AUGUST 9
MEGA RETURN POLICY PART 3
SUMMARY OF PART 1 & 2
Part 1: Esther “More and More” Jesus will return, we will find out the full details when it happens but God’s word says gather more as the return gets closer.
Part 2: Premillennial Dispensationalism
- We’re no longer calling what I presented the timeline. We’re calling it God’s strategic plan as timeline isn’t a great descriptor for something that has dynamics OUTSIDE of time.
So, last time I didn’t manage to get through all the information, and we thought hey… why not keep it going so we can cover it all?
MEGA RETURN POLICY KEYS
- It’s going to happen ("As surely as the sun will rise, you’ll come for us")
- No One knows the day or hour (Don’t date set) Matthew 24:36
- No one knows exactly what will happen until it happens
- Jesus does encourage us to know the signs of the times.
Luke 12:56
"Hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky. How is it that you don't know how to interpret this present time?"
- Knowing the plan means we can see that God is in control despite what we might see that can make us fearful.
- Central to the big plan is the redemption for all of those from every nation who put their trust in Jesus, and play the part they have to play in His plan.
MEGA RETURN POLICY BIG PICTURE
- There are a large number of people groups with No Christians, No Scriptures, No Missionaries
- 200,000,000 without the Bible
- Billions given annually to Physical needs
- Revelation inserted into the history of humanity that has taken us from Tyranny to Liberty.
- Every week millions of people gather in Jesus name, find their purpose and get spiritual healing.
- Bibleless people groups - From Wycliffe:
- Due to many factors, such as the discovery or extinction of languages, the number of Bibleless people groups is always changing. Currently, there are at least 2,000 languages* that have a definite or likely translation need. However, the pace of Bible translation is accelerating as never before, and new projects are beginning all the time. God is at work and we believe this is a direct answer to prayer.
- “Reached” and “Unreached”
- What does it mean to be saved?
- Jesus is doing a brilliant job building His church.
BIBLICAL MYSTERIES
PROVERBS 25:2
It is the glory of God to conceal a matter,
But the glory of kings is to search out a matter.
- The Mystery of Iniquity
2 Thessalonians 2:7
For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
- THE Old Testament REVEALED
- Matthew 13:17
For truly I tell you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.
- The Blessed Hope
Titus 2:12–13 says that the grace of God teaches us “to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age, while we wait for the blessed hope—the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ.”
- The Bride of Christ // Marriage
THE BIG CLIMAX (AFTER the Rapture & Great Tribulation)
A HUGE Key to the Rapture & The Great Tribulation. A very respected man, Dr Micahel Brown is now asserting that there is no pre-tribulation rapture. One of the main reasons he gives is that we already have tribulation. Well, we do. But there’s a huge difference between Tribulation and THE GREAT Tribulation.
THE MILLENNIUM
Revelation 20: 1-3
Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. 2 He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years; 3 and he cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal on him, so that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years were finished. But after these things he must be released for a little while.
THE WARS
The Defeat of the Antichrist.
Revelation 19:11-21
11 I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rideris called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and wages war. 12 His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has a name written on himthat no one knows but he himself. 13 He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God. 14 The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean. 15 Coming out of his mouth is a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. “He will rule them with an iron scepter.” He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty. 16 On his robe and on his thigh he has this name written:
king of kings and lord of lords.
17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun, who cried in a loud voice to all the birdsflying in midair, “Come, gather together for the great supper of God, 18 so that you may eat the flesh of kings, generals, and the mighty, of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all people, free and slave, great and small.” 19 Then I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to wage war against the rider on the horse and his army. 20 But the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who had performed the signs on its behalf. With these signs he had deluded those who had received the mark of the beast and worshiped its image. The two of them were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur. 21 The rest were killed with the sword coming out of the mouth of the rider on the horse, and all the birds gorged themselves on their flesh.
FINAL BATTLE AND JUDGMENT
Satan’s ultimate loss
Revelation 20:7-10
7 Now when the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison 8 and will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, whose number is as the sand of the sea. 9 They went up on the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. And fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them. 10 The devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are. And they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
THE LAMB’S BOOK OF LIFE Revelation 20:11-15
11 Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. And there was found no place for them. 12 And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books. 13 The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one according to his works. 14 Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. 15 And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.
THE NEW JERUSALEM // HEAVEN
Revelation 21&22
The church, the bride of Jesus Christ is the New Jerusalem.
Revelation 21:9-10
9 One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.” 10 And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God.
The New Heaven is huge and beautiful. There’s a huge city, and that’s just a part of the New Heaven.
Revelation 21:15-21
15 The angel who talked with me had a measuring rod of gold to measure the city, its gates and its walls. 16 The city was laid out like a square, as long as it was wide. He measured the city with the rod and found it to be 12,000 stadia in length, and as wide and high as it is long. 17 The angel measured the wall using human measurement, and it was 144 cubits thick. 18 The wall was made of jasper, and the city of pure gold, as pure as glass. 19 The foundations of the city walls were decorated with every kind of precious stone. The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald, 20 the fifth onyx, the sixth ruby, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth turquoise, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst. 21 The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each gate made of a single pearl. The great street of the city was of gold, as pure as transparent glass.
There is glory and honor of the nations and it will be brought into heaven.
Revelation 21:24-26
24 The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their splendor into it. 25 On no day will its gates ever be shut, for there will be no night there. 26 The glory and honor of the nations will be brought into it. 27 Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.
The healing of the nations.
Revelation 22:1-2
Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb 2 down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.
Jesus Christ’s final words in the Bible.
12 “Look, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to each person according to what they have done. 13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.
14 “Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city. 15 Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
16 “I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you[a] this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, and the bright Morning Star.”
17 The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” And let the one who hears say, “Come!” Let the one who is thirsty come; and let the one who wishes take the free gift of the water of life.
B.I.D. HOPE!
Revelation’s Promises.
The promises to the churches Revelation 1-3
Revelation Promises.
1. Revelation 2:7 To the one who is victorious,I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.
2. Revelation 2:11 The one who is victorious will not be hurt at all by the second death.
3. Revelation 2:17 To the one who is victorious,I will give some of the hidden manna. I will also give that person a white stone with a new name written on it, known only to the one who receives it.
4. Revelation 2:26 To the one who is victorious and does my will to the end, I will give authority over the nations—27 that one ‘will rule them with an iron scepter and will dash them to pieces like pottery’[b]—just as I have received authority from my Father. 28 I will also give that one the morning star.
5. Revelation 3:5 The one who is victorious will be dressed in white. I will never blot out the name of that person from the book of life, but will acknowledge that name before my Father and his angels.
6. Revelation 3:12 The one who is victorious I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again will they leave it. I will write on them the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God; and I will also write on them my new name.
7. Revelation 3:21 To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I was victorious and sat down with my Father on his throne.
Summary:
• Citizenship of paradise
• Immortal
• Forgiveness
• Authority over nations
• Irrevocable inclusion
• We will be established and given security clearance
• We are given the right to sit on the throne of the UNIVERSE