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Jack Hibbs: Everyone will know the Lord. Then why do some perish without God during that period of time? For the same reason why it's happening today.

People know about Jesus Christ. They don't know Jesus Christ. They're religious, but they don't know Him.

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Guest (Male): On today's edition of Real Life Radio. Pastor Jack continues now with his series called The Life and Times of Jesus Christ and a message titled Christ and His Millennial Rule. Now, this series is all about who Jesus really is. Not the Jesus of popular opinion, but the Jesus of the Bible. God Himself, who stepped into our world. And in this final message, we'll see the day when Jesus returns to rule and reign on this Earth from Jerusalem.

You see, one day the Lord Himself is going to set up His kingdom right here where we live. Every government, every ruler will bow to Him. It's the answer to that prayer we've prayed so many times, "Your will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven."

So today, Pastor Jack teaches us that Jesus will reign in justice and also in mercy. You see, none of us really wants what we deserve. We want His mercy, and that mercy comes only through Jesus Christ. Now with His message called Christ and His Millennial Rule. Here's Pastor and Bible teacher, Jack Hibbs.

Jack Hibbs: If you've ever been sick, there's good nurses and then there's great nurses. And you know what makes the great nurse better than the good nurse? They both know the same thing. The great nurse is the one that comes and pats you on the head or strokes your hand or somehow does some something about your pain.

I don't want a nurse to come up and say, "Well, you know why you're in such such pain? Is because you've got a four-foot long, you know." And that's why. Well, thank you very much. I feel better now that I know this. No, I want a nurse to come up and say, "Listen, you're going to make it, buddy."

In fact, you know what? And you know when you, just like a child, those of you have young kids, when they stub their toe or get hurt, at least our pediatrician told us the right thing. You ought to try this. When your child is hurt, pick them up. Grab them, hold them, and take your fingernails and and just scratch their back or rub their back or whatever it is.

Even if they've got a boo-boo on their finger, scratch their back or rub their other arm. Give their senses a pleasant stimulant. It overrides or comforts the pain that they're focused on. Mercy. Give me that kind of a nurse and I'll do better. Give me that kind of a doctor and I'll get better probably quicker.

God is into giving mercy. Why would you be such a fool as to reject God's mercy? He will execute justice on you. He will execute His righteousness on you. But He extends mercy and mercy only comes through the person of Jesus Christ. God's mercy comes.

Secondly, this morning we see that God's creation shall be healed when Jesus Christ comes. And only when Jesus Christ comes, shall the creation be ultimately healed. Now, I don't want to derail you at all, but last week we talked about the second coming. And there is a deceptive act that Satan will do through the Antichrist, and there will be a temporary healing of nature.

The Antichrist will deceive the world temporarily, but Jesus will come and He's going to implement a healing to the Earth. Isaiah 65, verse 17. Isaiah 65:17 says, "Behold, I will create a new heaven and a new Earth, for the former will not come to mind, neither shall it be remembered."

"Be glad and rejoice forever in what I create, for I will create Jerusalem to be a delight and its people a joy. I will rejoice over Jerusalem and take delight in her people." "The sound of weeping and crying will be heard in her no more. Never again will there be any infant who lives but a few days, or an old man who does not live out his years."

"And he who dies at the age of 100 will be thought to be a youth." During the Millennium, Jesus is so going to rejuvenate the environment that longevity is going to increase in the lives of those mortals that have lived into the kingdom. That's pretty cool.

When somebody dies during the Millennium at the age of 100, people are going to say, "What happened? What why did he die?" Longevity's going to increase. You can say, "Well, I don't believe it." Well, you know, read your Bible. When the environment was more pure, Noah and Enoch and others, Methuselah lived a long time. Scientists tell us this is true. Scientific evidence proves that this is a fact.

You know, every seven years your body goes through a metabolic purging and tries to rejuvenate itself. Did you know your heart, when examined, has been a tool made that will that is that can beat forever? The the tools of your body have been engineered to live forever. Death is a mystery. Until you read the Bible, it says death came into the world because man sinned.

During the Millennium, men will live long periods of time before they die. And a person who dies at the age of 100 will be considered a person to be as one who dies in their youth today. Amazing. God will heal the Earth. How so? He's going to restore the physical creation.

Isaiah 55, 11, 12, and 13. "So shall My Word go forth from My mouth. It shall not return unto Me void. It shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in that thing for which I've sent it. For you shall go out with joy and be led forth with peace. The mountains and the hills shall break forth into singing before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands."

"Instead of thorns coming up, cypress trees will arise, and instead of briars, there shall come up the myrtle tree." Isn't that beautiful? Isn't that interesting? The Millennium. When He comes, it's going to be a wonderful restoration to the creation. Now, look at this picture. Some of you recognize this, don't you? Mirror Lake, just north of Peer in Yosemite.

It's a beautiful sight. You know what? According to the Book of Isaiah and the Book of Jeremiah, this stinks. When the kingdom is established by Christ and His healing goes out to the environment, this is going to look probably like an alley. This is, look at this beautiful sight, and yet it's under the bondage of sin. Did you know that?

The Bible says it's under the bondage of sin, creation is, nature is. Well, consider this as well. Look at that image and listen to this verse. Zechariah 14, verse 8. "And in that day there shall be living waters that flow forth from Jerusalem. Half of them toward the Mediterranean Sea, half of them toward the Dead Sea. Both in summer and winter, it will occur."

"And the Lord shall be king over all of the Earth. In that day, it shall be the Lord is one. His name is one. And the land shall be turned into a garden." This is Wyoming. This is the great falls there in the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone National Park. But just think about this for a moment.

When Jesus Christ comes, it says that His feet His foot is going to touch the Mount of Olives and it's going to cleave northward and southward, leaving a great canyon. And a river is going to come out and it's going to go out to the healing of the world. The Dead Sea is going to be healed, which is, you know why they call it the Dead Sea.

It's 1,300 feet below sea level. Sometimes some of the hot sometimes some of the hottest temperatures on Earth are recorded there. Not not only that, but it is the deadest of water. It's dead. It's sterilized, it's so salty. It's the most saline body of water on the face of the Earth, more than Salt Lake and more than Salton Sea.

God's going to give it life. Jesus is going to give it life. Zephaniah chapter 3. There's a book you haven't heard in a while. Zephaniah. You probably read that today on your devotions on your way to church, didn't you? Zephaniah 3:14 says, "Sing, oh daughter of Zion, and shout, oh Israel. Be glad and rejoice with all your heart, oh daughter of Jerusalem."

"The Lord has taken away your judgments, and He has cast out your enemy. The King of Israel, the Lord, is in the midst of you, and you shall see disaster no more." This is a beautiful, beautiful shot and testimony of God's restoration of what He's going to do. And He's going to do it from Jerusalem.

Look with me again. Creation will be maintained by Him personally. Yeah, maintained. How so? Just simply this. Ezekiel 47 tells us verse 9, that swarms of living creatures will live wherever that river flows. There will be large numbers of fish because this water flows there and makes the salt water fresh. So where the river flows, everything will live.

That is going to be a beautiful, beautiful time. Look at this. Now, somebody climbed up that mountaintop to take that shot. Look how lush and beautiful that is. And yet it's still under the confines and requirements and demands of sin. We live in a fallen world.

It's important that we understand that. I I want you to keep hold of that because we go to the third point, which is this and it's extremely important. Creation shall be renewed spiritually. Say, "Wait a minute. What do you mean creation shall be renewed spiritually?" Well, jot down Romans chapter 8, verse 21 for one thing.

Romans 8:21 tells us because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of sin or corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. That will happen during the Millennium. For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pains even until now.

Now, I don't want to personify creation too much. But let me ask you something. Let me just play with you for a moment here. When Jesus told the Pharisees, remember when the Pharisees says, "Jesus, shut your disciples up." Jesus says, "I tell you, if they were to keep quiet, these very rocks and stones would cry out."

Was Jesus exaggerating, lying, or misleading them? No, He can't do that, He's God. I only wished for a moment that Jesus would have looked at the disciples and said, "Okay, shhh." Wouldn't that have been cool? The boulders would have went, "Hosanna! Praise the Lord!" And the little pebbles would have went, "Hosanna! Praise the Lord!"

It would have been the ultimate, you know, rock concert. It would have been perfect. When He says that the fields in the fields, the trees will clap their hands. Now, trees don't have hands. But trees have leaves. You ever been under a tree, a great tree in a big wind? It's awesome.

He says, "Man, when when My son is enthroned in Jerusalem and righteousness reigns, the trees of the field will clap their hands." It's going to be a great time. There'll be a spiritual renewal. I'm not saying that the tree is God or even a spiritual entity. No, I'm not saying that by any means.

I had you new agers excited there for a second, didn't I? There's no life in a crystal. There's no life as redeeming value in a tree. Yes, there's life in a tree. But there's not redemptive life. Hate to say this, but even your little cute cat or dog has a soul. It doesn't have a spirit. Jesus didn't die for your cat or your dog. He died for humans. He died for us.

But in an amazing way, creation is going to be liberated from the bondage that mankind has held to right now. Could it be that the whales, you know, they're out in the water saying, "When is this wailing thing going to stop or whatever?" I don't know. Just somehow nature is going to identify with the redemption of the sons of men, the sons of mankind, the sons of God, His children.

That's going to be an awesome day.

Guest (Male): You're listening to Real Life with Pastor Jack Hibbs. To learn more about this ministry or to catch up on some previous episodes, go to jackhibbs.com. That's jackhibbs.com. And now, let's get back to today's message. Once again, here's Pastor Jack.

Jack Hibbs: And thirdly, mankind shall know the Lord. Mankind shall know the Lord. Now, listen to this carefully. Hebrews chapter 8, verse 10. Hebrews 8:10 begins there and it says, "For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days, says the Lord, I will put My laws into their mind and write them on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people. None of them shall teach his neighbor, and none of them shall say to his neighbor, 'Know the Lord,' for all shall know Me."

That's an interesting passage. During the Millennium, the world will know of the Lord Himself. Listen, will the world all be converted? No, because Satan to say at the end of a thousand years, the Bible says that those there will be those living who will refuse the Lordship, the kingship of Jesus Christ.

Hey, let me ask you something right now. Do you believe that Jesus Christ exists? Can you even say, "Now, yeah, I believe in God." But is He the Lord of your life? Do you say that Jesus is God and that He's King, He's Creator, there's nobody else but Him? But nobody at work can tell you from anybody else, that nobody in your neighborhood can distinguish you being different.

I don't get me wrong. I'm not saying you should be obnoxious. I'm saying you should be a Christian. "Well, you know, I'm not I'm not I'm not outward about things." Let me ask you this. When your boss or or when your co-worker is sick, can't you say to them, "I'm going to pray for you" or "I prayed for you"?

You know, maybe you couldn't remember the five ways of leading somebody to Christ, but you can say to them, "You know, I'm a Christian, I'm going to pray for you." Can't you say it? Or are you embarrassed? Remember the One who you claimed to follow was suspended on the cross, naked and died for you. Died for me.

I can turn to my friend at work and say, "You know what, I'll pray for your marriage situation" or "I'll pray for your your sick child." You don't have to stand on a soapbox to do that. You know, write them a note. "I'm praying for your family. I'm praying for your condition."

Can the world tell the difference that we know Him? In that time, during the Millennial Age, everyone will know the Lord. Then why do some perish without God during that period of time? For the same reason why it's happening today. People know about Jesus Christ, they don't know Jesus Christ. They're religious, but they don't know Him.

Man shall see His earthly rule. The world will see it. So much so Zechariah 13, verse 6 tells us that He will be questioned, "Where did you get these wounds in your body? Where did they come from, Jesus?" And Jesus will say to them, "I received them in the house of My friends."

Isn't that interesting? Oh, these wounds, these scars, they're a result of My first coming to Jerusalem. People didn't believe in Me and rejected Me and I was taken out of the land of the living and beaten and crucified. Secondly, man shall enjoy His benefits if they believe in Him or not. The blessings of God will swallow the Earth.

And that's a wonderful thing. The Bible says, you know, it's the goodness of God that leads a man to repentance. Read the fine print. If the goodness of God doesn't lead you to repent and believe in Him, He'll use other means. But no one perishes from this globe, having first decided to bow the knee to Jesus or not.

I don't care who you are. I had a friend of mine tell me the other day that his mother, who was a tremendously godly woman, became ill and slipped into a coma. And was in a coma for two years. And during that period of time, her sons came back to know the Lord.

And the week after they came back, they were much they're now older in life. She was very, very old. The week that they came back to know the Lord, she died. Now, I don't know if you've ever talked to somebody who's been in a coma, but a lot of people have been in a coma, have come out and said, "I heard everything."

"I was very aware, I was just locked inside my body." Could it be that someone had prayed for you or even now is even praying for you? Maybe this woman was praying for her sons in her comatose state. When her ministry apparently seemed to be done, her sons came to know the came back to the Lord.

Came back home, I should say, stopping the prodigal. The benefits of God. You may be an evolutionist or an atheist right now, and you're enjoying the benefits of God. You know, my God created the molecular structure of the air that you're breathing right now? Do you know that He could change that structure right before it enters your lungs, or He can just from right where you're sitting and your vicinity, extract the three necessary components of the air that we breathe and you suffocate now?

"I don't believe it." "Well, if that's real, have Him do it to me now!" Somebody said that to Billy Graham on the campus of Harvard. "If God is God," this young man said to Billy Graham, "I'm giving Him five minutes to strike me dead." Billy Graham in a moment of genius, said, "My son, do you think you can exhaust the patience of God in five minutes?"

What a That's that's not Billy Graham. That's the Holy Spirit talking. "Well, if God is God, have Him do this. Have Him do this." No, my friend, you know what? If you knew who you were dealing with, you'd be the one jumping through the hoops. There's a day that He's going to come and judge in righteousness.

And the beautiful thing is, you can cash in on the deal this morning that Jesus took all of your sins' penalty, all of your sins' debt, and paid upfront for it. You just need to come and enjoy His wonderful benefits that He has provided. And finally, man shall vote upon His throne. That is that in that time near the end of the Millennium, the scripture says that men will change their hearts toward the Lord and go against Him.

And the Bible says they'll finally get their prayer answered. It says simply in the Book of Revelation that when they turn and encircle Jerusalem to attack it, it says that fire comes down out of the atmosphere and consumes them dead. It's over. I mean that's all that's mentioned.

"Well, if God is God, let Him consume me. Let Him eat me in His judgment and in His fire." Do you think you can exhaust the patience of God? He loves you so much that He's given you wealth you can't even imagine. You're clothed this morning, you're breathing, you're here, you're either full or hungry or whatever. All because God has given you life.

In this series that we now complete here and now, we ought to be able to say, "I know Jesus and His person and His authority better." And if you've been holding out on Him, now's the time for you to say, "All right. All right, Lord, it's all Yours." In fact, while we're closing, the worship group can come forward.

I want to lay out to three different groups of people this morning, this challenge. First of all, Christians, we need we need to get ready. We need to walk ready. We need to be ready for Him. We need to know what the Bible says. Stop being ignorant about the scriptures. When somebody knocks on your door, stop drawing your curtain shut and hiding behind the doorknob.

When that when those guys in the tan suit pull up or those other guys with the briefcases come knocking on your door, open that door up and say, "My Jesus said you would be coming in the last days. Come on in. I've got the answers for you. Let's turn to the Bible." Christian, the Bible says we better be able to give an answer to everyone who asks of us a reason for the hope that lies within us and to give it to them with respect and with meekness.

Let's do it. It's not an option. Got to do it. The second group of people are those that might in here be atheist or evolutionists. The Bible says that the fool has said in his heart there is no God. Notice, the fool has said where? In his heart because he can't say it in his head.

The evidence is overwhelming. The engineer, great designer, the Creator, the Master Engineer lives. You know it in your head. It's your heart you're trying to convince. And you deceive your heart by saying, "There is no God, there is no God, there is no God." And you'll crawl under every little rock trying to find some new evidence.

And you find it, and you herald it as the the new thing, and I've got the link, and it's all going to be and then as we apply scientific research, a couple months later, it's found out to be nothing again. Speaks of the design Creator.

Guest (Male): Pastor and Bible teacher Jack Hibbs, here on Real Life Radio, and His message called Christ and His Millennial Rule. Thank you so much for being with us today. You know, this message is part of Pastor Jack's series called The Life and Times of Jesus Christ. It's a series about the real Jesus of the Bible, God in the flesh, and why knowing Him more deeply changes everything. And we'll continue on the next edition of Real Life Radio.

Guest (Male): Are you searching for answers these days in a world where truth is hard to find? Well, my friend, as you heard in our broadcast, Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. And if you'd like to learn more about what that means to you personally, just go to our website, jackhibbs.com. And then click on that tab there that's labeled "Know God." And there you'll be guided through what committing to Jesus Christ really means and the freedom that you'll find in knowing God. That's the "Know God" tab at our website, jackhibbs.com. That's jackhibbs.com.

Guest (Male): Hey, thank you again so much for listening. And if you'd like to hear or see more of what we do here, you can always go to jackhibbs.com for all the latest on what's going on with this ministry. And please, if you're ever in the Southern California area, come see us at Calvary Chapel Chino Hills. We'd love to see you there in person. It has been so good to be with you today, and I pray you find yourself in the grace and mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ. See you on the next episode. This program is made possible by the generous contributions of you, our listeners. Visit us at jackhibbs.com. That's jackhibbs.com. Until next time, Pastor Jack Hibbs and all of us here at Real Life Radio wish for you solid and steady growth in Christ and in His Word. We'll see you next time here on Real Life Radio.