1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,320 chapter 20 and you might be wondering, well, why are we jumping to the end of the book? 2 00:00:07,320 --> 00:00:12,480 Shouldn't we be starting at the beginning? Good point. That's a fair point. I'm not 3 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:17,040 going to deny that. But here's the reason we're jumping to the end is because 4 00:00:17,040 --> 00:00:22,140 there's this one passage at the end of Revelation that talks about the end 5 00:00:22,140 --> 00:00:27,560 times, the millennium, the thousand years and all this kind of stuff. And it's 6 00:00:27,560 --> 00:00:33,000 one passage in the Bible, just not even that long of a passage, and it probably 7 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:38,120 has sparked more controversy and conversations than maybe any other 8 00:00:38,120 --> 00:00:42,240 single passage in the Bible. I mean books and books and books have been 9 00:00:42,240 --> 00:00:47,160 written debating this passage. So obviously we're going to solve it tonight 10 00:00:47,160 --> 00:00:51,800 and we're going to figure it out, right? No, of course not. Okay, again, don't 11 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:56,120 put that on me. I can't do that for you, okay? But the reason that we are going to 12 00:00:56,120 --> 00:01:02,640 jump all the way to the end here is because a person's view of the end times 13 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:06,600 and what they think about the millennium and the return of Christ and all that 14 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:11,240 kind of stuff, it greatly affects how you read the book of Revelation, right? So 15 00:01:11,240 --> 00:01:15,320 we'll be reading through the book and we could come to a passage and I could say, 16 00:01:15,320 --> 00:01:19,120 well, this is talking about this and if you have a totally different 17 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:22,400 understanding of the millennium, the return of Christ, the end times, you would 18 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:26,480 say, well, know what you're reading there has to do with this portion of the 19 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:30,640 timeline in which all these things are going to occur. And so basically how you 20 00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:35,480 view that one situation, the return of Christ, the millennium, is going to 21 00:01:35,480 --> 00:01:40,920 completely dictate how you view the rest of the book of Revelation. It's going to 22 00:01:40,920 --> 00:01:46,640 completely color. Like just for instance, there's one view of eschatology. So 23 00:01:46,640 --> 00:01:51,800 eschatology just means a study of the end times. Eschatah comes from eschaton, 24 00:01:51,800 --> 00:01:56,400 meaning the end or finality and ology is obviously like study of something. So 25 00:01:56,400 --> 00:02:01,080 eschatology, it's the study of the last things, the end times, right? So there's 26 00:02:01,080 --> 00:02:06,880 one view of eschatology that literally says that Revelation 4 through 27 00:02:06,880 --> 00:02:13,200 basically 20 has nothing to do with the church at all. And if that is your view, 28 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:17,720 then when you read Revelation, that's obviously going to color how you 29 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:20,240 interpret it, right? If you think that this has nothing to do with the church, 30 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:23,880 but this is just a prediction pertaining to Israel, well then that's going to 31 00:02:23,880 --> 00:02:28,720 offer a different interpretation and application for you, correct? So we're 32 00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:32,040 going to discuss these things, we're going to go through them, and we're going 33 00:02:32,040 --> 00:02:34,640 to disagree some. But that's okay because we're just going to study the word, 34 00:02:34,640 --> 00:02:38,040 we're going to have nice pleasant conversations, no one's going to throw 35 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:41,120 anything at anybody, and we're just going to talk about it, right? That's what 36 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:45,120 we're going to do. So Revelation chapter 20, beginning in verse 1, we'll read 37 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:51,760 through verse 6, it's just six verses, all right? Then I saw an angel coming down 38 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:57,960 from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit or the abyss in a 39 00:02:57,960 --> 00:03:03,320 great chain, and he sees the dragon, that ancient serpent who is the devil and 40 00:03:03,320 --> 00:03:08,040 Satan, and he bound him for a thousand years and threw him into the pit and 41 00:03:08,040 --> 00:03:13,720 shut it and sealed it over him so that he might not deceive the nations any 42 00:03:13,720 --> 00:03:19,040 longer until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be released for a 43 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:23,880 little while. Then I saw thrones and seated on them were those to whom the 44 00:03:23,880 --> 00:03:29,880 authority to judge was committed, and I also saw the souls of those who had been 45 00:03:29,880 --> 00:03:35,320 beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had 46 00:03:35,320 --> 00:03:39,120 not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their 47 00:03:39,120 --> 00:03:45,440 foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a 48 00:03:45,440 --> 00:03:50,600 thousand years. The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand 49 00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:56,920 years were ended. This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is the one 50 00:03:56,920 --> 00:04:03,560 who shares in the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power, 51 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:09,400 but they will be priests of God and of Christ and they will reign with him for 52 00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:15,440 a thousand years. That's our passage. Because we're going to be 53 00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:20,520 discussing different views and things like that, trying to make sense of this 54 00:04:20,520 --> 00:04:25,640 important passage in Revelation so that we can have a framework to actually 55 00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:28,920 interpret the book of Revelation. I'm going to read you a quote, and I want it 56 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:33,880 to be kind of our whole motto for how we study the book of Revelation. Okay? You 57 00:04:33,880 --> 00:04:38,440 ready for this? You can write it down or you can just try to remember it. In 58 00:04:38,440 --> 00:04:47,960 essentials, unity. In non-essentials, liberty. In all things, charity. Okay? 59 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:59,760 I'll read that again. In essentials, unity. In non-essentials, liberty. In all things, charity. 60 00:04:59,760 --> 00:05:06,960 Now, let's keep that in mind. Okay? Because eschatology, would we say that is an 61 00:05:06,960 --> 00:05:14,360 essential doctrine of salvation? How you view or your understanding of the end 62 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:20,680 times, is that essential for salvation in Christ? No. It's non-essential. Is it 63 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:25,880 important? Absolutely. Of course it is. But is it essential? No. Okay. Well, so it's 64 00:05:25,880 --> 00:05:30,480 a non-essential, so we have liberty to disagree and still be Christians. So let's 65 00:05:30,480 --> 00:05:34,640 be charitable. No one in here is going to call anyone else a heretic. 66 00:05:34,640 --> 00:05:39,320 Can we just onboard with that? No matter what view of eschatology 67 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:44,280 you hold to, you can still be orthodox. They are all orthodox positions and 68 00:05:44,280 --> 00:05:49,840 they all try to base their position on the Bible. Can we admit that? Right? Again, 69 00:05:49,840 --> 00:05:52,920 we want to still man other people's positions. We don't want to straw man them 70 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:56,080 and just knock them down. We want to give them credit and say that they are 71 00:05:56,080 --> 00:05:59,280 trying to make the best sense of Scripture and so they believe what they 72 00:05:59,280 --> 00:06:05,960 believe. So, again, let's be charitable as we discuss this. Alright, now we get into 73 00:06:05,960 --> 00:06:10,360 the weeds. Charitable. Charitable. Alright. I thought a long time about how do you 74 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:15,560 even start this? And so let's just do like a little timeline. So here's the 75 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:19,160 cross and then we'll say like shortly after there was a resurrection but I 76 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:23,480 don't want to draw a line because this is going to get messy if we start doing 77 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:28,360 even more lines. But let's just do like your basic timeline. Here's the cross 78 00:06:28,360 --> 00:06:40,040 and let's say here's the millennium. Millennium. Seems pretty simple. It's 79 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:44,320 not. There's a lot that goes into it. But let's just say this is the millennium 80 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:48,440 and what we're talking about is the return of Christ. When is Christ going 81 00:06:48,440 --> 00:06:52,840 to return? And you have this major event. Well, there are really only two options. 82 00:06:52,840 --> 00:07:00,000 He can come before the millennium which would be pre-millennialism. Right? On 83 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:04,920 board. Before the millennium. Or he could come after the millennialism, the 84 00:07:04,920 --> 00:07:11,320 millennium which would be post. Post millennialism. So there are basically 85 00:07:11,320 --> 00:07:15,560 four views but they all kind of fall within these two broad categories. Jesus 86 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:19,960 is either going to return before the millennium or he's going to return 87 00:07:19,960 --> 00:07:25,320 after the millennium. So on this side you would have dispensationalism which I'm 88 00:07:25,320 --> 00:07:29,760 not going to spell all that out but dispensationalism which is a form of 89 00:07:29,760 --> 00:07:35,960 pre-millennialism and then you also have what's called historic pre-millennialism 90 00:07:35,960 --> 00:07:40,920 which again is as you can tell a form of pre-millennialism. Right? And on this 91 00:07:40,920 --> 00:07:47,680 side you would have the post-millennialists after the millennium and you 92 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:53,680 would also have what's known as a millennialism which is really a bad name 93 00:07:53,680 --> 00:07:58,680 for this whole view. A millennialism should just be referred to as realized 94 00:07:58,680 --> 00:08:04,440 eschatology because this ah here is from the Greek it's a negation it means no 95 00:08:04,440 --> 00:08:08,480 millennium and so there's there's a view that they would say like oh our 96 00:08:08,480 --> 00:08:12,920 millennials don't believe in a millennium at all which is not true they just have 97 00:08:12,920 --> 00:08:17,440 a different view of the millennium they believe it's realized now and so even 98 00:08:17,440 --> 00:08:21,080 that would be a form of post-millennialism because Christ is returning after. 99 00:08:21,080 --> 00:08:25,960 Now here's the hard part about discussing all these different things okay? It's 100 00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:30,360 that not only there are a bunch of different views it's that the views are 101 00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:34,680 very nuanced even within like there are different forms of dispensationalists 102 00:08:34,680 --> 00:08:38,760 there are liberal forms of post-millennialism post-millennials there are 103 00:08:38,760 --> 00:08:43,040 orthodox covenantal millennials there are all sorts of different views okay and 104 00:08:43,040 --> 00:08:48,080 it's hard to to speak in general terms because you don't want to paint people 105 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:52,720 with a broad brush and get it wrong right so like for instance to give you 106 00:08:52,720 --> 00:08:56,680 an example I hate when people assume what I believe rather than just asking me 107 00:08:56,680 --> 00:09:02,280 what I believe you know so people say oh you're Southern Baptist that must mean 108 00:09:02,280 --> 00:09:07,000 you think this I'm like you could just ask me you know like oh you're Southern 109 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:10,160 Baptist you think Deakin should be running the church no no or you're 110 00:09:10,160 --> 00:09:12,640 Southern Baptist you don't think the church should have elders actually I do 111 00:09:12,640 --> 00:09:17,000 you could ask me like there are Southern Baptist but there are all sorts of 112 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:20,760 nuances even within Southern Baptist right and so there are dispensationalists 113 00:09:20,760 --> 00:09:25,000 and there's nuances in the same with all the other views so I'm gonna speak in 114 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:28,400 generalities and if you're sitting here and you're like well I'm a 115 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:31,880 millennialist and I don't believe that that's okay I'm again speaking in general 116 00:09:31,880 --> 00:09:35,280 terms because I can't go into like 30 different variations of this show I mean 117 00:09:35,280 --> 00:09:38,760 unless y'all want me to but I think let's just keep it general right let's you 118 00:09:38,760 --> 00:09:42,600 know not quite surface level but a little beneath that so let's just do that 119 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:47,920 and we'll be good so again try to think well how do we start this 120 00:09:47,920 --> 00:09:53,400 conversation about the millennium and how do we interpret everything so I 121 00:09:53,400 --> 00:09:57,560 thought well what if we just go in in terms of like order kind of right in 122 00:09:57,560 --> 00:10:01,720 terms of what to expect so so if this is Christ's death and his resurrection 123 00:10:01,720 --> 00:10:07,120 well the first thing that we would say in terms of the views we have to start 124 00:10:07,120 --> 00:10:11,680 with premillennialism right because that's Christ is returning before the 125 00:10:11,680 --> 00:10:18,000 millennium occurs and according to premillennialists they would say that 126 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:23,080 right before the millennium starts what happens anybody know according to this 127 00:10:23,080 --> 00:10:27,960 view dispensationalist premillennialists what happens prior to the millennium 128 00:10:27,960 --> 00:10:34,560 started the rapture yeah so and this is very specific to with dispensationalist 129 00:10:34,560 --> 00:10:38,200 so we're gonna talk about them first they would say that the rapture happens 130 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:44,640 but what's important to note is it's a halfway kind of thing right so they 131 00:10:44,640 --> 00:10:51,240 would say that in the rapture and so you can just rapture here they would say 132 00:10:51,240 --> 00:10:57,720 that Jesus returns partway to earth he's gonna descend from heaven and kind of 133 00:10:57,720 --> 00:11:01,760 come down descend to the level of basically the clouds not come all the 134 00:11:01,760 --> 00:11:07,240 way to the earth but he's going to call up the church and the church will meet 135 00:11:07,240 --> 00:11:13,960 Jesus in the clouds and he escorts them back to heaven so the church remains in 136 00:11:13,960 --> 00:11:20,880 heaven for the duration of the millennium right we tracking so far they 137 00:11:20,880 --> 00:11:26,800 remain there for the millennium Jesus is gonna have this millennium so so there's 138 00:11:26,800 --> 00:11:32,120 a time of like you know tribulation here and actually before the millennium 139 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:35,920 there's tribulation we're getting run out of room or timeline but there's a 140 00:11:35,920 --> 00:11:39,360 seven-year according to again dispensationalist there's a seven-year 141 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:44,200 tribulation period you'll have the beast the anti-crime Satan running around 142 00:11:44,200 --> 00:11:49,660 causing all sorts of trouble but then Jesus is going to return after seven 143 00:11:49,660 --> 00:11:54,160 years he's gonna come all the way back down to earth at this point he's going 144 00:11:54,160 --> 00:12:01,840 to bind Satan defeat the armies of evil and then he's going to rule on earth so 145 00:12:01,840 --> 00:12:07,400 on earth for a thousand years and and we'll just polls right there so everybody 146 00:12:07,400 --> 00:12:14,080 tracking this is the dispensational view there's gonna be what is known as they 147 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:19,400 call it a secret rapture anybody know why they would call it a secret rapture 148 00:12:22,920 --> 00:12:26,640 because Christ isn't coming all the way back down the church is basically 149 00:12:26,640 --> 00:12:30,280 disappearing right like people are going about their lives and then people 150 00:12:30,280 --> 00:12:34,720 disappear and so it's a secret in the sense of like it's completely unexpected 151 00:12:34,720 --> 00:12:39,520 it could happen at any point you don't actually see it happen it just happens 152 00:12:39,520 --> 00:12:44,680 like we could be I could be mid-sentence right now and so it'd been cool though 153 00:12:44,680 --> 00:12:48,880 because you imagine like if that it happened so I could be mid-sentence and 154 00:12:48,880 --> 00:12:53,320 the rapture could happen and all the church true Christians could disappear 155 00:12:53,320 --> 00:12:59,200 to meet Jesus in the sky and live in heaven forever so when you think about 156 00:12:59,200 --> 00:13:03,000 these different views dispensational historic premillennialism post-malinialism 157 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:08,240 all-malinialism tongue twister what do you think is the most popular and wide 158 00:13:08,240 --> 00:13:16,120 held view in the church today okay this one right dispensationalism by and large 159 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:23,960 I would say a majority if not the vast majority of the church holds to this view 160 00:13:23,960 --> 00:13:28,600 of eschatology and it's probably the one you're most familiar with right yeah so 161 00:13:28,600 --> 00:13:31,400 that's why it's our starting place so so let's let's get a little bit of 162 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:35,720 background not only is this the predominant view in the church it has 163 00:13:35,720 --> 00:13:42,400 been since the 20th century okay and in premillennial eschatology it's been 164 00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:48,520 around for ever since you know Jesus resurrected and ascended okay in fact 165 00:13:48,520 --> 00:13:54,520 historic premillennialism has been the most wide held view throughout church 166 00:13:54,520 --> 00:13:58,440 history that's different than this different than dispensationalism but 167 00:13:58,440 --> 00:14:02,440 historic premillennialism has been the most wide held view throughout church 168 00:14:02,440 --> 00:14:08,400 history and so an interesting fact though did you know that this view the 169 00:14:08,400 --> 00:14:11,800 one that we just talked about the one that we said that the majority of the 170 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:15,360 church believes today the one that you're most familiar with did you know it 171 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:26,080 was started in the year 1830 by a man named John Darby he was a Scottsman a 172 00:14:26,080 --> 00:14:32,120 preacher and a theologian and what's interesting about this is there is not a 173 00:14:32,120 --> 00:14:36,280 single record of anything in all of Christian literature and Christian 174 00:14:36,280 --> 00:14:42,840 church history to say that anyone ever believed this scheme so not like not 175 00:14:42,840 --> 00:14:48,240 certain aspects but but this whole scheme no one believed that for the first 176 00:14:48,240 --> 00:14:56,360 1830 years of the church it's pretty interesting is it not now does that make 177 00:14:56,360 --> 00:15:02,960 it wrong no should it raise concern for investigation yeah I think that's fair 178 00:15:02,960 --> 00:15:07,080 so here's an interesting question to consider how did this brand-new 179 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:14,240 theology that was started in 1830 become the most widely held view in the 180 00:15:14,240 --> 00:15:18,280 church today and be the one that pretty much every Christian is familiar with 181 00:15:18,280 --> 00:15:23,400 how did that happen well here's how it happened John Darby created it in 1830 182 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:28,280 started becoming really popular a lot of his students then go to America and 183 00:15:28,280 --> 00:15:34,320 they start spreading now think back to the situation in the early 1900s in 184 00:15:34,320 --> 00:15:39,280 America what was going on what had just ended not too long ago that America was 185 00:15:39,280 --> 00:15:44,280 still trying to recover from Civil War right life was not easy back then right 186 00:15:44,280 --> 00:15:47,680 there's another war coming that they didn't even know about at the time but 187 00:15:47,680 --> 00:15:51,920 if you're living in the early 1900s in America you're trying to recover from 188 00:15:51,920 --> 00:15:56,080 the Civil War people were not very educated back then either most people 189 00:15:56,080 --> 00:15:59,600 were laborers they would go to school for a little bit and then they would leave 190 00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:02,680 to go pursue a career that doesn't mean everybody did that some people 191 00:16:02,680 --> 00:16:06,240 obviously went to college and whatnot but the vast majority of Americans were 192 00:16:06,240 --> 00:16:11,880 just laborers who were widely uneducated and so here's what they did they had 193 00:16:11,880 --> 00:16:16,280 their Bible but they weren't too educated they wanted to understand it what 194 00:16:16,280 --> 00:16:21,080 was the Bible they were using at the time King James right it's been the most 195 00:16:21,080 --> 00:16:28,120 popular Bible since the 17th century and so again you're in early America you're 196 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:31,720 you're not very educated you have a Bible and you want to know it you want to 197 00:16:31,720 --> 00:16:35,160 know what God says but you're just having trouble understand it well great 198 00:16:35,160 --> 00:16:40,200 solution comes out a new study Bible and if there's a new study Bible and it's 199 00:16:40,200 --> 00:16:45,400 a study Bible of the KJV and that's the Bible you use and it's got notes in 200 00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:49,160 there to help you understand it guess what Bible you're gonna be buying to help 201 00:16:49,160 --> 00:16:55,320 you understand it that one that's exactly what happened in the year 1909 and 202 00:16:55,320 --> 00:16:57,960 you're not gonna be tested on these dates but if you're just interested in a 203 00:16:57,960 --> 00:17:03,000 little bit of church history it's fun to mark it down in the year 1909 arguably 204 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:09,040 the most famous study Bible of all time was printed and it changed the course of 205 00:17:09,040 --> 00:17:14,560 Christian theology and church history because it became so popular in fact it 206 00:17:14,560 --> 00:17:19,760 is still so popular or it was so popular and so important many people still own 207 00:17:19,760 --> 00:17:25,480 this study Bible today isn't that right mr. McKinney he owns one which one is it 208 00:17:25,480 --> 00:17:30,920 called the Scofield study Bible one of the most renowned and popular study 209 00:17:30,920 --> 00:17:38,400 Bibles of all time Scofield was a student well I say a student he encountered 210 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:44,080 the students of Darby and adopted Darby's theology that he had created this 211 00:17:44,080 --> 00:17:49,720 dispensational theology and Scofield added his thoughts to it and tried to 212 00:17:49,720 --> 00:17:54,160 adapt it even more and because that was the only really King James study Bible 213 00:17:54,160 --> 00:17:59,480 of the time people bought it and that thing spread like wildfire I mean it 214 00:17:59,480 --> 00:18:05,000 went everywhere widely popular it wasn't even revised until about 1950 that's 215 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:10,240 how popular it was and how mainstream it was everybody owned one one of the 216 00:18:10,240 --> 00:18:14,240 concerning things with the Scofield study Bible though is that it was 217 00:18:14,240 --> 00:18:20,600 primarily only Scofield's thoughts and opinion in the Bible most study Bibles 218 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:24,920 today have like an editorial team where they'll all contribute and do that but 219 00:18:24,920 --> 00:18:28,600 this was primarily Scofield and so again think back if you're early 220 00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:33,920 America's 1900 and you're not very educated you want to understand it if 221 00:18:33,920 --> 00:18:39,520 you read anything this man says and an official King James study Bible are you 222 00:18:39,520 --> 00:18:44,800 gonna disagree with him no you're just gonna believe it you accept it and and 223 00:18:44,800 --> 00:18:49,480 again just a pulse right a couple rabbit trails here but I'll just go on 224 00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:53,680 one this is why I always caution people with study Bibles in general like I 225 00:18:53,680 --> 00:18:57,280 don't have a problem giving them to people but I always tell them you have 226 00:18:57,280 --> 00:19:01,600 to keep in mind the word of God is the word of God and everything under that 227 00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:05,680 the footnotes that's the thoughts of man okay and the thoughts of man are not 228 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:10,680 the word of God they need to be examined critically and they need to be you know 229 00:19:10,680 --> 00:19:14,200 assessed and things like that you shouldn't just open a study Bible and 230 00:19:14,200 --> 00:19:17,720 read what it says and just accept it uncritically okay you shouldn't accept 231 00:19:17,720 --> 00:19:20,840 anything I say uncritically check me against the word of God because if I'm 232 00:19:20,840 --> 00:19:24,560 airing against the word of God believe that not me okay don't accept anything 233 00:19:24,560 --> 00:19:28,920 man says uncritically but that's exactly what happened they didn't you know 234 00:19:28,920 --> 00:19:32,440 think about it critically that should accept it whatever Darby had to say and 235 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:38,000 or Scofield had to say and so that's how that became the most popular view in 236 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:44,680 America and in the church it got so bad that if you disagreed with any aspect of 237 00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:49,720 this new theology that was literally started in 1830 and popularized in 238 00:19:49,720 --> 00:19:53,920 1909 you could be called a heretic and you could be kicked out of the church if 239 00:19:53,920 --> 00:19:58,960 you disagreed with this that's how prominent and then the way it made 240 00:19:58,960 --> 00:20:02,280 itself in the mainstream culture and media to where even atheists know about 241 00:20:02,280 --> 00:20:05,280 this kind of stuff today was because of a book series anybody know the book 242 00:20:05,280 --> 00:20:13,040 series left behind that's right book series and then they made movies with 243 00:20:13,040 --> 00:20:16,720 Kirk Cameron and then they made one with Nick Cage I think and that fell off and 244 00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:20,000 they said all right one left behind is fine enough for Nick Cage so that's it 245 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:27,400 but but left behind is directly based on this theology by Darby and so that's 246 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:30,960 important to know right like this is the most popular view in the church today 247 00:20:30,960 --> 00:20:36,400 but it should caution us and we should be noticing the fact that there's not a 248 00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:40,600 single person in all of church history for the first 1830 years who believed 249 00:20:40,600 --> 00:20:45,520 what most people in the church believe today so that's why we go back to 250 00:20:45,520 --> 00:20:49,760 scripture right that's why I say let's not just take what we've always heard 251 00:20:49,760 --> 00:20:54,600 let's just test it against the word of God so we're not going to be able to get 252 00:20:54,600 --> 00:21:00,000 too far tonight but just some main tenets of dispensationalism and I'm 253 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:05,360 going to be you know trying to steel man this as much as I can and and I would 254 00:21:05,360 --> 00:21:09,280 hope that a dispensationalist would say oh yeah that's what I believe right so 255 00:21:09,280 --> 00:21:13,920 most dispensationalists one of the key tenets of dispensationalism is they 256 00:21:13,920 --> 00:21:20,280 always make a very sharp distinction between Israel and the church so anything 257 00:21:20,280 --> 00:21:24,040 in the Old Testament where it says this prophecy was for Israel they will not 258 00:21:24,040 --> 00:21:28,280 recognize any sort of like symbolic fulfillment in the church today they'll 259 00:21:28,280 --> 00:21:32,480 say that is particularly for Israel and Israel only and so when you get into 260 00:21:32,480 --> 00:21:37,400 revelation and you see certain prophecies they will say primarily this has to 261 00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:41,960 do with Israel and not the church most dispensationalists believe that the 262 00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:48,000 rapture happens sometime before Revelation chapter 4 and that revelation 263 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:53,120 chapter 4 up to chapter 20 has to do with Israel and what's going to happen 264 00:21:53,120 --> 00:21:58,360 during the time when the tribulation is focused on Israel so they make this this 265 00:21:58,360 --> 00:22:04,280 sharp distinction between Israel and the church and they also have a very 266 00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:11,240 specific detailed chronology of how the end times events will go this is this is 267 00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:15,640 the simplest dispensational chart you'll ever see and that's because I 268 00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:19,440 literally can't remember all the things to put up here so just to be honest but 269 00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:24,360 Google dispensational in times chart and you'll see there's I mean there's pages 270 00:22:24,360 --> 00:22:27,680 of arrows and things like this of all the kind of stuff that has to happen so 271 00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:33,720 they have a very detailed understanding of that and and particularly of what the 272 00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:37,800 different things mean so like for instance the tribulation they would say 273 00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:43,440 that's primarily focused on Israel on the Jews that Jesus raptures the church 274 00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:49,120 up and they're in heaven and the tribulation time is to prepare Israel 275 00:22:49,120 --> 00:22:55,640 to receive King Jesus so that when he does appear after the tribulation they 276 00:22:55,640 --> 00:23:01,000 will recognize him as the Messiah and be prepared to believe in him and welcome 277 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:05,920 him as their king and then that time starts the thousand year reign on earth 278 00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:12,480 where Israel is mostly predominant I believe most dispensationalists and 279 00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:16,400 again this isn't also you could be a variation but but most dispensationalists 280 00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:20,440 will say that the church even remains in heaven during the millennium and that 281 00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:24,520 the Jews are the ones who reign on earth with Christ as well as those who become 282 00:23:24,520 --> 00:23:28,720 believers during the millennium reign again you might be a different 283 00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:34,120 variation but that's what's mostly in the literature today and and during the 284 00:23:34,120 --> 00:23:38,320 the millennium at the beginning Satan is bound and he's bound for the thousand 285 00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:43,760 years where he's unable to deceive the nations and then after that time there's 286 00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:49,800 a short letting loose of Satan there's a final defeat and then that leads to 287 00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:54,640 resurrection and judgment and all that kind of stuff and the other thing to 288 00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:58,840 note really about dispensational theology is they're very literal they're 289 00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:03,560 always literal in their interpretation and you remember I think it was two 290 00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:07,480 weeks ago we asked this like should we interpret the Bible literally and it was 291 00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:11,320 kind of a trick question because the answer was yes whenever the Bible 292 00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:15,120 intends to be interpreted literally because there are times when it doesn't 293 00:24:15,120 --> 00:24:19,120 like when it says God has wings or God is a rock like he's not really a rock and 294 00:24:19,120 --> 00:24:22,920 he doesn't really have wings but so you don't need interpret that literally but 295 00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:26,880 dispensationalists when they look at revelation almost everything in it 296 00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:31,400 despite the fact that it is apocalyptic despite the fact that is prophecy they 297 00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:36,320 will interpret it literally so when they see 144,000 that are sealed they'll 298 00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:41,680 say that's literally 144,000 could be that's a fair interpretation when they 299 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:45,480 they see certain things that are to happen they'll say that's literal there's 300 00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:50,080 no they like Babylon they'll say that is literally Babylon that's a another fair 301 00:24:50,080 --> 00:24:54,400 interpretation it could be might not be but it is a fair interpretation the 302 00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:58,200 thousand years they'll say that is a literal one thousand year period again 303 00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:01,680 it could be might not be so fair interpretation but these are where 304 00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:05,560 they're basing their views they want to interpret it literally those are the 305 00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:10,000 key distinctions now I want to look very quickly because we don't have a lot of 306 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:13,840 time I actually thought I was going to cover like most of the end times views 307 00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:18,520 tonight so I'm an optimistic person I'm not a post-mill person but I'm an 308 00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:25,240 optimistic person so yeah and just you know there's so if we're thinking like 309 00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:34,120 disc and historical and a mill and post mill I told you all before like these 310 00:25:34,120 --> 00:25:38,800 are the four main views and it it like throughout my Christian walk I have 311 00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:42,480 held to three out of the four of these views so like you should be willing to 312 00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:46,000 change your view if you're convinced by scripture like I started out here and 313 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:51,080 then I went here and then I went here and then some days I'm here and then 314 00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:55,760 some days I'm back here never here but you know back and forth between these 315 00:25:55,760 --> 00:26:00,760 two on any given Wednesday so you should be willing to just say I'm trying to 316 00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:04,240 make the best sense of scripture and you know if that means I need to change my 317 00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:08,720 view I'm willing to do that so I want to look very quickly because we won't get 318 00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:14,240 into too much of this this idea of of the rapture and particularly this idea of 319 00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:20,160 what's known as like a secret rapture where Christians disappear they're 320 00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:25,280 culled up to meet Jesus halfway in the sky and then he escorts them back to 321 00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:33,960 heaven so that the tribulation can start on earth now every in times view 322 00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:40,800 believes in the rapture can we let's just get that out there now but not every 323 00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:46,160 in times view means the same thing when they say the rapture so they all 324 00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:51,320 believe in it they just don't believe the same thing about it so where does this 325 00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:55,480 idea from a rapture come from anybody know off top of your head 326 00:26:55,480 --> 00:27:01,280 Thessalonians very good yeah all right so first Thessalonians chapter 4 this is 327 00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:07,520 what it says in verse 16 it says the Lord himself will descend from heaven 328 00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:12,920 with a cry of command and the voice of an archangel and with the sound of the 329 00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:19,200 trumpet of God and the dead in Christ will rise first then we who are alive 330 00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:25,920 who are left will be culled up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord 331 00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:33,360 in the air so we will always be with the Lord that's where the idea of the 332 00:27:33,360 --> 00:27:38,360 rapture comes from it's the the main rapture passage in the Bible and you 333 00:27:38,360 --> 00:27:43,360 can you can see where the view comes from right Jesus will descend and we will 334 00:27:43,360 --> 00:27:49,400 be culled up in the sky with him will meet him there and the word rapture it 335 00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:56,360 comes from this passage kind of it actually comes from the Latin Vulgate 336 00:27:56,360 --> 00:28:02,840 so Latin Vulgate was just the the main Latin Bible for a very very long time 337 00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:10,200 and that phrase cull up there is actually the the Latin word rapio which is 338 00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:14,120 where you can see we get the word rapture today and so you're thinking oh 339 00:28:14,120 --> 00:28:17,720 where'd the word rapture come from it came from the Latin Vulgate and so 340 00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:22,880 that's where we get the word rapture and the idea that we will be culled up in 341 00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:28,760 the sky but then there's another idea that comes from 1 Corinthians 1552 342 00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:32,800 which talks about how we'll all be changed in what do you remember the 343 00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:37,360 phrasing there the the twinkling of an eye right it's so it's this it's this 344 00:28:37,360 --> 00:28:41,560 immediate thing right it's something that happens very quickly we're changed 345 00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:48,680 and made different in the twinkling of an eye and and so you see this idea 346 00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:54,240 others will often appeal to there's a passage in Matthew 24 if you just want 347 00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:57,960 to write that down you can reference it later but you know this passage in Matthew 348 00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:02,160 24 it talks about how two men are going to be out in the field right one's going 349 00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:06,520 to be taken one's going to be left behind two women are going to be working 350 00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:10,520 and one is going to be taken and one is going to be left behind and so there's 351 00:29:10,520 --> 00:29:15,160 the idea that people are just going to disappear when the rapture happens again 352 00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:20,080 notice how all of these things they are basing them on scripture so even if you 353 00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:24,440 disagree with them and that's okay if you do notice that they do have a 354 00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:28,680 scriptural basis for it and they are seeking to ground their views in 355 00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:31,800 scripture can we be charitable and admit that because it's easy when you 356 00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:35,240 disagree with something to be like oh that's ridiculous right give them credit 357 00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:42,360 they're basing it on scripture all right so what do we say about this well again 358 00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:46,080 we just said they're basing it on scripture so good for them that's what 359 00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:51,240 you should do with every view a couple quick critiques I would say and again 360 00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:54,280 I'm not trying to lead you one way or the other you can come to whatever view 361 00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:59,640 you want again like all of these these are orthodox positions if you are one of 362 00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:03,520 these four and you believe Jesus is the Messiah and you've trusted in him for 363 00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:06,280 something you're going to heaven good job like that's great you could be any 364 00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:12,520 one of these four and again notice I have been three out of the four so I'm 365 00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:15,760 gonna offer critiques I'm not trying to push you one way or the other I'm just 366 00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:20,600 going to offer some critiques and let you evaluate as well my main critique 367 00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:25,120 of really this whole scheme of dispensationalism really comes back to 368 00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:30,000 the fact that it was started in 1830 it's concerning to me that no one 369 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:33,400 throughout church history up to that point had thought of these things and 370 00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:37,200 put them together and articulated them and believed them especially when you 371 00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:41,840 consider the people who were predominant in church history think about Luther and 372 00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:45,400 Augustine you think about even the early church fathers I mean you think about 373 00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:50,160 Athanasius and Christos and some of these guys like no one was believing this 374 00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:53,880 for the first 1830 years of the church that's always dangerous that's my main 375 00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:58,120 critique of N.T. Wright as well by the way like I'm I'm gonna show my cards on 376 00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:01,720 that I'm not an N.T. Wright fan I think he's wrong on pretty much everything but 377 00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:05,920 he tries to be novel all the time and it's dangerous to be novel especially 378 00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:09,920 when it comes to theology because that tends to lead towards heresy not saying 379 00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:14,040 this is heresy at all it's again we've shown where they base it in scripture 380 00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:21,080 but what I am saying is you should be wary of novel things in theology okay the 381 00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:25,440 other thing that I think needs to be taken into account here if you'll flip 382 00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:28,400 in your Bibles you have them open to Revelation flip back to chapter one 383 00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:34,360 okay I want you to see something Revelation chapter one this is the very 384 00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:39,040 beginning of the book and and again keep in mind the idea here as you're 385 00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:44,400 turning is that Jesus is not going to return fully to earth at this time he's 386 00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:50,040 going to return partway the church will disappear and then meet him in the sky 387 00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:54,160 where he'll escort them back to heaven and they'll be okay Revelation chapter 388 00:31:54,160 --> 00:32:02,680 one verse seven the Bible says this behold he is coming with the clouds and 389 00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:10,560 every eye will see him even those who pierced him and all the tribes of the 390 00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:20,080 earth will well on account of him even so amen or let it be even so let it be 391 00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:24,640 now what do you think is is is the reason I bring up that verse in 392 00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:32,240 particular yeah because it says that when Jesus returns he says behold I'm 393 00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:39,320 coming he's coming with the clouds and it says what every eye will see him so 394 00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:44,320 that kind of at least offers a critique I'm not and it disproves it because 395 00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:47,160 obviously there are smart dispensations like oh I've never seen that verse like 396 00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:51,280 no they can account for it but I'm saying it is at least all for a critique 397 00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:55,360 that says if Jesus isn't coming all the way back if he's just stopping in the 398 00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:59,360 clouds and the church is getting called up to meet him there it seems like not 399 00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:04,160 every eye is going to see him right so every eye will see him and the nations 400 00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:07,760 understand the significance because did you see it said that they're going to 401 00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:13,160 wail on account of him in other words the unbelievers at the time of Christ's 402 00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:17,320 return who deny him and make fun of Christians and say we're ridiculous for 403 00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:23,320 believing as in Jesus as the Messiah as God in the flesh he's gonna appear and 404 00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:29,040 they're gonna know in that moment oh no we were wrong we were wrong for making 405 00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:35,160 fun of them and rejecting the gospel and now he has come and it is too late the 406 00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:39,320 nations are gonna wail when Jesus returns because they're gonna see him 407 00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:42,440 they're gonna know not because they're gonna see a bunch of clothes laying on 408 00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:47,680 the ground and wonder what is going on here I have no idea okay the other thing 409 00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:52,440 to to remember remember in 1st Thessalonians chapter 4 it says that 410 00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:58,240 when Jesus returns he's gonna return with a cry of command with the voice of an 411 00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:02,600 archangel and the sound of the trumpet of God that's kind of hard to keep secret 412 00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:07,120 is it not I mean if he's gonna return with all this fanfare and noise it 413 00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:11,800 seems like it's gonna be hard to wonder what's going on here that he's gonna be 414 00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:16,840 visible and it is gonna be something noticed by all people another little 415 00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:21,120 critique I would offer there is I do think it tends to shift the New Testament 416 00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:28,160 hope because what a dispensationalist is looking forward to next and 417 00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:31,160 I don't mean like oh they're hanging all their hopes on this but but they 418 00:34:31,160 --> 00:34:36,040 anticipate the next cosmic event to be the rapture of the church again that's 419 00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:40,280 fair that's within their right and they base it on scripture but but I think 420 00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:44,440 that shifts the New Testament hope because you never see Paul or John or 421 00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:49,560 Peter or Luke or the author of Hebrews ever saying and wait for the rapture 422 00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:54,080 they're always pointing people to the return of Christ right he's coming he's 423 00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:58,400 coming soon wait for his return soon he's gonna appear soon he's gonna make 424 00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:01,520 all things right this is the hope that he's coming with and we're gonna be 425 00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:05,120 raised to new life we're gonna have these glorified bodies it seems like all 426 00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:12,320 their hope is in Jesus's visible bodily return to earth not looking forward to 427 00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:17,440 the rapture in fact the book of Revelation literally ends with Jesus 428 00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:21,560 saying surely I'm coming soon and John responds I love reading Revelation 429 00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:24,920 because John has these responses like we just read where he's like hey they're 430 00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:30,880 gonna well even so let it be well John responds to Jesus and he says amen come 431 00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:36,960 Lord Jesus so notice that none of the biblical New Testament writers are ever 432 00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:42,960 saying Lord take us away from this place get us out of here God rapture us now 433 00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:48,640 let us be away from this place it's always Jesus come and be with us come and 434 00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:53,400 make things right that's in his prayer Jesus said your will be done on earth as 435 00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:58,840 it is in heaven right your kingdom come so the the Christians in the New 436 00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:02,040 Testament are never writing saying get us out of this place they're saying 437 00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:06,720 Jesus empower us to make this place look more like your kingdom and more like 438 00:36:06,720 --> 00:36:10,120 your will is being done on this earth so so I think it does tend to shift the 439 00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:15,160 New Testament hope a little bit to hoping for a rapture in the removal of 440 00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:19,520 the church rather than the return of Christ and him being the the conqueror 441 00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:25,360 for the church and so that's just one thing the other little critique very 442 00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:31,040 quickly we'll get through this that'd be fun is that the Latin word for rapture 443 00:36:31,040 --> 00:36:36,360 that that we get the word from there it does mean to like to remove or get 444 00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:39,800 called up but but it's actually interesting if you look at the Greek 445 00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:43,600 word which is more important than Latin word can we agree on that right the 446 00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:46,880 Greek word is more important in the Latin because the Bible was written in 447 00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:51,240 Greek it was inspired in Greek so Greek is way more important than English or 448 00:36:51,240 --> 00:36:56,240 Latin so the Greek word there it's an interesting word and I think Joseph has 449 00:36:56,240 --> 00:36:59,800 done some work on this as well for 1st Thessalonians 4 didn't you do something 450 00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:05,880 with this? Okay, misremembering, that's fine. Well you'll get there. We're still 451 00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:10,360 training him okay we're training him but but the Greek word the word in Greek 452 00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:15,640 there it was used to describe what would happen when a king or a dignitary was 453 00:37:15,640 --> 00:37:19,480 coming to a town and what would happen is that people from this town would 454 00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:24,920 actually leave and they would go out and meet that king about halfway to when he 455 00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:29,680 was getting to the town they wanted to meet him there to welcome him that they 456 00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:34,520 were excited and then interestingly the word is used to describe not only that 457 00:37:34,520 --> 00:37:38,360 but what they would do then is they would return and they would escort the 458 00:37:38,360 --> 00:37:43,760 king back to their city so it wasn't they go out to meet the king and then they 459 00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:47,520 just stay there or they go somewhere else they go to meet the king for the 460 00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:52,440 purpose of being the ones to escort him back to the city that's the word that's 461 00:37:52,440 --> 00:37:56,640 used here in Greek that the church is being called up to meet Jesus there but 462 00:37:56,640 --> 00:38:01,920 they're also returning to the earth is escorting Jesus to the earth well he's 463 00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:07,200 going to show himself to be the Messiah and the king and then one final thing and 464 00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:11,520 we'll end with this and again we'll just pick up next week just keep on going 465 00:38:11,520 --> 00:38:16,160 but the other thing to keep in mind here and this is really interesting study 466 00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:20,160 for you to do we mentioned that passage from Matthew Matthew 24 if you want to 467 00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:23,720 write it down where you know you've got the two people and one of them 468 00:38:23,720 --> 00:38:28,480 disappears and one's left behind right well that needs to be interpreted in 469 00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:33,480 light of the other parables that go with it like the one from Matthew chapter 13 470 00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:37,040 if you want to write that down the famous parable of the weeds right you know 471 00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:42,000 this one a man a master of a house goes out and he's planting some wheat in his 472 00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:47,000 field and as he and his laborers go in his enemy comes and what does the enemy 473 00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:52,240 do he sows weeds in the midst of his wheat and when it finally starts to grow 474 00:38:52,240 --> 00:38:55,920 up they go and look and the servants are kind of cheeky and they're like hey I 475 00:38:55,920 --> 00:39:01,160 can't afford good good wheat these days I mean did you not plant some good seed 476 00:39:01,160 --> 00:39:06,280 and he's like no no I did this is an enemy and he has sown this these weeds to 477 00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:09,520 be against us right and they're like well what do you want us to do you want us 478 00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:13,760 to go and pick all at pick out all the the weeds and he's like no you might mess 479 00:39:13,760 --> 00:39:18,840 up you might get some wheat he's like let them both grow into the end right 480 00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:22,800 they're both going to exist into the end and he says and then what we're going to 481 00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:27,240 do is we're gonna when we can tell the distinction between the wheat and the 482 00:39:27,240 --> 00:39:31,480 weeds we're going to gather the weeds first and we're going to throw them into 483 00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:35,960 the fire and then when Jesus interprets this parable he says this how it's going 484 00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:38,640 to be at the end but there's gonna be believers and unbelievers are gonna 485 00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:44,080 exist into the end and then the Son of Man is gonna send his angels and he's 486 00:39:44,080 --> 00:39:50,400 gonna snatch people who's getting snatched it's not the Christians it's 487 00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:54,920 the weeds those are the people who are snatched according to Jesus in this 488 00:39:54,920 --> 00:39:59,000 parable the angels are gonna come they're gonna gather the unbelievers and 489 00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:02,320 then they're thrown into the lake of fire where there's weeping and gnashing of 490 00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:07,280 tea so when you think about that and then you read this other parable where 491 00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:11,280 one's disappearing in one stain well the last time we read that in Matthew the 492 00:40:11,280 --> 00:40:15,160 ones who were disappearing who are being taken weren't the Christians were they 493 00:40:15,160 --> 00:40:20,120 the ones who were left behind were the Christians and the ones being taken for 494 00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:24,320 the unbelievers who were going to be escorted away to final judgment and in 495 00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:28,800 the lake of fire so there's just a couple things to think about when it comes 496 00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:33,440 to this idea of dispensationalism and really the rapture that's the only thing 497 00:40:33,440 --> 00:40:36,960 we touched on tonight all right so I I didn't touch on any of the other aspects 498 00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:41,280 of dispensationalism really and we'll get into more stuff next week because 499 00:40:41,280 --> 00:40:45,720 because what we want to do is we're in Revelation 20 and we want to see okay 500 00:40:45,720 --> 00:40:49,320 what's the order of events when we have to start here because according to 501 00:40:49,320 --> 00:40:54,840 dispensationalism and premillennialism it's a rapture but the next thing we 502 00:40:54,840 --> 00:41:01,320 read in Revelation 20 is that Satan is bound right after this time period 503 00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:07,520 starts Satan is bound for the duration of the millennium seems pretty simple 504 00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:13,040 right come back next week and well I had to talk about it so I know that's a lot 505 00:41:13,040 --> 00:41:17,960 of information but I hope you see the importance of not just accepting what 506 00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:22,000 you've always been told or what's popular or what's going around but 507 00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:25,960 examining it with scripture trying to make the best sense of scripture and 508 00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:29,600 also kind of knowing the history of where these things started and originated 509 00:41:29,600 --> 00:41:52,840 okay all right Michael Stevenson how about closing some prayer 510 00:41:59,600 --> 00:42:01,660 you