46. THE FUTURE
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Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but He revealeth His secret unto His servants the prophets (Amos 3:7).
1. "A SURE WORD OF PROPHECY!"
1. The Lord told Daniel to close up the book & seal up the prophecy until the End, but right now this is the End! So now we're supposed to open the book, break the seals & read it & understand it.
2. Every word the Bible ever said is true & has come true, & every prophecy it ever uttered has been fulfilled except the ones that are yet to come, & they'll be fulfilled just as surely as the ones that have been fulfilled in the past.
3. How like a string of beads the Bible is! All the prophets of God have been sent to give the people pearls, beads of truth! But it takes the Spirit of God to put everything in proper order, sorted out & made into something useful!
4. The Bible not only contains history, it also tells the future. It's not just a history book, it's a news book. It not only tells you about yesterday, it tells you about tomorrow!
5. The Bible's the only News Book in the World! The newspapers are not really newspapers, they're history papers. They tell you what's already happened. The Bible tells you what's going to happen.
6. We're not to fret for tomorrow, which means we're not to worry about tomorrow, but the Lord sure has had a lot to say about tomorrow, so He certainly must want us to be informed about tomorrow!
7. The mate of every prophecy is its fulfilment! (See Is.34:16.)
8. God's Word is specific! God's Word is very clear! Its prophecies are very plain & tell you exactly who & where & even when!
9. What God's determined & prophesied, He's going to do! Whatever God has said He's going to do, He is going to do! Not one shall lack her mate, not one prophecy shall be without fulfilment, every single one shall be fulfilled!
10. Any Christian who is ignorant of the Future & the basic events & the basic characters is a pretty ignorant Christian & is a sad, poor witness to others who are hungry to know the future.
11. That's the whole point of prophecy: To let you know what's going to happen so you won't worry about it. You'll know what's going to happen!
12. To be forewarned is to be forearmed! To understand what's going to occur is to be prepared to face it & take it as it comes & hopefully survive it!--At least certainly to understand what you're going through & to know what's happening!
13. God's Word says, "Blessed is he that readeth & they that hear the Words of this prophecy!" (Re.1:3.) It takes an effort, it's work to try to understand Bible Prophecy & to "study to shew thyself approved unto God, rightly dividing the Word of Truth." (2Ti.2:15.)
14. We who know His Word & His prophecies & promises for the future will never be surprised with a "mighty widening of the eyes" like those who have not discerned the sings of the times! For we will be prepared! PTL!
15. ISA.34:16 Seek ye out of the Book of the Lord, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for My mouth it hath commanded, and His Spirit it hath gathered them.
16. ISA.42:9 Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them!
17. JOH.13:19 Now I tell you before it come, that, when it is come to pass, ye may believe that I am He.
18. DAN.12:10 None of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.
19. 2PE.1:19,21 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost!
(For more Scriptures on this topic, see Part 1 of the Book of the Future.)
2. "THE LAST DAYS!"
1. The "Last Days" as used in the Bible started with the first coming of Christ!
2. "Now is the hour come of which all prophets have spoken! Thou art upon the threshold of the door of these things of which I have already told thee."
3. If God did not step in & intervene in this last hour of History, man would completely destroy the Earth & totally annihilate himself!
4. Now is the Endtime of which all the prophets spake! You are the generation--the Last Generation--of whom all the prophets spoke, & they dreamed of your day!
5. We are living in a very unusual day!--A lot of amazing things are going on, but a lot of sad things too.
6. Every time you turn on the television, it roars! Every time you turn on the radio, you can hear the waves roaring!--The sea of the peoples of the Earth, roaring in the Last Days! (Lk.21:25)
7. The curtain has been drawn aside on the last scene of Earth's great drama, & the act has begun & it cannot stop now! It is impossible! It will keep right on going, fulfilling these promises of the Word of God until all these things be fulfilled!
8. To say the least, we're living in every exciting times & there are soon going to be some very big global changes made!
9. I am convinced that the real Time of the End that His Word speaks of from cover to cover is these last few years in which we are now living! According to His Word, we are already living in the Time of The End!
10. Beloved, the time is growing shorter. The days are becoming more evil & things are moving faster & faster as time goes on. (Eph.5:16; 2Ti.3:1.)
11. The End is closer than ever! "Be prepared!"
12. HEB.1:1,2 God, Who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by His Son.
13. 1CO.10:11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the World are come.
14. 1PE.1:19,20 Christ...Was foreordained before the foundation of the World, but was manifest in these last times for you.
15. 1JO.2:18 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that Antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
(For more Scriptures on this topic, see Part 2 of the Book of the Future.)
3. "SIGNS OF THE END!"
1. God wants us to know the "times & seasons", & throughout the Bible He gives us multitudes, thousands of literal, specific predictions of the future & what its times & seasons will be like!
2. Today you & I are watching the signs of the End happen! We are seeing these things fulfilled! And our generation will not pass away until it's all been fulfilled! To us all these signs are flowers & blossoms & beautiful fulfilments of His prophecies & signs of His soon-coming.
3. Every time I see God fulfil prophecy & we're another step closer to the End, I say, "Hallelujah! Thank God! Soon it will all be over!"
4. Keep your eyes on Israel & Jerusalem, that's the time clock. That's where you'll see & hear the things that are really going to cause things to happen! Israel has meaning for the whole World, it's a kind of pivot, a turning-stone of World History & Bible Prophecy, the focal point.
5. Jesus said, "When you see these things, or these signs come to pass, look up, your redemption draweth nigh!"--So obviously, He wants us to "see" & "look" at the Signs of His Coming being fulfilled before He returns, so that we can "discern the Signs of the Times"! (Lk.21:28; Mt.16:3.)
6. God's Word contains countless specific "Signs of the Times" which have come to pass in our generation, proving that we are now living in the Time of the End! These signs include: An upsurge in "famines, pestilences & earthquakes in divers places" (Mt.24:7), "the Gospel being preached in all the World for a witness to all nations" (Mt.24:14), "many running to & fro, as knowledge is increased" (Dan.12:4), a great "falling away" (2Th.2:3) from the Lord as "evil men & seducers wax worse & worse" (2Ti.3:13) & "the love of many grows cold" (Mt.24:12), resulting in "distress of nations upon the Earth & men's hearts failing them for fear!" (Lk.21:25,26)--The great "Red Beast" has risen (Rev.13:1-5;17:3) & is "coming in peaceably & obtaining the kingdom by flatteries" (Dan.11:21) & will soon conquer the entire World (Rev.13) & reign for 7 years (Dan.9:27), until Christ returns & establishes His Kingdom of genuine peace on Earth! (Da.2:44)
7. Every sign points to it & there is every indication that you're going to be living through these very days of the Endtime!
8. His Word is full of "signs of the times"!--Signs of the Last Days, of the Endtime, signs that you should look out for & expect, so that you will know when you are near the End & how near the End & what is going to happen at the End!
9. All of the signs are pointing to the End! And from all we can gather from His Word & what the Lord has shown us, the Antichrist is going to appear within the next few years, months or even weeks or days!
10. MAT.16:2,3 When it is evening, ye say, it will be fair weather: for the sky is red. And in the morning, it will be foul weather today: for the sky is red & lowring... Ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?
11. MAT.24:3-5,24 What shall be the sign of Thy Coming, and of the end of the World? Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in My Name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
12. Mat.24:12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
13. 2TI.3:13 Evil men & seducers shall wax worse & worse, deceiving & being deceived.
14. 2PE.3:3,4 There shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of His Coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the Creation.
15. MAT.24:37-39 As the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark. And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
16. DAN.12:4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
17. NAH.2:3,4 The chariots (cars) shall be with flaming torches in the day of His preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken. The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings.
18. 2TI.3:1,2,7 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy. Ever learning, & never able to come to the knowledge of the Truth.
19. 1TI.4:1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils.
20. 2TH.2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day (of Christ's Second Coming) shall not come, except there come a falling away first!
21. 2TI.4:3,4 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears: And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
22. MAT.24:14 And this Gospel of the Kingdom shall be preached in all the World for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come!
(For more Scriptures on this topic, see Part 3 of the Book of the Future.)
4. "ANTICHRIST'S RISE & REIGN!"
1. The Bible predicts that in the last days of man-made regimes on Earth, a totally Godless anti-Christ World government will arise, led by a Devil-possessed dictator, Satan incarnate, who will bring a false peace on Earth & a counterfeit utopia, & its price will be enforced worship of himself as the imitation Messiah!
2. The Devil is being given his last fling.
3. The Antichrist comes on the scene with a 7-Year Pact to reign seven years. It'll be the smartest piece of politicking & diplomacy ever engineered!
4. This one big promise he makes is called the Holy Covenant, in which he promises the World peace, religious freedom, Jerusalem internationalised & no more war between the Jews & the Arabs & the Christians.--He promises them everything!
5. The Antichrist will rise to power first through the covenant of Peace, & then only later on, during the last 3-1/2 years of his reign, does he finally resort to the last extreme resort of the Atomic War to blot out his worst enemy, Babylon, the Great Whore, the U.S.A., with the help of his ten kings of Europe.
6. The Antichrist, the leader of Russia, will not only invade Israel, but he will make Jerusalem his capital. He will set up his headquarters there, his palace, & he will rule the whole World from there for at least 3-1/2 years.
7. The Antichrist is going to yield himself utterly & totally to the Devil, just the way we yield ourselves to God! He will be the Devil in the flesh--the god of this World--who is going to run the World & command it to worship him, & slaughter many who refuse.
8. Look how the World is being prepared for a mechanical god, an Electronic Brain, a Computer Deity, which they will then be willing to worship because it is their own creation, the work of their own hands!
9. They rejected the true Messiah, they refused to receive the truth, so God will send them strong delusion that they might believe a lie!--The Antichrist, the false God, the fake Saviour, the phoney Messiah!
10. The Antichrist government is of God to teach man a lesson, to give man just what he deserves.--Man worships the Devil, so he's going to get the Devil's own government! He worships himself, so he's going to be run by a superman!
11. Man's greatest & best government will be a total failure without God, & will come crashing down around his ears.
12. The Antichrist will reign for seven years: The first half will be a more-or-less general World peace, & the second half will be 3-1/2 years of "Great Tribulation" such as the World has never known!
13. The whole World is waiting for a superman, a god-man who can solve all their problems & answer all their questions & heal all their economic ills & unite all their politics & end all their religious squabbles & stop all the wars & bring peace & union to all nations.
14. Man's final World government is going to seemingly be the most perfect government the self-righteous heart of man could ever contrive, the most idealistic, the most fair, the most compassionate, the most equal, the most sharing.--It will be like trying to have Christianity without Christ!
15. If there was ever any place where a mastermind's compromise agreement was needed, it's Jerusalem!--The Jews say they will never let it go, & the Arabs say they will never let them keep it. So some kind of a compromise has to be wrought to solve this very very difficult problem.
16. Anyone who could solve this pressing crisis over Palestine, & Jerusalem in particular, would certainly be considered a mastermind & a genius & a superman & no doubt all the World will wonder after him!
17. It is in the midst of the "week", or 3-1/2 years into the 7-year Covenant period, that the Antichrist changes, abolishes the newly reinstituted Jewish sacrificial worship, profanes the altar, & exalts himself as God.
18. One of these days soon, when "He Who now letteth is taken out of the way" & the restraints of the Holy Spirit of God are lifted, like a dam being opened or removed, a flood of iniquity is going to circle the World under the reign of the Devil himself in the person of the Antichrist!
19. No wonder the Antichrist is so powerful & such a superman & wonder-worker! Satan will at last be cast out of Heaven &, in his fury, knowing that his time is short, he will possess this Antichrist, this Beast, & make him a Superman, a Devil-man, the Devil in the flesh, like Jesus was God in the flesh!
20. The time is soon coming when paper money will no longer be used as a medium of exchange! The money medium of exchange will be replaced by a very remarkable credit system in which every person in the World who belongs to the System will bear a credit number, without which he can neither buy nor sell!
21. The whole World will soon be on this credit system with no currency, no cheques, no paper money, & you, the World, won't even need any more credit cards, because you will be your own credit card with the Mark or Number of the Beast on your hand or in your forehead!
22. The Mark of the Beast is going to be much more serious than we had ever dreamed!--Not merely for the purpose of identifying you as one of the Beast's people, but to make you literally one of his absolute soul-slaves so that you no longer have control over your own mind or body or actions, but you are a complete absolute automaton governed by the central computer.
23. The Lord has already got us sealed! And the Devil can never take that away from us by any amount or any kind of force whatever.
24. The Bible says that anybody who accepts the Mark of the Beast is going to be damned, so obviously no truly saved Christian is going to accept it!
25. The Antichrist is apparently either going to rise out of Egypt or have something strongly to do with Egypt.--So you'd better keep your eyes "turned towards Memphis"!
26. 2TH.2:1,3,4 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto Him. Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day (of Christ's Second Coming) shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the Son of Perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
27. 2TH.2:7-9 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only He who now letteth (holds back) will let, until He be taken out of the way. And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the Spirit of His mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of His Coming: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders.
28. DAN.8:23-25 And in the latter time, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up. And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people. And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.
29. DAN.9:27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week (7 years): and in the midst of the week (after 3-1/2 years) he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
30. DAN.11:21-24 He shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries. And with the arms of a flood shall they be overflown from before him, and shall be broken; yea, (he's) also the prince of the covenant. And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people. He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.
31. REV.13:2-4 And the dragon (Satan) gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority. And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the World wondered after the Beast. And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the Beast: and they worshipped the Beast, saying, Who is like unto the Beast? Who is able to make war with him?
(For more Scriptures on this topic, see Part 4 of the Book of the Future.)
5. "TRIBULATION!"
1. Jesus said that the Tribulation will begin "when ye shall see the Abomination of Desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place." (Mt.24:15,21.) When you see it standing there, you'll know the Tribulation has begun! And from then till Jesus' Coming will be only 3-1/2 more years!
2. You're going to have to have the power of God & the wisdom of His Spirit to survive those days!
3. That Last Day is going to be a day of miracles & the supernatural, to protect His children.
4. The night is going to be the nightmare of the Tribulation, & the day the Coming of Christ.
5. The forces of evil will never be able to completely destroy God's true children!
6. We'll be witnessing to the last day, even in the very capital of the Antichrist, who will be trying to exterminate us!
7. No matter what happens or how the Antichrist & the Enemy try to pursue us & kill us & torture us & make us worship him & take his Mark & bow down to his Image, nothing is going to stop us!
8. You are to obey the "powers that be" (Ro.13) in all but two things: You are not to stop witnessing for Christ, neither are you to deny your faith by receiving the Mark of the Beast.
9. If you love Jesus, you will refuse the Mark of the Beast, because you'll have God's Mark in your forehead & hand! (See Rev.7:3 & 9:4.)
10. Only those who have the seal of God in their foreheads, His Own Children, the true believers who have the genuine Jesus in their hearts, will be hidden & spared by the miracles of God until the Coming of Christ when they will join Him in the air!--The only way out will be up!
11. God is going to protect us & God is going to keep us, a lot of us, if not most of us, supernaturally, miraculously, powerfully, in many ways, & the message will get out all the more in spite of everything the enemies do!
12. We're going to march triumphant, protected by God, right straight through the Tribulation from beginning to end, in the face of our enemies!
13. "Now when they shall fall they shall be holpen with a little help." (Dan.11:34.) And when you get a little help from Jesus, let me tell you, that's all the help you need!
14. "In the World ye shall have Tribulation, but fear not, for I have overcome the World & ye shall have peace!" (Jn.16:33) Praise God?--Peace of mind & peace of heart ever though there's war all around you!
15. The Tribulation is probably going to be the most glorious time the Church has ever had, with the greatest witness God has ever given the World!
16. In the Tribulation we're going to have the greatest power of the Lord we have ever had!--The greatest outpouring of the power of the Spirit & the greatest witnessing the Church has ever done!
17. I believe we're going to have a time of greater power than even the Early Church, with greater manifestations, mightier works than have ever been done before, & mightier witnessing! The Gospel is going to be preached in all the World for a witness unto all nations, PTL! Amen? "Where iniquity doth abound, grace doth much more abound!" (Ro.5:20)
18. You're going to win a lot of souls in that day, you know that?--Because a lot of people are going to believe you then, & a lot of people are going to need salvation & need the good news you have to tell them. And you're going to be a great encouragement to millions of people throughout the Earth who are going to seek you & seek your answers.
19. "They that understand among the people shall instruct many!" (Dan.11:33.) Our major job will be to stand up as God's strongest witnesses before both the Church & the whole World & to explain to them what's happening & to lead & encourage & feed God's children till the very End!
20. "Ye indeed are they upon whom the ends of the Earth are come. Ye indeed are they of whom all the prophets have spoken. Ye are My witnesses of the Last Day of whom I have spoken throughout the Ages by all My holy prophets. Ye indeed are they that shall be strong & that shall do great & mighty exploits & shall instruct many in the ways of Truth & shall open the Book by My mighty power & by the wisdom of My Spirit & shall reveal these secrets unto others."
21. Thank God you have the preparation that prepares you for anything that's going to happen, & that's Salvation!--Knowing Jesus & knowing that you're saved. Then no matter what happens, sudden death is sudden glory!
22. If God has to rain down manna from Heaven to feed us, if He's gotta call down fire from Heaven to defend us, we are going to continue to witness until Jesus comes!--And I dare anyone to try to stop us!
23. By mighty miracles, signs & wonders, God is going to preserve much of the Church unto the very End, because they're going to be here when He comes. PTL!
24. The horrors of the Tribulation are for the wicked!--To protect you till the End!
25. There will be literally millions who will reject the Mark of the Beast & refuse to fall down & worship his Image, & who will even as nations rebel against the Antichrist & fight him!
26. The Bible says that anybody who accepts the Mark of the Beast is going to be damned, so obviously no truly saved Christian is going to accept it!
27. Although the Beast commands that no one can buy nor sell without the Mark & that anyone who refuses to worship his Image should be killed, we will refuse!
28. The Tribulation period will be the end of any kind of association with the System whatsoever for true Christians. It will be impossible to survive except by miracles of God & faith & living by faith in a survival situation, totally & entirely independent from the System, without its Mark & without its approval & without its benefit.--Start now!
29. As the World slips into this new Dark Age of antiChrist, anti-God savagery, if we, as Christians, do not hole up in the "catacombs" beneath "Rome", we're not going to survive! We will have to go underground!
30. Even though the Antichrist will be allowed to overcome us physically, obviously destroying the organised temporal power of the Church, he will not & cannot overcome us spiritually! The Lord says, "And they"--the Church--"overcame him by the Blood of the Lamb, & by the word of their testimony; & they loved not their lives unto the death!" (Rev.12:11.)
31. The worse things get, the more God's Spirit is going to be poured out from on high to help us withstand the dark evil forces that will be warring against us!
32. There's going to be a great harvest of souls won to His Kingdom in that last hour of Earth's horrible history!--A great harvest of souls that you're going to help reap!
33. However we witness, whether we live or whether we die as martyrs for Jesus, "laying down our lives for our friends" (Jn.15:13), we live & die for the Lord & for Love & for others!--And we will do so till the very End of the World, witnessing for Jesus till He comes!
34. Beloved, don't fear the Tribulation if you love the Lord! Don't worry about that last 3-1/2 years! Yes, the Antichrist is going to be after our skin, & his anti-Christ followers are going to be on our tails trying to get us, but let me tell you, there's going to be a lot more on their tails, not just trying, but getting them!
35. Even if you have to go through it, in some way He's going to keep you. (Rev.3:10)
36. He is able to keep us through anything, everything, & I'm certain that He wants to spare us to minister to others, to help & encourage & inspire faith & glorify Him.
37. When His judgements fall on the wicked, they usually miss His children or His children are spared from them.
38. The Lord is able to keep you right in the middle of it all. So you don't ever have to worry!
39. Are you ready? Probably not!--But you can get ready now by reading, studying & learning His Word, & giving your full time to the Lord, your whole worship, & serve the Lord & love the Lord with all your heart, all your strength, all your mind, everything you've got, starting right now!--Until the very End! Amen?
40. Only the wrath of the wicked is vented on the Children of God in the Tribulation, but all the wrath of God is poured out on the persecutors!
41. The Tribulation period is going to be a defeat for churchianity & the so-called "holy people" but not for the true church of God, the genuine Christians!
42. During the Tribulation there is going to be a lot of Hell, in fact the most Hell the World has ever known, but the World is going to get most of it, not us!
43. During the Tribulation there is going to be a tremendous revival & great outpourings of the Spirit, mighty manifestations of miracles & power & protection!
44. I think the Tribulation is probably going to be one of the greatest, if not the greatest revival that the World has ever known!--The last great outpouring of the Spirit, the mightiest we have ever seen, with the most magnificent miracles, signs & wonders!
45. I think the Tribulation is going to be our last great revival, our final great witness, our last great harvest of children & teenagers, probably by our teenagers!
46. The days ahead are probably going to be the greatest of all! There may be more trouble than ever before, but there'll be more help & more power & greater evangelisation.
47. The Tribulation is actually something to look forward to in a way because of the mighty events that are going to take place.
48. DAN.8:11 Yea, he (the Antichrist) magnified himself even to the Prince of the Host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of His sanctuary was cast down.
49. DAN.11:31-33 And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate. And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries; but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits. And they that understand among the people shall instruct many.
50. MAT.24:15,21 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:) For then shall be Great Tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the World to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
51. REV.11:3,5,6 And I will give power unto My two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days (3-1/2 years), clothed in sackcloth. And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed. These have power to shut Heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the Earth with all plagues, as often as they will.
52. REV.12:6,13,14,17,11 And the woman (the Bride, the Church) fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days (3-1/2 years). And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the Earth, he persecuted the woman. And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time (3-1/2 years), from the face of the serpent. And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
53. REV.13:5-8 And there was given unto him (the Antichrist) a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His Name, and His tabernacle, and them that dwell in Heaven. And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them; and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. And all that dwell upon the Earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the World.
54. REV.13:15-18 And he (the False Prophet) had power to give life unto the Image of the Beast, that the Image of the Beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the Image of the Beast should be killed. And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a Mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads. And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the Mark, or the name of the Beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the Beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(666!)
(For more Scriptures on this topic, see Part 5 of the Book of the Future.)
6."ATOMIC WAR!"
1. According to Revelation 18, God is going to make short shrift of the Whore in a sudden deadly blow that will almost totally destroy her with fire!--Sure sounds like an atomic first strike on the U.S.A.!
2. Babylon the Great Whore is surely being fulfilled in America today, who will surely try to go to Israel's rescue, but it will bring about the downfall of them both, as is so clearly predicted in the Bible!
3. If God didn't step in, mankind would commit suicide!--If God didn't step in within the next few years & stop it, man would wipe himself off the map! This is why Jesus prophesied of the Last Days, "Except those days be shortened (or cut off), there should no flesh be saved!" (Mt.24:22.)
4. Because the Bible definitely indicates that Russia & the supporters of the Antichrist are going to come out on top & win when the Atomic War comes & the pre-emptive strike comes, I believe Russia's going to make it & destroy the U.S. first.
5. What conditions do you think will prevail immediately after such a war in which the losing leading countries of the war are destroyed? God has put it into exact words & called it "The Great Confusion"!
6. Even if they're hitting close, the Lord's our bomb shelter!
7. If God doesn't destroy the modern American Sodom & Gomorrah, He will have to apologise to the ancient ones!
8. Nuclear arms are merely a symptom of the problem.--War itself is a mere symptom.--The disease within is rebellion against God & defiance of the Lord, & anti-Christ opposition to Jesus!--That's the disease!--And the disease is soon going to break out all over in one Hell of a nuclear holocaust!
9. Even if you can't dodge the nukes or the kooks, Jesus can protect you, for He cares for His Own!--And if you do wind up a target for an H-bomb, your worries are over! You'll wake up forever in the Heavenly Kingdom of God with eternal peace & joy & happiness & bliss & love & beauty forever!
10. JER.1:14,16 Then the Lord said unto me, Out of the North an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land! And I will utter My judgements against them touching all their wickedness, who have forsaken Me, and have burned incense unto other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.
11. JER.4:6,7 I will bring evil from the North, and a great destruction! The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.
12. JER.27:8 And it shall come to pass, that the nation and kingdom which will not serve the king of Babylon (the Antichrist), and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I punish, saith the Lord, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.
13. DAN.11:40,41,44,45 And at the time of the end shall the king of the South push at him: and the king of the North (the Antichrist) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over. He shall enter also into the glorious land (Israel), and many countries shall be overthrown. But tidings out of the East and out of the North shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many. And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
14. REV.17:12,16,17 And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the Beast. These shall hate the Whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire. For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil His will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the Beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
15. REV.18:2,3,8,9,10 Babylon the Great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the Earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the Earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God Who judgeth her! And the kings of the Earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning, Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgement come!
(For more Scriptures on this topic, see Part 6 of the Book of the Future.)
7. "THE SECOND COMING OF JESUS!"
1. The Second Coming of Jesus Christ is the major Endtime event, the Grand Climax, as the Lord Himself returns & wipes out the fiendish bestial Antichrist & his followers & sets up the last & most lasting & only perfect government the World has ever known!
2. Jesus is the End, He's going to bring about the End! He is going to be the End of all things, the Livin' End!--The Forever Livin' End!
3. This is our only hope: The love of God, His mercy, Jesus, & His return to rescue His Own & the Earth & the people of the Earth & restore light & life & love again!
4. Our only hope is the Coming of the only Prince of Peace--Christ Jesus.
5. When it looks like we're going to be really wiped out, the Lord's gonna come & wipe them out!--A happy ending to the story!
6. When things finally get their worst, Jesus returns & wipes out the Antichrist & his forces & takes over the Earth & establishes His dictatorship, a reign of genuine righteousness, peace, security & freedom!
7. Beloved, the outlook for us in this World & our future here could hardly be darker!--But the uplook could hardly be brighter or more glorious! Hallelujah! He's gonna stop the World so we can get off!
8. Just after the darkest hour in World History, we are going to have the brightest dawn, & Jesus is going to come back again & rescue His Own, His children, His Church!
9. He's coming soon! Hang on! Don't let someone else get your reward! Be faithful to the End!
10. "Lift up therefore thy heads, for thy redemption draweth nigh! Behold, thy King cometh as a mighty Man of Power, strong to save & deliver thee!"
11. Christ's coming is literally going to be an invasion from Outer Space!
12. Let me tell you, when Jesus comes, this World is going to know about it!--Light! Thunder! Lightning! Jesus! Clouds! And suddenly you're all changed!
13. One of these days when there's no place else to go, we're going to go straight up to be with Jesus!
14. The Resurrection takes place & all the saved who were dead come to life & all those saved who are still alive are raised into the air to meet Jesus in the clouds!
15. The Coming of Jesus Christ is the pivotal point, the End, when time shall be no more for us!--The End of this World as we now know it, & our place in it in these present physical bodies.
16. Jesus didn't say we wouldn't know the day or the hour, He said they wouldn't know the day or the hour! That's why you have to compare Scripture with Scripture.--You've gotta think about who He's talking to! That Scripture has absolutely nothing to do with you & me today in this Endtime, these Last Days!--We will know!
17. Just at the hour when the fiendish Antichrist thinks he has everything under control--suddenly--BOOM!--Like a bolt from the blue, Jesus comes & snatches all of His children out of this World!
18. We will rise in immortal victory over the forces of the Devil & the Antichrist, right before the eyes of our enemies, out of their reach forever as we rise to be with Jesus!
19. Thank God, He has a set time & schedule for the return of His Son, Jesus Christ, to this Earth to rescue His people!--And He's going to come right on the button, just like these space launches which have a pre-set countdown!--Only there aren't going to be any problems to delay His countdown!
20. That's the surest way you're going to know when Jesus comes, you're going to be there! You're going to rise to meet Him in the air! The greatest sign that Jesus has come will be that you will start floating upward!--And He will gather you together to Himself, His Body, & we will meet Him in the air!
21. It says that "they shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of Heaven with power & great glory!" (Mt.24:30.) All that Secret Rapture, Pre-Trib Rapture, is a bunch of malarky! It's ridiculous! It's un-Scriptural!
22. What greater witness could there be than the Rapture?--The Resurrection & the Rapture, that's the clincher! That's the final witness, when they actually see Jesus & see us rise from the dead & from the Earth to meet Him in the air! That's it! They can't deny it then!
23. Lights! Trumpets! Voices! Thunder! Earthquakes! Noises! Dead rising from the graves! Live saints rising from the ground, floating right up through the ceilings & the buildings & the cars & right up into the clouds to be with Jesus!--That's no secret Rapture!
24. With one sudden, supernatural, miraculous, mighty stroke of God, He waves His wand of power & presto!--We who are alive will be changed!--Translated & raised incorruptible, to meet the Lord in the air!
25. Do you want to know what you're going to be like after the resurrection?--You're going to be like Jesus was after His resurrection!--That's what you're going to be like!
26. One of these days soon, when Jesus comes & that great Trumpet sounds, you're going to trade in your present, old, worn-out, fleshly, earthly model for an entirely new Heavenly model like the body He had after His resurrection!
27. When He starts collecting His children, He's certainly going to collect them all & not leave any behind! Nobody's going to be left behind that loves Jesus!
28. I want to be ready to meet Him when He comes!--Ready to praise the Lord & welcome Him with joy & be happy that He is catching me out of this filthy old World up into His clean skies & Heavenly places!
29. The day is coming when Time shall be no more! The 4th dimension necessary for the existence of matter is Time. If matter could move fast enough, it would shorten Time so much that neither Time nor matter would exist any more! When Jesus comes we're going to move so fast that Time will be no more for us. One great Eternal Now! If you're up high enough you can see both Past & Future.
30. MAT.24:27-31 For as the lightning cometh out of the East, and shineth even unto the West; so shall also the Coming of the Son of man be. For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together. Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from Heaven, and the powers of the Heavens shall be shaken: And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in Heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the Earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of Heaven with power and great glory. And He shall send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of Heaven to the other.
31. 1CO.15:51,52 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
32. ISA.26:19 Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the Earth shall cast out the dead.
33. 1TH.4:16,17 For the Lord Himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
34. REV.11:15 And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in Heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this World are become the Kingdoms of our Lord, and of His Christ; and He shall reign for ever and ever!
35. REV.22:20 He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
(For more Scriptures on this topic, see Part 7 of the Book of the Future.)
8. "THE WEDDING SUPPER!"
1. When Jesus comes, He catches His Bride out of the evil clutches of the Enemy & takes her into His bosom!--And whisks us away to the grandest, most glorious & thrilling wedding party that's ever been held--the great "Marriage Supper of the Lamb"! (Rev.19:7-9)
2. "It will be worth it all when we see Jesus!
Life's trials will seem so small when we see Christ!
One glimpse of His dear face, all sorrow will erase!
So bravely run the race till we see Christ!"
3. "Oh, what a day that shall be when thou shalt join with Me in My Kingdom to reign with Me for evermore! Thou shalt have such joy that thou hast never known!"
4. The Heavenly City!--What a place for a Marriage Supper & laughter & singing & music & dancing & wine & women & song & angels & everything your heart could possibly desire!
5. We're gonna go up & have one grand celebration, one shindig of a party such as never was since the World began, no, nor ever shall be compared to what has been before!
6. We get our rewards right away up in Heaven at the Marriage Supper of the Lamb where there's a great Feast & a great Marriage Supper, great ceremony, & the Lord passes out the gifts!
7. There will be a great feast & a great ceremony & Jesus will pass out the gifts, the presents, the rewards to all of those who loved & served Him!--Isn't that wonderful?
8. At the time of the Marriage Supper, we'll not only go up & meet the Lord & enjoy the wonderful celebration, but we'll also face the Judgement Seat of Christ, in which all the Christians who have ever lived will be judged & rewarded for their successes & their obediences, or chastised & condemned for their failures.
9. Rewards have nothing to do with your salvation! The rewards are something you work for & you earn by your faithfulness & your diligence & your hard work & your soul-winning!
10. Although your works in this life aren't going to help to get you into Heaven, they'll have a great deal to do with your reward, a great deal to do with the way you shine, & a great deal to do with your position once you're there.
11. "If thou couldst see that which is in store for thee, the things I have prepared for thee, if thou couldst feel that which I feel for thee, the joy thou shouldst know in time to come, thou shouldst be overjoyed for that which is to come!"
12. REV.19:6-9 And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth. Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to Him: for the Marriage of the Lamb is come, and His wife hath made herself ready. And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints. And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
13. 2CO.5:10 For we must all appear before the Judgement Seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
(For more Scriptures on this topic, see Part 8 of the Book of the Future.)
9."THE WRATH OF GOD!"
1. After the resurrection takes place & all the saved are supernaturally raised into the air to meet Jesus in the clouds, then the horrible Wrath of God will be poured out upon the Antichrist forces left behind!
2. How horrible the Lord says the Endtime will be for the wicked during the soon-coming days when He begins to pour out His judgements on the Earth!--"They will seek death but be unable to find it!" (Rev.9:6.)
3. While we're having that Marriage Party of the Lamb in Heaven, there's going to be Hell on Earth as God wreaks His judgements upon the wicked left behind!
4. While we're celebrating upstairs, they're going to be suffering downstairs!--Ecstasy in Heaven & Hell on Earth!
5. During the Wrath of God, the Antichrist & all his followers, all those that have the Mark of the Beast, are going to suffer the seven vials of God's Wrath spoken of in the 16th Chapter of Revelation.
6. While we're having a wild party & lots of fun up-stairs, having Ecstasy in Heaven, they're going to be having Hell on Earth downstairs!
7. According to Revelation Chapter 14, after His grain is safely gathered into His Heavenly garner, He's going to cast the grapes of wrath, all of the Antichrist forces, into the winepress of His indignation!
8. After catching His Own out of this World & into His Heavenly Bridal Chamber, God's gonna pour out His judgements & horrors & Wrath upon the Antichrist forces to punish'm & to sock it to'm with what they deserve!
9. If He is a God of justice, then there has to come a time for Him to mete out His justice & His judgements.--And thus it happens!
10. REV.14:9,10 If any man worship the Beast & his Image, & receive his Mark in his forehead, or in his hand, the same shall drink of the wine of the Wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture, into the cup of His indignation.
11. REV.16:1-4 And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the Wrath of God upon the Earth. And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the Earth; and there fell a noisome & grievous sore upon the men which had the Mark of the Beast, and upon them which worshipped his Image. And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea. And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
12. REV.16:8,10 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun: and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire. And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the Beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain.
(For more Scriptures on this topic, see Part 9 of the Book of the Future.)
10. "THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON!"
1. He's not only had a First Coming as a baby to Earth, but He's going to have a Second Coming at the end of the Tribulation when He Raptures His saints, & then a Third Coming as well in the great Battle of Armageddon!
2. Out of Heaven come the great hosts of Heaven with Jesus in the lead on a white horse to destroy the Antichrist & his kingdom in that great Battle of Armageddon (Rev.19), & we take over the Earth!
3. This time it's not gonna be God in the hands of sinful wicked men, but it's gonna be sinful wicked men in the hands of an angry judging God Who's gonna sock it to them! His First Coming was when He came as a babe: God in the hands of men! His Second Coming is going to be men in the hands of God & a different story!--the Wrath of God!
4. The Battle of Armageddon is going to be the battle in which we tune in, turn on & take over! And we're going to run the World! Praise God!
5. There'll be forty-five days of War, wiping out the very worst of them & leaving only those who are going to remain alive & survive through the Millenium, over whom we're going to rule & reign!
6. It's the grand finale of the Wrath of God!--Where the wicked are cast into the Winepress of His Wrath!
7. When the Wrath of God has been wreaked on the wicked below, we are all going to climb on our fine white stallions, our Heavenly horses, & we're going to come riding out of the sky with the Lord, and invasion from Outer Space!--Aliens now to this World!
8. How stupid can the wicked get?! How crazy can even the Devil be?--To make a last-ditch stand to try to fight God & His forces, even though by this time we are as powerful as the angels of Heaven! We have supernatural resurrection bodies, supernatural powers, & we can even ride our Heavenly horses through the sky!
9. Jesus will come charging out of the blue on a mighty white charger in a mighty invasion from Outer Space, & He'll just utter His Word like thunder, sharp as a sword, & it will slaughter His enemies!
10. Although the slaughter & carnage resulting from this Battle will be unparalleled by any wars or disasters before it, it will not be total.--There will still be some remaining who will survive it--those spared for the Millennium! PTL!
11. At this mighty battle of Armageddon, we not only conquer Satan & his forces, but we also take over the World, to rule & reign & run it the way it should have been run to begin with, & would have been if man had not believed the Devil's lies & disobeyed God & gone his own way!
12. When Christ finally takes over, it's going to have to be with force & with power, "With great power & glory"!--The wicked just don't understand anything else!
13. REV.16:12,16,17 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the East might be prepared. And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon. And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of Heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done.
14. REV.19:11,14-16 And I saw Heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and He that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He doth judge and make war. And the armies which were in Heaven followed Him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And out of His mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it He should smite the nations: and He shall rule them with a rod of iron: and He treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and Wrath of Almighty God. And He hath on His vesture and on His thigh a Name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
15. REV.19:19-21 And I saw the Beast, and the kings of the Earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against Him that sat on the horse, and against His army. And the Beast was taken, and with him the False Prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the Mark of the Beast, and them that worshipped his Image. These both were cast alive into a Lake of Fire burning with brimstone. And the remnant were slain with the sword of Him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of His mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.
16. JUD.15 Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of His saints, to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds.
(For more Scriptures on this topic, see Part 10 of the Book of the Future.)
11. "THE MILLENNIUM!"
1. At the end of the mighty Battle of Armageddon, of the forces of God against the forces of Satan on Earth, we, the saints of God, along with our King, Jesus Christ, will take over this World!
2. The Millennium will be a 1000-year reign of peace, plenty & paradise on Earth!--Our great Worldwide victory over all of the Antichrist forces of Satan, including Satan himself!
3. The Millennium is one thousand years of Heaven on Earth like the Garden of Eden, with Worldwide peace, Satan & his forces bound, the curse removed & Paradise regained!
4. At last the Lord is going to redeem the Earth again, & again He's going to cause the beautiful Garden of Eden to blossom in perfection & sinlessness as we rule & reign with Christ upon the Earth for a thousand years.
5. The true Christians & believers are going to inherit the Earth & the Kingdom of God on Earth & run & govern it by the Love & the power of God!
6. The Bible is for dictatorship, & the coming Kingdom of Jesus Christ will be an absolute total dictatorship by Jesus Himself!
7. Only God Himself in the Person of Jesus Christ, with His angelic helpers & angelised saints, is going to be able to run a World government well, with true justice, liberty, peace, plenty & happiness for all!
8. Jesus & His Kingdom are going to be the government, & we are going to be His angels & teachers & enforcers & policemen.
9. We're going to be teaching them how to live & how to be honest & how to love God & obey. (Is.2:1-5; 11:1-9.)
10. It is you that God is going to use to run the World, & He's getting you ready for it right now!
11. His Word says, "We shall then rule & reign with Him over the nations with a rod of iron!" (Rev.2:26,27.) It'll be a mandatory rule of loving force to compel the nations to submit to the laws of God & to recognise His authority & to obey His rules of life, love, health & happiness.
12. The Millennium will be a time of teaching, a time of training, a time of enlightening, a time of learning His laws & His ways & His Love, & again another opportunity to reach the lost for the Lord!
13. Everything that the Lord ever taught you during this life, everything that you ever learn now, is going to come in very handy then.
14. There are so many jobs in the millennium, it's almost too hard to find enough people to do them all!
15. The Millennium's going to be the World's last chance to repent & confess & try to get things straightened out & make things right.
16. No more big powers & oppressed poor!--Only the Kingdom of Jesus Christ, Heaven on Earth, fairness & justice for all & eternal happiness forever!
17. A great deal, if not all, of the curse is going to be removed. Man is going to be at peace with the animals. The lion will lie down with the lamb & it says "a little child shall lead them." (Isa.11:6, 65:25)
18. In the Millennium, we are going to be the angels!--Amongst men!
19. The Earth will blossom as a rose with the curse removed & enmity between man & the animals & the insects & the vipers removed, so that all God's Creation will be in perfect peace & beautiful harmony & at peace with one another.
20. "For the darkness shall turn to dawning,
And the dawning to noonday bright!
And Christ's great Kingdom shall come on Earth,
The Kingdom of Love & Light!"
21. There won't be any unbelievers in the Millennium, but there will be some unreceivers.
22. Why the Millennium?--To prove to you & to them & to God & to the Devil & to the whole Universe of angels that, though mercy is even shown to the wicked, yet they will not repent!--They will still rebel. (Isa.26:10)
23. Today He's showing His Love to the World, to try to get you to love Him. But the day is coming when, if all else fails & you reject His Love, He will rule with a rod of iron & force!
24. In that day He's going to wipe away all this Hell on Earth & He's going to set up His Kingdom of peace & righteousness & fairness & justice & goodness & mercy & Love!--And that's going to be Heaven on Earth!
25. Whether man likes it or not, God is going to be supreme & Jesus shall reign from shore to shore & we shall rule & reign with Him with that rod of iron!
26. We'll have half the battle licked just by the Lord being here, & the other half licked by the Devil not being here!
27. Millennial re-education, that'll be the biggest job of all, really! It's going to be a big job re-educating the whole World, both Christians & non-Christians!
28. "In that Golden Age I shall rule upon the Earth in person with a rod of iron, & ye shall rule with Me in mighty power!"
29. "The dawn cometh & the Son of Righteousness ariseth & this shall be a New Day, & His Love shall drop down like rain upon the land & there shall spring forth life!"
30. We're going to rule the World! Not that I exactly look forward to the responsibility of the job, but with supernatural, immortal bodies & super-human miraculous wisdom I'm sure we'll be able to handle it!
31. REV.20:6 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.
32. DAN.7:27 And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole Heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey Him.
33. ISA.2:2-4 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and He will teach us of His ways, and we will walk in His paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the Word of the Lord from Jerusalem. And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
34. ISA.11:4,6-9 With righteousness shall He judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the Earth. The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice's den. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain: for the Earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.
(For more Scriptures on this topic, see Part 11 of the Book of the Future.)
12. "THE BATTLE OF GOG & MAGOG!"
1. Even after the Thousand-Year Reign of Jesus Christ in person, with us as His personal officers & police & guardian angels, the wicked will again rebel in a great battle against Jesus Christ & His Church, His people ruling the Earth, & they will again follow Satan to their final destruction!
2. In spite of Heaven on Earth, some unregenerate wicked people are eventually going to rebel again against the Lord & His Kingdom! So in the end He'll have to wipe them all out--including the Earth! He'll purge the whole surface of the Ball!
3. The final war of all is the Battle of Gog & Magog, when Satan is loosed out of the pit of Hell for just a little while to again go out & deceive the wicked people of the Earth.
4. The Devil's gotta be let out for a little while to show you that "though mercy be extended to the wicked, yet he will not learn righteousness"! (Is.26:10.)
5. As God once wiped out all mankind & destroyed the surface of the Earth with a flood of water, He's going to again purify the surface of the Earth, but next time, at the end of the Millennium, by a flood of fire!
6. That battle of Gog & Magog is sort of like the Devil's second coming when he comes back to lead his people again, & obviously they'll be his people if they didn't receive Jesus!
7. The Lord has got to burn up the atmosphere & the Earth's surface in order to purify it & clean it up & get rid of it all & have a New Earth & a new atmospheric Heavens!--And then His Holy pure spotless City can come down!
8. REV.20:7-10 And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison and 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 whom 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 the False Prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
9. 2PE.3:10-13 The heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the Earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness. Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat. Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for New Heavens and a New Earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
(For more Scriptures on this topic, see Part 12 of the Book of the Future.)
13. "THE JUDGEMENT & HELL!"
1. At the end of the Millennium, after the Battle of Gog & Magog, all the unsaved & wicked who ever lived will be raised, millions of them, & they will be judged at the Great White Throne Judgement of God, at which time each will be assigned to his particular place in the hereafter.
2. All the people who ever lived, whether good or bad, if unsaved, will have to stand at the Great White Throne Judgement of God. (Rev.20:11,12.)
3. At the Great White Throne Judgement of God after the Battle of Gog & Magog, which is at the end of the Millennium, the Millennial rebels are sent to their Hell & their punishement!
4. The punishments & the rewards will be designed & tailored according to their deeds, for a reason, for a purpose, to teach them.
5. God probably has as varied terms & means of punishment & correction in the afterlife as there are in this life under the World's System & its laws.
6. If things aren't squared away in this life, good or evil, they certainly will be in the next.
7. I'm convinced that God is not a monster who's gonna keep people in flames eternally! You'll find in the Book of Revelation that there's some hope for everybody, TTL!
8. They will be punished for their sins, but when their punishment is over they'll be released, that's the whole idea.--Released by the grace of God & the forgiveness of God!
9. A lot of those who have been in Hell or in Limbo or in their place of punishment, whether light or heavy, during the Millennium, will be judged as to how they have reacted & how they have responded to this chastisement & this punishment & this correctional time--whether they have completely repented & really been sorry & received God's law or are still unrepentant.
10. So-called "eternal" punishment, "eternal" Hell, "everlasting" punishment, Hell-fire forever & ever, is not going to be forever & is not going to be everlasting, & it is certainly not eternal the way we use these words to mean "without end".
11. I believe in the Eternal Universal Reconciliation of man, because Jesus said He died that all might be saved (1Tim.2:4, 2Pet.3:9), & I believe that's going to happen someday!
12. REV.20:5,11-15 The rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. And I saw a great White Throne, and Him that sat on it, from whose face the Earth and the Heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the Book of Life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were 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.
(For more Scriptures on this topic, see Part 13 of the Book of the Future.)
14. "THE NEW HEAVEN & NEW EARTH!"
1. If you're still looking for the perfect city or the perfect government in the perfect country with perfect people, just wait a little while longer--it's coming!
2. I've visited the future & I've seen the Heavenly City standing upon the New Earth!--Beautiful, gorgeous, incomparable, almost indescribable, the most gorgeous sight you'll ever want to see!
3. Jesus is going to renew the whole face of the Earth!--The whole Earth's going to be perfect, beautiful like the Garden of Eden, & a New Heaven & a New Earth. And the Holy City, the New City, the New Heaven is going to come down to the New Earth!
4. The Heavenly City will come down from God out of Heaven & dwell with men! This is the hope of all ages: That now-unseen Eternal World where we shall dwell with Him forever!
5. You're not going to go to Heaven to live with God, God is going to come to Earth to live with you! (Rev.21:2-3.)
6. There shall be no more evil in all God's Kingdom on Earth--only a Heaven-on-Earth rule by the Lord & His Children from the Heavenly City which will come down form God from Outer Space to rule the Earth!
7. It will be full of precious stones & jewels, & best of all, full of precious souls!--Immortal souls, saved souls that love Jesus & that you won to the Lord!
8. Heaven is a beautiful place! You think this is Heavenly here, days of Heaven on Earth, the beauties of His Creation?--Well, it's even more beautiful, it's just like all this magnified! TYJ!
9. There's the same salvation for us all, same City, but apparently there's going to be differences in the section of town you live in.
10. Being able to disappear & appear & go through walls & fly with the speed of thought isn't going to make you half as happy as to see those you've won to Jesus! "Hi there! Wow, didn't I meet you on the streets? Didn't I talk to you about Jesus? Wow! Here you are! Hallelujah!"--That's going to be the biggest thrill of all!
11. In a sense, it'll be Heaven on Earth for everybody there even though some were not saved & don't have the right to enter the Golden City or walk its golden streets.
12. Even the New Earth outside the City will be Paradise compared to Hell & its prisons & its Lake of Fire & its torments etc., so that all will come in a sense to their final reward, depending on the degree of their sin, the degree of their punishment, the degree of their repentance, the degree of their reformation.
13. Heaven is not the end!--It's only the beginning! God only knows how much more we'll have to conquer after we've conquered the Earth & all the souls who have ever lived on it & all the problems! Who knows what other Worlds we may have yet to conquer!
14. "Look!--Behold the beauty of the Lord in the days of eternal sunshine & the breath of everlasting Spring & the glories of the flowers of life that shall be forever!"
15. The World to come will be a beautiful place to be, full of beautiful people having a beautiful time. It will be a better World then, with better people who will have learned the Law of the Love of God.
16. REV.21:1-4,7 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. And I John saw the Holy City, New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of Heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of Heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself shall be with them, and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be My son.
17. REV.21:16,17 And the City lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the City with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. (1500 miles!) The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal. And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits (216 ft.), according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel.
18. REV.21:21-23 And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the City was pure gold, as it were transparent glass. And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. And the City had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the Light thereof.
19. REV.21:24,27 And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the Earth do bring their glory and honour into it. And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's Book of Life.
20. REV.22:1-4 And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the Tree of Life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and His servants shall serve Him: And they shall see His face; and His name shall be in their foreheads.
(For more Scriptures on this topic, see Part 14 of the Book of the Future.)
(For General References on The Future--Sections 1-14 see also: No.75A, 80, 316, 343, 346-349, 398, 534, 541, 1092, 1100, 1241-1245, 1276, 1283, 1331, 1342-1348, 1364, 1391, 1423, 1426, 1428, 1435, 1437, 1440, 1441, 1445, 1447, 1450, 1453, 1457, 1460, 1463, 1465, 1466, 1475, 1476, 1484-1491, 1494-1509, 1513-1524, 1528-1533, 1542-1546, 1556-1562, 1568, 1569, 1571, 1573-1575, 1577-1579, 1583, 1596, 1597, 1611-1628, 1630-1632, 1639, 1645, 1658.)
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