Welcome to Bible Believers Fellowship and the ministry of bbfohio.com and the conclusion of our study of Revelation chapter 20 verses 7 through 10 titled, The Last Rebellion. This is part 2 of 2. And even in the millennium that's coming this time, it's going to be amazing and I've just sat and thought about it. What it's going to be like to see billions of people surrounding us. in that city, and just looking over at Jesus, you people are stupid. You are about to get it. That's what we're going to be thinking. What a bunch of fools. No different from fools today that you preach the gospel to and say, hey, you just repent toward God with faith toward the Lord Jesus Christ, how that Christ died for your sins according to the scriptures, and that He was buried and that He rose again the third day according to the scriptures. You can be saved. It's a free gift. You can't buy it. You can't do anything for it. That's all there is to it, and they'll reject it. We really cannot imagine what the scene will look like. This is actually from a video game. And it's just... I saw the screenshot. I thought, you know, whenever Jesus speaks, read that. And fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them all. I added the word all there, I'm sorry. Period. Devoured them, period. But it's going to devour them all. None will survive. No survivors. The darkest day Earth has seen in a thousand years. The last time they'd seen something like this was when Jesus returned and destroyed the Antichrist, the false prophet, destroyed the New World Order, knocked out the Mark of the Beast in the United Nations and all that. And for a thousand years, peace, love, joy, and Satan's loose, and all these wonderful people Catch what I'm saying here. These people who have just surrounded the holy city to try to kill Jesus Christ, they were all smiling, happy people. Smiling, happy people. Just goes to show you, these people that you have in your lives, friends and family, co-workers, whatever, you don't know their hearts. You don't know the depths of the wickedness of man. And those who reject Jesus Christ, sometimes they'll fool us. And now they will say, it's just a shame they don't get saved. They seem like such good people. They're no different from these people. And we're gonna see it. Judgment Day. And this brings us to the culmination of God's plan of the ages. The old fallen world ends. The end of the world as we know it. I say that because a lot of times people get nitpicky on the King James. They say, well, it's not really the end of the world, it's the end of the age. It's both. It's the end of an age, but it's also the end of the world as we know it. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my word shall not pass away. Jesus said that. What did he mean? He's talking about what we're looking at. He's prophesying that there's come a time When everything is going to be destroyed that we see, and there's going to be a new heaven and a new earth. Heaven and earth will pass away, but that book will not pass away. This is the beginning of the new beginning. The eighth day. Amen? The new world. Psalm 102, 25 and 26 says, Of old hast thou laid the foundations of the earth. Old. And the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but thou shalt endure. Yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment. As a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed. Psalmist is prophesying about what we're reading in Revelation 20. This is literally a complete meltdown. And if you're like me, I love to study, even though you have to kind of weed out all that nonsense, the Darwinianism and all that, I love to study things like astronomy, chemistry, and all those sorts of things. And you find out that everything's held together by things we don't even understand. And it's like a switch that God's going to flick. And if you're not one of His, you melt. Everybody there is going to melt. Everybody surrounding the holy city is going to melt. Their bodies dissolved. Everything. 2 Peter 3.10, read that. You and I are all made of chemical elements. Everything, what you're sitting on, what you see on the walls, the ceiling above you, the car you drove in, the clothes you wear, the food you eat, everything is made up of elements. And those elements shall melt your skin, your bones, your hair, your clothes, your house, your car, your city, your state, your nation, your planet. will melt unless you belong to Jesus. They will melt with fervent heat. We talk about the sun. Have you ever studied the sun? It's like a nuclear fusion going on. Is it fusion or fission? Fusion. Going on in the center of that thing. Heat that you can't even imagine. This is hotter. Because in the sun it actually produces elements. This is going to cause them just to melt. And with that in mind, we are asked this question. This is the amazing thing. We're talking about end times prophecy, the last day, the Lord's day, everything melting, and then right at the beginning of that text, if you look, 2 Peter 3.11 says, seeing then, this is the end of the text I should say, seeing then, after he tells us all this incredible information about how the world's going to end, seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved. What manner of persons ought ye to be in a holy conversation and godliness? Isn't that amazing? Train of thought, thinking about the end of the world, the heavens and the earth and everything's going to melt. This huge end of everything. Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved. And I love it. I say it again. Some of you have heard this before. I'll say it again over and over. But when bad things happen, and you're challenged, and let's say you're going to lose your house, you're going to lose your car, something's going to be taken away, you have to move, anything like that. And Jenny says, it's all going to burn anyway. Like, amen. Amen. Why are you getting all upset about that stuff? It's all gonna burn. Read this with me, verse 12. Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens, being on fire, shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat. Isn't that amazing? I just think it's amazing stuff. And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire, where the beast and the false prophet are, remember? And shall be tormented, day and night, forever and ever. God never intended for anyone else to join them there, did you know that? What we're reading about, Satan, the false prophet, the beast, in hell, in the lake of fire for eternity, forever and ever, their torment, the smoke of their torment, their sins, forever and ever. Matthew 25, 41, Jesus said this, Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me ye cursed, into everlasting fire. Who is it prepared for? Prepared for the devil and his angels. It wasn't prepared for human beings. If a human being goes there, again this slams Calvinism, it ought to say, prepare for the devil and his angels and all the unelect. But instead he says it's prepare for the devil and his angels. If you go to hell, you choose to go there. Let that sink in. And if you're saved, let that sink in about your loved ones. Because sometimes when a Christian loses a loved one to hell, they do the insane thing and get mad at God. God did not send that loved one to hell. If you have a loved one that died without Christ, and you're sure, pretty sure, that they're in hell, don't get mad at God. God didn't send them there. They chose to go there. Everyone in hell has chosen to go there. And God is constantly reminding us of this even in prophecy texts like 2 Peter 3 that we're reading. We read about the fervent heat, the elements dissolving, and He asks us, and how should you be living then, knowing this? I hope that clicked in your mind. You'll take that with you. How should you be living then when you know that none of this really matters beyond what you're doing for His glory and to please Him? 2 Peter 3.9, before we jump into 10-12, you see this. The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some in count slackness. But His longsuffering to us, we're not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. So I want you, on your own time, meditate on 2 Peter 3, beginning in verse 9 through 12. And you'll see that God doesn't want anyone in hell except for the devil and his angels. And He has given us the privilege to preach the gospel to the lost. And He has told us ahead of time that it's all going to dissolve and melt. And in light of that, we should then reflect and say, how should we then live? How should we live then? In light of what we know. You see what I'm saying? A lot of Christians, they live like practical atheists. They live like they think this is all there is to this life. It's a shame. But I just want to tell you this as we close. Before we finish the chapter, we're going to take time to look at the Millennial Kingdom in depth. We're going to take at least a couple of weeks and look at our home, our future home, what's in store for us. And I meant to delete that, but we're going to do that study in Revelation 20. The millennial kingdom. So I'd like to close with a word of prayer and then somebody stick around you want to have some Q&A we can do that. Father we thank you Lord for this study and we just thank you for you've given us just so much information. So much prophecy. So many people who refuse to look at the proof of God in the Bible. You've proven you exist. You've proven you're in control with Bible prophecy. We see it coming to pass in front of our eyes. We have seen the thousands of examples where prophecy has already come true. And people still walk away. Revealing John 3, 19. Men love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil. Lord, I pray everyone in this room would take this seriously. Take it home, think about it, pray about it. Really allow this to motivate us. Some folks may need to make some changes in their life. Some folks just need a little encouragement to get back on track with their Bible study, their prayer, the desire to get out the gospel tracks or do whatever they can do to preach the gospel. Lord, we just pray that you move hearts and use us, that Jesus might be glorified in whatever time we have left, in Jesus' name, amen. Yes. Bang. Amen. Amen. It's on the wrong end, the way it's taught in science classes. Yeah, Jennifer? Oh, I don't know, the thought of, so beasts and false prophets, would they be Satan's angels then, since they're ending up in? No. They are just humans and they just have nice profound titles and that stuff? Yeah. And you have to think about Isaiah 5.14 says, therefore, how have I marched yourself, and I'll come out without measure, because, you know. Isaiah what? 5.14. Isaiah 5.14. How many of you noticed that? Isaiah 5.14 when it talks about, we quoted here before, but I don't know if some of you might have thought about it. Hell hath enlarged herself. Is that what it says? Hell is a woman. Hey, I didn't write that book. I didn't write that book. Oh boy, yeah. Of course, like I told Jenny, you were talking about the Big Bang and all that they teach, that we've talked about this yesterday, because I watch these things. I'm watching Carl Sagan's Cosmos, you know, it's like 13 episodes, I think. I'm in number 8. I saw it years ago, but I didn't remember anything, so I want to see it again. And a lot of what they're teaching is true. It's a matter of perspective. And then when it comes to things like the Big Bang, I mean, I believe that there was a similar event. I just don't believe it was billions and billions of years ago, as Carl Sagan says. I believe it was, I believe in the gap, the genesis gap, so I don't believe it was exactly 6,000 years ago. But I don't believe in the millions and billions of years. I fall in between those two, what I consider extreme views. But we were talking about, I mean, there's a, they believe, and there's scientific reason, and most Christian astronomers that I've talked to or read, only talked to a couple in my lifetime, but they believe in the center of these quasars, is a ball of mass that would fit in your hand, but it's so heavy and dense that it, you know, I'd have to be Superman to hold it. But if I were able to hold the thing, as soon as I let go of it, it would puncture and go all the way through the planet and come out the other side like we saw on the bottomless pit thing. And in China, it would pop up and then go back down. But it would pop out and it would be slightly off and it would puncture another hole. And they say that the weight of that is so dense and heavy that it would do that more than 100,000 times before it finally stopped. And it would leave our planet looking like Swiss cheese. Okay? It does, but because of the weight and everything, it only slows it down a certain amount. It takes that many times before it finally slows it down enough. Now, what I'm saying is, I believe that because there's science behind it. But, I believe that we have that kind of a wonderful God. He's created this world that is beyond our comprehension. And so when you study these things, what it ought to do is make you stand in awe of God. But instead, in our generation, they try to find reasons to use that against God. And it's the insanity of the age. Yeah, why does God let Satan out after a thousand years? Yeah, and you and I were talking, and you said that God said that he would, and he keeps his word. Yeah, and that was what I was insinuating, and I didn't say that in those plain terms, but in God's purpose. If God says he's going to do something, he's going to do it, so... He said he did it, he was going to do it, and if he doesn't do it, then it's not true to his word. He's going to do it because he says it. Yeah, God's Word, if there's one thing you ought to learn, is that when God says something, He does it. That's why we have the faith and the joy that we have in our salvation, because we know it's a sure thing. Yeah, Charlie? What kind of being is Satan? We believe that he is the highest cherub. Well, we know that. Ezekiel 28. Ezekiel 28, and then of course Isaiah 14 lends some additional information to that. He was the highest of all creation. the most beautiful of his creation, a cherub. And we know something about what he originally appeared like because they carved the cherubim on the ark in the Tabernacle and Temple. And those are described and they had wings. Yes. So that's why technically Satan's not an angel. He's an angelic being called a cherub. Well, that's... Conjecture. Conjecture, yeah. Because there's some who claim there are five for some reason. I don't know. There are... The only three angels named in the Bible are Satan, or Lucifer, who became Satan, Michael, and Gabriel. And only one is called an archangel, and that's Michael. Gabriel is never called an archangel, and people have taught that, but there's no biblical basis for teaching that. Satan was called a cherub, but it refers to there being many. And I don't think there's just three, because it's cherubs plural. And he was the highest of them. Satan was at one time. And there's two, though, that are over the throne of God. And that's what the mercy seat is a picture of. And so we know some things about them, but there's also these angels, or I should say, there's angelic creatures called seraphim. And so you have the cherubim, the seraphim, you have an archangel named Michael, and then you have Gabriel who's an angel, never called anything other than an angel, but then you have other angels. Many, many that we don't know how many. There's those creatures, there's the stork, There's an angelic being with stork wings. That's in Zechariah. And then if you go into, we've already studied in the book of Revelation, you have the 24 elders and they're not represented as human beings. And then you have other creatures described in the book of Revelation that are not matching up with the other ones we've seen in the previous 65 books of the Bible. And you just think about it. God didn't just create one or two things before He created everything we've seen. I mean, we don't have any idea before the creation of what we see. He's been around for eternity. We're going to learn a whole lot, I mean it's just going to be amazing. Yeah, Jill? Yeah, in Ezekiel 28 he's described as having music within him. Yeah, absolutely. One of the things that, throughout human history, Satan has used is music. When you study other religions, it's usually, it's not always what we would call music, but voodoo. The animism in Africa, which goes back to the time of Ham, and all the way through Bible history up to Noah's time, they used, it's a musical religion, voodoo. It's very weird and all that. Then you look over into the European nations, and there was a lot of chanting. It was described in writings what they did, and it would have a lot of groaning sound to it. And you'll still hear it in Eastern Christian religions as well as just Eastern religions. It's still there in the Celtic, the Druidism, and these other what we would call kind of occult religions. They all have a form of music. And in Islam, I've talked about how they don't have hymn books because they don't have anything to sing about. But they do have music. It just sounds like someone's dying to me. Five o'clock prayer. Okay. Glad to hear no one's dying. You know, it's what, to me, I mean, what was it? Native Americans. I have a little bit of Cherokee, not sure how much, but I'm fascinated with that. And I can do a real good. See? And every religion you go around and study, there's this form of music and it's, but compare that to, I don't think it's just being biased. Our music sounds happy. Standing on the promises of..." You know, could you see these guys singing that? I mean, these other religions, they just look, they sound like they're dying, they look like they're dying. We're all, you know, now some of you don't look so happy, you're like, "...standing on the promises of a great white king..." You know, but you should be happy, and the lyrics are happy. Amen? And so that's kind of, you can tell the difference, but that's something that's always fascinated me about rock and roll music. When When I was a kid and I first started hearing rock & roll music, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, all this stuff that was around before I was even born, some of it, I thought, it just sounds dreary, you know? The Beatles music. And then the music, it's like, it just doesn't sound happy. And you know, I mean some of the music, like you go back to the Elvis stuff and some of that Buddy Holly stuff, you know, Peggy Sue, Peggy Sue, Peggy, Peggy, Peggy, Peggy Sue, you know, it's kind of happy. But the more, when the drugs went in, the drugs started showing up in rock and roll music. It just lost its happy sound. And it started sounding real dreary and everything. Led Zeppelin, you know, the first time I heard Stairway to Heaven. And that was such a popular song with the old people, you know. I'm like, what? You know, and I listen to it and it's just kind of creepy. And it's not that you can judge music solely on that, but there's something to be said about that. And you better remember what Jill said. You listen to music. You need to understand there's God's music, and there's Satan's music, and there's this false idea that there's a middle neutral. And there isn't. Dave? Years ago, when I was young, a missionary came back from Belize and his family. And when they first went, the kids had music from here in the United States. And then when they went, they were playing it, and the people yeah yeah yeah there's been a lot of stories about American missionaries taking so-called Christian contemporary music and trying to sing it over there and the people being repulsed by it because they recognize the similarity to what they used in their pagan religion have a Jesus loves even me. Though I forget Him and wander away, still He doth love me wherever I stray. And to His dear love belongs what I cling, when I remember that Jesus loves me. I'm so glad that Jesus loves me. Jesus loves me. Jesus loves me. I am so glad that Jesus loves me. Jesus loves even me. Oh, and there's only one song I can sing. When in his family I see the great King. This shall my song in eternity be. Oh, what a wonder that Jesus loves me. I am so glad that Jesus loves me. Jesus loves me. Jesus loves me. I am so glad that Jesus loves me, Jesus loves even me.