90 Seconds to Midnight - Understanding Revelation

CHAPTER 20  The Millennium and the Final Judgement This chapter divides itself into three parts.  The first part shows Satan being locked away in the bottomless pit and God's people ruling the earth with Christ for a thousand years.  The second part covers Satan's final rebellious act and closes with his destruction.  And the third part introduces the final judgement from the Great White Throne and the Second Resurrection.  The Millennium according to Isaiah.   Isaiah 11:6-9. The prophet spoke a vision of the Millennium Age:  6: “The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with the young goat, the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.  7: The cow and the bear shall graze; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.  8: The nursing child shall play by the cobra’s hole, and the weaned child shall put his hand in the viper’s den....

Without doubt ‘the Mark’ is one of the most contentious issues facing the church today. There is worldwide expectation that our world leaders are moving towards handing over global power to a coming dictator; a man who the world calls, Anti Christ. The masses believe he will be the only person capable of fixing all the world’s problems.  “He causes all,…. to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads..." The scriptures above are the main texts from the Book of Revelation quoted by end-times preachers regarding the mark, and they quote it in error!  “ I am the Lord, that is My name; And My glory I will not give to another, Nor My praise to carved images”. Isaiah 42:8  It is possible that there may be some person who God’s enemy believes can be trained to take over the world, but God has vowed that He will never allow anyone to steal His glory! All the concern of trying to guess who will be the Anti-Christ is a waste of time. God has told us, it’s not goin...