The Final Deception Revelation 20 Part VI

Pastor Martin Saine talks about Jesus’:
Perfect rulership
Perfect government
Perfect administration
Perfect peace
Perfect provision
Perfect religion
Utopia!
This will be 1000 years of what man has striven for since the dawn of time. The only difference is that this utopia will be orchestrated by God, not by man.
For a utopian society to exist it must be either populated by people with an internal righteousness, OR strictly controlled and protected from people who do NOT have internal righteousness nature.
Jer 17:9 “The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it?
The problem with a man made utopia is that it is full of men!
Man wants God to leave them alone so that we can do what we want. Unfortunately, what we want (apart from Christ) is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked!
The Final Deception occurs
After 1000 years of perfection, Satan is released to deceive the nations.
What is his deception?
The same as it has ever been! DID GOD REALLY SAY????
Gen 3:1 Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?”

In essence, Satan will do to the nations the same thing he did to Eve. He convinces the nations (not Israel!) that Jesus’s authority and power are compromised. He deceives them into believing that He can defeat Jesus and if they join him, they can be set free from Christ’s rulership and do whatever they want- be like God.

And he is wildly successful at this deception!
Rev 20:8 and will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, whose number is as the sand of the sea.
What’s the point of all of this?
Man cannot achieve a god-like condition apart from God!
Without an internal change- a new heart- external religion or works only delay the inevitable!

All men MUST make a choice; and MOST make the wrong one!
Rev 20:10 The devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are. And they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

Next week we’ll see the final judgment and the end of the matter for those who have made the wrong choice…

TODAY IS YOUR DAY FOR SALVATION…DON’T PUT IT OFF.

Satan Bound 1,000 Years
20 Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. 2 He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years; 3 and he cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal on him, so that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years were finished. But after these things he must be released for a little while.
The Saints Reign with Christ 1,000 Years
4 And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for [a]a thousand years. 5 But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. 6 Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years.
Satanic Rebellion Crushed
7 Now when the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison 8 and will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, whose number is as the sand of the sea. 9 They went up on the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. And fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them. 10 The devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where[b] the beast and the false prophet are. And they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
The Great White Throne Judgment
11 Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. And there was found no place for them. 12 And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before [c]God, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books. 13 The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one according to his works. 14 Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second [d]death. 15 And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.