THE FINAL JUDGMENT

The Grand Finale – Week 9

Steve Gallimore | pastorsteve@tvcc.us

November 8, 2020

4 “Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. 5 The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection. 6 Blessed and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years.” Revelation 20:4-6

1. Two Resurrections

• The First Resurrection – The Resurrection of All the

“But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep.”
1 Corinthians 15:20

22 “For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. 23 But each in his own order…” 1 Corinthians 15:22-23

1a. “Christ the first fruits.”

8 “When he ascended on high he led a host of captives, and he gave gifts to men.” Ephesians 4:8

23 “But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ.” 1 Corinthians 15:23

1b. The Rapture – (Christians from Pentecost to the Rapture)
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; 1 Corinthians 15:51-53

“Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.” 1 Thessalonians 4:17

1c. The Second Coming

“But there is an order to this resurrection: Christ was raised as the first of the harvest; then all who belong to Christ will be raised when he comes back.” 1 Corinthians 15:23 (NLT)

1d. Tribulation Survivors & Millennium Christians

“Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God…” 1 Corinthians 15:24

“The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection.” Revelation 20:5

• The Second Resurrection – The Resurrection of the

“And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done.”
Revelation 20:13

2. THE UNLEASHING OF SATAN – Revelation 20:7-10**

• Satan will

the nations

7 “And when the thousand years are ended, Satan will be released from his prison 8 and will come out to deceive the nations…” Revelation 20:7-8

• It is
  Reveal Answer
  for a genuine Christian to lose their salvation

28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. John 10:28

29 For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. Romans 11:29

19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us. 1 John 2:19

• Christ’s

will be destroyed

“And they marched…surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city, but fire came down from heaven and consumed them,” Revelation 20:9

• Satan will be

into the lake of fire

“and the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.” Revelation 20:10

3. THE GREAT WHITE THRONE JUDGEMENT

• Christ Jesus will be the

“Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it.” Revelation 20:11

“because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.”
Acts 17:31

• The present heaven and earth will be

(See 2 Peter 3:10-11)

“…From his presence earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for them.” Revelation 20:11

• The summons of all the

of all history

“And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done.”
Revelation 20:13

*• The standards of the FINAL JUDGEMENT… *

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Reveal Answer

 Their

Reveal Answer

“And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done.” Revelation 20:12