Revelation Revealed: Week 52

Channel: Bible Baptist EL RENO

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Language: English (original, YouTube automatic captions)

[0:00] good morning and welcome to revelation

[0:02] revealed this is week number 52. we've

[0:04] made it a whole year of recording

[0:07] through the book of revelation now we

[0:09] did take some time to go through

[0:10] chapters two and three in our sunday

[0:12] night evening services and i think we've

[0:15] added those to the playlist for

[0:17] revelation revealed so you can go back

[0:19] and

[0:19] watch all the way through from chapter

[0:21] one all the way up to today it's chapter

[0:24] number 20. and so it's hard to believe

[0:26] we've gone through all that so far but

[0:28] we're in chapter 20 we're going to read

[0:30] the first three verses here in just a

[0:32] moment

[0:33] now chapter 20 of the book of revelation

[0:35] is one of the most controversial ones in

[0:37] the bible and that's because there's

[0:40] three schools of thought

[0:42] that surround a phrase in this chapter

[0:44] that phrases a thousand years it's

[0:48] mentioned six times in this chapter

[0:51] this particular thousand years is a

[0:53] reference that has been termed the

[0:56] millennium by

[0:58] those that are bible scholars now this

[1:01] thousand years is a time of worldwide

[1:04] bliss

[1:05] which christ will rule on the earth as

[1:07] the king of kings and lord of lords

[1:10] now there are three positions that

[1:12] people generally take when it comes to

[1:15] the phrase the thousand years

[1:17] the first view is all millennialism

[1:20] this view teaches that there will be no

[1:23] thousand year reign of christ at all

[1:25] they do not believe in the literal

[1:27] fulfillment of the old testament

[1:28] prophecies concerning israel

[1:31] the rapture is not anticipated

[1:33] nor is the warning of the last days

[1:35] taken seriously

[1:37] these believe in a literal fulfillment

[1:40] of the kingdom and that christ reigns

[1:43] through

[1:43] believers in peace and righteousness

[1:47] they spiritualize the thousand years as

[1:50] well as most of the book of

[1:52] revelation it is plain to see that this

[1:55] idea is not right in fact in acts

[1:58] chapter 1 verses 10 to 11 where it shows

[2:00] jesus literally ascending up into heaven

[2:04] it also says that this same jesus shall

[2:08] in like manner return

[2:10] and so he's going to come back so if he

[2:12] literally went up he must literally come

[2:16] down

[2:17] and so all millennialism is that

[2:19] spiritualized view that the

[2:21] thousand-year millennium it's not really

[2:23] going to happen

[2:25] the second view is

[2:26] post-millennialism

[2:28] they view christ returning at the close

[2:31] of the thousand years

[2:32] they believe that the world will become

[2:34] an increasingly better place to live

[2:37] over a thousand years until such time

[2:40] that christ would enter the world and

[2:43] become an eternal king

[2:45] now this view was held by many in the

[2:47] 1900s but it's greatly diminished

[2:50] because those who held this view felt

[2:52] the world would get progressively better

[2:55] but as time has shown it's not gotten

[2:57] better it's got progressively worse than

[3:00] it did then

[3:01] the third view is the pre-millennial

[3:03] view

[3:04] these believe that christ will bodily

[3:06] return to earth before the thousand-year

[3:09] reign begins

[3:10] he will establish his kingdom and set up

[3:13] his throne in the rebuilt city of

[3:14] jerusalem

[3:16] throughout scripture the home of the

[3:18] world

[3:19] is found in deliverance

[3:22] that would come in christ's kingdom

[3:24] we pray in the model prayer thy kingdom

[3:28] come thy will be done

[3:31] on what that's right earth

[3:34] as it is in heaven

[3:36] god's will can't be done on earth until

[3:39] the enemies of christ have been defeated

[3:42] and satan has been bound

[3:45] it seems odd that those that reject

[3:47] premillennialism

[3:49] that reject the premillennial literal

[3:51] return of christ by spiritualizing it

[3:54] but they believe in the literalness of

[3:55] the angel in chapter 20 of heaven in

[3:58] chapter 20 the bottomless pit

[4:01] satan the nations and the resurrections

[4:03] mentioned in the context of revelation

[4:06] 20. those are all real but the thousand

[4:09] years

[4:10] it's not my friend we know what the

[4:12] bible says and the bible is literal when

[4:15] it says there's a thousand year reign

[4:17] the millennium is a period of time that

[4:19] is one thousand years in length

[4:22] this thousand-year period is mentioned

[4:24] six times in the chapter and only in

[4:26] this chapter now there are those who say

[4:29] that since it's only in this chapter

[4:32] that mentions a thousand years that it

[4:34] doesn't really mean a thousand years

[4:38] they use psalm 90 verse 4 and 2 peter 3

[4:41] 8 which say that one day

[4:44] is with the lord as a thousand years

[4:47] and a thousand years as one day

[4:50] to prove their points

[4:52] now the important thing to realize about

[4:54] these verses these verses view things

[4:57] through god's eyes

[4:59] and not man's it says in thy sight and

[5:02] with the lord

[5:04] when you read those words it puts these

[5:06] verses in a much different perspective

[5:10] and you realize god's perspective of

[5:12] time is different than man's

[5:14] however on earth god has chosen to

[5:18] operate by man's time frame

[5:21] and so the thousand years is a literal

[5:24] so here at bible baptist church we

[5:25] believe in the premillennial return of

[5:29] jesus christ he will return

[5:31] at the end of the tribulation

[5:34] and before the millennial kingdom begins

[5:37] so last week we dealt with the battle of

[5:40] armageddon christ's return and he

[5:42] defeats the enemy the beast and the

[5:44] false prophet are cast into the lake of

[5:47] fire

[5:48] and then he ushers in the beginning of

[5:50] the millennial kingdom

[5:52] now chapter 20

[5:54] is a highlight chapter in the first few

[5:56] verses let's look at it this morning if

[5:58] you would

[6:00] revelation 20 verse 1 and i saw an angel

[6:03] john sees an angel come down from heaven

[6:07] having the key of the bottomless pit and

[6:09] a great chain in his hand

[6:11] and he laid hold on the dragon that old

[6:14] serpent which is the devil and satan and

[6:18] bound him a thousand

[6:20] years

[6:21] and cast him into the bottomless pit and

[6:24] shut him up and set a seal upon him that

[6:27] he should deceive the nations no more to

[6:30] the thousand years should be fulfilled

[6:32] and after that he must be loosed a

[6:35] little season

[6:37] the first thing we're going to look at

[6:38] today in this chapter is the removal of

[6:41] satan

[6:42] now the chains of men could never bind

[6:44] satan but now there's an angel who comes

[6:47] down from heaven and binds him with a

[6:50] great chain

[6:51] now anything that comes down from heaven

[6:54] has to be created by god this is not a

[6:57] man's chain this is not an angel chain

[6:59] this is god's created chain to bind

[7:02] satan and by the way in case you're

[7:04] wondering satan is not stronger than god

[7:07] satan is a powerful foe but god is all

[7:10] powerful

[7:12] so he cast him into the bottomless pit

[7:15] for a thousand years now the bottomless

[7:17] pit is in the center of the earth

[7:20] this gives the lord open and unopposed

[7:23] rule on earth without sin

[7:26] perhaps now would be a good place to

[7:28] pause and to take a closer look at the

[7:31] devil whose end is foretold in this

[7:33] chapter

[7:35] so let's look at some of the names of

[7:37] satan

[7:39] in verse 2 all trouble and sorrow and

[7:42] suffering and problems of mankind

[7:44] since the beginning of the earth have

[7:47] been traced back to one

[7:49] supernatural personality

[7:52] his origin is found in isaiah chapter 14

[7:56] verses 12 through 15 which says how art

[7:58] thou fallen from heaven o lucifer son of

[8:01] the morning how about thou cut down to

[8:04] the ground which this weakened the

[8:06] nations for thou have said in thine

[8:09] heart i will ascend into heaven i will

[8:12] exalt my throne above the stars of god i

[8:15] will sit upon the mount of the

[8:16] congregation and the sides of the north

[8:19] i will ascend above the heights of the

[8:21] cloud i will be like the most high

[8:26] see the eye problem there that satan had

[8:28] it's called pride

[8:30] verse 15 of that chapter said yet thou

[8:32] shalt be brought down to hell to the

[8:35] sides of the pit

[8:37] in ezekiel 28 verses 12 to 19 it also

[8:40] gives a description of him

[8:42] he's mentioned four times in the text

[8:44] each time with a different name now

[8:46] throughout the bible he's called by many

[8:49] different names

[8:50] in

[8:51] one of his names he's the devil which

[8:54] means the slanderer he slanders god to

[8:58] man and accuses man to god

[9:01] in genesis 3 the devil placed a question

[9:04] in eve's mind as an integra as to the

[9:06] integrity of god when he said yea hath

[9:09] god said

[9:11] you shall not eat of every tree of the

[9:13] garden in genesis chapter 3

[9:16] we find him in job chapter 1 he appears

[9:18] before god to accuse job

[9:21] in ephesians 6 11 we find it that he may

[9:24] be able to stand against

[9:27] the wiles of the devil

[9:29] the devil's business has been making

[9:31] people doubt god

[9:33] and also to take away their faith

[9:37] so you have people who doubt god

[9:40] and

[9:41] decrease in their faith in god we're not

[9:44] talking about their salvation but their

[9:46] trust and their belief in god

[9:49] he also wants to prevent people from

[9:52] being saved and to pollute their minds

[9:56] so he's the slanderer number two name is

[9:58] satan meaning adversary he's our enemy

[10:02] and attacks where we are most vulnerable

[10:05] no half-hearted endeavor can repulse his

[10:08] attacks

[10:09] believers must put their whole hearts

[10:11] into fighting and resisting satan

[10:14] in 1st chronicles 21 1 it says this and

[10:16] satan stood up against israel and

[10:19] provoked david to number israel

[10:22] second chronicles chapter 2 verse 11

[10:24] lest satan should get advantage of us

[10:26] for we are not ignorant of his devices

[10:30] in revelation 21 verses 7 and 8 satan

[10:33] shall go out to deceive

[10:37] he's the adversary he's against you in

[10:40] case you're wondering satan hates you

[10:42] and he wants to destroy your life

[10:45] the next name that's found here in verse

[10:48] number two that we're going to look at

[10:49] today is the serpent

[10:51] the universal symbol of evil

[10:55] a serpent has a poisonous property which

[10:58] makes certain kinds of snakes dangerous

[11:02] genesis 3 now the serpent was more

[11:04] subtle than any beast of the field which

[11:06] the lord god had made

[11:08] you can also read verses about serpents

[11:10] in psalm 58 4 proverbs 23 32

[11:15] snakes often conceal themselves

[11:18] ecclesiastes 10 8 and revelation 12 9

[11:22] they strike

[11:23] when you least expect them to strike

[11:26] that's how satan operates he's a

[11:29] universal snake

[11:32] you find another name that's mentioned

[11:34] in revelation chapter 12 verse number 9

[11:36] apollyon which means destroyer

[11:40] in revelation 12 9 also the dragon a

[11:43] great monster who is fearsome

[11:46] in first peter 5 8 he's the lion meaning

[11:49] he's cruel and cunning and fierce

[11:52] ruling as king of the beasts first peter

[11:54] 5 8 be sober be vigilant because your

[11:57] adversary the devil as a roaring lion

[12:00] walketh about seeking whom he may devour

[12:04] another place in scripture he's called

[12:06] beelzebub meaning the lord of the house

[12:09] or sovereign of all evil spirits in

[12:12] matthew 10 25 if they have called the

[12:15] master of the house beelzebub

[12:18] how much more shall they call them of

[12:20] his household

[12:21] so that's satan's personality

[12:24] satan's plan

[12:26] he wants to

[12:27] destroy that's his name

[12:30] that's what he's who he is

[12:33] i want you to notice secondly the nature

[12:35] of satan he's subtle he's artful crafty

[12:39] insinuating

[12:41] the serpent beguiled eve even through

[12:43] his subtlety

[12:45] he makes sin beautiful and attractive i

[12:48] saw a thought today

[12:51] sin would be less attractive if the

[12:53] wages of sin was paid

[12:56] right now

[12:57] instead of later

[13:00] but he's subtle he's cunning he's sly

[13:04] he's deceitful

[13:06] he

[13:07] second thessalonians 2 9-10 the working

[13:09] of satan with all power and signs and

[13:13] lying wonders with all deceivableness

[13:16] over unrighteousness in them that

[13:19] in second timothy 2 26 he's treacherous

[13:23] he's betraying in first corinthians 11

[13:26] 13 through 14 he was swift

[13:29] satan himself is transformed into an

[13:32] angel of light

[13:33] in first chronicles 21 1 he's intense

[13:37] in second thessalonians 2 9 he's

[13:39] determined

[13:41] the working of satan with all powers and

[13:43] sign and lie he's determined to destroy

[13:47] he's unvarying the relentless in his

[13:49] purpose he tempts today as he did with

[13:52] eve thousands of years ago in the garden

[13:54] of eden

[13:55] he also with judas

[13:57] and ananias and sapphira in acts chapter

[14:00] 5 verse 3 why hath satan fill thine

[14:03] heart

[14:05] satan's got a threefold purpose number

[14:07] one is to prevent the salvation of the

[14:10] unsaved this is done through deception

[14:13] the second plan and purpose of satan is

[14:16] to pollute the purity of the church

[14:18] through false doctrine enticements to

[14:21] worldly living secondary emphasis being

[14:24] more

[14:25] socially minded than gospel minded

[14:29] thirdly to oppose god

[14:31] his life is made up of a vengeance

[14:33] against god for overcoming him in isaiah

[14:37] chapter 14 as we read earlier when he

[14:39] was cast out of heaven

[14:43] that's his purpose

[14:44] that's his nature

[14:46] and that's his names and we've been

[14:49] dealing with him in our lives for our

[14:52] whole entire

[14:54] life

[14:56] but

[14:58] hallelujah for revelation chapter 20

[15:01] verses one through three

[15:03] because we find that satan

[15:06] he's a loser

[15:07] he's going to be bound as the millennial

[15:09] kingdom begins satan is bound for a

[15:12] thousand years you say why is he bound

[15:14] for just a thousand well god always

[15:17] gives mankind a free choice they're

[15:20] gonna be people that are born during the

[15:21] millennium

[15:22] that will have to choose whether to

[15:24] follow god or not and you'll find

[15:26] through the rest of chapter 20 the

[15:28] answer to what happens to that question

[15:31] but god never forces people to

[15:34] accept him as their savior he always

[15:36] gives them a choice

[15:38] so during the millennial kingdom during

[15:40] the thousand-year reign satan will be

[15:42] bound so sin will be repressed

[15:45] that doesn't mean it's going to cease

[15:47] but it'll be repressed the bible says

[15:49] that god will rule and reign with a rod

[15:51] of iron

[15:53] there'll be consequences on earth for

[15:55] sin at that time people will live longer

[15:58] because of the repression of sin

[16:00] but i'm so excited that it says that

[16:03] they're going to cast him in the

[16:04] bottomless pit

[16:06] and he's going to be shut up and there's

[16:08] going to be a seal set upon him that

[16:10] seal there is the seal of god that

[16:13] nobody lets him out but god satan's

[16:16] forces may try to mount an attack on the

[16:18] bottomless pit seal and say oh we'll try

[16:20] to open this up we'll get you out master

[16:23] and they cannot

[16:24] because only god can break the seal

[16:28] but there's a doom coming to satan

[16:31] he's in prison for these thousand years

[16:35] after which

[16:36] he's cast in the lake of fire chapter 20

[16:39] verse 10 says this and the devil that

[16:41] deceived them was cast into the lake of

[16:44] fire and brimstone where the beast and

[16:47] the false prophet are and shall be

[16:49] tormented day and night forever

[16:53] and ever

[16:54] my friend we could say it this way at

[16:57] least

[16:58] that the rapture of the church happens

[17:00] today

[17:01] satan's got about seven years to work

[17:04] his

[17:04] will and his way and his craftiness here

[17:07] upon the earth and then he'll be bound

[17:09] for a thousand years

[17:11] but then after that he'll be loosed for

[17:13] a season

[17:15] after he's got those that have rose up

[17:18] with him to come against god and how

[17:20] foolish would you have to be

[17:23] to rise up against god after living

[17:25] under his righteous rule for a thousand

[17:28] years how foolish would you be but the

[17:30] text tells us the armies as the sand of

[17:34] the sea

[17:36] it's amazing what happens at the end

[17:38] they come against god in the battle of

[17:40] gog and magog we'll talk later about

[17:42] that in other videos

[17:44] but in the end satan's loses

[17:47] so in chapter 20 he's chained up and

[17:49] bound

[17:50] no more

[17:52] detesting the saints

[17:54] no more accusing the saints

[17:57] no more of his craftiness no more of his

[18:00] deceitfulness no more of his subtlety

[18:04] he'll be bound for a thousand years

[18:07] but in the end after that it will be

[18:10] over

[18:12] and jesus christ will rule and reign

[18:15] today if we were to say anything about

[18:17] this section of revelation chapter 20

[18:20] good news is coming

[18:22] we're about seven years away

[18:25] at least

[18:26] if the rapture happened today we'd be

[18:28] seven years away

[18:30] from

[18:31] jesus christ's return and ruling and

[18:33] reigning from jerusalem and satan being

[18:36] bound i want you to tune in next week as

[18:39] we talk a little bit more about the

[18:41] millennial kingdom and the excitement

[18:43] that's found in revelation chapter 20.

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[19:18] satan's about to get bound and about to

[19:21] be wrapped up and his deeds will soon

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