are the belching evidence of that lake of fire in the bowels of the earth. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, and bound him a thousand years. Notice that, a thousand years. And cast them into the bottomless pit, and shut him up and set a seal upon him, that he should not that he should deceive the nations no more. No, some try and tell us, when the devil is all shut up, there will be no men on the earth. In other words, no one is deceived. But you'll notice how contrary that view is of Scripture. Satan is chained in the bottomless pit, and there are nations on the earth. He shall deceive the nations no more, till a thousand years should be fulfilled, and after that he must be loose a little season. read the second time but a thousand years. Verse four, and I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them, and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their forehead, or in their hands, and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. There it is the third time. But the rest of the dead live not again until the thousand years were finished. There's the fourth reference in the thousand years. This is the first resurrection. 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. There's a fifth breath. And when the thousand years are expired, or at the end of the thousand years, 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 at the sand of the sea. And they went up on the breadth of the earth and compassed the camp of the saints about in the beloved city. And fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them. And the devil at the sea then was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beasts and the false prophet are. Now the beasts and the false prophet, those two men that are coming, have been in this lake for a thousand years. And it says here, where the beast and the false prophet are, they're not annihilated, and shall be tormented day and night, forever and ever. The word of God is very explanatory as you read it slowly. Now tonight our subject is the millennial, the thousand-year reign of Christ upon the earth. Six times over we read about a thousand years. Just before I get right into my message, I want to say the three verses are premillennial, something that happens at the beginning of. Then verses four to seven are during the millennium. Then verses seven to ten are the end of postmillennial. Now if you read the Word of God, you'll find many passages of Scripture that certainly do not apply to the eternal state. That is this lovely place that we're going to speak upon, the New Jerusalem on Sunday night. Certainly there are many passages of Scripture that do not apply to that place of perfection, perpetual joy and happiness. And certainly they do not apply to the world today, as it is in this day of Greece. So where do they apply? they apply to that one thousand years when Christ will reign over the earth. Because those days are too good for today. That is, the devil certainly isn't chained in the world today. A lot of people think he is. The devil is very much at large. And so we know that this is not the millennium because Satan is very active. He's very objective. And again, and we know as to eternity when the new heavens and the new earth are set up, Satan won't be changed. Satan will be in the lake of fire. So during what period will Satan be changed? It tells you here, during a thousand years while Christ is reigning over the earth. Now that our many passages of Scripture would take too much time for us to turn to them and read them, you may do so at your leisure. For instance, you have Micah chapter four. You have Isaiah chapter eleven. You have Isaiah sixty-five. You have Isaiah sixty-six. Three chapters in Isaiah. Chapter eleven, chapter sixty-five, chapter sixty-six. And Micah chapter four. If you read those four chapters, we could give you others in Zechariah and elsewhere. You would find conditions on the earth that are going to be on the earth. condition that refer to this coming glorious reign of Christ. That's an amazing thing, that God, as you know, took six days, hard work, reconditioning the earth. Then he rested the seventh day, didn't he? Which is the seventh. Now, isn't it very interesting that this earth is almost that is as far as Bible chronology of man being on this earth is concerned, about six thousand years. The Jewish calendar brings us nearer. From the time that, far as we can understand, from Adam and Eve, until the flood was approximately two thousand years. From the flood until the cross, another two thousand years. Now since the cross, until the present day, it's nineteen fifty-five. A.D. And the Jewish calendar brings up even nearer to the two thousand. It's up somewhere near the nineteen-eighths, something of that nature. And we go by Jewish calendar in dealing with problems. Meaning this, that there's almost six thousand years past, as far as Bible chronology is concerned, since God put Adam and Eve in the garden and he said, Six thousand years. What does Peter say? A thousand years but a day in thy sight. So if you look on a thousand years, so then, but to God, according to the calendar of heaven, it's only a day. One thousand years but a day. It's only six days in God's reckoning. Since God put Adam and Eve in the God. God worked six days, remember, and he rested at seven. Could that mean that God has been working ever since in heaven for six thousand years that he's going to rest on the seventh thousand years, the seventh day, the millennial reign of Christ? A thousand years rest. A thousand years of peace after six thousand years of sin and unrest. And after Satan has been busy for six thousand years, he'll be changed. For one thousand, and the earth will enjoy peace. It's a wonderful thought when you think about it. Now, I want to say this, that this wonderful age, the millennial, is not brought about by preaching the gospel. This where so many have a mistaken idea. Some even go so far to tell us the world's getting better. I don't know where they get that idea from. They certainly don't get it from the Bible, and they certainly can't get any comforts. or encouragement for their argument from statistics. All you've got to do is write the FBI in Washington. They'll give you the statistics, showing that the world is not getting better. Our nation isn't. Neither is the rest of the nations of the earth. And the Bible says that in the latter days, evil men and seducers shall act worse than worse. Earthquakes are on the increase. Wars are becoming more fearful and dreadful. Crime is on the increase. The use of drugs is on the increase. The use of penitence is on the increase. Mental sickness is on the increase. Yes, friends, everything that we recoil from is on the increase. Things are not getting better. They're getting worse. And if you notice the end of this age that's given you in the seven parables of Matthew thirteen, what do you have? Do you have a converted world? No. They're the good fish and the bad. The tears from the hoots. That's the end of this age. Everyone's not converted. The world's not going to be converted. How is this age going to be brought about this age when Christ shall reign? By the gospel being preached and everyone accepting it? No. Here's something that's sad. It's going to be brought about by a dozen. God has given this world nineteen hundred years, or that's the period indicated on the chart here. From Pentecost, where the church began until now, we're about here. Christ is soon to come to the air and catch the church up to meet him. That's nineteen hundred years. God has given this world all that time to accept the gospel of his son. And the world hasn't done it. And the world is worse off now than it was nineteen hundred years ago. So the gospel is failing as far as converting the world is concerned. Not that the gospel has no power, but man refuses. He will accept. Therefore, conditions get worse. So how is God going to bring about that thousand years? Christ is coming to catch away his curse, and then whose seals will be broken, and the seven trumpets, seven finals are out empty, the veneer, and those terrible days have been even preaching about. God is going to get rid of all the sinners and the wicked men. and women of the earth, and finally the battle of army, Jim, that will dispose of the hordes that will be assembled in that veil, brought there by satanic power. And God, by judgment, is going to rid out of his kingdom all things that are said. That's the only way this day is going to be up to date. By God destroying every wicked person. God destroying every sinner. Only choose to bow the knees. God will restore, leaving only the righteous to go in with that blessed age known as the millennium. There are five lines of prophecy. I might say in using the word millennium. Someone may argue with you and say, well, where do you get that word millennium? It's true. You don't find it in the Bible. But what does millennium mean? Millow, a thousand. Anom, years. Latin, Malep, meaning a thousand years, like I said. You don't find the word Trinity in your Bible, do you? But isn't the doctrine there, the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit? You don't find the word substitution in your Bible. But isn't the doctrine there? Christ dying for our sins? You don't find the word incarnation in your Bible, but there is a doctrine. And so the word millennium simply means one thousand years, Christ reigning upon this earth. You know the Lord Jesus is likened unto the man of sorrow. You know that. The man of sorrow, Isaiah fifty-three, the one who's equated with our grief. Now he's the man of God's right hand. Christ is up in heaven. He's the man of God's right hand. One of these days he's going to be the coming man when he comes to the air. Then he'll be man of war, disposing of his enemies. Then he'll be man of peoples, when he reigns over the earth. You have those two final phases in connection with David and Solomon. Remember, David wanted to build God a house. God says, no, David, you're a man of war. You can't do it. But Solomon, your son, will do it. He'll be a man of peace. David was a man of war. His son Solomon was a man of peace. Christ will be the son of David as man of war. When he is told of his enemy, and as Solomon will be man of peace. Now, there are various illustrations in the Bible. Take, for instance, Noah and his family. They went through the flood in the ark. They came up on a purged earth. on earth that had been purged of all sins, sinners. And only those in the ark stepped out on an earth that had been purged by judgment. Anut again. Anut earth. Now Noah and his family went through the flood. Don't you remember God kicked Enoch up before the flood? Carried him over. And that's what Christ is going to do one of these days. He'll come and pick up the church. Tangler over these terrible days, the awful storm of judgment that's going to hit the earth. But there will be those who will go through it. That will be those faithful Jews that we've been speaking about. Everything is lining up for this right today in the Near East. They're going through those dreadful days into the millennium. Just like Noah went through the flood in the ark and stepped out on a new earth, an earth purged by judgment. These judgments will purge the earth of sinners, and these who will come out of that great tribulation with which one are cleansed from sinners, purged of all enemies of God. Remember the disciples' prayer, Thy kingdom come. What are they praying for? They are praying for His kingdom to come, when Christ shall reign upon the earth. when God's will will be done on earth as it is done in heaven. You remember the stone in Daniel's image? The stone that hit the image on the feet and the whole thing collapsed and it says that stone became a great mountain and filled the earth. Who is that great stone? Christ. The image is Gentile nations that we spoke on one previous night that will be destroyed at the Battle of Armageddon. Christ, the stone cut out without hands, he fights the image on the feet. He disposes of those Gentile powers, and he becomes that great kingdom that fills the whole earth. That's the story of Daniel's image, or Nebuchadnezzar's image in the second book, the second chapter of Daniel. Now let us get into the king. Who will the king be during the millennium, you know? Couldn't be anyone else, but Christ, the king. He was dishonored when he was here before. They nailed him to a cross. They set away with a friend. They will not have him to reign over us. They gave him a crown of cross. And the day to come, he is coming to be honored. And he will be the true king. As son of David, he is heir to the throne of David. As son of Abraham, he is heir to the land of Palestine. As son of man, he is heir to the world. And son of God, he's heir of all things. Where will the capital be? The capital of Christ's millennial reign is Jerusalem. The city where he was so dishonored and so disowned. That city that he wept over because it had rejected him. And in rejecting him brought the judgment of God upon it. That city will become the metropolis of the earth during the reign of Christ over the earth. Christ the King, Jerusalem, will be the capital. What kind of a government will it be? It will be a theocracy. God reigning over the earth through judgment. For it is the Lord Jesus not saying concerning the twelve apostles, they would sit on twelve tribes judging the cross Twelve thrones, giving the twelve tribes of Israel, and the Jewish nation will be the head, and through them. The righteous administration of Christ will cover the entire earth, and Gentile nations will be blessed through the Jewish nation. What will the church do? The church will reign with Christ over the earth. Here you'll see the new Jerusalem, the home of the bride, Why is the bride like a nun to a city because of her governmental capacity? And Christ and the church reigning over this earth during the millennium? A restored Jewish nation will be the leading nation and the nations that were spared from these terrible judgments because of their treatment of the persecuted Jews will be blessed and will come under the shadow and favor of the Jewish nation. Now when you stop to think of this, and I want to bring in a point, that what you receive at the judgment seat of Christ, in the way of a reward as a Christian, I believe will govern your influence in the millennia. Does the Lord not speak about ruling over five cities? Ten cities? What are you talking about? I believe that there will be rewards handed out at the judgment seat of Christ, the Christians, that will give them a place of influence and prominence in the earth when Christ reigns over it during the night. When I was a young Christian, when I was first saved, I had the privilege of often talking to a godly man, Mr. Taylor, a real Bible teacher. Mr. Taylor was a fondly man of possibly sixty-five years of age then. He's way up in his eighties now. Many a time as Mr. Taylor and I walked along the street as we sat together in the home talking over the words, he would ask me questions and then he would smile at my ignorance. I remember one day he said to me, Lester, how would you like to be a policeman in the millennium? I said, fine. And he smiled. He said he wouldn't have anything to do. That's true. Because the millennium will be a period of Christ reigning from here. There won't be any criminals at large then. There will be no jail, no police force, no fire department, no It will be days of heaven upon the earth. Now this kingdom too will be spiritual. A spiritual kingdom. In what way? What kind of body will we have? Do you remember the Lord Jesus when he rose from the dead? Why he appeared in that upper room in the midst of the disciples? The door is being shut. In other words, he had a body sometime later by three dimensions. I don't know how to do it. But I know the Lord Jesus had a body that could be handled. It could be seen. And he could actually eat. But he says, Give me a piece of boiled fish and of a honeycomb. He ate it in front. And yet he could vanish through a wall, a door. He could appear. He could come and go. He wasn't in any way interfered by matter on the truth. And the Bible says that Those who are saved now will have bodies light unto his own glorious body. It will be easy for us then to go between heaven and earth. The new Jerusalem abounds to Jerusalem below. What did the Lord say in John chapter one? Referring to Jacob's dream of the latter, the angel of God ascending and descending for the Son of Man. will be that happy in their course between heaven and earth, will be able to go from the Jerusalem above to the Jerusalem which is below, or dispatch to various parts of that righteous kingdom. Yes, I believe the church will function in that capacity with spiritualized thought. And that kingdom will be supreme. There will be no rival. That kingdom shall be universal. He says, all shall know me. And I want to say this. Satan will be bound. It will be a very spiritual thing. There will be no evil influence. You know the devil gets blamed for a lot of things today. But the time is coming when he will be chained for one thousand years. Now that goes to prove this, does it not, that he is a real person? You should ever think of that. How could you chain an influence? You couldn't do. You can only chain a person, a person else. Here is Satan, and he can be chained. One angel does it. And Satan will be chained for one thousand years. There will be no satanic influence upon this earth. Satan is bound. You know a wonderful thing in that day. God says all shall know me. From the least of the great. Righteousness shall cover the earth as water covers the great deep, says God. And their sins and their iniquities, I will remember no more. Except all those. Now, you know, if I were to walk down the streets of Albany and I stopped a man and started chatting with him, and he says, you know, it's one of the things, an old crisis, and there you go now. That'd be shock number one. I jumped into another, the next person. We got talking about it. He said, my, it's wonderful thing to know he's sin-forgiven. Know he's going to heaven. Shock number two. And if I stopped ten people, one right after the other, the first ten I met on the street, and everyone knew the Lord. And everyone knew he was going to heaven. He knew his sin-forgiven. I could talk about the Lord Jesus. And how wonderful would he be to the life. Had to be with him. Now, Albany doesn't need me. Ten people all talking about the Lord. I'd be willing to stand with you any day on any corner in Albany. And if you could find five people out of a hundred who really know Christ, that would be a surprise to me. You'd find plenty who are church members. You'd find many who are trying to get to heaven by doing the best they can. But I mean people who really know Christ, who are really born again. But you know, in the millennium, all shall know me, says the Lord. What if you wonder what a lived in, and everyone you stop and talk to knows the Lord? They're all willing to talk about the Lord, spiritually. Why, today, you can hardly strike up a conversation about the Lord outside the church. If you do, they look at you as though you're queer. and ready for military. But I'll tell you this, if you really know Christ and you're really born again, you can't talk too much about him. You want to talk about the Lord and what he's done for you. And then when you think of the kingdom, not only will it be a spiritual kingdom, Satan bowed, everyone talking about the Lord, it'll be a model kingdom according to Micah four three. righteousness shall reign, no open sin, it will be a peaceful world end, peace among the animals, no fighting among the beast, no such thing as larger animals departing the smaller one, for the lion and the lamb shall lie down together, no such thing as the larger birds pursuing the smaller ones to kill them, or the larger fishes of the sea living off the smaller species. God says they shall not hurt nor destroy throughout all my holy mountains, says the Lord. My, it's going to be wonderful. And there will be peace not only among the animals and the birds and the fishes, but peace among men. That's when they'll beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hearts. They shall not learn war anymore. No more war. For a thousand years. You know, in those days, too, you'll be able to have snakes for a pet. What do you say? You'll be able to pick up snakes. Your children play in the cockatice game. Would you like to do it now? Those who think they're in the millennia. I'd like to put that to a test. Let me see you pick up a poisonous snake. But in the millennium, You know snakes are the pets of kids. Up in Winston-Salem, a certain Christian I know well, James Crouch by name. One day he said they were having a discussion. Some of these snake handlers came through. And it was the shock of the town. The police were trying to stop them. And there was quite an argument going on. The threat was full of it. These snake handlers were holding... Big meetings every night and handling these snakes. James said four or five of us were talking one day, and of course the subject was snake hands. And he said, there's an old colored fellow sitting there here in the dinner hour. James said, Sam, did you handle a snake? No, sir. Why wouldn't you? He said so in the Bible. You pick up deadly things, surface, cannot bite them. Don't you read the Bible? Sure, I believe the Bible. Well, why wouldn't you pick up a snake? He said, that snake ain't got religion. He said, I got religion. That snake ain't got religion. That was that. And that's true. But it would be wonderful all that in the millennium, even snakes will have religion. If you want to use that word. In other words, there won't be anything destructive. Nothing poisonous. God says there shall not anything hurt or destroy throughout all my holy mountains, saith the Lord. There will be no divorces, no jail, no asylum, no hospital, no hospital. No, that kingdom will be a moral thing. No public sin will scatter all evil with its eyes. That's what he says. Economically, prosper. Provision for all. Agricultural, the curse will be lifted. And the Bible says the desert shall blossom as a road. There'll be no blight, no ball rivers, no drought, no plagues of caterpillars, grasshoppers, insects. There'll be a hundred percent yield. agriculturalism. The Bible says that during that thousand years reign of Christ on earth. What about health? It'll be a healthy reign, a healthy age. Do you ever think about the age that they used to live before the flood? Quite a few lived over nine hundred years. Methuselah lived nine hundred and sixty-nine years. Why didn't God let them live a thousand? God says, no. That awaits. That he When my son shall reign for a thousand years, men and women will enter that time. Maybe fifty, sixty, seventy years of age, and they'll write to you. They'll live more than a thousand years. Matthews will live nine hundred and sixty-nine. He didn't live on the left. And the Bible makes it plain it'll be an age of health and an age of happiness. Boys and girls playing in the strict degree than Zechariah H. Five. You know, man has saved. He's tried every way possible. He's tried all forms of government to try and bring about this age. Man thinks he can do it. Dictators think they can do it. Death spots think they can do it. Yes, communism thinks. it can do. Democracy has tried it. Republics have tried it. Kings have tried it. All forms of government have tried to bring about this millennium, where there will be plenty for everyone, everyone happy, no more war. Man has tried and tried and tried, and he's failed miserably on the world worse off today than it was at any time in the future. After man has tried for six thousand years to bring about perfect conditions on the earth, and conditions are getting worse, and this earth will not know a perfect government, nor a righteous administration until Jesus Christ established it. Christ is the one who will establish universal peace. The one this world had the opportunity to accept nineteen hundred years ago but rejected him. And the world has known nothing but bloodshed ever since because it's told the criminals forever instead of the Prince of Peace. And when Christ the Prince of Peace comes back and disposes of his enemy, sets up his kingdom, then for a thousand years this earth will be blessed. days of heaven upon earth. What are the steps to it? The first thing is the coming of Christ. That's what we're waiting for now. We'll speak on that tomorrow night. The next thing will be these judgments. Then Satan will be bound and then we'll be ushered in the thousand years reign of Christ upon this earth. Strange thing happened at the end of that thousand years. Satan's going to be loose. A man said to me the other night, he said, what about that? Why is Satan going to be loose? I said, now you can hear Wednesday night and I'll tell you. So I'm going to tell you now. Doesn't it seem strange that after one thousand years of wonderful rain, the earth at peace, everyone's happy, everyone healthy, my will be wonderful women. No fighting, no wild animals, no wild beasts of any kind at times, no drought, no spoilt crops, my everything just like the garden of Eden, like the garden of the Lord, days of heaven and earth. No murders, No suicide? Nothing like that. You know, the earth will be populated very rapidly under conditions like that. No mortality rate? Everybody's so healthy? Who will be on the earth? Why, how quickly the earth will populate? The earth will be depleted in its population almost to half by these judgments of the revelation that we can figure out for you. Therefore there will be plenty of room for more inhabitants, and rapidly the earth will be populated. For a thousand years under those I view consumed. And then at the end, God says, I'm going to let Satan out. Why toil this time of peace? Why only Satan? He had six thousand years. And look what he did to man. Why does God let them out now, the end of a thousand years? First of all, God is sovereign. And he can do it his way. That's his sovereign will. But there's a reason. During this time, owing to these millions who will be born, they're going to profess outward allegiance to Christ. They can't do anything else. Christ is reigning. With an iron hand, with a rod of iron, the Bible said. And for fear of the king upon the throne, no one would come out in rebellion against him. It would cost him his life if he did. And so he paused in, and he takes up the language of everyone talking about the Lord. He's one born in the millennium. And because things are so pleasant, he bowed. and submit outwardly to the righteous rule of Christ. There will likely be millions who will do that throughout the millennium. But God is going to test every protest. God is going to test at the end of the millennium whether their profession and their professed objection is genuine or not. Whether they really love Christ And because of their loved ones, they subjected themselves to him for whether they've done it out of fear. And God is going to test the reality of their profession. And I vouch to say this, friend, that God tests professions today. You make a profession of faith in Christ, and God will test you to see it real enough. Whether you've got the root of the matter in you. That's why a lot of people make a profession at its evangelistic campaigns. Or under high pressure, they make a profession. And look at them a couple of weeks later. The first test down the road. It wasn't true. They didn't have the real thing. Had they Christed? They wouldn't have fallen. Had they Christed? they wouldn't have failed under that test. God is going to test professors. Another thing, God's going to demonstrate that one thousand years from the bottom of the test hasn't changed the character of Satan. When he comes out, he steals the enemy of God and the enemy of man. Another reason why Satan is going to re-release and God releases is to prove their environment will not change the heart of man, that man needs more than an environment. Here it will be men and women living under the best environment, under the righteous reign of Christ, and at the end there will be millions who will turn and repel against Christ, showing that that best of environment hasn't changed the heart of millions of men and women. I want to say this, friend, I don't care what environment you put a boy or girl in. You can't change his heart. You may restrain him, but you can't change an individual's heart by environment. That individual needs a new nature. And just as Satan is a fallen creature, so are you. And so throughout that millennial reign, there'll be these millions who will be born. and will profess objection to Christ. And at the end, when Satan's release is part of the belief, they align up with the dead, against Christ. They've been put to the test, showing that environment hasn't changed the deep-seated enmity and hatred of the human heart against Almighty God. And the fifth reason why God is going to release Satan, If they cause, justice demands that every man and woman have a chance to choose. They won't be able to choose between Satan and Christ when Satan frowns and in the bottomless pit. There's no one to lead a revolt. So God in every age, right from the beginning, man has had to choose between God or Satan. Seeing Satan is not a law, but in the bottom of the pit man would have the chance to shoot. But at the end God says, I'll give you a chance. You can now choose between my son under whose reign you enjoy to live for a thousand years. I'm going to get let go of now and see if you will shoot him in presence for my son. God gives man that opportunity. That's your prerogative. That's you, Holy Ghost. That's so tonight. God's not forcing salvation down any man's throne. It's up to you to accept it, for it's up to you to reject it. What happens when God lets the devil out at the end of the thousand years? Did you notice what did happen? Why it says in verse seven, 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 a sand of the sea. And they went up on the beds of the earth, and compassed the camp for the saints about in the beloved city. And fire came down from God out of heaven, and his bow. Meaning this? that Jerusalem being the metropolis, the capital of the earth, during the millennium. The enemy shall go forth. And I believe the reference to the uttermost parts of the earth simply means this, that those who are not really at heart in love with Christ have migrated to the most distant point. They're getting as far away as they can from Jerusalem. Then when Satan is released, they rally to his banner. and they march on Jerusalem. And then is when fire comes down out of heaven and destroys. That will all happen at the end of the millennium. Then God will deal with this planet as we'll notice on Friday night after which there will be the eternal heaven and the eternal earth. Those who are not killed by this final wound, visitation from heaven by fire, will go into the new earth, the eternal earth, and the pride will be in the eternal heaven. Wherein dwelleth eternal righteousness. Today righteousness suffers. During the millennium righteousness will raise, but throughout eternity righteousness shall dwell. It's fair to say, it's fair. Satan will be in the lake of fire. But all who have rejected Christ will be with him. And all who are redeemed will be with Christ in glory in the new heavens and the new earth. For in dwelling eternal life. And so Satan will be released. It is man the opportunity to choose or redeem. And friends, that question you've got to settle tonight. Will you have Christ or will you have Satan? This is not the millennium. This is the day of grace. But remember this. The sides are two. Here you have the opposing forces. Here's Christ and here is Satan. The forces of light against the forces of God. Heaven against head. And you make your choice. Which will it be? Choose ye this day whom you have heard. And what will happen to the earth during the millennium under the righteous reign of Christ? That is the earth we bless with everything. You can have that same blessing spiritually in your soul tonight. It will be Christ who will bless the earth in the millennium. It'll be Christ who will bless your heart now. Those blessings will not only be spiritual, but they'll be physical and material. You will be blessed tonight with all spiritual blessings in the heavenly, in Christ Jesus. It's a choice. Who it is, Christ or Satan? You say, I choose Christ. Then Christ will bless your soul with sin forgiven. with the assurance of salvation, with the fact that you have everlasting life, you'll never fail. And just as the earth will be blessed in that day will experience days of heaven and earth, so you will experience days of heaven and earth, as you realize your faith, your sins have been forgiven, washed away in the blood of Christ, and now Christ is your King. He reigns upon the throne of your heart, He wields his chest earth in your life. You are his willing subject. For those verses will be true in the millennium. His name shall be called wonder, counselor, the mighty God, the everlasting father, and the princesses. And the government shall be upon his shoulder. That will be them alone. But the government of your life can be upon his shoulders too. If you this night will choose him, except as your own personal faith. Let us pray. Our Heavenly Father, in the name of the Lord Jesus, we come into thy presence. We ask thy blessing upon thy word. We thank thee for the promise and prospect of the coming of Christ. We thank thee for what thou hast told us about this poor world. now drenched with tears and blood. O God, we thank thee the times coming when our blessed Lord shall hush all the sighs and sobs of this growing creation. He'll wipe away every tear of his own. He will establish universal peace. We bless thee, Father, in that day those who are saved now will reign with Christ. We pray thee to speak to any who know not the Lord Jesus. We know Satan is putting on the pressure to keep them from Christ. If we cross this night, they will decide in favor of thy beloved Son, and enter into peace. We ask it for Christ's sake. Amen.