I. What is ?
Prophecy is history written in advance
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II. Why do we prophecy?
1. of the Bible is prophecy
2. Prophecy helps us God’s plan
3. Prophecy us that God is real
4. Prophecy us to evangelize
5. Prophecy offers in hopeless times
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III. What is the millennium?
1. The millennium is a literal period of years
1) Look at a timeline
2) A new perspective for the millennium
2. is removed during the millennium
Revelation 20:1-3 (NKJV) Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. 2 He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years; 3 and he cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal on him, so that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years were finished. But after these things he must be released for a little while.
1) Spiritual warfare will completely cease
2) Temptation will be greatly mitigated
3. The millennium fulfills many of the of God
1) Israel will be geographically transformed – Map
2) Israel will be geologically transformed
Isaiah 51:3 (NKJV) For the Lord will comfort Zion, He will comfort all her waste places; He will make her wilderness like Eden, And her desert like the garden of the Lord; Joy and gladness will be found in it, Thanksgiving and the voice of melody.
3) Israel will be politically transformed
Isaiah 9:6-7 (NKJV) For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given;
And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of His government and peace There will be no end,
Upon the throne of David and over His kingdom, To order it and establish it with judgment and justice From that time forward, even forever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.
Revelation 20:4-6 (NKJV) And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. 5 But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. 6 Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years.
4. Unparalleled will rule during the millennium
1) War will end
2) Nature will transform
Isaiah 11:6-9 (NKJV) “The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, The leopard shall lie down with the young goat, The calf and the young lion and the fatling together; And a little child shall lead them. The cow and the bear shall graze; Their young ones shall lie down together; And the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
5. The millennium is a of the Garden of Eden
1) Fellowship with God
2) Healing in mass
3) Purpose for life
4) Unprecedented prosperity
5) Extended life expectancy
6) Jerusalem becomes THE travel destination
Zechariah 8:20-22 (NKJV) Thus says the Lord of hosts: ‘Peoples shall yet come, Inhabitants of many cities; The inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, “Let us continue to go and pray before the Lord, And seek the Lord of hosts. I myself will go also.” Yes, many peoples and strong nations Shall come to seek the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem, And to pray before the Lord.’
6. God is making a
Revelation 20:7 (NKJV) Now when the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison 8 and will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth,
1) The final test
2) Humanity fails the test
7. Prepare us for
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