You've Probably Never Read This About The 1,000-Year Reign Of Christ

00:00 - Speaker 1 Real Life presents the Jack Hibbs Podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. 00:09 - Speaker 2 Hey, listen, what if you hear something that you've never heard before, but it's been in the Bible all along? What does that mean? It means we need to read our Bibles more and more thoroughly and more carefully. So we're going to get into some fun topics right now in this podcast. High probability that you've never quite put this together as you're about to hear it. Get your Bibles open, take some notes, because I hope it creates a really cool, awesome personal Bible study time between you and your friends. So let's get into it now. 00:41 - Speaker 1 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com/podcast today. If this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled life in Christ, then make sure you leave us one of those five-star ratings. To us that's like saying amen or yes. Then that rating will encourage others to listen Now open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you. Here is Jack Hibbs. 01:10 - Speaker 2 Hey everybody, welcome to the Jack Hibbs show, the Jack Hibbs podcast. We're glad that you guys are with us. By the way, I want to thank all of you who literally stopped me wherever I'm at, and it doesn't matter where I'm at. I was stopped recently last week or so, in Boston and in Orlando and in Denver and the overriding response by people, or the statement by people, is this hey, I watched the podcast. That's the number one thing. I would think. Maybe they watched the sermons, the sermon series, the Sunday teachings. Maybe they do, I don't know, maybe they don't, but nobody comments about that. They always say man love the podcast and so we're grateful for that. If you love the podcast, if you are learning from the podcast and almost want to get into a podcast about learning, if you're learning from this podcast, please, please, identify that you are being blessed by this. Give us a thumbs up, give us a rating, give us a comment, give us the stars, whatever the platform, please, please respond. 02:17 And I have learned something recently and it is this, something recently and it is this when I was a young Christian, even though that's back in the 70s. There was much more maturity then regarding speculation, questions, what ifs, dealing with doubts, interpretation. What does the scripture say? Let's examine the whole Bible. I have to say, and those of you, by the way, who come out of the Jesus Revolution era not that you had to be involved in it or experienced it, but I'd love for you to comment on the section below, or let us know how it was. Let me know if it was like this for you, but when you would hear something. We didn't have the internet. Well, we didn't have the internet like we have. Obviously, we had. What was the internet of the day, which was the Strong's Concordance of the Bible. I'm not kidding, I wish I had mine here. It's about this thick, what is that? Three and a half inches thick, inches thick, it's about that big, it's huge. 03:52 It took James Strong, I believe, 37 years to create that work, and it is a book that references and gives definition of the Greek, hebrew and Aramaic words of the original Bible, all words, every word, even the word a or a, or, and or the Amazing, amazing work. And so, that said, we would have to go like this for hours, and so, back in those days, we didn't watch much TV, but we all got together. When I say we all like five, six, seven, 10 friends. We would actually make it a weekly habit. We'd get together on Friday nights after work and we would spend till 12, one, two o'clock in the morning going through the scripture, asking questions hey, did you hear about this? So-and-so said this. I don't think that's true. Well, let's find out. Oh, my goodness, I didn't know about that verse, those kinds of things. It was awesome, it was awesome. 04:55 And, by the way, when we were wrong about something, it wasn't nobody hated. Nobody hated anyone for being wrong. Nobody got all upset. When they were corrected, I thought, gosh, I thought that's how it was. Well, why did you think that? I don't know, I was brought up that way, to think that the Bible said this Like, for example, God helps those who help themselves. 05:22 I thought that was in the Bible. That's not in the Bible, folks. In fact, God helps those who can't help themselves. I thought that was in the Bible. That's not in the Bible, folks. In fact, God helps those who can't help themselves. Anyway, we're going to kind of do that today. We're going to kind of do that today, and this is also fun because this is going to challenge where you stand, challenge where you stand, hang on. 05:51 Where do you stand regarding how you understand your Bible? Okay, how do you understand your Bible when you read it? Do you have to go to people for you to understand the Bible? Do you not even look at your Bible until Sunday morning and you get it spoon-fed to you by the pastor at church? I hope not. You're anemic. If that's the case, I hope not. Listen, the Sunday sermon should be salt and pepper. In California it'd be salsa on your Bible knowledge, because you should be establishing a Bible knowledge. Every day, you should read something of the scriptures and then pray that through. Okay, you should just do that. 06:37 So for me personally, privately, tonight I'm going to sit down and read Jeremiah, chapter six, because that's where I'm at in my personal Bible reading, and then I'm going to close it. I'm just going to pray through what God brings to my memory after reading. That's how I pray. But God wants to speak to you from his word. You don't have to go to Jack Hibbs or John MacArthur or I don't know somebody else to see what God is saying to you. You can go and study these guys and listen, but you better judge what I'm saying or what MacArthur is saying, or or or has said I don't care who they are, I don't care how cool they are, I don't care how astute they are, I don't care how, how big they are, it's irrelevant. Don't be duped by that kind of stuff. What are they saying? In light of what the Bible says? 07:36 And listen, there are some areas in the scripture where we can say something like this hey, at this time of where we're at in the 21st century, we're not exactly sure what that means yet. That's for a future generation to understand more. And I say that from experience because folks listen up. There were things that, going back to where you could look at scholars such as D Martin Lloyd-Jones or JC Ryle or you might go back and see what Spurgeon was saying and they might be saying something and they had no idea that you in the 21st century would have so much more clarity about that verse that when you look back and you read what they said back then, these were brilliant scholars and you now know more about that verse than they did back then. Why? Because now you're living in the time and it's more clear. Paul put it this way Right now we look through a glass that is foggy or dimly lit, but then we'll see with clarity. God said it to Daniel. 08:51 Daniel, the prophecy I just gave you, seal it up. No one's going to understand it until the end of time. Then they will know. Then you've got the book of Revelation. That is the book of what. The book of Revelation? That is the book of what? Revelation that Jesus Christ is revealed. Regarding the last days. Wow, think about it. The Jesus Christ of the Bible is seen in technicolor in the book of Revelation. In the last days, friends, a thousand years ago, people thought that the book of Revelation was just all mythological or allegorical or some sort of storybook, and it's not. It turns out to be the fulfillment, recorded prophetically, of the book of Daniel. 09:45 The book of Revelation is a commentary on the book of Daniel regarding what's going to happen in the future. Having said all that, do you know what's going to happen in the future regarding the millennium, the millennium, the word millennium, if you put the Latin and the Greek definitions together, it means 1,000 years. Now I know there are people who do not believe that Jesus is going to rule and reign for 1,000 years. Those people are called wrong. The Bible teaches that Christ must sit on the throne of David because God promised that from David's genealogy the king would come, who would be a forever king, that a descendant of David would rule on earth for a thousand years and he would be the king. He would have a government. He would have a government, he would have politics, called the kingdom of Christ, or the kingdom of God, or the kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ, or the kingdom age we call it. 10:57 It's when oh boy, here's some great controversy. Shouldn't be, but people are not so bright these days. If they just read the Bible they get smart is there's going to be a thousand year reign of Jesus Christ from the city of Jerusalem, and he is going to reign over the land, or the kingdom of Israel, which is extremely well documented in its parameters from up into the regions of Syria today, way over to the regions of the Euphrates River, all the way down, skirting the northern parts of Saudi Arabia, all the way over past the Sinai Peninsula, over to the Nile River and back up to Jerusalem. That was the promised land that was given to Abraham. That land's going to be realized only when Jesus sits upon the throne of David. 11:51 It's called the millennium, and if you want to read more about it and read slowly. It's awesome, but we got to dial down and we got to pick awesome, because there's tons of awesome stuff about the millennium, regarding the environment. If you're an environmentalist, by the way, you should become a Christian, because the real environment is going to happen when Jesus comes back. Man is he going to fix things? The Bible tells us the deserts are going to bloom like a bouquet and he's going to put streams in the deserts. He's going to turn those areas into incredible blessings and beauty. There's going to be mountains, there's going to be water, there's going to be what must be lakes and rivers and animals. The millennium, it's going to be amazing. He is going to refurbish and restore that which is under the curse of sin and he's going to rule and reign. 12:47 And I'm not going to get into other specifics because you're going to start asking questions how come you didn't bring this up? I don't have the time to bring other things up because, honestly, there are hundreds of topics, but this is a fun one and I want to give you this one just to freak you out for the weekend, just for you to like what, and so during the weekend, I want you to turn off. Whatever's going on. It's not important. It doesn't matter if the Rams are playing the goats. Turn it off and read Ezekiel. Start reading Ezekiel 30, maybe 32, maybe 34, all the way through to the end of Ezekiel. So let's just make it simple Start reading the prophet Ezekiel, chapter 30, all the way through to the end of Ezekiel. So let's just make it simple Start reading the prophet Ezekiel, chapter 30, all the way through to the end of the book. And you're going to get into the millennium. 13:31 And I just want to point out a few things just to get y'all excited about it and also listen. A word of advice, please look, you're going to do what you want to do anyway, but I'm just trying to keep you from looking like a crazy person when you hear something you don't know and you quickly respond, you don't look good. Don't do that. If you hear something which you're about to hear that you've never heard before, but it's in the Bible, it's in the Bible. I'm not telling you something that's not in the Bible, but I'm telling you something that is rarely ever taught or rarely ever read. Don't start immediately commenting I don't believe it, that's not true. Don't look like a goober because you need to wait and go read and find out. Oh my gosh, that's amazing. I didn't know that before. Okay, can you handle that? That's how we used to do it, folks, back in the old days. That's how we used to do it. We used to study cross-reference, read other chapters of the Bible, find out. 14:32 Where does this word apply? Where does this word appear? What does it mean? Who else said it? What context does it arrive in? Fascinating. 14:42 There's a lot of people today that study the Bible. They have no idea that there's actually rules to biblical interpretation that are universally applied to keep you from becoming a cult member. You know that there is a way to interpret the Bible. By the way, I highly recommend that you get involved in what is known as an inductive Bible study course. Inductive Bible study course, or style of study. You'll never go astray, you'll never be bamboozled and you'll never follow some strange shepherd. If you do this, shepherd being Jesus the chief shepherd, you'll never follow some nut, because if anybody knows even a little bit of the Bible, they could start a cult, and God doesn't want that to happen. 15:32 So here we go. Listen to this I mentioned a moment ago. If you start in Ezekiel, chapter 30, and read all the way through. You're going to learn some interesting things about the millennium. How about this one learn some interesting things about the millennium? How about this one? Did you know that during the millennium, when Christ returns, it commences in Daniel, chapter 12. You can start there and take a peek, but it commences after Christ returns. 15:54 In the second coming, he sits on the throne of David and the first job that he begins to do is that he begins to judge the nations that were existing during the tribulation period and he's going to separate them. It says, like a shepherd separates sheep from the goats, hear me out when he separates the nations. Nations are made up of people, so nations being like America, canada, germany, there's national judgment and there's personal judgment. You can have, you'll be an individual and you'd exist in a nation. When Jesus Christ returns, he will judge the nations, and it's clear from Matthew, chapter 25. Remember, this context is everything. Matthew chapter 24, chapter 25 describes the context of the tribulation period. 17:08 When he returns at the end, he's going to judge the nations and he's going to do that from his throne, and the throne in his politics. Yes, Jesus will have politics. Folks Get used to it. He's the king. That's political. He has a throne, a seat of power, and he has a dominion and he has a rule and a reign and he has his justice. That's all politics. Jesus will finally show the world how politics is supposed to be, and when he does that, he's going to execute judgment with perfect, perfect justice. 17:47 And, that said, there's some things that you're going to see in the reading of Ezekiel. One of them is in Ezekiel, chapter 34, verses 23 and 24. Please mark it down Ezekiel 34, verses 23 and 24. Did you know that David is coming back? King David will be coming back, but he will not be king In the resurrection. David's going to be resurrected prior to the commencement of the millennium, when Jesus Christ returns. Check this out David at the commencement of the millennium. You see, you've never read this before, have you? That's why you need to read Ezekiel, starting in chapter 30. David in Ezekiel 34, 23 and 24, is no longer the king of Israel or the king of Jerusalem. He's the prince. He's known as Prince David and he serves King Jesus. He presides over Jerusalem and Israel as the prince. In fact, the scripture tells you that David will be the prince and the Lord God will be the king. Have you ever heard that before Read it. It's awesome. How about this? 19:14 Ezekiel, chapter 40 to 43, reads this that there's going to be a future temple that is going to be erected somehow, miraculously, by Christ himself. Don't confuse that temple. Listen, there's the millennial temple and then there's the tribulation temple. There's a big difference. Right now there's no temple, but we know that after the church is raptured, that the Antichrist is going to stand in the temple in Jerusalem and declare himself to be God. Wow, read 2 Thessalonians, chapter 2. Read Matthew, chapter 24, around verse 15. Wow, because when the Jews see that it's at the midpoint, apparently, of the tribulation period, they're going to flee and the Antichrist is going to declare himself to be God in the temple in Jerusalem. That temple is going to be destroyed and Christ will establish his temple for the millennium. And the Bible tells us that not only will there be a temple, but in Ezekiel 43, verses 18 to 27,. 20:23 That's Ezekiel 43, verses 18 to 27, that God there gives the instructions for the burnt offerings and for the sin offerings to be all to be offered up on the altar. And this is where people's minds are like blown. Wait a minute. What I thought Jesus was the offering he is. I thought all of that was done. It was done. Watch this, watch my hands. 20:49 Before Christ came to the cross, the offerings were expected to be offered up. God gave that to Moses, but you do know right that God said those offerings cannot take away sin. They cover sin. They cover it but they don't take it away. It's a covering until the promise comes. Jesus is the promise. You have the Old Testament. I guess I should do it on this side of the. I think I'm thinking you're viewing it on the different side. 21:22 If we're reversed Old Testament to the coming of Jesus Christ, animal sacrifices For what reason? Pointing to the promise that was given, to excuse me, as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, Jesus said so. The son of man must be lifted up. That's a perfect statement. Just as there was the symbol of the serpent on the pole for judgment, Jesus Christ will be raised up on the cross for judgment. All of that leading up spoke about the coming of the Messiah. Now watch this. Here's the Messiah Christ born. Christ lives, Christ dies, Christ is resurrected Right here. After that there's been the age of grace. The church age is what we're living in right now and that's about ready to come to an end. That's when the church is raptured up and out of here. Then there's the dispensation, where God brings back online Daniel, chapter nine, for example. 22:43 God goes to work with the Jewish people, much of the book of Isaiah. He begins to deal with the nations of the world and begins to fulfill the 144,000 Hebrew speaking male virgin Jews that are evangelists throughout all the world. John says that he sees a number saved that is so great nobody can number them, but they will have to die for their faith during the tribulation period, at the end of the seven year period of time when Christ returns. Listen, he establishes his thousand year reign and during that time there will be those who will enter into the kingdom of God, into the joy of the Lord. When Jesus separates the sheep from the goats, notice where he does it and why he does it. Where he does it is in Jerusalem. Why does he do it? He says as much as you've did it under the least of these, my brethren, you've done it unto me. As much as you've did it unto the least of these, my brethren, you've done it unto me. 23:44 I believe that it is a clear reference in the context, context, context, context. Jesus is referring to my brethren, the Jews. How did the nations of the earth choose to treat the Jews during the tribulation period? As individuals as well, those nations, which are made up of people, gentiles will be judged. The criteria will be Matthew, chapter 25. Go read it later. 24:14 Notice this that those who pass that test. By the way, nowhere does it say they're born again. It just doesn't say. It doesn't say that they're saved, it doesn't say. It just says that they enter into the kingdom and they repopulate the earth, they plow fields, they work the soil. There's life, there's living, as Christ is king and David's the prince, and there'll be these places. And then we us, the believer, having returned the bride of Christ, the scripture tells us that we will rule and reign with him as well. So so, this is amazing. Watch this. 24:55 So then, what's the sacrifices? For, if Jesus was the sacrifice, why are those people offering up a sacrifice? And why is it that on Passover, they're going to offer up a lamb every year? For a thousand years, I thought Jesus was the lamb. He is the lamb. Those sacrifices are to remind those mortals that live at that time what he did for them. There's going to be incredible expositional constancy of scripture Old Testament moving this way, new Testament prophetic era included moving this way and there's a handshake. And Christ is right in the middle, old Testament pointed to him, new Testament era in the millennium pointing back to him. 25:47 And those living in the world at that time will at some point in time, have to make a decision to worship Christ, to believe in Christ or not. See man. That's weird, isn't it? It is, I mean, it's different. I shouldn't say it's weird, it's different to us. But you know, what's wild is that the Bible says that you'll be able to see Christ. The scripture says listen to this. 26:10 The Bible tells us in the Old Testament that if a nation does not come to worship the Lord annually in Jerusalem, he will withhold rain from that country. Wow, that's amazing. So the nations will have a ability to choose to worship him or not, to be thankful to his government or not. The Bible tells us in Isaiah that when a man dies at the age of 100, people are going to mourn for a man at the age of 100 for his death as though a child had died. Longevity is going to increase because the environment's going to be so wonderful. But remember this, folks. 26:56 The sacrifices that will happen during the millennium point to what Jesus did to all those who dwell on earth. It will be a reminder. Just as the sacrifices in the past were foretelling what Christ would be about, the sacrifices in the future will be looking back to what Christ has done for them. And then the Bible tells us. If you read the book of Revelation, chapters 21 and 22, you will read there that Satan will be released at the end and he will go about the world deceiving people, trying to get them to overturn the government of Christ, and that's not going to succeed. But he's going to draw people after him, which means what People will choose Always choice. 27:54 God built us to always exercise choice Until you and I are completely either dead, resurrected, raptured, until we're in glory. We have the ability to choose. Thank God that after that our sin nature will be gone from us. Man, can I hear an amen? Can you imagine, friend, living your life without a sin nature? I can't even begin to imagine what that must be like. But once you and I are redeemed and glorified, you can read Romans, chapter 8, beginning at about verse 26, out to about verse I don't know 30, 30-something. It's amazing. 28:41 But here's what I want you to think about Jesus is going to be the king sitting on the throne of David, because that was promised to David, that upon his throne the Messiah would come. So the prophecies will be fulfilled, because Jesus Christ must sit on the throne of David or else he's not Jesus but David will not be king. David will be prince. The prince. There'll be sacrifices during the millennium that remind people of what Jesus did for them, just like Old Testament sacrifices promised what the Messiah would do for them. You and I will be as the church age. We will be the bride of Christ. We're different than the tribulation saints. Folks, listen, we're almost done. There's the Old Testament saints that technically ended with John the Baptist. Go do your research on that. Then there, from that, the old Testament saints. Then there's the church age saints, or what is known as the bride of Christ. That's us. And then there's the tribulation saints, or the end time saints, from the tribulation period onward, saints who come to believe. 30:09 What's interesting and I got to wrap this up Old Testament saints it's spoken of them in the Bible as wearing white robes. Tribulation saints saints beyond the tribulation, from the tribulation period on until the end of the millennium speaks about them wearing white robes. In the middle there is that bride of Christ. She's called the bride of Christ. John says I will show you. Ephesians tells us that we are the bride of Christ. Ephesians 5, other places of the Bible, that said, never does it say that the bride of Christ is given white robes to wear. The Bible tells us she is given fine white linen it's a different word Clean and bright, which are the righteous acts of the saints. The context is tribulation saints I'm sorry, church age saints. Robes leading up Robes. On the other end, in the middle, the bride of Christ wears white robes of linen, marriage, wedding gown garments, not just robes. Beyond all that, something special, quite amazing. 31:29 So here's your homework Get a group together, listen to this podcast, get all upset about it. Listen to this podcast, get all upset about it and then start reading Ezekiel 30 all the way through to the end of the book, and you're going to be quite blessed. Tell you what that'll keep you guys probably busy for some weekends, because you're going to do cross-referencing man, you're going to get into Jeremiah. You're going to get into Ezekiel. You're going to get into Revelation. You're going to get into Peter. It's going to take you into the gospels, it's going to take you into the book of Joel. Wow, amazing stuff. So, listen, please, wrapping this up, be in the Bible, stay in the Bible, and I can't stress enough yes, God has given in the gifts of the Holy Spirit, the gift of an evangelist, the gift of a teacher, the gift of a pastor, teacher, yes. But listen, all of these ministries that are verbal. 32:35 You've got to judge what you hear against the Bible. So the question goes like this I've never heard about David ever being a future prince. Well, you just did True or false, check it out, take a look and see. I've never heard about Jesus ruling for a thousand years. Well, you did. Today, go check it out, see if the Bible says it, and don't do AI or don't do Google this or whatever. 33:01 Find out for yourself. Find out for yourself, go look and see, and then maybe, after all of your research, right and cross-reference of Scripture reading, then find out what others say, but judge what they say against the Bible. Will you do that? If you do that, you'll never stumble, you'll never fail, you'll, you'll never falter and you'll never be led astray. I don't care how, how charismatic somebody is, I don't care what color their suit is or how long their beard is or how, I don't care. I do not care. Friends, bible, bible. And when the Bible reads for itself, let it stand for itself. Don't try to read stuff into it. Let it talk to you. God is able. God bless you guys. 33:58 - Speaker 1 Until next time.