155 - Les Feldick Bible Study Lesson 3 - Part 3 - Book 13 - New Heaven and Earth

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 3 * PART 3 * BOOK 13 BEMA SEAT: GREAT WHITE THRONE: NEW HEAVEN AND EARTH No sin. You have to realize if you've been with me these past three and a half years (and many of you have been with me the better part of twenty years), that as we've come up through human history, God has changed His dealing with the human race. Now God didn't change. God communed with them everyday. Adam and Eve are expelled from the garden. All those new generations of people coming out of the sons of Noah have gathered in rebellion. God scatters them. At God's direction, Moses gives Israel the Law. Death! Never forget what Jesus told Nicodemus in John 3:3, "Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God." So there will only be believing people in the Kingdom, and they will start having children. Satan is locked up during this time. Revelation 20:1,2 Now verse 3: Revelation 20:3 Well, why did God bring Satan on the scene in the first place? To bring the human race to a place of choice. That's why God gave each of us a will. That marriage made in heaven. The same concept is what brought God and the human race into the picture. God didn't create robots. If God had not permitted Satan to come into the picture, mankind would have never had a choice. Satan must be loosed for a little season. In verse 7 we pick it up after the thousand years has run its course: Revelation 20:7 "And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison," Remember there are, I think, billions of people in the world at this time. Revelation 20:8a Listen! How good did Adam and Eve have it. A lot of people think I have, but Adam had a better one. They were perfect. But under those perfect, ideal circumstances, Satan came and did he succeed? Satan knew they had everything that the human race could possible want, except for one thing. Verse 8 continuing, remember old Satan has gone forth to deceive the nations: Revelation 20:8b Tremendous amounts of people. They will be under Satan's control, because he is their leader at this time. Christ, The King. Satan never gives up. Revelation 20:9 "And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city (Jerusalem): and fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them." Revelation 20:10 "And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone (that's not hell. The Book says the lake of fire is going to be the eternal abode. Verse 11. We find Satan is now off the scene, the earth has come to the end of its usefulness so far as human history is concerned. Because the present day earth, even after it has been restored for the Kingdom Age, will be totally destroyed. Because heaven is still going to be on the earth. II Peter 3:10 What words am I talking about? Elements, the fervent heat, and in verse 11 the word `dissolved.' II Peter 3:11 I'm not putting all young people in that group, but the vast majority fits into it. II Peter 3:12 II Peter 3:13 Go back to Revelation Chapter 20. Revelation 20:11 "And I saw a great white throne (you've heard of the 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." It's not in heaven and not on the earth because they are being burned up. But here's this Great White Throne of which Christ is the eternal judge. And now John says as he see this great multitude coming before the Great White Throne: Revelation 20:12a The first resurrection was the resurrection of the just or saved. But the second resurrection was the resurrection of all the lost and that it would take place at the end of the Kingdom rule. Remember, Jesus said in John Chapter 5 that the lost would also be resurrected. John 5:28,29 The lost from all ages. Those who have never embraced God's saving Grace. Revelation 20:12b "...small and great (kings and emperors, and the greatest of the great. But also the smallest of the small), stand before God (so many times the term `God' is used right in conjunction with Christ and here is a good example. It's God, but it's also Christ who is the Judge here at the Great White Throne); and the books (plural) were opened: and another book (singular)was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according their works." The Book! Then Christ goes to the books (plural) and will judge their works. Remember the Great White Throne is only for the lost. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible