1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,920 chapter 20, Revelation chapter 20. 2 00:00:04,920 --> 00:00:08,880 And we are continuing with this series in Revelation, 3 00:00:08,880 --> 00:00:12,840 but also this kind of a series within a series 4 00:00:12,840 --> 00:00:16,160 on the end times, because as we've said, 5 00:00:16,160 --> 00:00:21,160 pretty much every week, your understanding of the end times 6 00:00:21,960 --> 00:00:25,280 greatly affects your understanding of the book of Revelation 7 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:27,560 and how you actually interpret it. 8 00:00:27,560 --> 00:00:29,720 And so, I mean, if you kind of remember, 9 00:00:29,720 --> 00:00:32,320 we were going through different views of end times 10 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:34,640 and stuff and we're trying to take everything 11 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:35,840 as it comes, right? 12 00:00:35,840 --> 00:00:37,640 So we started with premillennialism 13 00:00:37,640 --> 00:00:42,140 and dispensationalism and if this is a timeline, right? 14 00:00:42,140 --> 00:00:44,900 We were saying, okay, according to dispensationalists, 15 00:00:44,900 --> 00:00:46,960 what is the first thing that happens? 16 00:00:46,960 --> 00:00:49,440 It was our first week that we covered. 17 00:00:49,440 --> 00:00:53,120 The next cosmic event, it's gonna be the rapture, right? 18 00:00:53,120 --> 00:00:56,280 Yeah, so remember believers, they're called up 19 00:00:56,280 --> 00:00:58,640 and they meet Jesus in the sky 20 00:00:58,640 --> 00:01:00,480 and then they're transported to heaven 21 00:01:00,480 --> 00:01:05,480 and they stay there for the duration of the seven years, 22 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:09,000 right, of the tribulation. 23 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:10,760 That's what we talked about last week. 24 00:01:10,760 --> 00:01:13,880 So this was the seven year trip 25 00:01:13,880 --> 00:01:15,440 and we talked about that last week 26 00:01:15,440 --> 00:01:17,800 and we were saying, you know, 27 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:19,400 I guess we cover it multiple weeks now, 28 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:23,200 but we were saying based on Daniel's 70 weeks prophecy 29 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:24,440 and we were trying to say, okay, 30 00:01:24,440 --> 00:01:26,680 like how do we best make sense of that 31 00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:27,600 and all that kind of stuff. 32 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:31,240 And if we're just still considering this view, right, 33 00:01:31,240 --> 00:01:34,200 you've got the seven year tribulation, 34 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:37,560 but at the end of the tribulation, what happens? 35 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:39,560 What's the next thing in the timeline? 36 00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:40,400 Anybody remember? 37 00:01:42,160 --> 00:01:43,000 Yeah. 38 00:01:46,160 --> 00:01:48,400 Yes, but Jesus returns, right? 39 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:50,600 Yeah, yeah, so Jesus returns 40 00:01:50,600 --> 00:01:55,120 and he sets up the millennial kingdom here on earth 41 00:01:55,120 --> 00:01:59,000 in that last 4,000 years, right? 42 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:01,480 Now, we're taking this in stride 43 00:02:01,480 --> 00:02:02,880 and we're just trying to, again, 44 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:05,040 we're not saying this is necessarily right, 45 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:06,320 we're just looking at different views 46 00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:07,840 and we're trying to take it in turn 47 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:08,960 and see what the Bible says, right? 48 00:02:08,960 --> 00:02:12,360 So at the beginning of the millennium, something happens. 49 00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:15,640 Jesus returns, but what else happens? 50 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:18,720 Got that answer too? 51 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:21,960 Satan's bound, exactly. 52 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:26,280 So the beginning of the millennium, Satan is bound. 53 00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:33,000 And that is where we're gonna pick up this evening. 54 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:35,400 We're gonna talk about the binding of Satan. 55 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:37,080 So Revelation chapter 20, 56 00:02:37,080 --> 00:02:38,520 and we're gonna look at verses one through three. 57 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:40,800 That's all we're gonna cover tonight. 58 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:42,880 So this is what the Bible says. 59 00:02:42,880 --> 00:02:45,960 Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, 60 00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:50,000 holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit 61 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:51,600 in a great chain. 62 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:54,240 And he sees the dragon, that ancient serpent, 63 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:56,120 who is the devil and Satan, 64 00:02:56,120 --> 00:02:58,640 and bound him for a thousand years 65 00:02:58,640 --> 00:03:01,000 and threw him into the pit and shut it 66 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:02,640 and sealed it over him 67 00:03:02,640 --> 00:03:05,760 so that he might not deceive the nations any longer 68 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:08,200 until the thousand years were ended. 69 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:12,760 After that, he must be released for a little while, all right? 70 00:03:12,760 --> 00:03:15,600 So that's what we're talking about. 71 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:17,600 Pretty straightforward, it would seem. 72 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:19,880 And as we just said, dispensationless 73 00:03:19,880 --> 00:03:23,120 and also historic premillennialists, 74 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:25,440 they would say after the tribulation 75 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:27,920 comes Jesus' return, the millennium, 76 00:03:27,920 --> 00:03:31,240 and at that time, Satan is bound. 77 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:32,760 Now that's one view, all right? 78 00:03:32,760 --> 00:03:34,320 Or I guess technically two views. 79 00:03:34,320 --> 00:03:36,680 Dispensationalism, historic premillennialism. 80 00:03:36,680 --> 00:03:38,640 But there's another view 81 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:41,360 that has to do with Satan being bound. 82 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:43,880 And we might not have ever heard of this one before. 83 00:03:43,880 --> 00:03:44,960 Maybe you've encountered it. 84 00:03:44,960 --> 00:03:47,580 Maybe you have some interaction with it. 85 00:03:47,580 --> 00:03:51,320 But if we're looking at an alternative timeline, 86 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:53,400 and we were saying the 70th week 87 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:55,260 or the time of the tribulation 88 00:03:55,260 --> 00:04:00,100 is the entire time period between Jesus' ascension 89 00:04:00,100 --> 00:04:02,480 and Jesus' return, 90 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:06,600 and that time constitutes technically a millennium 91 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:08,520 or a long period of time, 92 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:13,520 well then they would say that Satan is bound sometime here 93 00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:16,460 during Jesus' earthly ministry 94 00:04:16,460 --> 00:04:19,100 or his resurrection, something like that. 95 00:04:19,100 --> 00:04:22,340 And they would say that Satan is bound now 96 00:04:22,340 --> 00:04:24,500 or back then, but continues to now 97 00:04:24,500 --> 00:04:29,500 and is bound the entire time until Jesus' return. 98 00:04:29,540 --> 00:04:31,140 Anybody ever encountered that view before? 99 00:04:31,140 --> 00:04:32,500 Have you ever heard of it before? 100 00:04:32,500 --> 00:04:33,900 Right, cool, I didn't think so. 101 00:04:33,900 --> 00:04:36,980 So let's just see what the Bible says about that. 102 00:04:36,980 --> 00:04:39,740 All right, so here's some key passages. 103 00:04:39,740 --> 00:04:41,340 And I put key in quotations 104 00:04:41,340 --> 00:04:44,860 because it literally is just passages about keys, right? 105 00:04:44,860 --> 00:04:47,580 So did you notice there in verse one, 106 00:04:47,580 --> 00:04:50,260 it said, I saw an angel coming down from heaven 107 00:04:50,260 --> 00:04:52,060 and he's holding in his hand a what? 108 00:04:53,420 --> 00:04:57,420 A key to the abyss or the bottomless pit. 109 00:04:57,420 --> 00:05:00,900 Abyss, I do prefer the abyss here for the translation. 110 00:05:01,900 --> 00:05:05,900 And this is a very big theme actually throughout Revelation. 111 00:05:05,900 --> 00:05:07,540 So if we're gonna try, remember, 112 00:05:07,540 --> 00:05:09,340 we're at the end of Revelation here. 113 00:05:09,340 --> 00:05:11,540 And if we're gonna try to understand, 114 00:05:11,540 --> 00:05:12,740 well, what does this key mean? 115 00:05:12,740 --> 00:05:14,020 What does it refer to? 116 00:05:14,020 --> 00:05:16,620 We should look at earlier uses of the key 117 00:05:16,620 --> 00:05:18,220 and see what it relates to, right? 118 00:05:18,220 --> 00:05:20,220 If you wanna understand the metaphor and the imagery here, 119 00:05:20,220 --> 00:05:22,980 you need to see how John has been using it the whole time. 120 00:05:22,980 --> 00:05:27,060 So the very first key passage I provided for you there 121 00:05:27,060 --> 00:05:32,060 is Revelation chapter one, verses 17 through 18. 122 00:05:32,460 --> 00:05:34,700 This is the very beginning of Revelation, 123 00:05:34,700 --> 00:05:37,500 that first chapter, and this is what it says. 124 00:05:37,500 --> 00:05:38,620 This is what it says. 125 00:05:39,860 --> 00:05:44,860 When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead 126 00:05:44,900 --> 00:05:47,020 but he laid his right hand on me saying, 127 00:05:47,020 --> 00:05:49,980 so this is John, he's seeing Jesus. 128 00:05:49,980 --> 00:05:54,980 And Jesus says, fear not, I am the first and the last. 129 00:05:55,460 --> 00:05:59,460 I am the living one, I died and behold, 130 00:05:59,460 --> 00:06:01,620 I am alive forevermore. 131 00:06:01,620 --> 00:06:06,020 I have the keys of death and Hades. 132 00:06:06,020 --> 00:06:07,180 So what does this mean? 133 00:06:07,180 --> 00:06:11,220 Right, Jesus has the keys of death and Hades. 134 00:06:11,220 --> 00:06:15,420 It's saying that Jesus is sovereign over death 135 00:06:15,420 --> 00:06:16,580 and the realm of the dead. 136 00:06:16,580 --> 00:06:18,540 Because remember, Hades in the Bible, 137 00:06:18,540 --> 00:06:20,860 it refers to the realm of the dead. 138 00:06:20,860 --> 00:06:24,740 So this is saying Jesus is sovereign over death 139 00:06:24,740 --> 00:06:27,540 as well as the realm of the dead. 140 00:06:27,540 --> 00:06:28,900 Now my question is why? 141 00:06:28,900 --> 00:06:31,220 Why is he sovereign over that? 142 00:06:31,220 --> 00:06:33,140 The Bible gave the answer right there by the way 143 00:06:33,140 --> 00:06:34,060 in those verses. 144 00:06:34,060 --> 00:06:39,060 Because he died but he is alive forevermore. 145 00:06:40,620 --> 00:06:45,140 Jesus defeated death and so now he is sovereign over death 146 00:06:45,140 --> 00:06:47,420 and the realm of the dead. 147 00:06:47,420 --> 00:06:50,980 And this idea of sovereign power and authority 148 00:06:50,980 --> 00:06:54,860 is actually connected to every one of those key passages. 149 00:06:54,860 --> 00:06:58,780 So the next one occurs in Revelation 3.7. 150 00:06:58,780 --> 00:07:02,340 And this is when he's addressing the church in Philadelphia. 151 00:07:02,340 --> 00:07:04,500 And verse 7 says, 152 00:07:04,500 --> 00:07:07,740 into the angel of the church in Philadelphia write, 153 00:07:07,740 --> 00:07:10,580 the words of the holy one, the true one, 154 00:07:10,580 --> 00:07:14,060 who has the key of David, 155 00:07:14,060 --> 00:07:15,860 who opens and no one will shut 156 00:07:15,860 --> 00:07:18,460 and who shuts and no one opens. 157 00:07:18,460 --> 00:07:21,260 Now we're gonna have to get into this 158 00:07:21,260 --> 00:07:23,340 when we actually go through the book verse by verse. 159 00:07:23,340 --> 00:07:26,980 But this is actually a prophecy from Isaiah 160 00:07:26,980 --> 00:07:29,020 that's being reiterated here. 161 00:07:29,020 --> 00:07:31,220 But whenever the New Testament 162 00:07:31,220 --> 00:07:33,220 is talking about David, 163 00:07:33,220 --> 00:07:34,940 what is it normally associated with? 164 00:07:34,940 --> 00:07:37,540 What are the key ideas and themes that come to your mind 165 00:07:37,540 --> 00:07:38,500 when you hear David? 166 00:07:41,620 --> 00:07:46,620 King and you're king of a kingdom. 167 00:07:47,060 --> 00:07:49,260 Yeah, you're the king of a kingdom. 168 00:07:49,260 --> 00:07:51,260 So in the New Testament when you hear David, 169 00:07:51,260 --> 00:07:54,060 you think kingship, you think kingdom. 170 00:07:54,060 --> 00:07:56,300 And also it relates to salvation 171 00:07:56,300 --> 00:07:59,340 because Jesus is called the son of David, right? 172 00:07:59,340 --> 00:08:02,140 And so this is saying that Jesus is sovereign 173 00:08:02,140 --> 00:08:05,460 over salvation and the kingdom of God. 174 00:08:05,460 --> 00:08:08,100 And that's what this is referring to here. 175 00:08:08,100 --> 00:08:11,300 And so it's saying that Jesus is not just sovereign 176 00:08:11,300 --> 00:08:15,300 over the dead and the realm of the dead and death itself, 177 00:08:15,300 --> 00:08:18,420 but he is sovereign over spiritual life 178 00:08:18,420 --> 00:08:19,660 that is imparted to others. 179 00:08:19,660 --> 00:08:22,700 He is sovereign over salvation and the kingdom of God. 180 00:08:22,700 --> 00:08:24,860 When Jesus opens the door to the kingdom, 181 00:08:24,860 --> 00:08:26,380 no one's gonna shut it. 182 00:08:26,380 --> 00:08:28,340 But when he shuts the door to the kingdom, 183 00:08:28,340 --> 00:08:29,820 no one's gonna get it open again. 184 00:08:29,820 --> 00:08:32,500 He's sovereign over all who enter, right? 185 00:08:32,500 --> 00:08:34,780 And then you get this other one 186 00:08:34,780 --> 00:08:36,980 in Revelation 9, 1 through 6. 187 00:08:37,980 --> 00:08:40,820 Now y'all just hold on while we read this, okay? 188 00:08:40,820 --> 00:08:44,180 Again, we will get through this verse by verse eventually, 189 00:08:44,180 --> 00:08:47,340 so I'm not gonna get into too much details right now, 190 00:08:47,340 --> 00:08:49,780 but Revelation 9, 1 through 6, 191 00:08:51,180 --> 00:08:54,100 it says, in the fifth angel blew his trumpet 192 00:08:54,100 --> 00:08:57,980 and I saw a star falling from heaven to earth. 193 00:08:57,980 --> 00:09:00,220 And he was given the key to the shaft 194 00:09:00,220 --> 00:09:02,380 of the bottomless pit or the abyss. 195 00:09:02,380 --> 00:09:04,100 And he opened the shaft of the abyss 196 00:09:04,100 --> 00:09:05,980 and from the shaft rose smoke, 197 00:09:05,980 --> 00:09:08,340 like the smoke of a great furnace. 198 00:09:08,340 --> 00:09:10,180 And the sun and the air were darkened 199 00:09:10,180 --> 00:09:11,660 with the smoke from the shaft. 200 00:09:11,660 --> 00:09:15,460 And then from the smoke came locusts on the earth 201 00:09:15,460 --> 00:09:17,140 and they were given power, 202 00:09:17,140 --> 00:09:19,580 like the power of scorpions of the earth. 203 00:09:19,580 --> 00:09:22,180 And they were told not to harm the grass, the earth, 204 00:09:22,180 --> 00:09:23,860 or any green plant or tree, 205 00:09:23,860 --> 00:09:28,460 but only those people who do not have the seal of God 206 00:09:28,460 --> 00:09:29,540 on their foreheads. 207 00:09:30,580 --> 00:09:33,100 They were allowed to torment them for five months, 208 00:09:33,100 --> 00:09:34,060 but not to kill them. 209 00:09:34,060 --> 00:09:37,180 And their torment was like the torment of a scorpion 210 00:09:37,180 --> 00:09:39,140 when it stings someone. 211 00:09:39,140 --> 00:09:41,100 And in those days, people will seek death 212 00:09:41,100 --> 00:09:42,540 and will not find it. 213 00:09:42,540 --> 00:09:46,540 They will long to die, but death will flee from them. 214 00:09:46,540 --> 00:09:49,620 Okay, so you see why Revelation is gonna be a fun book 215 00:09:49,620 --> 00:09:51,540 to study verse by verse eventually, 216 00:09:51,540 --> 00:09:52,940 and we will get there. 217 00:09:52,940 --> 00:09:54,100 Cause there's a lot going on there, 218 00:09:54,100 --> 00:09:58,140 but basically there's a lot of imagery here about judgment 219 00:09:58,140 --> 00:10:01,140 and you can see the correlation between the plagues 220 00:10:01,140 --> 00:10:02,980 that God put upon Egypt, right? 221 00:10:02,980 --> 00:10:05,580 With the smoke and the locusts and all this kind of stuff. 222 00:10:05,580 --> 00:10:07,500 So there's some cool stuff going on there. 223 00:10:07,500 --> 00:10:09,460 But these are demonic powers. 224 00:10:09,460 --> 00:10:13,580 It's a fallen angel who has the key to the abyss. 225 00:10:13,580 --> 00:10:14,420 And what does he do? 226 00:10:14,420 --> 00:10:17,500 He releases other demonic forces from that abyss 227 00:10:17,500 --> 00:10:19,900 and they're wreaking havoc on the earth 228 00:10:19,900 --> 00:10:22,940 and on the people of the earth except whom? 229 00:10:22,940 --> 00:10:23,940 That's the key question. 230 00:10:25,140 --> 00:10:26,740 Believers, right? 231 00:10:26,740 --> 00:10:29,380 And so what this is saying is that Jesus has sovereign 232 00:10:29,380 --> 00:10:33,500 authority to protect people from demonic forces, right? 233 00:10:33,500 --> 00:10:35,500 If you're part of God's people, 234 00:10:35,500 --> 00:10:39,060 you are gonna be protected by God from demonic forces. 235 00:10:39,060 --> 00:10:42,940 He does not allow them to torment the believers 236 00:10:42,940 --> 00:10:44,940 as he would the unbelievers here. 237 00:10:44,940 --> 00:10:48,780 So this is a great reminder that Jesus has this 238 00:10:48,780 --> 00:10:52,340 sovereign power to protect his people from demonic forces. 239 00:10:52,340 --> 00:10:54,940 Now, we have all that in mind, right? 240 00:10:54,940 --> 00:10:58,580 And we come back to Revelation chapter 20 and verse one 241 00:10:59,660 --> 00:11:02,420 and we read that key again, right? 242 00:11:02,420 --> 00:11:04,620 That there's this angel coming down 243 00:11:04,620 --> 00:11:08,620 and he's holding the key to the abyss. 244 00:11:08,620 --> 00:11:09,740 And so what is this telling us? 245 00:11:09,740 --> 00:11:13,540 It's telling us that Jesus is sovereign 246 00:11:13,540 --> 00:11:17,580 over the demonic realm and demonic forces. 247 00:11:17,580 --> 00:11:19,820 Notice that's different, right? 248 00:11:19,820 --> 00:11:22,980 In chapter nine, it was saying Jesus is sovereign 249 00:11:22,980 --> 00:11:25,860 to protect his people from the demonic forces, 250 00:11:25,860 --> 00:11:29,620 but this is telling us that Jesus has the authority 251 00:11:29,620 --> 00:11:32,380 and the sovereign power over the demonic realm 252 00:11:32,380 --> 00:11:35,540 and the demonic forces because that's what the abyss is, right? 253 00:11:35,540 --> 00:11:38,340 It's the realm of demonic forces. 254 00:11:38,340 --> 00:11:40,100 And so Jesus has that key, 255 00:11:40,100 --> 00:11:43,300 he has the sovereign power over them. 256 00:11:43,300 --> 00:11:44,660 And I want you to notice something else 257 00:11:44,660 --> 00:11:47,660 that is really interesting about all these key passages. 258 00:11:47,660 --> 00:11:51,540 Did you notice that they all take place 259 00:11:51,540 --> 00:11:56,460 in reference to what they're talking about in this life, 260 00:11:56,460 --> 00:11:58,020 in the church age, right? 261 00:11:59,300 --> 00:12:00,260 Did you see that? 262 00:12:00,260 --> 00:12:01,940 I mean, think back to chapter one. 263 00:12:01,940 --> 00:12:06,100 Jesus holds the keys of death and Hades when? 264 00:12:06,100 --> 00:12:07,940 Now, right now, he's the one who died, 265 00:12:07,940 --> 00:12:09,380 but he's alive forevermore. 266 00:12:09,380 --> 00:12:11,140 Does he hold those keys right now? 267 00:12:11,140 --> 00:12:12,420 Yes, absolutely. 268 00:12:12,420 --> 00:12:15,260 It's referring to now, not some future time. 269 00:12:15,260 --> 00:12:19,660 Revelation three, seven, he holds the key of David when? 270 00:12:19,660 --> 00:12:22,940 Now, is Jesus sovereign over salvation 271 00:12:22,940 --> 00:12:24,500 in the kingdom of God right now? 272 00:12:24,500 --> 00:12:25,740 Yes, of course he is. 273 00:12:25,740 --> 00:12:27,860 Even chapter nine, remember, 274 00:12:27,860 --> 00:12:30,540 it's talking about the fifth angel who's coming down, 275 00:12:30,540 --> 00:12:32,900 this fifth angel that descends and all this kind of stuff. 276 00:12:32,900 --> 00:12:35,580 Well, the fifth angel precedes the return of Christ. 277 00:12:35,580 --> 00:12:37,020 Does he not? 278 00:12:37,020 --> 00:12:38,620 And so what is this referring to? 279 00:12:38,620 --> 00:12:41,500 It's referring to now, the time that takes place. 280 00:12:41,500 --> 00:12:44,340 Right now, even Revelation 20 verse one, 281 00:12:44,340 --> 00:12:48,020 is Jesus sovereign and does he have sovereign power 282 00:12:48,020 --> 00:12:50,540 and authority over the demonic realm now? 283 00:12:51,460 --> 00:12:52,820 Yeah, absolutely. 284 00:12:52,820 --> 00:12:55,260 So it's interesting that all these key passages 285 00:12:55,260 --> 00:12:58,220 in Revelation, if we're gonna study that imagery 286 00:12:58,220 --> 00:13:02,300 and that metaphor, they all refer to the time period of now 287 00:13:02,300 --> 00:13:03,860 and what's happening now, right? 288 00:13:03,860 --> 00:13:06,740 So let's think about this. 289 00:13:06,740 --> 00:13:09,340 Back to Revelation 20 verse one, the angel descends, 290 00:13:09,340 --> 00:13:12,060 he's holding the key to the abyss. 291 00:13:12,060 --> 00:13:13,540 We know that the key is associated 292 00:13:13,540 --> 00:13:15,260 with Christ's sovereign power and authority, 293 00:13:15,260 --> 00:13:16,660 but here's my question. 294 00:13:17,940 --> 00:13:19,300 I don't have room to write. 295 00:13:23,220 --> 00:13:24,300 What's the abyss? 296 00:13:29,780 --> 00:13:32,060 I mean, some translations say bottomless pit, 297 00:13:32,060 --> 00:13:34,540 other translations say abyss. 298 00:13:34,540 --> 00:13:39,380 What is that? 299 00:13:40,500 --> 00:13:42,500 Have any guesses, suggestions? 300 00:13:45,420 --> 00:13:47,220 Okay, yeah, that's good. 301 00:13:47,220 --> 00:13:49,780 Yeah, where some demonic forces are locked up. 302 00:13:49,780 --> 00:13:53,780 Sometimes people will interchange this word for hell, 303 00:13:53,780 --> 00:13:56,980 but I want you to understand that the abyss is not hell. 304 00:13:57,900 --> 00:14:00,980 In Revelation, hell is referred to as what? 305 00:14:03,140 --> 00:14:04,060 The lake of fire. 306 00:14:04,060 --> 00:14:07,580 Right, that's the final eternal destination 307 00:14:07,580 --> 00:14:10,660 of all unbelievers and demonic forces and demons 308 00:14:10,660 --> 00:14:12,060 and all that kind of stuff, right? 309 00:14:12,060 --> 00:14:14,180 So the lake of fire is hell. 310 00:14:14,180 --> 00:14:16,740 The abyss is not hell. 311 00:14:16,740 --> 00:14:20,740 In fact, the abyss refers to the spiritual demonic realm, 312 00:14:20,740 --> 00:14:22,740 as Michael just said. 313 00:14:22,740 --> 00:14:27,740 The abyss is this spiritual demonic realm 314 00:14:27,940 --> 00:14:30,380 and it's interesting to think about this 315 00:14:30,380 --> 00:14:34,260 because it's this spiritual dimension 316 00:14:34,260 --> 00:14:38,100 where all the demonic beings and forces are, 317 00:14:38,100 --> 00:14:39,940 but at the same time, 318 00:14:39,940 --> 00:14:42,820 these beings are also simultaneously aware. 319 00:14:44,820 --> 00:14:45,740 We're Satan today. 320 00:14:47,220 --> 00:14:48,060 Walk it around. 321 00:14:50,420 --> 00:14:51,260 Washington. 322 00:14:53,300 --> 00:14:55,700 Oh no, there's a sermon in there somewhere, 323 00:14:55,700 --> 00:14:59,260 but probably, probably. 324 00:14:59,260 --> 00:15:02,940 So, but yeah, Satan is in the abyss 325 00:15:02,940 --> 00:15:06,180 because it's the spiritual demonic realm, right? 326 00:15:06,180 --> 00:15:08,740 But as you just said, he's also on earth. 327 00:15:08,740 --> 00:15:10,660 How's that possible, right? 328 00:15:10,660 --> 00:15:11,780 We need to think about this. 329 00:15:11,780 --> 00:15:14,500 What's interesting is there's actually a parallel 330 00:15:14,500 --> 00:15:17,900 to this type of place with regard to believers. 331 00:15:17,900 --> 00:15:19,500 Anybody know what it would be? 332 00:15:22,900 --> 00:15:26,220 The Bible refers to it as the heavenly places. 333 00:15:26,220 --> 00:15:27,660 I want you to think about it like this, all right? 334 00:15:27,660 --> 00:15:29,180 Listen to this, you can write this down. 335 00:15:29,180 --> 00:15:30,020 I didn't put it on there. 336 00:15:30,020 --> 00:15:32,260 Ephesians 2, 6 through 10. 337 00:15:33,180 --> 00:15:35,660 Ephesians 2, 6 through 10. 338 00:15:35,660 --> 00:15:37,500 This is what the Bible says. 339 00:15:37,500 --> 00:15:39,860 Talking about Jesus and he raised us up 340 00:15:39,860 --> 00:15:43,860 or it's God who raised us up with him, being Jesus, 341 00:15:43,860 --> 00:15:48,140 and seated us with him in the heavenly places 342 00:15:48,140 --> 00:15:49,780 in Christ Jesus. 343 00:15:49,780 --> 00:15:50,900 This is past tense. 344 00:15:50,900 --> 00:15:52,420 This is saying post-salvation. 345 00:15:52,420 --> 00:15:54,140 This is what God has done for you. 346 00:15:54,140 --> 00:15:56,980 God raised you up and he seated you 347 00:15:56,980 --> 00:16:00,620 in the heavenly places with Christ Jesus 348 00:16:00,620 --> 00:16:02,460 so that in the coming ages, he might show 349 00:16:02,460 --> 00:16:04,260 the immeasurable riches of his grace 350 00:16:04,260 --> 00:16:07,540 and kindness towards us in Christ Jesus. 351 00:16:07,540 --> 00:16:09,980 For by grace, you've been saved through faith. 352 00:16:09,980 --> 00:16:11,700 What a great verse in the Bible. 353 00:16:11,700 --> 00:16:13,380 And this is not your own doing. 354 00:16:13,380 --> 00:16:16,300 It is the gift of God, not a result of work 355 00:16:16,300 --> 00:16:19,580 so that no one may boast for we are his workmanship 356 00:16:19,580 --> 00:16:21,900 created in Christ Jesus for what? 357 00:16:21,900 --> 00:16:24,540 You know, for good works, right? 358 00:16:24,540 --> 00:16:26,060 Which God prepared beforehand 359 00:16:26,060 --> 00:16:27,420 that we should walk in them. 360 00:16:27,420 --> 00:16:29,420 Where do those good works take place? 361 00:16:30,860 --> 00:16:31,900 Here, right? 362 00:16:31,900 --> 00:16:33,060 They take place here on earth. 363 00:16:33,060 --> 00:16:35,700 And people see the grace that God has given us 364 00:16:35,700 --> 00:16:37,540 and they experience the grace of God through us 365 00:16:37,540 --> 00:16:39,100 and our good works. 366 00:16:39,100 --> 00:16:41,060 But then the Bible also says, 367 00:16:41,060 --> 00:16:44,140 we're seated in the heavenly places, right? 368 00:16:44,140 --> 00:16:45,460 Isn't that an interesting concept 369 00:16:45,460 --> 00:16:47,940 that we are simultaneously raised 370 00:16:47,940 --> 00:16:49,420 and seated in the heavenly places 371 00:16:49,420 --> 00:16:51,260 and yet we occupy earth? 372 00:16:51,260 --> 00:16:55,260 It's this idea of heaven and earth meeting together. 373 00:16:55,260 --> 00:16:57,940 And you can think back to the garden, right? 374 00:16:57,940 --> 00:17:01,100 If this is the garden of Eden, 375 00:17:01,100 --> 00:17:03,740 and the idea was that it was gonna be a meeting place 376 00:17:03,740 --> 00:17:05,700 between God and man, right? 377 00:17:05,700 --> 00:17:07,260 It was where heaven met earth. 378 00:17:07,260 --> 00:17:11,420 And so heaven, God came down and met with man there. 379 00:17:11,420 --> 00:17:13,660 And so the garden of Eden became this place 380 00:17:13,660 --> 00:17:17,500 where heaven met earth and God and man met together. 381 00:17:17,500 --> 00:17:20,900 Well, how does that happen in the New Testament 382 00:17:20,900 --> 00:17:21,900 or the New Covenant? 383 00:17:21,900 --> 00:17:25,180 Where do God and man meet each other? 384 00:17:27,340 --> 00:17:28,620 And dwell in the Holy Spirit. 385 00:17:28,620 --> 00:17:31,820 And that comes after salvation in Christ. 386 00:17:31,820 --> 00:17:34,700 So Jesus, who is the true temple of God, 387 00:17:34,700 --> 00:17:36,460 remember heaven has no temple, why? 388 00:17:36,460 --> 00:17:38,460 Because you have God and you have the Lamb. 389 00:17:38,460 --> 00:17:40,060 He's the true temple of God. 390 00:17:40,060 --> 00:17:42,580 And so heaven comes down in Jesus 391 00:17:42,580 --> 00:17:44,620 and we meet with God in Christ. 392 00:17:44,620 --> 00:17:45,900 He becomes this temple for us. 393 00:17:45,900 --> 00:17:48,780 And so that's how we are raised with Jesus 394 00:17:48,780 --> 00:17:50,060 in the heavenly places. 395 00:17:50,060 --> 00:17:51,700 We're simultaneously seated there 396 00:17:51,700 --> 00:17:52,740 but we're walking on earth. 397 00:17:52,740 --> 00:17:56,380 And so the heavenly places become this spiritual dimension 398 00:17:56,380 --> 00:17:57,900 where believers are with Christ, 399 00:17:57,900 --> 00:17:59,500 yet we still walk here on earth. 400 00:17:59,500 --> 00:18:01,180 Well, the contrast to this, 401 00:18:01,180 --> 00:18:03,420 because remember Satan can't create anything, 402 00:18:03,420 --> 00:18:06,180 he just tries to do cheap knockoffs, right? 403 00:18:06,180 --> 00:18:07,660 That's what you have with the abyss. 404 00:18:07,660 --> 00:18:11,180 The abyss is where the spiritual demonic forces 405 00:18:11,180 --> 00:18:14,260 meet with earth and they coexist in this area here. 406 00:18:14,260 --> 00:18:15,820 And so you have the abyss. 407 00:18:15,820 --> 00:18:20,820 It's not some metaphysical cloud in the sky place 408 00:18:20,820 --> 00:18:24,220 or like dark just something place that doesn't exist 409 00:18:24,220 --> 00:18:25,860 and you can't touch, it's a realm. 410 00:18:25,860 --> 00:18:28,780 It's the realm of the demonic spiritual forces 411 00:18:28,780 --> 00:18:31,700 but they still are walking here on earth. 412 00:18:31,700 --> 00:18:33,620 And so this is really interesting concept 413 00:18:33,620 --> 00:18:36,100 and you can even see that back in Revelation nine 414 00:18:36,100 --> 00:18:38,400 when we were talking about how the angel comes down 415 00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:39,240 and what does he do? 416 00:18:39,240 --> 00:18:42,260 He opens the abyss and from the abyss, 417 00:18:42,260 --> 00:18:44,100 they cause havoc on earth, right? 418 00:18:44,100 --> 00:18:46,820 They're coming, they're in the abyss, out of the abyss. 419 00:18:46,820 --> 00:18:48,500 They're dwelling in these places 420 00:18:48,500 --> 00:18:50,140 simultaneously doing these things. 421 00:18:50,140 --> 00:18:52,660 And so when you put these two images together 422 00:18:52,660 --> 00:18:55,700 of the key and the abyss, it's saying that Jesus 423 00:18:55,700 --> 00:18:59,220 has sovereign power and authority over the abyss, 424 00:18:59,220 --> 00:19:01,220 the demonic realm, right? 425 00:19:01,220 --> 00:19:02,900 And I want you to notice how this relates 426 00:19:02,900 --> 00:19:04,140 to the verses that come after. 427 00:19:04,140 --> 00:19:06,660 So look at verses two and three, right? 428 00:19:06,660 --> 00:19:10,040 So Revelation 20 verses two and three. 429 00:19:10,040 --> 00:19:13,540 And he sees the dragon, that ancient serpent 430 00:19:13,540 --> 00:19:17,500 who is the devil and Satan and bound him for a thousand years 431 00:19:17,500 --> 00:19:21,220 and threw him into the pit and shut it and sealed it over him 432 00:19:21,220 --> 00:19:24,900 so that he might not deceive the nations any longer 433 00:19:24,900 --> 00:19:26,980 until the thousand years were ended. 434 00:19:26,980 --> 00:19:29,740 After that, he must be released for a little while. 435 00:19:30,820 --> 00:19:33,860 Now, in light of everything we just said, 436 00:19:33,860 --> 00:19:37,680 when did we say every key passage takes place in Revelation? 437 00:19:39,580 --> 00:19:43,420 Now, we gotta make sense of that somehow, right? 438 00:19:43,420 --> 00:19:47,460 And so every, it takes place during the church age, 439 00:19:47,460 --> 00:19:50,660 the entire time leaned up to Jesus' second coming. 440 00:19:50,660 --> 00:19:53,700 And so if we're to be consistent in our interpretation, 441 00:19:53,700 --> 00:19:56,380 we would have to at least consider the possibility 442 00:19:56,380 --> 00:20:00,180 that Satan is bound during the church age, 443 00:20:00,180 --> 00:20:03,260 since Jesus has the key over the abyss 444 00:20:03,260 --> 00:20:05,980 and it always refers to the present time, church age. 445 00:20:05,980 --> 00:20:08,860 So again, it might be not something 446 00:20:08,860 --> 00:20:11,380 you have considered before, which is fine. 447 00:20:11,380 --> 00:20:13,340 And so here's what we're gonna say. 448 00:20:13,340 --> 00:20:15,940 Possibly if this interpretation is right, 449 00:20:15,940 --> 00:20:18,660 it would be saying that Jesus has sovereign power 450 00:20:18,660 --> 00:20:22,060 and authority to restrain Satan during the church age. 451 00:20:22,060 --> 00:20:24,980 Does anyone disagree with that statement just on its face? 452 00:20:24,980 --> 00:20:26,860 Would you agree Jesus has sovereign power 453 00:20:26,860 --> 00:20:29,540 and authority to restrain Satan during this church age? 454 00:20:29,540 --> 00:20:30,560 Yeah, okay. 455 00:20:30,560 --> 00:20:33,660 Now, here's where we have to get to this important question. 456 00:20:33,660 --> 00:20:37,740 It's one thing to say, well, this makes sense in Revelation, 457 00:20:37,740 --> 00:20:40,780 but that's not the only book in the New Testament, is it? 458 00:20:40,780 --> 00:20:43,500 So you have to ask, does the New Testament support 459 00:20:43,500 --> 00:20:45,940 the possibility of this interpretation 460 00:20:45,940 --> 00:20:48,900 that Satan is bound now? 461 00:20:48,900 --> 00:20:49,780 That's what we'll consider. 462 00:20:49,780 --> 00:20:51,340 Let's just look at a few passages together 463 00:20:51,340 --> 00:20:53,260 and we'll do something really cool. 464 00:20:53,260 --> 00:20:55,900 We'll just let the Bible speak for itself, okay? 465 00:20:55,900 --> 00:21:00,900 So John chapter 12, verses 27 through 32. 466 00:21:04,220 --> 00:21:05,740 This is Jesus talking and he says, 467 00:21:05,740 --> 00:21:09,140 "'Now is my soul troubled, and what shall I say? 468 00:21:09,140 --> 00:21:10,940 "'Father, save me from this hour, 469 00:21:10,940 --> 00:21:14,780 "'but for this purpose I have come to this hour. 470 00:21:15,780 --> 00:21:18,340 "'Father, glorify your name,' and then this is awesome. 471 00:21:18,340 --> 00:21:21,900 "'Then a voice came from heaven, I have glorified it, 472 00:21:21,900 --> 00:21:25,340 "'and I will glorify it again.' 473 00:21:25,340 --> 00:21:28,100 "'And the crowd that stood there and heard it said 474 00:21:28,100 --> 00:21:29,980 "'that it had thundered, others said, 475 00:21:29,980 --> 00:21:31,500 "'an angel has spoken to him. 476 00:21:31,500 --> 00:21:33,660 "'Jesus answered, and he said, 477 00:21:33,660 --> 00:21:37,060 "'this voice has come for your sake, not mine. 478 00:21:37,060 --> 00:21:39,940 "'Now is the judgment of this world. 479 00:21:39,940 --> 00:21:44,220 "'Now will the ruler of this world be cast out, 480 00:21:44,220 --> 00:21:46,620 "'and I," this is great, 481 00:21:46,620 --> 00:21:48,940 "'when I am lifted up from the earth, 482 00:21:48,940 --> 00:21:51,740 "'will draw all people to myself.'" 483 00:21:52,660 --> 00:21:55,340 Now, there's some important things to note there. 484 00:21:55,340 --> 00:21:58,420 Notice how Jesus says the ruler of this world, 485 00:21:58,420 --> 00:21:59,580 who's that referring to? 486 00:22:00,460 --> 00:22:05,260 Satan says the ruler of this world will be cast out. 487 00:22:05,260 --> 00:22:07,140 Now, what's interesting is that phrase, 488 00:22:07,140 --> 00:22:08,740 I've got it in your notes there, 489 00:22:08,740 --> 00:22:13,740 cast out is the exact same phrase as through 490 00:22:14,140 --> 00:22:16,500 that occurs in Revelation 20 verse three, 491 00:22:16,500 --> 00:22:20,340 where it says that the angel threw him into this pit, 492 00:22:20,340 --> 00:22:22,020 it's the exact same phrase. 493 00:22:22,020 --> 00:22:26,460 Jesus says Satan's gonna be thrown or cast out, 494 00:22:26,460 --> 00:22:29,060 and Revelation 20 verse three says that the angel 495 00:22:29,060 --> 00:22:31,980 threw or cast out Satan. 496 00:22:31,980 --> 00:22:34,380 Same exact thing going on there. 497 00:22:34,380 --> 00:22:36,440 And notice the connection there. 498 00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:38,380 It's an important connection that we're gonna come back to 499 00:22:38,380 --> 00:22:39,620 in just a little bit, 500 00:22:39,620 --> 00:22:43,700 but it says Satan is cast out and Jesus is lifted up. 501 00:22:43,700 --> 00:22:46,420 And notice this as a result of Jesus being lifted up. 502 00:22:46,420 --> 00:22:47,260 What happens? 503 00:22:48,100 --> 00:22:50,980 He draws all people to himself. 504 00:22:50,980 --> 00:22:53,460 Right, that's gonna be important in just a few minutes. 505 00:22:53,460 --> 00:22:57,100 So there's another passage here in Luke chapter 10 506 00:22:57,100 --> 00:22:58,640 verses 17 through 20. 507 00:23:00,460 --> 00:23:02,460 The 72 returned with joy saying, 508 00:23:02,460 --> 00:23:07,460 "'Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name.' 509 00:23:07,460 --> 00:23:10,060 Meaning they had authority over the demons 510 00:23:10,060 --> 00:23:11,900 and demonic forces. 511 00:23:11,900 --> 00:23:12,820 And Jesus said to them, 512 00:23:12,820 --> 00:23:17,500 "'I saw Satan falling like lightning from heaven. 513 00:23:17,500 --> 00:23:20,220 Behold, I've given you authority to tread on serpents 514 00:23:20,220 --> 00:23:23,540 and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy 515 00:23:23,540 --> 00:23:26,180 and nothing shall hurt you. 516 00:23:26,180 --> 00:23:28,540 Nevertheless, do not rejoice in this, 517 00:23:28,540 --> 00:23:30,220 that the spirits are subject to you, 518 00:23:30,220 --> 00:23:31,580 but this is great, 519 00:23:31,580 --> 00:23:35,100 but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.'" 520 00:23:35,100 --> 00:23:37,580 That's a great word, just in and of itself. 521 00:23:37,580 --> 00:23:39,660 But notice what Jesus is saying there. 522 00:23:39,660 --> 00:23:42,140 He's saying that Satan and his kingdom, 523 00:23:42,140 --> 00:23:43,900 his realm have taken a hit. 524 00:23:43,900 --> 00:23:46,700 It is a fall, it happened like lightning. 525 00:23:46,700 --> 00:23:51,700 And that Satan and his forces are subject to who? 526 00:23:53,900 --> 00:23:56,300 Believers, those who have Christ, 527 00:23:56,300 --> 00:23:57,340 those who have believed in Christ, 528 00:23:57,340 --> 00:23:59,660 those who are indwelled by the Holy Spirit of God. 529 00:23:59,660 --> 00:24:02,500 And so they're not able to do the things 530 00:24:02,500 --> 00:24:04,700 that they always want to do 531 00:24:04,700 --> 00:24:07,220 because believers have authority over them. 532 00:24:07,220 --> 00:24:08,460 So there's a lot going on there. 533 00:24:08,460 --> 00:24:11,020 There are some other passages I thought about including, 534 00:24:11,020 --> 00:24:14,060 maybe you remember the time that Jesus was talking about 535 00:24:14,060 --> 00:24:16,540 the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit and people were saying, 536 00:24:16,540 --> 00:24:17,940 well, you're casting out demons 537 00:24:17,940 --> 00:24:20,540 because you are a demon and Jesus like that's ridiculous. 538 00:24:20,540 --> 00:24:22,460 A demon can't cast out a demon, 539 00:24:22,460 --> 00:24:25,700 a household divided against itself cannot stand. 540 00:24:25,700 --> 00:24:27,860 And he says, you have to do something first 541 00:24:27,860 --> 00:24:29,140 before you plunder a man's house. 542 00:24:29,140 --> 00:24:30,620 What do you have to do? 543 00:24:30,620 --> 00:24:31,940 You have to bind him up, right? 544 00:24:31,940 --> 00:24:34,260 He says, Satan can't cast out demons, 545 00:24:34,260 --> 00:24:36,860 it would be a contrary to his kingdom. 546 00:24:36,860 --> 00:24:38,180 You have to bind him up. 547 00:24:39,100 --> 00:24:41,300 But it surprised you that's the exact same word for bind 548 00:24:41,300 --> 00:24:43,540 that's found in Revelation chapter 20. 549 00:24:43,540 --> 00:24:44,500 Okay, so that's something to consider. 550 00:24:44,500 --> 00:24:46,460 Didn't put it on there, something to consider. 551 00:24:46,460 --> 00:24:48,140 All right, Colossians two, 15. 552 00:24:49,220 --> 00:24:50,740 This is referring to Jesus. 553 00:24:50,740 --> 00:24:53,900 He disarmed the rulers and authorities 554 00:24:53,900 --> 00:24:58,900 and put them to open shame by triumphing over them in him. 555 00:25:00,780 --> 00:25:02,900 And then Jude one, six says, 556 00:25:02,900 --> 00:25:04,660 and the angels who did not stay 557 00:25:04,660 --> 00:25:06,740 within their own position of authority, 558 00:25:06,740 --> 00:25:08,780 but left their proper dwelling, 559 00:25:08,780 --> 00:25:12,500 he has kept them in eternal chains, 560 00:25:12,500 --> 00:25:15,220 gloomy, under gloomy darkness, 561 00:25:15,220 --> 00:25:17,740 until the judgment of the great day. 562 00:25:17,740 --> 00:25:19,420 Now, when you put these two verses together, 563 00:25:19,420 --> 00:25:20,700 what do you get? 564 00:25:20,700 --> 00:25:23,460 You see that it's saying that through Jesus's death 565 00:25:23,460 --> 00:25:26,900 on the cross and his subsequent resurrection, 566 00:25:26,900 --> 00:25:31,140 he disarmed the demonic rulers and authorities, 567 00:25:31,140 --> 00:25:34,820 the principalities, the powers, he put them to open shame. 568 00:25:34,820 --> 00:25:38,100 And not only that, it says that the angels that didn't obey, 569 00:25:38,100 --> 00:25:42,700 the fallen angels have been kept up in eternal chains. 570 00:25:42,700 --> 00:25:46,420 It's the same word for chain that's used of Satan 571 00:25:46,420 --> 00:25:48,420 in Revelation 20 verse one, 572 00:25:48,420 --> 00:25:50,540 where the angel had a key and a chain, 573 00:25:50,540 --> 00:25:53,140 same exact word for chain there. 574 00:25:53,140 --> 00:25:54,660 That's going on. 575 00:25:54,660 --> 00:25:57,780 And they will remain bound in these chains 576 00:25:57,780 --> 00:25:59,060 until judgment day. 577 00:25:59,060 --> 00:26:02,220 So you have to ask a couple of very important questions 578 00:26:02,220 --> 00:26:03,260 as you read these verses. 579 00:26:03,260 --> 00:26:05,980 Number one is Satan, a fallen angel. 580 00:26:09,060 --> 00:26:10,100 Yeah, yeah, absolutely. 581 00:26:10,100 --> 00:26:13,100 Emily Berryhill speaking, look at that, wow, okay. 582 00:26:13,100 --> 00:26:14,460 Y'all are gonna have to really step it up 583 00:26:14,460 --> 00:26:16,620 if she's the one answering. 584 00:26:16,620 --> 00:26:17,460 All right, thanks Emily. 585 00:26:17,460 --> 00:26:19,500 Yes, Satan is a fallen angel. 586 00:26:19,500 --> 00:26:24,300 So my question is, does this verse in Jude apply to Satan? 587 00:26:25,780 --> 00:26:27,780 Where it says that all these fallen angels 588 00:26:27,780 --> 00:26:30,900 who did not obey have been kept in eternal chains 589 00:26:30,900 --> 00:26:32,500 bound up until the day of judgment. 590 00:26:32,500 --> 00:26:33,740 Would that apply to Satan? 591 00:26:35,660 --> 00:26:39,060 Think of it, have to, if he truly is a fallen angel, right? 592 00:26:39,060 --> 00:26:41,420 That he is a fallen angel who's bound up 593 00:26:41,420 --> 00:26:43,980 in these chains and is kept there. 594 00:26:43,980 --> 00:26:48,100 And so I think it has to apply to him. 595 00:26:48,100 --> 00:26:51,740 And yet, do demonic forces have the ability 596 00:26:51,740 --> 00:26:55,060 to persecute the church, cause harm to the church, 597 00:26:55,060 --> 00:26:58,300 and try to thwart the efforts of the church? 598 00:26:58,300 --> 00:26:59,780 Yeah, of course they do. 599 00:26:59,780 --> 00:27:01,540 No one's denying that at all. 600 00:27:01,540 --> 00:27:04,940 No one is saying that the kingdom of darkness 601 00:27:04,940 --> 00:27:06,580 has nothing to do with the kingdom of light. 602 00:27:06,580 --> 00:27:09,180 Of course, they're always persecuting God's kingdom. 603 00:27:09,180 --> 00:27:11,820 They're always trying to do harm to God's people 604 00:27:11,820 --> 00:27:13,220 and thwart God's efforts. 605 00:27:13,220 --> 00:27:15,020 That's what they're always trying to do. 606 00:27:15,020 --> 00:27:16,940 And so we see countless examples of this 607 00:27:16,940 --> 00:27:19,100 throughout the New Testament, but the point is this, 608 00:27:19,100 --> 00:27:22,660 whatever this binding in chains refers to, 609 00:27:22,660 --> 00:27:25,860 it does not mean totally incapacitated. 610 00:27:25,860 --> 00:27:27,980 Because the Bible clearly says here, 611 00:27:27,980 --> 00:27:30,260 all these fallen angels are what? 612 00:27:30,260 --> 00:27:33,140 They are bound up in eternal chains 613 00:27:33,140 --> 00:27:35,420 and they are kept there until the day of judgment. 614 00:27:35,420 --> 00:27:36,980 Can we all agree the Bible is true, 615 00:27:36,980 --> 00:27:38,140 no matter what we think, right? 616 00:27:38,140 --> 00:27:39,260 Yeah, so that is true. 617 00:27:39,260 --> 00:27:41,620 Fallen angels, they are bound up in these eternal chains, 618 00:27:41,620 --> 00:27:43,420 kept there until the day of judgment. 619 00:27:43,420 --> 00:27:45,300 And yet, as we just said, 620 00:27:45,300 --> 00:27:50,300 do demons actually move about and work and do harm on earth? 621 00:27:50,300 --> 00:27:53,060 Yes, all the time, just read the stories in the gospels 622 00:27:53,060 --> 00:27:55,340 about all the times the demons are up to no good. 623 00:27:55,340 --> 00:27:57,940 Read the book of Acts and you see the sons of Sceva 624 00:27:57,940 --> 00:27:59,340 and all these type of things. 625 00:27:59,340 --> 00:28:01,820 Yes, it means that they're still at work. 626 00:28:01,820 --> 00:28:04,140 So whatever bound up in chains means, 627 00:28:04,140 --> 00:28:08,140 it does not mean totally incapacitated. 628 00:28:08,140 --> 00:28:10,060 And so I want you to see this. 629 00:28:10,060 --> 00:28:12,660 So Satan being bound does not mean 630 00:28:12,660 --> 00:28:16,700 that he is totally incapacitated and unable to do anything. 631 00:28:16,700 --> 00:28:17,980 And did you happen to notice 632 00:28:17,980 --> 00:28:20,740 that the Bible never claimed that? 633 00:28:20,740 --> 00:28:24,580 Did you notice that there was one specific purpose 634 00:28:24,580 --> 00:28:25,860 for Satan being bound? 635 00:28:26,740 --> 00:28:29,220 Look back there, you see it in verse, what is it? 636 00:28:29,220 --> 00:28:30,060 Verse three. 637 00:28:31,420 --> 00:28:34,300 So he's bound up, he's thrown into the abyss, 638 00:28:34,300 --> 00:28:36,420 the pit, shut it, sealed it. 639 00:28:36,420 --> 00:28:37,340 So that what? 640 00:28:38,860 --> 00:28:42,460 He might not deceive the nations any longer. 641 00:28:43,420 --> 00:28:46,860 That's the one reason that Satan is bound up. 642 00:28:46,860 --> 00:28:51,020 His binding is specifically related to him 643 00:28:51,020 --> 00:28:55,620 no longer being able to deceive the nations. 644 00:28:55,620 --> 00:28:57,540 That's the respect in which he's bound up then. 645 00:28:57,540 --> 00:28:58,620 And then look at this. 646 00:28:58,620 --> 00:29:01,780 So it means that Satan no longer has the ability 647 00:29:01,780 --> 00:29:04,840 to prevent the nations from believing the gospel. 648 00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:06,220 Praise God for that. 649 00:29:06,220 --> 00:29:08,380 And he has no ability to prevent the spread 650 00:29:08,380 --> 00:29:09,900 of the gospel to the nations. 651 00:29:09,900 --> 00:29:11,660 Praise God for that too. 652 00:29:11,660 --> 00:29:13,540 And if you want further proof that this is 653 00:29:13,540 --> 00:29:15,620 the entire reason he's bound, 654 00:29:15,620 --> 00:29:17,460 just look ahead to verses seven and eight 655 00:29:17,460 --> 00:29:19,680 in Revelation 20, this is what it says. 656 00:29:20,900 --> 00:29:22,940 When the thousand years are ended, 657 00:29:22,940 --> 00:29:25,140 Satan will be released from prison. 658 00:29:25,140 --> 00:29:26,660 And what's the first thing he does 659 00:29:26,660 --> 00:29:28,540 when he gets out of prison? 660 00:29:28,540 --> 00:29:31,020 He'll come out to deceive the nations 661 00:29:32,420 --> 00:29:33,780 that are at the four corners of the earth, 662 00:29:33,780 --> 00:29:35,860 Gog and Magog to gather them for battle. 663 00:29:35,860 --> 00:29:39,180 Their number is like the sand of the sea. 664 00:29:39,180 --> 00:29:42,820 And so he is bound to prevent him from being able 665 00:29:42,820 --> 00:29:44,460 to deceive the nations. 666 00:29:44,460 --> 00:29:47,060 And when he's unbound, the very first thing he does 667 00:29:47,060 --> 00:29:48,940 is he goes back to his favorite thing, 668 00:29:48,940 --> 00:29:51,580 deceiving the nations. 669 00:29:51,580 --> 00:29:52,940 And so you need to remember, 670 00:29:52,940 --> 00:29:55,220 this is what Satan has been doing 671 00:29:55,220 --> 00:29:57,220 ever since the beginning, right? 672 00:29:57,220 --> 00:29:59,500 He's been actively deceiving the nations 673 00:29:59,500 --> 00:30:00,460 from the beginning. 674 00:30:00,460 --> 00:30:02,460 Just think about the people of Israel for a second. 675 00:30:02,460 --> 00:30:04,660 God gave them a specific mission. 676 00:30:04,660 --> 00:30:08,260 They were to be the lights to the Gentiles, right? 677 00:30:08,260 --> 00:30:10,660 They're to be the lights to the Gentile world, 678 00:30:10,660 --> 00:30:13,480 to show them that there is a God in heaven. 679 00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:16,460 He is Yahweh to bring them into their community, 680 00:30:16,460 --> 00:30:17,980 to show them the law of God 681 00:30:17,980 --> 00:30:20,580 and how to live as the people of God. 682 00:30:20,580 --> 00:30:22,620 That's what people of Israel were supposed to do. 683 00:30:22,620 --> 00:30:24,660 Did the people of Israel do that? 684 00:30:24,660 --> 00:30:28,900 No, they were constantly deceived by Satan. 685 00:30:28,900 --> 00:30:32,740 Time and time again, they get saved by God out of Egypt. 686 00:30:32,740 --> 00:30:34,860 Moses says, hey, I've got to go up on this mountain real quick. 687 00:30:34,860 --> 00:30:36,580 I'll be back probably about 40 days. 688 00:30:36,580 --> 00:30:38,280 What is the first thing they do? 689 00:30:39,540 --> 00:30:41,380 I'll make another, I'll make a God for myself. 690 00:30:41,380 --> 00:30:42,420 I've got a golden calf here. 691 00:30:42,420 --> 00:30:43,620 We got a lot of gold from Egypt. 692 00:30:43,620 --> 00:30:45,700 Let's just burn it down, fashion it into this thing. 693 00:30:45,700 --> 00:30:47,100 And then you have Aaron, 694 00:30:47,100 --> 00:30:50,660 who was actively part of Yahweh doing great things in Egypt, 695 00:30:50,660 --> 00:30:53,900 going, this is your God who delivered you out of Egypt. 696 00:30:53,900 --> 00:30:55,860 How do you believe that unless you're deceived 697 00:30:55,860 --> 00:30:57,540 by Satan himself? 698 00:30:57,540 --> 00:30:59,060 You look at the whole history of Israel. 699 00:30:59,060 --> 00:31:00,240 It's just like that. 700 00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:01,660 They go after false gods. 701 00:31:01,660 --> 00:31:03,320 They make idols for themselves. 702 00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:05,060 They're supposed to be this light to the world, 703 00:31:05,060 --> 00:31:07,200 and yet they become a laughing stock to the world. 704 00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:09,580 They get constantly captured by the world. 705 00:31:09,580 --> 00:31:12,260 The nations mock them and go, where's your God now? 706 00:31:12,260 --> 00:31:13,380 This, that, and the other. 707 00:31:13,380 --> 00:31:16,340 Why? Because Satan deceived them. 708 00:31:16,340 --> 00:31:18,940 Satan kept them from believing the truth. 709 00:31:18,940 --> 00:31:21,620 And because he did that to the people of God, 710 00:31:21,620 --> 00:31:23,500 he also kept the world from believing the truth. 711 00:31:23,500 --> 00:31:25,260 Have you noticed how few missionaries 712 00:31:25,260 --> 00:31:27,100 there are in the Old Testament? 713 00:31:27,100 --> 00:31:28,960 I mean, you read about Jonah, 714 00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:31,660 and there might be one other story in the Old Testament 715 00:31:31,660 --> 00:31:34,540 about a person leaving Israel to go and reach a pagan nation. 716 00:31:34,540 --> 00:31:37,260 You don't see a lot of missionary activity there, do you? 717 00:31:37,260 --> 00:31:39,900 That's what they were supposed to do, but they didn't. 718 00:31:39,900 --> 00:31:43,540 Satan deceived them, and he deceived the nations. 719 00:31:43,540 --> 00:31:45,780 And yet, this is what's happening. 720 00:31:45,780 --> 00:31:48,420 The Bible is saying, with Jesus' ministry, 721 00:31:48,420 --> 00:31:50,100 and his death upon the cross, 722 00:31:50,100 --> 00:31:52,860 and his resurrection, Satan is bound, 723 00:31:52,860 --> 00:31:56,260 and he is no longer able to keep the nations 724 00:31:56,260 --> 00:31:57,700 from believing the gospel, 725 00:31:57,700 --> 00:32:01,540 and he's not able to stop the spread of the gospel. 726 00:32:01,540 --> 00:32:03,500 You just look at the beginning of the church, 727 00:32:03,500 --> 00:32:07,540 and you think it is impossible for this group of 12 people 728 00:32:07,540 --> 00:32:11,260 to do anything meaningful with this message of a Messiah 729 00:32:11,260 --> 00:32:13,740 and this thing that they're calling a church. 730 00:32:13,740 --> 00:32:17,380 And here we are today at George's Creek Baptist Church. 731 00:32:17,380 --> 00:32:19,300 How impossible does that seem? 732 00:32:19,300 --> 00:32:21,580 12 people who were known by name, 733 00:32:21,580 --> 00:32:23,540 who could have easily been killed by Rome 734 00:32:23,540 --> 00:32:24,740 at any point in time, 735 00:32:24,740 --> 00:32:27,420 who thinks that their mission is absolutely impossible, 736 00:32:27,420 --> 00:32:28,780 and yet, what happened? 737 00:32:28,780 --> 00:32:32,120 The nations believed the gospel spread, 738 00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:35,580 the church prospered, and has been protected to this day. 739 00:32:35,580 --> 00:32:37,980 Why? Because Satan cannot keep people 740 00:32:37,980 --> 00:32:39,860 from believing the gospel anymore. 741 00:32:39,860 --> 00:32:41,820 He cannot stop the spread of the gospel. 742 00:32:41,820 --> 00:32:43,180 He can confuse people. 743 00:32:43,180 --> 00:32:44,620 He can persecute the church. 744 00:32:44,620 --> 00:32:47,000 He can have them believing all sorts of lies. 745 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:49,340 But when God encounters someone with the gospel 746 00:32:49,340 --> 00:32:51,260 and the Holy Spirit convicts someone, 747 00:32:51,260 --> 00:32:53,580 there is not a thing Satan can do 748 00:32:53,580 --> 00:32:56,100 to keep that person from believing the gospel. 749 00:32:56,100 --> 00:32:57,100 Amen? 750 00:32:57,100 --> 00:32:59,500 And that's something I think we all should praise God about. 751 00:32:59,500 --> 00:33:00,940 And think about it like this. 752 00:33:00,940 --> 00:33:04,380 How much more does this make sense of Jesus' first words 753 00:33:04,380 --> 00:33:06,540 to his disciples when he's resurrected? 754 00:33:06,540 --> 00:33:08,860 It's our focus verse of the year, right? 755 00:33:08,860 --> 00:33:11,260 Matthew 28, 18 through 20. 756 00:33:11,260 --> 00:33:12,780 This is what the Bible says. 757 00:33:12,780 --> 00:33:14,540 So Jesus has resurrected, he came, 758 00:33:14,540 --> 00:33:16,180 and he sees his disciples. 759 00:33:16,180 --> 00:33:17,540 And what does he say? 760 00:33:17,540 --> 00:33:22,300 All authority, all authority in heaven and on earth 761 00:33:22,300 --> 00:33:24,340 has been given to me. 762 00:33:24,340 --> 00:33:29,340 Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, 763 00:33:29,820 --> 00:33:31,660 baptizing them in the name of the Father 764 00:33:31,660 --> 00:33:33,620 and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 765 00:33:33,620 --> 00:33:36,420 teaching them to observe all that I've commanded you 766 00:33:36,420 --> 00:33:41,420 and behold, I am with you always to the end of the age. 767 00:33:41,740 --> 00:33:44,220 Jesus is saying, I have the authority. 768 00:33:44,220 --> 00:33:46,700 I have the authority over death and Hades. 769 00:33:46,700 --> 00:33:49,300 I have the authority over salvation and the kingdom. 770 00:33:49,300 --> 00:33:52,100 I have the authority over the demonic realm, 771 00:33:52,100 --> 00:33:53,180 over the abyss. 772 00:33:53,180 --> 00:33:55,180 I have all authority. 773 00:33:55,180 --> 00:33:57,780 And because Jesus has all the authority 774 00:33:57,780 --> 00:34:00,420 and he exercises that authority through his people, 775 00:34:00,420 --> 00:34:02,020 he says to his people, 776 00:34:02,020 --> 00:34:05,500 therefore go and make disciples of the nations. 777 00:34:05,500 --> 00:34:07,460 Who's gonna stop you, church? 778 00:34:07,460 --> 00:34:09,220 Satan can't do it anymore. 779 00:34:09,220 --> 00:34:12,860 He cannot prevent the nations from believing the gospel. 780 00:34:12,860 --> 00:34:15,660 He says, go and do what was previously hindered 781 00:34:15,660 --> 00:34:18,620 and prevented because now no one can stop you. 782 00:34:18,620 --> 00:34:19,980 No one can hinder you. 783 00:34:19,980 --> 00:34:22,740 Satan will no longer deceive the nations. 784 00:34:22,740 --> 00:34:24,180 They are mine. 785 00:34:24,180 --> 00:34:28,260 The gospel will go forward and the kingdom will prevail. 786 00:34:28,260 --> 00:34:30,020 That's a good message, is it not? 787 00:34:30,020 --> 00:34:35,020 And so my question, can Satan and his demonic forces 788 00:34:36,180 --> 00:34:40,740 still attack Christians and try to prevent the work of God 789 00:34:40,740 --> 00:34:42,580 and persecute the people of God 790 00:34:42,580 --> 00:34:44,020 and bring confusion and disorder? 791 00:34:44,020 --> 00:34:45,580 Can he do that? 792 00:34:45,580 --> 00:34:50,100 Yeah, and we see great examples of that all the time. 793 00:34:50,100 --> 00:34:52,180 We see plenty of examples of it in our world. 794 00:34:52,180 --> 00:34:54,820 We see Christians getting persecuted constantly. 795 00:34:54,820 --> 00:34:57,060 We see churches that are being shut down 796 00:34:57,060 --> 00:34:59,620 and they're just absolutely tearing themselves apart. 797 00:34:59,620 --> 00:35:00,900 We see all sorts of confusion 798 00:35:00,900 --> 00:35:03,900 and we know that God is not a God of confusion, right? 799 00:35:03,900 --> 00:35:06,780 We see people believing all sorts of lies 800 00:35:06,780 --> 00:35:10,260 and so believing this interpretation does not deny 801 00:35:10,260 --> 00:35:12,300 that that is real and that is going on. 802 00:35:12,300 --> 00:35:16,260 But what it says primarily is that, as I said before, 803 00:35:16,260 --> 00:35:20,140 when God preaches his gospel through his people 804 00:35:20,140 --> 00:35:21,900 under the power of the Holy Spirit 805 00:35:21,900 --> 00:35:23,860 and the Holy Spirit convicts someone, 806 00:35:23,860 --> 00:35:26,980 there is not a thing that Satan can do 807 00:35:26,980 --> 00:35:29,220 to stop that person from believing. 808 00:35:29,220 --> 00:35:31,180 He has no power to do that anymore. 809 00:35:31,180 --> 00:35:33,020 He cannot stop that. 810 00:35:33,020 --> 00:35:34,460 And the good news for the church is, 811 00:35:34,460 --> 00:35:36,420 it means that our mission is possible. 812 00:35:36,420 --> 00:35:39,260 Why can we go and make disciples of all nations? 813 00:35:39,260 --> 00:35:41,380 It's not just because we have hope, we have a promise. 814 00:35:41,380 --> 00:35:42,740 It's gonna happen. 815 00:35:42,740 --> 00:35:44,220 It means that we don't have to worry. 816 00:35:44,220 --> 00:35:47,820 No matter what Satan does and how he tries to attack us, 817 00:35:47,820 --> 00:35:50,540 Jesus said that the gates of hell 818 00:35:50,540 --> 00:35:52,780 will not prevail against his church. 819 00:35:52,780 --> 00:35:55,380 It means that no matter what our governments try to do, 820 00:35:55,380 --> 00:35:57,220 no matter what policies they put in place, 821 00:35:57,220 --> 00:35:59,420 no matter how many churches they try to shut down 822 00:35:59,420 --> 00:36:01,900 and what they try to make legal and illegal, 823 00:36:01,900 --> 00:36:05,900 the church of Jesus Christ will continue until the end. 824 00:36:07,060 --> 00:36:10,300 It means that nothing that Satan and his forces can do 825 00:36:10,300 --> 00:36:13,220 can stop the kingdom of God from going forward, 826 00:36:13,220 --> 00:36:15,300 can stop the gospel from going forward. 827 00:36:15,300 --> 00:36:19,020 The church will prevail and Jesus will have the victory. 828 00:36:20,100 --> 00:36:21,260 Praise God for that. 829 00:36:21,260 --> 00:36:23,900 That gives me hope, especially when I'm going evangelizing. 830 00:36:23,900 --> 00:36:28,060 I know that even if I'm not the wisest person 831 00:36:28,060 --> 00:36:30,860 and even if I don't always know the right thing to say, 832 00:36:30,860 --> 00:36:33,460 I know that there's nothing Satan can do in that moment 833 00:36:33,460 --> 00:36:35,860 to prevent the person I'm talking to from believing. 834 00:36:35,860 --> 00:36:38,540 If Jesus will come and the Holy Spirit will come 835 00:36:38,540 --> 00:36:41,260 and convict that person, they're gonna believe. 836 00:36:41,260 --> 00:36:43,540 There is a guarantee of success. 837 00:36:43,540 --> 00:36:45,620 The Great Commission is possible 838 00:36:45,620 --> 00:36:47,980 all because Jesus has triumphed. 839 00:36:47,980 --> 00:36:49,460 He has won the victory. 840 00:36:49,460 --> 00:36:52,780 He has bound Satan and Satan is not able to do 841 00:36:52,780 --> 00:36:54,860 what he wants to do, which is keep people 842 00:36:54,860 --> 00:36:56,220 from believing the gospel. 843 00:36:57,100 --> 00:36:59,580 Now with that said, keep in mind, 844 00:36:59,580 --> 00:37:03,020 and I'll end here almost right on time with you guys, 845 00:37:03,020 --> 00:37:08,020 that there is coming a day when Jesus is gonna return, 846 00:37:08,060 --> 00:37:11,620 but before then, it says that Satan has to be unbound 847 00:37:11,620 --> 00:37:12,780 for a little bit, right? 848 00:37:13,780 --> 00:37:17,220 It says before Jesus returns, Satan's gonna be unbound. 849 00:37:17,220 --> 00:37:21,140 And the very first thing he does when he is unbound 850 00:37:21,140 --> 00:37:23,380 is he goes back to prevent the nations 851 00:37:23,380 --> 00:37:25,300 from believing the gospel. 852 00:37:25,300 --> 00:37:27,100 He stops the spread of the gospel. 853 00:37:28,100 --> 00:37:30,980 And what that should do to you, church, as it does to me, 854 00:37:30,980 --> 00:37:32,980 is it means that we have a lot of work to do 855 00:37:32,980 --> 00:37:35,900 and we have no idea how much time we have left. 856 00:37:35,900 --> 00:37:38,060 Jesus could return at any second, 857 00:37:38,060 --> 00:37:39,740 and I know that before then, 858 00:37:39,740 --> 00:37:41,100 it means Satan's gonna be unbound. 859 00:37:41,100 --> 00:37:43,860 So Satan and his demonic forces can be unbound 860 00:37:43,860 --> 00:37:44,860 at any given time. 861 00:37:44,860 --> 00:37:47,020 We don't know the day, we don't know the hour, 862 00:37:47,020 --> 00:37:48,380 we don't know when it's gonna take place, 863 00:37:48,380 --> 00:37:51,060 but when it does, it means that all of our efforts 864 00:37:51,060 --> 00:37:53,220 are preaching and sharing the gospel 865 00:37:53,220 --> 00:37:55,060 and trying to expand the kingdom of God, 866 00:37:55,060 --> 00:37:57,780 we're gonna run up against the brick wall. 867 00:37:57,780 --> 00:38:00,100 We need to get to work now, right? 868 00:38:00,100 --> 00:38:02,700 We have work to do now and a mission to do now, 869 00:38:02,700 --> 00:38:04,820 and we have a promise of success. 870 00:38:04,820 --> 00:38:06,380 So this should inspire us. 871 00:38:06,380 --> 00:38:07,940 We should be hopeful about this. 872 00:38:07,940 --> 00:38:10,860 Even if you've never heard this interpretation before, 873 00:38:10,860 --> 00:38:12,740 I hope you can see, if you're like, 874 00:38:12,740 --> 00:38:14,820 okay, I wanna sit with it a little bit 875 00:38:14,820 --> 00:38:16,300 and we consider it some more. 876 00:38:16,300 --> 00:38:18,500 I hope you see, it is based on scripture 877 00:38:18,500 --> 00:38:21,420 and what the New Testament says about all these key phrases 878 00:38:21,420 --> 00:38:24,460 and helps us make sense of our mission as a church. 879 00:38:24,460 --> 00:38:25,740 We can go and make disciples 880 00:38:25,740 --> 00:38:28,300 because Jesus has authority over all things 881 00:38:28,300 --> 00:38:31,020 and Satan cannot stop people from believing. 882 00:38:31,020 --> 00:38:32,580 That's good news. 883 00:38:32,580 --> 00:38:34,660 All right, any questions, any final thoughts? 884 00:38:36,260 --> 00:38:38,180 Michael, you look here contemplating. 885 00:38:40,180 --> 00:38:42,460 Someone could sculpt a statue out of your little, 886 00:38:42,460 --> 00:38:44,300 your pose right there that you're doing. 887 00:38:44,300 --> 00:38:46,540 I'm just gonna ask you a few questions. 888 00:38:46,540 --> 00:38:48,540 So you think that's a theory? 889 00:38:48,540 --> 00:38:49,380 Yeah. 890 00:38:49,380 --> 00:38:51,540 I don't think that's a theory. 891 00:38:51,540 --> 00:38:53,740 Well, so that's a good question. 892 00:38:53,740 --> 00:38:57,980 Technically, every view of the end times 893 00:38:57,980 --> 00:39:00,220 believes in some sort of rapture, right? 894 00:39:00,220 --> 00:39:05,220 So this would be the dispensationalist view alone 895 00:39:05,780 --> 00:39:09,140 that there's this unseen, secret type rapture 896 00:39:09,140 --> 00:39:10,500 meet Jesus in the sky. 897 00:39:10,500 --> 00:39:13,340 Historic premillennialism is kind of the same, 898 00:39:13,340 --> 00:39:14,660 but it's a different view. 899 00:39:14,660 --> 00:39:16,300 So historic premillennialism, 900 00:39:16,300 --> 00:39:19,260 amillennialism and post-millennialism, 901 00:39:19,260 --> 00:39:21,300 they would all say that the rapture 902 00:39:21,300 --> 00:39:24,500 is Jesus coming halfway, 903 00:39:24,500 --> 00:39:26,460 the church meeting him in the sky 904 00:39:26,460 --> 00:39:29,260 in accordance with 2 Thessalonians chapter four, 905 00:39:29,260 --> 00:39:30,420 which we discussed. 906 00:39:30,420 --> 00:39:32,540 But then all of them would say 907 00:39:32,540 --> 00:39:35,820 that then they escort Jesus back to the earth. 908 00:39:35,820 --> 00:39:37,060 Because if you remember when we were talking 909 00:39:37,060 --> 00:39:39,020 about 2 Thessalonians chapter four, 910 00:39:39,020 --> 00:39:41,700 the Greek phrase that was used was used to describe 911 00:39:41,700 --> 00:39:44,980 the Medi-King and then bringing him back to their city 912 00:39:44,980 --> 00:39:46,940 as like a convoy, a parade. 913 00:39:46,940 --> 00:39:49,420 And so premillennialists would say, 914 00:39:49,420 --> 00:39:51,420 this is the rapture and then starts 915 00:39:51,420 --> 00:39:53,620 the thousand year reign on earth. 916 00:39:53,620 --> 00:39:56,860 Amillennialists would say that this is the rapture 917 00:39:56,860 --> 00:39:59,340 and then here comes the resurrection 918 00:39:59,340 --> 00:40:02,420 and then everybody goes back to heaven for the judgment. 919 00:40:02,420 --> 00:40:04,980 So kind of everything all happens at once. 920 00:40:04,980 --> 00:40:06,860 And then post-millennialism, 921 00:40:06,860 --> 00:40:08,700 they're still getting it together about what they actually 922 00:40:08,700 --> 00:40:10,360 believe and how to support it with scripture. 923 00:40:10,360 --> 00:40:13,300 But basically some sort of version of this. 924 00:40:13,300 --> 00:40:16,180 We might have a whole night devoted to post-millennialism 925 00:40:16,180 --> 00:40:19,300 and the idea that things are always just gonna get better 926 00:40:19,300 --> 00:40:21,700 and the whole world's gonna become Christians. 927 00:40:29,820 --> 00:40:31,260 Oh, a lot worse. 928 00:40:31,260 --> 00:40:33,420 Yeah, because people are believing lies, 929 00:40:33,420 --> 00:40:36,360 but that's not the same thing as being unable 930 00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:37,540 to believe the gospel. 931 00:40:37,540 --> 00:40:38,380 You know what I mean? 932 00:40:38,380 --> 00:40:40,660 You can believe a lie and that doesn't mean 933 00:40:40,660 --> 00:40:42,780 that you don't have the ability to believe the gospel. 934 00:40:42,780 --> 00:40:45,780 Satan has enticed people and it always goes back 935 00:40:45,780 --> 00:40:47,860 to like the Thish analogy, right? 936 00:40:47,860 --> 00:40:50,260 I always say Satan knows exactly what kind of bait 937 00:40:50,260 --> 00:40:51,540 is gonna work on you. 938 00:40:51,540 --> 00:40:54,820 So, you could never tempt me with something 939 00:40:54,820 --> 00:40:56,020 that doesn't appeal to me, right? 940 00:40:56,020 --> 00:40:58,220 If I've got season tickets to the Gamecocks 941 00:40:58,220 --> 00:40:59,580 and I've got toilet paper at the house, 942 00:40:59,580 --> 00:41:00,420 I don't need them. 943 00:41:00,420 --> 00:41:03,340 So I'm just never gonna be tempted by that, right? 944 00:41:04,660 --> 00:41:06,780 But I got season tickets to Clemson. 945 00:41:06,780 --> 00:41:07,880 Okay, well that's a temptation. 946 00:41:07,880 --> 00:41:09,060 That's something I might go for. 947 00:41:09,060 --> 00:41:11,300 Well, Satan puts the bait out there. 948 00:41:11,300 --> 00:41:13,420 He holds the temptation in front of us 949 00:41:13,420 --> 00:41:16,980 and the problem is we like sin. 950 00:41:16,980 --> 00:41:18,320 And so we go for it. 951 00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:20,220 And so he knows what all these world leaders 952 00:41:20,220 --> 00:41:21,340 and everybody else likes. 953 00:41:21,340 --> 00:41:24,180 He puts that bait out there and then he just waits. 954 00:41:24,180 --> 00:41:27,180 And he waits and you take the bait and he gets you. 955 00:41:27,180 --> 00:41:37,180 So, anything else?