Parting parts

Judgment of Israel in the 70th week of Daniel.

Jordan says, “There’s the passage where Paul says, ‘So all Israel shall be saved.’ That’s talking about how it’s only redeemed Israel that goes into the kingdom. The Antichrist isn’t designed to purge America or Europe or Africa or Australia. His purpose is to personify the lie program and purge the rebel out of Israel so you have the judgment of Israel.

“When Jesus Christ judges the nations, He does that when He comes in flaming fire with His mighty angels taking vengeance on them that know not God. After the millennium, we come to the final judgment—‘the last judgment.’ This is the one you often hear about that is confused with all the other ones.

“Revelation 20:11 says, ‘And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.’

“When he says the great white throne comes out of heaven, there’s no place to hide for these dudes. They’re going to stand before God small and great.

“II Peter 3:10 says, ‘But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.’

“Literally the atomic structure of the physical universe, as you know it, is going to be dissolved. Verse 12 says, ‘Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?’ That’s the time we’re studying about in Rev. 20. It’s the ultimate end of what’s going on.

“In Rev. 20 we’re coming to the climactic events in the history of fallen man. The climactic events of the satanic rebellion that sought to usurp God’s authority in the heavens and the earth.

“Revelation 20:12 says, ‘And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.’

“The first thing you want to notice is when he talks about the dead there, he’s talking about a certain category of dead people. Go back to verse 4: ‘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 foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

“When he says he saw thrones and they sat upon them, that’s going to be the Old Testament saints. They’re resurrected and then you have the tribulation saints (the souls) that die.

“I don’t know if you ever thought about the kingdom but there will be an inauguration day. There’s a coronation day for the king and it’s talked about all through the Old Testament.

“There are whole psalms written about this event. There are whole chapters in Isaiah that describe it. The first thing Jesus Christ will do is He will stand up and speak and command forth all of the saints from Adam all the way down—all through the Old Testament, to be resurrected.

“That’s how Psalm 99 can talk about Moses and Samuel. They didn’t live together but walk together into that kingdom.

“Jesus told them in Matthew 8:11 that the day’s going to come when Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and people from all over the world will come and sit down together in the kingdom. Not only them but the tribulation saints are resurrected. They’re raised to live and reign with Christ for a thousand years. You have all the saved people from Adam to the beginning of the millennium are now resurrected.

Verse 5 says, ‘But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.’ If you aren’t up at this time you in trouble. Verse 6 says, ‘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.’

“Being in the first resurrection is important. By the way, you notice how he says blessed and holy is he that hath PART in the first resurrection? The first resurrection has different parts to it!

“It has a part that affects the church the Body of Christ. It has a part that affects the Old Testament saints. It has a part that affects the tribulation saints. It has several parts to it. That’s why in I Cor. 15, Paul says there is an order. Every man in his own order in his own place in his own part and that makes up the first resurrection; it doesn’t take place all in one moment. It takes place in a series of parts.

“That’s important because people come along and say see the resurrection doesn’t take place til the beginning of the millennium, therefore the Rapture can’t take place til the beginning of the millennium because you’re in the resurrection. But the first resurrection has several parts to it and there’s an order to them.

“If you’re in the first resurrection, you don’t have to worry about the great white throne because the lake of fire, the second death is not going to touch you. But the rest of the dead, they still stay dead for a thousand years and then at the end of the 1,000 years here were are in Rev. 20:12: ‘And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.’

“So what we’re dealing with in chapter 20 when he says the dead, you’re dealing with the rest of the dead; all the dead that haven’t been resurrected. Who are they? They’re the lost! They’re the lost from Cain all the way down.

“All the lost from all the ages are going to stand before God, small and great. That means that death is not annihilation. They still exist! They’re dead but they’re going to stand before God. They’re dead but they exist!

“Rev. 19:20 says, ‘And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.’

“They both were cast alive into the lake of fire burning with brimstone. When is that? That’s before the kingdom. Rev. 20: 1-5. The beast and false prophet are cast into the lake of fire before the kingdom. A thousand years after Satan is taken and he’s cast into the same lake of fire where the beast and false prophets ARE. You see it says ARE?! They’re still there!

“If you can be cast into the lake of fire and be there for a thousand years, you weren’t snuffed out. You weren’t burnt up. If you can last a thousand years, you can probably last a lot longer. People don’t go to hell and become annihilated and burned up into cinders and ashes.

“The verse in Malachi 4 and back in Psalms, where it talks about the Lord coming and people being burned and left as ashes, that’s talking about their physical body being burned and destroyed. But there’s more to you than your physical body. There’s your soul; there’s your inner man and these guys get cast into the lake of fire and exist for a thousand years and are still there squirming and worming.

“You say, ‘How is that possible?’ Moses comes out to a burning bush and the text says it burned but was not consumed. Hebrews says our God is a consuming fire, but it’s not a consuming fire that annihilates, it’s a fire that burns perpetually. How can that be? It’s a fire that God created. He does His will and accomplishes His purpose.

“Mark 9 says they will be salted with fire. What does salt do? It preserves. The fire’s literally going to preserve them from destruction.”