Mike Bickle emphasizes the significance of Isaiah 2 as a foundational text for understanding the end times, highlighting that Isaiah was entrusted with more revelation about the end times than any other prophet. He explains that the forerunner message reveals God's plan to establish Jerusalem as the epicenter of His reign, filled with love and glory, and that the nations will be drawn to it. Bickle encourages critical thinking and interaction among believers to grasp the fullness of God's message, asserting that the end times are not a doom and gloom narrative but a glorious love story. He stresses the importance of understanding the connection between the earthly and heavenly Jerusalems and the role of believers in this divine plan.

We'll turn to Isaiah chapter 2 We're gonna jump right in father We thank you for the spirit of grace And Holy Spirit we ask you to teach us this marvelous magnificent passage That only you fully understand I ask that you would open it up more and more every time we look at it Come and teach us the book of Isaiah In these next four months in the name of Jesus. Amen Well, we're working systematically through 150 chapters and I wanted to start with Isaiah because Isaiah The Lord has entrusted the prophet Isaiah with more Passages more revelation more information about the end times than any man in the Bible More than John the Apostle in the book of Revelation Isaiah has far more information than anybody else And we're not studying the whole book of Isaiah But rather we're only dealing with the passages related to the end times, but there's a remarkable number of them But not all of them. So we'll be skipping some really good passages because they're not in time oriented So we're looking for the forerunner message. We're looking for Understanding of how we can interpret Jesus and what he's doing and what we say to people and how we say it and we're saying Holy Spirit teach us through the prophet Isaiah here And so it's the forerunner message in Isaiah 2 next week will be the forerunner message in Isaiah 4 Then after that we're gonna go over to Isaiah 9 and Isaiah 9 is amazing 9 and 10 then 11 is a dramatic passage about the end time and every one of them have so many different angles and Kind of turns and twists to it And so the kind of the skeletal structure of the end time message was entrusted to Isaiah Throughout his 66 books and there's quite a few chapters on that Well, I like to say this. I want to say this a lot of times Because it's important paragraph aid I don't ask anyone to accept any of the views that I'm sharing not just on this subject not just tonight on anything I'm saying the same about any of the teachers in our ministry Don't accept anything they say that you don't see with your eyes in your Bible We value critical thinking we value Challenging we just want people to do it in the right spirit of the right way for the right reason but challenging Push back is really a good thing in the kingdom. That's not disloyalty disloyalty is a divisive spirit This loyalty isn't saying no that doesn't sound right Because nobody has it all right We are interacting with different leaders around the world because we are deeply convinced That the fullness of the end time message has been entrusted to the larger Complete the global body of Christ and if we don't interact with leaders over there over there over there over there We're not gonna understand portions of it because every group is only gonna get part of it because the Lord wants us Reaching across the fence so to speak to the other families so that we fall in love with each other that we love each other God wants a family affair in the discovery of this And he says I'm not gonna give it to you You're gonna I'm gonna give a little bit to you a little bit to them a little bit to them And I want you to talk and when you talk you're gonna end up you like each other then you're gonna be loyal to each other and then the International family of affection is going to grow and so this isn't just in times This is every type of a topic, but I just want to say over and over that I value You saying wait, that's not in the Bible. Wait, there's another verse and I have found over the years I've been teaching many times at the Q&A's and the dialogues. I've been corrected. I go. Thank you. I want to be right I don't want to win an argument. I want to be right I want to understand the Bible when I stand before the Lord. I want to say I said it right Lord So I love a pushback and I love correction. I really do Paragraph B Isaiah chapter 2 outlines the foundational truths For the for the end time message. I mean Isaiah not only was entrusted with more than any other man in human history On the end times more than any other man. He was entrusted with more information Isaiah chapter 2 is Strategically his beginning it is it's essential it describes Jesus reigning over the whole earth But the it's not just Jesus reigning. He's expressing his love I mean his zeal to fill the earth with love because if we don't know that That Jesus has a plan that he's to fill the earth with love. He wants to remove Everything that hinders love his plan is to remove pride and drive it off the planet entirely so that for billions of years There's this prosperity and this goodness and if you know, that's what the end time message is. You read it very differently It's not a doom and gloom message. That's not what's going on, but it's a glorious love story About Jesus ushering in a whole new world a new world order But he's doing it with his people and for his people and he's glorifying his father when we grasp that then we look at we look at the negative things through a positive lens because we see redemptive value and Purposes behind the things that are tough and that are challenging paragraph see Well what Isaiah begins with here in chapter 2 it's the foundation of the end times he's begins with Jerusalem the city of Jerusalem in the biblical narrative There's a earthly city in the Millennium that is glorious the most glorious city just in the earthly sense, but the new Jerusalem from heaven comes down and Joins together with the earthly Jerusalem and the combination of this glorious reality of the two cities joined Functioning as Jesus is vast governmental complex that he rules and reigns in and the whole earth is awed by it the beauty of it the splendor of it extravagance of Jerusalem the earthly and the heavenly as one that's the Epicenter of the entire in time plan with a glorious beautiful man sitting on a throne in the middle of it If we don't see that then we only see judgments or we see Sin growing or the devil raging and we lose our way so quickly if we're not anchored in Isaiah chapter 2 Well Abraham was very similar to Isaiah miss I mean Isaiah. He first is concerned about Jerusalem that you would see the city Well Abraham at the very beginning of his journey when God called him. He left his home and Began to travel didn't know where he was going because it says in Hebrews chapter 11 He was looking for a city and that was the new Jerusalem actually He was looking for the city and Isaiah says hey the father of our faith This was right in front of him. It changed his perspective. It reordered his paradigm of life It reordered his priorities. He was looking for a city. So it's not a small thing to say Isaiah begins by showing the city Now he just he says it, you know, just a few couple really important phrases But the Holy Spirit knew that with the rest of the testimony of Scripture those few phrases Would have such vast implications that we're gonna look at those, you know, Stephen Covey said it He says you begin with the end in mind So and it you know in in the book that he wrote the seven habits of highly effective people He said begin with the end in mind Because if you don't have the right end, you're gonna get distorted again your view of judgments gonna look the intensity of judgment you're gonna get offended by it or The wisdom of being committed to Jesus you might lose a touch of that because you don't know how glorious this thing's gonna end or the the Revelation of his love he is so extravagant. He's paid so much attention to detail in Planning where this whole thing is going when we see Jerusalem Then we Jesus is zeal for we understand Satan's rage against Jerusalem Then we understand why we stand for Israel a lot of really on-fire believers go I don't do that Israel thing and I go because you don't understand Jerusalem. Well, my church didn't do the Israel thing. Well, Jerusalem Abraham was really grabbed by it and Isaiah put it right in the middle of the end time right the very beginning of the end time plan Paragraph D. Look at Jerusalem now. Remember it's Jerusalem above it's the New Jerusalem is descending down to the earth and it's got to have a dynamic connection a dynamic conversion with the earthly Jerusalem and Jesus's throne is in the New Jerusalem and his throne is in the earthly Jerusalem and they're connected and it's one throne and what I call a vast governmental complex of Splendor that's beyond anything we could imagine. It's not two thrones. It's one throne It's one vast complex part of its touching the ground and part of us the whole heavenly realm and this dynamic Convergence together with it and here's what Isaiah says later in chapter 60 that the Lord is going to make Jerusalem an eternal excellence so we know that there's something about this city that when we see the city and the king in it and we see our Inheritance with the king and the city being radical for God makes total sense right now when you see that No cost is too great. No cost is too great. He said Isaiah said the Lord's making it an eternal excellence. It's gonna be the joy of generations I don't want to wait till then to get joy. I want to get excited by it now I want to understand a bit about where I'm going the city I belong to the city of my beloved King look at Isaiah 62 says God's gonna make it a praise in the earth What's that mean? That means all over the earth in the millennial kingdom Every city every person will be talking about Jerusalem. They'll be saying have you been there? No, but I'm going next year Oh my goodness put your seatbelt on it is unbelievable, not just the splendor the wisdom the Generosity the goodness of that city the love the impartation of God you get when you go in that city I mean the whole earth will be praising the city of Jerusalem That's what it means that Jerusalem would be appraised in the earth because the king will be in it But the extravagance the beauty the anointing the wisdom the company and the connection with people that you'll have When you're in that city, it's quite remarkable Quite remarkable turn to paragraph 2 if you would or Roman numeral 2 The glory of the Lord in Jerusalem. Let's kind of read it and at first you might not catch Well, I don't lots of things we I don't catch in this it's bigger than we think it is I mean the the message the content that's here Let's read this now, but it's good to know that Micah chapter 4 is almost word-for-word With here Isaiah chapter 2 verse 2 and 3 My assumption is that Micah copied this prophecy from him could have been the other way around But I think Isaiah if I had to guess That I would think that he got it first because Isaiah said in chapter 2 verse 1 he goes I saw this in a vision So I think that he's the one that got it and then Micah said hey this works for me I feel the presence of God when I read this and so he put it in his book too. This is a Passage that is so glorious But much of its glory is often missed. I've heard people talk about this passage I mean many times over the years and the the ultimate glory is rarely ever talked about and I don't know there's more I mean they talk about a little bit. I don't know way more than what you're saying. You're not gay I mean, there's something that's so excellent. That's so Grabbing our heart when we see the city in a proper way It will come to pass verse 2 in the last days. We're talking about the millennia the Millennial Kingdom when Jesus returns Now here's there's two distinct phrases. I want you to get here's the number one the mountain of the Lord's house That's phrase number one it will be established. Here's phrase number two on the top of the mountains So Isaiah is saying two very important statements that are distinct from each other the mountain of the Lord's house is Established on top of the mountains Yes, it's going to be exalted even on top of all the hills And he says all the nations are going to be so touched by it and so Attracted to it. The nations are gonna flow to this city like a river. It's never gonna end That's why they're using the word flowing It's like the nation's the the line of visitors from the earth throughout the thousand years will never end verse 3 the the Dialogue the conversation around the nations. Here's what they'll be saying all over Asia and Africa North and South America and Europe and the islands. There's what the people say verse 3. This will be the testimony many people shall say Hey come with me we're making a trip to Jerusalem we live in Asia, but we're going to see Jesus in Jerusalem We live in Canada, but we're going to see Jesus in Jerusalem. Come let us go up. Let's go to the mountain of the Lord Let's go to his house This is his actual house. It's a temple, but it's his house It's the earthly Jerusalem and the heavenly Jerusalem joined together Paragraph B. Well, here's the the magnitude of it. It starts paragraph B here with the phrase The I mean we can see the magnitude of it with this phrase the mountain of the Lord's house Jesus's house is Literally a house that's larger than a mountain It's a mountain house. This is not figurative Many commentators they say well, no, it's just a mountain because it's important. No, it is a mountain house his house because of the New Jerusalem is over 1,500 miles high beloved. It's a mountain house. It is Staggering nothing in human history has ever entered the mind of a man like this mountain house So that's the house we're talking about that's going to be at the capital city of the earth that vast governmental complex of the earth So it's a literally it's a house that's larger than a mountain paragraph C Now this house is not just a mountain house Secondly, it's sitting on top of the mountains. That's a very different point than it being a mountain house It's sitting in the highest elevation of any other place Certainly in the Middle East maybe the whole world. I don't know but it's on top its elevation Where it's sitting that wherever people are in around the world, you know within sight that city is the city on the hill in the ultimate Literal reality Jesus talked about a city on a hill. He meant it in the Sermon on the Mount He was being figurative, but he's thinking that's my city my city will be on the mountain the top of the mountains now the the Lord's Mountain house will be on the top of the mountains that around Jerusalem But currently the mountains around Jerusalem are actually lower Than mountains in the area like the Mount of Olives is actually higher than the mount where the temple is But all that's going to change there's going to be some Dramatic changes in the topography and that's what the prophets talk about. Let's look at page two Because I want you to grasp this mountain house The topography is going to be drastically changed related to the return of the Lord Well, there's a two verses in Zechariah that give us some insight Zechariah 4 I mean 14 verse 4 When the Lord returns the second coming He stands on the Mount of Olives and when he stands on the Mount of Olives it splits The Mount of Olives right now is higher than the mountain where the temple is in Jerusalem right now The Mount of Olives splits when his feet touch it and that's gonna completely change the topography of that area And so the whole region is going to be greatly altered It's both going to be leveled It's going to be completely made flat and then it's going to be elevated to the highest elevation But completely leveled and when you say well, what do you mean leveled look at chapter Zechariah 14 verse 10? Let's go a few verses later in Zechariah 14 Now this is talking about when the Lord returns all the land Talking about Jerusalem now in context will be turned into a plane Well, if you've been to Jerusalem or if you've even seen it through media It's all hills and ravines and valleys and mountains, but it's going to be completely a smooth plane Well, how's that gonna happen? Well, Jesus is gonna touch it and split it and that's gonna move a bunch of bunch of rock But he said here's how graphic this is gonna be that from gibbet Which is six miles north of Jerusalem to remnant which is 35 miles south so say five miles north to 35 miles south a 40 mile area a 40 mile that's here to the airport a 40 mile area It's gonna be turned completely flat But it's not only gonna be leveled it's going to be raised to it's the highest elevation of anything Inside or in there. We don't know if it's highest in the world. It might be. I mean, I wouldn't surprise me because when you read the book of Revelation in Revelation 11 right before the Lord comes with the two witnesses a great earthquake hits Jerusalem then a revelation 16 a great earthquake hits in the bowls and it all the cities of the earth are moved and The Lord's moving all the geography the topography He's shifting it because he's building his capital city and it's going to be a 40 miles this way a plane And it's going to be exalted and elevated above Any of the the the ground around it now Isaiah chapter 40. This is a verse we've read But sometimes we just purely make it figurative because it has a figurative application But the figurative application is only a partial meaning there's a literal meaning of Isaiah chapter 40 Every valley shall be exalted Every mountain and hill will be brought low. This is what Zachariah talked about. It's gonna be a plane that's going to be leveled and elevated and the glory of the Lord will be revealed and We know this isn't just a one-time revival because it's the glory revealed when the entire human race sees it So it's clear to the Second Coming So related to the Second Coming It's not just because we read this verse Figuratively like the valleys in our life the low spots are going to be brought into balance and that really does mean that There is a personal figurative application but there's a literal one about the glory of Jerusalem where all the valleys are going to be leveled out and all the mountains and hills are going to be brought low because the Lord is Creating a setting and he's and it's so important to him. He puts it in the Prophet's mouth Thousands of years ahead of time because it means that much to him this 40 mile kind of diameter area That this plane is going to be happening in okay paragraph e Now EF and G what I talk about here. You can read this on your own and I appreciate this that I Appreciate this interpretation, but I don't want to limit this glorious passage to this interpretation the very popular way to read this passage is that people see the mountain of the Lord figuratively as the church and the mountain of the Lord the way that it's on top of everything is we're preaching and we have influence over the spheres of society So we're over them and there I have no doubt that the Holy Spirit uses this passage for that But that's only a little bit of what this passage is about this passage is about the glory of the New Jerusalem in the age to come and They see the mountains only as a figure of speech and then when you read the rest of the passage There's these instruments swords and plowshares and spears. They just see those as symbols, you know They all kind of different groups give different interpretations and they go It's really just the gospel being preached Over the mountain of media and the mountain of education and the mountain of this and the mountain of that and again I appreciate that because the Lord wants the church to go forward But the the full meaning of this passage the grand meaning of this passage is the Lord says no My mountain house is what I am talking about ultimately and I'm you can feel free to use that passage that way And I mean, I think the Holy Spirit uses that way, but you don't want to limit this most magnificent passage to Christian ministry in this age It's something far bigger because if it's Christian ministry in this age A lot of people are involved in it and they get discouraged they get bitter they get in strife They get burnout but when I see the city and the man behind it and he planned it for me and that my in my inheritance is there and that he's thought every detail and I see his Extravagance then commitment seems, you know I don't want to lose that By only seeing Christian ministry because of Christian ministries all this verse means Then there you go the body of Christ Christian ministry doesn't keep people steady. They they get discouraged They quit they fall into sin. They better they all kinds of negative things that happen But this is an anchor point of you know, Abraham was gripped by it. Isaiah was gripped by it Jesus said that's the city of the great king is my city. That's what I'm locked into this city So I want you to catch that because again if you lose this then the end time storyline There's a doom and gloom and it's negative and no no, there's a city being prepared It's gonna fill the earth for a part of it. It's worth it. And so this is critical that we lock into this reality Okay, it says that all the nations are gonna flow to a paragraph H All the nations are gonna flow to it now Zechariah touches that Zechariah talks a lot about Jerusalem like Isaiah Isaiah and Zechariah would be the two guys that talk more about Jerusalem than anybody else particular Isaiah 60 to 62 and Zechariah chapter 1 and 2 those are passages. They're just Jerusalem Jerusalem Jerusalem Jerusalem and Jerusalem in the age to come I mean and and and that's our home man, and I want to know I'm gonna walk around Jerusalem You know the verse that talks about walk around Jerusalem. I'm gonna study it. I'm gonna meditate I want to talk about it. I want to get people excited about Jerusalem because it's our inheritance It makes the this journey worth it and again we can interpret the the journey very differently if we're see the man and the city in our inheritance and our family and billions of years and the glory and the Extravagance of Jesus in it. He's thought of every detail. He's spared. No expense I mean all of this like a wow Jesus you're amazing And then you know the critics say well if God is a God of love how come this is that it's happening I go he is a God of love. Have you seen the plan and do you know where we're going God of love? Are you kidding? He's extravagant pays attention to detail. He's super giving he's everything. Yes. He's a God of love Well, he's a God of love. Why did that earthquake happen? Well look there's a billion-year plan going on and that's just the beginning of it But look here in Zechariah the people from this is in the Millennium again This is people with natural bodies They're gonna come from many cities and they want to go up to Jerusalem and this thing is, you know in Isaiah He said they're gonna go for teaching Zechariah says they're gonna go up many people verse 22 strong nations They're gonna go up to for prayer meetings and worship gatherings. They want to seek the Lord. They want to go on spiritual retreats They want to go there just get in the prayer room think what the prayer rooms like and that vast temple governmental complex But Jesus there, oh my goodness, I mean the seraphim and the cherubim they're all gonna pray Hey, I want to roll next to Jesus, you know, I mean the whole gang is gonna be there gangs Not the right way. I mean the whole company of Billions of angels and I mean, oh, this is exciting. Okay Roman number three that's not tonight's gonna be a little different because I'm I'm doing more than just verse by verse because I want to anchor us in the storyline and that's what Isaiah does here Actually, he wants us anchored in the storyline. But the reason I'm taking more time. I'm Cautious that people don't just go. Oh, yeah the mountain. Yeah. Yeah. I heard about that and move on Like what if they didn't take your breath away you haven't understood it And so go back and do another read because if you don't read it, right You're gonna get distorted in the storyline and you're gonna end up negative and cynical and you're gonna give up on it because it's not Gonna be worth it. But if you get this thing, right, then it's gonna really get ahold of you Okay Roman number three I'm gonna talk just I want the the folks that have been here for a while just to be patient for a couple moments Because this is kind of real basic material But without this part of the picture you can't understand Jerusalem without understanding the Millennium There's four or five points about the Millennium. You have to understand in order to get what Jerusalem is about and So we know there's a thousand-year reign We have it right there in Revelation 20 at this time The kingdom of God in that thousand years is going to be manifest the Garden of Eden Conditions are going to fill the earth now. They're not going to fill the earth the first moment They're going to be Garden of Eden conditions in Jerusalem And it's progressively the Garden of Eden conditions are going to progressively cover the earth The glory of the Lord the knowledge of his glory will cover the earth the Garden of Eden thing will grow grow I think it will take a thousand years Because it's not just that its presence grows it's going to be matured and tested and everywhere Righteousness and the I'm saying Garden of Eden more as a generic phrase. I really mean agriculture and animals and atmosphere I really do mean that but I mean thinking of the social order that would be Idealistic in the Garden of Eden just the love and the order that whole thing will really I think it will take a thousand years That's why it is because it progressively grows and you and I with resurrected bodies will be working in the midst of it We're not going to be floating on a cloud Playing a harp. We're gonna live in the New Jerusalem work in the earth with people that have physical natural bodies the Unsafe survivors of the Great Tribulation They'll still be alive and they'll have children and they've got to get saved and then they'll fix it They'll die and you'll have a resurrected body and you'll be interacting with them and Knowing that makes Jerusalem a very different Look when we see the larger story turn to page three if you would Again, the the old-timers just give me just a couple minutes on this I won't go in a lot on this and I have a lot on our on our internet We're gonna cover the Millennium a bunch of times different facets of it It's just all over the passage all over the storyline is the Millennial Kingdom Paragraph B the centerpiece if you don't get this You're not going to understand the Millennial Kingdom if you don't get this next point Ephesians chapter 1 tells us that the heavenly realm and the earthly realm are coming together on the earth That's the critical centerpiece information that Jesus is going to bring the heavenly realm the Supernatural realm of heaven with a manifest presence the Holy Spirit power He's bringing that realm and the earthly realm where there's physical sensation. There's food. There's natural human process He's bringing them together on the earth So when Jesus returns, he's bringing the New Jerusalem down to the earth beloved You're gonna live on the you're gonna be involved with the earth forever and forever I mean we were made to like this, you know to like the dirt, you know We want to be here and we want to be on the earth and I have good news for you You're gonna be on the earth with a perfect resurrected body. You're gonna enjoy food. You're going to learn you're going to teach You're gonna have new relationships You're gonna watch that the area of your responsibility grow and progress in a way that will benefit other people's lives Just like now but there'll be no Frustration like without I mean he had this the curse that his work had frustration He had the hot Sun and sweat which is frustration everything he did It was three steps forward two steps back three steps forward three steps back three steps forward two seconds Ah, that's the curse, but we're gonna have work with no curse And we're gonna have but you're gonna actually eat real physical food and have real Relationships and really work on the earth because these two realms are coming together Now folks going on out Who's here? Who's there? What paragraph C? There's three types of people very simple little point here There's three types of people on the earth when Jesus appears in the sky in flaming fire There's the Saints so they're raptured and caught up to meet the Lord in the air. So the rapture There's the what I call the reprobate because I wanted them all to start with are the same letter so I could remember him They took the mark of the beast so they can they'll never repent. They are hard in their conscience is hard They will never ever repent and they can't be saved. That's why I call them the reprobate But there's a third category and you can see there's quite a few verses on it. It's what I call the resistors They resisted the Antichrist not because they love God Because they were nationalists or because they didn't like the Antichrist, you know The analogy I always use is the French resistance in World War two They didn't fight for France because they love Jesus necessarily I mean, I'm sure if you did they fought for France because they love France and hated Hitler and So there's gonna be a number of people around the earth that they're not taking the mark of the beast but not for religious reasons No, I'm not. No, this is not gonna happen. I'm not gonna worship that guy I'm gonna fight against him and there are resistors and and The Antichrist will try to kill him and he'll kill some of them for not taking the mark but millions and millions and millions I mean nobody knows the number but let me just make up a number. This is completely Arbitrary there could be hundreds of millions of these resistors I don't think there will be billions because when you look at the numbers of the judgments and the persecution But it could be hundreds of millions They're not raptured and they didn't take the mark of the beast and Jesus comes and he did when Jesus comes He doesn't wave his hand and they all disappear when Jesus comes, you know Bill down in, Texas He's still there in his old pickup truck with his dog in a shotgun going. He's still there Yeah, I'm not worshiping that Antichrist. It ain't happening here. You know, I could picture Bill in Texas You know good old boy. He's just not going to I don't know about those Bible people, but I'm just not going to that's it Well, anyway, he's still there when Jesus comes. He didn't evaporate. He's right there and he's like, you know, wow, Jesus in the sky He had like Christ thrown in the pit. It was Mildred. Did you see all that? What's going on? That was amazing Are you watching the news? This is incredible It's gonna be the strangest few months Strangest but old Bill and Mildred they're gonna make it through it and they're gonna they'll have children and their children have children They'll populate the earth and because Lifespans will increase like in the days of Noah before the flood probably the thousand years I'm guessing will only be three or four generations because you know, they'll go back. I think with no curse No, Satan. No that you know the Tremendous power of God all the demons are off the planet Satan's in prison And I think the lifespan is going to go back up, you know in Noah's day The average lifespan was 900 years Then after the flood it began to go down and it got down to 120 that it got down to 70 or 80 Okay, so those are the the resistors are the ones that are on the earth and they're having children They're the ones that out of that group become kings on the earth with natural bodies But the Saints of the resurrection of resurrected bodies live in the New Jerusalem You'll be kings with resurrected bodies you'll be over the kings with resurrected bodies will have the position of authority the the higher position and Responsibility to the Lord for the different parts of the earth Like right now, you know, we have human beings have responsibility for the earth But if we could lift the veil, there's angels all around us that have more Responsibility over our geographic areas than we do Well when the Lord comes the veil is going to be lifted There's going to be an open heaven all the angels will be in the New Jerusalem with us There won't be any veil and the devil will be in prison But instead of the angels being over the top leaders of the earth It will be resurrected Saints will have the position of authority over the people with natural bodies That's why the resurrected Saints are said they're going to reign and rule but they're gonna be working in concert with them You know what a person the resurrected body Interacting with a person with a natural body. Yes, because that's what happened when Jesus for 40 days after the resurrection He has a resurrected body the Apostles have a natural body. He eats food with them. He eats their food He teaches them he hugs them He walks through the wall comes back through the wall sits down with him and for 40 days We get a snapshot of what it will be like in the interaction of those two realms We just get a little window right there in Acts chapter 1 Well paragraph II The New Jerusalem descends to the earth now if you read the Bible careful We'll get down to the details of this in the in the future in these hundred fifty chapters the New Jerusalem descends twice It descends at the beginning of the Millennium and then it descends again after the Great Rebellion at the end of the Millennium where the rebellion is a very momentary one where Satan rises up and he's wiped out and it's over and so it's a very I think a very Not long-lasting kind of deal then the New Jerusalem comes down on the new heavens in the new earth, etc But can you imagine I mean we've read this verse around here over the years New Jerusalem descending it almost just becomes a point We make I was looking at that I go what? a hundred and I mean a 1,500 mile Celestial city with supernatural elements with Jesus is thrown with all the angels is Coming down to the earth to stay are you and to completely? affect the whole atmosphere of planet earth and all that happens and we're gonna live in it like it's coming like Wow, cuz I want to go to heaven, but I want to stay on the earth But I want to stay on the earth, but I want to go to heaven and the Lord says don't worry I put both of them in your heart You're gonna be on the earth forever with all the conditions of heaven and you're gonna be interacting with the king in the city You got it made. It's worth this whole thing is worth it Paragraph F. So when this new Jerusalem descends, it's gonna descend in proximity to the earthly one and I call it the mountain city house It's the mountain house. It's the city house. It's the temple It's all together this vast governmental complex That is the earthly and the heavenly throne of Jesus is one throne. He doesn't have two thrones Look here on the notes here Revelation 22 the throne of Jesus is in the New Jerusalem Exodus 43 the throne of Jesus is in the Millennial Temple on the earth Well is the throne on the earth in the Millennial Temple or is the throne in the New Jerusalem? It's in both It's a big throne. It's a it's a governmental complex is what the term I use Jeremiah 3 says it real clear The city is called the throne of God I Mean this 40 mile plane will be the small part of the throne the 40 miles It's turned into a plane and who knows what's gonna be built all around it and all the entrances and all that But it will I'm just I'm picturing it. This doesn't mean it's biblical what this thing I'm saying next but this 40 mile plane that Zechariah 14 verse 10 talked about then you look up and I'm picturing You know like a of a diamond like a V, you know, it gets bigger and bigger I don't know if it works that way but it's 1500 miles of wall wide and and I'm picturing like a triangle-shaped city and the very smallest part is that 400 that 40 miles right there that where the where the geography has been elevated and made into a plane paragraph G I'm just having a ball right now because I'm just I'm just forgetting you guys right now. I'm just thinking all about me right now I'm a lord. This is this awesome. I love you. Okay paragraph G The kings of the earth now, these are guys Revolution 21. These are men and women with natural bodies. They're they're the Children the offspring of the unsaved survivors that got saved. I mean after they survived the Great Tribulation They did get saved. These are their children the kings of the earth, you know, you know You know in those generations for that thousand years They bring the glory of their nation into the New Jerusalem because the New Jerusalem has proximity to the earth where? People with physical bodies can go in and out of it. I'm sure there's special Protocols and I don't think it's like, you know, you get a vacation pass and you just get you know, all-access pass I don't think it works that way But the kings of the earth bring the glory of their nation as offerings to the Lord Now look what Isaiah says Isaiah comments on this to Verse 2 Isaiah 60 the Lord will arise over Jerusalem. His glory will be seen this is millennial Jerusalem and The Gentiles which means all the nations all over Asia and Africa and Latin America and North America and everywhere Europe All of the Gentiles they will see the light of that city not just inspired by the light in the figurative sense They will actually see the light of that city as well as be touched by the spiritual light of understanding The Kings will come to this city. They'll just be drawn by the brightness of the city They'll be drawn by it. The Kings go, you know I want to go back to New Jerusalem and give I want to give another offering for my nation to it They'll actually enter into the New Jerusalem now look at paragraph H I love Psalm 84 this is the clearest Response the Kings we have that the Kings will make the response the Kings will make when they go into the city so just picture a contingency of Kings from Asia and a contingency of Kings from Africa or just any nation and they're coming a whole Company and all the protocols and you know, there's a lot of honor and processions in the human sense and they come to the city Psalm 45 because they come I guess regularly, I guess I don't know that I'd be guessing on that But here's what Psalm 48 great is the Lord in the city of our God. He goes. Yeah, it's the holy mountain It's the mountain city. We're talking about the mountain city the big one then he says this phrase That's very significant he goes it's beautiful in its elevation That means the city's 1,500 miles high. It's beautiful in its elevation and it's sitting on the top of all the mountains That's literal. It's it's it's Location its stature this position is awesome in beauty when they look at it That's what beautiful in elevation means it's been elevated and the city is a mountain city It's the joy of the horse the whole earth the king gets back. He says I you know I can't even talk about what to do here in Asia here. I'm so gripped by what I saw You know, I can't even do my work anymore They the whole earth talks about Jerusalem and the king and their times there And I mean it captures the conversation the dialogue of the earth the conversation of the earth It's the city of the great king Now this is the verse Jesus used in the Sermon on the mountain when he called Jerusalem the city of the great king He meant his city. He was quoting this now Here's what I like verse four and five and six behold the Kings assembled So here's this group from Asia or from North America They passed by the city together this whole company of them. I could just picture it They saw it verse 5 they marveled the guys like He's troubled. He's starting to tremble and the old king says son first time here I've never they warned me and he starts trembling and he hastens he goes I gotta get out of here the old king says no. No, this is good. It's love He is absolutely Overwhelmed and it says we're six fear. This is godly fear takes hold of and I think it's the new Kings The pain as a woman. There's like ah, this is more than I could handle This my circuits, I'm I'm getting blown overblown it, you know a thousand volts in my little 220 unit It's not working right now in my humanity. It's it's You know Isaiah had a little glimpse of the glory in Isaiah 6 and he just fell down dread of God Whoa was me couldn't talk couldn't do anything Well, these Kings are gonna have natural bodies like Isaiah did but they're gonna see the glory Upfront in a way that I think far beyond what Isaiah saw and when any of the prophets saw the Lord They tremble but there these guys are gonna have a whole nother level. They're right there looking at the city top of page 4 the Millennial Jerusalem will be an epicenter from which the Garden of Eden blessings, they just progressively go forth paragraph J The city will be progressing I mean the government of the earth it says in Isaiah 9 the increase of his government in the New Jerusalem in The Millennium there's no end Upon the throne of David over his kingdom. Here's what he's going to do. These are two very key phrases He's gonna order his kingdom and he's going to establish it meaning he's going to appoint resurrected believers Give them positions of authority those resurrected believers will interact with people with natural bodies in Every sphere of society it has to be ordered set in place It's got to be established and it's going to increase in its wisdom and its impact and its quality Over time just like it does in this age The Lord wants the process of the growth and the interaction of his people He could come and wave his hand and have everything in order. He goes. No, I don't want to do it I want to do it step by step with my people and you will be working Meaningfully meaningful work you will do things that bring change that that increase the quality of people's lives paragraph K says in Revelation 20 John said I saw thrones and judgment was given to the Saints just what's that mean? It was committed to him. The Saints will make real evaluations They got to build the infrastructures of society with the others. They're establishing and ordering the kingdom I mean there's agriculture there's education There's banking not for the the resurrected Saints aren't going to need all of those things some of them they will but not all of those but the people on the earth will but they'll be under the authority of the resurrected Saints and Judgment and what judgment is not negative it means the real Authority to evaluate the set in order to make decisions and they will do it throughout the whole thousand years and in that way They'll be reigning with Christ. We won't be will be reigning in a relational way not robotic You know where we get, you know, the message from headquarters and we just simply implement it No, we'll use our personality. We use our wisdom We'll say well Jesus, you know in the city that I'm involved in this and this and this and this they're going Yeah, yeah, that's good that that works Well, I was thinking about doing this way too. Well that works, too Well Lord, what do you want? Well Lord says well How do you like it? I made you unique and you and me are friends. How do you well, I prefer that I guess that's good. That's good. Go go do it. I'm with you That's what real government is. It's like we do it in this age, but we do it far more You know fallacy and deficiency, but it's the same reality. We we can pick some things We have different tastes and styles and ways and all of that will be involved again now paragraph L the two types of Kings and there's other governmental roles not just Kings the Kings are just kind of a Picture if there's Kings there's all the other groups underneath the Kings there There's the Kings of the resurrected bodies and they're over the Kings with natural bodies just like in this realm right now the angelic host would have a greater impact than even the You know The the key makes a decision and the angel visit and there's a far greater impact when the angelic is involved in that kind of way Okay, let's look at a Roman numeral four Okay, many peoples we're going back to the verse again Many peoples will come and they will say let us come to the mountain of the Lord That's where we were a minute ago. Let's go up to the house of the Lord. Let's go to the next point Because we want teaching from Jesus now the main thing. I mean the thing that Isaiah emphasizes He'll be teaching the Word of God, but Jesus will is the greater Solomon He will teach the leaders of the nation's agriculture He'll say if you do it this way with these seeds and you get the seeds from the leaves of the tree of life It was really going to help your your fields grow better and your crops will be better Your livestock will be better if you take the water and the seeds from Jerusalem the tree of life and the water of life It's really going to help your agriculture and so that's why it says that the Kings will take the leaves from the trees and bring them back for the healing of their nation because there'll be components I'm assuming in those leaves that will affect the atmosphere and the Agriculture and the livestock and everything else and you know in a in a very big way not just a little way So he's not just teaching the Bible though. That's that's what we like the most talking about the father and the kingdom ways I think he's the greater song Solomon. He'll teach Electronic I mean technology. I mean to the to the to the people of natural bodies You think Bill Gates and Steve Jobs did a good job. Jesus knows Everything about technology, he'll say, you know, those guys are pretty good. Let me tell you some stuff. Nobody knew Let me tell you some things about science about medicine. Let me tell you about economy Let me tell you how government works. Let me tell you about education how educational systems will work They will come over and over the nations to Jerusalem to this grand governmental Temple complex and he will teach them the ways of God in every sphere of life the greater Solomon And the Word of the Lord will go forth from Jerusalem, and I think it's the scripture the knowledge of God But I also believe that the prophetic Directive now word from the heaven for that city in that nation will come regularly out of Jerusalem Verse four, but it's not stopping there with teaching. He's gonna judge between nations He's gonna rebuke people when they get there. He's gonna get the leaders together Let's look at a paragraph Let me see top of page 5d, let's look under Judge and rebuke. This is Jesus in Jerusalem on his throne when all the leaders come before him He's gonna judge and rebuke And I see he does this now and he's gonna do it openly with world I mean openly seen for the whole world when he comes But I think he's gonna do this more and more openly the closer we get to his return This rebuking and judging, of course people in this age They don't like him rebuking and judging but him his rebuking and judging is what's going to cause war to go away His rebuking and judging he's gonna make a paragraph the authoritative decisions in international issues Like border disputes the abuse of civil rights in the past or maybe some of the Kings are like, you know Not doing it just right because the Kings will still have a sin in their life and they need to be born again And they need to repent. I need to renew their mind. They won't be living in sinless perfection. They'll have natural bodies and Jesus, you know, I put down just a few here ideas here just to kind of get your mind around it They'll have water and mineral rights Economic issues past grievances and a hill said I have here on Matthew 25 on the throne of glory in Jerusalem here. It's called the throne of his glory All the nations will gather he'll decide between nations He'll tell Kings about border disputes water supplies oil. He'll settle everything He'll say you can't treat people this way with that policy in your nation. That's not good And it's not okay because the scripture makes it clear that through the Millennium that he rules with a rod of iron meaning He says no, there are things I'm not negotiating There are some things that he allows decision and flexibility But other things he'll say to the Kings you can't make that law and let people be treated that way No, you can't do that. And there's no room on this one He will be intervening with a rod of iron and that's the Millennial Kingdom Meaning there'll be a police force. They will be a people that will sin and they will be stopped in their sin because again, there'll be people's natural bodies and We'll have resurrected bodies. It is going to be the most glorious thing There'll be no more war. So we don't like Jesus I don't mean we us but I mean the the human race doesn't like Jesus rebuking or Jesus judging But look at paragraph II when he does it war goes away if he's listened to war goes away and So he has a way of wisdom. Nobody else has so that when he amps up things Leading to his return. I trust him because When his decisions are implemented meant that war goes away peace comes Righteousness comes and there's joy in the whole earth So I said if that's how you lead then when all the restraints of human resistance and free will That resistance is not any way humans will still have a free will but they'll agree with him when when there's agreement with you There's peace and joy and righteousness in the earth. So I believe you're doing it now Though I can't see all your leadership But I don't know why the book of Revelation some of the judgments against the Antichrist Empire are so intense He says no, I'm about love and peace and goodness when I have my way war goes away Okay, top middle page five. I'm just gonna take another a couple moments here and again, typically Well, I'll go through the passages this one I want to do a theme I won't typically take a theme, but I'll do mostly the the line by line But you can't do in times without starting in Isaiah chapter 2 Jerusalem is center of the story with a king with the whole earth gripped by him paying attention That's where the storyline only makes sense is right there so don't ever grow out of that storyline and When you train others in the end times or talk about it and they want to talk about how bad and gloomy Always bring them back to Jen to Revelation. I mean Isaiah chapter 2. That's the that's the North Star That's the alignment place for Isaiah's prophetic teaching. So now here in Reveille. I mean Roman numeral 5 the next from verse 6 to verse 22 now Isaiah moves from the distant future and he says now Jerusalem. He goes here's the deal And now I'm gonna let you read this mostly on your own. He says you're not walking this way and this is your future This is the future for your nation He says the Gentiles are gonna come to Jerusalem, but here you are in Jerusalem He's talking to people from Jerusalem and you won't even obey the Lord right now You live in Jerusalem just because you know, this is a future glory in the Millennium, but still you're in the city You're the covenant community and the Gentiles are gonna flock here all over the world but you're not even paying attention to the Word of the Lord, so he's rebuking him and So he lays out and you could read the sins that they were Being charged with back in Isaiah's day and those sins they were charged with are the very sins that the Jews And the Gentiles at the end of the age are going to be challenged with and if they don't repent They'll be charged with it So this is a a bit of an insight as to what the Lord deems as important because what was true in Jerusalem back then in Isaiah's day. He's 2700 BC 7. I mean 700 BC 2700 years ago 700 plus but Anyway, so he's rebuking them, but he's saying Prophetically Israel at the end of the age. These are the issues for you to Gentiles at the end of the age. This is for you to be careful because if God's gonna judge it back in my day 2700 years ago in Isaiah's day you can be sure and the generation where Satan is raging and the glory of God's about to hit the Earth he's going to hold nations accountable. So these are very real issues going on here Turned to the top of page 6 if you would just want to see the very last paragraph H so he He talks a little bit about their contemporary sin and it's clear He's not only talking about the generation 2700 years ago, but he was also Forecasting the sin of Jews and Gentiles at the end of the age Because he's he's going back and forth between his generation in the age his generation the end age He's saying it's a you're doing it in part now, but you're gonna do it in fullness there Meaning those that are rebelling against God because there will be a remnant Among the Jews and the Gentiles that obey the Lord's called the Great Harvest and so paragraph H He's going back between his present situation to the end of the age and Isaiah does this a lot And we'll get used to that as we study through the the forerunner passages Then he he says to them verse 10. This is a sarcastic statement now. He's he's at the day of the Lord He's talking to the generation the Lord returns. He says enter into the rock He's talking to the people who have resisted the Lord in these sins that he's outlined that I'm Skipping just for time sake because I want to bring this to an end So he charges them with their sin and I got it all in the notes here And then he gives them this sarcastic exhortation because they won't repent He says well if you won't repent well, then enter the rock and hide from the terror of the Lord And meaning if you're gonna say no to him Well, then go hide from him and see where that gets you and and this is sarcastic He's not saying they're gonna hide in the cave and God's gonna say where'd they go? Where'd that little guy go? I lost him. No, he's he's he's mocking them He says you're involved in idols and God's about to shake the whole earth and you're gonna go run go hide in a cave Because when God shakes the earth the cave isn't a good place to be when the earth shakes So when you're reading this passage, I want you to get the tone of it Here's where it's going the lofty looks of man Particularly he's thinking about the Antichrist Empire in fullness at the end of the age The Lord is going to humble it. The Lord is going to not just men in general. Yes He's gonna humble everyone that says no to him. But there's a there's this man who's gonna rise up with Incredible arrogance with an empire that's gonna seem invincible before the whole world And that's what's in view here in the in the ultimate sense It's not only about the Antichrist, but the Lord alone will be exalted because the whole earth will be worshiping the Antichrist I don't mean every person but in every nation people will be worshiping him But only for a minute because the Lord alone is going to be the only one worshipped when he shakes the earth Verse 12 for the day of the Lord. It's coming the day of the Lord is coming He's going to bring down everything that resists him and he's talking about the high and mighty miracles the world power the invincibility of that Empire that's persecuting the church and Israel at the end of the age we're gonna look at this passage and the Lord we're gonna we're gonna be Strengthened by it and he tells these guys verse verse 12. It's the day of the Lord He's gonna remove pride entirely from the earth. The Lord is not about just getting something off his chest He wants to fill the universe with human the earth with humility and love. He wants pride Eradicated off the earth what he's doing is only for good and it says that in that day Verse 18 your idols will be utterly abolished Because the Antichrist movement will be an idol worship movement because the Antichrist will have Statues or images all over the earth and the mark of the beast and the earth will be involved in worshiping and that's idolatry Beyond any time in history across the earth, but it's going to be it's going to be proven when the Lord comes as utterly powerless And that's what Isaiah is saying ahead of time now He's telling to everybody through history that idols are utterly powerless But he's going in the hour when they seem powerful when they seem connected to that Supernaturally demonically empowered man and his statues or images and his mark across the earth I promise you a moment later. His power will get you nowhere. It will all be broken and come to nothing So this is a it's a very powerful verse. He says verse 19 He says all the Antichrist guys again, he's he's saying this as a mockery go into the holes of the rocks of the earth Go high when God arises to a mightily shake the earth and see where that gets you He really wants him to repent but because they said no, we're not going to repent He says well then take your own chances He says verse 20 in that day a man will cast away his idols of silver and gold. He'll throw them away he'll throw them to the bat caves into the moles because if The the logic is if somebody had an idol of silver and gold if they put money into their idol That means they were more loyal to the God behind the idol So they took these valuable idols which depicted their their trust and admiration for the invisible God the demon behind it But they're gonna be utterly disavowed these demons and these idols and men are just gonna throw away these idols and say they didn't get Meanywhere because the Lord is arising to shake the earth the Antichrist thrown alive into the lake of fire Everything is being destroyed and the Lord Jesus is the only one that's exalted in the earth And there's no other rival in the earth that he says in verse 22, and he's talking not just about Unholy alliances he is talking about unholy alliances, but there's an ultimate unholy alliance in the final generation of natural history sever yourself from that man Break your tie with him His breath is in his nostrils. What account is he because in Revelation 13? They said the beast the Antichrist who can stand before him they marvel and put an Isaiah says who is he? He's a man with no power when the man of glory Faces him when the man of glory is contending for Jerusalem and the glory of God in the earth So don't even don't even in any way Fantasize or what was the word? I'm thinking of a don't even think about responding to him and his logic and his rhetoric sever yourself entirely from him and anybody that's Associated with his rhetoric in that day because he's a man whose breath is in his nostrils Which means he'll die in a minute at my pleasure says the Lord when I'm alone exalted and I drive I drive arrogance off the earth and my city and my rule and my people in relationship with me and the beauty of the City, they're the joy of the whole earth. Then my narrative will make sense. Amen and amen and amen Well, let's stand before the Lord that let's ask the Lord to touch us Sometimes we we might have a Q&A sometimes sometimes we'll have ministry some time sometimes we'll just leave We'll just end and that will be it so we just do something different every time but I want us to respond to the Lord for a few moments and And I know I gave you a lot of information here And I tomorrow those of you that are in these mentoring groups these three two three hundred Whatever the number is bring these notes bring these notes with you tomorrow and bring your Bible because we're having Robust discussions and we're starting every group with two questions. I should have told you at the beginning I headed the note and I didn't even do it What do you think from Isaiah 2? What's 1 or 2 or 3 whatever points? That you think the Holy Spirit wants to emphasize in the end time church from this chapter Like one point two points three points when you see the whole thing What strikes you is what you think the Spirit of God is saying make sure this point is emphasized from Isaiah Isaiah chapter 2 not every point. Give me one or two or three of them That's question one or we're gonna ask this question every week on Saturday morning. Then question number two is what attitudes or actions? Should we were take or respond to that point of emphasis? Like when we see we think the Holy Spirit wants to emphasize the glory of Jerusalem. Okay, that's a good answer if you don't have an answer just take that one, but uh Then the next question is okay. How How can you today Have an attitude or an action that's gonna line up with that emphasis It's gonna help you move in that direction Or help you get somebody else to move in that direction to really lay hold of that emphasis of the Holy Spirit So we're gonna begin every discussion on Saturday morning with those two questions So we want to get because I actually want your group because every groups gonna have a scribe in it They're gonna take notes. We'll explain all this to you tomorrow But I want to get two or three four answers from every group Because I want them I want to get them go. Ooh, I didn't think about that one Ooh, cuz I we're putting together all the research packages for every one of these chapters far beyond my notes here We're gonna have a lot going on But I want to hear back from people and I want to I want to catch what the Spirit's saying through you That should be a top emphasis From this chapter that if you were preaching it or if you thought the Holy Spirit was gonna say What do you think it would be and so bring your notes? Bring your Bible and bring those two thoughts with you. Okay, let's just respond to the Lord for just a few moments here Lord Here we are Lord your plan is so glorious Father when you or your son arises Lord we say we agree with you arising to shake the earth to drive right off the earth Oh Maybe the Lord's talking to different ones of us about pride. He says that's why I'm arising I'm gonna drive pride off the planet completely completely wipe it from the earth Lord here we are Lord, I ask you to come and touch these messengers Here on Friday night You're so generous I'm struck by your generosity Jesus from Isaiah This city I'm a part of it. You thought of everything You did this for me and for us You didn't have to you could have stayed in heaven. You'd have to bring it to the earth and involve up The Mockers lift their voice against him We say the devil's a liar Jesus. You're beautiful in your leadership You're the one our hearts adore Jesus All your generosity your brilliant mind We the ideas that you thought of that you gave to Isaiah Next week, we'll be looking at Isaiah 4 and invite people forward tonight. You're saying I believe this You say I believe this But my heart feels stuck at it my heart doesn't It's not moving in the way that my mind says it should be with its information I get that way myself and I sometimes when I study this stuff. I go Lord. I should be moving more at the heart level You would like prayer. You're saying Lord. I want my heart This is who you are then this is who you are now come and teach me tonight Anyone in the room that's saying I want my heart touch in a new way I Need this regularly. I get stuck and then I'm stuck. I get stuck and I get unstuck in the heart level But if he's gonna teach then he'll teach now Come and teach me now Lord Invite our ministry team to come up Again for a group tomorrow the coffees at 930, but they're asking the group leaders to get there Get organized before the 930 coffee and the meeting starts Touch my heart People than leaders so it might take might just have you set up a real big group for just a few weeks I Need healing in your body You came tonight Come on the power of the Holy Spirit You need healing and you come forward raise your hand so folks can see yeah, we got someone here Anybody that healing over there as well. We need a few more leaders to go ahead and come on up You're a leader in the house Oh Lord release the spirit of healing on the heart upon bodies right now I pronounce your healing and your glory being released even now Lord Right now even now we have Healing power tonight Waves of your glory Confirm your word now Lord Signs of one Lord all over the room. I ask for divine encounters by the spirit Even though just worshipping you I ask for the Holy Spirit Encounters in the room right now Oh Commandment spreading across the earth You are the one our hearts Release healing power right now. What do we take a 40 over cancer? We take authority over tumors right now tumors Tumors in the neck Back I speak against tumors right now. I just command them to go right now in Jesus name Lord we pray against tumors right now in Jesus name Oh