn't change either, even in the perfect environment even in utopia were all the weapons are banished and turned into agricultural implements with there's peace and utopia in a for years, people said well if you just put a person in the perfect environment the guy act perfect when you have a perfect environment, and yet some will choose to go in this rebellion.

The rest of these verses say Jeremiah was right. The human heart is most deceitful and desperately wicked. So I have a suggestion since it says in verse six Blessed and holy is he who was part in the first resurrection is my suggestion. Make sure you take part in the first resurrection how I do that by today, here and now. Making the choice to receive Christ as Savior and Lord. There's a little formula that I've used. Based on this verse goes like this you're born one shall die twice you're born twice, shall die once. I'll explain it very simply, if you're only born once in obviously we all have been because here we are living and breathing if you only born once physically but never reborn spiritually. John chapter 3, you must be born again you will die twice physically and eternally called the second death. But if you're born twice physically and spiritually. At best you only die once physically but never a second death never eternally so my firm and strong loving suggestion is make sure you take place in the first resurrection. So God is gonna rule the universe through his son Jesus Christ.

But the Bible seems to indicate that ruling the universe is a family business wants to extend that to all of his children who trust in him are you and his family trust in Christ is such a question to answer is how you trusted Christ if you can see, you have that everything we discussed that he loses all priority to answering that question. It's only through trusting in Christ.

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