Dennis R. Wiles
March 3, 2019
Hopefully, Standing on the Promises
Winter 2019
January 5 – March 5, 2019
Evil Will Lose!
Revelation 20:7-21:4
HOPEFULLY: Standing on the Promises
Evil Will Lose!
Revelation 20:7-21:4
When the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth—Gog and Magog—and to gather them for battle. In number they are like the sand on the seashore. They marched across the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of God’s people, the city he loves. But fire came down from heaven and devoured them. And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. The earth and the heavens fled from his presence, and there was no place for them. And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books. The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what they had done. Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death. Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.
Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,” for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’ or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”
The Reality of Evil
“Devastations have bloodied every generation. Does our globe have one square mile of unstained soil? The Hutu slaughtered eight hundred thousand people, primarily Tutsi. Hitler exterminated six million Jews and a half-million Gypsies. American bombs devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Japanese tortured American soldiers. Suicide bombs exploded in Baghdad, and a mass murderer devastated Sandy Hook. It’s not right, it’s not just, it’s not fair that evil prospers.”
-Max Lucado, Unshakable Hope
God has set a day for judgment!
Acts 17:31
For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising him from the dead.”
Evil will lose!
“When you wonder of the wicked will go unpunished or injustices will go unaddressed, let this promise gratify your desire for justice. God will have the final word.”
-Max Lucado, Unshakable Hope
