Preached on April 28 AM & April 30 AM

 

 

This morning as I was reading my Bible, I read over some scriptures that I had read earlier this week. I want to expound on these things this morning. May the Lord bless us and give us understanding of His Word and an understanding of what His will and purpose is for this hour. There is no doubt that God has raised up and anointed a ministry for this hour. It is good to be able to speak in unity with my ministering brothers. We believe the Word; we believe it ALL. Isaiah Chapter 28 speaks of “…precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little.” The ministry is getting the minds of His people to a level where they can understand what God is doing and what is the word for this hour. I will title this series “The Millennium.” I have preached on the Millennium many different times, but I have never really finished the subject. I have more understanding on it now, especially as I have been reading in the Book of Micah.

 

Israel: Watch and See!

 

Micah is a book that starts with the demise of Israel and finishes with the might of Israel. As you read in different books of the Bible you find that there are many rebukes of Israel. There are many times where Israel is rebuked. In the Books of the Kings, the Chronicles, all the minor and the major prophets, there are rebukes. Such as when Isaiah and Jeremiah lived. Isaiah lived in the time when Israel was carried away to Assyria in the north. Assyria was a very large empire. Today it would cover from the country of Syria to far north of the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers. It was a very strong nation and the first to put Israel in bondage. That is, Israel as a nation of the ten northern tribes, but not the two southern tribes. Later, during the time that Jeremiah lived; Babylon conquered the two southern tribes. There were two invasions, one that took Israel, the ten tribes, away to Assyria. Then over time the ten tribes were scattered throughout the earth. Then when you come to the scriptures where Judah is carried away to Babylon, that is pertaining to the two southern tribes. Judah and Simeon and some of the others were included in that, especially the Levites and some of the Benjamite people. They had two different invasions which were more than a hundred years apart. God was still dealing with Judah (the two southern tribes) in the land after the ten northern tribes (then known as Israel) had been taken away. We are not going into the details of that, but I thought I should refresh your mind on the history and why some of the things are like they are. The two southern tribes dwelt in the areas of Judea and Samaria and on into different parts of the land of Israel after the ten northern tribes were taken away. Isaiah was the major prophet living when the ten northern tribes were taken to Assyria around 734-715 BC. Jeremiah was the major prophet living when the Babylonian Empire conquered and carried away the two southern tribes around 605-582 BC. You have a difference there in time of more than one hundred years. The ten northern tribes became scattered throughout the world after the fall of Assyria. The two southern tribes were kept in bondage from the time of Nebuchadnezzar to the time of Cyrus. Then they were allowed to return to their land and begin to rebuild. A few from the northern tribes also returned then, but the majority of those ten tribes were “lost” until recent years when they did come back to live in Israel. Today they mostly live in big cities like Tel Aviv. Many of the big cities in Israel are politically liberal just like the big cities in the United States. But when you come to Jerusalem, that is a different place altogether because that is where God is going to be dealing. We believe that God will declare very soon that the war for Israel to get all her land back should start. Less than one month from now, on May 14, 2023, Israel will celebrate seventy-five years as a nation. There are already celebrations starting. You have to wonder what the Muslims are going to do when Israel begins to celebrate their seventy-fifth year of being a nation. On May 15, 1948, just one day after becoming the State of Israel, six Arab countries attacked Israel from every direction. You never know what is going to happen. Just watch to see what happens.

 

The Mountain of The Lord

 

Let us go to the book of Micah. Micah covers many different things in a short book. But Micah Chapter 4 and part of Chapter 5 tells the story of the Millennium. (Then near the end of Chapter 7 [Verse 11] there is a great marker in the life [history] of Israel as a nation). Beginning in Chapter 4, Verse 1, “But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it.” This will be the time when the Millennium begins. I will continue to read the rest of this chapter and part of Chapter 5 to show you why certain things were written as they were. “And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; (Why would they call it “the mountain”? Because this is Mount Zion. On this mountain is where Israel established her kingdom. Mount Zion covers four or five different hilltops. Mount Scopus and others. This is more of a heap [mound], not a big mountain. But when they build the temple, which will be more than ninety feet tall as it was before, it will be seen from all directions. They built that first temple out of Jerusalem stone. From a distance the stone had a reddish or pinkish tint to it. When the sun shined on that stone, it appeared to have a reddish glow). Let me go over Verse 2 again. “And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.” This is in the Millennium. The natural people of the earth from all nations will receive the foundation of the teachings of God from Jerusalem. Especially the Jewish people. God establishes His Word for Judaism again, but it is required that every nation go to Jerusalem once a year. As we have read before in Zechariah Chapter 14, the nations that do not go will receive no rain for that year. This will be their punishment. Verse 3, “And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.” This will go on throughout the Millennium, but at the end of the thousand years the nations will have weapons again. There is still that serpent seed spirit in the Millennium that is out to do something against the nation of Israel. Everybody does not receive the word of the Lord. They are forced to come to Jerusalem every year, to get rain to grow food. But they do not come because they want to receive the word.

 

Idol Worship in The Millennium

 

I now see something in these next verses that I have read over before without realizing just why Micah would say what he does. I want to read from Verse 4, “But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken it.” This fifth verse will tell us something if we look at it right. “For all people will walk every one in the name of his god, (Yes, this is in the Millennium, but there are [serpent seed] people who continue to worship idols! It says, “in the name of his god” (notice the lowercase “g”). The idol worship does not stop in the Millennium. You will see what I mean when we get to Revelation Chapters 19 and 20. I did not understand this at first because it said they will walk in the name of their god, (but they are small “g” gods). The nations will still have their idol worship during that time, but they will be forced to come to Jerusalem to honor the God of Jacob [Israel] against their will. They are forced to do this, but they still believe in other things.) Let me read Verse 5 again, “For all people will walk every one in the name of his god, (Not in the name of the Lord, in the name of his god. Now look at what it says in the second part of this verse.) and we will walk in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever.” That second part is talking about the Jewish nation and those Gentile nations that have sided with Israel. There will be [good] nations that are still holding on to what they once believed. As I said, Revelation 19 and 20 will explain this.

 

The Millennium Will Be The Final Test for Natural Man

 

Verse 6, “In that day, saith the Lord, will I assemble her that halteth, (He will force all the nations to assemble. Their idea at that time is to “halt” or rebel against the requirement to come to Jerusalem every year because when you halt something, you are stopping it.) and I will gather her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted;” [This is a different group of people. “Her that is driven out” and “her that I have afflicted” refers to Israel. We will come back to that]. Verse 7, “And I will make her that halted a remnant, (The rebellious nations again. This is where the Bride comes in. The Bride will be throughout those nations, and they will force the word of the Lord upon them. We are not just going to heaven to live on clouds. We are going there to learn how to rule and reign. Then returning to Earth to rule and reign as the Bride of Jesus Christ. She is not just His Bride for a brief marriage ceremony, she is His Wife for the Millennium, and she will carry out His duties in rulership. The Bride (as a whole) will be exactly as Jesus Christ, only in smaller settings throughout the world. She will be His wife during the Millennium, not just seven years, but through the entire Millennium. She will carry out His duties worldwide by receiving the word of the Lord as it goes forth from Jerusalem. The law will also go forth from there. Why would it say the law? Because there is a law in the word of God that is going to force people to do what is against their will in the Millennium because the Millennium is the final time of getting things straightened out. As you will see as we continue in these scriptures.) and her that was cast far off a strong nation: (That is talking about Israel. She was driven out, afflicted, and cast off, but she will be a strong nation.) and the Lord shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever.” For ever is a period of time, which will be the Millennium. After the white throne judgment, you go into the eternal age, when Jesus Christ will be our elder brother. God does away with all of this ‘nonsense’ at the white throne judgment [Revelation 20:11-15]. We will need no more law because that is all over. Everybody that goes into that eternal age will know the Lord and know His will. Verse 8, “And thou, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem.” He is talking about the Israeli nation.

 

The Babylonian Captivity

 

In Verses 9 and 10 Micah is prophesying of a time coming much sooner to the time when he lived. He is changing the subject to when Judah will be taken captive to Babylon around 600 BC. Verse 9, “Now why dost thou cry out aloud? is there no king in thee? is thy counsellor perished? for pangs have taken thee as a woman in travail. Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, (He is talking about the Jewish people.) like a woman in travail: for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go even to Babylon; there shalt thou be delivered; there the Lord shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.”  

 

After The Millennium

 

Verse 11, “Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion. But they know not the thoughts of the Lord, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor. Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the Lord, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth.” This scripture goes with Revelation 20: [7-9] which happens after the Millennium is over.

 

The Day of Israel’s Revival

 

Now let us go over to Micah, Chapter 5, Verses 10 through 15. “And it shall come to pass in that day, (That is a certain time, “in that day.” Not a day of 24 hours.)  saith the Lord, that I will cut off thy horses out of the midst of thee, and I will destroy thy chariots: And I will cut off the cities of thy land, and throw down all thy strong holds: And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; (He is talking about Israel. There are many people in Israel today that need to be taught something because they have not learned very well. [The two prophets will teach them in the first half of the seventieth week]). and thou shalt have no more soothsayers: Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy standing images out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thine hands. And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities.” [The cities where they have worshipped these images.]

 

Armageddon Fought, Then Our Return With Christ

 

Verse 15, “And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen, such as they have not heard.” The “heathen” are the armies of the beast after Armageddon.

 

Now let us read in Revelation Chapter 19, starting with Verse 17. “And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God.” This goes along with [Micah 5:15 that we just read]. “That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.” In Verse 19 the armies of the beast have defeated the armies of the kings of the East at Armageddon and now the beast thinks he can make war with Jesus Christ and His Bride. “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.” Armageddon will be the last war that is ever fought. There will not be a war fought in the Millennium. As I said earlier, at the end of the Millennium the rebellious nations will have weapons again and they will be gathered together against Jerusalem. But God strikes them down before fighting can ever happen, just like He does here to the armies of the beast. Now Verse 20, “And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, (When he says, “that wrought miracles,” he is not talking about miracles of healing. He is talking about military miracles. You see that in Revelation Chapter 11 when the beast out of the bottomless pit [Verse 7] enters into the false prophet, and he makes war against and kills the two prophets.) 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.” Those are the spirits of the false prophet and the beast that are cast into the lake of fire, so that they will never be seen again. They will never have power again. Their spirits are destroyed over time. As the Bible says, “for ever,” which is a period of time. But their dead bodies will remain in the ground until the great white throne judgment. But there will be another appearance of the devil after the Millennium, as we just read in Micah Chapter 4. Then he will join the beast and the false prophet in the lake of fire. Verse 21, “And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, (The sword is His word; a two-edged sword.) which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.”

 

Satan Bound During
The Millennium

 

Now, to connect us back to what I have gone over in Micah Chapter 4, let us read Revelation Chapter 20. Verse 1, “And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.” John is not speaking of a physical key and chain. He is speaking here of the authority to bind Satan and hold him in a place where he cannot deceive the nations again for those one thousand years. “And he laid hold on the dragon, (The dragon represents that spirit that came up over two thousand years ago which was headed by the Roman Army). that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,” Now he is no longer in charge during the Millennium. But as we read in Micah, even though the devil is not in charge, you still have serpent seed in the hearts of people that are born to the ones that were brought through the tribulation time as natural people. These must be tested and tried. That is the reason the Law will be followed in Israel. They are subject unto the principles of God. But there will be many nations during the Millennium that will not adhere to the law. They will go along with the principles only because otherwise (as it speaks about in Zechariah Chapter 14) they would starve without rain to grow food. Verse 3, “And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should not deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.” This is after the Millennium is over because he is shut up one thousand years. Then when the Millennium is over, he is loosed for a little season to get his army together. At that time there will be many people on the earth and many of those will be unbelievers. This is what I understand from Micah, where it says that they would walk in the name of their god, but we will walk in the name of our Lord. Those who walk in the name of the Lord will be the Bride, the immortal nation of Israel, the natural Jewish remnant, and the natural Gentile sheep people. The natural remnant, and the sheep people will be great in number. By the end of the Millennium there will be many more of them than at the beginning.

 

Those of
The First Resurrection

 

Verse 4, “And I saw thrones, (Why would he see thrones? Somebody is sitting on them.) and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: (The Bride is going to be sitting on thrones. They are the ones who have seen what has gone on throughout these Gentile nations that they will be judging. But when you go into the eternal age (which you read about in Revelation Chapter 22) the judging will be all over. Then the tree of life will be in their midst. You will see the healing of the nations by the leaves, and by the fruit of the tree of life. There will be no more of what you see in Revelation 20, judgment is all over. As we have gone over the eternal age in Revelation 21 before [Verses 1 and 3 through 7], Christ will turn over the kingdom to God and become our elder brother.) Verse 4 again, “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, (Speaking of both Gentiles and Jews.) and which had not worshipped the beast,  neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; (Referring back to the last three and one half years of the seventieth week). and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.” This is the beginning of the Millennium. “But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.” The first resurrection includes all the dead saints beginning with the Old Testament saints that arose shortly after the resurrection of Jesus Christ, through the Jew and Gentile saints that died during tribulation and everything else. These are all counted as first resurrection. Verse 6, “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, (He is talking about the ones that did not make it as Bride, but they will be priests in the kingdom). and shall reign with him a thousand years.” They are going to reign with Him, but not in the capacity of the Bride.

 

Satan Loosed for
A Little Season

 

Let us look closely at these next four verses. Verse 7, “And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,” That is for a little season. “And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, (The phrase “Gog and Magog” speaks of a spirit of atheism just like in Russia. The government and most of the people there do not believe in God. This has nothing to do with the beast and the false prophet. The beast is the old European nations, but includes other nations around them. Of course, the false prophet is the final pope that raises himself up to be a world ruler. Daniel Chapter 11 says that he no longer recognizes the God of his fathers. In other words, he does not recognize Jesus Christ. The Catholic church recognizes Jesus as Lord, but they do not serve Him in truth). Verse 8 again, “And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, (This pertains to the spirit of not believing in God that enters into the rebellious mankind going through the Millennium. That is why I read Micah Chapter 4. It says that every man will be worshipping his god, but we will worship the Lord our God). to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.” These nations from around the whole earth will be coming to Jerusalem to try to take over. Because Jerusalem is the headquarters of the great Jehovah during the time when Jesus Christ rules. Verse 9, “And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: (Do you understand where that is? “They went up on the breadth of the earth and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city.” That is Jerusalem). and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.” I told you there would be no more wars after Armageddon because this is not a war. They come to make war, but God takes care of them. Verse 10, “And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.” This refers to a period of time. Nobody will be eternally punished, not even the devil. But he will be punished “for ever and ever,” which is a period of time. Bro. Branham mentioned that. He said it might take as long as it would take a bird to fly back and forth to the sea and take a beak full of water out until the sea was empty. It might be that long, but there is an end to every evil. The kingdom goes back to God and all evil will finally be dissolved; it will be no more. There will be no more war or anything of evil, not even a thought of evil. This is it. God is going to take all evil away. I wanted to bring this out because God gave me this message over the last few days. May God bless you. Prayer.

 

April 30, 2023
AM Service

I just started on this new subject one sermon ago, but I want to go back over some of the things that I preached in that sermon. I want everyone to have an understanding of where we are in time. I believe that by the Word of God that we will know the time that we are in. It is not a pretty picture in the world, but we are not part of the world. If you are a part of the world today, then you are not a part of those that believe in Christ. I am not saying that you cannot get there, but I am saying that the ministry is speaking so much against the things of the world that you should not be so interested in those things.

 

The Message Is All
About Living Right

 

I am going to go back over some scriptures for our benefit. There are things that I have dealt with in the past, but I did not have the complete picture on them until I began to read in different scriptures, especially in Micah. When you read Isaiah and the other Old Testament prophets, you are going to find that not only do they bring out prophesies about the time of Jesus Christ but also prophesies that are really for our last day. From Micah Chapter 4, the whole chapter and part of Chapter 5. As I said, this is a refresher for some, but there are others who have not heard this message before. Today this message is going around the World and has been for years. But it is going into dark places that have never been penetrated before. There are other places that no longer want to hear it and have shut off the message. Yet there are some that were very close to us that had not been listening for months, but they have come back. Praise the Lord for that! If you are a person who feels like things are not what they should be, do not get disturbed. It is not as it would seem to be. Because the scripture is very plain about what Jesus Christ did and what He will do in this hour of time in which we live. Everything in the Old Testament, even the law, was pointing unto Jesus Christ. If you take Him out of the picture, you do not have a picture. In First Peter Chapter 3 [Verses18-22] Peter talks about Jesus preaching to the spirits of those from the days of Noah that were in prison [Hell]. Peter was thinking of the many people that had been in prison for a very long time, since they perished in the flood. Jesus did not go there to save them; He went as a witness. Noah had already been their witness when they were alive, but they were disobedient and corrupt. The Bible says that Noah was a preacher of righteousness. In other words, he was a preacher of right living. That is what the message is all about.

 

Baptism In The
Name of Jesus Christ

 

That same chapter of First Peter talks about water baptism [Verse 21]. You being baptized is what acquaints you with the Grace of God. If you do not understand baptism, you will not understand the rest of it because it will be hidden from you. No apostle ever preached a trinity form of baptism. Never. I first heard this message in 1961 when I was going to school in the Methodist Church. When I read Matthew 28:19 and first had it explained to me, I immediately understood that baptism in the name of Jesus Christ was the right way. A man had come to my house that usually did not come to my house. But he came that time and explained baptism to me. He said that it is not in the “names” [plural] of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, but in the “name.” Jesus said there in Verse 19, “…baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.” Earlier in time, Jesus had said [John 5:43], “I am come in my Father’s name…” No other name will do it. When I first heard it, I understood it very much. In the NAME of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Because he explained to me that Father is not a name, Son is not a name, and Holy Ghost is not a name. I remember Bro. Branham going over that. He said, “I am a father, I have a son, but that is not my name, my name is William Branham.” To me, this is self-explanatory if it is preached in the right way with the right motive.

 

In The Last Days

 

In Micah Chapter 4, Verse 1 starts with “But in the last days…” He is prophesying many years ahead into our time and beyond. In Matthew and many other places in the New Testament where it talks about “the last days,” it is explaining what it will be like in our time. We are given many scriptures in both the Old and the New Testaments on the Millennium, and quite a little bit on the eternal age. We are beginning to realize just how much we do have in the Bible on these subjects. As we go deeper into this series we will be dealing more with the eternal age also. People read Revelation Chapter 21 and think that it is all talking only of the Bride, but as we have taught before, Verses 1 and 3 through 7 are talking about the eternal age. And Verse 8 deals with what God will do at the end of the Millennium at the final judgment. Let us read now starting with Micah 4:1, “But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow into it.” People from all over the world shall flow into Jerusalem. As I have explained, not everybody is going to believe. There will be unbelievers in the Millennium. I have gone into Revelation Chapter 20 how that immediately after the Millennium, Satan is let loose for a little season to gather those unbelievers against Jerusalem. Verse 2, “And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.” Jerusalem is going to be the headquarters of the Millennial Age. It will not be Washington, D.C. or New York City. It will not be in Spain, or Italy, or surely not in the Vatican. It is not going to be scattered across the world. The word of the Lord is going to go forth from Zion and from Jerusalem, which both speak of the same place. When you are speaking of Zion, you are speaking of the center of worship for the Jewish people [ruled by the Jewish apostles]. When you are talking about Jerusalem, that is the city that God chose as the world capital. But the Bride of Jesus Christ is different. They will be forcing the word of the Lord upon the people throughout the world as time goes on. The Bride is not just a handful of people that will have some minor authority. The Bride is going to be the people of the Millennium that will carry the message unto the ends of the earth. As the message goes forth from Zion and Jerusalem directly to the Jewish nation, then the Bride carries the message to the ends of the world. As the Millennium goes on, you have children born to the sheep people who will grow up and have children, and their children will have children, and so on for many generations. It is not the sheep people, but many of their offspring that the Bride will have to force to obey the word of the Lord. You can read in Zechariah [Chapter 13:2-3] that a child will die at a hundred years of age because they will not listen, and their parents will be forced to take the life of their child. That is going to be a sad picture. In Revelation 21 [Verse 4] it tells you that “God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.” That is not talking about the Bride nor is it talking about the foolish virgins. That is talking about the parents and families of those young people that were unwilling to follow God. He is going to wipe their tears away after the Millennium is over because they are going to understand what it is all about at that time. That is how the tears will be wiped away. By God giving them an understanding that death, sorrow, crying, and pain shall all be passed away. Verse 3, “And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; (That is talking about the Gentile nations far away from Jerusalem). and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: (Jesus Christ and the Bride are going to force that). nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.” This will take place throughout the Millennium. I have shown you in Revelation Chapter 20 that at the end of the Millennium they will come against Jerusalem. They will come against Jerusalem to destroy it. That must be unregenerate people.

 

The Jewish Nation
Will Keep The Law

 

The Jewish nation has never fully observed the law, but in the Millennium the law will be adhered to by the Jewish people. That is why the law goes forth from Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. Because it is a law of the sacrificing of animals and other requirements which they never kept. God is going to put in the hearts of the Jewish nation a desire to keep the law. As you read in the Old Testament you find that God has judged Israel (both the northern and southern tribes) because they did not keep the law. But He is going to bring them back to the law, that will serve the Jewish nation for those thousand years. Why would there be animal sacrifice? Because it all points back to Christ. That is what it is all about, it is all coming back to what He did for the human race. They are going to realize why He died for them. In Zechariah, those two prophets are going to see a vision of the Lord. The Jewish people that are there are going to realize that they have missed something. They will look upon Him whom they have pierced. Then they will ask Him, “Where did you get the scars in your hands?” That is speaking of His crucifixion and the soldier that put the spear in His side. All of this will be shown unto them to make them realize that He was their Messiah, and they missed it. Then they will understand through the ministry of the two prophets.

 

All Are Not Believers

 

I will read on in Micah Chapter 4, Verse 4, “But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; (This is talking about Israel.) and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken it. For all people will walk every one in the name of his god…” This was something that puzzled me for years, but when I began to look at it along with Revelation Chapter 20, I then knew that all the people in the Millennium will not believe in Jesus Christ. The Gentile nations are forced to go to Jerusalem, otherwise God will cut off their rain for that year [See Zechariah 14]. Only because of their fear of that punishment are they made willing to go to Jerusalem once a year for the Feast of Tabernacles. Of the three feasts that require a trip to Jerusalem mentioned in Leviticus Chapter 23, the Feast of Tabernacles is the one feast that has never been fully executed. The other two feasts [Passover and Pentecost] have been fulfilled. But this one has never been adhered to, but it will be in the Millennium. Many of the Gentile nations will gladly come to the feast, but others will be forced to come. The Feast of Tabernacles commemorates the time of the children of Israel dwelling in tents in the wilderness. They build “booths” of tree branches and live in them for seven days to worship Him, rejoicing and celebrating in The Lord. Many times, in the wilderness, their tents were made of just piled up branches because they did not know how long they would be in that place. Whenever it was time to move, God lifted the cloud away from the tabernacle and the cloud began to move. They had to follow that cloud until it set still, then they had to stop.

 

God Gives
Jesus Christ Rulership
In The Millennium

 

As Paul wrote in his epistles, these are examples for us to live by. Verse 5 again, “For all people will walk every one in the name of his god, and we (Speaking of the natural children of Israel, also the good people of the natural Gentile nations.) will walk in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever.” We know that is the one-thousand-year period of the Millennium. Beyond the Millennium is the eternal age. Verse 6, “In that day, saith the Lord, will I assemble her that halteth, and gather her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted; and I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation: and the Lord shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever.” Again, this is the Millennium. Jesus rules throughout the Millennium. God gives Jesus the rulership because He gave His life for man. Throughout the Millennium, Jesus is the example unto Israel and the nations, even though many do not accept it. After that, we will go into the eternal age when Jesus Christ becomes our elder brother. This is something Bro. Jackson taught. Jesus becomes our elder brother, and we are His brethren. In the eternal age, God will be our Ruler. Verse 8, “And thou, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem.” The Word of God puts much emphasis upon Jerusalem and upon Zion. It will be on Mount Zion where the natural city of Jerusalem will be brought into relationship with the region of Zion.

 

In Verses 9 and 10 Micah inserts a prophecy of the Babylonian captivity of the two southern tribes around 600 B.C. Verse 9, “Now why dost thou cry out aloud? Is there no king in thee? Is thy counsellor perished? For pangs have taken thee as a woman in travail. Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, (Speaking of the Jewish people.) like a woman in travail: for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go even to Babylon; there shalt thou be delivered; there the Lord shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.”

 

Verse 11, “Now also many nations are gathered against thee, (Speaking of after the Millennium when the deceived nations compass Jerusalem.) that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion. But they know not the thoughts of the Lord, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor. Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the Lord, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth.”

 

God Will Destroy
All Idol Worship

 

Now let us read in Micah Chapter 5 starting in Verse 10. “And it shall come to pass in that day, (That is a particular period of time. It does not mean just one day, but in that “time.” There must be a point marked in time that people can recognize what is taking place.) saith the Lord, that I will cut off the horses out of the midst of thee, and I will destroy thy chariots.” I read over in Nahum Chapter 2 the other day where it said in the end time the chariots will run like lightning, and they will seem like torches (the headlights), and they will jostle one against the other in the streets. Does that not speak of our day? If not, I do not know when it could be. Those are not horsedrawn chariots, those are chariots of cars, trucks, and everything else running on our highways today. Verse 11, “And I will cut off the cities of thy land, and throw down all thy strong holds: And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers:” Israel has trusted in witchcrafts and soothsayers down through time. Some parts of Israel, such as Tel Aviv, are Godless places. Tel Aviv (much like New York City and others) is a major city of homosexuality in the world. Where they have turned themselves over to that lifestyle, which God hates. God does not agree with that lifestyle whatsoever! But those cities will be forced to turn to God. Today the whole world is against God. The government that we now have in the United States [2023] is not honoring Jesus Christ. Jonathan Cahn has spoken many times at the National Prayer Breakfast. There are usually several members of the Senate and House of Representatives in attendance. This year they said that there was not a single member of the Democratic Party present. We have a two-party system; I am not bragging on either one of them. Senator Mitch McConnell from Kentucky claims to be a Republican, but he should just as well change parties the way he believes. He goes along with and votes for things that are not right. He voted with the Democrats for the debt limit to be raised. We have brothers and sisters here from Kentucky, but I am not worried about you because I know you agree with me. Verse 13, “Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy standing images out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thine hands. And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities.” The Bible makes a mockery of man who worships images that he has made by his own hand [Habakkuk Chapter 2]. He said that they will go out in the forests and cut down a tree. Then they will put gold and silver on it, and they will hew [carve] it into a beautiful thing. But it does not say anything, it just sets there with no life, and they fall down and worship it without getting any answer.

 

To summarize what we have read from Micah 5, Verses 10-14: By the time the Millennium starts, God will have cut off all the idol worship that has gone on for thousands of years, but idol worship will slowly come back during the Millennium through the serpent seed people born in that time. Then at the end of the Millennium all worship of other gods will be destroyed.

 

When we go into the eternal age (as we read in the beginning of Revelation Chapter 22) the tree of life will be there to wipe out death for eternity. The tree of life is not something growing out of the ground, it never has grown out of the ground. If Adam and Eve had not sinned by partaking of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, then God would have brought them to the place in time when Eve would be able to conceive and bear children and those children would have had eternal life. This was the promise of God. But God told them not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, but they did. I have said before, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil had both good and evil in it, but they took the evil. If they had chosen the good, then all the children who would have been born to Adam and Eve would have eternal life given to them by God. But the serpent was more subtil than all the beasts of the field. He had a voice, he talked to Eve, but after all this was over, he became just a slimy snake. He is out there somewhere today because you read that in Isaiah Chapter 65.

 

Satan Loosed to
Test Those Born
In The Millennium

 

Let us finish Micah Chapter 5. Verse 15, “And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen, such as they have not heard.” That is what He will do to the heathen after Armageddon and again at the end of the Millennium. Now we will go to Revelation Chapter 20. This does not give a complete report of His vengeance, but it will help you to understand what I am looking at. Starting with Verse 1, “And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.” This is figurative, the devil will be shut up and cast into hell. But he will not yet be in the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the final destruction of everything ungodly. When even death and hell are cast into the lake of fire, and all the people that God does not recognize as His go into that lake of fire, then they are going to be destroyed over different lengths of time. All of them are not burned up at the very beginning. For example, the devil is going to stay there for a very long time until God is through with His judgment upon him because of what he did. The devil thought that he would be the main one over the universe, but God showed him different. Verse 2, “And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years.” The dragon is first mentioned in Revelation Chapter 12 then in Chapters 13 and 16, but here in Chapter 20 is the last time he is referred to as the dragon because he is cast into the lake of fire near the end of this chapter. It is all inspired by the devil. Satan inspires that Catholic spirit and the spirit of the denominational systems because they never would genuinely believe what Jesus Christ did. Now they want to do away with the blood, they want to do away with the Bible, they accept homosexuality… But Satan will be bound throughout the entire one thousand years of the Millennium. Verse 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, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed for a little season.” Why is he loosed? Because these people that were born in the Millennium have never been tested and tried. As the Millennium goes on, many of them will die. They die by the hands of their parents, or they die by some other means. God gives them opportunity to change their life until they are one hundred years old. If they do not change, He just takes their life away from them.

 

The Bride Will Be
Judges in The Millennium

 

Verse 4, “And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: (The thrones are for the Bride.) and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, (This is a different group. This includes not only the foolish virgins but also those down through the ages of time who died before they had time to meet the requirements of being Bride. They never reached the conditions for being the Bride. We must be fruit bearing people to be Bride, and they never did bear fruit.) and for the word of God, (Speaking of Jewish people.) 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.” They reign with Him but not in the capacity of the Bride. The Bride must go into the Millennium knowing something about how to judge. Judgment is given unto the servants of God (those that lived and bore fruit for God) that must make decisions in the Millennium. The Bride must make decisions not for flesh, not for friends. This judgment is delegated equitably by God based upon the position you hold in the Bride. It is the Bride who will be the judges. We will have the word of the Lord because it goes forth from Jerusalem. As we have read in Revelation Chapter 21, we are that great spiritual city of Jerusalem coming down from God out of heaven. Revelation 20, Verse 5, “But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.” The first resurrection includes everyone from Jesus Christ and those that were raised after His resurrection, all the way through time to those Jews and foolish virgins that die in the tribulation of those last three-and-one-half years. Verse 6, “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, (They will be priests. In other words, they will be able to make decisions.) and shall reign with him a thousand years. And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, (This is Satan loosed from Hell, it has nothing to do with the beast nor the false prophet. They were both cast into the lake of fire in Chapter 19. They have no more authority ever again. But this is another spirit, and we know where it comes from.

 

Hell Is Not Eternal

 

From Verse 7 again, “And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, (That is a godless spirit like unto the spirit that has been on Russia for many years and still is today. This is the way Russia believes. They do not believe in any God.) to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. 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. [Notice, a battle is not fought.] And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, (They have already been there a thousand years.) and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.” Again, “for ever and ever” is a period of time. We do not know how long it will be. It could be thousands of years. When Bro. Branham went over that he said that if hell were eternal, there would have to be some kind of eternal life there. We know that the spirit of life of everyone that is born on earth comes from God. For all mankind (good and bad) their birth was a gift of God. When the only thing left after they all are destroyed in the lake of fire is the spirit of life from God, that spirit goes back to God who gave it. That will be the end of hell and the lake of fire.  Prayer