Our Day in Bible Prophecy

“A Thousand Years of Peace”

Introduction.

A. Importance of Bible study.

1. In the Bible, we can find ________.truth

2. “Do Christians go directly to heaven at death?”

a. _______________.

b. __________________.

c. _______________.

Genesis 2:7

“Then the LORD God formed manof dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breathof life; and man became a livingbeing.”

2. “Do Christians go directly to heaven at death?”

a. Genesis 2:7 .

b. ________________.

c. ___________.

Ecclesiastes 12:7_

“And the dust returns to the earthas it was, and the spirit returns toGod who gave it.”

2. “Do Christians go directly to heaven at death?”

a. Genesis 2:7 .

b. Ecclesiastes 12:7 .

c. ___________.Ezekiel 18:4

“Behold, all souls are mine; thesoul of the father as well as thesoul of the son is mine; the soulthat sins shall die.”

B. What happens when Jesus comes again?

I. The Second Coming of Jesus: Matthew 24:30, 31.

“Then will appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven, and then allthe tribes of the earth will mourn,and they will see the Son of mancoming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory; and

He will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they willgather his elect from the fourwinds, from one end of heavento the other.”

A. The righteous who are saved: I Thessalonians 4:13-18.

“But we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning thosewho are asleep, that you may notgrieve as others do who have nohope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so,

through Jesus, God will bring withHim those who have fallen asleep.For this we declare to you by theword of the Lord, that we who arealive, who are left until the comingof the Lord, shall not precede those who have fallen asleep. Forthe Lord Himself will descend fromheaven with a cry of command,

with the archangel’s call, and withthe sound of the trumpet of God.And the dead in Christ will rise first;then we who are alive, who areleft, shall be caught up togetherwith them in the clouds to meet theLord in the air; and so we shall always be with the Lord. Thereforecomfort one another with thesewords.”

1. Righteous dead are ______________. resurrected

2. Righteous living _______ and meet Jesus __________.

ascendin the air

B. The wicked who are lost: Revelation 6:15-17.

“Then the kings of the earth and thegreat men and generals and the rich and the strong, and every one,slave and free, hid in the caves andamong the rocks of the mountains,calling to the mountains and rocks,

‘Fall on us and hide us from the faceof Him who is seated on the throne,and from the wrath of the Lamb; for the great day of their wrath hascome, and who can stand before it?’”

1. Wicked are destroyed by the ______ of Jesus’ second coming.glory

2. The wicked who are dead remain in the grave.

C. Satan: Revelation 20:1-3.

“Then I saw an angel coming downfrom heaven, holding in his hand thekey of the bottomless pit and a greatchain. And he seized the dragon,that ancient serpent, who is theDevil and Satan, and bound him fora thousand years, and threw him

into the pit, and shut it and sealedit over him, that he should deceivethe nations no more, till thethousand years were ended.After that he must be loosed fora little while.”

1. Bottomless pit = _____________desolate earth

2. Satan is restricted to this earth for a period of ____________.1,000 years

II. One Thousand Years of Peace.

A. What are the righteous doing? Revelation 20:4.

“Then I saw thrones, and seated onthem were those to whom judgmentwas committed. Also I saw the soulsof those who had been beheaded

for their testimony to Jesus andfor the word of God, and who hadnot worshiped the beast or itsimage and had not received itsmark on their foreheads or theirhands. They came to life, andreigned with Christ a thousandyears.”

1. Seated on __________.thrones

2. They do the work of __________.judgment

B. Who is being judged? ____God

C. Why should God be judged?

1. To vindicate His character.

2. Philippians 2:9-11.

“Therefore God has highly exaltedHim and bestowed on Him the namewhich is above every name, that atthe name of Jesus every kneeshould bow, in heaven and onearth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that JesusChrist is Lord, to the glory of Godthe Father.”

III. The End of the One Thousand

Years.

A. Satan and the wicked: Revelation 20:3b, 5, 7; John 5:28, 29.

“After that he must be loosed fora little while. . .

The rest of the dead did not cometo life until the thousand years wereended. . . And when the thousandyears are ended, Satan will be loosed from his prison.”

“Do not marvel at this; for the houris coming when all who are in thetombs will hear his voice andcome forth, those who have donegood, to the resurrection of life,and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment.”

1. Wicked are ___________.resurrected

2. Satan is ________.set free

B. The righteous and the Holy City: Revelation 21:2.

“And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out ofheaven from God, prepared as abride adorned for her husband.”

C. The final destruction of Satan and the wicked: Revelation 20:7-10.

“And when the thousand years areended, Satan will be loosed from his prison and will come out todeceive the nations which are atthe four corners of the earth,

that is, Gog and Magog, to gatherthem for battle; their number is likethe sand of the sea. And they marched up over the broad earthand surrounded the camp of thesaints and the beloved city; butfire came down from heaven andconsumed them, and the devil whohad deceived them was thrown

into the lake of fire and sulphurwhere the beast and the falseprophet were, and they will betormented day and night forever and ever.”

1. Satan convinces the wicked to attack the Holy City.

2. Before they do, fire comes down from heaven and _________ them.

consumes

3. This fire is intended for ________ _____________: Matthew 25:41.

“Then He will say to those at his lefthand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed,into the eternal fire prepared for thedevil and his angels.’”

the deviland his angels

Conclusion.

A. What does God have prepared for us? Revelation 21:3-5.

“And I heard a loud voice from thethrone saying, ‘Behold, the dwellingof God is with men. He will dwellwith them, and they shall be Hispeople, and God Himself will be

with them; He will wipe away everytear from their eyes, and deathshall be no more, neither shall therebe mourning nor crying nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.’ And He who sat upon the throne said, ‘Behold, I make all things new.’ Also, He said,

‘Write this, for these words aretrustworthy and true.’”

B. The most important question for you to answer.