The Millennial Kingdom

Actually, we have three classes to go. Remember, Hal covered the Great White Throne Judgment. So we're going to cover the Millennial Kingdom today, then the Judgment of Satan, the Fallen Angels, and then Hal will do the last one on the New Heaven and Earth. Okay. So the Millennial Kingdom. So Hal emailed me his premillennial view, which we're going to use here kind of as an overview for this morning.

So basically we're going to look at the time period, the thousand-year reign of Christ on the earth. And I think it's important just to kind of go through and look at the events that have preceded that, the church age and where Christ took the during the rapture took the saints to be with him, and then the tribulation period, and then the saints coming back with Christ to rule and reign on the earth. So, looking at this kind of overview picture, I think it's kind of important to kind of track where the body of Christ is. You know, the body of Christ went, at the rapture went to be with the Lord, and there's ever, scripture says, ever be with the Lord. So from then on, they're always with the Lord. But they return with him to rule and reign on the earth.

So the picture in the Millennial Kingdom is really one of Israel and the nations. And I think that's important because we're going to see passages that people have taken and they try to apply it to the Church. Well, if the Church is with Christ, then you have some difficulty there. So the Millennial Kingdom is going to focus much upon the restoration of Israel, God's wonderful plan for Israel to restore them, Make things right. Look where Israel is today.

Every day, every hour it seems like, just trial and death and suffering and wanting peace. Every president we've had has gone there and made a peace overture. And the next day something terrible happens. But finally in the Millennial Kingdom there will be peace. Peace on the earth for Israel. That's just some neat things. Various passages talk about establishing justice on the earth.

The focus is on the earth in the Millennial Kingdom. Even though we're going to see it's called the Kingdom of Heaven. That's where I think Marilyn asked, it doesn't seem to fit, why would the Lord call it the Kingdom of Heaven? But he has, and it can be confusing, but it's talking about the earth.

And this phrase, the days are coming, we're going to see a lot of the days are coming, I shall raise up for David a righteous branch, Lord Jesus. He will reign as king. And in a passage in Jeremiah, he's called the Lord our righteousness. So we're going to see the Lord Jesus ruling and reigning on the earth. So on slide number three, there's kind of three aspects of Christ's rule during the Millennial Kingdom.

And what I found as I kind of went through this looking at Dr. Schaeffer had done and other things, There are three passages that are important to read, I think. There's an Isaiah passage, there's a passage in Psalms, and actually two Isaiah passages, Isaiah 2 and Isaiah 11. I like to read through those, and these points are pulled from that. Let's start off with Isaiah 2. I was hoping I'd get someone to read Isaiah 2 1 through 4. OK, thanks, Hal.

The word that Isaiah, the son of Amoz, sought concerning Judah and Jerusalem, and shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills, and all nations shall flow into it. And many people shall go and say, come ye and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, and he will teach us his ways, and we will walk in his paths. For out of Zion shall go forth the law and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem, and he shall judge among the nations and shall rebuke many people. and they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nations shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.

Thanks, Al. So, you know, there are several kind of words that kind of show up in a lot of passages in the Old Testament about the Millennial Kingdom. One of the words is the phrase, the last days, that kind of shows up over and over again. And this other one is, in my rendering, it has in verse 2 in Isaiah, it has the mountain of the house of the Lord, or just the mountain of the Lord, kind of speaking of the rule of God on the earth.

And a third phrase is Zion. And if you kind of trace through scripture, Zion is used back to talk about the city of David, back in Chronicles. It's also talked in the future time the new heavens and the new earth. But many times, Zion is referring, it's almost like it's the capital of the Millennial Kingdom. Zion is used over and over. That word Zion, you'll see it in a lot of passages we're going to read.

For example, it says in verse 3, for the law will go forth from Zion. So, I mean, that in itself is a whole study, just going through some of these words and tracing out Zion and the last days. That's our study unto themselves. But just kind of keep in mind, those are kind of As we go through these passages, you'll see kind of appearing.

So basically, the first bold is the fact that Christ will rule the entire earth. He talks about all the nations will stream to it, the mountain, the house of the Lord, that phrase I mentioned to you before. And we see that as it goes down, it's going to be a time of peace, and war is going to cease.

And I like the phrase, and never again will they learn war. Unfortunately, in our world, people have to learn war. They have to learn how to devise new things to stay ahead of the enemy. And we won't have to learn. In that time period, there'll be no war. So it's wonderful. And we're going to see many phrases here about peace and prosperity and righteousness.

And then we're also going to see that the nations are going to come to Israel, which is all the reverse of what today is. I don't want to push Israel into the sea as how it's pointed out in other times. Then in Psalm 2 and verse 8 it talks about, Ask of me and I will surely give you the nations as your inheritance, speaking of the Lord Jesus, and the very ends of the earth as your possession. So this is God's plan, His purpose to give the Lord Jesus to set up this kingdom and it's His inheritance and His possession.

And Daniel talks about that all peoples and nations and men of every tongue might serve him. That pretty well takes in the entire earth. Peoples, nations, and men of every tongue. That's it. That's the body of living beings on the earth. Christ will rule over all those. And then Christ's rule is going to be absolute authority and power.

And let's look at, this is the second passage I want to spend a little time with. Let's look at Psalm chapter 2. Psalm chapter 2. I'm sorry, let's try Psalm. I was reading one thing and looking at something else. How about Psalm 72? I apologize. It didn't look right and I said something doesn't seem right here. Well, it's 72. Could I get someone to read, actually I'd like to read maybe 1 through 11 in Psalm 72, maybe someone could volunteer to read half of that and then another person read the rest of it. May he judge thy people with righteousness and thine afflicted with justice. Let the mountains bring peace to the people and the hills in righteousness.

May he vindicate the afflicted of the people, save the children of the needy, and crush the oppressor. Let them fear thee while the sun endures, and as long as the moon throughout all generations. May he come down like rain upon the mown grass, like showers that water the earth. In his days may the righteous flourish, and abundance of peace, so the moon is no more. Someone else like to finish through verse 11? May he also rule from sea to sea, and from the rivers of the earth.

Let the nomads of the desert bow down before him, and his enemies with the dust. Let the king of Persia and the islands bring presents, the king of Sheba and Saba offer gifts, and let all tongues bow down before him, all nations serve him. Thanks, Crystal.

So, you know, this passage actually, in looking at it, doesn't talk so much about... Verse 11 does, bowing down before him, doesn't talk about the... the absolute kind of the rod of iron as in Revelation where it says he will rule them with a rod of iron.

And what I noticed is a lot of the passages kind of start in the tribulation period. The verses will start in the tribulation period. In fact, actually, if you look at the, you know, if they talk about the tribulation period and then they'll, after that finishes, then they'll go on and talk about the millennial kingdom. So you'll see that transition, though, that Christ is making it right. He's putting down at the end of the tribulation period and then peaceful reign as the Millennial Kingdom starts. So in many passages you'll see that transition from God judging and making things right and setting things correct, and then the Millennial Kingdom starts. Now the third bullet is interesting.

Let's turn to Isaiah 11 for this one. This seems to be kind of a theme for the Millennial Kingdom. These two words, righteousness and peace, And Isaiah 11 kind of has both aspects there. So let me just kind of read a few sections of Isaiah 11 here. And we're going to see that like verses 1 through 5 kind of talk about his righteousness and then starting in verse 6 we're going to see the peace, how things are at peace. And I have a question for you here when we get into the section on peace here.

So look, basically it says, then a shoot will spring up from the stem of Jesse. If you think about it, Christ's rule, his authority is based on David's kingdom. So they're referring to to Jesse, and actually Jesse is in the line of Christ. You go to Matthew, and you trace that through, Jesse is in the line of Christ. So he's, Christ is, in his flesh, is a descendant of Jesse. So, it says, "...then a shoot will spring up from the stem of Jesse, and a branch from the root will bear fruit.

And the Spirit of the Lord will rest upon him, and the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, and the Spirit of counsel and strength, and the Spirit of knowledge, and the fear of the Lord. And he will delight in the fear of the Lord, He will not judge by what he sees, or make a decision by what he hears, but with righteousness he will judge the poor, and decide the fairness for the afflicted of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he will slay the wicked. Also, righteousness will be the belt about his loins, and faithfulness will be the belt about his waist.

So we see the Lord Jesus being talked about here as the son of Jesse, and how he's going to ruin righteousness. And we're going to see this later on. He has a concern for the afflicted, what they call the poor, the ones that have been beaten down. And he cares for them, and he's going to slay the wicked. But then starting in verse 6, it's really kind of neat, and maybe we can just look to the overhead for a second here. And he has some phrases. First of all, let me ask you something. Let me show you a picture first. I'll show you a picture of the picture. OK, I should I should have scanned this and we didn't have time to do this, but.

So can you can you all see this? That's a lion and actually that's a member of the Antelope family. So my question is, how are we in the millennial kingdom already? It's a photograph. Actually, this seems to be an anomaly. I mean, this is from Creation Magazine. And actually, this is – I'm not sure exactly where it's at, but this is actually a member of the antelope family, and this is a lioness.

And so – and it's actually a long story, which I haven't read. Bonnie read the story and said, Roger, you ought to think about showing this. I should have scanned it in. So anyway, during this piece, it says, let me ask you a question. You've heard the phrase, the lion will lay down with the lamb. Have you been able to find that in your Bible? As an exercise, I'd like you to find that phrase. I don't think it's there. And actually, that was pointed out by other folks, too. It seems like the phrases are like this. The wolf will dwell with the lamb. The leopard will lie down with the young goat. The lion will eat straw like an ox.

And there's several parts of this, it should go down in verse 6 and 7, that talk about children playing, places that we never let our children play, with cobra holes, with all kinds of stuff. But that phrase, the lion lay down with the lamb, doesn't seem to be there. I don't know, somebody said it's one of those things that... So it's one of those things that you've heard over the years, but it doesn't seem to be there, unless there's some translation out there that I couldn't find it in my searching, my little bit of searching.

Yeah, and I guess they're both elves, you know, Bible teachers like to have, you know, rhyming, lion and lamb. So anyway, I guess the point is that during this time period, and it says like in the cow, in verse 7, also the cow and the bear will graze, The young will lie down together, and the lion will eat straw.

A nursing child will play with a cobra. A weaning child will put his hand in a viper's den. I'm sure we wouldn't allow our children to go out and start sticking their hands in all these different holes, but there won't be any concern about that at that time period. That's pretty incredible, pretty incredible change.

Even though we have this little anomaly here, we've got this little antelope with the lion, lioness. So, anyway, it's going to be a time that righteousness will reign and peace will reign on the earth. Something that today we don't have. I thought it was also interesting, you go down in verse 9, in Isaiah 11 there it says, last part of verse 9, for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord.

I thought that was really a tremendous statement. Today, man is in opposition to God. Man doesn't want God. He will not have Him rule over us. It says, even though they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God. They suppress the truth. Well, here, the knowledge of God is prevailed. The earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord. I thought it was just kind of a wonderful picture of this wonderful time period where God will restore things on the earth And we're going to see that sin is still there, but the knowledge of the Lord seems to be ever-present. Okay.

So here's a chart basically that talks about Israel, some of the wonderful things that Israel will have in this time period. And basically Israel will be regathered and restored. In Jeremiah 30 it says, in fact let's just turn there just for a second. I just want to show you another, it's kind of the same phrase that we have seen before. Jeremiah 30, verse 3, it says, Behold, days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will restore the fortunes of My people, Israel and Judah. The Lord says, I will bring them back to the land that I gave to their forefathers, and they shall possess it.

So God is going to bring Israel, going to regather them and bring them back to the land that He gave them. He made a promise to Israel, and He's going to fulfill that, and He's going to regather them and restore their land. And Israel and Judah that were separated, a bullet comes down a little bit later on, they'll be reunited again. And then it talks about, I kind of mentioned this, Israel will be the subject of the revived Davidic kingdom with Christ on the throne.

And actually that's shown in Isaiah 9. Isaiah 9, verse 6. Actually, this is the one that we often read during the Lord's birth, at Christmas time. Basically down in verse 7 it says, And there will be no increase of his government, there will be no end to the increase of his government or of peace on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and righteousness.

There you see the righteousness and justice from then and forevermore. the zeal of the Lord of hosts will accomplish this. We talked about being united together, Israel and Judah. And then an interesting thing, what's the picture for the church in terms of Israel is called the wife of Jehovah, or actually, if you look at various passages, it says, call me husband. The Lord says, you'll call me husband, and not call me master anymore. So the picture is a different picture than what the church has. The church, we're Christ's bride. Whereas Israel is the wife of Jehovah. So there's different pictures there.

And then Israel will be a privileged place above Gentile believers. We actually covered this in earlier times about the Gentiles will come to Israel and desire to attach themselves to the house of Jacob, it talks about. And they'll be spiritually revived. So Israel is going to, all the promises that God has made in the Old Testament that the Abrahamic covenant will all be fulfilled in this time period. Okay, what I'd like to do now, I'd like to skip over chart 5, just kind of put chart 5 aside for a second. I'd like to kind of just move on to chart 6. I'll try to come back to chart 5 maybe later on.

As I was thinking about this section, about this chapter about the Millennial Kingdom, there's teaching in the New Testament that Christ, and some have called it the Manifesto of the Kingdom. You see that referred to in the word manifesto. It's a public declaration of intentions and purpose. In Matthew 5, he declares his intentions and purposes for the kingdom. And I think, let's turn to Matthew 4, actually, to start with, to get a little bit of background here. And you know, this is a section of scripture that, I don't know whether, if you're like me, that you've heard probably rendered in a lot of different ways. I mean, if you've been, if you attend other churches, you'll hear this Matthew 5 and a lot of Matthew, you know, so they'll they'll apply it to the church But I think you know, I think scripture It taught is talking about the the Millennial Kingdom the best I can see but let's just look here and try to get a couple of verses before you get into Matthew 5 Matthew 4 In verse 17 Matthew 4 and verse 17.

And this is kind of the beginning of Jesus' ministry. And it talks about down in verse 17, it says, from that time Jesus began to preach and say, repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. So, Jesus came proclaiming, actually the word preach is the word proclaim, to a public proclamation as a herald. And the word repent is a sign of a change of mind. So he's proclaiming that to the people.

And if you go down just a couple of verses in the same chapter 4, down to verse 23, it kind of continues that idea. And Jesus was going about in all Galilee teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every kind of disease and every kind of sickness among the people.

So, if you think about it, how many Gospels do we have? Have you thought about the Scripture? Can you think about the different... Are there different Gospels? Are some Gospels to some people and some to other people? Is there only one Gospel? Does Scripture only have... Is there only one Gospel? Gospel is good news. Is there only one Gospel in all the Scripture and it's the same? I think it's important, critical, to kind of answer that question for yourself. Is there just one gospel? Are there gospels, is there good news that the Lord has presented?

Sue, you're shaking your head? Okay. Can you think of, is there a name for the, like this is called the Gospel of the Kingdom. Could you give me a name for the other gospel? other gospel but well if you go to like okay I'm sorry crystal go ahead okay well actually I'm here I'm think I'm Okay, and I would agree on that. I would agree on that.

But the Lord can't... Okay, Christ came proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, right? So he's speaking about how he is going to set up his rule, and he's going to tell us, in his Beatitudes here, he's going to tell us about how that kingdom is going to be conducted, how things are going to be done. But then, when Christ leaves, right? Or actually it starts, you know, after Christ is rejected, right?

There's a gospel that we read about in 1 Corinthians 15. If somebody were to ask you, what's the gospel? Without what we just said, what would you tell them? What is the gospel? I've always liked to turn to 1 Corinthians 15 myself, so let's just turn there. I'm headed where Crystal's going, I hope. I hope we're going to address her question.

So in 1 Corinthians 15 it says, Now I make known to you, brethren, the gospel which I preach to you also, which you also receive, in which you stand, by which you also are saved, if you hold fast the word which I preach to you, unless you believe in vain. For I delivered to you of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the scripture, and he was buried, and he was raised again on the third day according to the scriptures. So that's what some people have called the gospel of the grace of God. They put that title on there. I'm like, exactly. And maybe that's... In Romans, it's talked about... I've forgotten where that phrase comes from. I don't know. Anyway. Anyway. That's the gospel that's being proclaimed today. That's the gospel that Christ has died, buried, and raised.

But when Christ came, he didn't proclaim that gospel at that time. He proclaimed the gospel of the kingdom. The good news of the kingdom is, and it was preached to who, right? It was preached to the Israelites. That he was going to set up a kingdom. And he lays down his rules for the kingdom.

And the blue over here is a contrast with what the church age is. And that's part of the confusion. People will try to take this and they'll say, well, okay. that gospel for the kingdom, I'm going to apply that. I'm going to follow that as well as this. I'm going to put them both together and try to merge them together with their separate message. And let me just show you something that I think is really interesting. Help me. Let's look in Luke.

Luke 16. Luke 16, and verse 16. Christ is having discussions with the Pharisees, as He often had, and in verse 16 He says, The law and the prophets were proclaimed until John. And He says, Since then the gospel of the kingdom is preached. And everyone is forcing his way into it. The last part, I'm not sure I can exactly explain, but it seems like there's some human effort there. But I think what's interesting is that he's showing, and I think it's much like a dispensational picture, that the Law of the Prophets were proclaimed until John. But then John proclaimed the Lord Jesus Christ. And the Lord Jesus Christ presented the Gospel of the Kingdom. That's why he came.

And he was rejected as king, right? He was rejected. They rejected him. And so, Israel was put aside. This is a wonderful message for the nation of Israel. The gospel of the kingdom is a wonderful message. But they didn't want him to be king. They rejected him. He was put aside. So now, in the age we live in now, we have the gospel of the grace of God.

And what's interesting is, this gospel of the kingdom is going to be preached again. If you look in Matthew 24, I hope I'm not getting too far afield here. I hope this is helping. Matthew 24 and it's going to be preached when the Lord comes again. Thank you. That's my problem. That's Matthew 25. OK. And verse 14.

And this gospel, the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world for a witness to all nations. Then the end shall come. So the gospel, the kingdom wasn't done away with. It was it was there for a purpose, a plan and a purpose. God and that was what he presented of Israel. They rejected him. and he's going to come back and preach that again, the gospel of the kingdom, the good news of the kingdom. He's going to set up his wonderful kingdom.

I'm not going to go into all these links, just to show you there's a difference. And I tried to build this chart to show, here's what the Lord Jesus said, here's some words from the Old Testament. And you know, what I found is, there is some correlation here, but this is a unique explanation or a unique detail. There isn't the same detail in the Old Testament. Some matching up. If you look here, it says, let's take the first one.

Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Well, in Isaiah 57, it talks about the holy place also with the contrite and lowly of spirit in order to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the hearts of the contrite. The Lord is concerned. We saw that. He's concerned with the poor in spirit. And he says he's going to make that right in the kingdom of heaven, which is speaking of, which is His rule, His rule and reign on the earth in the Millennial Kingdom.

But that's quite good news now is, is quite a different picture in the blue here. Those who have been chosen of God, holy and beloved, put in the heart of compassion and kindness and gentleness. As a result of what God has done in our life, we can show compassion and kindness and humility. It's a different picture. You go down to, blessed are those whom for they shall be comforted.

We see just a tremendous number of verses about comforting Israel. Talk about Zion again, that picture of the capital city in the Millennial Kingdom. He wants to comfort them, those who mourn. What's interesting is you don't find the word mourn as a member of the body of Christ. We're not to mourn. We're to rejoice when we have trials and suffering. It's because Christ has accomplished a belief. He has accomplished it. We're not looking for it. The Millennial Kingdom is much like, you do this, and I do that.

It's gentle, for they will inherit the earth. You get the impression, well, if I'm not gentle, I'm not going to inherit the earth. What does inheriting the earth have any... What is the meaning for a believer to inherit the earth? Are we to inherit the earth now? We're the believer now, right? We have a wonderful place.

We're seated with Christ. One of the fruits of the Spirit is gentleness. So there's just not a match. People have tried to do it. Those are wonderful words, and they are. The Beatitudes are wonderful words, but they're wonderful words for the Kingdom period. And there's not a match-up. So that's where I'm trying to head here. Hopefully I haven't made this too difficult or too... And just one additional thing that makes it a little bit... If you look at the other Gospels, you'll find the Beatitudes and some of the other phrases repeated.

This Kingdom of Heaven is rendered, in those cases, Kingdom of God. But it seems like he's talking about the same Millennial Kingdom. That can be a confusing point. Kingdom of Heaven, Kingdom of God. I think they're talking about the same Kingdom of God. And Scripture seems to have a larger... And I really haven't studied it out. But it seems to be a large... Someone said the Kingdom of God encompasses the Kingdom of Heaven. I don't know. I haven't done enough study to tell you that. But if you look at the comparison, comparing Luke and Luke, you'll see that many times they'll use the phrase, kingdom of heaven. So as you go through the Beatitudes here, I think it's just a sharp contrast.

The message for the kingdom, the man of the kingdom, the Lord is planning to do. Those who hunger and thirst for righteousness shall be satisfied. I will not keep silent and for Jerusalem until her righteousness goes forth. God wants, he wants to showcase, if you will, the righteous and her salvation like a torch that is burning. The nations will see you're righteous.

Well, for the believer in Christ, he's done it. He has made him, who knew no path, sin on our behalf, God in him, the righteousness of God, God in him. Do we have to hunger and thirst for righteousness? We've been made. There is this aspect of wanting to to felt, to abide with him, all those kind of wonderful words, but not seeking for righteousness, we have righteousness.

So do you see what I'm trying to make this kind of, what the believer now, what the message of Christ and what the message for the kingdom is. And I think that, you know, a proper separation can really what that period is for. Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy. So it's sort of saying that there's a, you know, if you're, if you don't receive mercy, you know, in the church age, God being rich in mercy because of his great love with which he loved us.

Even when we were dead, was he waiting for us to be merciful? He acted unilaterally on our behalf. He made us alive together with Christ. By grace you have been saved. The message is different. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. We're basically, we're not seeking to make our heart God is, you know, we're a brand new creation.

So the sharp contrast between, as you go through, let's look at the last sheet here. I did this, this was in Dr. Schaeffer's book and I thought it kind of fit in a In my mind, it should have been part of this chapter. So I wanted to kind of go through. And in some cases, he didn't necessarily have some words from the Old Testament.

But, blessed are the sons of God. Now, here's one that's, you know, for God, through faith in Christ Jesus. God's not waiting for us to be peacemakers, not waiting for us to be. And that's not to say that we aren't, that Christ's life is living through us, we aren't a peacemaker in that sense. But, on a gayness. being called sons of God. We already are sons of God through faith. And the last two, blessed, are those who have been persecuted for the sake of their sin of heaven. Basically, the believer who lives godly lives will be persecuted. Suffering is part of what we get. I think Berenice pointed that out very well. That's part of the wonderful gift. You have a little gift coming down. Did I sign up for this?

Suffering. And then, blessed are you when people insult you and persecute evil against you. Once again, it's been granted for you to suffer for Christ's sake and only to believe in Him. Actually, that's the verse that I just realized. That's the verse that Verne covered. Not only to believe, but to suffer for his sake. So, suffering.

So, this wonderful man of the attitudes is really describing what Christ declares this wonderful time period, and how there'll be peacemaking, and how he will set things right. The bottom line is that our hope is in the message Christ was giving. The hope is in the Kingdom of God. But when he was rejected, You know, he put Israel aside and have the kingdom of the grace of God in this time period. And what I want to do, and I thought it would be good just to kind of close with that. And here's just a list of what's really out there. And actually, this is a part of a list of how it started, and I thought it was really good.

The blessings, you know, blessed are those who do so and so. This is the millennial kingdom. That's the millennial kingdom. It's a period of peace. It's a period of plenty. It's going to be poured out again on all people. It's for those who call upon the Lord. Some of this is a representation of Israel. It's a time of plenty and blessing and restoration for Israel. It's a time for people to call upon the Lord. People will serve the Lord. Sin and shame removed. Their arrogance. Pride or arrogance. Iniquity or law. A time of plenty and peace. Our enemies are cast out and the Messiah King is in their midst.

We have some things confused here in different passages. There's about three passages. A passage in Joel and two parts in Zephaniah. What I was trying to show here is that the Kingdom period is a wonderful period with what the believer has in the Word of Jesus Christ right now. We have that right. God has a plan and a purpose for that time period to restore it.

Right right. Right. Right. Exactly. Right. That's good. And that is different. Actually, that's another, that's an excellent passage where he said, we're right in their hearts. Actually, people have tried to take that and they try to say, well, constantly trying to blur this picture where God has a very distinct purpose. He's, you're right. He's, they're going to be able to keep that because he's going to put the law on their heart.

Well, let's just close in. Dear Father, thank you for your word. The blessings we have, Lord, we thank you for just your plan for the apple of your eye, true Lord. We thank you that you will restore them and you will, and you said all Israel statements in terms of your promises to Israel. And that, and we know that because we'll fall short, we'll all come past because of who you are, Lord. We thank you for that. We thank you for what we have Christ on the Lord, the security that we have and that we can rest and trust in you. Amen.