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Hello, good evening. This is truth and love. I'm so thankful that you have chosen to spend some time with me and to watch the video.

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Christ. So that's what we want to do. We want to grow up in Christ. We want to grow up in him in all aspects of life tonight.

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We're going to be talking about the three main views of eschatology. And what are they and just maybe define some terms.

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Hey, Nancy, hope you're doing well. And because, like I said,

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I'm not an expert, but. I think this is a topic that is important, a topic that we need to talk about.

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And I want to discuss with you. And it seems to be becoming more and more popular in the church today on social media.

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And so I'm thankful for that. But the reason that I want to talk about it and you may be asked why

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I have Dan with me as a guest on Saturday mornings and every other

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Saturday, we were talking about eschatology. And you may ask why I see once you spend so much time on eschatology.

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One of the reasons is I want to give you two reasons. One of the reasons why I think it's important and I think we need to spend some time discussing eschatology.

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Is because it is a doctrine of scripture, it's a teaching we find in scripture that we shouldn't neglect, but I think it's the most neglected teaching in scripture.

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I think that if I was to guess, and I think that I've heard this statistic before, that the most requested book that a pastor is that members are to desire their pastor to preach out of is the book of Revelation, because it's they want to know about revelation and all the signs and symbolism and in times.

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But I think it's probably the least book preached out of. I know some pastors that have preached from their pulpit in revelation and others that are doing some series on revelation.

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But in times is not just found in revelation in a study on in times, a study of eschatology covers the

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Old and New Testament, not just the book of Revelation. And the reason why

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I think it seems that it is the book that pastors also.

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Shy away from the most as well. It may be why they it's not preached on as much as because pastors will seem to shy away from preaching the book of Revelation.

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So, it's a doctrine of scripture. It's a teaching of scripture, and we need to study it just like we need to study all the other doctrines and scripture.

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The doctrines of Jesus, the doctrines of God, the father doctrine of Holy Spirit, the church, and in times it needs to be equal to all the things that we study.

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There's some intimidation there. There's some confusion there. I think there's a perception when it comes to the book of Revelation when it comes to in times.

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I believe that there's a perception out there that this is a subject that should be left to the experts.

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And then the experts shy away from it themselves and don't talk about it very often.

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So, we don't need to shy away from from in times in eschatology.

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It's shot away. It's put on the back burner and it's made to come across as not very important.

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And it shouldn't be that way because as I stated earlier, it is one of the doctrines, one of the teachings of the

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Bible. So, therefore, it has equal importance with the rest of scripture. But it comes across as having little importance.

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And so, there's this in times position, this in times view that some have come up with and they say it jesting.

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They say it in a joking manner. They will say that they are a pan -millennialist.

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In other words, they'll see what's going to take place when it all pans out in the end.

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They're just going to wait for it all to pan out in the end. They're not going to worry about studying Revelation or any other passages that talk about in times about eschatology.

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They'll just see it when it happens. And I don't think that's an attitude that we should have.

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It's a doctrine of scripture. It's important. It's equally important with the rest of the doctrines of scripture.

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And so, we need to investigate and see what God has to say about in times.

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The other reason why I think studying eschatology is important is because depending on, well, it has an effect on how you live.

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It has an effect on your evangelism. It has an effect on how you live within your family.

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How you do your evangelism. How you do church.

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How your church ministry goes. Every aspect of your life, your eschatology view has an effect.

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And I don't think many people realize that. Depending on your eschatology, it can have a certain, it can determine many different things on how you live.

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How you live out your Christianity at home and your evangelism. And so, that is another reason why we need to talk about eschatology and talk about in times and why it's so important.

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So, I hope you'll stick with me as we talk about the three major views of eschatology.

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Even though within those three views, there's sub -views and there's also,

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I think some people say there's four major views. But we're just going to look at the three major views that are out there when it comes to eschatology.

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And along the way, define some terms so that we're not so timid about looking into and investigating eschatology.

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I want it to be a joyful experience. And I want this to help you as you join

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Dan and I looking at eschatology. So, eschatology.

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And I know that I've said this before, but I want to repeat it. And so that we get it, we understand it, we remember it.

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Eschatology is just the study of in things or last things. So, we're going to be talking about Jesus' second coming, second coming of Christ.

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What things are going to be happening in the last days. You'll hear that terminology, last days, end of time, second coming.

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Eschatology is the study of last things. And all the major views center around really one key event.

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And they'll have differences on that key event and of course other major differences as well.

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But each of the major views revolve around this one key event. And it's called the millennium.

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And millennium just simply means a thousand. And so it's referencing a thousand years.

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And maybe you've heard that term before. There's going to be a thousand year something.

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And we're talking about a thousand year reign of Christ. And this is interesting and something you may not know.

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That this doctrine of the millennium or the thousand years only comes from one chapter in the

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Bible. It's Revelation chapter 20. And I'm just going to read to you the first part of that,

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Revelation chapter 20. Just so you can hear where it comes from. And this is the only reference in the

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Bible to the millennium, the thousand years. Chapter 20 starting in verse one.

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And it says, And I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.

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And he laid hold of the dragon, the serpent of old, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.

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And threw him into the abyss and shut it and sealed it over him so that he should not deceive the nations any longer until the thousand years were completed.

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After these things, he must be released for a short time. And I saw thrones and they sat upon them.

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Judgment was given to them. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of the testimonies of Jesus and because of the word of God.

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And those who had not worshipped the beast or his image and had not received the mark upon their forehead or upon their hand.

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And they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed.

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This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is the one who has part in the first resurrection.

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Over these, the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with him for a thousand years.

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So there it is. There's your mention of a thousand years or the millennial period, the millennial reign of Christ.

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That's what it's those are terms that it's referred to. And the different views of eschatology.

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I'll talk about the millennium. The millennial period. But they have different views on that millennial period.

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And so let's talk about the three. And again, thanks, dad. That's watching along to make sure that the video and the sound quality is working.

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I'm very appreciative of him who came by to to help me get this set up this evening. And so thanks, dad.

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I really appreciate it. So I'm going to pull up this chart.

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And I know that you're not going to be able to see it. And I do apologize.

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It seems like the autofocus wants to go crazy on this little camera.

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So I apologize that it goes in and out. I'm working with a little webcam and autofocus wants to do its job,

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I guess. So I'm going to pull up this little chart and I do apologize that it's going to be small.

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But at least I am able to get something up here on the screen for us to look at. And I know you're not going to be able to read it.

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But it's called the end of the world as we know it. If you want to write this down. Hey, Roger, hope you're doing well.

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If you want to write this down, you can find this chart on the Internet. He said it was we have permission or everyone has permission to download it, use it.

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So I'm taking it from that. Chalice dot com,

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C -H -A -L -L -I -E -S dot com, Chalice dot com. And the chart is the end of the world as we know it.

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And we're just going to use this chart, this simple little chart to go back to examine the three different positions on eschatology or end times.

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So here it comes. Let's see how this works. There we go. All right.

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End of the world as we know it. Views of the end times. So first we have what is called pre -millennialism.

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And you see the word millennial in there. We've talked about that before. All the different worldviews or eschatologies are going to revolve around this millennial period.

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And the first one is pre -millennial. And you hear the word pre, it means before. So in this position, in this view, they're interpreting the

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Bible to say that something is happening. Happening before the millennium.

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So I'm going to try to point this out to you. Can you see the cursor? Can someone tell me if you can see the cursor?

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Because I'd like to use it as a pointer. But I'm not sure that you can see it. Either way, right beside the word,

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I'll just try to describe it. Right beside the word pre -millennial. Maybe you can see it if I go to this screen.

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Can you see it now? Maybe somebody can tell me if you can see the pointer. I bet you can see it now.

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All right. So right here at the cross, this is going to be

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Jesus' death and resurrection. That's what this cross represents. Jesus' death and resurrection.

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And then right here, this symbol right here, it's going to be the same on all three views, all three positions. This symbol right here is going to represent

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Pentecost. And that's when, after Jesus ascends, the

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Holy Spirit descends down. And the folks there who believed received the

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Holy Spirit. Now, in this position of pre -millennialism, they believe that at the resurrection of Christ, death and resurrection of Christ right here, they believe what starts what they label, what they call the church age.

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If you can see that, they call it the church age. And this is a gap.

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They will call it a gap in prophetic history.

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Prophetic just means prophecy. The looking forward or the predicting of what's going to happen in the future that we read in the

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Bible. That's what we're talking about, where the Bible talks about what's going to happen in the future. That's prophecy.

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They say there's a gap in prophetic history. So Jesus fulfilled all these prophecies about the

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Messiah and where he was going to be born. Every single prophecy that was about the

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Messiah, Jesus fulfilled. And then there's this prophetic gap after the death, burial and resurrection and ascension of Jesus Christ.

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There's this gap in prophecy where we have the church age.

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Where God is building his church. But things are,

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I guess, progressively going down, down, down, downhill and immorality and in the world.

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And this is this next part at the end. What ends the church age?

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What ends this gap in prophecy? The prophecy clock is I heard that I've heard that used a lot.

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The prophecy clock will start again when this event here happens. And what is this event?

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You have what they call what they get from scripture, the tribulation period.

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And that is the end of the church age when the tribulation period begins.

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And so there's going to be this even even greater time of difficulty, which

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I'm not going to go through and describe all the different verses and where they get it from tonight.

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I just want to I just want us to become more familiar with the terminology and the different views of eschatology.

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But there's going to be this tribulation period, and it's called premillennialism because this this period of tribulation.

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And the coming the second coming of Christ, which which you have in these these bubbles here come before or pre millennial, they come before the millennial period.

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And then within within premillennialism, you're going to have these these three different views here.

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You have you have this event in premillennialism.

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Now, premillennialism is the only. If somebody could tell me if you could see my cursor move on your screen, because I'm using it as a pointer, but I probably don't need to if it's not when you guys out at all.

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But premillennialism is the only position is the only view that has an event in it called the rapture.

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OK, and so you've got these three little bubbles here represent three different times that the rapture could happen.

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So in premillennialism, you have those that are called pre tribulation, rapture, premillennialist.

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And then you have mid trip where they think the rapture is going to happen in the middle of the tribulation.

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And then you have post trip, which they believe the rapture is going to happen at the end.

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Can't see it. OK, that stinks. I was hoping I could use it as a pointer, but I'm on the first line.

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So you have the cross and then which is a little little brown square. You have the

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Pentecost, the brown square, you have the church age, and then you have a block called the tribulation.

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And above the tribulation, you have three other blocks that are kind of teal and greenish, and it represents the three different rapture views.

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Pre tribulation, the rapture is going to happen and the church, the believers are called out of this world and they don't have to go through the rapture.

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The mid trip rapture position states that you only go through the first three years and this period of tribulation, they state is seven years.

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And so you only have to go or yes, seven years. So you only have to go through the first three and a half. And then the post rapture position says that the church, the believers are going to have to go through it all, all the tribulation and the rapture is going to happen at the end.

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But then at the end of the tribulation, below that line, you have a full teal box that says the second coming or Christ returns the second coming of Christ.

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So this is going to be the second coming of Christ. And what's going to happen? OK, what's going to happen here is this is going to be the beginning of the millennial reign of Christ or the millennial kingdom, the thousand years and premillennialism.

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Premillennialists believe that the Bible teaches that this is going to be a literal one thousand years.

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Jesus is going to reign and he's going to reign on earth. This is going to be an earthly reign of Jesus for a literal thousand years.

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So I'm getting a weak signal notifications there went away. That's good. All right.

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So and there's you know, we can talk about the verses of the

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Bible that talk about what's going to happen in this millennial period. But what we need to know off this chart is that the second coming or Jesus returns after the tribulation and before the thousand year literal thousand year earthly reign of Jesus in the premillennial position.

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Now, at the millennium, you're going to have the judgment. You're going to have the believers.

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They are they are going to the. Eternal kingdom.

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And unbelievers, of course, the eternal torment, which we call heaven and hell.

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So that's that's the premillennial view. If you have any questions, you want to make a comment, feel free to.

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I will try to answer your questions. OK, still good from here.

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That's fantastic. I'm so thankful. I want to praise the Lord that this thing is working and he's allowing allowing me to do this and allowing this to happen.

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It's just fantastic. All right. Let's go to the next one on the chart. Post millennialism.

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This is the second. And this is these are in no certain order. But it's just the order that he's placed him on this chart, and that's the order that we're going to go in.

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So let's talk about post millennialism. So premillennialism, something something's going to happen before the millennial in post millennialism.

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Something's going to happen post millennial or after the millennium. OK, and what are we looking for to happen after the millennium?

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The return of Jesus, the second coming. That's what we're going to look for after the millennium. And that's interesting, isn't it?

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Because in premillennialism, the second coming happens at the end of the tribulation and before the millennial kingdom.

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In post millennialism, they see the Bible described as Christ's return happening post millennial.

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So let's start at the beginning where the second line post millennialism and you have the first box.

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There is the death, the death, burial, resurrection of Jesus Christ.

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And then in post millennialism, they see in Scripture that if you look below the second line underneath the cross, you'll see that rectangle square or rectangle block.

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And that's where you have the tribulation period. And this may be new to you if you've only heard one view or one position of eschatology or in times your whole life.

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This may be new to you, but this is what many see in Scripture. And of course, many see the third view as well.

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But it's it's worth digging into to see what Scripture says for itself.

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So where premillennialism, if you look back at the first line, the tribulation happens after this church age, this gap in prophetic history.

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In post millennialism, the tribulation happens after the death, burial, resurrection and ascension of Jesus Christ.

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And it goes all the way up until 70 AD. What's so important about 70

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AD? 70 AD is when Jerusalem and the temple was destroyed.

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And of course, post millennial, post millennial. These are so hard to say.

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Post millennial, post millennialism believes that that is going to be part of the fulfillment of Scripture.

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Part of the fulfillment of prophecy is that this destruction of Jerusalem and the temple in 70

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AD. So what they see in Scripture is this tribulation period happening.

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Right after the death, burial, resurrection, ascension of Christ, ending at 70

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AD with the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple. And then at.

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OK. I will I will try to work on a link as I work here and posted in the comments.

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Thanks for that suggestion. So after the after the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem, what we have here is there's a there's a second view of the tribulation, what they call the historic post millennialist.

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And they think the tribulation happens during this whole period between Pentecost and the second coming of Christ.

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That's called the historic view of post millennialism. The preterist view.

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And I'm going to define that word here in a second. The preterist view says that the tribulation, all those.

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When we say the tribulation, I will say that you can find a lot of these in Matthew chapter 24.

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All these signs that we're to be looking for and the fulfillment of those signs.

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Those things are happening during the tribulation, and you can find a lot of those in Matthew 24. The preterist.

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Position says that the tribulation happened before the temple was destroyed in 70

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AD. Right after Jesus death, burial, resurrection and ascension, you know, while Pentecost was going on and then it ended at 70

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AD. And preterist, all preterist means is past. So, you know, don't shy away from these big words.

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All we have to do is define them. Preterist just means past. So the preterist believe that the tribulation has already happened in the past.

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And I know if you've only heard one position all your life, to hear that, it is almost like someone is blaspheming scripture.

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I know that's how it comes across, and I know that's how many people feel. But it is a legitimate interpretation of scripture that everyone should read for themselves and study up on to let

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God speak for himself. And see which one of these is the accurate translation, what

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God is actually trying to say to us. So you've got the tribulation here and it ends at 70

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AD. And then you have this millennial kingdom.

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The millennial kingdom, the thousand years is going to happen after 70

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AD. And if you're familiar only with one view of end times, you're going to say, well, the millennial kingdom, you know, we're talking about new heavens and new earth.

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This doesn't look like the new heavens and the new earth. No way can it be the new heavens and new earth.

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No way can it be the millennial kingdom. You just have to study, look at the scriptures that are presented and see what

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God is saying. And I'm not trying to, and I know my bias is going to come out.

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You know, we can't help that. But I'm going to say this about all three views.

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Look at the scripture. Read it for yourself. Let God speak through his scripture and let scripture see which view is the most consistent.

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See with all the other theologies. And that's something that I've been learning here lately is that God is consistent.

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God never changes. And so your view of creation has to be consistent with your view of sin, has to be consistent with your view of the

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Old Testament, consistent with your view of Jesus, consistent with your view of the gospel.

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Every single teaching and doctrine of scripture has to be consistent because that's

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God is consistent. God is logical. And he's not going to contradict himself. And so see which one of these end times views is most consistent.

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So the post -millennialists believe that we are currently in the millennial kingdom.

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How is that different from the one we just talked about? Well, the pre -millennialists believe that is going to be a literal thousand years.

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And Jesus is going to reign on the earth literally. In the post -millennial view, they believe that Jesus is reigning.

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But he is sitting on the throne of David at the father's right hand.

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He's currently sitting at the father's right hand. He is ruling and reigning according to the verses that they would use.

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And they would use Matthew chapter 28. All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

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So a king has authority. And he says he currently has it.

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And so they're going to say that Jesus is king. He is reigning right now. And he has rule and dominion over everything in heaven and on earth.

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They don't believe that this is going to be a literal thousand years. And of course it couldn't be because we're already past that thousand year mark.

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But this theology, the belief that they have is that this was never intended to be a literal thousand years.

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It's meant to be interpreted as a long period of time. Just like the number 1 ,000 is used in other places in Scripture.

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To the Lord, a day is like a thousand years. And I think there's other places where the

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Lord uses metaphors. He uses hyperbole.

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He uses these different things to explain. He says

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Jesus is a door. He calls us sheep, but we're not sheep.

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But in a way, he's comparing us to sheep. So he's comparing this time to a thousand years, which he wants us to understand or post -millennials understand that to be a long period of time.

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And during that long period of time, during the millennial age, during the new heavens and new earth, the reign of Jesus during this time, there is going to be progressive improvement.

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And you can go look up the Scriptures on why they think there's going to be progressive improvement. But they believe the gospel is going to continue to go out, continue to spread, fill the whole earth.

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And it's going to, as more and more people become Christian, the earth is going to continue to improve.

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The verse that is used often, one of many verses that are used often is from Psalm 110, which is the most quoted verse in the

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New Testament. Jesus must reign until all his enemies are made his footstool and the last enemy is going to be dead.

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So during this period, there's a constant progression where enemy after enemy is being put under Jesus' feet.

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And the last enemy is going to be dead. And that happens at the end of the millennial kingdom.

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And the end will come when, if you look, if you're moving on the line there, on the post -millennial line, you'll see the big teal box.

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And that's to represent Christ's return. That's the coming of Christ. He's going to come post -millennial after the thousand years.

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And then when Christ comes, just in simple terms, of course, there's so many other things that we could talk about, but just in simple terms and to wrap up post -millennialism, believers are going to go to heaven and unbelievers are going to go to eternal torment, which is hell.

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Now we get to the third major view of eschatology. And like I said, there's so many others. And there's so many branches of these that we could talk about this for so long.

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But there's three major views, pre -millennialism, post -millennialism. And now we're going to look at amillennialism.

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Now, what does the letter A at the beginning of millennialism mean?

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What does that mean? Well, the letter A oftentimes in front of a word means not.

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And so the amillennialist would say that there is not a literal.

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You may be thinking, where is he going with this? They're going to say that there is not a literal earthly reign of Christ.

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It is spiritual. And so in many, many ways, amillennialists believe many, many things that a post -millennialist believe.

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So you're going to have the first block there is the death, burial, and resurrection. And of course, the ascension of Jesus Christ.

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And then right after that, you have Pentecost. And right below those two boxes, you have the tribulation.

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Now, it says that all amillennialists are going to be preterist.

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Preterist meaning past, that the tribulation has already happened. It happened in the past, and it ended at 70

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A .D. Just like the preterist post -millennial belief that the great tribulation of Matthew 24 happened in the first century and ended in 70

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A .D. And then, just like with post -millennialism, right after this period, you have the church age or the millennial reign of Christ.

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But in their view, Jesus is reigning in heaven, but it's a spiritual reign.

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So he's reigning over his church, and not so much over all of heaven and all of earth, and where he's king and has authority over everything.

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But he is sitting and reigning as king spiritually. And so it's not a literal thousand years, and it's not a literal thousand years earthly reign of Jesus.

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It's a long period of time, like the post -millennials believe, but it's a long period of time of Jesus' spiritual reign over his church.

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But unlike post -millennialists, who believe during this long period of time that things are going to progressively get better as there's more and more

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Christians on the earth, they believe that during this church age, during this millennial reign of Christ, this long period, that things are going to progressively get worse.

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So in that way, they are similar to pre -millennialists.

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So they see a decay or a downgrade in society in this millennial time.

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Where the pre -millennialists see that downgrade during the church age, before the tribulation, before the millennial.

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And of course, this is by far an exhaustive look at it.

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This is just scratching the surface, and this is just kind of giving you a timetable, maybe whetting your appetite to look into it a little bit more.

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And maybe conjuring up some questions for you that you want to ask.

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And I'd love for you to ask me those questions. And I would try to answer them to the best of my ability.

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So after this long period of time, the thousand year reign of Christ, just like in post -mill, you have the second coming of Christ.

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That's the teal box. That represents the second coming of Christ, the end of that long period.

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And then just like post -mill, believers are going to go to an eternal heaven.

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And then unbelievers are going to go to an eternal torment, what the

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Bible calls hell. So there you have it. Let me see if I can pull up,

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I'm going to have to get on the right screen here. So there you have the different views of end times.

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I'm hoping that you guys that are watching have some questions.

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The end of the world as we know it. So I probably could do this afterwards.

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I want to look it up right now, see if I can find it. I found the link. There's the link.

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All right, copy. If I can, it's going to let me.

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Okay, it's not going to let me copy this link. Maybe if I highlight it all.

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There we go. There we go, copy. All right, let's see if I can put it in here.

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Paste and send. So there's the copy, the link to the handout, to the graphic there that we're looking at.

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Love for you guys to ask questions. If you have a question later, you want to send me a question. That would be fine too.

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I know it's pretty obvious. If you have seen any of my other videos, which position that I'm taking, which position that I'm leaning towards.

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But that's not what this video is about. And I'm just, I'm trying to stick around just a little bit longer to see if anyone has any questions.

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Anyone wants to chat or talk about anything. It's a lot to take in, yes.

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I guess I consider to be a pre -millennial opinion. Now I don't know.

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And that's okay. That's okay. In my opinion, as long as we don't have the opinion that we don't care.

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I think that's the only opinion that we shouldn't have. We want to desire to know because it is a, it's a doctrine of scripture.

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God speaks on this issue. And as Christians, as the Holy Spirit leads us to want to know him and want to study his word.

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So that's going to be a part of the part of that study. So as long as we have a desire to, to know him, to, to dig into this and to see what

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God is saying, how he wants us to understand it. I think that's the position, the place that, that is, that where we want to be until we've landed on a, you know, a particular position.

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We just don't want to land in the position of not caring. That we'll just wait and see, because number one, it's important.

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It's in the Bible. Number two, your position has an effect on how you live.

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And I cannot overstate that enough. It, it has an effect on how you live.

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There are positions here that are very pessimistic. I'm glad.

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I'm so glad, Nancy. Thank you for watching and thank you for sharing your desire to study

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God's word. I'd love to hear what questions you come up with, what conclusions you draw, what the

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Lord is teaching you. I'm so thankful for that. We don't want to be in a position where we don't care because it affects how we live.

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There are positions that are pessimistic and we can, that's going to rub off on how we live.

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We are going to live pessimistically. And there are certain views that, that lead us to only being concerned with Christ rule,

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Christ's kingdom in certain areas of life. In fact, there'll be a focus on the church.

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There'll be a focus on evangelism. We will, we will do our duty and go to our church services.

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We will, you know, maybe do some evangelism. We'll do some praying. We'll study, study our Bible. We'll give, we'll, you know, do those spiritual things.

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But when it comes to stepping outside of, of church, stepping outside of our devotional time and going out into the real world, how does

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God want us to live in his, in his kingdom under his authority out here in the world?

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Some of these, some of these positions are kind of confused on that issue.

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And some others have a more comprehensive view of how we live and how can we, how we can live optimistically.

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And so it is, it is a worthwhile study and I hope to do more of it.

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And I hope to be balanced and in these videos, not just talk about one thing, but talk about many things in scripture.

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We don't want to be unbalanced, but I don't want to be unbalanced and not mention this issue either.

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So that's why we're talking about it tonight. I don't see any more, any other questions coming up.

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So if you don't know Jesus Christ as your savior, I would so desire, so desire for you to come to know him as your

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Lord and savior and know him as king. Jesus is ruling and reigning and we must acknowledge his reign in either position.

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There, there is agreement that Jesus is sitting at the right hand of the father and he has authority.

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And so we, we need to submit to him in repentance and faith. There, there's only one

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God, there's only one kingdom. There's, there's only going to be one ending that is beneficial to him and to us.

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And that's coming to him, repenting of our sins, putting our faith and trust in him. The only other option is to reject him and spend that eternity where other unbelievers will spend in that eternal torment, which is called hell.

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And, and we as Christians do not want others to be in that position. We want people to know

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Christ and to come to him in faith. So if you haven't done that, me and all the other believers would encourage you to come to Jesus.

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If I can pray for you again, let me know if I can pray for you and I'm going to pray and we'll, we'll close tonight's video.

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Father, we thank you for your word. And thank you, Holy Spirit, for giving us the desire to hear the father through his word and through your work.

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And you're working through men to, to write. You've, you've accomplished so much and you're going to accomplish so many more great things.

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And we are looking forward to what you're doing. And we're thankful that you allow us to be a part of your kingdom and be a part of your work and know salvation and know

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Jesus and be free and be forgiven.

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Father, we want to give you all glory and praise. And we want to bless your name. Father, we pray all these things in Jesus name.

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Amen. All right. Hope you guys have a great night. Remember that Jesus is king.

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Go live in that victory. And let's continue to go out there together and proclaim the gospel in all areas of life.