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Newington Three Angels Church

Eric Walsh

Missing the Millennium

We are back here tonight to present, praying it all as well with everyone.

I'm going to get right into the message tonight.

There's so much going on in the world, but that is gonna be covered in a later message.

So we're gonna get right into tonight's message.

Our scripture reading is taken from Revelation 20, verses 1, 2, and 3.

And it says, and I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit, and a great chain in his hand.

And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, and cast him into the bottomless pit and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled.

And after that, he must be loosed a little season.

A message this week is entitled, Missing the Millennium.

Let us pray, Father God, we thank you, Lord, for this opportunity to study your word and your prophecies.

I ask, Lord, that you make me just a nail upon the wall, Lord, a rusty, sorry nail.

And upon that nail, I ask once again that you hang a portrait of Jesus Christ.

Instead, Father, let us hear a word from the throne room of grace.

This is our prayer in Jesus' precious and holy name.

We're going to get right into the scripture here.

We're going to jump to Revelation chapter 16.

And what I want to set up for you at the outset of this is what it's just a few of the things that will happen just prior to the second coming of Jesus Christ.

Our title again tonight is Missing the Millennium.

And in order to talk about a thousand years, you gotta talk about the event that kicks off the thousand years.

And that is the second coming of our Lord.

Revelation 16 and verse 18, and there were voices and thunders and lightnings.

And there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake and so great.

The scripture says that there's gonna be this mighty, mighty earthquake.

Much of the world, I would imagine, is going to be destroyed.

Never before has an earthquake like this hit, not the Lisbon earthquake, not some of those big earthquakes that have hit California.

This is going to be a mighty, mighty earthquake.

Revelation 16 and verse 21 says, and there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, Every stone about the weight of a talent.

And men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail.

For the plague thereof was exceeding great.

After this great earthquake hits the earth, A plague of hail begins to fall.

Giant balls like probably somewhere between the size of softballs, volleyballs, maybe as big as basketballs, weight of a talent begin to drop.

And I believe that what John the Revelator is trying to show us here, as he is inspired by the Holy Spirit, is that even as these tragedies happen, men do not turn to God and say, Lord, save us.

They do not turn to God and say, have mercy on us.

Instead, the Bible tells us in Revelation 16 and verse 21, they blaspheme God.

This tells us that these individuals would not choose to repent even if they had the chance.

This is a statement that probation has closed.

Christ has left the heavenly temple, sanctuary, and is about to return.

So Revelation 19 says it like this in verse 11, I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.

His eyes were as a flame of fire, on his head were many crowns, and he had the name written that no man knew but he himself." So this is a series of names of Christ.

The first 1 says his name is called Faithful and true.

That means that when he said he was coming back, he would come back.

It says that he had a name written that no man knew, speaking to the magnificent mystery that is God.

There are aspects of Christ, because names represent character, aspects of Christ that we still don't even understand.

Revelation 19, 13 says, "'And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood, "'and his name is called the Word of God.

The third name given is the name, the Word of God.

It is John, John the Revelator, who writes the gospel of John and starts it off by saying, in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God, and the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us.

John now says His name is called the Word of God.

Verse 14, the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.

The armies of heaven Follow him on white horses.

Heaven is emptied out as Christ rides a white horse all across the Milky Way, through the celestial beyond and into our solar system.

Revelation 19 and verse 15 says, "'And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations, and he shall rule them with a rod of iron.

And he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.

This happens at the second coming, that he is given the title here that he would rule, not the title, but the prerogative, the statement that he would rule with a rod of iron, and he would tread the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.

Revelation 19, 16, as Christ breaks the clouds, peels back the atmosphere, begins to enter the earth.

1 of the things John points out to us is that he has a name on his vesture And on his thigh, a name written, King of Kings, Lord of Lords.

And in the messages that we've been given since the pandemic began, 1 of the highlights in many of them is the prophetic realities of the time in which we live.

The prophecies of Matthew 24 and Luke 21, the prophecies of Daniel and Revelation, We can see them all being fulfilled.

And I know there are a lot of folk who don't believe.

They mock and they scoff at the idea that Christ is coming soon.

He's been coming for so long, as Peter points out in 1 of his letters.

But as the world continues to see the economic ramifications of a pandemic, as we question now whether or not we should take a vaccine that has been brought to market faster than I believe any vaccine in the history of medicine.

As we look at the global tension around politics, especially here in the United States.

And we look at the collapse of the church in many ways.

Jesus is about to return and written on his thigh, the thighs carry your strongest muscles.

1 of your longest and strongest bones written on your thigh, the seat of Christ's strength is written, King of kings and Lord of lords.

If you're wondering about who the president is and what it means, let me tell you something, don't ever get so sidetracked as to believe that who sits in Washington is more important than who sits on the throne in heaven.

To tell his disciples that he was coming back, Jesus says in John 14, 1 through 3, "'Let not your heart be troubled.'" I know some of you are troubled, you're stressed out.

This coronavirus, the economics, the politics, the racial tensions, all of the things that have been happening in 2020, Jesus is speaking to you when he says, let not your heart be troubled.

If it were not so, I would have told you.

I go to prepare a place for you, and if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself.

That where I am, there ye may be also." Listen, he's coming to collect his own.

He's coming to redeem from off of this earth those that he washed in his own blood, cleansed of all iniquity, and have now developed the character of Christ.

No matter how crazy 2020 has been as we are just days away from 2021, I want to remind you that Christ is still on the throne.

He is King of kings and Lord of lords, and he is coming to get you.

Our first point of the message tonight is this, Jesus will return soon in great glory.

And yes, the millennium begins at this point.

First Thessalonians 4, 16 through 18 begins to describe what it will be like when Jesus comes.

The Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God.

Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

Wherefore, comfort 1 another with these words." If you've lost a loved 1 in this year and you know that they have died in Christ, you can be comforted in the fact that he, that person, as well as each of us are destined and slated to live eternity out with Christ Jesus.

My mother, who I lost to cancer, my grandmother, my aunt Eva, I cannot wait to see them again because the dead in Christ will rise first.

We in gravity will lose its power as their bodies are transformed and as they rise out of their graves and as we see them going up, as we are joyous and happy to see it, all of a sudden we will begin to be transformed.

And gravity will lose its power over us and we will be caught up in the air.

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