Revelation: Lesson 1

Overview

Foundations for Reading Revelation

Revelation is the final book of the Bible not merely because it was written last, but because it completes God's self-disclosure to His people. Nothing further will be revealed until Christ's second coming. As Hebrews 1:1-4 reminds us, God once spoke through the prophets, but in these last days He has spoken to us by His Son—the radiance of God's glory and the exact imprint of His being. The closing warning of Revelation 22:18-19 makes clear that this word is not to be added to or subtracted from. All Scripture, including Revelation, points us to Christ (Revelation 19:9-10: "the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy").

Clearing Up the Vocabulary

Two key terms shape how Revelation is read:

• Eschatology simply means the study of last things. Christians have always wrestled with what Scripture teaches about the end.
• Apocalypse is the Greek word translated "revelation." It does not mean devastation, war, or destruction—those are cultural associations. It means an unveiling, a disclosure of truth previously hidden. Paul uses the same word in Galatians 1:12 when he says the gospel was revealed to him. Picture a curtain pulled back so we can see what God wants us to know.

Why "the Rapture" Is Bad Theology

The popular notion of a secret rapture—believers silently whisked away before a tribulation—does not hold up under careful reading of Scripture. 1 Thessalonians 4:13-17 describes the Lord's return with "a cry of command, with the archangel's call, and with the sound of God's trumpet." This is the opposite of secret. Scripture consistently teaches that Christ's return will be visible and unmistakable.

Matthew 24:36-41 is also frequently misread. Jesus compares His coming to the days of Noah—and in that account, those taken were swept away in judgment, while Noah and his family were the ones left. Being "left behind," in the company of Noah, is the hopeful position, not the fearful one. The rapture scheme is built on cherry-picked verses read out of context, and it produces fear rooted in falsehood. As people of truth, we stand under the authority of God's Word.

Four Eschatological Views

• Postmillennialism holds that Christ returns after a long, figurative "millennium" during which the world grows progressively more righteous. This view flourished during the optimism of the 18th–19th centuries but waned after the world wars.
• Historic Premillennialism reads the thousand years literally: Christ returns to establish an earthly reign, during which Israel is given opportunity to receive Him as Messiah, before final judgment and the new creation.
• Dispensational Premillennialism is the most widely held view in evangelicalism today and the source of most popular end-times material. It maintains a sharp separation between Israel and the Church, splits the second coming into two stages (a secret rapture, then a public return), and reads the millennium as a literal future thousand-year reign.
• Amillennialism teaches that the "thousand years" is figurative, referring to the present age between Christ's first and second comings. Christ is reigning now at the right hand of the Father, Satan's power is restrained so the gospel cannot be stopped, and Christ will return once—visibly—to judge the living and the dead. This is the historic position of the Lutheran, Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Reformed traditions, going back to Augustine.

Why Amillennialism

The cross was not a partial victory awaiting future completion. Colossians 2:13-15 declares that Christ "disarmed the rulers and authorities and made a public example of them, triumphing over them" at the cross. Satan has already been defeated. Scripture also uses "thousand" figuratively elsewhere—Psalm 50:10 speaks of "the cattle on a thousand hills," meaning all of them, not literally hill number 1,001 belonging to someone else.

The kingdom of Christ on earth remains under the cross until the end. The day and hour are unknown—we cannot decode it from headlines or count down from a known starting point. Earthquakes, wars, and rumors of wars have always been with us. Our task is not to map current events onto prophecy but to remain ready, watchful, and anchored in hope.

Pastoral Application

Revelation is not given to frighten us or to fuel speculation. It is given to unveil the risen Christ and to comfort His people. When fear, sensationalism, or "left behind" anxiety creeps into a conversation, return gently to the Word. Our hope is not in escape from tribulation but in the empty tomb and the reigning Christ. The cross is not empty of power, and the tomb is not empty of meaning—both are empty because Jesus has already won. Read Revelation expecting to see Him.

Transcript

Lord, we thank you. 4s

We thank you that you have called us to be your own. 6s

We thank you that we know you, our risen Christ, glorified to be praised, to be honored. 10s

Lord, we thank you that you have given us your word, your word is truth, and you allow 18s

us to live and grow in and through your word every single day. 24s

Lord, we ask that you would come to us today in this time of study together, that we would 30s

know you better and know your plan of salvation, your plan for us, that began with your triumph 35s

over death, the devil, and the grave, and continues on through eternity. 46s

Lord, we thank you and we lift all of this to you in the name of Jesus. 50s

Amen. 55s

Okay. 56s

Whew, Revelation. 57s

Six weeks. 60s

Revelation. 62s

So, if you didn't know, we are not going to make it through every single word of Revelation 63s

in six weeks, but we are going to cover the whole of the book. 70s

This is one of the most, if not the most, misinterpreted, misunderstood books of the Bible. 77s

It's the last book in the Bible that doesn't necessarily mean because it was written last, 86s

but because it's the completion, it has the completion of God's revelation. 91s

Nothing further will be revealed to us until Jesus' second coming. 97s

Let's go to Hebrews, and I will tell you today we're, I should have done this like two seconds ago. 106s

Today we're going to start with kind of the purpose of revelation or not the purpose of revelation 113s

and dispelling a couple of myths and making sure we have some terms defined so that we're all on the same page 122s

when we come to the book forward from here. 130s

So, Hebrews, please open to Hebrews chapter one and verses beginning in verse one. 136s

Long ago, God spoke to our ancestors in many and various ways by the prophets, 146s

but in these last days, he has spoken to us by a son whom he appointed heir of all things, 153s

through whom he also created the worlds. 161s

He is the reflection of God's glory and the exact imprint of God's very being, 164s

and he sustains all things by his powerful word. 169s

When he had made the purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the majesty on high, 172s

having become as much superior to angels as the name, he has inherited, is more excellent than theirs. 179s

So, God, prior to Christ entering into humanity, God spoke through the prophets. 187s

We can read the prophets, we see the dreams, we just heard through Pastor Iboel's Genesis study, 195s

you know, the dreams that Joseph had. 200s

Now, God speaks through his son, Jesus, Jesus Christ is the living word of God. 203s

The word of God is where God speaks to us or how God speaks to us. 213s

Let's go over to Revelation chapter 22. 218s

So, we're like right at the end. 224s

If you find the glossary or index, then you've gone too far. 226s

Go back probably one or two pages to the last book of Revelation verses 18 and 19. 234s

I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book. 241s

If anyone adds to them, God will add to that person. 246s

The plague is described in this book. 250s

If anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, 252s

God will take away that person's share in the tree of life and in the holy city, 257s

which are described in this book. 261s

Again, this is God's revelation for us. 264s

We are not to add to it. 270s

We are not to take from it. 274s

This is God's word for us. 276s

This is how he speaks to us. 279s

Before we go any further down the revelating path, 284s

we are going to define some terms and get a few finer points straightened out. 289s

So, first of all, we're going to be talking about or using a word called eschatology or eschatological. 295s

Eschatology means the study of last things or the study of 303s

end times. 309s

Since the beginning of Christianity, Christians have been trying to piece together 311s

how the end times work, how eschatology works, 317s

and what the Bible has to say about the end. 322s

So, that's kind of what we're doing. 327s

Apocalypse. 331s

Apocalypse. 333s

What imagery does this word conjure up in your mind? 334s

And you can answer it. 337s

The end. 340s

The what? 342s

A war. 343s

Devastation. 346s

Destruction. 349s

So, these terms that we have around revelation, war, destruction, 352s

and it sounds really scary. 361s

I just want to clear up that word apocalypse for us. 363s

Apocalypse is a Greek word that's used in scripture several times. 368s

So, the first one we're going to go to is Revelation 1. 375s

Revelation 1. 379s

Verse 1. 384s

Where it says the revelation of Jesus Christ, 386s

which God gave him to show his servants what must soon take place. 389s

He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, 396s

who testified to the Word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, 400s

even to all that he saw. 404s

Let's go to Galatians. 406s

So, you're not going to go all the way to the gospels. 408s

If it goes towards Romans, Galatians is right before Ephesians. 413s

We're going to go to Galatians 1. 420s

Galatians 1 verse 12. 424s

Where Paul writes, for I did not receive it from a human source, 429s

nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ. 433s

Let's just go right down to Galatians chapter 2 verse 2, 438s

where he writes, I went up in response to a revelation, 444s

then I laid before them, though only in a private meeting with the acknowledged leaders, 447s

the gospel that I had proclaimed among the Gentiles in order to make sure that I was not running or had not run in vain. 452s

Ephesians 3. 460s

There are several instances where this word apocalypse is used. 461s

And I've only used the English version of it so far. 468s

The word apocalypse means revelation. 473s

It means revelation. 476s

So, when Paul is saying that the gospel was revealed to him, 478s

he's saying that the truth of who Jesus Christ is, 483s

the truth of who Jesus is for you and I was shown to him, 487s

was revealed to him. 492s

It has no devastation, no destruction, no end. 494s

It is a revelation. 500s

It's a revelation. 503s

So, when we think about revelation, we can think about, 504s

about like a curtain, the curtain being pulled back, 508s

and we're given a glimpse, okay? 513s

So, what God wants us to know, he reveals to us. 515s

That is apocalypse. 522s

The word apocalypse means laying bare, 525s

a disclosure of truth, instruction, concerning things before unknown, 528s

or before unknown, manifestation, appearance. 533s

What we need to keep in mind then is that all scripture points to Christ and revelation. 537s

The book of revelation is no exception. 543s

Biblical prophecy is understood only as it is centered on and lifts up Jesus. 547s

Remember, all scripture points us to Christ. 554s

All scripture points us to Christ. 558s

And we can find that in Revelation chapter 19, 562s

verses 9 and 10. 569s

And the angel said to me, write this, 572s

blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb. 575s

And he said to me, these are the true words of God. 579s

Then I fell down at his feet to worship him, but he said to me, 582s

you must not do that. 586s

I am a fellow servant with you and your comrades who hold the testimony of Jesus, 587s

worship God. 593s

For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. 594s

Okay, so apocalypse, revelation. 599s

All right, another word, the rapture. 603s

I guess that's two words, the rapture. 607s

Okay, so what imagery does that conjure up in your minds? 610s

Taken away. 617s

Christ coming down. 620s

With a sword. 624s

With a sword. 625s

Okay. 626s

I got to be honest. 628s

I was really trying to figure out, but I thought it might be too hokey. 629s

I kind of wanted to just set up a chair with some clothes and just come in and sit and see what y'all did. 633s

No, but, okay. 641s

So, we're going to just say this point, Blake. 644s

The rapture is bad theology. 647s

The rapture. 650s

You forgot we're in a Lutheran church. 653s

The rapture is bad theology. 657s

So, the texts that are used for the rapture, we're going to go to first Thessalonians. 662s

And there is purpose in setting all this up and defining the terms, because there is, 669s

there's a lot of really bad theology that is surrounded around, or that surrounds revelation. 675s

And so, I want to make sure that we're not in it. 682s

So, we're going to go to first Thessalonians. 688s

If I would tell you where to go if I could find it myself. 691s

So, you're going to go into, I'm just flipping and forgetting that I'm actually looking for something. 695s

So, we're going to go to first Thessalonians. 700s

This is in Paul's letters. 702s

So, if you're past the Gospels, past the book of Acts, past Romans, and keep going, it's the first of the tea books. 704s

So, we're in first Thessalonians chapter 4. 712s

We're going to look at verse 17. 716s

This is one of the verses that is used to support the rapture. 718s

Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up in the clouds together with them to meet the Lord in the air. 722s

And so, we will be with the Lord forever. 733s

So, the rapture is based on that idea of being caught up. 736s

This is this in some, and we're going to get to these eschatological viewpoints. 742s

But this is, some believe that this is what kicks off the tribulation. 748s

We'll get to that, I promise. 753s

Okay. 755s

This is also, if we go with that idea of rapture, which we're going to get into more, but it's supposedly a secret rapture. 757s

That, I mean, think about the series. 767s

Think about the books or the stories that have those clothes that all of a sudden there's just people are gone, and it turns out that it's the Christians that are gone, the believers that are gone, and it's that Jesus has come and secretly taken and cut up the believers to Himself before everything breaks loose. 772s

So, and that not everyone who is left behind will understand what's going on. 793s

But we need to look at that verse of 1st Sessalonians 417 in context. 801s

Remember, context is always vital to reading an understanding scripture. 807s

There is nothing wrong with using verses to support. 815s

You'll notice in, I mean, we're doing this in this class. 822s

We're using verses to lay out a correct theology to share. 825s

But it is all within the context of God's Word. 831s

So, it's never cherry picked out to support my idea or to support what I think should be. 836s

So, we need to read the 17th verse in the context of which it's given. 845s

So, we're just going to back up a couple of verses. 853s

So, Paul is writing to the Sessalonians. 857s

He's trying to give them comfort. 861s

He's telling them, don't be ignorant of what's to come. 863s

He says, for this we declare to you by the Word of the Lord that we who are alive, 868s

who are left until the coming of the Lord will by no means proceed those who have died. 874s

For the Lord Himself with a cry of command, with the archangels call, 879s

and with the sound of God's trumpet, will descend from heaven, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 884s

Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up in the clouds together with them to meet the Lord in the air, 891s

and so we will be with the Lord forever. 899s

This is very clear. 903s

When the Lord comes, we're going to know. 904s

Throughout Scripture, we are told that we are absolutely going to know Daniel chapter 7, 907s

Luke chapter 21, Mark chapter 14, Acts chapter 1, Revelation chapter 1, 915s

we are told that we will know, I have never heard a secret trumpet. 919s

We are going to know when the second coming of Christ is. 928s

Then another one that is used is Matthew, so to support the rapture. 935s

We're going to go to Matthew that is the very first book in the New Testament, Matthew chapter 24, 942s

beginning in verse 36, 952s

Matthew 24, verse 36, 962s

but about that day, this is the final, 965s

about that day, an hour, no one knows, neither the angels of heaven nor the sun, but only the Father. 968s

For as the days of Noah were, so will be the coming of the Son of man. 974s

For as in those days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, 978s

marrying and giving in marriage until the day Noah entered the ark, 982s

and they knew nothing until the flood came and swept them all away. 986s

So too will be the coming of the Son of man, then too will be in the field, 990s

one will be taken and one will be left. 995s

This is where that series gets its name. 998s

Two women will be grinding meal together, one will be taken and one will be left. 1001s

Okay, so here we have this story, I mean Jesus is telling that this is going to happen. 1008s

There will be, when he comes again in the final day, there will be those who are taken and those who are left. 1017s

But in here, it's comparing it, he's comparing it to Noah. 1028s

In the days of Noah, who was left? Noah. 1034s

And his seven family members, those were the ones that were left. 1040s

In Luke, when Jesus is telling this Luke records how, when his disciples say, 1047s

well where are they taken and he says they're taken to where the corpse is. 1055s

So the one left behind is, it's not, or the one that is taken, 1058s

is taken to where the corpse is, where the vultures are, where the eagle is. 1064s

So it's not a good thing to be taken, we want to be left behind, 1067s

we want to be in the company of Noah, right? 1076s

So the rapture is just built around really bad theology. 1079s

And I can't, I just can't stress that enough. 1087s

And every time someone in my presence brings up the rapture, I can't hold my tongue. 1091s

And I just say, that's not biblical. 1095s

Because it's scary, it's scary, and it's scary based on a lie. 1099s

And we are a people of truth. 1107s

And so we will always stand under the truth and the authority of God's word, 1112s

rapture, no. 1123s

Okay? All right. 1125s

So now we're going to talk about some eschatological views. 1127s

Oh, okay, okay. 1131s

So we're going to work through a few of them. 1133s

I've got diagrams, this is fun. 1136s

Okay. So the first one we're going to talk about is post-millennialism. 1137s

Post-millennialism. 1150s

Okay. So post-millennialism is the view that Christ will return at the end of the millennium. 1151s

The millennium is the 1,000 year reign that's spoken of in Revelation 20 verse 4. 1159s

I promise this is not the only time you're going to hear that one. 1165s

Okay. So for the post-millennialist, the 1,000 years is not literal, 1169s

but it's figurative. It's a long period of time. 1173s

Post-millennialism teaches that the current age will get better and better as we go forward until Christ comes. 1178s

Oh. 1189s

The peanut gallery is speaking up. 1191s

So after a long period of time of growing righteousness on the earth that affects every aspect of society, 1196s

then Christ will come again. 1205s

So this view really rose to prominence in the great awakening during the revivals of the American colonies in the 1720s. 1207s

Through the 1740s, it peaked in the 1800s and 1900s before the world wars. 1219s

Okay. So that's when it was really peaked. 1228s

The advances in science, the advances in education, the enlightenment, the standards of living, the industrial revolution, 1231s

all of this really, really kind of supported, like, look, life is getting better and better and better. 1239s

And so the idea that things will be better before Christ comes, it made sense to the post-millennialists. 1246s

So the diagram. So this is, so that's Jesus dying on the cross and then rising. 1258s

And then we've got the church age in which, oh, yeah, the church age. 1266s

And then we've got the millennium. 1275s

So this time period of when everything is going to get better, then we have the second coming. 1278s

And then we have eternity. 1289s

Okay. Does that make sense? 1293s

So Christ, we've got the church age. 1295s

We've got the millennium, this period, where everything is getting better, then Jesus comes again. 1298s

Okay. So then we have pre-millennialism. 1304s

And pre-millennialism is taught in two different ways. 1309s

We have the historic or classic view, and then we have the dispensationalism. 1312s

So we're going to start with the historic. 1317s

I'm going to just do that. Okay. 1319s

Okay. 1321s

Okay. So the historic pre-millennialism is the view that Christ will come back before the millennium to establish his reign on earth. 1330s

It's also a very literal translation, or interpretation, not translation, interpretation of Revelation 21 through 10 and other eschatological passages. 1339s

So it takes it in a very literal sense. 1352s

So the 1000 years are 1000 years. 1355s

In pre-millennialism, in this historic one, the Jewish people are given a second chance to repent of their sin, to accept that Jesus is indeed the Messiah. 1360s

Gentiles can surrender, then, to Christ in the millennium, and they can enter into the kingdom with un glorified bodies. 1375s

And they can have children, so that 1000 years is a time of Jesus reigning, and it's that time for the Jewish people to repent and accept Him as their Messiah. 1387s

It's a time for Gentiles to surrender to Him. 1403s

And they can still be unbelieving, but then they enter into this kingdom, and they move freely about. 1406s

They just don't have glorified bodies. 1414s

Believers would have the glorified bodies. 1417s

At the end of the 1000 years, Satan is let loose. Christ will defeat Him, and then there will be judgment, and a new heaven, and a new earth will begin as the eternal state. 1420s

So with this, we've got the tribulation, then we have the second coming, then we have a church rapture, then we have the millennium. 1432s

Then we have the last judgment, and then we have eternity. 1461s

Okay, so, yeah, so we can leave it at, hmm, that sounds good. 1470s

Okay, so then we have, hmm, then we have the dispensational pre-millennialism. 1481s

Okay. 1489s

Okay, this is, I do want to take our time on this one a little bit. 1492s

Okay. 1498s

Dispensational pre-millennialism. 1503s

Okay, so this dispensational pre-millennialism is what is most commonly held by the evangelical Christian church. 1507s

This, when you hear people talking about end times, oftentimes it's this. 1520s

It's this. This is what we're talking about with the rapture. This is what we're talking about. 1529s

So we're going to spend some time on this because chances are, chances are your friends, your family are very familiar with this. 1537s

Those who are aware of scripture but not in the word, those who are kind of outskirted, like, yeah, God is real, but they don't keep growing in faith. 1549s

Because this is so pervasive in our culture and in the Christian church at large, this is where people are getting really bad theology. 1565s

And so I guarantee you that most people are going to be familiar with this. 1576s

And so it's important to know and to have ourselves squared away so that we're not getting an arguments with people, but we can also turn to God's word and say, well, what about this? 1582s

Or have you read this? Okay. 1598s

So, this dispensationalism is also a very literal interpretation of the millennium. 1600s

Those 1000 years, it's kicked off by the rapture. So we have the rapture and then we have this 1000 years or while we have the tribulation, we'll get to the diagram. 1611s

So dispensationalists keep a very strict distinction between Israel and the church. 1622s

So post-millennialism, historic pre-millennialism and what we're going to talk about after dispensationalism, those hold that the church is. 1629s

So Israel and the church are one and we see that in scripture where we're told there is no longer Jew or Greek. 1640s

There's one body. So with dispensationalism, there is a very strict distinction. 1647s

So there are Hebrew roots movements and there's a whole nother offshoot with keeping this distinction. 1656s

Yeah, we're not even. 1668s

Okay. So the passages in scripture, speaking of what God will do for the Jewish people like in Isaiah, in Ezekiel, those are taken to be very literal and for physically for the Jewish people fulfilling the prophecies during the millennium. 1669s

So it is believed or taught that what God has promised through the prophets will literally happen for the Jewish people in that time, not in ancient time but in the time of the millennium. 1692s

Okay. The second coming of Christ will come in stages, we'll have the rapture when believers are secretly whisked away to heaven so they don't have to deal with the tribulation and so that Jesus can purify Israel. 1710s

And that Christ comes again with the church then, with those that he is called to himself or brought whisked away to judge the world and establish his kingdom on earth. 1724s

So here we have the second coming, the first second coming with the rapture. 1736s

Okay. The secret rapture, we have then the tribulation, then we have the second second coming with the church. 1753s

So those that have been raptured, oh gosh, I promise I know how to spell church. 1768s

And then we have the millennium, those thousand years, then we have the last judgment and then we have eternity. 1773s

Okay. So now we're going to get to the last eschatological viewpoint. 1788s

Okay. It's a millennialism. I'm not kneeling down anymore. Okay. 1802s

The awe that negates the millennialism in that it teaches that there will not be a literal 1000 year reign of Christ on earth. 1824s

Instead, Christ is reigning now at the right hand of God. 1837s

The 1000 years are referring figuratively to the period between Christ's first and second coming. So we are in that time period. 1844s

We are in when Christ is reigning at the right hand of God. Revelation 20 verses 2 and 3, Satan's power is being reduced. 1856s

He can't stop God's word from going forth. And we have to remember, because some of these others, you know, like, it's that Christ will come again to defeat Satan. 1870s

If Christ will come again to defeat Satan, then that means that Satan has not yet been defeated. That means that that's nothing. 1886s

What's the point of this if it did not defeat Satan? 1901s

So we have the cross. If we go to Colossians chapter 2, so if we're in Mark right now, we're going to just go to the right. 1907s

Colossians chapter 2, after the book of Acts, after Romans, 1st and 2nd Corinthians, right before the tea books. 1917s

Colossians chapter 2, beginning in verse 13. 1924s

And when you were dead in trespasses and the unsurcondcision of your flesh, God made you alive together with him. When he forgave us all our trespasses, erasing the record that stood against us with its legal demands, he set this aside nailing it to the cross. 1930s

Pay attention here, verse 15. He disarmed the rulers and authorities and made a public example of them triumphant over them in it. 1948s

Bless you. He defeated Satan upon the cross. 1961s

So when Christ comes again, it will be to judge the earth. Jesus tells of signs of the 2nd coming, signs that have happened and continue to happen. 1967s

We are warned to always be ready because Christ could come at any moment. 1980s

Signs have been happening. There have been earthquakes. There have been wars. There have been rumors of wars. And that has been going on forever. 1989s

Right? So if we sit down with the newspaper and with the Bible trying to decipher how it's lining up, we're going to be messed up. 2003s

We can't do that. We cannot do that. 2021s

This view does not read Revelation as a chronological or linear book. So it's not like this happens. It's not read like that. 2025s

But instead, John is cycling through the same. So it's kind of like a spiral staircase where he's coming back around those same events, primarily the end of the world from different angles. 2035s

A gust in in the 400s is referred to as the father of all millennialism. A lot of the church does still hold to this. 2049s

Roman Catholics hold to this Eastern Orthodox, reformed and the Lutheran church. So if anyone asks you, you can either say that you are an all-millennialist or a millennialist. 2058s

That is different than a millennial. Unless you are a millennial. I don't know. But anyway. 2071s

So I'm going to take two more minutes because we're going to come back to this 1,000 years. 2079s

And why this 1,000 years is figurative. So if we go to Psalm and we're only, I've got a couple of verses here, but we're going to just do the, I totally stole this from someone else. 2086s

It's just hilarious though. So go to Psalm 50. This is, if you open your book to the middle or open your Bibles to the middle, you're going to find Psalms and find Psalm 50. 2098s

Okay. And we're going to look at verse 10. So God is saying that everything is mine. Okay. And he says, for every wild animal of the forest is mine, the cattle on 1,000 hills. 2116s

Okay. So this is what I stole from someone else because it's so funny. 2129s

So if we're taking this literal, this 1,000 literal, then that means that the cows on 1,000 hills are gods, but then the 1,000 first. 2133s

Someone else has that cow. Okay. So that is not, it's figurative. It's a use of language. There's also Psalm 90 verse 4. There's second Peter chapter 3 verses 8 through 10. 2143s

The 1,000 years is figurative. Scripture clearly teaches, and we teach accordingly that the kingdom of Christ on earth will remain under the cross until the end of the world. 2158s

Acts 14, 22, John 16, 33, and 18, 36. Luke 9, 23. I've got a lot of Bible verses here. The second coming, it will be a visible coming of the Lord. It will be his final advent, his coming to judge the quick and the dead, the living and the dead. 2175s

I've got a bunch of verses for that too. There will be one resurrection of the dead. The time of the last day is and will remain unknown. 2196s

It would not be the case if the last day were to come 1,000 years after the beginning of a millennium. Then we would all know because we could count. 2208s

There will be no general conversion, a conversion and mass of the Jewish nation. According to many very clear passages in Scripture, we reject millennialism. We reject it because it contradicts Scripture. 2218s

It also gives a false conception of the kingdom of Christ. It turns the hopes of Christians to earthly things. When our hope is not only the cross, but the cross is empty, the tomb is empty. 2237s

Our hope is in the risen Christ. Our hope is secured in that. So, omelennialism is church age, second coming for the judgment. 2258s

And then eternity continues because we know that even today is but one day in all of eternity. 2280s

So, we will be studying revelation from this omelennialist perspective. We're going to use this viewpoint. We'll continue to pull out. 2291s

I know I'm going to have way more Scripture than what we have time for, which is not a problem, but that's a really good exciting thing to have. 2305s

So, we're going to continue with this for the next five weeks. I really appreciate you guys digging in and diving in. It is, it's a lot. 2313s

But I think we're going to have a lot of fun with this study. So, thank you so much. Amen and amen. 2323s

Amen. 2337s