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Okay morning everyone once again welcome to BC 213 our course on the end times today I'm speaking to us from home I'm not at the Bible College I hope all the students from the Bible College are connected and yeah thanks can see and listening to the lecture and of course our online students are all connected as well okay may request somebody to please pray and then we will get started anyone can pray thank you for this time thank you for this day as pastor really teaches about this subject you help us to understand everything you reveal everything from your word you did by your Holy Spirit we surrendered this class into your hand in Jesus name we pray amen amen thank you all right so we have been doing a quick overview of the book of Revelation just to get an idea of the sequence of events that will take place in the end times and one of the things that I've mentioned earlier is that we look at the book of Revelation in the order in which God unveiled the Lord Jesus unveiled it to John and we say that it's going to unfold in that same manner in that same sequence we are aware that there are certain things in that sequence of events which are parenthetical in nature that means there's a pause like we saw in Revelation chapter 10 when the angel tells John to eat the book you know that is something very specific to John so on at that time then there are some that are reflective in nature as we saw in chapter 12 and it takes us a little back in time saying this is how that great dragon the serpent Satan was cast out of heaven and then there are some that take us from the middle to the end like we see in chapter 11 when there are two witnesses it tells us the whole story or the whole what the two witnesses are going to do for three and a half years in you know one passage of scripture so we recognize those things but otherwise in general there's a sequence through the whole unveiling that we will stay with we will not mix it up so we have we've covered till chapter end of chapter 19 and chapter 20 actually and I'm just going to start from Revelation 1 just to just to quickly give us an idea or a fresh our understanding so Revelation 1 it's it's John seeing the Lord Jesus right then this is around the middle of 8090 so around 8095 or 96 within the first century Revelation chapter 2 and 3 is the message or the messages the Lord Jesus ascending to the seven churches which existed at that time right so it's things which are or which were at that time from chapter 4 verse 1 is things that are yet to come it's out in the future chapter 4 and 5 be said I have to do with what is in heaven or what is happening in heaven right after the rapture of the church so the saints are in heaven God is being worshiped and it's happening right after the rapture of the church and that's the time that the Lord Jesus goes and opens up the scroll signifying that all the events that have to take place will begin to take place so the scroll opens chapter 6 verse 1 is from the beginning of the tribulation but it is about things happening here on earth chapters 4 and 5 beginning of the tribulation but what's happening in heaven chapter 6 verse 1 sorry what's happening here or not so we see chapter 6 and chapter 6 there is the seven seals of judgments being poured out on the earth chapter 7 very interesting God marks 144,000 Jewish people as his servants during the tribulation we don't know exactly why God chose you know to do this but it's almost like this is the original purpose for this nation when God called Abraham he said through you I'm going to bless the nations all families of the earth and right here in the tribulation 144,000 Jewish people are marked by God to serve him during the tribulation chapter 8 we see the beginning of the seven trumpets so seven seal judgments are over and then seven trumpets start and those judgments go on a lot of things are happening on the earth credits chapters 8 and 9 chapter 10 is what we mentioned John is having an experience where the angel comes and says eat this book because there is more prophecy you have to give chapter 11 verse 1 is what we said is right in the middle of the seven years of tribulation because chapter 11 verse 1 onwards it says there are 42 months that are left 42 months means three and a half years which means first three and a half years is over now you've got remaining three and a half years left that's why we say revelation chapter 11 verse 1 is the middle of the tribulation so chapter 11 verse 1 we see two witnesses who are bearing witness for Jesus most likely these are Elisha and Enoch and they are bearing witness for Jesus for the second half of the tribulation three and a half years and towards the end of that they are killed but God resurrects them up and they are taken into heaven chapter 12 is a interesting chapter because that's where we see that Satan makes his final attempt trying to get to heaven but he can't he's he's forced back to the earth and he comes with great anger knowing that he has a very short time left only three and a half years left so he comes with great anger and he goes after specifically after the Jewish people who are followers of Jesus Christ specifically after them because he's angry because they are from the woman that is Israel who gave birth to the man child who's Jesus so he goes after them chapter 13 this is in the second half of the tribulation we are reading about the beast and the false prophet the beast representing the antichrist the false prophet representing another person who is in both these people are empowered by satan the beast is the antichrist the false prophet is empowered by the devil to do miraculous signs and his goal is to get people to worship the image of the beast okay so so what we see in chapter 13 is the antichrist sets up a global economic system that means you cannot buy or sell except you have the mark of the beast this false prophet sets up a world religious system trying to get people everywhere to worship the image of the beast so two things are happening side by side a global economic system a global religious system being pushed by the antichrist and the false prophet in chapter 14 we saw that these 144 000 Jews who were who started serving God in the beginning of the tribulation now suddenly are in heaven they're worshiping God so we had a little thought on you know how did these people get to heaven so we don't know for sure but we think that maybe they were raptured picking up in time because there's no indication that they were killed and then went up there I mean that could be possible but it's likely that they were raptured and the reason is you know Revelation 14 says that they were the first fruits to God and to the lamp Revelation 14 verse 4 first fruits meaning the first set of people from the nation of Israel from the tribulation who were taken up to God raptured from that in that sense first fruits and then we also see in Revelation 14 that there are three angels who are making announcements one is saying you know one is preaching the gospel to believe the gospel second another angel is saying don't receive the mark of the is announcing the fall of Babylon and a third angel is saying don't receive the mark of the beast and so God at this point is using angels to do his work now generally God doesn't do that in a global scale in a big scale right now angels are active but God doesn't use them to be preaching to the nations because right now the church is God's if you want to say God's agent to the nations so today the church and I say church it means body of believers believers all over the world we are the ones proclaiming the gospel we are ones you know declaring truth and so on but in Revelation 14 for God is doing something which he did he won't do in the church age that is use angels to announce to the nations the gospel announced to them what is about to come the fall of Babylon and to warn them not to receive the mark of the beast so this also implies and I'm not saying it stated clearly I'm saying it implies the fact that God is using angels to do this implies that the church as we know it today has been taken out of the way other believers during the tribulation yes but remember that is a very difficult time because literally many many many people are martyred are being killed for their faith in Christ during the tribulation so you know we're just making a deduction here that God is using angels to do these announcements which means the church is out of the way it's not there there are believers but it's very difficult to carry out the great commission at that time so he's using angels and you also see in the end of chapter 14 the announcement about the great harvest and the coming judgment there's going to be a great harvest of souls people are going to be saved but there's also coming judgment and revelation chapter 14 the last few verses verses 18 to 20 it's talking about the wine press of the judgment of God and blood is going to flow outside the city of Jerusalem as high as a horse's bridle maybe you know five feet high for about 180 miles that's going to be so much devastation outside the city of Jerusalem so that's what revelation 14 end of it says and that's speaking about the battle of Armageddon revelation 16 are the beginning of the final set of seven judgments the bold judgments they're being poured out on the earth at that time and two important things happen at that time we see here that as these bold judgments are being poured out when we come to the sixth ball that means this is the second last judgment this is a revelation 16 verse 12 and we come to this point something happens it says here that the river Euphrates dries up so that there can be a movement of the kings of the east begin to the kings from the east that is in verse 12 revelation 16 12 kings or leaders of nations from the east of Jerusalem or Israel beginning to move towards Israel to attack and they're getting ready for the great battle the battle of the great day of God almighty the battle of Armageddon so in the second last judgment the sixth ball the river Euphrates dries up and armies of the world are beginning to get ready for this great battle of Armageddon they're going to come converge on Israel in order to destroy Israel as a nation but that's the time God himself will intervene the Lord Jesus will intervene so as this is as you know the nations are preparing for the battle of Armageddon revelation 17 this world religious system collapses so this is this was set up by the false prophet and the same leaders the 10 leaders who supported the Antichrist and therefore helped this false prophet come into great visibility they reject they reject the false prophet and so sorry and so this this whole religious system is rejected there's a collapse of this world religious system chapter 18 there's a collapse of the world economic system literally in chapter 18 it says in one hour all their wealth is lost now when you think about this we are living in a day and a time when something like this can happen where you know people can have great wealth and usually that wealth is many times determined by you know the value of their investments and the stocks they have in markets and so on and if the market collapses their wealth just disappears meaning it's no longer there otherwise a person could be valued at so many millions maybe billions of dollars and so this man he is worth so many billions of dollars it doesn't mean he has that much money sitting in his pocket no no no it just it's an assessment of the value of his investments and whatever he owns and therefore he's valued so much but if those investments all things just banness is is worth is financial worth his value gone is gone and it says in Revelation 18 that all of this the value it just goes away in one hour it disappears the wealth of so many people you know if you read in Revelation 18 verse 19 it says Revelation 18 19 they threw dust on the heads and cried out weeping and wailing and saying alas alas that great city in which all who had ships on the sea became rich by her wealth or in one hour she is made desolate and as people had invested they had put their trust in this economic system and in one hour everything is gone their wealth is gone right we will read you know we'll read all of this in detail in in our third year when we'll study Revelation verse by verse and be just giving an overview so this is at the very end remember the second law the seven bowls of judgment have been poured out the nations are getting ready for the battle of armor get in and suddenly before their eyes the world religious system is gone economic system is gone and they're moving into battle and usually when there is global conflict it does affect the economic system so you know it seems very in line with what would normally happen Revelation 19 we get a glimpse of heaven there is a married supper of the lamb this is towards the end of the seven years of tribulation there is celebration heaven and then from heaven you see Jesus coming with thousands and thousands of his saints for the armies of heaven and he comes in with the word of his mouth he destroys those who have gathered up gathered against Jerusalem the beast and the false prophet are caught and they are cast into the lake of fire says in Revelation 19 20 then the beast was captured and with him the false prophet who worked signs in his presence by which he deceived those who received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image these two the beast and the false prophet were cast alive into the lake of fire burning with brimstone right so that's the end the battle of Armageddon ends with the Lord Jesus of intervening destroying all the armies that have come against Israel Jerusalem taking the beast the false the antichrist and the false prophet out of the way into the lake of fire so now we pick up from chapter 20 so this was just a quick review i wanted us to just refresh ourselves for this whole sequence of events so let's start now chapter 20 so in chapter 20 the first thing we see is that satan is bound for a thousand years it's just the dragon the serpent of old the devil and satan is bound for the thousand years so that means you know although it doesn't state it it means the devil and all his evil spirits are taken out of the earth and bound for 1000 years taken out of the earth and then there is also a resurrection that happens here he says verse four the souls of those who had been beheaded for the witness to jesus who had not received the mark of the beast they lived and reigned with christ for a thousand years that means the people who believed in jesus were martyred during the tribulation they are resurrected so notice very carefully it says here this is i'm looking at revelation chapter 20 verse four it is very very carefully specifically those who died during the tribulation for the name of jesus are resurrected and they're going to reign with jesus for a thousand years so we will ask the question hey but what about all the believers who died before the tribulation what about them they were resurrected before the tribulation started so they are there they've come with jesus revelation 19 they've come in their glorified bodies so this is another indication not the rapture which is what paul wrote in first thessalonians chapter four in first Corinthians 15 the resurrection and and the catching up of the church to meet jesus in the air with their glorified bodies takes place before the tribulation so they're already they're every saint already has their glorified body and then revelation 20 verse four those who died the believers who died during the tribulation they are also resurrected with their glorified bodies so in the thousand year reign of christ every believer every saint of god meaning the old testament saints we're all here on the earth to reign with jesus and we are here with our glorified bodies to reign with jesus on the earth so revelation 20 verse four is an indirect not a direct but an indirect indication to us that the rapture of the church has taken place before the tribulation otherwise he would have said in revelation 20 verse four all the saints were resurrected that means if the rapture was going to take place another rapture the resurrection of all the saints going to take place at that time no he's only saying those who died during the tribulation for the name of jesus they are resurrected so in the thousand year reign of jesus there are all the saints of god who have their glorified bodies on the earth but you also have the nations of the earth unbelievers were still on the earth have not died they could have followed the antichrist or you know whatever but they are still there on the earth they did not die and and these people are assured they they go into the millennium millennial reign of jesus and so in the 1000 years of and 1000 years of the reign of the lord jesus there are the saints and there are people who are not born again who are unregenerate who are also coming in and that's why during the 1000 year reign of jesus we have to teach the nations about the lord the nature of what do we know about the thousand year reign of the lord the millennial reign the nature of things are changed because the bible describes this in asiah chapter 11 also in asiah chapter 65 it says the lion will lie down with a lamb a child will play at the mouth of a snake's den and and and and then very nature of things people will beat this sorts into plowshares that means the nature of things are changed but we still have to teach the nations about the lord jesus teaching them discipling them um you read about that in zakariah the 14th chapter where people say come let us go to the house of the lord for he will teach us his ways just point you to that verse uh zakariah chapter 14 and verse 13 it says it shall zakariah 14 verse 13 he said come to pass in that day that a great panic from the lord will be among them everyone will seize the hand of his neighbor and raise his hand against his neighbor's hand uh judah also will fight at Jerusalem the wealth of the surrounding nation shall be gathered together gold silver and apparel in great abundance and then i'm just keeping to verse 16 and it shall come to pass that everyone who's left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the king the lord of horse and to keep the feast of the terminals and it shall be that which are the families of the do not come up to Jerusalem to worship the king the lord of horse on them there will be no rain the family of Egypt will not come and enter in they shall have no rain they shall receive the plague with which the lord strikes the nations who do not come up to keep the feast of tabernacles they shall be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not come up to keep the feast of the tabernacle of tabernacles in that day holiness to the lord shall be engraved on the bells of the horses the pots in the lord's house shall be like the bowls before the altar yes every pot in Jerusalem and judah shall be holiness to the lord of horse um everyone who sacrifices will come and take them and cook in them in that day they shall no longer be a kinenite in the house of the lord of horse it's talking about saccharine footage it's talking about you know how things will be during the millennia and nations will be brought to come and worship the lord at Jerusalem and you can read more on on on the uh the life during the millennium in Isaiah also in asia 11 and asia 11 and the three verses six to nine just a portion of it asia 11 six to nine the wolf also shall dwell with the lamb the leopard shall lie down with the young goat the calf and the young lion and the fat thing together and a little child shall lead them the cow and the bear shall graze the young one shall lie down together and the lion shall each draw like the ox the nursing child should play by the cobra's hole and the wean child shall be put put his hand in the wiper's den they shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the lord as the waters cover the sea so this is talking about the millennial reign of jesus and this is how things are going to be the very nature like i said earlier the very nature of things will change and it's going to be very different and we will have work to do right that we will we will be people who will be serving the lord paul writes in first current in six that we will rule over nations will judge nations daniel chapter seven daniel spoke and said you know the saints will administer the kingdom here on earth so that's going to happen during this 1000 year reign of jesus so go back now to revelation chapter 20 or seven now at the end of the thousand years satan is going to be released for a brief period of time um we don't know you know what that brief period of time is but he's going to attempt to deceive the nations and he's going to go specifically against uh trying to mobilize people against israel specifically gog and my gog and again these are tribes that are generally believed to be in russia and that part of the world but he's going to uh try to mobilize people to go against okay i think so he's going to try and mobilize the nations against israel one last time and the bible says in revolution 20 verse nine that fire came down from god out of heaven and devoured them evolution 20 worst time the devil who deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone but the beast in the fault false prophet are and they'll be tormented day and night forever right so this is what the bible tells us at the end of the millennium the end of the thousand year reign of jesus so let me pause here and see if there's any questions that anyone has and then we can move forward any questions you're following with me so far okay all right so no problem so so at the end of the thousand years thousand year reign of jesus after satan has been released for a brief moment god allows him to make one last attempt against israel and it deceives people tend to get people away and then god himself intervenes and he destroys i mean he takes satan out of the way and this is it it's the final final judgment satan has taken out of the way and then we see revolution 20 versus 11 to 15 there is what we refer to as a great white throne judgment that means this is the last and final judgment and the bible says every person who ever lived will stand before the throne of god the judgment is already passed because they are standing separate it's the sheep and the goats on one side are what are the sheep meaning those who will enter into righteousness on another side there are the goats meaning those who will be dismissed forever from the presence of god the bible says every person who ever lived will stand before this great white throne judgment and the books are open so it's it's almost like an official proceeding and you know in that judgment god is going to separate people and those who whose names are not written in the lambs book of life they will be sent away says in verse 15 and anyone not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire whose our name was not written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire with this everything ends what happens next years that all the sheep meaning the people who enter into righteousness are transported to heaven and god renovates everything with fire everything with fire so we read about this in second peter chapter three peter says that the heavens and the earth that exist they're completely destroyed so when you say the heavens it means this current universe and the earth is completely destroyed with fire and then there is a there is a new heaven and a new earth and that's how revelation 21 verse 1 begins john says i saw a new heaven and a new earth for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away so that that description is given in second peter chapter three how the first heaven and the first earth is completely destroyed by fire it's gone and there's a new heaven and a new earth that means this new heaven meaning the universe okay the believers are in heaven as in god's dwelling place but when we see here a new heaven we talk about this new universe this celestial heaven this heaven that contains all the sun the moon the stars the planets all of that is a new atmosphere and then on on to this new earth god himself puts a city and this city comes down from jerusalem comes from jerusalem to be put upon this new earth that's amazing that means this new earth is not going to have anything that man built the earth today yeah it has everything that people have built here and there and everything but everything is going to go away it's going to be a new earth on on this new earth uh revelation 21 verse 2 the holy city new jerusalem which is in heaven by god dwells god is going to transfer that onto the earth it's likely that this is the place where jesus has built all our mansions remember jesus said in my father's house are many mansions and i go to prepare a place for you and if i go and prepare a place for you i'll come and receive you so that's the mansions in that city and that heavenly city jerusalem is transferred to the earth in revelation 21 and 22 describe this new earth which has this new city and the new city the new city of jerusalem and it gives us many details it says that there's no need for the sun there's no need for because god himself is the light of the city so that means we're not receiving light from outside god himself is our light so everything's going to be different from the way we know it today in this new earth new heaven new earth the new city of jerusalem uh there will be no sickness no pain none of the things that we know today none of it will be there and uh he says you know in revelation 22 there's a river of life flowing through it the tree of life signifying that people are going to be in perfect health and we're going to be in that place right now what exactly is going to be done over there we don't know because beyond revelation chapters 21 and 22 we don't have much information on what life is going to be like in the new heaven and the new earth and uh this is all we have and revelation chapter 22 ends by saying that jesus says i come quickly my reward is with me right so we uh we the church so it says revelation 22 verse 17 the spirit and the bride say come so with the help of the holy spirit as the church we say come lord jesus we are waiting for all these things to unfold we're waiting for this okay so um we have a few more minutes any questions so far on this so we will stop here for today and uh next week uh we will continue and what we want to do is we want to look at the signs of the end times so what we did was we went through a sequence of events and i will review this again we will look at the chart and we'll review by looking at the chart so i just want you to be very clear this is the sequence of events and then we will start looking at the signs of the times what are the indications that we are very close to the end so we'll look at that that'll be the last segment that we last section that we need to cover in this course so the primary objective of this course is to give us an overview of the events that are going to take place in the end times and the things that lead us to those things the end times okay may i request somebody to please close and pray and then we will dismiss please just want to request somebody to pray holy father thank you for this wonderful time Lord Jesus thank you for you with us Jesus thank you for helping pastor to take the cross Lord Jesus he is physically feeling not well oh god Lord Jesus healing immediately you're the Jehovah Rapha we are believing that you will walk on him Lord Jesus very fast he will become he will recover from which situation he's going through Lord Jesus especially we will learn about revelation Father Lord Jesus we are hopefully waiting for you a second coming Lord Jesus we are believing that we are experienced we want to experience that in Jesus and we pray amen thank you everyone so we won't have our next hour we will continue this end times course next week thank you everyone God bless bye now