The Kingdom: Consummation, Character, City, Challenge, Day of God (Rev. 20-22, 1 Cor. 15, 2 Pet. 3:13) — A.J. Higgins

Daniel 9:26 and the Flood of Divine Judgment

Now, I'll just take a minute to answer a question that's been written and put in the box about Daniel 9 and verse 27. So if you just turn to that verse, please, Daniel 9 and verse 27. And the question is particularly to do with or requesting elucidation as to what the flood in that verse is about.

I said verse 27. I apologize. Verse 26 is the verse concerned and Daniel 9 and 26. And after three score and two weeks after that period of time shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself. And the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary.

And the end thereof shall be with the flood. And unto the end of the war, desolations are determined. The identification then of the flood, the Hebrew word used there is Shetef. It's a word not used very often in the Old Testament scriptures.

I won't embarrass you by asking you to turn to the book of Nahum chapter one and verse eight. You can do that in your own time. But in Nahum chapter one and verse eight, you'll have the same word used, translated the same way, flood.

And it's very clearly there a metaphor for the outpouring of divine wrath, judgment, sudden, absolute, total judgment, a flood. And so if we were to paraphrase what we've got here in verse 26, the flood is referring to the prince that shall come.

So the Romans, the people of the prince that shall come are going to destroy, we're going to destroy the temple in Jerusalem in AD 70. Of the prince himself, the prince, whose end thereof might be a better reading.

Let's just read the verse in that way. After three score and two weeks, shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself. And the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary, whose end thereof shall be with a flood.

That's the prince that shall come. His end will be with a flood, a torrent of divine judgment. But the continuing war, that anti-Semitism that we spoke about is going to continue right the way through until the end of the times of the Gentiles.

It's going to go right the way through until the Lord comes to establish his kingdom. I hope that's clear. The flood is a metaphor for the outpouring of divine judgment. It applies specifically to the prince that shall come.

And his end will be with that outpouring, that torrent of divine judgment, just as happened to Pharaoh, for example, in the past. I hope that suffices. Thank you, Sandy. Now, I also have a question to answer,.

But I'll incorporate it into the actual reading today. Someone has asked, can you please give us a simple breakdown of the future? And then they have added, without interruption. I don't know if that means without interruption from my brethren or without interruption in the timeline, but we'll do the best we can as time goes on.

Looking at the book of Revelation, chapter number 20, and as you're turning to it, I think I speak on behalf of my fellow speakers here to extend a very sincere thank you to the assembly for their invitation to be with you.

And I think I speak on behalf of all the visitors when I say a very sincere thank you for the very warm welcome, the hospitality that has been shown to us, and the care for all of our needs. A small assembly putting on a very, very large conference deserves a very, very significant note of thanks and appreciation.

So be commended for what you have done. A lot of sacrifice, a lot of work has gone into this weekend, and it has not gone unnoticed, but especially not unnoticed by the Lord. So we are appreciative of all of that.

So we're going to be reading. I will take my cue from my fellow brethren and divide the two hours into two different subjects. If you're looking first of all at chapter number 20, which is specifically the millennial period beginning to end, and then in chapter 21 in the second hour, looking at the eternal state.

Revelation 20 and the Millennial Reign

So chapter 20 for the present, and beginning at verse number one. Now you'll notice how often he says, I saw. There actually are 10 I saws from chapter 19 through to chapter 21. A number of them punctuate chapter number 20.

And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit, and a great chain was in his hand. He laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, and bound him a thousand years.

Now please note how often a thousand years is enunciated. And cast him into the bottomless pit, into the abyss, shut him up, set a seal upon him. He should deceive the nations no more or no longer, till the thousand years should be fulfilled.

And after that he must be loosed a little season. And I saw thrones, they that sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them. And I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads or in their hands.

And they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. And the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection.

On such the second death hath no power. But they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years. And when the thousand years are expired or finished, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, the number of them which is as the sand of the sea.

And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about. And the beloved city and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them. And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night forever and ever.

The Great White Throne and the Final Judgment

Now we have a very, very sober, solemn scene that ends this chapter, that brings to a conclusion that thousand years. And I saw a great white throne, him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and heaven fled away, and it was found no place for them.

And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God. And books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged out of those things which are written in the books according to their works.

And the sea gave up the dead which were in it. And death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them. And they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire.

This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. Now we know that God will add his blessing to the public reading of his word. We are all here today, and we are counter-culture.

The society around us is divided. There are the humanists and secularists. And in their view, history has no meaning. In fact, one of their great proponents, I think it was Stephen Hawking, said, I don't know why the universe goes to the trouble of existing.

It has no meaning, no destination. To the Eastern mind, history is circular, repetitive. So you get reincarnation. It has no direction, no resolution. We are here looking at the fact that God has a purpose for history.

God has a destination to which he has been moving before ever the world began. And he's been working out his purposes in time, and he will consummate it in what we are looking at in these chapters before us in the Bible reading today.

Chapter 20, the millennial reign of Christ, and chapter number 21, the eternal state. Keep in mind, as someone has said, God has told us yesterday about tomorrow, so we will know how to live today. Please get that.

If we leave these Bible readings just with the fact that brethren disagreed about certain things, and there was discussion and differences of opinion, we will lose the value of prophecy. God told us yesterday in the past about what is going to happen tomorrow, so it will make us know how to live today.

And so this reading and the readings that have preceded should have a practical effect upon our lives. And I hope that we'll leave this Bible reading, not because I'm opening it, but because of the subject matter.

We will end on the great theme of the centrality of Christ for all eternity. And if he is central to God for all eternity, I think it goes without saying, he should be central to each of us right now.

So that is the goal to which we are moving, and we trust that God will give us help there. Now, I had in my mind, because I can be a bit devious at times, the thought of reading all of the scriptures in the Old Testament that relate to the millennium, and that would have kept us busy the entire hour, and there would be no discussion, no difference of opinion, and we move on to chapter 21 when we're done.

Old Testament Prophecy of the Millennium

Because the Word of God, your Bible is filled with teaching and truth about the millennial reign of Christ. Not just the Old Testament. You might be surprised, the New Testament contains a tremendous amount of teaching relative to the millennial reign of Christ.

The Gospels, the Epistle to the Hebrews, here in Revelation, it's all here. You go back to the Old Testament, you have a feast that typified it, the Feast of Tabernacles. You had a reign, the reign of Solomon, that gives us a little forelimb of what that is going to be like.

When every man was dwelling at ease under his vine and under his fig tree, and Israel was at peace, and their borders were expanding. And then we have the longing in the Psalms for God to come in. The cry, was it 19 times over?

How long, O Lord? How long is a long for God to vindicate, for God to come in righteousness and judge the earth? And I would think that that is also the cry of many of us. How long, O Lord? Not just for the rapture.

How long is evil going to go unpunished? How long is righteousness going to be scorned and snubbed by humanity? How long until Christ gets his rightful place and is owned as he ought to be owned? So you get the Psalms and the cry and the longing of the hearts of the Psalmist.

You come to the prophets and you have the unfolding of truth, whether we go to Isaiah 2, 11, 35, 61, 64, and where our brethren were in the book of Daniel. And some of the figures, you have those three men in the furnace, don't you?

Accompanied by the Son of God, protected and preserved in the furnace in the book of Daniel. So you have pictures throughout the Old Testament, as well as prophecies. And so the Old Testament is filled with teaching about the millennial reign of Christ.

Now, we've only read a chapter, and in that chapter there's only a very few verses that deal with the actual reign of Christ. But our brethren are going to flesh that out and give us other teaching relative to it that comes from other parts of the Word of God.

But for the sake of time, we're just looking at this chapter and concentrating on it and going down it together. So the first three verses, so we follow it in an orderly fashion. The first three verses tell us of the removal of Satan.

The removal of Satan. Then when we come to verses 4 to 6, we have the reign of Christ. Then we'll look at the reasons. We have to look at the reasons. Why has God dictated that there will be a millennial kingdom?

What's its purpose? The reasons for the millennium. The regeneration of the earth, or the renovation of the earth, however you wish to express it. The earth is going to be regenerated, renewed. It's interesting that, and maybe our brethren will comment on this, Romans chapter 8.

Sin came in by a man. Creation was placed in bondage because of a man. Now the whole creation is waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God that it can be released from the bondage into which it was placed.

Be interesting to look at that and consider why God has so ordained it as such. We'll look as well at the rebellion which occurs at the end and note something about the significance of after 1 ,000 years of idyllic paradise on earth.

When Satan is released, he's able to find individuals who will readily, willingly choose him and sin over every blessing that God could pour upon a regenerated earth. The final test, I think our brother Sona mentioned that each dispensation is a new test of humanity, of man.

And once again, man chose himself to be a failure under the very best of conditions, choosing anything other than God. And finally then, as we'll see, the righteous judgment of God and the great white throne at the conclusion.

The Prophetic Timeline and the Coming Kingdom

Now, just quickly an idea of a timeline. I hope I'm answering the question that was asked. The next great event in God's timeline, I'm not referring to our brother Coulson who handled the 70 weeks so well acceptably, so we're just going to look at the very next event is the coming of the Lord Jesus.

Could occur at any moment. An any moment rapture, an imminent rapture. The word of God is very clear about that. Then after that, and there may be, there likely will be a gap of time, an interval of time, there will be the arising of the man of sin, the signing of a covenant with the nation of Israel, promising them safety and security, peace and safety.

In the middle of that week, possibly because of a victory over invading enemies, he will cause the oblation, the sacrifices to cease and ask that all, demand that all worship be centered in him. That's the middle of the week.

Then we have what is called the period of great tribulation, Jacob's trouble, the last three and a half weeks. That will end with the manifestation of the Son of God, the Son of Man. It is possibly what we have, those who love his appearing, the appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ.

Our brother read in 2 Thessalonians chapter 1, who, the brightness of his coming, the manifestation, all of that, that will bring to an end, coming in at the judgment that will come upon the beast and false prophet.

Then we come to where we are reading in chapter number 20. Prior to the onset of the millennium, we have the final, I'll use the word installment and use it very carefully, the final installment of the first resurrection.

We have been raised at the rapture. Now, I know there are difference of opinion. I would take it that Old Testament saints will be raptured, will be raised prior to the millennium, along with those who have been martyred and they will enjoy resurrection and new life.

Those who have been saved, those who have been sealed and have come through the period of great tribulation and the Gentile nations that have been saved will go into the millennium. They will go in with natural bodies.

They will not have glorified bodies. They will not have part in the first resurrection because they never die. Okay, so because they have natural bodies, they will have natural offspring and those natural offspring will be just like your children and mine and you and I, they will need to be saved.

And it is from those children, we're looking at a thousand years, so we're looking at a huge population explosion. It's during those thousand years that people will grow up and we'll look at as we come to it where they will feign obedience, submission to the Lord Jesus.

But as they go through those thousand years when suddenly Satan is available and he goes out to deceive the people on the four corners of the earth, and that could be literal and there may be a reason why it's literal, there's a great company that follow him.

And we've read of that here, they will encompass the beloved city and there's no battle, just they're destroyed in a moment of time again. And we then have the final judgment we have here and we'll talk about why this is necessary, the great white throne of judgment, and then we are brought into an eternal state.

And I'm skipping a few things because we'll deal with that in the second reading together, but just a broad sweep. Now having said that, I am disturbed because a number of young Christians have mentioned to me just confusion.

You see men who, able men who study their Bibles and they have difference of opinion. And so what do we do? And if they disagree, then how do we know what's right? Please be assured, every one of the men here are absolutely on the same page when it comes to God's timeline for his son.

Our differences are details, are minor things. Please do not leave, do not leave these Bible readings with the idea these men have differed. So maybe the men we hear on radio or radio, sorry that's dating myself, the men we listen to on YouTube and the men that we hear on YouTube and other media, maybe they're right too.

Please do not leave with that thought in your mind. We are absolutely in agreement about the major points we have discussed already. So please, and I hope that in our reading today we'll be able to emphasize for you, our unity, well there are going to be some differences, especially in the second reading, but they are differences that scholars have spilled ink over, that's also dating myself, have filled pages on the internet over, okay?

Scrolls, okay? The papyrus. Anyway, but you'll understand what I'm saying. We want you to leave with the appreciation that we are in absolute agreement relative to God's purposes for his son, for the future, and his people.

As we mentioned, I think our brother Colson introduced it for us, his purposes for the Gentiles, his purposes for Israel, his purposes for the church, his purposes for Christ. We are in absolute agreement about all of that.

So please, hopefully, leave with that assurance in your mind. Now with that before us, I've taken quite a bit of time. We're going to begin in chapter number 20, try to do it in a very, I would say, orderly way, and yet at the same time hopefully be able to give you some material to develop on your own.

Bible reading should stimulate your own interest in studying the portion when you go home. It's not going to answer all your questions, but it should stimulate interest and encourage you to delve into it in greater detail yourselves.

Now with that, unless any have a general comment to make, we'll begin at verse number one and consider together chapter number 20. So in the first three verses we have the angel, we have the adversary, and we have the abyss.

Satan’s Names and His Confinement in the Abyss

Now we're not told who this angel is. There may be some speculation, but give a thought. No, doesn't tell us. Doesn't tell us. So it's just an angel. Interesting that all it takes is one angel. Just takes one angel to imprison Satan for a thousand years.

Can we get some help on these names and the significance of them, why they're all brought together here? Four different titles or names used for Satan, the adversary, the dragon, the serpent. What do they all indicate?

Why these different names? Well, they all indicate opposition to the purpose of God in various ways, whether what he does, what he says, who he is. So the serpent would take us way back.

To Genesis, wouldn't it? That's right. And remind us. It's his whole career so far, isn't it? It's his whole career.

And God is about to undo everything that Satan has done. It reminds us the serpent did this, my son is going to do this. Going to undo it all. Now that is Hebrews chapter 2, and we'll look at.

That hopefully as we have an opportunity to. He's the old serpent here. Yes. So it's showing that he's a lot of experience in his subtlety. Yeah. You know, and the dragon, I take it, he'd be fierce, a fierce adversary.

But that against whom particularly? The dragon is introduced against which people? Israel.

Israel. So the dragon is Israel here, okay? He's against Israel. The old serpent would be against all.

Mankind. Yes. In his subtlety. Satan would be particularly against the people of God, the adversary.

The accuser. The accuser of the brethren. So we're brought to, these names are not just a nice way of kind of, like we do when you had to write a thousand page essay at school. You look at the thesaurus for synonyms or words that will fill in.

No. These are specific titles that are giving us to see God is about to deal with what has been the problem for humanity ever since the Garden of Eden. And he is going to deal with him in all of his evil, in all of his subtlety and deception.

The devil is the false accuser. So he's the author of false news.

I do wonder whether the dragon comes first, because it's not otherwise chronological, is it? No. You know, if this is his career, we'd expect it to start with a serpent. But the fact that he's the dragon, and that's how he appears, a great red dragon in chapter 12.

Do we, could we possibly suppose that the devil who is himself an angel and therefore a spirit being, that he in chapter 12 assumed a tangible presence, a physical presence as the great red dragon, and hence as a physical being, he can be chained.

There's no point taking a chain to a spirit, really, is there? That's only conjecture. But I think that happened in Genesis 6. Spirit beings took on a corporeal being. That's not to be sidetracked, it's just to give an example.

And hence now the devil possibly has done the same thing in chapter 12. He certainly did it in Genesis 3. He did also. With the serpent, yes. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. So he's physically chained and put in the abyss.

Whether Revelation 20 Is Future or Fulfilled at Calvary

Is this one like proof text that this must be future? That he's bound?

Okay, that's very good because you'll hear people who do not believe in a future for Israel and a future millennium will say, this happened at Calvary. Now the problem is if it happened at Calvary, then when Satan is loosed, you have an undoing of Calvary, which is totally, I don't want to say wrong, it's just blasphemous.

You have no undoing of the work of Christ at Calvary. Now, please understand what we just said, what our brother introduced. If the binding and the casting of Satan into the abyss occurred at Calvary, as many Amillennius will try to teach, then the loosing of Satan must be the undoing of the work of Calvary.

And it cannot be, obviously.

The Meaning of the Bottomless Pit

Is this abyss a physical place?

I would take it this is a physical location. Yes. Don't forget, we are in a three-dimensional world. And there's lots of things we're going to be looking at that are outside of our box. And it may well be, it is a physical location.

Perhaps one we're not able to locate, but it is a physical location. What had you thought? I'm sorry.

I thought it indicates the thought of falling away continually from God. So if it's a physical place, the place where God dwells, and he's put into a place where he's going to be continually falling away, bottomless pit.

Okay.

Okay, good. There are specific locations such as Tartarus that we read of. Another, I don't want to introduce that. The swine, you remember the gospels that were sent to the deep, which would be the same thought here.

There are demons that emerge out of the bottomless pit during the period of the tribulation, they're loosed. Would you take it that this is a specific location for, that is reserved for a specific purpose, different than Hades or a compartment of Hades?

How would you see that?

I would just say this is a separate compartment, a separate place. And it's great purposes to, he might deceive the nations no longer. So it'll be a thousand years during which Satan will not be able to influence the thinking and actions of men.

So it's like a holding chamber. A holding, yeah, a prison, a holding chamber, if you will. Okay, before we go on, anyone, any comments on verses one to three before we proceed? Because this is coming out to the major portion that we want to look at.

So again, just to emphasize the reason the devil is bound is to prove what you were saying in your opening, the heart of man. That doesn't need the, that's the reason, right? Right. Okay. Well, yes.

The chief reason I would say is that now men will be, okay, I'm jumping ahead a bit. Think about what the millennium will be like. Every excuse that men have ever used to refuse the gospel will be removed.

Okay. Satan is the cause. Satan's not around. What about the heathen that never heard? The earth is going to be filled with the knowledge of the Lord. No one ever came back to tell us, there'll be a lot come back to tell us.

How do we know the word of God is true? Well, God has fulfilled his word right in front of your eyes. It's all because of social injustice, all because of poverty, all that's going to be gone. There will be not one excuse that men use today to reject Christ.

That will be a viable excuse during the millennium. And yet when it's done without any excuse, men say, we don't care. We want Satan instead of Christ.

So go ahead. Would you want to speak? No, no. Okay. First three then that he should deceive the nations no more. So that just, that just is emphasizing for Babylon has fallen. That was a result of deception.

Those that went in for that and Satan had his man as the figurehead of it all. He's going to deceive the nations no more because the beast has been taken, right? Removed.

Without getting too sidetracked, the prince of this world. When did that begin?

When is that going to end? Well, I think when Adam surrendered the dominion that God had put into his hands, when he surrendered it into the hands of the devil in chapter three. And from that point on, the whole world has lain in the hands of the wicked one.

Okay. So the statement till the thousand years should be fulfilled is far more than chronological. It's purpose. Oh, yes. Yeah.

Very good. Okay. Can we come to verses four to six now and look together at the reign of Christ? And we have to consider lots of things here. Who are these reigning with them? Who are the citizens of this kingdom, first of all?

And what is the character of this kingdom? We'll look at that and get some help on some of these different points. So we're told here about those he saw thrones, they that sat upon them. You recall our brother mentioned to us in one of his ministry, one of his Bible readings yesterday about the promise or the statement to the Corinthian assembly about judging angels, administration.

The Lord Jesus was at the church at Thyatira that they would rule with him with a rod of iron. So at least we have the intimation that amongst those who are going to be reigning with Christ in a heavenly administration, the church, that would be you and would be me.

Okay. That's one. Who else? Let's get some help here.

Do you see the apostles? You shall sit on 12 thrones. Do you see that here? Judging the 12 tribes of Israel? Certainly. Okay. There's the elect ones of Matthew 24 and there's the sheep of Matthew 25. Okay.

What about Old Testament saints? Yes, I take it that they have been resurrected. My view is that they will have a place in the heavenly city. Okay.

I think that's Hebrews chapter 12. Hebrews chapter 12 introduces us to the heavenly city, Zion. And we are told there about those who are part of its inhabitants. Those who are on the role, the census role.

The church of the firstborn ones written in heaven. Spirits of men made... Spirits of men... Just men. Just men made perfect. Okay. The mobile company of angels and festive array and so on. So we have that picture for us here.

So we have these who are reigning with Christ over the earth. The church, Old Testament saints, the martyred, and so on. Anyone else to add to that list?

Where would you go specifically to... We have the judgment seat of Christ for reward for us. But Old Testament saints, just curious where you would go. I know we have pictures with David's mighty men and so on.

But the parables, for example, of the faithfulness and the talents and the... Yeah. Yeah.

Holy cities and so forth. Right. Yeah. I would make the suggestion for consideration only that perhaps this is all earthly in chapter 20. Okay. It's the earthly administration maybe. Because in the next chapter, we then go to the holy city.

We look at the heavenly administration. But that's not to take anything away from what's been said. It's maybe just possibly limited to the earthly administration. Okay.

And to support our brother, William's mention about Old Testament saints being raised. We don't have time. Daniel chapter 12. Yes. Stand in thy lot at the end of the days. Go thy way, Daniel. So Daniel chapter 12 would give us the timeline for the resurrection of Old Testament saints.

And then link with that what our brother Frank has brought up. Then they will be rewarded according to their faithfulness to the Lord Jesus.

Daniel 12, that thou shalt stand in my lot. I don't necessarily read into that. That's the point of resurrection. I take it that at that point, he's already been raised. But he will have his place allocated, his role allocated to him.

And he will enter that at the end of those days. Okay. Many shall rise.

Some do everlasting judgment. Some do... Speaks about resurrection in that chapter. It does. Yeah. So the changes in the millennial earth. Our brethren hopefully will come in on this. There will be topographical changes.

There will be agricultural changes. There will be socioeconomic changes. There will be moral changes. There will be governmental changes. There'll be spiritual changes. Talk about renovation. Talk about a regeneration.

The Renewal of the Millennial Earth

There will be changes at every single level of human life. So give us some help with some of these changes. What about topographical? What's going to happen to the, what we call the earth? Even, well, let's just center on the holy land as they call it.

Well, we know that when the Lord touch his feet, touch the Mount of Olives, it will divide. But I think probably a key passage. Which is essential to understand is Isaiah 65. In that chapter, we read, behold, I create a new heavens and a new earth.

Which is definitely to be distinguished between that chapter and Revelation 21. So the new heavens and the new earth of Isaiah 65 are at the beginning of the millennium. And it's interesting to note that the word used there, I create a new heavens, a new earth.

That word for new has been used in chapter 61, I think it is. And there it's translated repair. So at the beginning, bear in mind, earth is wrecked when the Lord returns to it. It's going to need an act of recreation, a creatorial act, to immediately repair a shattered earth and prepare it for the millennium.

When you repair something that's precious and broken, you seek to bring it back as close to its original state as possible. And my suggestion would be that when the Lord repairs the heaven and the earth, they will go back to what they were before the Noahic flood.

That there will be one landmass, surrounded by water, and that will be the setting of the millennial earth. That would be my suggestion.

And to expand on that a little bit, let's appreciate that, is there will be one language as well in all the earth, right? Isaiah, is it four, is it that tells us about one language that all the people then will be able to work together?

And we're agreed that's Malayalam, aren't we, brother? And the food is Indian, that's right. The food is Indian, definitely. Welsh, I heard it was Welsh. I thought we'd all speak English. It's Malayalam because it takes eternity to learn it.

But that's probably the same as Welsh.

So Zephaniah 3, I think it's verse 9, there will be a pure language. That all be able to worship the Lord. I was thinking of light.

Light will be increased too as well. That could possibly add to the overabundance of reaping and so on.

So there'll be tremendous topographical changes on earth, likely caused by those earthquakes, tremendous earthquakes at the end of the tribulation. Every mountain and hill shall be brought low. The crooked made straight, the rough places plain.

Isaiah 40. And so on, yeah. Barren places will be made fruitful. The desert will blossom like the rose and so on. So there will be climatic changes too, won't there? And Jerusalem will become a port city.

Yes. So will all this be global?

I think changes will be global. Yes, the changes will be.