The Postmillennial Hope: Old Testament Expectation

You guys can go ahead and grab your Bibles, have them ready. I hope you guys brought your Bibles and pens, have your sermon notes page, paper, all that stuff. Big message tonight, it's a lot, I have to confess, is before we get into the word start, our prayer for the message, I have to confess, it's sort of like drinking from the fire hose tonight, because we're gonna take everything we've done over the course of the last bunch of weeks, and we're gonna give them to you all at once tonight, but hoping that you grab on the essential pieces, and so I've put it all together for you guys so you can see it up here, but what I'd like you to do is I'd like you to make sure you have a Bible available and ready, because what I wanna do for some of these passages, I've purposely not put them up on the PowerPoint, because I want you to know your Bibles.

I want you to know where it's at, and I want you to be able to go to it and see it with your own eyes. So have a Bible ready, have a pen ready, and be ready to get into the word. If you guys would join with me as we pray and ask God to bless the message for the evening.

So, Father, we come, Lord, into your presence, God, acknowledging now, Lord, as the shepherd over these people, God, and in myself, my own unworthiness, God, to deliver such a message that is full of so much hope, and Lord, and victory, and it is so transcendent and holy, Lord, but I thank you, God, for your salvation that you've given us in the Messiah, that we are righteous in him, that our sins have been dealt with, God, that you've kept your promises, Lord.

I pray, God, that you would speak tonight through your word to your people, God, that this would lead, Lord, to reformation and revival amongst your people, God, that you would change our minds and our hearts, Lord God, to hope in you, Lord, not to look around us at the circumstances of the things that are seen, but the things that are unseen, Lord, the hope, the guaranteed hope we have in you, Lord, because of the certainty, God, we have in your promises, Lord, that you've given to us.

Thank you, Father, for revealing yourself to us. Most of all, thank you, Lord Jesus, for coming to live righteously in the place of your people, to die for their sins, and being buried and raised again, Lord Jesus, we thank you.

We pray, God, Holy Spirit, that you'd meet us in this place and teach. I pray that you'd get me out of the way, God, in Jesus' name, amen. So we've been doing our study on eschaton, and eschaton really is another word playing off of the word eschatology, the Greek word eschatology, that has to do with the study of last things.

Eschatons and logia is the study of last things, and so we've been talking a lot, if you've been with us even for one week, you know that we are optimistic in our eschatology. That is to say that we don't hold to the common, very popular, modern view in the Western Church, the American Christian Church, of pessimillennialism.

Now we're not pessimistic in our view of the future, we are optimistic, and that optimism isn't sort of a wild-eyed, crazy, hey, for us, the glasses always have full kind of optimism. We really believe that the optimism we have as believers is secured to a guaranteed hope, and that's because we see in the scriptures that God promised us that he would have victory in history.

And so really, it's interesting, the view of Apologia Church, our community, our church, the leadership of this church, is really a view that is much more old school, much more ancient, much more something you would have found around the time of the Puritans and guys like Jonathan Edwards and those kinds of guys.

And so it's peculiar to hear a Christian today, in our modern context in America, speaking so optimistically about the future. And so I know that if you're coming to Apologia Church and you're new to the church, a lot of this has been a jolt to you, and I have to confess it was for me.

I wasn't raised in church and going to Bible college. I was trained in and raised up in a Christian context of pessimilinealism. That is to say, I believed in the secret rapture, seven years of tribulation, and a future 1 ,000 year reign of Christ, and ultimately the defeat of the church within human history before Christ really actually brings this kingdom to the earth.

Our view, I think, is much more biblical, much more old school and ancient and rooted in the scriptures. And so what we've been doing is we've been talking about Eschaton, which is the climax of human history.

And if you look at the first foundations, and so if I could have someone to switch that slide for me real fast, the foundations we have in the series we've been doing is on the fact, number one, God is sovereign.

So if you're taking notes, I wanna have something underneath the message, okay? Underneath the message, I want you to grab onto some essential truths. Number one is that God is sovereign, and that should help us a whole lot because what we're talking about is history in the hands of a God who guides it.

Now, that is something that I have stressed over and over to us as a body of believers. I've stressed to us that that is a unique thing to think about Christians talking about history going somewhere.

The very words climax of history is something that we own. Now, when I say own it, I don't mean that in an arrogant kind of pompous way. We own it. I'm saying that we're children of that God. We're children of the God who is spinning Saturn as we speak.

We're children of the God who is holding the moon just the right distance away from the earth at this moment. We're children of the King who is the King and he governs the entire universe. We're children of the God who's actually revealed himself in human history.

It's not a God that's a figment of some wild-eyed, religious, charlatan, con-artist imagination. We're children of the God who has actually condescended and entered into human history and revealed himself.

And he's told us about his sovereignty and he's demonstrated it in a host of different ways. But most important for our look into the study of Eschaton is really the fact that God has told us about what he's going to do in history.

We own this because we're his kids. The Bible says that the secret things belong to the Lord our God, but what he has revealed belongs to us and to our children. And so that's why we have this hope. God is sovereign.

This is the God, guys, that declares the end from the beginning. He controls everything. Everything down to the big events to the micro events, the small things. We're talking about the God that it could be said of and acts as the church prays that all the people were gathered against Jesus.

Pilate, the Gentiles, the leaders of Israel to do whatever his hand had predestined to occur. We're talking about the God who actually is sovereign over the murder of the Messiah on a tree 2 ,000 years ago.

That kind of God. It's a God is sovereign over history. So I'm gonna just say this just briefly as an excursus off of where we're at here. I gotta say this. This has got to embolden you because I wanna say I know that as Christians when you hear a pastor telling you in a context where there's so much idea of defeat in history that we're just waiting for things to go to hell in a handbasket and why polish brass on a sinking ship when you hear a pastor today really telling you that no, God is gonna transform all of history because of his gospel.

I know that you can look around you. I know you could say, but Jeff, look at this instance of evil in our culture. Look at this wickedness in our society today. Jeff, look at this and look at that.

And what about this?

And it's just the sovereignty of God and his revealed word that gives us the actual hope, the guaranteed assurance that we don't walk by sight the things that are around us. We don't do our reading of our Bible through the lens of the current newspaper, right?

We don't get our eschatology based on the Jerusalem Post today. And what's Benjamin Netanyahu up to? Those kinds of things. Where we get our hope is the scriptures, the word of the living and true God who's revealed himself.

And so the very foundation of everything we've been discussing in Eschaton, the climax of history, God's victory in history is just this single point, God is sovereign. He raises up kings and he takes down kings.

The king's heart is like a river in his hand. He moves it wherever he wishes. That's the God that we're talking about. I mean, guys, when we look at the world around us, we do see transformation, gospel transformation in the world.

It's an amazing, amazing thing. But I know, of course, we look around, we see evil around us. And I wanna just say this, we're talking about the God who, as a man walked among us, was murdered on a tree, rose from the dead, and ascended into heaven with 11 disciples.

Very confused, looking at a descended Messiah. To today, here we are, 2 ,000 years later, with Christians who name the name of Christ.

All over the world.

I'm not sure how many of you guys are on my Facebook page, but I communicate a lot through Facebook, because I know everyone in our culture is about social media. And so I posted a video just the other day of a tribe in Africa receiving the gospel, and they were flipping out.

They celebrated for two and a half hours after the proclamation of the gospel, and people turned to Christ. They were freaking out. I mean, they were like crowd surfing. The whole tribe is going nuts.

That is happening around the world as we speak. Jesus is in control of history. He is the head of the church, and he is on his mission to bring his sheep out of the world. He's been doing it for 2 ,000 years, and he is not gonna stop until every enemy is under his feet.

God is sovereign. It's this God we believe in. He controls everything. History is going somewhere is the second point. You've got to grasp the beauty of the biblical worldview, and that you have certainty that history is going somewhere.

It's not in flux. I've stressed the point that our public school education today, our kids are raised with the idea that they are just blobs of protoplasm, accidents in the cosmos. They're just highly evolved societies of bacteria that are moving around in a universe that didn't have them in mind.

That is not our worldview. Our worldview is a God who creates people in his image. He puts them in his world. He owns everything, and he has us in his world to be his light into all creation, to reflect to the world his glory.

That's our place, our position, and history is his story of redemption. He's in control of everything, all things. He's sovereign, and it's going somewhere. It's not out of his control. As hard as things look, it's not out of his control.

He's in control of every single thing. History is going somewhere. He owns it. The third point I want you to get as a foundation underneath all the series we've done so far in the Old Testament is this.

Our eschatological beliefs, our beliefs about the end of history and getting us to it, our eschatological beliefs have severe consequences to our lives, that's personally, and to the world around us. I want to stress that so much.

Our personal lives are impacted by our eschatological views, our views of history, last things, end times, and we forget this. Our eschatology, our belief about the end also impacts our neighbors. Because I want to say this as Christians, we have simply checked out of our culture.

We just have, we've checked out. And I think there could be a whole host of reasons that could be listed as to why that is. I think a lot of it has to do with the preaching of the gospel in our days. I think it has a lot to do with wolves in the pulpit.

I think it has a lot to do with having bad pastors in charge of churches today, people who aren't committed to the word of God as the ultimate authority. I think you could list those things, but I want to say at least this point can be said.

We've checked out of culture today.

Because of our views of the kingdom, because of our views of the victory of the Messiah in history, because when you're telling Christians from the pulpit for almost 200 years now that Jesus didn't really bring his kingdom in the first century, he didn't really bring it on time as planned, there's been a pause in the kingdom building project of God that he promised.

There's a pause there, there's a gap there. He'll bring it again someday. And that the world's just gonna get worse and worse and worse until Jesus returns. But guess what, Christians? Your pants and underwear are gonna be left behind because you're gonna be secretly raptured away.

And Jesus is gonna snatch you out of the world. The world's gonna go to hell in a handbasket. Let me tell you what, you cannot tell me, you cannot tell me that if you tell Christians that story, that they're not gonna be somewhat excited, subtly excited as culture goes to hell in a handbasket.

Because what are we thinking as it does? The worse it gets around us, the better it is for us. You can't tell me that it doesn't affect how we live in the world. And I wanna say that when Jesus was walking among us, he, in the Sermon on the Mount, says so much.

He says that the meek will inherit the earth. That's different. We're gonna inherit the earth, the meek shall inherit the earth. Jesus talks about you're a city on a hill. He talks about you're the light.

No one puts it under a basket. You put it out to light everything up,.

That you're the salt.

And we've forgotten that salt is a preservative. And we just simply don't preserve with the word of God the culture around us when we believe that the worse it gets, the better it is for us. All we're doing is we're sitting at pool sides reading Left Behind series, wishing ourselves into rapture.

Like I told you, my personal story of just that, believing in that kind of world and sitting by a pool side, excited about the fact that the world's gonna go to hell in a handbasket because I'm gonna get raptured out of here.

It just does.

It impacts our world. Now, I wanna go into the next point here, and that is that we are post-mill. So be ready to switch that for me real fast. We are post-mill and millennial. And listen, I don't wanna go into a long thing tonight on post-millennialism versus amillennialism versus premillennialism versus dispensational premillennialism, whatever.

I broke it down into two things.

What was it?

Pessimillennialism and optimillennialism, right? Now, understand this. I wanna stress this because I know this will be, this sermon's gonna be broadcast out. People are gonna hear this around the world.

We have people listening to this from around the world right now. I wanna say something very important. I am not jealous of the term post-millennial. I don't walk up to people when I meet them and say, hey, I'm post-millennial, how you doing?

Like, I'm not just super thrilled about just the title. I'm not jealous for it. I am jealous for the idea that Jesus is the messianic king. I am jealous for the idea that Jesus' kingdom came on time and as promised.

And I am very jealous for the idea that God promised to have victory in history. I want to believe that, and I wanna tell people that. But the position is basically called post-millennial. And here's what it essentially is, okay?

Jesus, the Messiah, brought the expected kingdom on time and as planned. He is seated and reigning now. His kingdom will grow in history through the preaching of the gospel and the power of the Holy Spirit.

The world will experience the transformational blessings that peace with God brings. Jesus will return for the resurrection of the just and the unjust after all of his enemies are put under his feet in victory.

The last enemy is death. Okay, the next point here, I want you guys to get something as we move forward.

Are you ready for this?

Let's move forward now into where we've been. Now, this is where you wanna have your pens and paper ready. Some of this stuff I am just going to mention briefly. If you want more, go back and listen to the other messages.

But I wanna basically give you the picture because listen, guess what? We are moving soon into the New Testament. Are you excited? We're going to the New Testament. Eschaton, the series, we've only been in the Old Testament thus far.

We're moving into the New Testament starting next week. All right, exciting. And I want basically for you guys to put yourselves in the mindset of a Jewish person who is hearing the promises about the coming Messiah.

I want you to know what they were expecting, the things that they were hearing from God and his prophets. And the first point I want you to grab that is killer, it is theologically awesome. It is something that really, really should set you on fire.

And it's just a single point. And watch this. So much of what we're gonna talk about in the New Testament when Jesus enters really hinges on this. I mean, New Testament eschatology is about God, the king becoming man to take his rightful position as king over the world and his people.

And so I want you not to forget this. We cannot forget that God is the king. And there was a little instance in the Old Testament. It was in 1 Samuel 8 and 11. You can write it down and go read it later.

The children of Israel are basically like, we want a king, we want a king. Like, we're always doing that, right? I mean, think about the last presidential election. Think about even Christians in the last presidential election.

Like, you know, foaming at the mouth,.

Like, we gotta have a leader, we gotta have a leader.

We want a king, right? Essentially. And it's amazing, Israel's in the same place. And the BC era before Christ comes, they're in the same place. They want an earthly king like the other nations. Now, Samuel is a little perturbed by this.

And God basically tells him, don't worry, Samuel, they're sitting against me because I'm their king. And the amazing thing is just that point. What does the Old Testament promise? That a king is coming who will have a kingdom that will endure forever.

It will never be destroyed. That God's gonna make a kingdom with a king over it. And that all, everyone in the world is gonna have to be in subjection to this king. And yet God says that he is the only king.

He's king.

So if you know that God is the only legitimate king over his people, and if you know that God is bringing a messianic figure into history to be king forever, who is coming as king? God is coming as king.

And you gotta grasp that point. You cannot forget that. That God called it sinful for the people of Israel to want an earthly king over themselves in place of God. And so what God did in the Old Testament was he gave them earthly kings.

And it didn't go so well for them. You got one king that's like destroying the people of Israel, or taxing them, sending them off to war. You got another king who's committing adultery and murder. It's not going so well for Israel with their kings, right?

But then God promises that he is gonna set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed. God is coming as king. And then the New Testament is about God taking his rightful place as king over his people for eternity.

Next point. Now here's where you can start to write down sections. All right, so if you're getting this, get ready. I'm gonna put it in sections under the victory theme. We're gonna talk about the victory theme in Moses.

We're gonna talk about the victory theme in the Psalms, the prophets, and things like that. So if you're making this kind of broken into chunks now as you're writing, put it under victory Moses. Who wrote the first five books of the Bible?

Moses. And when Jesus is walking in the first century amongst his people, he tells them, if you believed Moses, you'd believe me because he wrote about me. Now that is something that is super cool is that the Bible actually tells us about the Messiah before he comes.

And Jesus is saying, look, if you're reading Moses, if you're doing your daily devotionals, if you're in there and you believed him, you'd actually believe me because he wrote about me. Now that is something that is astonishing.

It means that you go to your Bibles and you know Jesus tells you Moses wrote about me. So we can look in the first five books and we know that we're talking about Jesus. The Old Testament is about the Messiah.

So the first thing is the victory theme in Moses. And that's this. Moses recorded, number one, the Proto-Evangelium, and that was basically that the first proclamation of the good news, the gospel. It's in Genesis 3 .15.

Many of you know it. The fall occurs where? In a garden. What did God promise? If they broke that covenant, death would enter. So the fall occurs in the garden and God promises Adam and Eve and really all of the human race, he promises that the woman's seed would come and would crush the head of the serpent, but he'd be wounded and bruised on his heel in the process.

You have a promise of Messiah in the third chapter of your Bible, that God is going to send a Messiah, the woman's seed,.

And there's, we believe,.

A proclamation of the virgin birth there, that's going to deliver the death blow to Satan, but be wounded in the process. That's the first point. Second, Moses recorded the first sacrifice and covering.

Now, you know this, and I think I told you guys, like, to be honest, I missed this in my walk with Christ. Initially, as you're reading the Bible, you don't necessarily catch these things right away, but the fact that the fall occurs in a garden, death enters the human race in that day.

God promises to send the Messiah to crush the head of the serpent. Satan's works are gonna be destroyed, but what do you see immediately? God has Adam and Eve covered, their nakedness covered with the skins of an animal.

What took place that day? The first animal sacrifice, the innocent for the guilty display happened that day, and what happened to Adam and Eve? In a garden, they're covered, and they brought death in, and then they're separated from God's presence, but God is speaking over that moment in just one chapter.

In the one chapter that death occurs, Adam and Eve, this was brought in, and God says, Messiah's coming, the woman's seed, crush the head of the serpent, be bruised in the process, and then he has Adam and Eve covered, their nakedness and shame covered in the skins of the innocent sacrifice.

It's an amazing story already beginning as your Bible opens up, and remember, guys, Moses writes this about 1 ,500 years before the atonement occurred. Now, Moses recorded the dominion mandate, and this is really important.

Adam is the image of God. Eve is the image of God, and what does God say? He tells them, take dominion over the earth. What's he say?

Subdue it.

The image of God has authority and dominion over all the creatures, and God says, take dominion and subdue it. Adam and Eve collapse and fail. Now, what's amazing about Jesus in a New Testament, I gotta cite this, is that Jesus is referred to, essentially, as really the second Adam.

He does what Adam failed in doing. In other words, Adam is to be the image of God, to keep covenant with God. He breaks it. He brings death in a garden. He's told to take dominion over the earth, subdue it, but the curse and the fall occurs.

Enter Jesus. God becomes man. He actually is now the representative of the redeemed race of humanity. He dies. He is raised, where? In a garden. So he actually took death naked, where Adam and Eve were naked and should have stayed that way, and they were covered.

Jesus, the Messiah, the second Adam, lived righteously where Adam failed. Adam was a covenant breaker. Jesus was a covenant keeper. Adam was unrighteous. Jesus was righteous. Jesus took death, the death penalty, for the fall.

He takes it all, and Jesus was raised where? In a garden, and I said this this week on the radio show.

I said this.

It cannot be. I refuse to believe that it is an accident that when John records the resurrection account that the resurrection occurred in a garden.

Where did death occur?

In a garden. Where does the second Adam actually defeat death? In a garden, and don't you think that it's impossible that it's an accident that John would record that the women thought.

That Jesus was a gardener?

Why would a woman think that Jesus was a gardener? Because he's hanging out? Because he's standing there just kind of like, hey.

She goes, are you a gardener?

Like, what do you think he was a gardener for?

Why did she think he was a gardener? He must have been working in the ground. It can't be an accident that the first Adam was told to take dominion over the earth. He dies in a garden, and then Jesus comes, defeats death in a garden, raised from the dead, and the first thing he's doing is working the ground.

He was to take dominion, and Jesus is about getting that dominion. He's taking it, and we're in Christ, and we take that dominion with him. That can't be an accident. Moses recorded the dominion mandate.

Next, Moses recorded the covenant with Noah. Genesis 9, 11, what does he say in Genesis 9, 11? That he makes a covenant with Noah and the generations after him that he will never again do what, guys? Destroy the entire world with a flood.

That's a Noahic covenant. The next thing Moses records is Moses recorded the covenant with Abraham, and this is awesome. Now, watch this, you ready? There's a couple things here you're gonna really need to grab, and it's central, and it's constantly gonna be shouted to you from the New Testament over and over and over.

Are you ready for this?

The covenant with Abraham, the Abrahamic covenants, and that was in Genesis 12, verse two, Genesis chapter 15, verse five, that God was, listen, in Abraham's seed, a singular seed. He was gonna bless the whole world, and God told Abraham that through his seed, that his seed would be more numerous than the stars of the heavens.

Have you ever done that? I mean, seriously, have you? I mean, we kind of got a little glimpse of it at man camp recently, the night that it wasn't raining, right? There's stars out there, they're spectacular.

There's so many. Like, it's really kind of, I feel kind of like cheated a bit. Like when you're out like in a city, and there's so much like light pollution, you can't really see the sky. I mean, I've been on a cruise before, and was out in the ocean, and there's just no lights, and there's so many stars, it absolutely boggles your mind.

It blows you away how many stars there are. And God tells Abraham, and there probably wasn't a whole lot of light pollution then. He tells Abraham, he says, look up. Your descendants like the stars. It's just unbelievable.

It's too hard to even imagine or count. And God says, look up, your descendants like that. And then he says, your descendants will be like the sand. And it's impossible to even count. It's impossible.

So the idea of the Abrahamic covenant that through Abraham's seed, the Messiah was gonna bless the whole world, and that Abraham was gonna have descendants more numerous than the stars or the sand has got to shout to you something.

Victory.

Because if humanity basically is going to hell in a handbasket, and really ultimately very few people are saved in that scheme, then I wanna say, where's the real hope in the Abrahamic covenant? Because the Abrahamic covenant shouts something much greater and something much more.

That this is going to be a covenant that blesses so much, that you're gonna be so dazzled by it by the end of time, that it'll be like the stars of the heavens shouting to you about the multitude of God's people he's saved.

That's the Abrahamic covenant. And that's in Moses. Next, I wanna say as an aside, listen, it's not in the five books of Genesis, but you need to hear it regardless. And you already did at the beginning of the service with Elliot, skinny jeans.

The Davidic covenant. The Davidic covenant. And that's in 2 Samuel, it's in chapter seven, verses 10 through 13. And you can go ahead and go to this one because we haven't really gone into this very much.

But I want you to see it. Go to 2 Samuel, that's in your Old Testament. Again, this is not necessarily in Moses, but I just at least wanted to see it regarding the covenant. 2 Samuel, chapter seven, verses 10 through 13.

Gotta hear those Bible pages turning, guys. Okay, here's what I want you to see, the promise in the Old Testament. I want you to hear it and put yourself in the position of the Israelites, the Jews. I want you to know all these promises.

2 Samuel, chapter seven, verses 10 through 13.

Okay, here we go.

I will establish a place for my people Israel and plant them so that they may live there and not be disturbed again. Evildoers will not afflict them as they have done ever since the day I ordered judges to be over my people Israel.

I will give you rest from all your enemies.

The Lord declares to you,.

The Lord himself will make a house for you. When your time comes and the rest and you rest with your fathers, that's David now, okay? He says, I will raise up after you your descendants who will come from your body and I will establish his kingdom.

He will build a house for my name and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. What was promised to David that from David's line. Now, by the way, watch this. You can bring this to all the way through.

Adam to Noah, to Abraham, to David. And then David is being told, someone's gonna come from your own body. That's gonna be the king forever. How do you have a king forever? Unless he doesn't die. He has a kingdom that lasts forever.

And he's from David. And by the way, people say, oh man, the genealogies, the Bible. Like, why do I gotta go to the genealogies? If those genealogies weren't there, you wouldn't know that God kept his covenants.

So you better like freak out and love those genealogies and Matthew and Luke because they're important. Because if you couldn't trace Jesus back to David, to Noah, to Abraham, to Adam, then he's not the Messiah.

And so David's being told that he is given a covenant that his seed will have a kingdom forever. Next, Moses recorded the promise of the lamb. Now this is awesome. In Genesis chapter 22, many of you guys know, this is one of my favorite things to bring people to.

On purpose, on purpose, when I've done ministry over a long period of time with a particular set of people, I have made sure that when I do the Old Testament survey, I make sure I get up front in someone's face, Genesis chapter 22, because it is awesome.

Genesis 22, Abraham, the father of our faith, the one that God promised to bless the whole world through his seed, Abraham is told to take his son, Isaac, the son of the promise, the son of his love, his only son, to take him to a place to offer him as a sacrifice.

Abraham rises early in the morning, he takes his men with him and Isaac, the son of the promise, the one that God's gonna bless the whole world through. And he goes on a three-day journey to a place that his son carries the wood to.

His son sees the fire and the wood and says, dad, the fire and the wood, where's the lamb? And Abraham tells his son these words, God will provide for himself the lamb. He binds his son, Isaac, he goes to slay the son, the firstborn, the heir, the son of the promise, the son of his love, and God, the angel of the Lord, tells him, no, don't hurt him, don't do a thing to him.

And then what happens is Abraham names that place, the Lord will provide it, and it was about 2 ,000 years later that Jesus, the son of God's love, his only son, the firstborn, the heir of all things, the son of the promise, carried the wood to the place of that sacrifice, and that God provided the lamb in that place, as promised.

It's an amazing thing. It is truly an amazing thing to look at this story that God has been weaving in history. It is a symphony. It truly is a symphony, and you need to grab all these parts. The next piece I want you to see is at number eight.

Moses recorded the foreshadowing of temple, priest, and sacrifice. Jesus said that he was the temple. You destroy this temple, and in three days, I will raise it up again. He told the people of his day, something greater than a temple is here.

The Bible constantly is telling us that Jesus is interceding for us forever, that he is the high priest forever, and that his priesthood never changes because he never dies. It never gets passed to somebody else, and that Jesus is the perfect sacrifice, the lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world, who will never die again, who offered a once-for-all sacrifice, and he's able to save to the uttermost everybody who comes to God through him.

Jesus is that perfect sacrifice, perfect temple, perfect priest. The next thing I want you to see is this, and here's where you're like, all right, Jeff, give me the victory verse, okay? There's a bunch, but in Moses, two great ones, and I want you to go to them.

Go to Numbers chapter 14, verse 21. Numbers chapter 14, verse 21. Again, I want you guys to have these written down. Somebody asked me, can you give me a bunch of verses that demonstrate victory in history and the post-millennial hope?