0:00:11.390,0:00:12.660 "Dear Pastor Tim Conway, 0:00:12.660,0:00:16.687 Should Christians evangelize the Jews? 0:00:16.687,0:00:18.269 I heard from people 0:00:18.269,0:00:20.700 that there is a theological concept 0:00:20.700,0:00:23.430 called "Dispensationalism." 0:00:23.430,0:00:25.363 Can you explain more about that 0:00:25.363,0:00:27.009 and if it is true?" 0:00:27.009,0:00:28.165 I would be happy to. 0:00:28.165,0:00:29.388 Now listen to me. 0:00:29.388,0:00:32.070 I don't doubt that there [br]are a whole number of you 0:00:32.070,0:00:34.310 that your whole background 0:00:34.310,0:00:38.859 has been one of dispensationalism. 0:00:38.859,0:00:43.198 I know enough about Pastor Hagee - 0:00:43.198,0:00:46.231 I'll just say Mr. Hagee - 0:00:46.231,0:00:54.356 he is a lover of the Jews, 0:00:54.356,0:00:56.148 and I don't knock that. 0:00:56.148,0:00:58.630 We ought to love the Jews. 0:00:58.630,0:01:00.337 We ought to love them. 0:01:00.337,0:01:04.808 But he is a very avid advocate 0:01:04.808,0:01:08.404 of dispensationalism. 0:01:08.404,0:01:09.733 What's this movie series? 0:01:09.733,0:01:12.013 Some of you have seen that. What is it? 0:01:12.013,0:01:14.467 Left Behind. 0:01:14.467,0:01:18.533 Big deal made about that. 0:01:18.533,0:01:19.940 Dispensationalism. 0:01:19.940,0:01:23.781 A lot of you - you don't [br]know anything else. 0:01:23.781,0:01:25.500 Let's talk about it. 0:01:25.500,0:01:28.236 Look, you guys can prove this out. 0:01:28.236,0:01:30.801 You can search the Internet -[br]what I'm about to tell you. 0:01:30.801,0:01:33.009 I'm going to get into [br]some of the biblical facts 0:01:33.009,0:01:34.602 and you can verify those immediately 0:01:34.602,0:01:36.543 because I'm going to [br]read the Scripture to you. 0:01:36.543,0:01:38.700 But I'm just going to give [br]you a few facts first. 0:01:38.700,0:01:42.340 Like I say, you can verify [br]these things online. 0:01:42.340,0:01:45.911 Basically, dispensationalism 0:01:45.911,0:01:48.716 as a system of theology 0:01:48.716,0:01:53.826 really took shape in the 1830's 0:01:53.826,0:01:58.062 by a man by the name of John Nelson Darby. 0:01:58.062,0:02:02.531 Some of his disciples, followers, 0:02:02.531,0:02:07.730 you may know by the name of C.I. Scofield, 0:02:07.730,0:02:11.239 Lewis Sperry Chafer and the group 0:02:11.239,0:02:14.967 up there at Dallas Theological Seminary. 0:02:14.967,0:02:18.391 More modern guys by the name of 0:02:18.391,0:02:23.272 Zane Hodges, Charles Ryrie - 0:02:23.272,0:02:24.750 there's a Ryrie Study Bible, 0:02:24.750,0:02:26.741 there's a Scofield Study Bible. 0:02:26.741,0:02:30.497 It teaches this stuff - dispensationalism. 0:02:30.497,0:02:32.742 This guy wants to know what it is. 0:02:32.742,0:02:35.309 I'll tell you, you listen on the radio. 0:02:35.309,0:02:38.829 A hyper-dispensational that is out there 0:02:38.829,0:02:40.942 doing teaching - and look, 0:02:40.942,0:02:43.328 I'm not going to tell you that these guys 0:02:43.328,0:02:44.466 weren't Christians. 0:02:44.466,0:02:46.168 I'm not going to tell you that. 0:02:46.168,0:02:47.667 I don't know enough about them. 0:02:47.667,0:02:49.970 You've got J. Vernon McGee out there 0:02:49.970,0:02:51.459 on the radio waves still today, 0:02:51.459,0:02:53.380 "Through the Bible." Five years. 0:02:53.380,0:02:56.564 If you listen to any of the [br]Christian radio stations, 0:02:56.564,0:02:59.348 you'll hear his voice. 0:02:59.348,0:03:04.368 He is gone and hopefully [br]gone to be with the Lord. 0:03:04.368,0:03:06.088 Here's the thing. 0:03:06.088,0:03:13.395 Darby said that there were 7 dispensations 0:03:13.395,0:03:17.033 that he could find in the Bible. 0:03:17.033,0:03:21.367 The paradise state all [br]the way to the flood; 0:03:21.367,0:03:23.050 you have the dispensation of Noah; 0:03:23.050,0:03:24.579 the dispensation of Abraham; 0:03:24.579,0:03:26.211 the dispensation of Israel; 0:03:26.211,0:03:27.820 the dispensation of the Gentiles; 0:03:27.820,0:03:29.490 the dispensation of the Spirit; 0:03:29.490,0:03:32.290 and the dispensation of the Millennium. 0:03:32.290,0:03:34.394 You can search this out. 0:03:34.394,0:03:36.958 Darby established this system of theology. 0:03:36.958,0:03:39.007 He taught these 7 dispensations. 0:03:39.007,0:03:41.869 (Incomplete thought). 0:03:41.869,0:03:44.941 See, I was saved and went in the direction 0:03:44.941,0:03:49.693 of amillennial eschatology 0:03:49.693,0:03:52.878 and the doctrines of grace immediately. 0:03:52.878,0:03:54.796 I don't have a background in this 0:03:54.796,0:03:56.272 like many of you guys do. 0:03:56.272,0:03:58.090 I haven't studied Scofield. 0:03:58.090,0:04:00.073 I never owned a Scofield Bible. 0:04:00.073,0:04:02.418 I don't know if Scofield and Ryrie 0:04:02.418,0:04:04.598 are teaching these 7 dispensations. 0:04:04.598,0:04:08.289 I did listen quite a bit [br]to J. Vernon McGee 0:04:08.289,0:04:10.006 and I heard him say 0:04:10.006,0:04:12.160 just ludicrous things. 0:04:12.160,0:04:14.750 The thing he said that I just had to start 0:04:14.750,0:04:16.325 turning him off is that 0:04:16.325,0:04:18.977 the Sermon on the Mount isn't for now. 0:04:18.977,0:04:20.729 It's for the Millennium. 0:04:20.729,0:04:24.410 I thought what in the world is he saying? 0:04:24.410,0:04:26.473 Basically, these hyper-dispensationalists 0:04:26.473,0:04:28.271 get to the point that [br]the only part of the Bible 0:04:28.271,0:04:31.895 that is for us today are [br]the prison epistles of Paul. 0:04:31.895,0:04:37.018 Listen, don't let anybody do that to you. 0:04:37.018,0:04:39.041 Here's what I find in the Bible. 0:04:39.041,0:04:41.558 Now, look, I don't know [br]what Scofield found there. 0:04:41.558,0:04:43.311 I don't know what Darby found there. 0:04:43.311,0:04:44.831 I don't know what Ryrie finds there. 0:04:44.831,0:04:47.164 I don't know what the [br]dispensational camps find there. 0:04:47.164,0:04:48.201 But let me tell you, 0:04:48.201,0:04:51.511 how many dispensations are there? 0:04:51.511,0:04:53.533 I find two. 0:04:53.533,0:04:57.199 Now, I realize you can subdivide [br]these in some way. 0:04:57.199,0:05:00.331 And that in some places, the Bible does. 0:05:00.331,0:05:02.281 But in the broadest sense, 0:05:02.281,0:05:04.428 the Bible gives us two. 0:05:04.428,0:05:05.438 Listen to them. 0:05:05.438,0:05:08.038 Matthew 12:32, 0:05:08.038,0:05:11.252 "Whoever speaks a word [br]against the Son of Man 0:05:11.252,0:05:13.981 will be forgiven, but whoever speaks 0:05:13.981,0:05:15.557 against the Holy Spirit..." 0:05:15.557,0:05:19.054 now this is the sin [br]against the Holy Spirit - 0:05:19.054,0:05:21.578 the unpardonable sin - 0:05:21.578,0:05:23.768 "...whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit 0:05:23.768,0:05:25.069 will not be forgiven, 0:05:25.069,0:05:29.653 either in this age, [br]or in the age to come." 0:05:29.653,0:05:33.209 Now right there you have this age, 0:05:33.209,0:05:34.329 the age to come. 0:05:34.329,0:05:37.703 Okay, so let's establish 0:05:37.703,0:05:40.591 when these two ages are. 0:05:40.591,0:05:42.758 Obviously there is the age now, 0:05:42.758,0:05:45.312 and that was at the [br]time Jesus was speaking. 0:05:45.312,0:05:46.328 That's clear. 0:05:46.328,0:05:49.013 The age which is now 0:05:49.013,0:05:51.281 was that age which was present 0:05:51.281,0:05:53.858 when He walked this earth. 0:05:53.858,0:05:56.657 And then there's an age to come 0:05:56.657,0:05:58.788 which would be some time after that. 0:05:58.788,0:06:00.694 Let's think about it. 0:06:00.694,0:06:05.886 Mark 3:29 gives us [br]Mark's parallel to this. 0:06:05.886,0:06:07.620 What does He say? 0:06:07.620,0:06:10.086 "Whoever blasphemes [br]against the Holy Spirit 0:06:10.086,0:06:14.037 never has forgiveness, but is guilty 0:06:14.037,0:06:16.653 of an eternal sin." 0:06:16.653,0:06:18.401 Now, let me tell you this, 0:06:18.401,0:06:21.879 if according to Matthew, 0:06:21.879,0:06:23.856 you're not forgiven in this age 0:06:23.856,0:06:25.885 or in the one to come, 0:06:25.885,0:06:29.666 and Mark tells us you're [br]not forgiven forever, 0:06:29.666,0:06:31.102 then what does that teach us 0:06:31.102,0:06:34.069 about the age to come? 0:06:34.069,0:06:35.219 It's eternal. 0:06:35.219,0:06:38.632 It goes on forever. 0:06:38.632,0:06:40.501 So, that we can say. 0:06:40.501,0:06:42.787 The age to come is an eternal age. 0:06:42.787,0:06:44.376 Now, it's got a starting point, 0:06:44.376,0:06:45.639 but it never has an end. 0:06:45.639,0:06:47.334 It's eternal. 0:06:47.334,0:06:50.086 Okay, let's go further. Luke 20:34, 0:06:50.086,0:06:51.050 "Jesus said to them, 0:06:51.050,0:06:53.816 'The sons of this age marry and [br]are given in marriage..." 0:06:53.816,0:06:57.497 Guess what's characteristic of this age? 0:06:57.497,0:06:59.851 People marry and are given in marriage. 0:06:59.851,0:07:01.060 Now, I'll tell you what, 0:07:01.060,0:07:04.749 that's characteristic of life [br]from when to when? 0:07:04.749,0:07:06.377 From the time of Adam 0:07:06.377,0:07:08.747 all the way up until when? 0:07:08.747,0:07:11.704 Now remember when the Sadduccees [br]came to Him and they said: 0:07:11.704,0:07:13.203 There were all these 7 brothers 0:07:13.203,0:07:14.709 and they all had the same wife. 0:07:14.709,0:07:17.920 What does He say about the age to come? 0:07:17.920,0:07:20.959 They don't give in marriage there, right? 0:07:20.959,0:07:23.352 They're like the angels. 0:07:23.352,0:07:24.800 And so basically what you have 0:07:24.800,0:07:26.767 is there's this age and the age to come. 0:07:26.767,0:07:27.937 What's true of this age? 0:07:27.937,0:07:29.683 Men marry and are given in marriage. 0:07:29.683,0:07:33.420 What's true of the age to come?[br]They don't marry. 0:07:33.420,0:07:36.407 What's true of the age to come[br]is it's an eternal one. 0:07:36.407,0:07:38.976 Because men won't be [br]forgiven in the age to come 0:07:38.976,0:07:40.239 and that's an eternal sin. 0:07:40.239,0:07:42.810 That means they won't [br]be forgiven eternally. 0:07:42.810,0:07:45.218 How about this one? 1 Timothy 6:17, 0:07:45.218,0:07:47.582 "As for the rich in this present age..." 0:07:47.582,0:07:49.613 People have money in this age. 0:07:49.613,0:07:52.289 Galatians 1:4, "Jesus Christ gave Himself 0:07:52.289,0:07:53.839 for our sins to deliver us 0:07:53.839,0:07:56.175 from the present, evil age." 0:07:56.175,0:07:57.756 So, let me tell you something 0:07:57.756,0:07:59.340 about this present age. 0:07:59.340,0:08:02.228 There's evil here. 0:08:02.228,0:08:04.657 Evil's going to be removed 0:08:04.657,0:08:06.016 when it's all gone. 0:08:06.016,0:08:07.378 What you find in 2 Peter 0:08:07.378,0:08:09.479 is heaven and earth, 0:08:09.479,0:08:11.300 fire's going to come, 0:08:11.300,0:08:12.528 it's going to burn it up, 0:08:12.528,0:08:15.030 there's going to be a new [br]heaven and a new earth. 0:08:15.030,0:08:17.600 This is the present evil age. 0:08:17.600,0:08:20.402 Evil came in Adam and Eve. 0:08:20.402,0:08:22.037 Now, you know what? If you really 0:08:22.037,0:08:23.422 want to strain this thing, 0:08:23.422,0:08:26.137 obviously, from the time Adam was created 0:08:26.137,0:08:27.652 till the time Adam fell, 0:08:27.652,0:08:30.544 that was a unique dispensation. 0:08:30.544,0:08:32.629 Men were sinless. 0:08:32.629,0:08:34.818 But I think overall, [br]basically, what you get 0:08:34.818,0:08:36.706 is these two general ages. 0:08:36.706,0:08:38.709 There's a present evil age. 0:08:38.709,0:08:42.230 The future age, all evil - [br]you know what's said. 0:08:42.230,0:08:43.869 You get to the end of Revelation 0:08:43.869,0:08:46.669 and nothing evil is going to walk there. 0:08:46.669,0:08:48.219 All the dogs, all the sorcerers, 0:08:48.219,0:08:50.173 all the fornicators, adulterers, liars - 0:08:50.173,0:08:51.660 they're in outer darkness. 0:08:51.660,0:08:53.117 They're put out of it. 0:08:53.117,0:08:54.500 2 Corinthians 4:4, 0:08:54.500,0:08:56.573 "In their case, the god of this world..." 0:08:56.573,0:08:58.033 and the word is "age." 0:08:58.033,0:09:00.613 "The god of this age..." 0:09:00.613,0:09:03.094 The devil is the god of this age. 0:09:03.094,0:09:04.485 When this thing is all done, 0:09:04.485,0:09:06.493 he's going to be thrown [br]into the lake of fire. 0:09:06.493,0:09:08.136 He's been here since the beginning, right? 0:09:08.136,0:09:09.331 He was there in the garden. 0:09:09.331,0:09:10.673 The god of this age. 0:09:10.673,0:09:12.828 He basically has free course on this earth 0:09:12.828,0:09:14.658 all the way back from [br]the time of Adam and Eve 0:09:14.658,0:09:16.680 all the way to the end of this age. 0:09:16.680,0:09:18.969 He's the god of this age.[br]It's an evil age. 0:09:18.969,0:09:21.343 Men marry and are given [br]in marriage in this age. 0:09:21.343,0:09:22.909 And then there's an age to come, 0:09:22.909,0:09:24.857 which is an eternal age. 0:09:24.857,0:09:29.379 Luke 20:34-36, 0:09:29.379,0:09:30.990 "Those who are considered worthy 0:09:30.990,0:09:32.355 to attain to that age, 0:09:32.355,0:09:34.411 and to the resurrection from the dead..." 0:09:34.411,0:09:35.788 Now isn't that interesting? 0:09:35.788,0:09:37.869 What sets that age apart? 0:09:37.869,0:09:43.900 There's a resurrection [br]of the dead that starts it. 0:09:43.900,0:09:47.284 "They cannot die anymore." 0:09:47.284,0:09:48.318 Titus 2:11, 0:09:48.318,0:09:51.616 "For the grace of God has appeared[br]bringing salvation for all people, 0:09:51.616,0:09:54.304 training us to renounce ungodliness[br]and worldly passions 0:09:54.304,0:09:57.593 and to live self-controlled, [br]upright and godly lives 0:09:57.593,0:10:00.067 in the present age. 0:10:00.067,0:10:01.487 And what are we waiting for? 0:10:01.487,0:10:03.169 We're waiting for the age to come. 0:10:03.169,0:10:04.597 "Waiting for our blessed hope, 0:10:04.597,0:10:05.869 the appearing of the glory 0:10:05.869,0:10:08.167 of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ." 0:10:08.167,0:10:09.600 So what ends this age? 0:10:09.600,0:10:12.734 The appearing of Jesus Christ. 0:10:12.734,0:10:14.386 Basically, that's the end of it. 0:10:14.386,0:10:21.788 Romans 9:25, 0:10:21.788,0:10:26.287 "As indeed He says in Hosea, 0:10:26.287,0:10:27.865 'those who were not My people, 0:10:27.865,0:10:28.958 I will call My people; 0:10:28.958,0:10:31.137 He who was not beloved,[br]I will call beloved.'" 0:10:31.137,0:10:35.510 (unintelligible) 0:10:35.510,0:10:41.152 Well, anyway, a dispensation is an age. 0:10:41.152,0:10:44.640 A dispensation is basically a time frame 0:10:44.640,0:10:48.051 in which things are unique [br]during that time frame 0:10:48.051,0:10:49.896 in some way. 0:10:49.896,0:10:54.827 And basically, we have this age 0:10:54.827,0:10:56.348 and the future age concept. 0:10:56.348,0:10:57.852 It comes up in the parables 0:10:57.852,0:11:01.154 in Matthew 13. 0:11:01.154,0:11:03.918 If you just search that idea of the age, 0:11:03.918,0:11:06.729 like I say, there are [br]some places in the Bible 0:11:06.729,0:11:08.647 where even those two ages 0:11:08.647,0:11:10.710 are broken down, 0:11:10.710,0:11:13.656 or many ages are spoken about, 0:11:13.656,0:11:17.757 like Paul's wanting to exaggerate 0:11:17.757,0:11:20.089 the terminology, 0:11:20.089,0:11:21.699 which is no exaggeration, 0:11:21.699,0:11:23.551 but I mean, he's wanting to really 0:11:23.551,0:11:26.077 be emphatic like there in Ephesians 0:11:26.077,0:11:28.824 where he talks about the kindness of God 0:11:28.824,0:11:32.369 through all these coming ages. 0:11:32.369,0:11:35.759 Like I say, he's wanting to use 0:11:35.759,0:11:39.088 all these very emphatic words, 0:11:39.088,0:11:40.458 and so in places like that 0:11:40.458,0:11:45.072 he is talking about the age to come, 0:11:45.072,0:11:47.028 it's just ages upon ages 0:11:47.028,0:11:48.626 and all through these ages, 0:11:48.626,0:11:51.608 and God and His grace shown to us 0:11:51.608,0:11:53.666 in kindness - it's just going to be 0:11:53.666,0:11:55.069 lavished upon us. 0:11:55.069,0:11:56.665 But when you look at a real 0:11:56.665,0:11:58.807 historical breakdown, 0:11:58.807,0:12:01.623 what you find is basically an age 0:12:01.623,0:12:02.909 and an age to come. 0:12:02.909,0:12:08.646 You know what's ruled out of that approach 0:12:08.646,0:12:11.532 to dispensations? 0:12:11.532,0:12:14.717 A thousand year literal reign. 0:12:14.717,0:12:21.088 There is no age packed [br]in the middle there. 0:12:21.088,0:12:23.533 Now, you know what's very interesting, 0:12:23.533,0:12:27.504 is the thousand year literal reign 0:12:27.504,0:12:30.256 doesn't stand up to Scripture. 0:12:30.256,0:12:33.815 Let me tell you several things about it. 0:12:33.815,0:12:41.919 Jesus said His kingdom [br]is not of this world. 0:12:41.919,0:12:43.688 And yet, the dispensationalists 0:12:43.688,0:12:47.229 argue for a thousand year reign 0:12:47.229,0:12:51.211 in this world. 0:12:51.211,0:12:54.365 The dispensationalists say 0:12:54.365,0:12:59.218 that Christ is going to come and reign. 0:12:59.218,0:13:02.108 Let me tell you something. 0:13:02.108,0:13:05.411 The Bible says that Jesus Christ 0:13:05.411,0:13:08.595 is reigning already. 0:13:08.595,0:13:12.410 Anybody know where it says that? 0:13:12.410,0:13:15.089 It says it in 1 Corinthians 15. 0:13:15.089,0:13:16.956 "For as in Adam, all die, so also 0:13:16.956,0:13:19.153 in Christ shall all be made alive, 0:13:19.153,0:13:20.556 but each in his own order; 0:13:20.556,0:13:22.238 Christ, the firstfruits, [br]and at His coming, 0:13:22.238,0:13:23.633 those who belong to Christ, 0:13:23.633,0:13:24.678 then comes the end 0:13:24.678,0:13:26.151 when He delivers the kingdom of God 0:13:26.151,0:13:27.654 to God the Father after destroying 0:13:27.654,0:13:29.457 every rule and every authority and power. 0:13:29.457,0:13:33.340 He must reign until He has put [br]all His enemies under His feet. 0:13:33.340,0:13:34.680 Let me tell you something. 0:13:34.680,0:13:36.280 He is reigning until... 0:13:36.280,0:13:38.685 And then it says He's [br]going to turn it all over 0:13:38.685,0:13:41.401 to His Father, and God will be all in all. 0:13:41.401,0:13:42.839 And in the book of Revelation, 0:13:42.839,0:13:44.917 you find that even though He turns it over 0:13:44.917,0:13:46.658 to His Father, He and His Father, 0:13:46.658,0:13:48.548 they're going to rule [br]and reign over this 0:13:48.548,0:13:50.296 forever and ever. 0:13:50.296,0:13:52.227 The fact is He's reigning already. 0:13:52.227,0:13:53.919 He is reigning right now, folks. 0:13:53.919,0:13:55.583 This idea that He's going to come 0:13:55.583,0:13:58.871 and begin a reign isn't true. 0:13:58.871,0:14:01.648 Basically, we are told that He's going to 0:14:01.648,0:14:04.402 take his father's throne - David's throne. 0:14:04.402,0:14:06.439 He's already taken the throne, folks. 0:14:06.439,0:14:07.713 He's on the throne. 0:14:07.713,0:14:09.150 He's ruling already. 0:14:09.150,0:14:11.779 He's at the right hand [br]of the Father even now. 0:14:11.779,0:14:13.821 He is ruling, and all principalities, 0:14:13.821,0:14:18.528 and all powers - folks, they're under Him. 0:14:18.528,0:14:20.210 They are under Him. 0:14:20.210,0:14:21.654 He's in that place. 0:14:21.654,0:14:24.699 Listen, this millennial reign idea 0:14:24.699,0:14:29.298 comes from this idea that's found 0:14:29.298,0:14:31.307 in Revelation 20. 0:14:31.307,0:14:33.908 And you know, let me tell you something. 0:14:33.908,0:14:37.568 In all of our Bibles, 0:14:37.568,0:14:41.683 you always want to define 0:14:41.683,0:14:44.613 what is hard by what is clear. 0:14:44.613,0:14:46.678 Guess what's clear? 0:14:46.678,0:14:48.359 The epistles are clear. 0:14:48.359,0:14:50.730 Much in the Gospels is clear. 0:14:50.730,0:14:53.281 Revelation is a symbolic book. 0:14:53.281,0:14:55.028 No matter how you want to look at it, 0:14:55.028,0:14:56.817 there are things in the book of Revelation 0:14:56.817,0:14:58.478 that are hard, and not any of you 0:14:58.478,0:15:00.208 are going to deny that. 0:15:00.208,0:15:01.739 You know what? The epistles are 0:15:01.739,0:15:04.849 easy to understand in most places. 0:15:04.849,0:15:07.628 The Gospels are easy to [br]understand in most places. 0:15:07.628,0:15:08.986 Guess what? In all the things 0:15:08.986,0:15:10.238 that are easy to understand, 0:15:10.238,0:15:12.037 you're never told very easily 0:15:12.037,0:15:13.489 and very plainly - 0:15:13.489,0:15:15.059 you're never told that there's 0:15:15.059,0:15:18.165 a literal thousand year reign here. 0:15:18.165,0:15:20.395 You say, okay, well, you said 0:15:20.395,0:15:23.328 that in Revelation 20, 0:15:23.328,0:15:26.501 a thousand years was spoken about. 0:15:26.501,0:15:29.059 So, do we have to have it multiple times? 0:15:29.059,0:15:31.142 Isn't one sufficient to make something 0:15:31.142,0:15:32.807 legitimately truth? 0:15:32.807,0:15:34.159 Well, absolutely, 0:15:34.159,0:15:36.388 if you interpret it rightly. 0:15:36.388,0:15:39.217 And the book of Revelation is symbolic, 0:15:39.217,0:15:40.640 so how do we interpret it? 0:15:40.640,0:15:42.403 Well, listen to me. 0:15:42.403,0:15:45.798 "Know therefore that the [br]Lord your God is God, 0:15:45.798,0:15:47.832 the faithful God who keeps covenant 0:15:47.832,0:15:49.918 and steadfast love with those who love Him 0:15:49.918,0:15:52.877 and keep His commandments [br]to a thousand generations." 0:15:52.877,0:15:56.839 Okay, so what does He do?[br]Does He cut them off at 1,001? 0:15:56.839,0:16:00.708 What does that mean? 0:16:00.708,0:16:02.769 Is that literal or is that to be taken 0:16:02.769,0:16:05.917 as just a long time; a huge number? 0:16:05.917,0:16:07.799 Basically, maybe endless. 0:16:07.799,0:16:11.367 Job 9:3, "If one wished [br]to contend with God, 0:16:11.367,0:16:12.767 one could not answer Him 0:16:12.767,0:16:15.006 once in a thousand times." 0:16:15.006,0:16:19.146 What? So you could answer [br]Him the 1,001st time? 0:16:19.146,0:16:22.765 You see, they're using this [br]as just a vast amount. 0:16:22.765,0:16:24.688 They're using it to effect. 0:16:24.688,0:16:26.385 "Every beast of the forest is Mine.[br] 0:16:26.385,0:16:28.096 The cattle on a thousand hills..." 0:16:28.096,0:16:29.695 Okay, so, 0:16:29.695,0:16:32.886 the 1,001st hill, the cattle aren't His? 0:16:32.886,0:16:34.355 That's not the intent. 0:16:34.355,0:16:38.697 The intent is many, all. 0:16:38.697,0:16:40.554 "For a day in Your courts is better 0:16:40.554,0:16:43.317 than a thousand elsewhere. 0:16:43.317,0:16:45.067 For a thousand years in your sight 0:16:45.067,0:16:47.255 are but as yesterday when it is past 0:16:47.255,0:16:49.390 or as a watch in the night." 0:16:49.390,0:16:51.527 "Do not overlook this one fact, beloved, 0:16:51.527,0:16:53.569 that with the Lord, one [br]day is as a thousand years 0:16:53.569,0:16:55.486 and a thousand years is one day." 0:16:55.486,0:16:57.650 Let me tell you something. 0:16:57.650,0:17:00.106 What happens in the thousand years? 0:17:00.106,0:17:01.605 If you take it in the same way 0:17:01.605,0:17:04.335 and you just take it as an extensive 0:17:04.335,0:17:07.985 span of time, what is [br]said in Revelation 20 0:17:07.985,0:17:10.206 that happens in that thousand years? 0:17:10.206,0:17:11.589 Let me tell you what happens. 0:17:11.589,0:17:13.207 "An angel comes down from heaven, 0:17:13.207,0:17:15.027 and holds in his hand the [br]key to the bottomless pit, 0:17:15.027,0:17:17.347 and a great chain; he seized the dragon, 0:17:17.347,0:17:19.893 that ancient serpent who [br]is the devil and Satan 0:17:19.893,0:17:21.907 and bound him for a thousand years." 0:17:21.907,0:17:23.666 He's bound for a thousand years. 0:17:23.666,0:17:27.512 Now, these dispensationalists come along 0:17:27.512,0:17:29.393 and they say he's not bound. 0:17:29.393,0:17:30.569 You go over to 1 Peter. 0:17:30.569,0:17:32.725 It says he walks about like a roaring lion 0:17:32.725,0:17:34.269 seeking to devour. 0:17:34.269,0:17:36.235 Well, wait, you better read the context. 0:17:36.235,0:17:38.055 Before you jump to any conclusions, 0:17:38.055,0:17:40.633 you've got to read the whole thing. 0:17:40.633,0:17:43.099 Does it say he's going to be [br]bound for a thousand years? 0:17:43.099,0:17:45.965 It does, but not totally bound. 0:17:45.965,0:17:47.489 It doesn't say he's going to be bound 0:17:47.489,0:17:50.762 from being able to do [br]any activity whatsoever. 0:17:50.762,0:17:52.659 It says he's going to be bound 0:17:52.659,0:17:56.285 from specific things. 0:17:56.285,0:17:59.586 "He is no longer able [br]to deceive the nations 0:17:59.586,0:18:02.663 until the thousand years were ended. 0:18:02.663,0:18:05.380 After that, he must be [br]released for a little while." 0:18:05.380,0:18:07.067 Which means what? 0:18:07.067,0:18:11.038 He'll be able to deceive [br]the nations once again. 0:18:11.038,0:18:15.261 And in fact, you know what we find? 0:18:15.261,0:18:17.656 We find that in John 12, Jesus Christ says 0:18:17.656,0:18:20.311 lift Me up and I'll draw all men unto Me. 0:18:20.311,0:18:22.400 You know what you find [br]in the book of Revelation? 0:18:22.400,0:18:23.920 People from every what are going to be 0:18:23.920,0:18:25.802 around that throne? 0:18:25.804,0:18:27.144 From every nation. 0:18:27.144,0:18:28.184 You know what? 0:18:28.184,0:18:29.902 You go back in the Old Testament, 0:18:29.902,0:18:32.151 count the Gentiles for me. 0:18:32.151,0:18:34.983 You can't get off one hand. 0:18:34.983,0:18:38.706 You can talk about the Ninevites 0:18:38.706,0:18:40.513 and that would be the one exception. 0:18:40.513,0:18:41.924 But aside from the Ninevites, 0:18:41.924,0:18:43.723 you can count on one hand the number 0:18:43.723,0:18:45.324 of Gentiles in the Old Testament 0:18:45.324,0:18:47.284 that were converted. 0:18:47.284,0:18:48.524 You know what? 0:18:48.524,0:18:50.435 In the Old Testament dispensation - 0:18:50.435,0:18:52.428 and I'm talking dispensations here 0:18:52.428,0:18:55.124 because that is one [br]way that this first age 0:18:55.124,0:18:56.473 could be broken down - 0:18:56.473,0:18:58.592 before the cross, after the cross. 0:18:58.592,0:19:00.715 Before the cross, God's people 0:19:00.715,0:19:02.725 were mainly the Jews. 0:19:02.725,0:19:05.512 Afterwards, to all the nations 0:19:05.512,0:19:06.875 including the Jews. 0:19:06.875,0:19:08.440 There's a remnant there as well. 0:19:08.440,0:19:10.430 Paul said, look, I'm one of them. 0:19:10.430,0:19:11.704 I'm converted. 0:19:11.704,0:19:14.456 God hasn't forsaken His [br]people whom He foreknew. 0:19:14.456,0:19:16.590 There's Jews still being saved today. 0:19:16.590,0:19:17.966 What God's work has done 0:19:17.966,0:19:19.491 is not excluding the Jews. 0:19:19.491,0:19:21.204 They're very much included. 0:19:21.204,0:19:22.835 But now, it's all the nations 0:19:22.835,0:19:24.262 including the Jews. 0:19:24.262,0:19:25.634 Should we evangelize the Jews? 0:19:25.634,0:19:27.065 That was one of his questions. 0:19:27.065,0:19:27.980 By all means! 0:19:27.980,0:19:29.893 Just as much as we should evangelize 0:19:29.893,0:19:31.996 the Chinese and the Indians 0:19:31.996,0:19:33.995 and Koreans and the Russians, 0:19:33.995,0:19:37.004 and Americans. 0:19:37.004,0:19:38.995 By all means. 0:19:38.995,0:19:42.056 But listen, here's what [br]happened at the cross. 0:19:42.056,0:19:44.686 Jesus Christ was victorious. 0:19:44.686,0:19:46.107 He led captivity captive. 0:19:46.107,0:19:48.118 I'll tell you one of the [br]things that happened there 0:19:48.118,0:19:51.052 is Satan was no longer to [br]hold the nations in darkness. 0:19:51.052,0:19:52.454 Suddenly, what happened? 0:19:52.454,0:19:54.523 He went to the cross and what happened? 0:19:54.523,0:19:56.077 Brother Craig was showing us 0:19:56.077,0:19:57.675 on that screen on Sunday. 0:19:57.675,0:19:58.837 You know what happened? 0:19:58.837,0:20:00.359 The missionaries started going. 0:20:00.359,0:20:02.513 The scattered churches [br]started going around 0:20:02.513,0:20:04.074 and the Gospel was being preached 0:20:04.074,0:20:05.618 and the nations, the Gentiles, 0:20:05.618,0:20:08.114 began to be converted. 0:20:08.114,0:20:09.397 And you know what? 0:20:09.397,0:20:11.486 At the end, he's going to be released 0:20:11.486,0:20:12.518 for a little season. 0:20:12.518,0:20:14.003 And you know what Paul tells us 0:20:14.003,0:20:15.414 very clearly in the epistles? 0:20:15.414,0:20:17.343 At the end, before Christ comes, 0:20:17.343,0:20:19.167 there's going to be what? 0:20:19.167,0:20:20.861 A great falling away. 0:20:20.861,0:20:22.005 What does that mean? 0:20:22.005,0:20:23.863 You read in Romans 11, 0:20:23.863,0:20:26.005 the times of the Gentiles are completed. 0:20:26.005,0:20:28.467 And it looks like what's [br]going to happen in the end, 0:20:28.467,0:20:30.475 the time of the Gentiles comes to an end, 0:20:30.475,0:20:32.049 Satan is released again. 0:20:32.049,0:20:36.205 He's able to once again [br]deceive the nations. 0:20:36.205,0:20:37.805 The love of many grows cold. 0:20:37.805,0:20:40.066 And it seems like from Romans 11, 0:20:40.066,0:20:41.858 very likely, there is going to be 0:20:41.858,0:20:44.722 an ingathering of Jews. 0:20:44.722,0:20:48.015 That's what it appears to be. 0:20:48.015,0:20:52.663 Folks, you know what [br]dispensationalism also pushes? 0:20:52.663,0:20:54.619 There's a big and radical distinction 0:20:54.619,0:20:57.176 between the church and Israel. 0:20:57.176,0:20:59.061 I tell you, it's not so. 0:20:59.061,0:21:02.393 It is not the case. 0:21:02.393,0:21:04.525 You know what I've heard 0:21:04.525,0:21:06.260 the dispensationalists say? 0:21:06.260,0:21:09.756 Basically, God intended to save the Jews. 0:21:09.756,0:21:13.358 His "plan A" fell apart and failed, 0:21:13.358,0:21:17.360 and so there's this parenthesis - 0:21:17.360,0:21:19.451 maybe some of you have heard that before - 0:21:19.451,0:21:22.074 and He went to "plan B" 0:21:22.074,0:21:25.238 with the Gentiles. 0:21:25.238,0:21:26.896 Folks, that isn't even true. 0:21:26.896,0:21:29.234 All you've got to do is read Romans 9-11, 0:21:29.234,0:21:30.787 and you know what Paul's saying 0:21:30.787,0:21:32.254 all the way through? 0:21:32.254,0:21:35.223 This is exactly as was [br]foretold by the prophets. 0:21:35.223,0:21:36.754 Nothing new has come here. 0:21:36.754,0:21:38.795 God said there would be a remnant. 0:21:38.795,0:21:41.546 And God said He was [br]going to go to the Gentiles. 0:21:41.546,0:21:43.554 This didn't catch anybody by surprise 0:21:43.554,0:21:44.951 if they would have just read 0:21:44.951,0:21:46.824 their Old Testament Scriptures right. 0:21:46.824,0:21:48.554 It was said all through the prophets 0:21:48.554,0:21:51.960 that God was going to go to the Gentiles. 0:21:51.960,0:21:54.059 Still, you come to the New Testament, 0:21:54.059,0:21:55.744 and Paul says it's a mystery. 0:21:55.744,0:21:57.693 Because for all that was said about it, 0:21:57.693,0:21:59.894 they didn't get it. 0:21:59.894,0:22:01.291 They didn't get it. 0:22:01.291,0:22:02.592 And you know what? 0:22:02.592,0:22:07.864 For all that, it was only a remnant. 0:22:07.864,0:22:09.616 Isn't that what the prophets said? 0:22:09.616,0:22:11.803 They said, Lord, if You wouldn't [br]have given us a remnant, 0:22:11.803,0:22:13.317 we'd have been like [br]Sodom and Gomorrah. 0:22:13.317,0:22:15.053 He's speaking about the Jews. 0:22:15.053,0:22:16.853 Now listen, you know what you find 0:22:16.853,0:22:17.853 in the New Testament? 0:22:17.853,0:22:19.121 You know what Paul really drives home 0:22:19.121,0:22:20.204 again and again and again 0:22:20.204,0:22:21.694 in the epistle of Romans? 0:22:21.694,0:22:24.814 He says there is no distinction [br]between Jew and Gentile. 0:22:24.814,0:22:27.283 You find that in Galatians. 0:22:27.283,0:22:28.945 Do you not find that? 0:22:28.945,0:22:31.012 When it comes to those that are in Christ, 0:22:31.012,0:22:32.534 in Galatians it says, 0:22:32.534,0:22:34.775 there is no distinction. 0:22:34.775,0:22:36.590 There is no Jew and Gentile. 0:22:36.590,0:22:38.252 There is no male and female. 0:22:38.252,0:22:40.894 There is no circumcised and uncircumcised. 0:22:40.894,0:22:42.623 They're all the same in Christ. 0:22:42.623,0:22:46.155 You become a child of Abraham by what? 0:22:46.155,0:22:47.271 Faith. 0:22:47.271,0:22:52.345 Abraham was declared righteous by faith. 0:22:52.345,0:22:54.546 And you become his child by faith. 0:22:54.546,0:22:56.914 And it was in the Old Testament that way, 0:22:56.914,0:22:58.771 and it's in the New Testament that way. 0:22:58.771,0:23:00.962 And the only Jews in the Old Testament - 0:23:00.962,0:23:02.506 folks, there's no distinction. 0:23:02.506,0:23:05.315 And the Gospel is the [br]power of God unto salvation 0:23:05.315,0:23:07.434 to the Jew first and also to the Greek. 0:23:07.434,0:23:08.754 There is no distinction. 0:23:08.754,0:23:10.014 None whatsoever. 0:23:10.014,0:23:12.004 There are not differences. 0:23:12.004,0:23:13.704 And you know what you in fact find 0:23:13.704,0:23:15.396 when you come to the New Testament? 0:23:15.396,0:23:16.913 The Galatian Gentile churches 0:23:16.913,0:23:20.741 are called the Israel of God. 0:23:20.741,0:23:23.355 Where's that at? Galatians 6:16. 0:23:23.355,0:23:25.585 Romans 2:29, "A Jew is one inwardly. 0:23:25.585,0:23:27.475 Circumcision is a matter of the heart 0:23:27.475,0:23:29.164 by the Spirit, not by the letter." 0:23:29.164,0:23:31.372 Ephesians 2:14, 0:23:31.372,0:23:33.553 "Jesus Christ, He Himself is our peace, 0:23:33.553,0:23:37.355 who has made us both, Jew and Gentile, one 0:23:37.355,0:23:39.274 and has broken down in His flesh 0:23:39.274,0:23:41.273 the dividing wall of hostility." 0:23:41.273,0:23:43.934 You know what else you find? [br]Philippians 3:3, 0:23:43.934,0:23:46.245 "We..." you know who the Philippians were? 0:23:46.245,0:23:47.747 Gentile Christians. 0:23:47.747,0:23:49.405 "We are the true circumcision." 0:23:49.405,0:23:51.912 We're the real Jew, 0:23:51.912,0:23:54.339 "who worship by the Spirit of God 0:23:54.339,0:23:55.795 and glory in Christ Jesus, 0:23:55.795,0:23:59.064 and put no confidence in the flesh." 0:23:59.064,0:24:00.744 Can I tell you what else goes along 0:24:00.744,0:24:02.264 with that dispensational system 0:24:02.264,0:24:03.855 that is just garbage? 0:24:03.855,0:24:05.375 The rapture. 0:24:05.375,0:24:06.405 Yep. 0:24:06.405,0:24:08.971 Left Behind. You've got [br]the whole deal there. 0:24:08.971,0:24:11.852 Would somebody please prove to me 0:24:11.852,0:24:14.755 the rapture from the New Testament? 0:24:14.755,0:24:17.576 It's not there. 0:24:17.576,0:24:24.795 You guys have heard little bits, right? 0:24:24.795,0:24:27.875 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye... 0:24:27.875,0:24:30.155 You've heard that one. 0:24:30.155,0:24:38.642 You've probably heard this one as well. 0:24:38.642,0:24:42.450 "The Lord Himself will [br]descend from heaven..." 0:24:42.450,0:24:46.807 And it says basically we'll be caught up 0:24:46.807,0:24:49.851 together with them in the clouds 0:24:49.851,0:24:51.796 to meet the Lord in the air. 0:24:51.796,0:24:53.274 You've heard those. 0:24:53.274,0:24:55.061 But you haven't heard the context. 0:24:55.061,0:24:57.084 People don't want to read the whole thing. 0:24:57.084,0:24:59.015 Because if they read the whole thing, 0:24:59.015,0:25:02.123 it just totally kills [br]their whole theology. 0:25:02.123,0:25:03.364 If we read these - 0:25:03.364,0:25:04.350 1 Corinthians 15: 0:25:04.350,0:25:05.886 "Behold, I tell you a mystery. 0:25:05.886,0:25:07.798 We shall not all sleep, 0:25:07.798,0:25:09.952 but we shall all be changed, 0:25:09.952,0:25:12.049 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye." 0:25:12.049,0:25:14.046 When? At some secret, 0:25:14.046,0:25:16.736 mysterious return of Christ 0:25:16.736,0:25:17.913 that nobody knows? 0:25:17.913,0:25:19.582 And all of a sudden, there are just 0:25:19.582,0:25:21.105 piles of clothes on the floor? 0:25:21.105,0:25:23.124 And nobody knows what happened? 0:25:23.124,0:25:24.952 Is that what it says? 0:25:24.952,0:25:27.044 Folks, it says it's at the last trumpet. 0:25:27.044,0:25:28.694 You know what the last trumpet is? 0:25:28.694,0:25:30.641 It's the trumpet of the archangel. 0:25:30.641,0:25:32.559 And every eye will see Him. 0:25:32.559,0:25:34.053 Every ear will hear. 0:25:34.053,0:25:36.053 This isn't some secret deal. 0:25:36.053,0:25:38.597 This coming of Christ - 0:25:38.597,0:25:40.945 there's one second coming. 0:25:40.945,0:25:43.154 There's not a second second coming. 0:25:43.154,0:25:45.012 One - some secret deal. 0:25:45.012,0:25:46.488 The Bible doesn't teach that. 0:25:46.488,0:25:48.214 There's one. And when's it coming? 0:25:48.214,0:25:49.898 And the trump of the archangel. 0:25:49.898,0:25:51.575 And every eye's going to see Him. 0:25:51.575,0:25:53.080 And it's like the lightning flashing 0:25:53.080,0:25:54.374 from the east to the west. 0:25:54.374,0:25:55.974 Don't let these people deceive you. 0:25:55.974,0:25:57.598 And I'll you, it is deception. 0:25:57.598,0:26:00.247 And it leads to a bad theology, 0:26:00.247,0:26:02.140 because it leads to a [br]second chance theology. 0:26:02.140,0:26:03.604 People running around thinking, 0:26:03.604,0:26:05.666 oh, when I see all [br]the little piles of clothes 0:26:05.666,0:26:07.589 and the empty cars [br]that closed off the road, 0:26:07.589,0:26:09.304 and the airplanes fall out of the sky, 0:26:09.304,0:26:10.493 then I'll know to believe. 0:26:10.493,0:26:11.733 Don't you believe that. 0:26:11.733,0:26:13.614 It says today is the day of salvation. 0:26:13.614,0:26:15.183 It says today if you hear, 0:26:15.183,0:26:17.525 don't harden your heart 0:26:17.525,0:26:19.465 as they did in the provocation 0:26:19.465,0:26:21.935 or when they provoked God. 0:26:21.935,0:26:23.170 You know what? 0:26:23.170,0:26:24.717 You know what kind [br]of language you've got 0:26:24.717,0:26:26.411 in the New Testament? 0:26:26.411,0:26:29.477 You've got the language of a thief. 0:26:29.477,0:26:30.923 You know when the thief comes? 0:26:30.923,0:26:33.427 When you don't expect. 0:26:33.427,0:26:36.935 You know what Christ said? 0:26:36.935,0:26:38.681 When you think not; 0:26:38.681,0:26:40.505 at a time when you don't think, 0:26:40.505,0:26:42.596 He says, that's when I'm coming. 0:26:42.596,0:26:43.951 And I'll tell you what, 0:26:43.951,0:26:46.012 they've all got it figured out. 0:26:46.012,0:26:48.538 Oh, we're going to have [br]this great big tribulation 0:26:48.538,0:26:49.865 and three and a half years... 0:26:49.865,0:26:51.604 Folks, they've got it marked right out 0:26:51.604,0:26:52.586 when He's coming. 0:26:52.586,0:26:55.131 And Christ said I'm coming [br]as a thief in the night. 0:26:55.131,0:26:57.035 And you're not going [br]to know when I'm coming. 0:26:57.035,0:26:58.656 And there's not going to be any markers 0:26:58.656,0:27:02.324 like people's piles of [br]clothes on the floor. 0:27:02.324,0:27:03.752 You know what? 0:27:03.752,0:27:05.355 When's all this going to happen? 0:27:05.355,0:27:09.045 When are we all going to be raised up? 0:27:09.045,0:27:11.225 Jesus says this in John 6:39, 0:27:11.225,0:27:13.034 "This is the will of Him who sent Me 0:27:13.034,0:27:15.408 that I should lose nothing [br]of all He has given Me, 0:27:15.408,0:27:16.993 but raise it up at the last day." 0:27:16.993,0:27:20.322 When is Jesus going to [br]raise all His people up? 0:27:20.322,0:27:22.174 At the last day. 0:27:22.174,0:27:23.827 Not at some day 0:27:23.827,0:27:27.623 way before the last day. 0:27:27.623,0:27:30.596 Not at some day in a secret rapture 0:27:30.596,0:27:33.883 and now there's this whole [br]amount of time that goes on. 0:27:33.883,0:27:37.142 He raises up all His [br]people at the last day. 0:27:37.142,0:27:38.499 What's the last day? 0:27:38.499,0:27:39.766 The last day of this age. 0:27:39.766,0:27:41.986 There's this age.[br]There's the age to come. 0:27:41.986,0:27:43.616 It's the last day of this age. 0:27:43.616,0:27:45.935 The last day is when I'm raising them. 0:27:45.935,0:27:47.217 That's the resurrection. 0:27:47.217,0:27:48.987 We already saw the resurrection 0:27:48.987,0:27:54.174 is what ushers in the new age. 0:27:54.174,0:27:55.954 John 11:24, "Martha said to Him, 0:27:55.954,0:27:58.105 'I know that he will rise again' [br](speaking of Lazarus) 0:27:58.105,0:28:00.266 'again in the resurrection [br]on the last day.'" 0:28:00.266,0:28:02.066 John 12:48, "The one who rejects Me 0:28:02.066,0:28:03.438 and does not receive My words 0:28:03.438,0:28:04.501 has a judge. 0:28:04.501,0:28:06.237 The Word that I have spoken will judge him 0:28:06.237,0:28:07.543 on the last day." 0:28:07.543,0:28:09.914 When's the judgment? 0:28:09.914,0:28:11.104 It's on the last day. 0:28:11.104,0:28:12.894 When is everybody raised? 0:28:12.894,0:28:14.594 On the last day. 0:28:14.594,0:28:16.655 And you know what the Scripture says? 0:28:16.655,0:28:18.546 In Matthew 25, it doesn't say 0:28:18.546,0:28:21.439 that all the Christians are swept away. 0:28:21.439,0:28:22.885 You know what you find there? 0:28:22.885,0:28:26.498 You find a parable; you find a story. 0:28:26.498,0:28:28.893 Anybody ever read this account 0:28:28.893,0:28:30.745 of the ten virgins? 0:28:30.745,0:28:33.104 Guess what? They're all there. 0:28:33.104,0:28:35.274 The saved and the lost. 0:28:35.274,0:28:36.341 And here comes Christ. 0:28:36.341,0:28:37.925 Here comes the Bridegroom. 0:28:37.925,0:28:39.661 And then He goes on in the later part 0:28:39.661,0:28:41.283 of Matthew 25, and He says, 0:28:41.283,0:28:43.378 okay, let Me give you [br]another picture of it. 0:28:43.378,0:28:44.653 There are the ten virgins. 0:28:44.653,0:28:46.109 That's one picture. 0:28:46.109,0:28:48.137 Five are wise. Five are foolish. 0:28:48.137,0:28:50.360 Five are saved. Five are lost. 0:28:50.360,0:28:53.268 Here I come and they come in with Me. 0:28:53.268,0:28:55.648 Those - they're going to be cast out. 0:28:55.648,0:28:57.491 Let Me give you another picture of it. 0:28:57.491,0:29:00.387 Jesus Christ says, there I am... 0:29:00.387,0:29:02.655 "...The Son of Man comes in His glory, 0:29:02.655,0:29:03.820 all the angels with Him.[br] 0:29:03.820,0:29:05.345 Then He'll sit on His glorious throne. 0:29:05.345,0:29:07.323 Before Him will be [br]gathered all the nations." 0:29:07.323,0:29:10.714 Now, we already saw from John 12:48, 0:29:10.714,0:29:13.064 the judgment's on the last day. 0:29:13.064,0:29:14.195 So here's the last day. 0:29:14.195,0:29:15.344 Here's the judgment. 0:29:15.344,0:29:16.757 And who's there? 0:29:16.757,0:29:18.994 Not just the saved. Not just the lost. 0:29:18.994,0:29:21.174 This is the Great White Throne judgment. 0:29:21.174,0:29:23.374 Who do you find?[br]You find the lost and the saved. 0:29:23.374,0:29:24.894 You see, the dispensationalists - 0:29:24.894,0:29:26.265 this is another place they've got 0:29:26.265,0:29:29.015 all these different [br]judgments taking place. 0:29:29.015,0:29:32.624 The Bible tells us about one. 0:29:32.624,0:29:34.727 Listen to me. 0:29:34.727,0:29:38.185 When that sky splits open, 0:29:38.185,0:29:43.465 and that trump rings through 0:29:43.465,0:29:47.306 the stillness of this earth's air, 0:29:47.306,0:29:50.383 it's done. 0:29:50.383,0:29:56.362 And if you have not bowed [br]the knee to Christ, 0:29:56.362,0:29:59.423 it's over. 0:29:59.423,0:30:02.052 And you are in trouble. 0:30:02.052,0:30:04.494 There is no second chance theology. 0:30:04.494,0:30:06.552 There's no: well, if the rapture comes, 0:30:06.552,0:30:08.881 then I'll know I better [br]get my act together. 0:30:08.881,0:30:11.374 And then if Christ sets [br]up His earthly kingdom 0:30:11.374,0:30:12.456 over in Jerusalem, 0:30:12.456,0:30:15.118 then I'll really know I need [br]to get my act together. 0:30:15.118,0:30:16.755 Don't you believe it. 0:30:16.755,0:30:18.469 He's on the throne already. 0:30:18.469,0:30:19.440 He is Lord. 0:30:19.440,0:30:22.244 He tells you to bow to Him now. 0:30:22.244,0:30:25.638 Repent and trust the Lord now. 0:30:25.638,0:30:28.525 You think there's some [br]future kingdom coming? 0:30:28.525,0:30:30.073 His kingdom's not of this world. 0:30:30.073,0:30:32.250 He's already on His throne in His kingdom. 0:30:32.250,0:30:34.411 And He is in control. 0:30:34.411,0:30:37.215 And He commands all [br]men everywhere to repent 0:30:37.215,0:30:40.835 and bow the knee now. 0:30:40.835,0:30:43.481 Don't fall for this garbage, folks. 0:30:43.481,0:30:45.592 The rapture is garbage. 0:30:45.592,0:30:48.254 This millennial idea is garbage. 0:30:48.254,0:30:50.058 Israel being separate? 0:30:50.058,0:30:52.656 How are they separate and distinct? 0:30:52.656,0:30:54.124 They're not. 0:30:54.124,0:30:55.725 You know what the Scripture says? 0:30:55.725,0:30:58.123 In Romans 3:9? 0:30:58.123,0:31:00.136 "We conclude that all are under sin, 0:31:00.136,0:31:01.685 both Jew and Gentile." 0:31:01.685,0:31:03.341 Both are under sin. 0:31:03.341,0:31:04.909 The Gospel is the power of God 0:31:04.909,0:31:06.660 to both Jew and Gentile. 0:31:06.660,0:31:08.190 There's no distinction. 0:31:08.190,0:31:10.084 Scripture again and again and again 0:31:10.084,0:31:11.995 says - Romans 10:12, 0:31:11.995,0:31:14.232 "there's no distinction [br]between Jew and Greek. 0:31:14.232,0:31:15.732 The same Lord is Lord of all, 0:31:15.732,0:31:18.101 bestowing His riches upon all[br]who call upon Him." 0:31:18.101,0:31:20.494 You know what? Whether you're [br]a Jew, whether you're Gentile - 0:31:20.494,0:31:22.972 if you call upon Him, you're in. 0:31:22.972,0:31:26.324 There's one Gospel for all.[br]There's not two. 0:31:26.324,0:31:28.202 "There will be tribulation and distress 0:31:28.202,0:31:29.624 for every human being who does evil, 0:31:29.624,0:31:31.331 the Jew first and also the Greek. 0:31:31.331,0:31:33.106 Glory, honor, and peace for everyone 0:31:33.106,0:31:34.220 who does good." 0:31:34.220,0:31:35.751 This doesn't mean you work it up. 0:31:35.751,0:31:37.039 This means you've been born again. 0:31:37.039,0:31:38.238 You've been regenerated. 0:31:38.238,0:31:39.338 You've got a new heart. 0:31:39.338,0:31:41.070 His laws aren't grievous. 0:31:41.070,0:31:43.035 If you've been changed and transformed 0:31:43.035,0:31:44.624 and indwelt by the Spirit of God, 0:31:44.624,0:31:46.315 you're putting to death sin, 0:31:46.315,0:31:48.324 you're living righteously, 0:31:48.324,0:31:51.302 you're bowing the knee to Jesus Christ - 0:31:51.302,0:31:52.807 it says there's no difference. 0:31:52.807,0:31:54.135 There's no distinction. 0:31:54.135,0:31:56.977 Jew and Gentile. 0:31:56.977,0:31:59.435 There's no distinction on [br]those who go to hell. 0:31:59.435,0:32:03.393 There's no distinction on [br]those who will be damned. 0:32:03.393,0:32:05.296 Now, that's obviously not everything 0:32:05.296,0:32:07.304 that can be said about dispensationalism. 0:32:07.304,0:32:08.614 There is tons more. 0:32:08.614,0:32:10.609 It would take a series to do everything 0:32:10.609,0:32:11.734 that can be said on it 0:32:11.734,0:32:13.145 to bring out all the verses 0:32:13.145,0:32:16.025 that need to be dealt with.