When Enoch fathered that son Methuselah, and the Spirit of God began to lead him, one day Enoch prophesied, you can read it in Jude,"Behold the Lord cometh with ten thousand of His saints to execute judgment."Where? In the earth. When does that apply? That generation that is out there today will see it. Jesus is coming with all His saints, both His Bride saints, and all His Old Testament saints, in immortality. He is bringing them with Him. Zechariah 14,Behold the Lord cometh will all His saints.That is what it says. Zechariah was way back here looking forward in time. We are here, now, looking back, picking up the pieces as it has unfolded coming toward us. We are living in the hour or day, dispensationally speaking, when He is comingforHis people. He comesforthem before He comeswiththem. I trust you understand. When He comeswiththem, He is coming to take over this earth, to rule and reign for a thousand years. Now we can read verse 18, of 1st Thessalonians 4. If this verse was applicable in 54 A.D., when Christianity at that early hour of time did not yet have the opportunity to see as far in the future as you and I now have by being right here at the end time, when we see the earth's developments staring us right in the face, how much more ought it comfort us, knowing for sure that this present generation will witness the whole thing."Wherefore comfort one another with these words."Therefore I say, Get out of here you doctors of divinity, with all of your senselessness talk about there not being a rapture before the tribulation. ThereISgoing to be; and it will not be very long now, until it is a reality. In the 5th chapter of 1st Thessalonians, the apostle Paul says this,"But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night."Who is He coming as a thief for? The righteous?No.The wicked. They are the ones that are sound asleep spiritually speaking, a lot of them not even believing in God in the first place."For when they(They who? The world in general, the unbeliever.)shall say, Peace and safety;(That is what they are working on even at this very moment of time, a way to obtain a peace agreement among the nations of the world. Such an agreement will have to be mediated and enforced by natural minded mankind; because this is not the peace God will send. Therefore by the time they have brought the man of sin, the antichrist, which will be a false peace maker, into the full picture, and applied him to the world system, it will be too late for them, any of them, to have any hope in God. Rather, they will say, Now we have it made. We will have to worry about no more wars ever again.)then sudden destruction cometh upon them,(Not on the believer, but upon the unbelieving world in general.)as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness,(That is where the unbelieving world is, in darkness, which is unbelief.)that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are the children of light, and the children of the day:(The day is applicable to that period of time wherein God is calling out a people to believe in Jesus as their Savior, and to bear His name.)we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. For they that sleep, sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. But let us who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation. For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ."Now Bro. Jackson, that still has not told you that you have a right to say the rapture will be before the tribulation. Well let us go to Paul's second letter to this same Assembly then. The same thought still lingered in the Thessalonian church, even after being taught so well. There was still a little puzzle about it all. Their minds were still side tracked. Therefore as we go to the second epistle, we read what he wrote to these same people."Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ,(He meant of course, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ)and by our gathering together unto Him,(That was referring them back to the event he had just dealt with in the first letter. That event is right in front ofussomewhere. We are moving rapidly toward it.)That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand."We do know this, Coming down through time, mortal man in his religious way of thinking, has just reached out presumptuously in the dark, pulling up dates, events and everything, trying to tell people it can happen right now. You have all heard the news. This woman that had that bunch of people out in Montana, getting ready for Armageddon to take place just any minute. Where are they today? Why do those poor souls not read the Bible, instead of listening just to that woman, or to anyone else for that matter. If we have a Bible and the ability to read it, we have no right nor privilege of just sitting back and depending upon someone else to do everything for us. China is not ready to come to the Middle East yet. She is in no shape to. Armageddon is going to be fought when those Orients come steaming out of those jungles marching toward the Holy Land. Right now, political wise anyway, they are not in a shape to start that. Nevertheless the time for it is getting closer. It is a sad thing to see people like those people sitting out there in that mountain valley, waiting for something in a way they have no scriptural authority for. The Armageddon they are looking for will never come. How do I know that, you may say? Just notice, as we go on here,"Let no man deceive you by any means; for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first."Saints: We are the generation that is definitely seeing the falling away that Paul was referring to; but even a thing like that has to come to a peak, to a state of being ripe, before application can be made concerning what it is to lead up to. Where is it taking place? Out there in that conglomeration of religious beliefs, where people have gone to sleep spiritually, to the point where they see nothing wrong. Everything goes, just as long as we all love Jesus; for we are all striving to go to the same place. You can hear a statement like that, every time you turn on a television set and come across one of those religious broadcasts. They have not the slightest idea scripturally, and time-wise where we are in the program of God. They are sound asleep. Here the man of sin is coming on the scene, and they have no way of knowing what he is; because they have ignored what God has made available to them from His very own word. Just look at the pope of Rome today, how the so-called important people of the world are running to the Vatican for an opportunity to be blessed by him. When a Communist leader like Gorbachev, who has been the leading figure in that great Communistic empire, an empire that has held much of the world's population in fear for years, all of a sudden takes a trip to Rome to see the Pope, something is being put together, and it will fulfill the scriptures right to a point where anyone would have to be spiritually asleep not to see it. That old pope is being prepared for his hour. No it will not necessarily have to be that individual man that is presently holding that office; for it is the man in that office when God's hour of time comes, that will fulfill the Bible prophecies concerning the activities of the false prince of peace. Anyhow all of a sudden the hand of God strikes the spirit of that thing Gorbachev was the head of, and it began to crumble. Ten years ago, who would have thought that a leader out of Communism would have had the feelings to come and make a visit to the Vatican? Nevertheless just a few months ago he came over to meet our president; and then the first thing we knew, here is the cheek of that pope and Gorbachev right together, just like they were brothers. You never would have seen old Stalin doing a thing like that. All these Assembles of God and charismatic preachers who have said, Communism is the antichrist, have sure had their revelation blown to pieces. You could say, God popped their balloon. It is falling away time though. Here comes the pope and all the religious leaders of the world trotting right along together. Catholicism's straying daughters have just about every one accepted old Mamma's invitation to COME HOME. I read of one the other day, and I just thought to myself, Except for the grace and mercy of God, I would probably be sitting somewhere twiddling my fingers, deceived like the others that run after signs and miracles. I thank God though, for opening my eyes and putting something in my heart that causes me to love truth. Now I can see that man of sin sitting on that Vatican throne; and oh what a man of sin he is. What a world deceiver he is! We have Protestant preachers ready to take their turn and say, Bless me holy father. There is an hour coming just in front of us, when that man is going to hold the administrative reins of this world's political and economical power. Apostate Christendom is going to be sitting right at his feet, unable to break free from his power over them. Death will be the only escape. That is why the foolish virgins will have to suffer martyrdom during the great tribulation; because they are too blind to see right now, where that man of sin will come from. Yes brothers and sisters, the falling away is here and has been for a long time. That is why evil in the world goes so unrestrained; because those who used to stand on God's side and refrain from all appearances of evil are now right in the midst of much of it; and see nothing wrong with what they are doing. Well God sees it for what it is; and the time for Him to call His true people to come up a little higher, is almost here. When what was called Christianity, (the church as the world sees it) began to die, the world began to be flooded with all kinds of evil. That was the tide of Satan coming back in to take up where the Holy Ghost would leave off. That is why we have drug abuse and alcohol abuse like it is. Notice what verse 4, says about the Antichrist, the man of sin, or to be absolutely realistic, the pope of the Roman Catholic Church during the last half of that seventieth week of Daniel."Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God."(That is his future place when all that is brought about, as we brought out in another message, comes to its fullness, the pope of Rome will be doing just like it says here,showing himself that he is God."Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? And now ye know what withholdeth(or hindereth, or restraineth)that he might be revealed in his time."Well for over 1900 years the Spirit of God has held back (restrained) that great onslaught of the antichrist spirit coming to its preeminence until right now. I do not mean, just in the last few weeks; but in the last twenty some years. He (that antichrist spirit) restablished an office that he could use once again, and for the last twenty some years, he has been leading denominational christendom on a merry go round. Naturally that office he has reestablished, is the office of the pope of the Roman Catholic Church. You know, apostate Protestant Christendom today has closed their eyes to that. They are looking to some other mystical realm somewhere for the antichrist to appear, to some yet unborn baby that will be born of a prostitute maybe, that will appear on the scene with such Satanic powers that he can stand out here and do certain things, and fire comes out of heaven. That is the way they interpret it. There have been that type of characters in India and other places of the world. What about these characters, like in Indonesia, that can walk through fire unharmed? They walk on nails. They can set things on fire. That is not the antichrist. That is just satanic power plain and simple, that has always been in the world; but it is certainly not the power the antichrist man, is coming to take over the world with. Those kind have been in existence in every century in certain nations, as long as man has been here. There is not a one of them that has ever rose to conquer a nation, or to deceive multitudes of people to the extent that this antichrist man will, here in the end of this age. It has got to be something so sinister and so deceptive that the world will believe in it. Remember how Jesus prayed, in the 17th chapter of St. John? Jesus, as He prayed to the Father said, (Right here, is where you have a perfect type of what the antichrist is to be like. He will be a religious man, just like Judas was.)"While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost,(meaning His disciples that had walked with Him and had a part in the ministry)but the son of perdition;(Judas)that the scripture might be fulfilled.That son of perdition was Judas; but the one Paul spoke of, will turn out to be the Pope of Rome. Judas was a perfect type of the son of perdition that is yet to come upon the scene. Sure Judas was a Jew, but here is what you have to look at, Was he an atheist? No. Was he a Communist? No. He was a religious Jew that had handled the word of God; but somehow or other he allowed the wrong spirit to anoint him, no doubt because of greed and jealousy. The termson of perditionsimply means,one ordained to lead something to destruction. When that spirit got hold of Judas, (who was religious, and who was also a Jew) he became jealous and disagreeable with the one he had served for three years, and then he was anointed of that same spirit, (the devil) right at the passover supper, and went right out and sold his Savior for thirty pieces of silver. He was ordained to lead his Savior to death. Watch what that spirit did to him though. A few hours later, when Judas woke up and realized what a terrible thing he has done and tried to undo it, that same spirit took him out and he hanged himself. Saints, that is the way we must see the antichrist. Sure he is going to have political power; but he will also have all the scientific, technological power of the world's materialistic means at his finger tips. What you must not forget though, is that he is going to be a religious man. A religious man, is not necessarily a spiritual man; and that is certainly the case here. He is of a religion that is absolutely apostate, yet so deceptive that the religious world will believe he has the word of God for sure. Did you know that a lot of Protestants today, are beginning to agree that the Catholic Church is the right church? I read that, just recently. Well I happen to know it is the wrong church. It has been wrong ever since it came into existence. It is strange how Protestantism came out of it, and now wants to go back to it. That is why the World Council of Churches, the National Council of Churches, the Federation of the Council Churches, all Protestant organizations are means that the deceptive spirit of Satan is using to unite them, and turn them back to fellowship with the Roman Catholic Church. This is the image that reflects the same spirit and likeness of the old beast itself; and characterizes the same carnal motive the Catholic Church does. We are moving toward the hour in time, at a very rapid pace, that as just a few more earthly events transpire, the world is going to be pushed (out of absolute necessity) to elect, and set in charge, a man of neutrality in the position of political leadership of a modern world, over the affairs of their peace proposals and such like. Naturally because of gross deception, they will feel that the pope of Rome is the best man for the job; because of the fact that he sits at the head of what the world of apostate religion calls "the Church." The head of the Church is Jesus; but this man sits there in Rome as the Vicar of Jesus Christ, dictating dogma to a body of what is supposed to be Christianity, but is as apostate as anything could possibly be. It is deceptive. There is no other office on the face of this earth that has a man in it that the world leaders would look upon as being capable of doing what he will be called upon to do. Only the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church stands in such a place of supposed-to-be neutrality, yet with all the available means to function in the role he will assume when that peace pact is signed with the nation of Israel and many others. He is the one (that office) that cracked the whip for a thousand years in the Dark Ages. If the Roman Empire is to be revived for a little short period of time here at the end, it means that when that deadly wound is healed, his power will be given back to him for a little short ride through the week of Daniel, which the last half of, will be that time of great tribulation, or as Daniel wrote it, (12:1)"a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time,"and by the time he gets through with his ride, there will be a great host of martyrs awaiting the time of their resurrection; but they will not have to wait very long; for Jesus and His great army from heaven will be on earth shortly, to deal with the whole picture. Now saints: In order for the bride to be in heaven where John saw her, and for her to be descending with Him (Jesus) back to earth, at the end of the great tribulation period, the coming of the Lord and our gathering together unto Him,will be taking place somewhere around about the time we seethe world bringing this man of sin into his office, and delegating him to be the overseer and administrator, and the voice of the new world order everyone except the revelated bride is going to be raving about, shouting Hallelujah! Glory to God! We finally have peace in the world. They are actually going to worship the devil by doing that. By what means? Deception. Because they have no revelation of truth to go by. As we see that introducing itself, then somewhere around about that time He is coming for His Church, and taking her to glory, to be with Him during that horrible storm. Paul saw her going away; and John saw her in heaven. Then John saw her coming back to earth with Jesus, when he comes back in literally as King of kings, and Lord of lords. That is something for every true child of God to shout, Hallelujah! about.

Let us look at the scriptures that vindicate this revelation concerning the rapture of the bride before the great tribulation. We will go to Revelation 19:7, for our first verse. I would like to read the whole chapter, but will not because it is lengthy. In verse 7, it says,"Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to Him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and His wife(the Lamb's wife, and we all know who the Lamb is)heath made herself ready.(8)And to her(this bride)was granted that she should be arrayed infine linen, clean and white: for thefine linenisthe righteousness of saints.(9)And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God.(11And I sawheaven opened, and behold awhite horse; and He that sat upon him was calledFaithful and True, and in righteousnessHe doth judge and make war.(12)His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on His head were many crowns; and He had a name written, that no man knew, but He Himself.(13)And He was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: andHis name is called The Word of God.(14)Andthe armies which were in heavenfollowed Himupon white horses, clothed infine linen, white and clean.(Remember now, fine linen, white and clean is what the Lamb's wife was arrayed in, and right here, she is seen leaving heaven with Him, and riding white horses also, just like He is, coming to earth to judge what is left, at the end of the great tribulation, when all of those armies are gathered there in Israel, and they all endeavor to make war with Him; but He makes a short work of it all. Now verse 15)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. (16) And He hath on His vesture and on His thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS."He (Jesus) is already crowned, coming to earth with His bride saints that have been with Him in heaven at the marriage supper, to rule and reign for a thousand years. Notice what verse 19 says, concerning those that had gathered there for the battle of Armageddon."And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against Him that sat on the horse, and against His army.Verse 20, shows how He deals with that whole conglomeration gathered there; and that is all I will read at this time.)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."That is why John, when he was taken up into heaven, saw the bride Church in the future state. She was already there. She was clothed in fine linen, clean and white. The fine linen is the righteousness of saints. That is why in the ending of the 19th chapter, while tribulation is going on down here, people were seen dying. Yes brothers and sisters, many will have to give their life's blood in martyrdom, because they still believe in Jesus and cannot possibly deny their faith in Him and receive the mark of the beast, just to save their neck's. There will also be those Jewish saints martyred, because of the word of God they believe. Of the Old Testament yes, but remember, they were blinded to the gospel, in order for the Gentiles to have an opportunity to receive it. That is how you and I got in there among that blessed number. Hallelujah! What we want to take note of though, is that the devil is going to do his best to stamp out the existence of all who have the knowledge of God, and of Christ Jesus His only begotten Son that died for all who would believe and accept His atoning work on their behalf. We have a lot more to be thankful for than a lot of us even stop to realize; for those who have to go through that week of Daniel will either accept the mark of the beast and be damned because of it, or they will refuse to accept it and be killed for refusing. Of course, as we have pointed out many times before, there will be certain elements chosen before of God Himself, that will escape the devil's wrath during that time; and they will be conveyed into the Millennium to repopulate the world once again. Many of these will be used of God to care for those Jewish saints that have to flee from Israel when the Antichrist breaks the peace covenant and begins to slaughter everyone who believes in God. I will not go into all of that at this time; for we have covered it in various other messages; but if you will read Matthew 25:31-46, you will see that there are to be people from every nation left alive after the week of Daniel has ended, that will be gathered before the great King of kings and His queen (the bride saints) to be separated and judged, going into the Millennium. Those found worthy will be granted eternal life; but will remain in natural bodies, and will bear children throughout the thousand years of Christ's reign on earth. Naturally though, these will all be people who somehow were never faced with accepting or rejecting Jesus Christ as their Savior and Lord in this dispensation, or they would have had to be dealt with like all of the others, prior to Matthew 25. Let me say this to you who may not understand everything you hear or read in this message, Do not reject it, just lay it up somewhere until God tells you to take it down and take another look at it.

Think of it saints, right in the middle of that seventieth week of Daniel, when the old Pope of Rome has had all he can stand, of those two Jewish prophets there in Israel calling forth plagues and so forth to vindicate their ministry as servants of God, he will have them killed and declare open season on anyone who professes to believe in any god other than he himself. That is what the apostle Paul was referring to in 2nd Thessalonians, when he wrote of him saying,"Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day(the day of the rapture, referred to as, our gathering together unto Him)shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and thatman of sin be revealed,(which will be none other than that sweet, baby kissing, peace loving Pope of the Roman Catholic Church that has been selected to oversee the world's peace agreement)the son of perdition;Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God."Well that is how the Pope turns out, once the devil anoints him; and that causes the woman element of those Jewish saints to have to flee from Israel, into the place prepared of God for her to hide out for the next three and a half years, until Jesus comes from heaven to judge him and all the rest of those who are serving the devil's purpose on earth. The 144,000 Jewish servants of God will flee into the nation preaching the everlasting gospel, which warns those who do have faith in God,not to accept the mark of the beast and so forth.Their preaching is mainly responsible for that great multitude of martyrs seen in Revelation 7:9-17, made up of both Jews and Gentiles from that reign of the Antichrist on earth. Remember, in the middle of that week, here goes that part of Israel, the woman, made up of men, women, boys and girls of all ages, that God is going to preserve alive. She is going somewhere in the world to hide, while the world goes through a bloodbath like never before. During that three and one half years, the woman element of the Jews will be hiding, the 144,000 servants of God that are sealed with the Holy Ghost during the first half of that week of years will be back among the nations preaching the everlasting gospel, the political, liberal minded element of Jews will be deceived by the Antichrist, and a fourth element of Jews will be those who have remained among the nations in dispersion while others went home to Israel to wait for their Messiah. This fourth element, are the ones the 144,000 preachers flee to the nations to preach to; but the Gentile foolish virgins will hear their message also. That is what accounts for that great multitude of martyrs there in chapter 7, of the book of Revelation. Then, when the tribulation has run its course, when that last three and one half years have expired, Christ Jesus comes back to earth. This time, He will be coming to make His visible appearance. I say that, because when He comes for His Church, He comes only in Spirit form and the resurrected saints along with the living saints, are caught up to meet Him in the clouds. There will be no physical appearance of Christ at the time of the rapture; it is a secret, mystical event. That is why 1st Thessalonians does not portray Him coming in a visible form to earth. He is coming in a secret form; so the world at large will know nothing whatsoever of what is taking place. In Matthew 24:29-30, Matthew was writing of His visible return. That is when all eyes will see Him. They will run to the mountains and so forth, trying to hide from Him. That is the same coming of Christ we were looking at in the 19th chapter of Revelation earlier. He is coming with His righteous Bride, to first pour out the wrath of God upon what is left of wicked mankind. Then as He executes the wrath of God He sets up His kingdom on earth for the one thousand year reign; and that is what brings Matthew 25:31-46, into the picture, where people of all nation are gathered together and separated like sheep and goats. That is why verse 31, introduces this event in this way,"When the Son of man shall come inHis glory, and all the holy angels with him,(His bride will be with Him too.)then shall He sit uponthe throne of His glory."He has not been sitting upon the throne of His glory for the past almost two thousand years; He has been sitting on the Father's throne, in heaven, making intercession for the heirs of salvation. His visible coming, written of in these various places, is what brings Revelation 20:1-4, into fulfillment; for when He comes back, one of the first things He will do is bind the devil up so he cannot cause any more trouble. I know we have already looked at this scripture; but we are just kindly getting the whole picture pulled together here, so let us read the first four verses of chapter 20, while we are doing that. (1)"And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. (2) And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, (3) 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,(For how long? Notice)till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season."Now we come to the verse that speaks of the thrones the bride of Christ will be sitting upon; and in this same verse we see the tribulation martyrs, those that will be killed for refusing to go along with the antichrist system of rulership in that hour of time.(4) "And I saw thrones, and they(That is the Bride. They are immortal.)sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded(Do not think you have to look back to the Dark Ages, to find someone beheaded because of their faith in God. No. This is something that takes place in the great tribulation hour.)for the witness of Jesus, (Gentile foolish virgins)and for the word of God, (Jews that know not Christ, yet believe the word of God, and believe the preaching of the 144,000 servants of God that preach the everlasting gospel.)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."We see the Bride there, as them that sat on the thrones and to whom judgment responsibility was given. Yes brothers and sisters, the Church of the living God, which is the bride of Christ, is going to help judge the remnant of mortal flesh that will be preserved and saved to live under the reign of Christ in the Millennium. We are showing many of the things that are to take place on earth at the visible return of Christ to earth; and the third order, (or phase) of the first resurrection is one of those things that will take place right there; because that will bring up all the rest of those that are ordained to live and reign with Him for a thousand years. That brings us to verse 5, which lets us know that the three phases of the first resurrection has taken everything out of the ground, except the bodies of the wicked dead. They will have to remain where they are until the great white throne judgment takes place; and that will be after the Millennium has run its full course. (Revelation 20:5)"But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection."Since we are here, we may as well just finish it on out. Verse 6, says,"Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power,(The second death, or second resurrection is for the wicked of all ages; and has nothing whatsoever to do with the redeemed saints.)but they(those other saints that are raised)shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years."

When we get to the end of chapter 20, after the thousand years have expired, and read where Satan is loosed for a little season to go out upon the breadth of the earth, for the sole purpose of testing those that are born during the time he is bound, we find that he is able to deceive a great host, and lead them to surround the camp of the saints; but God intervenes before any battle is ever set in motion; and sends fire from heaven to devour them. By that time, God is ready to wipe the slate clean of all appearances of wickedness. Everything except the righteous are resurrected, judged, and cast alive into the lake of fire. The bride saints, which of course is the queen of this great King of Kings, rules and reigns over those mortals in the Millennium. Besides those that were left alive to repopulate the earth during the Millennium, there will be a numberless multitude born to them during that time. That is why Satan is loosed for a little season, after the thousand year reign, God would be an unjust God to let all thosemortal beingsgo into eternity to live forever with Christ, having never been tempted or tested as other people have had to be, back here in their period of time. They will have lived with Christ for a thousand years, knowing no tempter, knowing not the evil that we have been knowledgeable of, because the tempter has been bound. Therefore the devil is not loosed to try the immortal saints. All of them are already overcomers by then. It is just to test those who have never been tested. When he manages to deceive a great host of them, the devil tries to use them to take over. That is what verse 9, shows us."And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them."That shows us they surround the Bride's headquarters. It is Jerusalem, where Jesus, the King of kings rules and reigns. Keep in mind though, the immortal saints do not run to get their guns. There is no shots fired. Divine intervention right from heaven, ends that thing real quick. God will let the devil not only deceive them, but He allows him to lead them to such a position where they think they are going to do some great thing. Well as I said, They all have to be tested; and if they are deceived they will just have to suffer the consequences; like every other person that has ever been deceived by that same devil has. Eve was not allowed to go back and relive her past when she learned she had been deceived, she had to face the thing head on and pay the price. Not only did she have to pay the price for being deceived; but every woman born into this world since then has had to suffer because of it. Therefore when this final plot of Satan is initiated, all of the immortal saints will just stand back and watch this event, not being allowed to interfere in it; because they will know that these mortal subjects must be tested, just as they were in their period of time. Now when Satan has succeeded in bringing that mass of humanity against Jerusalem, you can read it; It says fire proceeds out of heaven and devours them. What is the next thing after that? Well the devil that deceives them will be cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where (according to Revelation 20:10) the beast and the false prophet are already; and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever. The next thing after that, at least here in the scriptures, is the great white throne judgment; and who do you see sitting upon that throne? It does not say it was Jesus; it just says it was He from whose face the earth and heaven fled away; but we should have it settled by now, that Jesus is the primary figure in this whole picture until such time as He delivers the kingdom back up to the Father. In 1st Corinthians 15:24, the apostle Paul wrote this,"Then cometh the end, when He(Jesus)shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when He(Jesus)shall have put down all rule and all authority and power." He will not do this until after redemption is completed; and everything is restored back like the Creator started it out. That means all judgment has to be finished; and the earth cleansed of everything that has defiled it. That brings 1st Corinthians 15:28, to the forefront; and after that, Jesus will no longer be King of kings and Lord of Lords; He will be our Elder Brother from then throughout eternity. Here is what it says,"And when all things shall be subdued unto Him,(Jesus)then shall the Son also Himself be subject unto Him(the Father)that put all things under Him, that God may be all in all."When Jesus sits upon the great white throne, this is where the supreme court of heaven comes into view. This is where Paul says in Corinthians, that the saints shall judge the world, even angels. When He takes that position, all the righteous saints of every age, and all the angelic beings that have served the Lord, will all take their positions in this great supreme court of heaven. Then we read, that the books were opened. What are these books? Books of deeds, they record all of our evil deeds that we have done in the flesh while living in this world. However if we have found Jesus Christ as our Saviour, those things have been blotted out from our record; and our names appear only on the book of life. Yes, saints, there is another book. Praise God for that book! We will look back to the 20th chapter of Revelation for our final words. (20:12)"And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; andthe books were opened: andanother book was opened, which isthe book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in thebooks(plural), according to their works.(20:15)And whosoever was not found written in thebook of lifewas cast into the lake of fire."What book was that? The book of Life. There is only one book of Life. Let us look at it like this though, there are chapters in it. There is a chapter for all the saints that lived before the flood; because they lived in an era of innocence, called that, because there was no written law for them to go by. After the flood and the call of Abraham and the giving of the Law, there is a chapter in there for all of those; and it is written according to the way they walked before God in the light of the Law. Then time move out of that period into the Grace Age. From those that have lived during the Grace Age, He has been calling out a people to be His Church, or His Bride, or His Queen. All of these titles apply at one time or the other. Then on the end, there has to be a chapter for all of those that will have been born in, and lived in the time of the Millennium, that did not fail God or fall for Satan's deceptive lies. There are some other words written here in the 20th chapter, that cause a question mark in the mind's of some. John saw death and hell give up the dead that were in them. Up came those from Hades, that place of torment. Out of the ground came every evil body from old Cain right on down the line. Coming right on down through the ages, we pick up Judas, we can pick up the pharaohs, we can pick up John Dillinger, Jesse James and all the rest. And death and hell were judged out of the things that is written in what? The books. Read it. The books, plural. (20:14)"And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death."(20:15)"And whosoever was not found written in thebook of lifewas cast into the lake of fire."Whosoever was not found written in the book of Life, that means standing there is that remnant of those that had been born in the Millennium. There had to be a place there for them. How many understand what I mean? You have heard me say many times, The second resurrection has no power; and that is because it is a resurrection unto judgment and destruction. There is no life in it. Death and hell was cast into where? The lake of fire. The lake of fire is somewhere else other than around this planet. That means when you read everything closing out in Revelation 20, redemption is completed. Where Christ has ruled and reigned for a thousand years, restoring everything back to its original state, He has conquered not only death, hell, and the grave, He has rid this planet of everything the devil had defiled it with, through 6000 years of his evil influence. Now the earth is completely redeemed through and by the reign of Jesus Christ.That means it is time for Revelation 21 and 22 to come into the picture.I am going to save that though; because that is where this whole series ends, when we look at the city of paradise, and show what it is. Praise the Lord! You know, saints, our president does not believe this, at least not the way we see it; but that is not going to hinder me. Hallelujah! I am just thankful to God for His love and mercy in my life. Except for that, I would be a candidate for the lake of fire myself. You would be too. Yes we have much to be thankful for. AMEN.