1 00:00:11,390 --> 00:00:12,660 "Dear Pastor Tim Conway, 2 00:00:12,660 --> 00:00:16,687 Should Christians evangelize the Jews? 3 00:00:16,687 --> 00:00:18,269 I heard from people 4 00:00:18,269 --> 00:00:20,700 that there is a theological concept 5 00:00:20,700 --> 00:00:23,430 called "Dispensationalism." 6 00:00:23,430 --> 00:00:25,363 Can you explain more about that 7 00:00:25,363 --> 00:00:27,009 and if it is true?" 8 00:00:27,009 --> 00:00:28,165 I would be happy to. 9 00:00:28,165 --> 00:00:29,388 Now listen to me. 10 00:00:29,388 --> 00:00:32,070 I don't doubt that there are a whole number of you 11 00:00:32,070 --> 00:00:34,310 that your whole background 12 00:00:34,310 --> 00:00:38,859 has been one of dispensationalism. 13 00:00:38,859 --> 00:00:43,198 I know enough about Pastor Hagee - 14 00:00:43,198 --> 00:00:46,231 I'll just say Mr. Hagee - 15 00:00:46,231 --> 00:00:54,356 he is a lover of the Jews, 16 00:00:54,356 --> 00:00:56,148 and I don't knock that. 17 00:00:56,148 --> 00:00:58,630 We ought to love the Jews. 18 00:00:58,630 --> 00:01:00,337 We ought to love them. 19 00:01:00,337 --> 00:01:04,808 But he is a very avid advocate 20 00:01:04,808 --> 00:01:08,404 of dispensationalism. 21 00:01:08,404 --> 00:01:09,733 What's this movie series? 22 00:01:09,733 --> 00:01:12,013 Some of you have seen that. What is it? 23 00:01:12,013 --> 00:01:14,467 Left Behind. 24 00:01:14,467 --> 00:01:18,533 Big deal made about that. 25 00:01:18,533 --> 00:01:19,940 Dispensationalism. 26 00:01:19,940 --> 00:01:23,781 A lot of you - you don't know anything else. 27 00:01:23,781 --> 00:01:25,500 Let's talk about it. 28 00:01:25,500 --> 00:01:28,236 Look, you guys can prove this out. 29 00:01:28,236 --> 00:01:30,801 You can search the Internet - what I'm about to tell you. 30 00:01:30,801 --> 00:01:33,009 I'm going to get into some of the biblical facts 31 00:01:33,009 --> 00:01:34,602 and you can verify those immediately 32 00:01:34,602 --> 00:01:36,543 because I'm going to read the Scripture to you. 33 00:01:36,543 --> 00:01:38,700 But I'm just going to give you a few facts first. 34 00:01:38,700 --> 00:01:42,340 Like I say, you can verify these things online. 35 00:01:42,340 --> 00:01:45,911 Basically, dispensationalism 36 00:01:45,911 --> 00:01:48,716 as a system of theology 37 00:01:48,716 --> 00:01:53,826 really took shape in the 1830's 38 00:01:53,826 --> 00:01:58,062 by a man by the name of John Nelson Darby. 39 00:01:58,062 --> 00:02:02,531 Some of his disciples, followers, 40 00:02:02,531 --> 00:02:07,730 you may know by the name of C.I. Scofield, 41 00:02:07,730 --> 00:02:11,239 Lewis Sperry Chafer and the group 42 00:02:11,239 --> 00:02:14,967 up there at Dallas Theological Seminary. 43 00:02:14,967 --> 00:02:18,391 More modern guys by the name of 44 00:02:18,391 --> 00:02:23,272 Zane Hodges, Charles Ryrie - 45 00:02:23,272 --> 00:02:24,750 there's a Ryrie Study Bible, 46 00:02:24,750 --> 00:02:26,741 there's a Scofield Study Bible. 47 00:02:26,741 --> 00:02:30,497 It teaches this stuff - dispensationalism. 48 00:02:30,497 --> 00:02:32,742 This guy wants to know what it is. 49 00:02:32,742 --> 00:02:35,309 I'll tell you, you listen on the radio. 50 00:02:35,309 --> 00:02:38,829 A hyper-dispensational that is out there 51 00:02:38,829 --> 00:02:40,942 doing teaching - and look, 52 00:02:40,942 --> 00:02:43,328 I'm not going to tell you that these guys 53 00:02:43,328 --> 00:02:44,466 weren't Christians. 54 00:02:44,466 --> 00:02:46,168 I'm not going to tell you that. 55 00:02:46,168 --> 00:02:47,667 I don't know enough about them. 56 00:02:47,667 --> 00:02:49,970 You've got J. Vernon McGee out there 57 00:02:49,970 --> 00:02:51,459 on the radio waves still today, 58 00:02:51,459 --> 00:02:53,380 "Through the Bible." Five years. 59 00:02:53,380 --> 00:02:56,564 If you listen to any of the Christian radio stations, 60 00:02:56,564 --> 00:02:59,348 you'll hear his voice. 61 00:02:59,348 --> 00:03:04,368 He is gone and hopefully gone to be with the Lord. 62 00:03:04,368 --> 00:03:06,088 Here's the thing. 63 00:03:06,088 --> 00:03:13,395 Darby said that there were 7 dispensations 64 00:03:13,395 --> 00:03:17,033 that he could find in the Bible. 65 00:03:17,033 --> 00:03:21,367 The paradise state all the way to the flood; 66 00:03:21,367 --> 00:03:23,050 you have the dispensation of Noah; 67 00:03:23,050 --> 00:03:24,579 the dispensation of Abraham; 68 00:03:24,579 --> 00:03:26,211 the dispensation of Israel; 69 00:03:26,211 --> 00:03:27,820 the dispensation of the Gentiles; 70 00:03:27,820 --> 00:03:29,490 the dispensation of the Spirit; 71 00:03:29,490 --> 00:03:32,290 and the dispensation of the Millennium. 72 00:03:32,290 --> 00:03:34,394 You can search this out. 73 00:03:34,394 --> 00:03:36,958 Darby established this system of theology. 74 00:03:36,958 --> 00:03:39,007 He taught these 7 dispensations. 75 00:03:39,007 --> 00:03:41,869 (Incomplete thought). 76 00:03:41,869 --> 00:03:44,941 See, I was saved and went in the direction 77 00:03:44,941 --> 00:03:49,693 of amillennial eschatology 78 00:03:49,693 --> 00:03:52,878 and the doctrines of grace immediately. 79 00:03:52,878 --> 00:03:54,796 I don't have a background in this 80 00:03:54,796 --> 00:03:56,272 like many of you guys do. 81 00:03:56,272 --> 00:03:58,090 I haven't studied Scofield. 82 00:03:58,090 --> 00:04:00,073 I never owned a Scofield Bible. 83 00:04:00,073 --> 00:04:02,418 I don't know if Scofield and Ryrie 84 00:04:02,418 --> 00:04:04,598 are teaching these 7 dispensations. 85 00:04:04,598 --> 00:04:08,289 I did listen quite a bit to J. Vernon McGee 86 00:04:08,289 --> 00:04:10,006 and I heard him say 87 00:04:10,006 --> 00:04:12,160 just ludicrous things. 88 00:04:12,160 --> 00:04:14,750 The thing he said that I just had to start 89 00:04:14,750 --> 00:04:16,325 turning him off is that 90 00:04:16,325 --> 00:04:18,977 the Sermon on the Mount isn't for now. 91 00:04:18,977 --> 00:04:20,729 It's for the Millennium. 92 00:04:20,729 --> 00:04:24,410 I thought what in the world is he saying? 93 00:04:24,410 --> 00:04:26,473 Basically, these hyper-dispensationalists 94 00:04:26,473 --> 00:04:28,271 get to the point that the only part of the Bible 95 00:04:28,271 --> 00:04:31,895 that is for us today are the prison epistles of Paul. 96 00:04:31,895 --> 00:04:37,018 Listen, don't let anybody do that to you. 97 00:04:37,018 --> 00:04:39,041 Here's what I find in the Bible. 98 00:04:39,041 --> 00:04:41,558 Now, look, I don't know what Scofield found there. 99 00:04:41,558 --> 00:04:43,311 I don't know what Darby found there. 100 00:04:43,311 --> 00:04:44,831 I don't know what Ryrie finds there. 101 00:04:44,831 --> 00:04:47,164 I don't know what the dispensational camps find there. 102 00:04:47,164 --> 00:04:48,201 But let me tell you, 103 00:04:48,201 --> 00:04:51,511 how many dispensations are there? 104 00:04:51,511 --> 00:04:53,533 I find two. 105 00:04:53,533 --> 00:04:57,199 Now, I realize you can subdivide these in some way. 106 00:04:57,199 --> 00:05:00,331 And that in some places, the Bible does. 107 00:05:00,331 --> 00:05:02,281 But in the broadest sense, 108 00:05:02,281 --> 00:05:04,428 the Bible gives us two. 109 00:05:04,428 --> 00:05:05,438 Listen to them. 110 00:05:05,438 --> 00:05:08,038 Matthew 12:32, 111 00:05:08,038 --> 00:05:11,252 "Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man 112 00:05:11,252 --> 00:05:13,981 will be forgiven, but whoever speaks 113 00:05:13,981 --> 00:05:15,557 against the Holy Spirit..." 114 00:05:15,557 --> 00:05:19,054 now this is the sin against the Holy Spirit - 115 00:05:19,054 --> 00:05:21,578 the unpardonable sin - 116 00:05:21,578 --> 00:05:23,768 "...whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit 117 00:05:23,768 --> 00:05:25,069 will not be forgiven, 118 00:05:25,069 --> 00:05:29,653 either in this age, or in the age to come." 119 00:05:29,653 --> 00:05:33,209 Now right there you have this age, 120 00:05:33,209 --> 00:05:34,329 the age to come. 121 00:05:34,329 --> 00:05:37,703 Okay, so let's establish 122 00:05:37,703 --> 00:05:40,591 when these two ages are. 123 00:05:40,591 --> 00:05:42,758 Obviously there is the age now, 124 00:05:42,758 --> 00:05:45,312 and that was at the time Jesus was speaking. 125 00:05:45,312 --> 00:05:46,328 That's clear. 126 00:05:46,328 --> 00:05:49,013 The age which is now 127 00:05:49,013 --> 00:05:51,281 was that age which was present 128 00:05:51,281 --> 00:05:53,858 when He walked this earth. 129 00:05:53,858 --> 00:05:56,657 And then there's an age to come 130 00:05:56,657 --> 00:05:58,788 which would be some time after that. 131 00:05:58,788 --> 00:06:00,694 Let's think about it. 132 00:06:00,694 --> 00:06:05,886 Mark 3:29 gives us Mark's parallel to this. 133 00:06:05,886 --> 00:06:07,620 What does He say? 134 00:06:07,620 --> 00:06:10,086 "Whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit 135 00:06:10,086 --> 00:06:14,037 never has forgiveness, but is guilty 136 00:06:14,037 --> 00:06:16,653 of an eternal sin." 137 00:06:16,653 --> 00:06:18,401 Now, let me tell you this, 138 00:06:18,401 --> 00:06:21,879 if according to Matthew, 139 00:06:21,879 --> 00:06:23,856 you're not forgiven in this age 140 00:06:23,856 --> 00:06:25,885 or in the one to come, 141 00:06:25,885 --> 00:06:29,666 and Mark tells us you're not forgiven forever, 142 00:06:29,666 --> 00:06:31,102 then what does that teach us 143 00:06:31,102 --> 00:06:34,069 about the age to come? 144 00:06:34,069 --> 00:06:35,219 It's eternal. 145 00:06:35,219 --> 00:06:38,632 It goes on forever. 146 00:06:38,632 --> 00:06:40,501 So, that we can say. 147 00:06:40,501 --> 00:06:42,787 The age to come is an eternal age. 148 00:06:42,787 --> 00:06:44,376 Now, it's got a starting point, 149 00:06:44,376 --> 00:06:45,639 but it never has an end. 150 00:06:45,639 --> 00:06:47,334 It's eternal. 151 00:06:47,334 --> 00:06:50,086 Okay, let's go further. Luke 20:34, 152 00:06:50,086 --> 00:06:51,050 "Jesus said to them, 153 00:06:51,050 --> 00:06:53,816 'The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage..." 154 00:06:53,816 --> 00:06:57,497 Guess what's characteristic of this age? 155 00:06:57,497 --> 00:06:59,851 People marry and are given in marriage. 156 00:06:59,851 --> 00:07:01,060 Now, I'll tell you what, 157 00:07:01,060 --> 00:07:04,749 that's characteristic of life from when to when? 158 00:07:04,749 --> 00:07:06,377 From the time of Adam 159 00:07:06,377 --> 00:07:08,747 all the way up until when? 160 00:07:08,747 --> 00:07:11,704 Now remember when the Sadduccees came to Him and they said: 161 00:07:11,704 --> 00:07:13,203 There were all these 7 brothers 162 00:07:13,203 --> 00:07:14,709 and they all had the same wife. 163 00:07:14,709 --> 00:07:17,920 What does He say about the age to come? 164 00:07:17,920 --> 00:07:20,959 They don't give in marriage there, right? 165 00:07:20,959 --> 00:07:23,352 They're like the angels. 166 00:07:23,352 --> 00:07:24,800 And so basically what you have 167 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:26,767 is there's this age and the age to come. 168 00:07:26,767 --> 00:07:27,937 What's true of this age? 169 00:07:27,937 --> 00:07:29,683 Men marry and are given in marriage. 170 00:07:29,683 --> 00:07:33,420 What's true of the age to come? They don't marry. 171 00:07:33,420 --> 00:07:36,407 What's true of the age to come is it's an eternal one. 172 00:07:36,407 --> 00:07:38,976 Because men won't be forgiven in the age to come 173 00:07:38,976 --> 00:07:40,239 and that's an eternal sin. 174 00:07:40,239 --> 00:07:42,810 That means they won't be forgiven eternally. 175 00:07:42,810 --> 00:07:45,218 How about this one? 1 Timothy 6:17, 176 00:07:45,218 --> 00:07:47,582 "As for the rich in this present age..." 177 00:07:47,582 --> 00:07:49,613 People have money in this age. 178 00:07:49,613 --> 00:07:52,289 Galatians 1:4, "Jesus Christ gave Himself 179 00:07:52,289 --> 00:07:53,839 for our sins to deliver us 180 00:07:53,839 --> 00:07:56,175 from the present, evil age." 181 00:07:56,175 --> 00:07:57,756 So, let me tell you something 182 00:07:57,756 --> 00:07:59,340 about this present age. 183 00:07:59,340 --> 00:08:02,228 There's evil here. 184 00:08:02,228 --> 00:08:04,657 Evil's going to be removed 185 00:08:04,657 --> 00:08:06,016 when it's all gone. 186 00:08:06,016 --> 00:08:07,378 What you find in 2 Peter 187 00:08:07,378 --> 00:08:09,479 is heaven and earth, 188 00:08:09,479 --> 00:08:11,300 fire's going to come, 189 00:08:11,300 --> 00:08:12,528 it's going to burn it up, 190 00:08:12,528 --> 00:08:15,030 there's going to be a new heaven and a new earth. 191 00:08:15,030 --> 00:08:17,600 This is the present evil age. 192 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:20,402 Evil came in Adam and Eve. 193 00:08:20,402 --> 00:08:22,037 Now, you know what? If you really 194 00:08:22,037 --> 00:08:23,422 want to strain this thing, 195 00:08:23,422 --> 00:08:26,137 obviously, from the time Adam was created 196 00:08:26,137 --> 00:08:27,652 till the time Adam fell, 197 00:08:27,652 --> 00:08:30,544 that was a unique dispensation. 198 00:08:30,544 --> 00:08:32,629 Men were sinless. 199 00:08:32,629 --> 00:08:34,818 But I think overall, basically, what you get 200 00:08:34,818 --> 00:08:36,706 is these two general ages. 201 00:08:36,706 --> 00:08:38,709 There's a present evil age. 202 00:08:38,709 --> 00:08:42,230 The future age, all evil - you know what's said. 203 00:08:42,230 --> 00:08:43,869 You get to the end of Revelation 204 00:08:43,869 --> 00:08:46,669 and nothing evil is going to walk there. 205 00:08:46,669 --> 00:08:48,219 All the dogs, all the sorcerers, 206 00:08:48,219 --> 00:08:50,173 all the fornicators, adulterers, liars - 207 00:08:50,173 --> 00:08:51,660 they're in outer darkness. 208 00:08:51,660 --> 00:08:53,117 They're put out of it. 209 00:08:53,117 --> 00:08:54,500 2 Corinthians 4:4, 210 00:08:54,500 --> 00:08:56,573 "In their case, the god of this world..." 211 00:08:56,573 --> 00:08:58,033 and the word is "age." 212 00:08:58,033 --> 00:09:00,613 "The god of this age..." 213 00:09:00,613 --> 00:09:03,094 The devil is the god of this age. 214 00:09:03,094 --> 00:09:04,485 When this thing is all done, 215 00:09:04,485 --> 00:09:06,493 he's going to be thrown into the lake of fire. 216 00:09:06,493 --> 00:09:08,136 He's been here since the beginning, right? 217 00:09:08,136 --> 00:09:09,331 He was there in the garden. 218 00:09:09,331 --> 00:09:10,673 The god of this age. 219 00:09:10,673 --> 00:09:12,828 He basically has free course on this earth 220 00:09:12,828 --> 00:09:14,658 all the way back from the time of Adam and Eve 221 00:09:14,658 --> 00:09:16,680 all the way to the end of this age. 222 00:09:16,680 --> 00:09:18,969 He's the god of this age. It's an evil age. 223 00:09:18,969 --> 00:09:21,343 Men marry and are given in marriage in this age. 224 00:09:21,343 --> 00:09:22,909 And then there's an age to come, 225 00:09:22,909 --> 00:09:24,857 which is an eternal age. 226 00:09:24,857 --> 00:09:29,379 Luke 20:34-36, 227 00:09:29,379 --> 00:09:30,990 "Those who are considered worthy 228 00:09:30,990 --> 00:09:32,355 to attain to that age, 229 00:09:32,355 --> 00:09:34,411 and to the resurrection from the dead..." 230 00:09:34,411 --> 00:09:35,788 Now isn't that interesting? 231 00:09:35,788 --> 00:09:37,869 What sets that age apart? 232 00:09:37,869 --> 00:09:43,900 There's a resurrection of the dead that starts it. 233 00:09:43,900 --> 00:09:47,284 "They cannot die anymore." 234 00:09:47,284 --> 00:09:48,318 Titus 2:11, 235 00:09:48,318 --> 00:09:51,616 "For the grace of God has appeared bringing salvation for all people, 236 00:09:51,616 --> 00:09:54,304 training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions 237 00:09:54,304 --> 00:09:57,593 and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives 238 00:09:57,593 --> 00:10:00,067 in the present age. 239 00:10:00,067 --> 00:10:01,487 And what are we waiting for? 240 00:10:01,487 --> 00:10:03,169 We're waiting for the age to come. 241 00:10:03,169 --> 00:10:04,597 "Waiting for our blessed hope, 242 00:10:04,597 --> 00:10:05,869 the appearing of the glory 243 00:10:05,869 --> 00:10:08,167 of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ." 244 00:10:08,167 --> 00:10:09,600 So what ends this age? 245 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:12,734 The appearing of Jesus Christ. 246 00:10:12,734 --> 00:10:14,386 Basically, that's the end of it. 247 00:10:14,386 --> 00:10:21,788 Romans 9:25, 248 00:10:21,788 --> 00:10:26,287 "As indeed He says in Hosea, 249 00:10:26,287 --> 00:10:27,865 'those who were not My people, 250 00:10:27,865 --> 00:10:28,958 I will call My people; 251 00:10:28,958 --> 00:10:31,137 He who was not beloved, I will call beloved.'" 252 00:10:31,137 --> 00:10:35,510 (unintelligible) 253 00:10:35,510 --> 00:10:41,152 Well, anyway, a dispensation is an age. 254 00:10:41,152 --> 00:10:44,640 A dispensation is basically a time frame 255 00:10:44,640 --> 00:10:48,051 in which things are unique during that time frame 256 00:10:48,051 --> 00:10:49,896 in some way. 257 00:10:49,896 --> 00:10:54,827 And basically, we have this age 258 00:10:54,827 --> 00:10:56,348 and the future age concept. 259 00:10:56,348 --> 00:10:57,852 It comes up in the parables 260 00:10:57,852 --> 00:11:01,154 in Matthew 13. 261 00:11:01,154 --> 00:11:03,918 If you just search that idea of the age, 262 00:11:03,918 --> 00:11:06,729 like I say, there are some places in the Bible 263 00:11:06,729 --> 00:11:08,647 where even those two ages 264 00:11:08,647 --> 00:11:10,710 are broken down, 265 00:11:10,710 --> 00:11:13,656 or many ages are spoken about, 266 00:11:13,656 --> 00:11:17,757 like Paul's wanting to exaggerate 267 00:11:17,757 --> 00:11:20,089 the terminology, 268 00:11:20,089 --> 00:11:21,699 which is no exaggeration, 269 00:11:21,699 --> 00:11:23,551 but I mean, he's wanting to really 270 00:11:23,551 --> 00:11:26,077 be emphatic like there in Ephesians 271 00:11:26,077 --> 00:11:28,824 where he talks about the kindness of God 272 00:11:28,824 --> 00:11:32,369 through all these coming ages. 273 00:11:32,369 --> 00:11:35,759 Like I say, he's wanting to use 274 00:11:35,759 --> 00:11:39,088 all these very emphatic words, 275 00:11:39,088 --> 00:11:40,458 and so in places like that 276 00:11:40,458 --> 00:11:45,072 he is talking about the age to come, 277 00:11:45,072 --> 00:11:47,028 it's just ages upon ages 278 00:11:47,028 --> 00:11:48,626 and all through these ages, 279 00:11:48,626 --> 00:11:51,608 and God and His grace shown to us 280 00:11:51,608 --> 00:11:53,666 in kindness - it's just going to be 281 00:11:53,666 --> 00:11:55,069 lavished upon us. 282 00:11:55,069 --> 00:11:56,665 But when you look at a real 283 00:11:56,665 --> 00:11:58,807 historical breakdown, 284 00:11:58,807 --> 00:12:01,623 what you find is basically an age 285 00:12:01,623 --> 00:12:02,909 and an age to come. 286 00:12:02,909 --> 00:12:08,646 You know what's ruled out of that approach 287 00:12:08,646 --> 00:12:11,532 to dispensations? 288 00:12:11,532 --> 00:12:14,717 A thousand year literal reign. 289 00:12:14,717 --> 00:12:21,088 There is no age packed in the middle there. 290 00:12:21,088 --> 00:12:23,533 Now, you know what's very interesting, 291 00:12:23,533 --> 00:12:27,504 is the thousand year literal reign 292 00:12:27,504 --> 00:12:30,256 doesn't stand up to Scripture. 293 00:12:30,256 --> 00:12:33,815 Let me tell you several things about it. 294 00:12:33,815 --> 00:12:41,919 Jesus said His kingdom is not of this world. 295 00:12:41,919 --> 00:12:43,688 And yet, the dispensationalists 296 00:12:43,688 --> 00:12:47,229 argue for a thousand year reign 297 00:12:47,229 --> 00:12:51,211 in this world. 298 00:12:51,211 --> 00:12:54,365 The dispensationalists say 299 00:12:54,365 --> 00:12:59,218 that Christ is going to come and reign. 300 00:12:59,218 --> 00:13:02,108 Let me tell you something. 301 00:13:02,108 --> 00:13:05,411 The Bible says that Jesus Christ 302 00:13:05,411 --> 00:13:08,595 is reigning already. 303 00:13:08,595 --> 00:13:12,410 Anybody know where it says that? 304 00:13:12,410 --> 00:13:15,089 It says it in 1 Corinthians 15. 305 00:13:15,089 --> 00:13:16,956 "For as in Adam, all die, so also 306 00:13:16,956 --> 00:13:19,153 in Christ shall all be made alive, 307 00:13:19,153 --> 00:13:20,556 but each in his own order; 308 00:13:20,556 --> 00:13:22,238 Christ, the firstfruits, and at His coming, 309 00:13:22,238 --> 00:13:23,633 those who belong to Christ, 310 00:13:23,633 --> 00:13:24,678 then comes the end 311 00:13:24,678 --> 00:13:26,151 when He delivers the kingdom of God 312 00:13:26,151 --> 00:13:27,654 to God the Father after destroying 313 00:13:27,654 --> 00:13:29,457 every rule and every authority and power. 314 00:13:29,457 --> 00:13:33,340 He must reign until He has put all His enemies under His feet. 315 00:13:33,340 --> 00:13:34,680 Let me tell you something. 316 00:13:34,680 --> 00:13:36,280 He is reigning until... 317 00:13:36,280 --> 00:13:38,685 And then it says He's going to turn it all over 318 00:13:38,685 --> 00:13:41,401 to His Father, and God will be all in all. 319 00:13:41,401 --> 00:13:42,839 And in the book of Revelation, 320 00:13:42,839 --> 00:13:44,917 you find that even though He turns it over 321 00:13:44,917 --> 00:13:46,658 to His Father, He and His Father, 322 00:13:46,658 --> 00:13:48,548 they're going to rule and reign over this 323 00:13:48,548 --> 00:13:50,296 forever and ever. 324 00:13:50,296 --> 00:13:52,227 The fact is He's reigning already. 325 00:13:52,227 --> 00:13:53,919 He is reigning right now, folks. 326 00:13:53,919 --> 00:13:55,583 This idea that He's going to come 327 00:13:55,583 --> 00:13:58,871 and begin a reign isn't true. 328 00:13:58,871 --> 00:14:01,648 Basically, we are told that He's going to 329 00:14:01,648 --> 00:14:04,402 take his father's throne - David's throne. 330 00:14:04,402 --> 00:14:06,439 He's already taken the throne, folks. 331 00:14:06,439 --> 00:14:07,713 He's on the throne. 332 00:14:07,713 --> 00:14:09,150 He's ruling already. 333 00:14:09,150 --> 00:14:11,779 He's at the right hand of the Father even now. 334 00:14:11,779 --> 00:14:13,821 He is ruling, and all principalities, 335 00:14:13,821 --> 00:14:18,528 and all powers - folks, they're under Him. 336 00:14:18,528 --> 00:14:20,210 They are under Him. 337 00:14:20,210 --> 00:14:21,654 He's in that place. 338 00:14:21,654 --> 00:14:24,699 Listen, this millennial reign idea 339 00:14:24,699 --> 00:14:29,298 comes from this idea that's found 340 00:14:29,298 --> 00:14:31,307 in Revelation 20. 341 00:14:31,307 --> 00:14:33,908 And you know, let me tell you something. 342 00:14:33,908 --> 00:14:37,568 In all of our Bibles, 343 00:14:37,568 --> 00:14:41,683 you always want to define 344 00:14:41,683 --> 00:14:44,613 what is hard by what is clear. 345 00:14:44,613 --> 00:14:46,678 Guess what's clear? 346 00:14:46,678 --> 00:14:48,359 The epistles are clear. 347 00:14:48,359 --> 00:14:50,730 Much in the Gospels is clear. 348 00:14:50,730 --> 00:14:53,281 Revelation is a symbolic book. 349 00:14:53,281 --> 00:14:55,028 No matter how you want to look at it, 350 00:14:55,028 --> 00:14:56,817 there are things in the book of Revelation 351 00:14:56,817 --> 00:14:58,478 that are hard, and not any of you 352 00:14:58,478 --> 00:15:00,208 are going to deny that. 353 00:15:00,208 --> 00:15:01,739 You know what? The epistles are 354 00:15:01,739 --> 00:15:04,849 easy to understand in most places. 355 00:15:04,849 --> 00:15:07,628 The Gospels are easy to understand in most places. 356 00:15:07,628 --> 00:15:08,986 Guess what? In all the things 357 00:15:08,986 --> 00:15:10,238 that are easy to understand, 358 00:15:10,238 --> 00:15:12,037 you're never told very easily 359 00:15:12,037 --> 00:15:13,489 and very plainly - 360 00:15:13,489 --> 00:15:15,059 you're never told that there's 361 00:15:15,059 --> 00:15:18,165 a literal thousand year reign here. 362 00:15:18,165 --> 00:15:20,395 You say, okay, well, you said 363 00:15:20,395 --> 00:15:23,328 that in Revelation 20, 364 00:15:23,328 --> 00:15:26,501 a thousand years was spoken about. 365 00:15:26,501 --> 00:15:29,059 So, do we have to have it multiple times? 366 00:15:29,059 --> 00:15:31,142 Isn't one sufficient to make something 367 00:15:31,142 --> 00:15:32,807 legitimately truth? 368 00:15:32,807 --> 00:15:34,159 Well, absolutely, 369 00:15:34,159 --> 00:15:36,388 if you interpret it rightly. 370 00:15:36,388 --> 00:15:39,217 And the book of Revelation is symbolic, 371 00:15:39,217 --> 00:15:40,640 so how do we interpret it? 372 00:15:40,640 --> 00:15:42,403 Well, listen to me. 373 00:15:42,403 --> 00:15:45,798 "Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, 374 00:15:45,798 --> 00:15:47,832 the faithful God who keeps covenant 375 00:15:47,832 --> 00:15:49,918 and steadfast love with those who love Him 376 00:15:49,918 --> 00:15:52,877 and keep His commandments to a thousand generations." 377 00:15:52,877 --> 00:15:56,839 Okay, so what does He do? Does He cut them off at 1,001? 378 00:15:56,839 --> 00:16:00,708 What does that mean? 379 00:16:00,708 --> 00:16:02,769 Is that literal or is that to be taken 380 00:16:02,769 --> 00:16:05,917 as just a long time; a huge number? 381 00:16:05,917 --> 00:16:07,799 Basically, maybe endless. 382 00:16:07,799 --> 00:16:11,367 Job 9:3, "If one wished to contend with God, 383 00:16:11,367 --> 00:16:12,767 one could not answer Him 384 00:16:12,767 --> 00:16:15,006 once in a thousand times." 385 00:16:15,006 --> 00:16:19,146 What? So you could answer Him the 1,001st time? 386 00:16:19,146 --> 00:16:22,765 You see, they're using this as just a vast amount. 387 00:16:22,765 --> 00:16:24,688 They're using it to effect. 388 00:16:24,688 --> 00:16:26,385 "Every beast of the forest is Mine. 389 00:16:26,385 --> 00:16:28,096 The cattle on a thousand hills..." 390 00:16:28,096 --> 00:16:29,695 Okay, so, 391 00:16:29,695 --> 00:16:32,886 the 1,001st hill, the cattle aren't His? 392 00:16:32,886 --> 00:16:34,355 That's not the intent. 393 00:16:34,355 --> 00:16:38,697 The intent is many, all. 394 00:16:38,697 --> 00:16:40,554 "For a day in Your courts is better 395 00:16:40,554 --> 00:16:43,317 than a thousand elsewhere. 396 00:16:43,317 --> 00:16:45,067 For a thousand years in your sight 397 00:16:45,067 --> 00:16:47,255 are but as yesterday when it is past 398 00:16:47,255 --> 00:16:49,390 or as a watch in the night." 399 00:16:49,390 --> 00:16:51,527 "Do not overlook this one fact, beloved, 400 00:16:51,527 --> 00:16:53,569 that with the Lord, one day is as a thousand years 401 00:16:53,569 --> 00:16:55,486 and a thousand years is one day." 402 00:16:55,486 --> 00:16:57,650 Let me tell you something. 403 00:16:57,650 --> 00:17:00,106 What happens in the thousand years? 404 00:17:00,106 --> 00:17:01,605 If you take it in the same way 405 00:17:01,605 --> 00:17:04,335 and you just take it as an extensive 406 00:17:04,335 --> 00:17:07,985 span of time, what is said in Revelation 20 407 00:17:07,985 --> 00:17:10,206 that happens in that thousand years? 408 00:17:10,206 --> 00:17:11,589 Let me tell you what happens. 409 00:17:11,589 --> 00:17:13,207 "An angel comes down from heaven, 410 00:17:13,207 --> 00:17:15,027 and holds in his hand the key to the bottomless pit, 411 00:17:15,027 --> 00:17:17,347 and a great chain; he seized the dragon, 412 00:17:17,347 --> 00:17:19,893 that ancient serpent who is the devil and Satan 413 00:17:19,893 --> 00:17:21,907 and bound him for a thousand years." 414 00:17:21,907 --> 00:17:23,666 He's bound for a thousand years. 415 00:17:23,666 --> 00:17:27,512 Now, these dispensationalists come along 416 00:17:27,512 --> 00:17:29,393 and they say he's not bound. 417 00:17:29,393 --> 00:17:30,569 You go over to 1 Peter. 418 00:17:30,569 --> 00:17:32,725 It says he walks about like a roaring lion 419 00:17:32,725 --> 00:17:34,269 seeking to devour. 420 00:17:34,269 --> 00:17:36,235 Well, wait, you better read the context. 421 00:17:36,235 --> 00:17:38,055 Before you jump to any conclusions, 422 00:17:38,055 --> 00:17:40,633 you've got to read the whole thing. 423 00:17:40,633 --> 00:17:43,099 Does it say he's going to be bound for a thousand years? 424 00:17:43,099 --> 00:17:45,965 It does, but not totally bound. 425 00:17:45,965 --> 00:17:47,489 It doesn't say he's going to be bound 426 00:17:47,489 --> 00:17:50,762 from being able to do any activity whatsoever. 427 00:17:50,762 --> 00:17:52,659 It says he's going to be bound 428 00:17:52,659 --> 00:17:56,285 from specific things. 429 00:17:56,285 --> 00:17:59,586 "He is no longer able to deceive the nations 430 00:17:59,586 --> 00:18:02,663 until the thousand years were ended. 431 00:18:02,663 --> 00:18:05,380 After that, he must be released for a little while." 432 00:18:05,380 --> 00:18:07,067 Which means what? 433 00:18:07,067 --> 00:18:11,038 He'll be able to deceive the nations once again. 434 00:18:11,038 --> 00:18:15,261 And in fact, you know what we find? 435 00:18:15,261 --> 00:18:17,656 We find that in John 12, Jesus Christ says 436 00:18:17,656 --> 00:18:20,311 lift Me up and I'll draw all men unto Me. 437 00:18:20,311 --> 00:18:22,400 You know what you find in the book of Revelation? 438 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:23,920 People from every what are going to be 439 00:18:23,920 --> 00:18:25,802 around that throne? 440 00:18:25,804 --> 00:18:27,144 From every nation. 441 00:18:27,144 --> 00:18:28,184 You know what? 442 00:18:28,184 --> 00:18:29,902 You go back in the Old Testament, 443 00:18:29,902 --> 00:18:32,151 count the Gentiles for me. 444 00:18:32,151 --> 00:18:34,983 You can't get off one hand. 445 00:18:34,983 --> 00:18:38,706 You can talk about the Ninevites 446 00:18:38,706 --> 00:18:40,513 and that would be the one exception. 447 00:18:40,513 --> 00:18:41,924 But aside from the Ninevites, 448 00:18:41,924 --> 00:18:43,723 you can count on one hand the number 449 00:18:43,723 --> 00:18:45,324 of Gentiles in the Old Testament 450 00:18:45,324 --> 00:18:47,284 that were converted. 451 00:18:47,284 --> 00:18:48,524 You know what? 452 00:18:48,524 --> 00:18:50,435 In the Old Testament dispensation - 453 00:18:50,435 --> 00:18:52,428 and I'm talking dispensations here 454 00:18:52,428 --> 00:18:55,124 because that is one way that this first age 455 00:18:55,124 --> 00:18:56,473 could be broken down - 456 00:18:56,473 --> 00:18:58,592 before the cross, after the cross. 457 00:18:58,592 --> 00:19:00,715 Before the cross, God's people 458 00:19:00,715 --> 00:19:02,725 were mainly the Jews. 459 00:19:02,725 --> 00:19:05,512 Afterwards, to all the nations 460 00:19:05,512 --> 00:19:06,875 including the Jews. 461 00:19:06,875 --> 00:19:08,440 There's a remnant there as well. 462 00:19:08,440 --> 00:19:10,430 Paul said, look, I'm one of them. 463 00:19:10,430 --> 00:19:11,704 I'm converted. 464 00:19:11,704 --> 00:19:14,456 God hasn't forsaken His people whom He foreknew. 465 00:19:14,456 --> 00:19:16,590 There's Jews still being saved today. 466 00:19:16,590 --> 00:19:17,966 What God's work has done 467 00:19:17,966 --> 00:19:19,491 is not excluding the Jews. 468 00:19:19,491 --> 00:19:21,204 They're very much included. 469 00:19:21,204 --> 00:19:22,835 But now, it's all the nations 470 00:19:22,835 --> 00:19:24,262 including the Jews. 471 00:19:24,262 --> 00:19:25,634 Should we evangelize the Jews? 472 00:19:25,634 --> 00:19:27,065 That was one of his questions. 473 00:19:27,065 --> 00:19:27,980 By all means! 474 00:19:27,980 --> 00:19:29,893 Just as much as we should evangelize 475 00:19:29,893 --> 00:19:31,996 the Chinese and the Indians 476 00:19:31,996 --> 00:19:33,995 and Koreans and the Russians, 477 00:19:33,995 --> 00:19:37,004 and Americans. 478 00:19:37,004 --> 00:19:38,995 By all means. 479 00:19:38,995 --> 00:19:42,056 But listen, here's what happened at the cross. 480 00:19:42,056 --> 00:19:44,686 Jesus Christ was victorious. 481 00:19:44,686 --> 00:19:46,107 He led captivity captive. 482 00:19:46,107 --> 00:19:48,118 I'll tell you one of the things that happened there 483 00:19:48,118 --> 00:19:51,052 is Satan was no longer to hold the nations in darkness. 484 00:19:51,052 --> 00:19:52,454 Suddenly, what happened? 485 00:19:52,454 --> 00:19:54,523 He went to the cross and what happened? 486 00:19:54,523 --> 00:19:56,077 Brother Craig was showing us 487 00:19:56,077 --> 00:19:57,675 on that screen on Sunday. 488 00:19:57,675 --> 00:19:58,837 You know what happened? 489 00:19:58,837 --> 00:20:00,359 The missionaries started going. 490 00:20:00,359 --> 00:20:02,513 The scattered churches started going around 491 00:20:02,513 --> 00:20:04,074 and the Gospel was being preached 492 00:20:04,074 --> 00:20:05,618 and the nations, the Gentiles, 493 00:20:05,618 --> 00:20:08,114 began to be converted. 494 00:20:08,114 --> 00:20:09,397 And you know what? 495 00:20:09,397 --> 00:20:11,486 At the end, he's going to be released 496 00:20:11,486 --> 00:20:12,518 for a little season. 497 00:20:12,518 --> 00:20:14,003 And you know what Paul tells us 498 00:20:14,003 --> 00:20:15,414 very clearly in the epistles? 499 00:20:15,414 --> 00:20:17,343 At the end, before Christ comes, 500 00:20:17,343 --> 00:20:19,167 there's going to be what? 501 00:20:19,167 --> 00:20:20,861 A great falling away. 502 00:20:20,861 --> 00:20:22,005 What does that mean? 503 00:20:22,005 --> 00:20:23,863 You read in Romans 11, 504 00:20:23,863 --> 00:20:26,005 the times of the Gentiles are completed. 505 00:20:26,005 --> 00:20:28,467 And it looks like what's going to happen in the end, 506 00:20:28,467 --> 00:20:30,475 the time of the Gentiles comes to an end, 507 00:20:30,475 --> 00:20:32,049 Satan is released again. 508 00:20:32,049 --> 00:20:36,205 He's able to once again deceive the nations. 509 00:20:36,205 --> 00:20:37,805 The love of many grows cold. 510 00:20:37,805 --> 00:20:40,066 And it seems like from Romans 11, 511 00:20:40,066 --> 00:20:41,858 very likely, there is going to be 512 00:20:41,858 --> 00:20:44,722 an ingathering of Jews. 513 00:20:44,722 --> 00:20:48,015 That's what it appears to be. 514 00:20:48,015 --> 00:20:52,663 Folks, you know what dispensationalism also pushes? 515 00:20:52,663 --> 00:20:54,619 There's a big and radical distinction 516 00:20:54,619 --> 00:20:57,176 between the church and Israel. 517 00:20:57,176 --> 00:20:59,061 I tell you, it's not so. 518 00:20:59,061 --> 00:21:02,393 It is not the case. 519 00:21:02,393 --> 00:21:04,525 You know what I've heard 520 00:21:04,525 --> 00:21:06,260 the dispensationalists say? 521 00:21:06,260 --> 00:21:09,756 Basically, God intended to save the Jews. 522 00:21:09,756 --> 00:21:13,358 His "plan A" fell apart and failed, 523 00:21:13,358 --> 00:21:17,360 and so there's this parenthesis - 524 00:21:17,360 --> 00:21:19,451 maybe some of you have heard that before - 525 00:21:19,451 --> 00:21:22,074 and He went to "plan B" 526 00:21:22,074 --> 00:21:25,238 with the Gentiles. 527 00:21:25,238 --> 00:21:26,896 Folks, that isn't even true. 528 00:21:26,896 --> 00:21:29,234 All you've got to do is read Romans 9-11, 529 00:21:29,234 --> 00:21:30,787 and you know what Paul's saying 530 00:21:30,787 --> 00:21:32,254 all the way through? 531 00:21:32,254 --> 00:21:35,223 This is exactly as was foretold by the prophets. 532 00:21:35,223 --> 00:21:36,754 Nothing new has come here. 533 00:21:36,754 --> 00:21:38,795 God said there would be a remnant. 534 00:21:38,795 --> 00:21:41,546 And God said He was going to go to the Gentiles. 535 00:21:41,546 --> 00:21:43,554 This didn't catch anybody by surprise 536 00:21:43,554 --> 00:21:44,951 if they would have just read 537 00:21:44,951 --> 00:21:46,824 their Old Testament Scriptures right. 538 00:21:46,824 --> 00:21:48,554 It was said all through the prophets 539 00:21:48,554 --> 00:21:51,960 that God was going to go to the Gentiles. 540 00:21:51,960 --> 00:21:54,059 Still, you come to the New Testament, 541 00:21:54,059 --> 00:21:55,744 and Paul says it's a mystery. 542 00:21:55,744 --> 00:21:57,693 Because for all that was said about it, 543 00:21:57,693 --> 00:21:59,894 they didn't get it. 544 00:21:59,894 --> 00:22:01,291 They didn't get it. 545 00:22:01,291 --> 00:22:02,592 And you know what? 546 00:22:02,592 --> 00:22:07,864 For all that, it was only a remnant. 547 00:22:07,864 --> 00:22:09,616 Isn't that what the prophets said? 548 00:22:09,616 --> 00:22:11,803 They said, Lord, if You wouldn't have given us a remnant, 549 00:22:11,803 --> 00:22:13,317 we'd have been like Sodom and Gomorrah. 550 00:22:13,317 --> 00:22:15,053 He's speaking about the Jews. 551 00:22:15,053 --> 00:22:16,853 Now listen, you know what you find 552 00:22:16,853 --> 00:22:17,853 in the New Testament? 553 00:22:17,853 --> 00:22:19,121 You know what Paul really drives home 554 00:22:19,121 --> 00:22:20,204 again and again and again 555 00:22:20,204 --> 00:22:21,694 in the epistle of Romans? 556 00:22:21,694 --> 00:22:24,814 He says there is no distinction between Jew and Gentile. 557 00:22:24,814 --> 00:22:27,283 You find that in Galatians. 558 00:22:27,283 --> 00:22:28,945 Do you not find that? 559 00:22:28,945 --> 00:22:31,012 When it comes to those that are in Christ, 560 00:22:31,012 --> 00:22:32,534 in Galatians it says, 561 00:22:32,534 --> 00:22:34,775 there is no distinction. 562 00:22:34,775 --> 00:22:36,590 There is no Jew and Gentile. 563 00:22:36,590 --> 00:22:38,252 There is no male and female. 564 00:22:38,252 --> 00:22:40,894 There is no circumcised and uncircumcised. 565 00:22:40,894 --> 00:22:42,623 They're all the same in Christ. 566 00:22:42,623 --> 00:22:46,155 You become a child of Abraham by what? 567 00:22:46,155 --> 00:22:47,271 Faith. 568 00:22:47,271 --> 00:22:52,345 Abraham was declared righteous by faith. 569 00:22:52,345 --> 00:22:54,546 And you become his child by faith. 570 00:22:54,546 --> 00:22:56,914 And it was in the Old Testament that way, 571 00:22:56,914 --> 00:22:58,771 and it's in the New Testament that way. 572 00:22:58,771 --> 00:23:00,962 And the only Jews in the Old Testament - 573 00:23:00,962 --> 00:23:02,506 folks, there's no distinction. 574 00:23:02,506 --> 00:23:05,315 And the Gospel is the power of God unto salvation 575 00:23:05,315 --> 00:23:07,434 to the Jew first and also to the Greek. 576 00:23:07,434 --> 00:23:08,754 There is no distinction. 577 00:23:08,754 --> 00:23:10,014 None whatsoever. 578 00:23:10,014 --> 00:23:12,004 There are not differences. 579 00:23:12,004 --> 00:23:13,704 And you know what you in fact find 580 00:23:13,704 --> 00:23:15,396 when you come to the New Testament? 581 00:23:15,396 --> 00:23:16,913 The Galatian Gentile churches 582 00:23:16,913 --> 00:23:20,741 are called the Israel of God. 583 00:23:20,741 --> 00:23:23,355 Where's that at? Galatians 6:16. 584 00:23:23,355 --> 00:23:25,585 Romans 2:29, "A Jew is one inwardly. 585 00:23:25,585 --> 00:23:27,475 Circumcision is a matter of the heart 586 00:23:27,475 --> 00:23:29,164 by the Spirit, not by the letter." 587 00:23:29,164 --> 00:23:31,372 Ephesians 2:14, 588 00:23:31,372 --> 00:23:33,553 "Jesus Christ, He Himself is our peace, 589 00:23:33,553 --> 00:23:37,355 who has made us both, Jew and Gentile, one 590 00:23:37,355 --> 00:23:39,274 and has broken down in His flesh 591 00:23:39,274 --> 00:23:41,273 the dividing wall of hostility." 592 00:23:41,273 --> 00:23:43,934 You know what else you find? Philippians 3:3, 593 00:23:43,934 --> 00:23:46,245 "We..." you know who the Philippians were? 594 00:23:46,245 --> 00:23:47,747 Gentile Christians. 595 00:23:47,747 --> 00:23:49,405 "We are the true circumcision." 596 00:23:49,405 --> 00:23:51,912 We're the real Jew, 597 00:23:51,912 --> 00:23:54,339 "who worship by the Spirit of God 598 00:23:54,339 --> 00:23:55,795 and glory in Christ Jesus, 599 00:23:55,795 --> 00:23:59,064 and put no confidence in the flesh." 600 00:23:59,064 --> 00:24:00,744 Can I tell you what else goes along 601 00:24:00,744 --> 00:24:02,264 with that dispensational system 602 00:24:02,264 --> 00:24:03,855 that is just garbage? 603 00:24:03,855 --> 00:24:05,375 The rapture. 604 00:24:05,375 --> 00:24:06,405 Yep. 605 00:24:06,405 --> 00:24:08,971 Left Behind. You've got the whole deal there. 606 00:24:08,971 --> 00:24:11,852 Would somebody please prove to me 607 00:24:11,852 --> 00:24:14,755 the rapture from the New Testament? 608 00:24:14,755 --> 00:24:17,576 It's not there. 609 00:24:17,576 --> 00:24:24,795 You guys have heard little bits, right? 610 00:24:24,795 --> 00:24:27,875 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye... 611 00:24:27,875 --> 00:24:30,155 You've heard that one. 612 00:24:30,155 --> 00:24:38,642 You've probably heard this one as well. 613 00:24:38,642 --> 00:24:42,450 "The Lord Himself will descend from heaven..." 614 00:24:42,450 --> 00:24:46,807 And it says basically we'll be caught up 615 00:24:46,807 --> 00:24:49,851 together with them in the clouds 616 00:24:49,851 --> 00:24:51,796 to meet the Lord in the air. 617 00:24:51,796 --> 00:24:53,274 You've heard those. 618 00:24:53,274 --> 00:24:55,061 But you haven't heard the context. 619 00:24:55,061 --> 00:24:57,084 People don't want to read the whole thing. 620 00:24:57,084 --> 00:24:59,015 Because if they read the whole thing, 621 00:24:59,015 --> 00:25:02,123 it just totally kills their whole theology. 622 00:25:02,123 --> 00:25:03,364 If we read these - 623 00:25:03,364 --> 00:25:04,350 1 Corinthians 15: 624 00:25:04,350 --> 00:25:05,886 "Behold, I tell you a mystery. 625 00:25:05,886 --> 00:25:07,798 We shall not all sleep, 626 00:25:07,798 --> 00:25:09,952 but we shall all be changed, 627 00:25:09,952 --> 00:25:12,049 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye." 628 00:25:12,049 --> 00:25:14,046 When? At some secret, 629 00:25:14,046 --> 00:25:16,736 mysterious return of Christ 630 00:25:16,736 --> 00:25:17,913 that nobody knows? 631 00:25:17,913 --> 00:25:19,582 And all of a sudden, there are just 632 00:25:19,582 --> 00:25:21,105 piles of clothes on the floor? 633 00:25:21,105 --> 00:25:23,124 And nobody knows what happened? 634 00:25:23,124 --> 00:25:24,952 Is that what it says? 635 00:25:24,952 --> 00:25:27,044 Folks, it says it's at the last trumpet. 636 00:25:27,044 --> 00:25:28,694 You know what the last trumpet is? 637 00:25:28,694 --> 00:25:30,641 It's the trumpet of the archangel. 638 00:25:30,641 --> 00:25:32,559 And every eye will see Him. 639 00:25:32,559 --> 00:25:34,053 Every ear will hear. 640 00:25:34,053 --> 00:25:36,053 This isn't some secret deal. 641 00:25:36,053 --> 00:25:38,597 This coming of Christ - 642 00:25:38,597 --> 00:25:40,945 there's one second coming. 643 00:25:40,945 --> 00:25:43,154 There's not a second second coming. 644 00:25:43,154 --> 00:25:45,012 One - some secret deal. 645 00:25:45,012 --> 00:25:46,488 The Bible doesn't teach that. 646 00:25:46,488 --> 00:25:48,214 There's one. And when's it coming? 647 00:25:48,214 --> 00:25:49,898 And the trump of the archangel. 648 00:25:49,898 --> 00:25:51,575 And every eye's going to see Him. 649 00:25:51,575 --> 00:25:53,080 And it's like the lightning flashing 650 00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:54,374 from the east to the west. 651 00:25:54,374 --> 00:25:55,974 Don't let these people deceive you. 652 00:25:55,974 --> 00:25:57,598 And I'll you, it is deception. 653 00:25:57,598 --> 00:26:00,247 And it leads to a bad theology, 654 00:26:00,247 --> 00:26:02,140 because it leads to a second chance theology. 655 00:26:02,140 --> 00:26:03,604 People running around thinking, 656 00:26:03,604 --> 00:26:05,666 oh, when I see all the little piles of clothes 657 00:26:05,666 --> 00:26:07,589 and the empty cars that closed off the road, 658 00:26:07,589 --> 00:26:09,304 and the airplanes fall out of the sky, 659 00:26:09,304 --> 00:26:10,493 then I'll know to believe. 660 00:26:10,493 --> 00:26:11,733 Don't you believe that. 661 00:26:11,733 --> 00:26:13,614 It says today is the day of salvation. 662 00:26:13,614 --> 00:26:15,183 It says today if you hear, 663 00:26:15,183 --> 00:26:17,525 don't harden your heart 664 00:26:17,525 --> 00:26:19,465 as they did in the provocation 665 00:26:19,465 --> 00:26:21,935 or when they provoked God. 666 00:26:21,935 --> 00:26:23,170 You know what? 667 00:26:23,170 --> 00:26:24,717 You know what kind of language you've got 668 00:26:24,717 --> 00:26:26,411 in the New Testament? 669 00:26:26,411 --> 00:26:29,477 You've got the language of a thief. 670 00:26:29,477 --> 00:26:30,923 You know when the thief comes? 671 00:26:30,923 --> 00:26:33,427 When you don't expect. 672 00:26:33,427 --> 00:26:36,935 You know what Christ said? 673 00:26:36,935 --> 00:26:38,681 When you think not; 674 00:26:38,681 --> 00:26:40,505 at a time when you don't think, 675 00:26:40,505 --> 00:26:42,596 He says, that's when I'm coming. 676 00:26:42,596 --> 00:26:43,951 And I'll tell you what, 677 00:26:43,951 --> 00:26:46,012 they've all got it figured out. 678 00:26:46,012 --> 00:26:48,538 Oh, we're going to have this great big tribulation 679 00:26:48,538 --> 00:26:49,865 and three and a half years... 680 00:26:49,865 --> 00:26:51,604 Folks, they've got it marked right out 681 00:26:51,604 --> 00:26:52,586 when He's coming. 682 00:26:52,586 --> 00:26:55,131 And Christ said I'm coming as a thief in the night. 683 00:26:55,131 --> 00:26:57,035 And you're not going to know when I'm coming. 684 00:26:57,035 --> 00:26:58,656 And there's not going to be any markers 685 00:26:58,656 --> 00:27:02,324 like people's piles of clothes on the floor. 686 00:27:02,324 --> 00:27:03,752 You know what? 687 00:27:03,752 --> 00:27:05,355 When's all this going to happen? 688 00:27:05,355 --> 00:27:09,045 When are we all going to be raised up? 689 00:27:09,045 --> 00:27:11,225 Jesus says this in John 6:39, 690 00:27:11,225 --> 00:27:13,034 "This is the will of Him who sent Me 691 00:27:13,034 --> 00:27:15,408 that I should lose nothing of all He has given Me, 692 00:27:15,408 --> 00:27:16,993 but raise it up at the last day." 693 00:27:16,993 --> 00:27:20,322 When is Jesus going to raise all His people up? 694 00:27:20,322 --> 00:27:22,174 At the last day. 695 00:27:22,174 --> 00:27:23,827 Not at some day 696 00:27:23,827 --> 00:27:27,623 way before the last day. 697 00:27:27,623 --> 00:27:30,596 Not at some day in a secret rapture 698 00:27:30,596 --> 00:27:33,883 and now there's this whole amount of time that goes on. 699 00:27:33,883 --> 00:27:37,142 He raises up all His people at the last day. 700 00:27:37,142 --> 00:27:38,499 What's the last day? 701 00:27:38,499 --> 00:27:39,766 The last day of this age. 702 00:27:39,766 --> 00:27:41,986 There's this age. There's the age to come. 703 00:27:41,986 --> 00:27:43,616 It's the last day of this age. 704 00:27:43,616 --> 00:27:45,935 The last day is when I'm raising them. 705 00:27:45,935 --> 00:27:47,217 That's the resurrection. 706 00:27:47,217 --> 00:27:48,987 We already saw the resurrection 707 00:27:48,987 --> 00:27:54,174 is what ushers in the new age. 708 00:27:54,174 --> 00:27:55,954 John 11:24, "Martha said to Him, 709 00:27:55,954 --> 00:27:58,105 'I know that he will rise again' (speaking of Lazarus) 710 00:27:58,105 --> 00:28:00,266 'again in the resurrection on the last day.'" 711 00:28:00,266 --> 00:28:02,066 John 12:48, "The one who rejects Me 712 00:28:02,066 --> 00:28:03,438 and does not receive My words 713 00:28:03,438 --> 00:28:04,501 has a judge. 714 00:28:04,501 --> 00:28:06,237 The Word that I have spoken will judge him 715 00:28:06,237 --> 00:28:07,543 on the last day." 716 00:28:07,543 --> 00:28:09,914 When's the judgment? 717 00:28:09,914 --> 00:28:11,104 It's on the last day. 718 00:28:11,104 --> 00:28:12,894 When is everybody raised? 719 00:28:12,894 --> 00:28:14,594 On the last day. 720 00:28:14,594 --> 00:28:16,655 And you know what the Scripture says? 721 00:28:16,655 --> 00:28:18,546 In Matthew 25, it doesn't say 722 00:28:18,546 --> 00:28:21,439 that all the Christians are swept away. 723 00:28:21,439 --> 00:28:22,885 You know what you find there? 724 00:28:22,885 --> 00:28:26,498 You find a parable; you find a story. 725 00:28:26,498 --> 00:28:28,893 Anybody ever read this account 726 00:28:28,893 --> 00:28:30,745 of the ten virgins? 727 00:28:30,745 --> 00:28:33,104 Guess what? They're all there. 728 00:28:33,104 --> 00:28:35,274 The saved and the lost. 729 00:28:35,274 --> 00:28:36,341 And here comes Christ. 730 00:28:36,341 --> 00:28:37,925 Here comes the Bridegroom. 731 00:28:37,925 --> 00:28:39,661 And then He goes on in the later part 732 00:28:39,661 --> 00:28:41,283 of Matthew 25, and He says, 733 00:28:41,283 --> 00:28:43,378 okay, let Me give you another picture of it. 734 00:28:43,378 --> 00:28:44,653 There are the ten virgins. 735 00:28:44,653 --> 00:28:46,109 That's one picture. 736 00:28:46,109 --> 00:28:48,137 Five are wise. Five are foolish. 737 00:28:48,137 --> 00:28:50,360 Five are saved. Five are lost. 738 00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:53,268 Here I come and they come in with Me. 739 00:28:53,268 --> 00:28:55,648 Those - they're going to be cast out. 740 00:28:55,648 --> 00:28:57,491 Let Me give you another picture of it. 741 00:28:57,491 --> 00:29:00,387 Jesus Christ says, there I am... 742 00:29:00,387 --> 00:29:02,655 "...The Son of Man comes in His glory, 743 00:29:02,655 --> 00:29:03,820 all the angels with Him. 744 00:29:03,820 --> 00:29:05,345 Then He'll sit on His glorious throne. 745 00:29:05,345 --> 00:29:07,323 Before Him will be gathered all the nations." 746 00:29:07,323 --> 00:29:10,714 Now, we already saw from John 12:48, 747 00:29:10,714 --> 00:29:13,064 the judgment's on the last day. 748 00:29:13,064 --> 00:29:14,195 So here's the last day. 749 00:29:14,195 --> 00:29:15,344 Here's the judgment. 750 00:29:15,344 --> 00:29:16,757 And who's there? 751 00:29:16,757 --> 00:29:18,994 Not just the saved. Not just the lost. 752 00:29:18,994 --> 00:29:21,174 This is the Great White Throne judgment. 753 00:29:21,174 --> 00:29:23,374 Who do you find? You find the lost and the saved. 754 00:29:23,374 --> 00:29:24,894 You see, the dispensationalists - 755 00:29:24,894 --> 00:29:26,265 this is another place they've got 756 00:29:26,265 --> 00:29:29,015 all these different judgments taking place. 757 00:29:29,015 --> 00:29:32,624 The Bible tells us about one. 758 00:29:32,624 --> 00:29:34,727 Listen to me. 759 00:29:34,727 --> 00:29:38,185 When that sky splits open, 760 00:29:38,185 --> 00:29:43,465 and that trump rings through 761 00:29:43,465 --> 00:29:47,306 the stillness of this earth's air, 762 00:29:47,306 --> 00:29:50,383 it's done. 763 00:29:50,383 --> 00:29:56,362 And if you have not bowed the knee to Christ, 764 00:29:56,362 --> 00:29:59,423 it's over. 765 00:29:59,423 --> 00:30:02,052 And you are in trouble. 766 00:30:02,052 --> 00:30:04,494 There is no second chance theology. 767 00:30:04,494 --> 00:30:06,552 There's no: well, if the rapture comes, 768 00:30:06,552 --> 00:30:08,881 then I'll know I better get my act together. 769 00:30:08,881 --> 00:30:11,374 And then if Christ sets up His earthly kingdom 770 00:30:11,374 --> 00:30:12,456 over in Jerusalem, 771 00:30:12,456 --> 00:30:15,118 then I'll really know I need to get my act together. 772 00:30:15,118 --> 00:30:16,755 Don't you believe it. 773 00:30:16,755 --> 00:30:18,469 He's on the throne already. 774 00:30:18,469 --> 00:30:19,440 He is Lord. 775 00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:22,244 He tells you to bow to Him now. 776 00:30:22,244 --> 00:30:25,638 Repent and trust the Lord now. 777 00:30:25,638 --> 00:30:28,525 You think there's some future kingdom coming? 778 00:30:28,525 --> 00:30:30,073 His kingdom's not of this world. 779 00:30:30,073 --> 00:30:32,250 He's already on His throne in His kingdom. 780 00:30:32,250 --> 00:30:34,411 And He is in control. 781 00:30:34,411 --> 00:30:37,215 And He commands all men everywhere to repent 782 00:30:37,215 --> 00:30:40,835 and bow the knee now. 783 00:30:40,835 --> 00:30:43,481 Don't fall for this garbage, folks. 784 00:30:43,481 --> 00:30:45,592 The rapture is garbage. 785 00:30:45,592 --> 00:30:48,254 This millennial idea is garbage. 786 00:30:48,254 --> 00:30:50,058 Israel being separate? 787 00:30:50,058 --> 00:30:52,656 How are they separate and distinct? 788 00:30:52,656 --> 00:30:54,124 They're not. 789 00:30:54,124 --> 00:30:55,725 You know what the Scripture says? 790 00:30:55,725 --> 00:30:58,123 In Romans 3:9? 791 00:30:58,123 --> 00:31:00,136 "We conclude that all are under sin, 792 00:31:00,136 --> 00:31:01,685 both Jew and Gentile." 793 00:31:01,685 --> 00:31:03,341 Both are under sin. 794 00:31:03,341 --> 00:31:04,909 The Gospel is the power of God 795 00:31:04,909 --> 00:31:06,660 to both Jew and Gentile. 796 00:31:06,660 --> 00:31:08,190 There's no distinction. 797 00:31:08,190 --> 00:31:10,084 Scripture again and again and again 798 00:31:10,084 --> 00:31:11,995 says - Romans 10:12, 799 00:31:11,995 --> 00:31:14,232 "there's no distinction between Jew and Greek. 800 00:31:14,232 --> 00:31:15,732 The same Lord is Lord of all, 801 00:31:15,732 --> 00:31:18,101 bestowing His riches upon all who call upon Him." 802 00:31:18,101 --> 00:31:20,494 You know what? Whether you're a Jew, whether you're Gentile - 803 00:31:20,494 --> 00:31:22,972 if you call upon Him, you're in. 804 00:31:22,972 --> 00:31:26,324 There's one Gospel for all. There's not two. 805 00:31:26,324 --> 00:31:28,202 "There will be tribulation and distress 806 00:31:28,202 --> 00:31:29,624 for every human being who does evil, 807 00:31:29,624 --> 00:31:31,331 the Jew first and also the Greek. 808 00:31:31,331 --> 00:31:33,106 Glory, honor, and peace for everyone 809 00:31:33,106 --> 00:31:34,220 who does good." 810 00:31:34,220 --> 00:31:35,751 This doesn't mean you work it up. 811 00:31:35,751 --> 00:31:37,039 This means you've been born again. 812 00:31:37,039 --> 00:31:38,238 You've been regenerated. 813 00:31:38,238 --> 00:31:39,338 You've got a new heart. 814 00:31:39,338 --> 00:31:41,070 His laws aren't grievous. 815 00:31:41,070 --> 00:31:43,035 If you've been changed and transformed 816 00:31:43,035 --> 00:31:44,624 and indwelt by the Spirit of God, 817 00:31:44,624 --> 00:31:46,315 you're putting to death sin, 818 00:31:46,315 --> 00:31:48,324 you're living righteously, 819 00:31:48,324 --> 00:31:51,302 you're bowing the knee to Jesus Christ - 820 00:31:51,302 --> 00:31:52,807 it says there's no difference. 821 00:31:52,807 --> 00:31:54,135 There's no distinction. 822 00:31:54,135 --> 00:31:56,977 Jew and Gentile. 823 00:31:56,977 --> 00:31:59,435 There's no distinction on those who go to hell. 824 00:31:59,435 --> 00:32:03,393 There's no distinction on those who will be damned. 825 00:32:03,393 --> 00:32:05,296 Now, that's obviously not everything 826 00:32:05,296 --> 00:32:07,304 that can be said about dispensationalism. 827 00:32:07,304 --> 00:32:08,614 There is tons more. 828 00:32:08,614 --> 00:32:10,609 It would take a series to do everything 829 00:32:10,609 --> 00:32:11,734 that can be said on it 830 00:32:11,734 --> 00:32:13,145 to bring out all the verses 831 00:32:13,145 --> 00:32:16,025 that need to be dealt with.