This afternoon we're looking to preparatory kingdoms, preparing for the kingdom of God during the millennial reign, coming up to the millennial reign. Christ here goes on to say in the 65th chapter, and I think we started at the 9th verse, and it says, and I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob and out of Judah and An inheritor of my mountains and my elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there. And Sharon shall be a foal of flocks, and the valley of Acre a place for herds to lie down in for my people that have sought me. But you are they that forsake the Lord, that forget my holy mountains, that prepare a table for that troop, and that furnish drink-offings unto that number. Therefore will I number you to the sword, and you shall all bow down to the slaughter. Because when I call, you did not answer. When I speak, you did not hear. But did evil before mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted not. Therefore it does say of the Lord God, behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry. Behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty. Behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed. Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit. And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen. For the Lord God shall slay thee and call his servants by a mother name, that he who blessed himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth. And he that sweared in the earth shall swear by the God of truth. because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from mine eyes. For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth, and the former things shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. But be ye glad and rejoice forever in that which I create. For behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy. And I will rejoice in Jerusalem and join my people, And the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying. There shall be no more sense and effort of days, nor an old man that had not fulfilled his days. For the child shall die a hundred years old, but the sinner being a hundred years old shall not be called accursed. And they shall build houses and inhabit them, and they shall plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them. They shall not build, and another inhabit. They shall not plant, and another eat. For as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands, they shall not labor in vain, nor shall bring forth for trouble, for they are the seed of the blessed of the Lord, and their offspring with them. And it shall come to pass that before they call, I will answer, and while they yet speak, I will hear. The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullet, and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy all of my holy mountain. Here we see what we had been looking forward to, and that is the kingdom of God being established upon earth. The kingdom of God being established upon earth. And we notice there's two things, two or three things happening here. Whereas the wicked is being removed and judgment is coming, but God's people are being rewarded and there's a ray of hope. And that's what the convention was this week. A lot of people looking forward with hope and with joy and rejoicing. That's what we're looking for in the earth and God's gonna turn it to a time of that rejoicing. Amplified in the living version that verse 17 reads But see I am creating new heavens and a new earth So wonderful that no one will even think about the old ones anymore the amplified says behold I'm creating new heavens and a new earth and the former things of life will not be remembered of come to mind now this creating a new heaven in a new earth and Throughout the years and a long time, I've heard of people about heaven and earth passing away. And I remember C. L. Franklin preaching, if you get a new earth, you're going to have to have a new heaven. But I think what he's talking about is this world's system. This world is passing away, the world as it is. And we are being transformed into a spiritual world. And like I said, some of the preachers, I don't know how much light they had or whatever, but I see this as metaphorically in a sense. I don't think it's the actual ground, the actual earth itself devolving and passing away that the earth, it's the physical earth. I think we're talking spiritual sense here. I don't see the heavens, I think the heavens that he established, because if we were looking at it in that sense, we would have to look at all the galaxies and everything in that proximity of it. and the moon and the stars and atmospheric change or whatever, but I think we have to look at this through a spiritual eye sight and not a vanquishing of the old ground, the dirt and the earth itself. Isaiah 66 and 22 says, for just as the new heavens and the new earth which I will make will remain and endure before me, declares the Lord, So your offspring in your name will remain and endure. And here and again, I'm thinking he's talking about spiritually, because that's what he's making us spiritually anew. And as we come about establishing the kingdom of God on earth, he's bringing in the millennial reign. So what we've just read and what we're reading is the millennial reign of Jesus Christ of when he rule and reign on the earth. And in that ruling and reigning on earth, it's the Davidic kingdom that I've spoken of, the kingdom of God, coming up on earth in which a human reign. In other words, when Jesus Christ rules on that throne, and it's going to be a forever lasting rule, but this is the last chapter In which he's going to deliver up the kingdom to the father as in the book of corinthian when he delivers up the kingdom So during this kingdom, there'll be death and people sinning and everything Because he won't be then delivered up the kingdom, but he'll be working toward it at that time during the millennial reign This is a time when we would rule and reign with him those of us who had prepared who have been prepared to reign. And that's what I keep trying to preach and teach, that we have to study and learn to rule and reign with Christ, else we may have problems at that time. 2 Peter 3.13 says, nevertheless, we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth way and dwelleth righteousness. That's what the hope, they were looking at hope and rejoicing during the convention. And when a people is looking for a new way, something that's new, something that offers hope to all, I mean, to all, not just to the top percentage, to a certain class of people, but to all people, to all nations. And this would only be under Jesus Christ ruling and reigning as he would, the amplified version reads, It says, but in accordance with his promise, we expectantly wait for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells. Because according to his word, there will be a kingdom here on earth. There will be a time when righteousness reign. In other words, all of the evildoers will be cut off, and he'll be consistently cutting them off. He'll be establishing his word on earth. His promises will start coming to pass, all of the blessing that flows to his people. Now, that's why I say we have to have our hope in him and meditate in him. We're looking for a new heaven and a new earth, but the practice feel is that his will be done right here on earth. It says thy will be done on earth as in heaven. So in other words, without the influence of Satan, without the influence Man that's been here ever since Adam Defected in the rebellious nature in man. That's why I say we have to put down that rebellious nature We have to die to sell for this new heaven and new earth to come because what I said just said Where righteousness dwell and righteousness rule the Word of God rules? The living says but we are looking forward to God's promise of a new heaven and and a new earth afterwards where there will be only goodness, where only good things are happening and everything is right. That will be under Jesus Christ. It couldn't be under man. It couldn't be under no politician can't promise those things. Those are things that politicians couldn't promise. Now, like I said, during the convention, we're looking at people that's hoping and promising of what man can deliver and the aspirations of freedom. In other words, liberty. That was one of the themes. Liberty, being free to love who you want to, do these things and do these things. And that's what Jesus Christ comes. He comes and set us at liberty. He releases us from bondage. But the liberty and bondage that he releases is unto himself. because we are bound by the word of God. So we, the bond of Satan, are we bound to Jesus Christ. And as Paul says, we are his bond servants. We're here to do his will and create it for his purposes. Revelations 21 and 1 says, and I saw a new heaven and a new earth. For the first heaven and the first earth were passed away, and there was no more sea. Man, I heard a guy preaching the other day talking, and I thought about, I've been thinking about this for years, and I ran across some, a few things on it. He said, you know, there'll be no more sea, just land. I think that would be a pretty dull earth. without seas, you know, because, you know, you think about sailing the seven seas, a song that says they sail, because that's part of the beauty of earth, because I don't know if my wife would know how much of the earth is water. Two quarters, a half, or more than a half of the earth is water. is water, so why get rid of the seas? You know, that's why I say the Bible wasn't written to physical man, to carnal man, and that's why it has to be interpreted. That's why I say some of the symbolism and some of the things, because we see way in in Revelations and a lot of places the sea stands for a multitude of people. When they're talking about a sea, they're talking about multitudes of people. But also, the sea represents evil or wickedness. It says in the Amplifier, it says, Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth. For the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, in other words, vanquished, and there was no longer any sea. And that's what I say of the evil influences, for the world's influences. Where heaven and earth is the abode of God, the sea often represents the abode of evil, where evil lies, where darkness. That's where Leviathan is. That's when they talk about the sea creatures. Daniel 7 and 3, Mark 5 and 13, Revelations 13 and 1. Daniel, when he was talking about the sea, and what it was, Daniel 7 and 3, where it says, and four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse from one another. Well, I don't think these four beasts were rising out of the Pacific or the Atlantic Ocean or whatever. But those beasts that they were talking about, those were governmental systems. Those were Alexander's four different generals that ruled after Alexander had passed, after Alexander was dead or whatever. C would be out of the multitude of people. Out of the multitude of people arose these four governments. The Persian, the Medo-Persian, the different governments arose. Four different beasts as a governmental system. So we're not talking about animals, but we're talking about a lion, a bear. The bear was Russia. Russia was the bear. And they had the Medo-Persian and The other ones that came from out of that representation in the book of Mark Mark 5 and 13 says and forthwith when Jesus gave them leave and the unspirit Clean spirits went out and entered into the swine in and the herd ran violently down into a steep place into the sea There were about 2,000 of them. So there they are actually literally talking about the sea. But the sea there would be a place of evil, a place that represents darkness, a place that represents something unwanted. Whereas he's not talking about the rivers. And we'll go back over that a little bit. more in the verses to come revelations 13 and 1 is the other place I had that mark it says and I stood upon the sand of the sea and saw a beast rise up out of the sea having seven heads and ten horns and up out of his and up on his horns ten crowns and up on his head the name of blasphemy Herein again that saying of the sea was the multitude of people and that was the government's arising out of that multitude of people Which they called the sea the book of revelations 21 to 3 says and Let's read that one that we were at that and then I saw an angel descending from heaven Holding the key of the abyss that is the bottomless pit and a great chain was in his hand And he overpowered and lay hold of the dragon, that old serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him securely for a thousand years. That's a millennia. Thousand years is an angel hurled him into the abyss and closed it and seal it above him Preventing his escape so that he would no longer deceive and seduce the nations until a thousand years went in After these things he must be liberated for a short time that little short time that Satan was to be loosed and a lot of people think that we're in that short time now we're doing that short time now and especially with the rise of the political systems that we have now and the religious systems that are uniting with the political system that are deceiving the people because we notice during that millennial reign or during the millennial reign of Christ as that millennial reign that that's one place where it's contradictory at that it wouldn't be the end of time and it's the beginning of it because doing this rain that It's not Satan deceiving us right now. If we're deceived, it's because we want to be deceived. Satan doesn't have power or authority over you. When Christ gave us up his spirit, he loosed us from the bondage of the wheel in that his spirit guides and leads us into all truth. Satan only deceived those who love darkness or who love wickedness and evilness. And the influence, that's why it says a new heaven and a new earth. Other people won't be able to influence us, because this is ourselves doing this. Remember I told you last week that I was trying to preach, but said it was going to take a couple of weeks to straighten out what I told you at that time. Mankind in himself, through the representative man, Adam, when he partake of the forbidden fruit, He derived that evil nature. Satan became the father. Satan became the god of this world. We got a sin nature. Flesh and blood. That's why flesh and blood won't ever be able to inherit the kingdom of God because it's innately rebellious against God. Carnal man that's enmity put between that. So God says, from thus you came to thus you return. That's one condition you can't change. And that's why I say during that thousand year, that millennial reign, man will be still dying, man will still be doing things, but that's man himself, as the old saying that Flip Wilson used to say, You can't say, well, the devil made you do it. No, it's because you wanted to do it. That was your choice because of your wickedness. The book of James says inside of you, these are your desires. This is what you are. You can't blame. Just like Adam and Eve was blaming each other and blaming the serpent. You have no one to blame but yourself because God gives you a choice. He gives you the truth, but it's part of your nature, who you are. The great hope of Christians and the essence of the gospel message is that Jesus Christ will return to establish his kingdom. And that's why I tell people, that's why I'm saying that the people that are born again, when Jesus says you must be born again, There's a thirst and a hunger to be filled with his righteousness for righteousness to dwell in earth You consistently praying to the father that his will be done on earth And that you looking forward to his second advent to his return To the kingdom of heaven that you tired of this world and what this world offers That's why he says love not the world of the things of the world. We're looking for a new world We've tasted this by he giving us of his spirit the earnest of his spirit That we have tasted what this new world would be like and we're ambassadors for Christ this world here no longer appears appeals to us. It is no longer have anything for us, and that's how we have to still overcome the world. We still have a lot to overcome the world, and you have to grow in that because a lot of people is still attached to the world and the world systems. They hadn't broken loose. That's what I was telling you about yesterday. You have to break loose from Everything, that's your relatives, that's your friends, that's your parents, that's your children. You have to break loose and become independent of everything but Christ, and that now you grow in the grace and knowledge of Jesus Christ as a little child. Because now, everybody that does the will of the Father is your brother, sister, mother, and father. We're one of one in, not say not one blood, but of one spirit, one Lord, one faith, and one baptism with that same mind of Jesus Christ. He will be the King of King and Lords of Lords, governing mankind in a way that has never happened before. This is the new thing. He says he's gonna create a new thing, a new heaven and new earth. This is a new way of thinking. This is a mindset. That's in your mind now the kingdom of God is a within you But as some versions say the kingdom of God is among you that that was Jesus Christ When he was saying the kingdom of God was among them because the spirit hadn't been given And as his presence as he was among the pharisees among the people the kingdom of God was a present reality It was there, and that's what I say, as we pray thy kingdom come and thy will be done, we bring that present reality to earth. If you strain hard enough and you have enough faith, you start getting a vision, you start seeing into this other realm. we've had prophets, we have Paul that saw into this other realm. God gives you a peek like Moses got a peek into the promised land. He was allowed to see. That's a discernment. In addition, Jesus will dispose Satan From his current rulership of this world because you remember I told you Satan is the god of this world But if you have a new heaven in the new earth Satan is no longer a ruler you have the power to defeat Satan to put Satan behind you But don't go around rebuking the devil and I and beating and what no you that's a battle to overcome Satan Most people that's running around here fighting Satan and rebuking Satan, Satan is winning all the time because they're giving place to the devil. It says, give not place to the devil. And that's why within the church, Paul says of disobedient Christians and Christians that are not doing the right thing, it says, turn them over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh. Not the destruction of the spirit, but the destruction of the flesh. Because sometimes Satan will take your life. Satan takes so many of Christians lives. But then those are the souls that are under the altar crying to the Lord, how long before you take vengeance on those that did this to us? So I don't wanna be one of the casualties, I wanna be one of the survivors here during the time Jesus Christ comes back and ruling and reigning with him. The malignant unseen influence that has snared unwary people ever since the time of Eve is that we have to be aware of unseen forces. It says the enemies are those of your own household. Your spouse holds you bondage. your children, your parents, your brothers and sisters. We have to be able to discern and be liberated by Christ Jesus to help, by faith, establish the kingdom of God. Now, this is going to cause a lot of division. It's going to cause a lot of fight because we have to study. We have to walk the walk to overcome and establish the kingdom of God. We have to use the word of God, though, to do this. Some have speculated that binding and sealing of Satan means that sin will not occur during the millennial reign, but like I told you earlier, that's not the case. Sin will occur. The pools of the flesh itself exist wherever there's a flesh, and those pools always eventually break out in sin, because James says, chapter one, verses 14 through 15, But each one is tempted when he's dragged away enticed and baited. to commit sin by his own worldly desire, his lust, his passion. Then when the illicit desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin. And when sin has run its course, it gives birth to death. That's why I say people will still be dying during this time because they won't be doing the right thing. People think just because Satan is not around that we automatically do the right thing, and that's not so. We have to learn to love. God gives us a spirit of love. But when he says, love your enemy, love those that despitefully misuse you, well, you find it now that it's hard to love certain people. When he says, follow peace with all men as much as possible with life in you, that's a challenge. Why? Because we are human. we still be envious, bitter, and all of these other things that are in us that's so loathsome to God, but we thinking that as I preached on and taught on the other day, that we're holier than thou, that we're so righteous, but not realizing that we'll lay our descendants, that we'll pour wretched and naked, But we think we're better than other people. We think we are higher. We think we are God's people and designated as the second coming. And the book of Ezekiel's vision shows the priest making sin offerings during the time of the millennial reign. That's Ezekiel 40 through 46. the 40th chapter through the 46th chapter. And in the book of Zechariah, the 14th chapter, the 18th through the 19th verse, prophesizes that some nations will choose, will sin by choosing not to attend the Feast of the Tabernacles. Because these feasts that God had established, we see those feasts being carried out doing this millennial reign, doing the time of God. That's why it says, let us come and go up to the house of the Lord. We have the scriptures in the book of Corinthians, 1 Corinthians, where it says, let us keep the feasts, the love feasts, all of these holidays, all of these holy days, in other words, not holidays, but holy days that were established by God had a purpose and a reason. And that's why I tell you, you better watch out with Christmas and Easter and all of these man-made holidays that they go conflict with the holy days of God. That's what has happened with man's Sunday, that it conflicts with God's Sabbath day. is causing a misunderstanding, a deception. But we read in Isaiah, we read throughout the Bible about the Sabbath in the book of Revelations. We see observations of the seven because that's entering into a symbolic rest of Jesus Christ. Those of us that enter into his rest, that rest comes after he delivers up the kingdom. That's why he told in the book of Hebrews when he says, if we had entered into his rest, he wouldn't have spoke of another day. He wouldn't have spoke of it in the book of Joshua. Christ will rule with a rod of iron precisely because that is how carnal Sinful people must be ruled. Revelations 2 27 12 and 5 19 and 15 because ruling with a rod of iron, Christ ruling with a rod of iron, is different from these people talking about, well, we will do this from the Bible and let Christianity rule. Well, that's different because what about the false professors of Christianity? What about a lot of these people talking about the rapture? being snatched out of here. What about those, as I was telling you, who misunderstand C? There's a lot of misinterpretations of the Bible. That they are not walking by faith, by faith. We established the law. So you have no need of any man to teach you. You could decide and you know what's right and wrong. And that's why I say that is blatantly obvious to those of us that now see this nation going the wrong way. Because it shouldn't even, as Trump has said, why is it an election? Well, it's like the devil saying, why shouldn't you naturally accept me? In other words, that's a contrast, and that's what they were saying at the DNC convention last week as, is there really a choice? Can you see there's only one obvious choice? Well, that's like God. It's only one choice, and he says, choose life. But a lot of people choose darkness because why? Their deeds are dark. They love darkness because Satan is their father. That's why we see the division in the nation. So even after the election, we will see this division continuing on because we will see God is establishing his kingdom. That means all other nations has to fall. If you're reading the book of Daniel, you'll see all other nations have to follow, because there's only one kingdom, and that's the kingdom of God, ruled by Jesus Christ. even though Satan's binding will not destroy canality and sin, consider how much easier it will be for humans to make right decisions when we're not being influenced. And I saw that, and I see it in my children, and I guess others have seen it in their children, and as they learn life or whatever, That it's the influences on our children and thing that drives the family apart, that drives us away from different religion, and it's bad influences and association. So God's working a new thing now. Our confidence and trust is in God. This new thing, I'm gonna read the whole thing, whole of Isaiah 42 and 8. It's a little bit plain in the Living Bible. It says, I am the Lord. That is my name. I will not give my glory to anyone else. I will not share my praise with carved idols. Everything I prophesied has came true. And now I will prophesy again. I will tell you the future before it happens. Sing a new song to the Lord. Sing his praises, all you who live in the earth's remotest corners. Sing, O sea. And so herein again, he says, sing, O sea. Well, he's not talking to a body of waters to sing unto him. We see that he's talking to the multitude of people, to all of the nations, all of mankind, even in the remotest place of the earth. He says, seeing all you who live in distant lands, beyond the sea, join in the chorus you desert cities, Keter and Selah, and you too dwellers in the mountaintops. Let the western coastlands glorify the Lord and sing his mighty power. The Lord will be a mighty warrior full of fury. fury towards his foes. He will give a great shout and prevail. Long has he been silent, he has restrained himself, but now he will give full vent to his wrath. He will groan and cry like a woman delivering her child. He will level the mountains and hills and blight their greenery. He will dry up the rivers and pools. He will bring blind Israel along a path they have not seen before. He will make the darkness bright before them and smooth and straighten out the road ahead. He will not forsake them, but those who trust in idols and call them gods will be greatly disappointed. They will be turned away. There's a whole lot of symbolism in there. But as I keep telling you, you're not understanding the symbolism, and stop thinking you do. Ask God for wisdom and knowledge and understanding, and see don't it bring you to fear and trembling, the rejoicing, the joyous inwardly, discerning that God is coming, but it strengthens you to notice that you're not fully comprehending this. It gives a hunger to you to comprehend it more. It causes you to want to go to church more. It causes you to want to study the word more. It causes you to want to live for God. But it also causes conflict. God's not the author of confusion, but when you bring the rod, it brings these conflicts that you start seeing, and this thing is a, it's, you're not wrestling against flesh and blood, but in a sense you are because Satan uses human instrumentality. He uses the people you love. He uses the things in life that causes these divisions that you have people all along the way say, I wouldn't do that if I was you. This is what the word of God says. But we are being blinded. We are blinded by the world and the things of the world because we think we see. But this new thing that he's working out, he says, I am the Lord, that is my name. I will not give my glory to another. So he starts pulling down those that's taking God's glory. And that may be those within your life, within the framework of your life, because he's establishing the kingdom and Anything that's false, anything that's not right, no care how near and dear it is to you, you might go back and pray to God that you would understand it. I've had people in the last few months or so to ask me to pray for this person and pray for this and pray for their healing, that these things happen. I say, okay, we'll pray for these things as well, but also pray that God would strengthen you to accept their demise, that you start being able to accept death, that you start being able to accept the failures and things around you without being carried off by those failures yourselves. Because everybody has a route to go, and we don't know what that route is, but we must stand. Job had to tell his wife, she no longer sounded like his wife. And I venture that he lost his wife doing all these things, that this was another wife, a surrogate wife. I don't know about cocky about him, but these other children that Job had that God gave him wasn't through that same wire. I don't think she was spiritually as strong as she should have been. That's why Job petitioned. I said, well, you know, it hurt me to lose all of my children. But he had offered up sacrifices daily because, he says, perhaps his children had sinned. And we see throughout the Bible that most of the prophets and leaders, their children wasn't very close followers of them. It's a strange occasion. A lot of times when the child left from the ways of the father and did what was right, you can count the number of times and see it, it takes a lot to stand up and say, well, you wasn't right, and I'm not gonna follow your ways. Isaiah 43 and 18 says, remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing. Now it shall spring forth, you shall not know it. I will even make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. Okay, if he's making rivers in the desert, we know he's not getting rid of the seas because all of the rivers flow into the sea. That last chapter I read to you were full of metaphors and symmetry, different symbols that I didn't even have time to explain to you. And that's what I say. If we get entangled in this world's affairs, like I said, sometimes we're too busy cutting the grass, washing the cars, doing other things because those were things that we might have should have put in another category. Those are not things to do on the Sabbath because that day should be dedicated at least to resting and getting to know God and talking and meeting and communing with God. That's not your day to do your personal work on. That's not the rest. The rest is in Christ and in communing with Christ. So it's a lot of people that are not studying the way they should because if they start studying the way they should, it doesn't matter that much. If the car don't get washed, it don't get washed. If the grass don't get cut, it don't get cut. If we don't go to this entertainment or this ball game or whatever it is that's part of our agenda, that's not the most important thing. The most important thing is Martha was asking that Mary to ask Jesus, won't you tell my sister to help me? And Jesus says you are encumbered by much worry. Cooking was good and they needed to cook, the people needed to eat or whatever, but that wasn't the most important thing. Listening or hearing the word of God is the most important thing. He says Mary had chosen that good thing. We get encumbered about too much. And it tells us study to show ourselves approved. And we think we got this thing covered. That's why I say the Christians are gonna be the ones that's much lost. And that's why so many tears are being shed because it's gonna be such a few. It's going to be such a remnant and that's why the preachers are trying to bring it up on us. Do you actually see this? Pray to God that he's showing it to you because it's easy to intellectually say, I understand, I comprehend. But when you see the greatest of the prophets and preachers still crying and praying after God to show them and to lead them and guide them, we should see that we fall far shorter than they do. It says, continue reading, do not remember the former things upon the things of the past. Listen carefully. I'm about to do a new thing. Now it will spring forth and you will not be aware of it. I will even put a road in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. Isaiah 48, 66. 6 through 8 says you have heard these things foretold. Look at all this and you will not declare it. 46 and 48, 6 through 8 is close identical to 42 that I just read to you earlier. And that's why when I was looking and studying that, I was seeing the closeness of that. What is this new thing he's doing? What is God about to do? Because if we understand the duality of prophecy, We understand when Isaiah was saying that, that the people didn't understand that God was talking about turning on his people and destroying them and building up only a few and only a few returning. So if we look at that, if he's going to do the same thing now, we're going to look at a destruction of the church. We're going to look at God showing himself in this second advent, his second coming. That's why it says he's going to destroy a many with the brightness of his coming. What is this new thing that he's doing? And shouldn't I be circumspect as Gamaliel told the people that were about to destroy, try to get rid of the apostles, he said, be careful what you're fighting against because happily you might find yourself fighting against the Lord. In other words, he says, there were different sects of men that rose up, false prophets and false teachers that led the people and the people thought actually that this was the right way. But it was the wrong way. So think, if another Jesus has arisen, even the secular world trying to warn us about Christian nationalism, and the church, the people in the church is saying, this is another Jesus, and we got a counterfeit in here, that this is not the right Christianity. If that alarm is going out, should we be being more circumspect of everything around us? Of the mega churches, if he says the many that are going the broad way, shouldn't we examine our children's religions? Shouldn't we examine our religions? Shouldn't we examine unity and everything that's going forward and That's why it says with fear and trembling work out your own salvation because this thing is happening. But each day and each night we're praying to God with each step that we're going the right way and that we're not being deceived. You have to not have confidence in yourself. You have to have confidence in the Word of God. But you also have to have confidence in that God's going to send people. He's going to send His Word to heal us and to lead us and guide us in all truth. He's going to send the light. And it's going to come through hearing the word of God. So it is necessary that we be in churches, that we be in places of worship, and that we break off all unions that are not so linked, and that we only have casual associations at that time. 2 Corinthians 5.17 says, therefore, if any man be in Christ, he's a new creature. All things are passed away. Behold, all things are become new. The Amplifier says, therefore, if anyone is in Christ, that he is grafted in and joined to him by faith, he is a new creature, a new creation. He reborn and renewed by the Holy Spirit. The old things, the previous moral and spiritual conditions have passed away. If it's true of the individual that we don't get a new body, we don't physically get a new body, wouldn't it be true of the new heaven and the new earth that it's not a physical earth and a physical heaven? That it's spiritual also, that if we're a new creation and he's making a new creation, that we're dwelling in the creation? as it brings to mind that we're in the world, we're not of the world, but we are helping destroy the structure of the world by establishing through faith the things of God. If we are new creation, he's already begun this. He had begun it from the foundations of the world. He had begun the kingdom from the foundations of the world. The spirit was already working. It had been completed because it says, on the seventh day he rested. Revelations 21 and 5 says, and he said, he that sat on the throne said, behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, write, for these are the words that are faithful and true. He's making all things new. We can find encouragement in those things because no matter what Satan and his demons or allies try to do to stop it, the resurrection has occurred. The return of Christ Jesus is imminent. The kingdom of God coming is imminent. Shouldn't we be looking for it spiritually, but it's going to impinge upon our physical world? That if it changes us, it changes the old man. But do we completely stop a former thing? No, Paul's seeing that that old man was still in us, that that was another law trying to bring him under bondage that he had to put to death daily, that he had to struggle to mortify his members. The kingdom of God that is within us is the new birth. We've been born again. It says Luke 17, chapter 6. Now having been asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, He replied, the kingdom of God is not coming with signs to be observed with a visible display. Nor will people say, look, here it is, or there it is. He says, for the kingdom of God is among you. The reason he said that, because he was present. He was the kingdom of God. He was present. But the King James Bible and several other Bibles says, is within you. It's in the midst of you. In other words, The present application was that he was there physically, but he says he must go away. He was gonna send another comforter. That other comforter that he was sending was the Holy Spirit. You had to be born again. So then it was gonna be within you. Not only just among you, it was gonna be within you. It was gonna be in the midst of you. And that kingdom we brings out and we bring out and establish. God's kingdom certainly does reside today in our brothers and sisters and the members of the church by that indwelling of the Spirit. But there also has to be a physical kingdom coming, a millennial kingdom. Now when I say a millennial kingdom, in other words, a new world order, a new world system. We're not talking about destroying this because we, ourselves, don't obtain a corruptible body until the kingdom is delivered up, when we're changed, when that immortal puts on immortality. But I tell you, during the millennial reign, we still will be dying. we might have longevity of life. That verse tells us that life will increase during that time. I'm not gonna get to it tonight, so I skipped to it. Verse 20 tells us, no longer shall there be an infant who lives only a few days, or an old man who does not finish his days. For the youth who dies at the age of 100, And the one who does not reach the age of 100 will be thought of as a curse. He's saying, man, what's wrong? This guy didn't live to be 100 years old. What did he do wrong? Where did he sin at? He should live much longer than that. The living says, no longer will babies die with only a few days old. No longer will men be considered old at 100. Only sinners will die being that young. So our days will be as days of a tree. We will be as righteous trees. So during this millennial reign, we'll live as though they lived during the time of Job, during the time of Methuselah, during those times where Adam lived a 900 to 900 and something. because one day with the Lord is as a thousand years. One thousand years is as one day. This is the millennial reign. This is the day of Christ. This is the day of the Lord where he established the kingdom. But this is a pre-establishment of what God has promised throughout eternity. this is a look at it physically because he must carry this out physically so we'll see how God had created the world to be what he says let us create man in our image in our likeness So that, what I was addressing yesterday, what I was telling you yesterday, I say, well, if you just want to learn to drive or do that, how to use the bow or whatever, it's good. But from the standpoint of being part of the millennial reign of something we would do, it's a bigger spiritual issue lying behind that. We have to look for the spiritual issue lying behind everything that's done, every idle word we say, because why? We are helping establish the laws of God. So the Bible tells us if a man doesn't work, he shouldn't eat. If we don't labor, as God says, labor, we have to do these things. But isn't grace the God's grace this is given to us? But you're not remembering what I'm saying. If you throw that whole baby out with the bathwater because If we've heard the Word of God, we heard it by faith, and faith has works. So you will be driven to have good works. Now that I got off of that tangent, let me come back to where I was to try to close this down in time enough. The fullness of God's kingdom must come completely, and it says that the fullness of time which will be a sometime in the future, that in the dispensation of the fullness of time, that he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are in earth. All of these is what become as one. His will will be done on earth as it is in heaven. It's gonna be synonymous, it's gonna be the same. Because why? Jesus Christ has a work to do, but he says he's going to bring us in on that and that we will rule and reign with him to establish the kingdom of God. We know that the kingdom of God was inherited within the human Jesus Christ, within the man Jesus. And therefore, if we are now in him by his spirit dwelling in us, then the kingdom is inherit within us. That's what I was telling my brother this morning. And he was asking about Jesus sleeping or resting. And I say, well, he was a man. And that's why he was born as a man, because he did all these things as we did. He had to do this to become our kinsman redeemer. So the spirit was inherent in him. That's why I said the kingdom of God was among us at that time, but now it comes in the spirit. It's within us. It was within him. we know that he received the spirit without measure. In other words, he had an unlimited measure of the spirit. Jesus says in Matthew 25 and 34, then the king will say to those on the right hand, come you blessed of my father and inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundations of the world. When was the kingdom prepared? From the foundations of the world. So like I said, this has been going on from the beginning. Satan or nothing hinders God's work. All of this is part of the plan. Note the mention of the word inherit in the context I've told you. He says, however, before considering the inheritance, we should read another verse showing that God's kingdom was planned from the foundations of the world. He had chosen us in him from the foundations of the world. For we who have believed do enter the rest. As he said, so I swore in my wrath they shall not enter my rest, although the works were finished from the foundations of the world. That's Hebrew 4.3. So it was some, he said, wasn't going to enter into his rest, but it was some that were going to enter into his rest, but he had chosen who was from the foundations of the world. So God's kingdom is coming. It was the human Jesus Christ through the indwelling of him in an unlimited portion of the Holy Spirit, John 3 and 34. John 3 and 34 says, For he whom God has sent speaks the word of God, proclaiming the Father's message. For God gives the gift of the Spirit without measure unto Jesus Christ. So none of us would do with Jesus Christ or be with Jesus Christ because he had it without measure. And we should be continually being filled with the Spirit of God. So we grow in grace and the knowledge and understanding of God. 2nd Corinthians 1 22 says Listen at this. Yeah, I'm saying the spirit was in here with him in him Unlimited but with us first Corinth every second Corinthians 1 22. I Who had sealed us and given us the earnest of the spirit in our hearts The holy ghost is the earnest and that has a real estate term of as a when you put down I Didn't write it down It says it is he who also put his seal on us and and has given us the Holy Spirit in our hearts as a pledge, a security deposit, a guarantee. This is the earnest, the pledge of us. of His inheritance, this earnestness, this seal of the Holy Ghost. Remember, He sealed us in the foreheads. He put His seal on us. In other words, that little bit of the Spirit is what He promised us, but the fullness of it, just like putting something on layaway. We put a little bit on it. It's ours, but we're not going to have the fullness of that until we redeem it, until we give the complete purchase price. Second Corinthians five and five says now he that had wrought us for the self same thing as God Who also had given us the earnest of the spirit? The amplified says a down payment on the fulfillment of his promise Let me give you this taste of the spirit see that it's good That's what I say once we taste of it once we are born again It creates a hunger and thirst in us that That's why he says, blessed are those that hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled. Because the earth is gonna be full of the knowledge of God. It's gonna be filled with righteousness. So that promise is gonna come true, even though he just gives us a taste of that. But those of us that's going along, that hungers and thirst, and the more you eat, the more you try. That's why Paul strove harder than some. So there could be a lot of people that might die along the way, might get killed, because why? They're kind of careless here. They're not putting their all in it. That's the level and stage that God has them for. That's why we're going to be rewarded according to our works. It's some people that never picks up a Bible. Well, they wouldn't be rewarded the same as those that picks up a Bible, and I would. Surely those that pick up the Bible hour a day wouldn't be rewarded as those that pick it up three or four hours a day. So he says talents, people were given certain talents. So you all go into vineyard, you all receive the life, but then you will be rewarded according to your work. according to your deeds. How often did you labor for the Lord? How often you spoke up for the Lord? How often you laid your life on the line? Or was you one of those that got saved and you never witnessed to anybody? You never studied God's Word? You never grew in it? You hid the talent God had given to you. So we will finish this Wednesday night. I'm going to go a little bit deeper. I hope I was able to at least scratched the surface on this, but God's gonna bless his people. Heavenly Father.