Good evening. The time has come to start church. Hope you're ready. Please stand if you're able and we'll start on little is much. ♪ In the harvest field now ripen ♪ There's a work for all to do ♪ Hark the voice of God is calling ♪ To the harvest calling you ♪ Little is much when God is in it ♪ Blame her not for wealth or fame ♪ There's a crown and you can win it ♪ If you'll go in Jesus' name Are you laid aside from service, body worn from toil and care? You can still be in the battle, in the sacred place of prayer. Little is much when God is in it, labor not for wealth or fame. There's a crown and you can win it if you'll go in Jesus' name. When the conflict here is ended, And our race on earth is run, He will say, if we are faithful, Welcome home, my child, well done. Little is much when God is in it, Labor not for wealth or fame, There's a crown and you can win it, If you'll go in Jesus' name. Good to see you back. Let's go to the Lord in word of prayer. Lord, we ask for your blessing on the service this evening. Speak through Brother Nichols to us. Lord, bless those one lost that they might get saved this evening in Jesus' name. Amen. You may be seated. He leadeth me. He leadeth me, O blessed thought, O words with heavenly comfort from. What e'er I do, where e'er I be, still tis God's hand that leadeth me. He leadeth me, He leadeth me By His own hand He leadeth me ♪ His faithful follower I would be ♪ ♪ For by His hand He leadeth me ♪ ♪ Sometimes mid scenes of deepest gloom ♪ ♪ Sometimes where Eden flowers bloom ♪ ♪ By water still or troubled seas ♪ Still tis God's hand that leadeth me He leadeth me, He leadeth me By His own hand He leadeth me His faithful follower I would be, For by His hand He leadeth me. And when my task on earth is done, When by Thy grace the victories won, In death's cold wave I will not flee, Since God through Jordan leadeth me. He leadeth me, He leadeth me, ♪ On hand he leadeth me ♪ His faithful follower I would be ♪ For by his hand he leadeth me Boys, it's a privilege to have folks visiting with us here for the first time, the first time in a long time. I didn't see you all, but sometimes I don't see everybody. Good to have the girls back. They got saved two weeks ago or three weeks ago? A couple weeks ago, I don't remember, but good to see the two sisters back. Also, the young man that sat back here today behind Mrs. Perry. I knew I recognized him. I recognized faces, but I'm really bad with names. And I realized where I saw him, Christina had sold him his Mustang that was out there on my property. So I met him. He's apparently dating one of Jose's relatives. And so after church, he asked if I could lead him to the Lord, and I did. And then when I took him in the hallway, I realized who he was. It didn't sink in at the time, and I thought, I feel so bad. Jose did all the digging, all the planting, all the watering, and I did the harvesting. And I thought, hmm, too bad for Jose. But it was a blessing. Landon got saved this morning, so again, hopefully he'll get back here as well. Always good to have folks come to church and visit with us. This from Mrs. Milliken says, Dear Pastor Nichols and church family, thank you so much for your prayers over the past few weeks. As far as stuff going on this week, we have our normal schedule, which means Wednesday night at 7.30 for prayer and Bible study, Thursday night soul winning at 6.45, Saturday bus visitation and soul winning at 10.45, and then back in your place for Sunday school, and next Sunday morning Brother Cor will be with us in the main auditorium for Sunday school at 945, then he'll be speaking for us at 1050 in the main church service, then back Sunday night at 6, then Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday at 730 on those nights. And again, I don't ever try to get people from other churches to come to our services. Because I never miss our church, unless I'm on vacation or out of town, I don't ever go to someone else's. You say, well, if someone invites you over to church here in town, I don't visit their church when we have services if I'm in town. So, again, we want to make sure that we don't invite, try to get people to come from their church. We're not one of those that try to proselyte other folks' church members. But Monday and Tuesday night, they probably don't have a church service, so invite them to come out on Monday and Tuesday and enjoy Brother Corral and hear some good preaching, and we'll enjoy their fellowship as well. And then December the 4th, which is a Wednesday night, and then the 6th and the 7th, which is a Friday and Saturday, we'll have Brother Owens. We are hosting a youth conference. He's going to speak here for us on Wednesday, then he'll be speaking over at Texas Baptist during the 7 o'clock service at Texas Baptist, and then twice on Saturday, for youth conference, but everybody is invited. It is conference for all ages, so you're welcome to come. Some upcoming events here. There's a church cleanup day, October the 26th. That's, I think, three weeks away from today, the 26th. It starts at 7.30 in the morning. It says, and you say, what's the stopping time? It has no stopping time, apparently, when we get done. And then it says bring bring when you come gloves And they'll supply food and and water also mark and Maria's wedding is November the 9th At 4 30 in the afternoon they've asked that we invite you to that that is these young folks right back here and then also miss Bayes and Jose are getting married in December, but they're having their wedding shower, the bridal shower for all the church ladies on November the 16th. That's a Saturday. So on the 16th, on that Saturday at 2 p.m., is that going to be in the auditorium, the fellowship hall? You want to know? Fellowship Hall. So Fellowship Hall on that Saturday. So again, ladies, if you want to know what to bring, see Mrs. Sells, and she has a sign-up list for the food. And that will be again on a Saturday, 2 p.m., November the 16th. So again, continue to pray for Brother Coro till he gets here. Pray for him while he's here. And again, ask God to touch our hearts. I always, at each service, I ask God to touch my heart, then I ask Him to touch others as well. But again, be faithful to all the meetings, all day Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. How many of you remember when we used to have revival all week? I don't know if you was like me, it was always a great week, but by the end of the week, I was really tired. The three days, I mean, I get tired a lot easier now, but again, the three days. So again, you don't have all week, so you gotta make sure you're faithful for Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. And also guys, if you can help us with security guard, we'll need security guards on that Monday and Tuesday as well. So when you sign up, realize we'll need some guys, not just for the Wednesday night and the Sunday night service, but that Monday and Tuesday as well. And if you can help us with that, we'd appreciate it, because we don't want the same guy. Now, we have a guy or two that if no one else signs up, they're out there. But we don't want those fellows to miss a whole bunch of church while there's others that don't go, don't help with security at all. And again, if you'll check with the guys in the PA room, they'll give you a walkie talkie and help you and tell you what to do and what not to do and help you with that. But again, if you can help us during the revival and help us with security, we'd appreciate it. Far away the noise of strife upon my ear is falling Then I know the sins of earth beset on every end Doubt and fears and things of earth too to me are calling. None of these shall move me from Beulah land. I'm living on the mountain underneath a cloudless sky. Praise God, I'm drinking at the fountain that never shall run dry oh yes I'm feasting on the manna from a bountiful supply for I am dwelling in Beulah Let the stormy breezes blow, their cry cannot alarm me. I am safely sheltered here, protected by God's hand. Here the sun is always shining Here there's naught can harm me I am safe forever in Beulah land I'm living on the mountain underneath a cloudless sky. Praise God! I'm drinking at the fountain that never shall run dry. Oh yes, I'm feasting on the manna from a bountiful supply, for I am dwelling in Bute. On the last Viewing here the works of God I see in contemplation. Hearing now His blessed voice I see the way He planned. Dwelling in the Spirit here I learn of full salvation. Gladly will I tarry in Beulah land. I'm living on the mountain underneath the cloudless sky. I'm drinking at the fountain that never shall run dry. Oh yes, feasting on the manna from a bountiful supply, for I am dwelling in Beulah. Heavenly Father, Lord, we thank you for this important time here during the service, Lord, that you bless this offering, the gift and the giver, Lord. And Lord, if there's one lost, I pray he gets saved. And Brother Perry, just let me know, Lord, on his telephone, his wife told him that Israel just struck Iran. And Lord, we know we're on the winning side, Lord, and we got the victory. Lord, and bless this offering. In Jesus' precious holy name, amen. Yeah. I'd rather have Jesus. I'd rather have Jesus than silver or gold. I'd rather be His than have riches untold. I'd rather have Jesus Houses or land, I'd rather be led By His nail-pierced hand Than to be the king of a vast domain Or be held in sin's dread sway I'd rather have Jesus than anything this world affords today. I'd rather have Jesus, man's applause I'd rather be faithful to his dear cause Rather have Jesus than worldwide fame I'd rather be true ♪ To His holy name ♪ ♪ Than to be the king of a vast domain ♪ ♪ Or be held in sin's dread sway ♪ ♪ I'd rather have Jesus than anything ♪ ♪ This world affords today ♪ He's fairer than lilies, rarest bloom ♪ He's sweeter than honey from out the comb ♪ He's all that my hungering spirit needs I'd rather have Jesus and let Him lead Than to be a king of a vast domain Or be held in sin's dread sway I'd rather have Jesus than anything this world affords today. We'll sing to the Lord with a praise song, for the Savior heard my cry. He delivered me out of the miry clay, and set my feet. I will praise you, Lord. I will praise you, Lord. I will praise you all my days. I will praise you, Lord. I will praise you, Lord. Please accept my song of praise. O my soul, sing a new song. Jesus tore the bars away. Yes, He conquered each foe with His mighty power. It changed my night into day. I will praise you, Lord, I will praise you, Lord I will praise you, Lord, I did I will praise you, Lord, I will praise you, Lord Please extend my song of praise Thank you. You know, I think whoever does this, we need another microphone or two when the little ones sing like that. We only have one or two that are holding microphones, and there's one standing here, but there's two or three kids down toward the end that don't have a microphone, and they're moving their lips. It's just hard to hear them, or maybe I just can't hear. Maybe that's the problem. Yeah, both of those things may be the problem. All right, Revelation chapter 20. And we continue tonight dealing with the prophetic scheme as the Lord has set it forth for us in the Bible. And Revelation chapter 20, it's just got a ring in it I gotta read, hello? Okay, now it's about sounds right. Revelation chapter 20, verse one. John said, And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit, and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent which is the devil and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, and cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years should be fulfilled. And after that, he must be loosed a little season uh... now i'm gonna speak tonight on the subject what the earth will be like when satan is bound what the earth will be like when satan is bound Father, now I need your help tonight as I try to bring this message. I pray that you'll help me to do so in the power of the Holy Spirit. I do pray that you'll be honored and glorified. I pray that your people will be blessed. I pray if there's anybody with us who's never had a time when they trusted Christ as Savior, that tonight they'd come to Him and trust Him and be saved. Please bless this time that we have together and help me now in Jesus' name. Amen. Our text passage tells of the beginning of the 1,000-year millennial reign of Christ and of how at the inception of that kingdom, at the revelation of the Lord Jesus in his second coming, Satan will be bound and shut up in the bottomless pit for the duration of that thousand-year millennial kingdom before being released at its conclusion to lead one final rebellion against the Lord. Now, I want us to understand that the single greatest blessing of that age is not that Satan is bound, but rather the greatest blessing, the blessing of all blessings is that the Lord Jesus Christ will be personally present and ruling and reigning in person. That's the big thing. But while it's not the single greatest blessing of that age, yet it is one of the great blessings of that time that Satan will not be loose to do his evil wicked deeds during that millennial time. Some have wondered about the purpose of Satan being bound during this thousand year period and then being released again at its conclusion. Well, one of the purposes is that it will be God's final test of fallen humanity under the most ideal circumstances possible in this case. You see, there are those who blame the wickedness of man on his environment, on his surroundings. The Bible, to the contrary, declares that man's wickedness comes from within. If you'll notice in your Bible, back to the Gospel of Mark chapter 7, the Gospel of Mark and chapter 7, in the book of Mark and in this chapter in verses 21 through 23 the Lord Jesus Christ says this, Mark chapter 7 and verse 21, for from within Out of the heart of men proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come, Jesus said, from within. and defile the man. And so now various Bible students have pointed out that God has dealt with man in various ways through the course of the ages. and that regardless of how God deals with him, man fails God's test and the age always ended in judgment. First, there was the age of innocence in the Garden of Eden. That ended in judgment with man sinning and God placing cherubims with a flaming sword at the entrance to the garden so that man could not return and partake of the tree of life and live forever. in a body of sin. Then came the age of conscience. Well that ended in judgment with man becoming so evil that God sent the flood and wiping man out on the face of the earth except for Noah and his family. Then came the age of human government. That ended in judgment with man rebelling at the Tower of Babel so that God had to send judgment and confuse the languages and scatter men away from that place. Then came the age of patriarchal promise. That ended with God's chosen people worshiping a golden calf at the foot of Mount Sinai and God having to send judgment because of that. Then came the age of law. That ended with the leaders of God's chosen nation uniting with the leaders of the Gentile world to nail God's Son to the cross and God ultimately sending judgment upon the city of Jerusalem and having the magnificent temple destroyed. Then came the age of grace which you and I are still in right now. that this age will end with man's wickedness becoming such that God will send the judgment of the 70th week of Daniel, the tribulation period, and then finally will come this final test in the age of the kingdom. Satan will be removed from the scene And yet man's heart will demonstrate itself to be so wicked that the minute Satan is released from captivity at the end of the kingdom age, he'll find among the multitudes that were born on earth during the millennium to parents in their unnatural bodies and who had lived under the righteous rule of Christ on earth, Satan will find among that crowd an innumerable company of followers to rebel against God and God will send fiery judgment upon these rebels who lived under but ultimately rejected the righteous rule of the Lord Jesus Christ. And so then this 1,000 years without the activity of Satan will demonstrate finally and climactically that the real problem of unconverted man is not his environment, it's not his surroundings, but rather it's his wicked heart. But I want us to see tonight from the Bible some things concerning what conditions will be like during the time that Satan is bound and removed from the scene for that thousand year period of the millennium, the kingdom age when Christ is ruling. Now we won't deal with all the conditions tonight. We'll look at others later when we focus on the fact that Jesus will be personally present But we will endeavor to focus tonight especially and specifically on conditions that are particularly a result of Satan being removed from the stage. Now we won't have time to do much more than simply look at the scriptures that give us information about this matter. And at that, we won't see nearly all the scriptures that we could see, but we'll see a good bit. So let's see, I've got 28 minutes until seven o'clock. Believe it or not, I try to finish by seven o'clock. I usually don't accomplish it, but I do try for it. So pray for me or whatever. So what will the earth be like when Satan is bound and cast into the bottomless pit and is not here to conduct his activities during that thousand years that Jesus rules and reigns? Well, let me say, number one, it will be a time of the corrected curse. When man sinned in the garden, you need to listen to me closely and carefully. When man sinned in the garden of Eden, God placed a curse on creation. look back in your Bible to Genesis, the first book in your Bible, chapter three, and Genesis chapter three, if you're a student of God's word, you recognize as being the student that deals with man's fall, man's first sin, in the Garden of Eden of Adam and Eve, but notice Genesis chapter three and verse 14, And the Lord God said unto the serpent, because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle. Does that mean that serpents used to look like cattle? I'm not saying it to be funny, I'm serious. I mean, why would he say that if they didn't look something like cattle? Somebody's trying to give me an answer. I'm not looking for an answer. I'm asking the question for effect. Well, small cows, anyhow, whatever it was. Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle and above every beast of the field. Upon thy belly shalt thou go, and thus shalt thou eat all the days of thy life. So this portion of the curse was upon Satan, but also upon the serpent whose body Satan had used, and by extension upon the animal creation, animal life. Then look down to verses 17 through 19, and unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it, cursed is the ground for thy sake, and Sarah, shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life. Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee, and thou shalt eat the herb of the field. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return unto the ground, for out of it was thou taken, for thus thou art and unto thus shalt thou return. Now in the curse on man that we see here in verses 17 through 19, we see that the earth was cursed so it would have to be tediously worked by the toilsome labor of man in order to get it to produce. See what he said? Cursed is the ground for thy sake. And so now, because of this curse, we're told of the condition of God's creation right up to this present moment right now in Romans chapter eight. Romans chapter eight. And notice verses 19 and 20. For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. For the creature was made subject to vanity not willingly, but by reason of him who has subjected the same in hope. Then verse 22, for we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. Now that meant, up until the time Paul had wrote that, but it's still true now, 2,000 years or so later. Right up to this moment, the creation that was cursed due to Adam's sin is groaning and travailing under the bondage and vanity of corruption. The fact is you can feel it in the burning heat of the summer sun. You can see it in the raging hurricane and tornadoes like the hurricane they had over North Carolina. You know, the one that our great president and his commissar, Kamala, Kamala the Commissar, that's a good name for her, The ones that they'd already spent all the money that goes to FEMA for emergencies in the United States, they'd spent all of it giving it to illegal aliens. And so they didn't have enough, oh, they did offer $750 to all these people. I mean, that'll do them good, won't it? They'll be able to start right over with $750, won't they? If you think that, don't talk to me because you'll just make me mad. But I'm saying this thing of the creation groaning and travailing under the bondage and vanity of corruption, we can hear it in the howling winter winds of the colder climates up north. But notice verse 21, which we skipped over, but notice what it says, because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. The creation will be delivered from the bondage of the curse. The curse, now hear what I'm saying right now. The curse will not be totally and completely taken off of creation until the end of the millennium when God brings in the new heaven and the new earth. But the curse will be largely lifted during the millennium so that it will be a foretaste of the new heaven and the new earth. Notice a few scriptures that speak of the millennium and indicate that it will be a time of the curse being largely corrected. Now, we saw that a part of the curse resulted in the earth not being productive apart from the laborious toil of man. We did see that way back in Genesis chapter three. Okay, but now look at the book of Amos chapter nine. And here we find what it's going to be like when Christ is here ruling and reigning when the devil is locked away in the bottomless pit during that thousand year reign of Christ. Amos chapter 9 and notice what verse 13 says, Behold the days come, saith the Lord, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed, and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt. And so In contrast to what we have in the earth now, have you noticed you don't have to work real hard to get cuckleburs to grow, do you? We don't have to work real hard to get weeds to grow, but if we're gonna have some corn or some cucumbers or some watermelons or something like that, we're gonna have to work those things. Well, that's cause the ground's cursed. But Amos said that the day is gonna come that the earth is gonna be so productive that the guy who's out plowing to get the land ready to plant will overtake the guy that's reaping the harvest from last year. That's pretty good when you're reaping one harvest and get overtaken by the guy that's putting the seed in for the next harvest. Well, that's what Amos said. We saw that a part of the curse resulted in the curse on animal, on the animal creation. With that in mind, notice Isaiah chapter 11, and here we'll see something of what conditions will be like in that thousand year reign when the devil is locked away in the abyss, in the bottomless pit. Isaiah chapter 11, verses six through nine. Now, in our day, the animals, you know, they have that curse on them. And so therefore, if you go to the zoo, don't try to pet the lion. Don't try to pit, I used to work, not at the zoo here, but at the zoo in Oklahoma City, and there was, you know, you always got these fruitcakes that always wanna come out and hang around with the, they're dumber than the animal they're hanging around with for the most part. But we had one place where, that they called the catwalk, it was where all the cages of all the lions and, I don't think they had any tiger. I think they bought a tiger while I worked there, and they put the tiger in the hospital. I don't think they ever put it in the cage while I was there. They had a bunch of leopards, and there was one guy that would come out there, and he, in his mind, made friends with one of the leopards. See, the way they had this thing set up, they had a sort of a, wasn't really a cave, but a kind of a closed off place with a big pit in the very front so they could, but then they had it closed off with chain link. Well, this leopard had figured out how to climb up there, so it was right there by, at the chain link fence. and this fruitcake that would come out and talk to the leopard would go over there and pet it through the chain link and all that kind of stuff. Well, what he didn't know was one day he came out there and the night before there had been, I don't remember what happened, but they had taken the leopard that he would pet and put it in the hospital and had put another leopard in that cage. So the next time this guy came out and decided to rub the leopard through the chain link, the leopard bit his finger off. Yeah, you know, I got a kind of a kick out of it. Maybe you don't. Well, that's fine. But what I'm saying to you is the animal creation is under the curse that they were placed under because of the sin of Adam. When the devil's locked up in the bottomless pit, and Jesus is ruling and reigning, Isaiah 11, beginning in verse six, the wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid, and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together, and a little child shall lead them. and the cow and the bear shall feed. Their young ones shall lie down together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox, and the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice 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 a lot of that curse on the animal creation's taken off. Did you notice all about these animals? You put a wolf and a lamb together now, you know what's gonna happen? There's gonna be a fat wolf and no lamb left when it's over with. But when the devil's locked away and the Lord Jesus is ruling and reigning, he's going to take care of all that. Notice in Isaiah, look over to chapter 65, Isaiah chapter 65, the next to the last chapter in the book of Isaiah. Isaiah 65 verse 25, the wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock, and thus shall be the serpent's meat. Interesting, that old serpent, he still gets what he, the curse that he was under, doesn't he? They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountains, saith the Lord. So I take that to mean, even though the serpent's meat will still be dust, the serpent won't be allowed to do what some serpents can do today, like a rattlesnake. Y'all don't seem like you're too excited about this. If you're saved, you're going to be a part of it. And so then, in the first place, that time when the devil is bound and cast into the bottomless pit for that thousand-year reign of Christ, it'll be a time of a corrected curse. Number two, it'll be a time of reigning righteousness. Because there will be people, and don't miss what I'm saying right now, because there will be people who will survive the tribulation and enter the millennium in their natural bodies, bodies that still have a sin nature, And these people will, many of them, give birth to children who will be born with a sin nature, since they're born to parents in their natural bodies. The millennium will not be a time of perfect and absolute righteousness totally without sin. You need to understand that. And now the eternal state after the millennium, that'll be the new heaven and the new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness, 2 Peter chapter three. During the millennium, righteousness will overrule, but righteousness won't rule completely. There'll still be times and places of sin. Now, we see this from such passages as Isaiah chapter 65 verse 20. Now, listen to what it says. This is talking about the millennium. There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days, for the child shall die an hundred years old. but the sinner being in a hundred years old shall be accursed." Now, the part to which I called your attention is where he said, the child shall die in a hundred years old. I mean, the age, the length of time that man will live, to which man will live in that day and time will be so long that somebody dies when they're a hundred years old and everybody will say, Isn't it a pity for somebody that young to die? Just a kid. Now, interestingly, he said, but the sinner being 100 years old shall be accursed. I have a theory on what that means. but it's just my theory. I'm not 100% sure that this is what it's talking about, but I think it is. The sinner being 100 years old shall be accursed. Does that mean that in the millennium, a baby that's born during that time will have 100 years in which to trust Christ as Savior, and if he doesn't, he'll be sent to hell after 100 years? The sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed." Okay, you can quit looking at me like I'm a weirdo now. But then notice Zechariah chapter 14, Zechariah the next to the last book in the Old Testament and chapter 14 is the last chapter of Zechariah. And so, Zechariah chapter 14, and notice what it says, and again, this is talking about in that thousand years when the devil's locked away and bound, and Jesus is ruling and reigning, Zechariah, chapter 14 and verse number 16, and it shall come to pass that everyone that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the king, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles. So that's going to be a normal thing during the millennium, which is aimed primarily toward the Jews, uh... toward god keeping the poll testament promises that he might be israel uh... uh... and but the whole world joined together and going up for the face to tabernacles which is a jewish face but the lord's gonna have all of us go up for that excel verse 17, and it shall be that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain. And if the family of Egypt go not up and come not that have no rain, there shall be the plague wherewith the Lord will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles. This shall be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles. You see how he emphasizes in this passage that during the millennium, There will be some people, primarily Egypt, from what he says in that passage, that will refuse to go up at the command of the Lord for the Feast of Tabernacles. And so, as a result, he'll punish them by withholding rain. And if that doesn't work, then he'll send to play. God's able to do what needs to be done. So, however, so it won't be an age that will be totally and completely without sin. However, it will be an age when righteousness is in the ascendancy and is reigning and any sin will be put down immediately by Jesus ruling with a rod of iron. Now let me show you that, go back to Isaiah again. Isaiah chapter one. Isaiah chapter one. And by the way, all these verses that I'm reading tonight are millennial passages dealing with the millennial reign of Christ. Isaiah chapter one, verses 25 through 27. Isaiah chapter one, verse 25. And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy ten. And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counselors as at the beginning. Afterward thou shalt be called the city of righteousness, the faithful city. Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness. And so, The Lord tells in this passage how he's gonna put away the sinful things, the things that they got as a result of sin. He's gonna purge away their draws. Talking to Israel here, by the way. If you were not aware, the book of Isaiah as well as the rest of the Old Testament was written primarily to Israel. So don't be a Roman Catholic and practice replacement theology and think that all the promises God made to Israel in the Old Testament have now in this age been inherited by the Catholic Church. Yeah, baloney. Isaiah chapter 32, notice that chapter. Isaiah chapter 32 verse one, behold, a king shall reign in righteousness and princes shall rule in judgment. Then verse 17, and the work of righteousness shall be peace and the effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance forever. Then look over a few pages more to Isaiah chapter 60. Isaiah chapter 60. And verse 21, thy people also shall be all righteous. They shall inherit the land forever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified. And so then, during the millennium, when Satan is bound, you won't see liquor stores like you do now. You won't see bar rooms. You won't see any crack houses. You won't see any brothels. You won't see any adult bookstores. You won't see any pornographic websites on the internet. You won't see any drug cartels. You won't see any murderous gangs of kidnappers and human traffickers. It'll be a time when righteousness will reign as sin reigns now. Number three, when Satan has put in the bottomless pit for that thousand years, boy, I got a lot of scripture. Thank you, I'm glad there's somebody in here that'll holler at me and tell me to go ahead past seven o'clock. Because I'm going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy. Sorry to bore some of you with the Bible, That's what we do. Thirdly, that thousand year reign of Christ, when Satan is locked away in the bottomless pit, it'll be a time of prevailing peace. The wars that have cursed the earth for centuries will cease during that thousand year millennial reign of Christ. Now, Isaiah chapter two, Isaiah chapter 2 and verse number 4, And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people. Now notice this, And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nations shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. Israel won't have to fight against attacks from Iran, Persia in that millennial age. The Lord will take care of all that. Go over again to Isaiah chapter 32. We're saying that this millennium, when the devil is locked away in the bottomless pit, and the Lord Jesus Christ is ruling and reigning, will be a time of prevailing peace. Isaiah 32, verses 17 and 18. And the work of righteousness shall be peace, and the effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance forever. and my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation and in sure dwellings and in quiet resting places. Things are gonna settle down, there's not gonna be any wars, you see. Ezekiel chapter 34. Ezekiel chapter 34, verse 25. and I will make with them a covenant of peace and will cause the evil beast to cease out of the land and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods." So he's going to make a covenant of peace with the people of Israel and make it so everybody will dwell safely in that time. Verse 28, and they shall no more be a prey to the heathen, neither shall the beast of the land devour them, but they shall dwell safely, and none shall make them afraid. So, not gonna be any Muslims to look at Israel as the prey on which they can be a predator. God's gonna take care of all that, move them out of the way. Hosea chapter two. Hosea comes just after the book of Daniel. Hosea chapter two. Verse 18, and in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field and with the fowls of heaven and with the creeping things of the ground and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth and will make them to lie down safely. So the Lord said, I'm gonna stop the battles with the bows and the swords and all of that. Notice Micah. Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah. Micah chapter four, verses three and four. Micah chapter four, verses three and four. And he shall judge among many people and rebuke strong nations afar off, and they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nations shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore, but they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree, and none shall make them afraid, for the mouth of the Lord of Hosts has spoken it. Then notice Zechariah chapter 9. Zechariah chapter 9 and verse number 10. and I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the horse from Jerusalem and the battle bow shall be cut off and he shall speak peace unto the heathen and his dominion shall be from sea even to sea and from the river even to the ends of the earth. So when Jesus is sitting on the throne reigning and he's ruling from sea to sea and from the river, you know, now, The anti-Semites, the Jew haters, they're in our colleges all over the country with their lame brain idiot professors out there with them in a lot of cases, protesting Israel. From the river to the sea, they cry. They don't even know what they're talking about. By the way, when you hear somebody say that, understand that what they're saying is that Israel should be wiped off the map. From the river, that's the Jordan River, to the sea, that's the Mediterranean Sea, that's Israel. And so, but when the devil's put in the bottomless pit for a thousand years and Jesus rules and reigns, he'll take care of all that. It'll be a time of prevailing peace. Number four, it'll be a time of triumphant truth. So much of our society and our culture today is based on a foundation of lies and error that's promulgated by the corrupt, crooked politicians, by the misguided, dishonest media establishment, by the fantasy-driven, celluloid Hollywood culture, by the Bible-despising, God-hating educational establishment, and all the rest of it, that it's hard to imagine truth being the foundation of a culture. I mean, you look at our culture, it's certainly not, but it will be when Christ is ruling and reigning. Psalm 96. Psalm number 96. Psalm 96 verses 12 and 13. Let the field be joyful and all that is therein. Then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice before the Lord, for he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth. He shall judge the world with righteousness and the people with his truth. Truth. Jeremiah chapter 33. Jeremiah chapter 33 and verse number six. Jeremiah 33 verse six. Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth. Zechariah chapter eight. Zechariah chapter 8. Verse number three, thus saith the Lord, I am returned unto Zion and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth and the mountain of the Lord of hosts, the holy mountain. Verse eight of the same chapter, and I will bring them and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem and they shall be my people and I will be their God in truth and in righteousness. And so it'll be a time of triumphant truth. We won't live under the lie that evolution is the explanation for how we got here. We won't live under the lie that an unborn baby is not really a baby and so therefore it's okay to kill it by abortion. Or according to the communists, that is the people in our country that have a D after their name, According to them, it's not only okay to kill it while it's in the womb, go ahead and let it be born, and then make it comfortable while the doctor and the woman that bore the child decides what should happen. And if they decide that it's not what they want it to be, then just kill him. I don't know why they don't do that in-house. They like to play all these silly games. Oh, it's not a baby, it's a fetus. Yeah, and you're so stupid, you don't know what a fetus is. That's a Latin word that means baby. We won't live under the lie that there's no difference between men and women. and in fact no different if you want to be a woman if you were born a man and you want to be a woman uh... will just go to the communist these and uh... they'll pay for your sex change operation and then you can go on pretend that you're a woman uh... that's what your your uh... president President Joe Biden, and the one that's running for president, Kamala. Kamala the chameleon. What happened, that money that was supposed to go to help the folks, people in our country I'm talking about, that are in North Carolina, Well, in Tennessee and South Carolina and Florida and Georgia, the money that was supposed to go to them, they used that to take care of the illegals. Yeah, you heard me right, illegals. The people that snuck in, the people that came, well, they didn't really sneak, they came because Joe Biden invited them. They used all the money that was supposed to go to these people that now they're gonna bless them with $750. Those people, they're not gonna get the money that they should get and the help that they should get from the money that had already been assigned to the FEMA bunch. I don't trust any of those federal, I don't trust any of them. People ask me, don't you trust your government? No. I don't trust any government. Especially not ours with the D's in charge. Somebody said to me, I didn't know you, because I had a little bit of a disagreement with somebody, because I was a Trump supporter. I was a Trump supporter when he first came down the escalator. I started out as a Trump supporter. I voted for him in 16, I voted for him in 20, and then watched the communists steal the election, and I'm gonna vote for him again this year. If you think I'm gonna vote for that air-headed, no-brain female that's running, then you're thinking way outside of what I'm gonna do. Oh yeah, they use some of that money to pay for sex change operations for the illegal aliens and for felons in prison. See, they know where their voting group is. We won't live under the lie that homosexuality is healthy and normal and natural. We won't live under the lie that adultery and fornication are harmless. No, truth will be triumphant in that day. What is truth? Well, Jesus said in John 17, 17, thy word is truth. In fact, he said in John 14 verse six, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto the Father, but by me. I gotta go on now. Number five, this time when the devil is locked away in the bottomless pit while Jesus rules and reigns for a thousand years will be a time of judicious justice. The oppression and injustice that so often rules in our day, in this age, will be changed into a time of justice and equity. Psalm number 98. Psalm number 98. People sometimes wonder why I go to so many different passages of scripture. Well, there is a reason. I want you to understand this ain't just stuff I'm making up. This is stuff that comes out of the Bible. Psalm 98, verses eight and nine. Let the floods clap their hands, let the hills be joyful together before the Lord, for he cometh to judge the earth. With righteousness shall he judge the world, notice, and the people with equity. Isaiah chapter nine. You should probably be familiar with this passage. Isaiah chapter nine, verses six and seven. For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. Anybody know who that's talking about? Then verse seven, of the increase of his government and peace, there shall be no end upon the throne of David and upon his kingdom to order it and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even forever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this, a time of judicious justice. Isaiah chapter 65. Isaiah chapter 65, and notice beginning with verse 21. And they shall build houses and inhabit them. Talking about the people of Israel. And they shall plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them. They shall not build and another inhabit. They shall not plant and another eat. For as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands. They shall not labor in vain or bring forth for trouble for they are the seed of the blessed of the Lord and their offspring with them and it shall come to pass that before they call I will answer and while they are yet speaking I will hear. Jeremiah chapter 23. Just after Isaiah is Jeremiah. Jeremiah chapter 23, verse five. Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will raise unto David a righteous branch, and a king shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. Jeremiah 31. Jeremiah chapter 31. And verse 23, thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, as yet they shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof, when I shall bring again their captivity, the Lord bless thee, O habitation of justice and mountain of holiness. And so we see then that this thousand year period When Jesus is reigning, when the devil's locked away in the bottomless pit, will be a time of judicious justice. I mean, it's not gonna be like it is today. You're not gonna see countries where Christians are being murdered by Muslims in that day. Won't be any Muslims in that day, if you wanna know the truth about it. Number six. It'll be a time of worldwide worship. There won't be false religion and idolatry under the reign of King Jesus. Now, Isaiah chapter two. Isaiah chapter 2 verses 2 and 3, And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills, and all nations shall flow unto it. And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob, and he will teach us of his ways and we will walk in his paths for out of Zion shall go forth the law and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. So it'll be, there'll be worldwide worship in that day. Isaiah chapter 31. Isaiah chapter 31 verses six and seven. Isaiah 31, verses six and seven. Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted. For in that day, every man shall cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a sin. God said, go cast away all those idols when that day gets here. Zephaniah chapter three. Zephaniah, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah. So turn to Habakkuk and then one book after that, you're in Zephaniah. I didn't say Zachariah, I said Zephaniah. Zephaniah chapter three, And verse number nine, for then will I turn to the people a purer language that they may all call upon the name of the Lord to serve him with one consent. Zechariah chapter 13. Zechariah chapter 13 and verse two. and it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered, and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land." God won't get rid of all those wicked spirits and all that, all the idolatry and so forth. It's going to be a time of worldwide worship. Zechariah chapter 14, verse number 16. And it shall come to pass that everyone that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles." Worldwide worship. We'll all go up once a year to Jerusalem and enjoy the feast of tabernacles with the people of Israel. Malachi chapter 1. Malachi chapter 1 and verse 11. For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name and a pure offering for my name shall be great among the heathens saith the Lord of hosts worldwide worship. And finally I know you're thinking at last. Number seven, we're talking about this thousand year period of time after Jesus comes back to the earth when he sets up his kingdom and the devil is put away into the bottomless pit for that thousand year period, it'll be a time of subordinated sickness. Ultimately, sickness is the result, either directly or indirectly, of sin. Now, don't misunderstand what I mean. I don't mean that if a person gets sick, it's because they committed some sin. That's not what I mean, though that does happen sometimes. God does use sickness to punish his people and to chastise his people. Read 1 Corinthians 11. Read Hebrews 12. The Lord does use sickness sometimes to chasten his people. But what I'm saying is, if there was absolutely no sin, if Adam and Eve had not sinned and sin wasn't passed down, there would be no sickness. It's sin that resulted in sickness. Now, in the millennium, with sin being subordinated to righteousness, sickness will also be subordinated to health. Okay, let's look at three or four scriptures and then we'll quit. Isaiah chapter 29. Isaiah chapter 29. And verse number 18. Isaiah 29, 18, and in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of darkness. That sounds good, doesn't it? I mean, everybody that's now in this life, deaf, when the millennium gets here and they go in there, they'll be hearing. I mean, And those who in this life are blind and can't see, when they go into the millennium, their eyes will be open. They'll get to see how good looking we are. Isaiah chapter 33. And verse number 24, and the inhabitants shall not say, I am sick. The people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity. And so those who inhabit that millennial earth will not have to say, I'm sick. God's not going to use sickness in that day to be a punishment for sin. And so then Isaiah chapter 35, and verses five and six of Isaiah 35. Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as an heart and the tongue of the dumb sing. For in the wilderness shall waters break out and streams in the desert. And then Ezekiel chapter 34. Ezekiel chapter 34, verses 15 and 16. I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, saith the Lord God. I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick. But I will destroy the fat and the strong. I will feed them with judgment." And so, a time of subordinated sickness. Now, let me review for you. that we're talking about what the earth will be like when Satan is bound during the millennium while the Lord Jesus Christ rules and reigns on this earth. It'll be a time, number one, of the correction of the curse. It'll be a time, number two, of reigning righteousness. It'll be a time, number three, of prevailing peace. It'll be a time, number four, of triumphant truth. It'll be a time, number five, of judicious justice. It'll be a time, number six, of worldwide worship. and it'll be a time number seven of subordinated sickness. What a glorious time it will be when Satan is bound for a thousand years as Jesus rules and reigns. Now, you have to know the Lord Jesus to be a part of all that. If you can't go back in your mind to some point in your life when you personally, deliberately, consciously, sincerely called upon the Lord, Jesus Christ, understanding that you're a sinner and that He's the Savior and He's the only Savior, and you trusted him as the one who paid for your sins on the cross and then rose again from the dead three days later. And then come to him and trust him. Now, if you cannot go back in your mind to a time when you did that, it's because you haven't done it. And my hope is that you will.