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FEAST OF TABERNACLES - 2000

DAY 7

Fred Coulter  - October 20, 2000 

And greetings, brethren.  This is the seventh day of the Feast of Tabernacles, 2000.  And for you tie watchers, there’s another one.  It’s not a new one but there’s another one.  [Laughter]  I’m going to have to do something about this tie situation, aren’t I?  Anyway, I appreciate your endurance with the tie thing, and so forth.  Got to have a little fun once in a while.

So anyway, today is the seventh day of the Feast of Tabernacles, which is technically the last day of the Feast of Tabernacles.  But there is the Last Great Day, as we will see, that has separate meaning, and it is a great and marvelous feast in it’s own.  So let’s understand that through the whole thousand years there has been blessing for all peoples.  There has been knowledge of the Lord, many brought into the Kingdom of God through the operation of Christ and the Church and the bride, and those of us being kings and priests.  And so there is a fullness in this harvest that is just going to be absolutely marvelous.  And when we come to the end of it we’re reminded once again where Christ said, “I’m the beginning, I’m the ending.  I’m the first and the last.”  And so that which has begun is going to come to an end.  And so the thousand years is going to come to an end and there are special things that will happen at the end of the thousand years.  When we understand that and realize that then we will see that this day has to be completed before we can come to the Last Great Day.  Because this day not only finishes the one thousand year millennial reign of the Kingdom of God on earth, which will then continue after that, but also it brings a finality and a conclusion to the millennium.  But also sets the stage for the Last Great Day.  And so both things need to be done.

Now let’s go to the book of Ecclesiastes, as we spent quite a bit of time there before seeing what it’s going to be like all during the millennium.  And the hardest thing that’s going to be for people to overcome is to have everything with the society of the millennium where there is peace, there is prosperity, there is work, there is plenty, there is joy, there is happiness, there is inventiveness, there is making and producing of everything that there can be.

Now here, let’s come to Ecclesiastes 8:6.  Now one thing that is going to be learned during the millennium is this, “Because to every purpose there is [a] time and [a] judgment…” And there is a time, and there is a judgment.  The millennium is a time, and it is also a time of judgment.  The judgment will then be on all people all during the millennium, whether they will enter into the Kingdom of God or whether they will die as sinners and be buried and wait for the resurrection of the wicked to face the lake of fire.  So there’s every purpose there’s a time and judgment, “…therefore the misery of man is great upon him” (Ecc. 8:6).  Well, that’s obviously before the millennium.

“For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?  There is no man that hath power of the spirit to retain the spirit…” And this is one thing that we are going to learn all during the millennium, which is this: that which is flesh is flesh, and you have no power over your life.  Only God does.  Physical life, or the spiritual life that He’s going to give you, God alone has the power over it.  “…Neither hath he power in the day of death…” Well, that’s going to be absolutely true during the millennium too, because those who die will die as sinners.  “…And there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.  All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt” (vs. 7-9).  And then it goes on talking about things of this world.

Now all during the millennium there is going to be so much there’s going to be plenty of everything.  And it’s going to be very hard.  Now you stop and think about it today.  Today with all the prosperity and everything that is going on people are really not alert to things spiritually.  But when you have, like during the millennium, when you have now say 900 years of prosperity and growth and increase of wonderful things.  You have all the cities built up, you have all the countries built up, you have everything where it is perfect and great.  The physical creation, the sons of God then are ruling over the earth.  You have kings and priests right there, you can talk to the one you need to.  You can talk to those who are in the Kingdom of God.  We can see children grow up, and children’s children, and children’s children all the way down through the millennium.  It’s going to be a wonderful thing.

Here, since we’re in Ecclesiastes, let’s go back to chapter 5, verse 18.  “Behold, that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it is his portion.”  And that’s what’s going to happen, as we saw, every man under his fig tree and under his vine.  There will be no more war.  No one’s going to learn war.  And there is not going to be any hurting or destroying in all the Kingdom of God for all the thousand years.  So it’s going to be something.  But what I foresee in this, and I’m sure God does, that’s why it comes to an end.  And we will see that’s why God has a purpose for the seventh day.  And we can foresee, from what the Bible says, is that there’s going to be a richness and a wealth and a greatness of physical things that they’re going to have a gigantic Laodicean problem at the end of the thousand years.

Now here, verse 19.  “Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of God.”  And what happens when complacency sets in?  What happens when everything has been the same and people look around and then their carnality begins to take hold.  And we’re going to see that carnality is going to begin to take hold and they want something different.  That is because that they forget that all of this is the gift of God.  Everything that is going to be all through the millennium is a gift of God, as well as the gift of salvation and all the things that go with that.

Now, let’s come here since we’re in the book of Ecclesiastes, let’s continue on.  Let’s come to chapter 11, verse 9.  And this is the thing that we’re going to be teaching so they can enjoy these things.  So they can use them properly.  So they can understand that there is a benefit and there is a purpose for all of these things.  And after all, isn’t that what mankind wants today?  He doesn’t want to have evil.  He doesn’t want to have war.  He doesn’t want to have famine.  He doesn’t want to have pestilence.  He doesn’t want earthquakes and floods and famine and all of those things, does he?  No.  But when you have 900 years of it, 1000 years of it, then people tend to get a little bored.  Because being bored is this: is that they become used to it, they become complacent to it.  And so then they are not able to put their whole selves into it like they ought to.  That’s why many times when people are under distress they are able to do a lot more.  That’s why in this life it is good for us to have trials and things like that.  Oh, they’ll have their little trials and difficulties during the millennium, but it will be an entirely different proposition than what we’re going through today.

But here’s what we’ll be teaching, “Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart…” Now we’re going to teach them how to walk in the ways of the heart, how to have the right heart.  Just like we’re going through in a series that we have been, which is the heart of David and the mind of Christ.  That’s the ultimate of what we’re going to be teaching all the people during the millennium.  “…And in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment” (Ecc. 11:9).  And of course there again, it’s going to be a judgments going to take place.

Now let’s go to Isaiah 65.  And this tells us about the millennium as well as the great white throne judgment, and we can apply it to both of them.  Because in both instances when Christ returns He’s going to create a new heaven and a new earth and make it right.  And when the Last Great Day is fulfilled there’s going to be a new heaven and a new earth for those people who are raised and come back to life.

Isaiah 65:17, “For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.”  Now just project this out for 900 years.  The reason I keep using 900 years is because we’re talking about 100 years here.  And that we could also apply this to the whole millennium that people will live approximately 100 years.

Now let’s continue.  “But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, an her people a joy.  And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in My people…” And at that time all the people of the world will be the people of God.  “…and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying” (vs. 18-19).  So we are going to have absolutely ideal conditions all down through the millennium.

Now notice, “There shall be no more thence an infant of days…” Now that means an infant of days, which has not been fulfilled.  And as we saw, that this means there will no more an infant of day which shall not fulfill it’s life.  In other words, they’re not going to be premature deaths.  There obviously is going to be no abortion.  There is not going to be sickness and disease, which will bring premature death to children or to grown ups at all.  Because there will be plenty of everything, and healing and answered prayer, and instruction.  Just think of teaching - how much we’re going to learn, how much we need to learn to teach all the people during the millennium how to take care of their bodies.  How to take care of their minds.  How to live their lives in a right way.  We are going to know all the physical things, and all the spiritual things.  You know it’s going to be different from the way it is today.  Lots of time with our health, with what we’re doing today, we’re just sort of experimenting.  But then they’ll know for sure.  That’s why an infant will live a full life, become an adult and live to a ripe old age.  And if they accept the salvation of God, and if they love God with all their heart, and mind, and soul, and being, then when it comes to the end of their life, because all have to die in Adam, be an instantaneous death, instantaneous change into the Kingdom of God, and they will enter in as the sons of God into the Kingdom of God.  So that will be a wonderful time indeed.  There won’t be any purpose for death except the following here as we will see in just a minute.  “…Nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed” (vs. 20).  And those who die and are buried they are the ones who are cursed because they have committed the unpardonable sin.

Now all during the millennium there is going to be this judgment going on all the time.  And the judgment, we have to understand, is going to be judging on the way that the people grow and overcome.  The way we teach them and help them, and all that’s going to have a part of it, you see.  But let’s understand one thing, there is still going to be human nature.  Because human nature, though it’s going to be modified because Satan will have been removed.  Remember Satan is still in the abyss waiting for the end of the millennium.  And there is a purpose for him to be released at the end of the millennium.

Now, let’s just a minute go to Ephesians 2.  And once Satan is removed, of course as we know, then his power as the prince of the power of the air will no longer be there.  He won’t be able to influence people the way he does today.  And people are really influenced today by everything that goes on.  He, being bound, and the sons of God in charge of everything, we are going to be in charge of education.  We’re going to be in charge of teaching the way of God.  We’re going to be in charge of showing people how to have a happy marriage.  We’re going to be in charge in showing them how to live their lives, what to eat, how to take care of their bodies, how to develop their minds, how to grow in grace and knowledge.  But you see they are still go have human nature, but not exacerbated the way that we see it here today.

Now here’s the way it is today.  “And you hath He quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins…” (Eph. 2:1)  Now then they will not be dead in sin and trespasses.  They will be able to sin because God is not going to take away free moral agency.  But also there is going to be the instruction, as we saw, that when they turn to the right hand, when they turn to the left hand they are going to be told, “This is the way, walk in it.”  So it won’t be allowed to come to this point as we find in Ephesians 2 as it is today.

“Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world…” And all during the millennium the world is going to be God’s world.  It’s going to be God’s kingdom.  Satan is going to be bound.  “…According to the prince of the power of the air...” So there will no longer be all during the millennium, no longer be any wavelengths from Satan the devil coming out to influence people, to put thoughts into their minds, to put evil into their hearts beyond just the carnality of human nature.  “..The spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: Among whom also we all had our [conduct] conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath even as others” (vs. 2-3) So it won’t be quite as powerful but human nature is still going be there.

Now let’s come to Mark 7, because they’re going to have to overcome a sinful nature too.  But it will not be magnified as it is today.  But nevertheless the wages of sin is still going to be death, isn’t it?  Yes.  Now, they will still have to deal with this, Mark 7:21, “For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders…” Now there are going to be temptations because of lust.  There is going to be sin, and there will be as we will see, two kinds of sin.  A sin not unto death, and a sin unto death.  And a sin unto death means that the person who has sinned unto death is cursed and will die and will be buried all during the millennium.  So you see there still has to be this kind of pulls of the flesh, otherwise there will be nothing to repent of.  Otherwise there will be nothing to overcome.  “…Fornications, murders, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride foolisheness: all these evil things come from within, and defile the man” (Mark 7:21-23).

Now, there’s going to be a preponderance of good to choose from.  But there are still going to be those who will choose evil, see because the wages of sin is death.  And the gift of God is eternal life.  Now, let’s come back here to Deuteronomy 30.  Now, granted there is going to be more good than there is going to be evil, but nevertheless, all those who are born of the flesh and live on through the millennium for the 100 years that it’s going to be for them, they’re going to constantly have to be choosing God’s way.  There is going to be blessings.  There is going to be cursings.  And cursing is, as we saw, the sinner dies at 100.  That is a curse.  See now the reason the sinners dies and is buried is because God has ordained that all those who commit the unpardonable sin will have to die twice.  Because God is going to show His great judgment, as we will see tomorrow, upon all the wicked all at the same time.

Now here, Deuteronomy 30:15, and this is what we’re going to be setting before the people all during the millennium.  “See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil.”  That will still be there, but to the preponderance is going to be for life, and for good, and for righteousness, and for peace, and for harmony, and for building.  And of course because of that then, little sins will become magnified greatly because major sins are going to be something quite different indeed.  So in each person’s life they’re going to have to choose whether they are going to go God’s way or not.  But everything is going to be open for them to go God’s way.  And the vast majority of people all during the millennium will choose that.

So here’s what we’ll teach them.  “In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God…” And that’s what we will teach.  To love God.  God’s love and God’s Spirit, and all about life, physical life and eternal life will be laid right out there before them.  They will be able to see spirit beings.  They will be able to see us, be able to talk to us.  It’s going to be much like it was in the Garden of Eden when Adam and Eve were talking with God.  They saw God.  Apparently they ate with God.  Now we don’t know how long it was until Satan was introduced.  We’ll go back and look at a little bit of that since we’ve covered some of it already.  But nevertheless, this is going to be their choice.  They’re going to have to choose.

“…To love the LORD thy God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His judgments, that thou mayest live…” (vs. 16).  And in this case we’ll say, “That you may live and enter into the Kingdom of God.”  When you come to the end of your life, it’ll be instantaneous death and instantaneous change, because in Adam all die.  And since all those in the millennium will still have the law of sin and death in them, they’re going to have to overcome that.  So there will be the pulls.  There will be the temptations but not in the same magnitude that it is today.  When we get to the end of the millennium, then, this thing is going to be a little different, because as we will see, something has to happen to bring it to a conclusion.  And in doing that then there has to be another way to handle sinners who don’t repent.  And we’ll see what that is.

Now, let’s continue on here, verse 17,  “But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt no hear [and there will be some who will do that during the millennium], but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods…” Now there won’t be allowance of worshiping other gods then.  Now maybe right at the beginning of the millennium some might try to introduce that again.  So God will also give the message to them, we’ll give the message to them.  Because you see there’s free moral agency and God is not going to stop the free moral agency.  People are going to have to choose.  But the contrast will be right before their eyes.  It’s not going to be that God is going to be way off someplace.  God is going to be close.  So they will know.  So those who sin and do not repent then they will look forward to death, burial, and then the lake of fire.

Now, let’s come to 1 John 5 because there is a sin not unto death, and there is a sin unto death.  Now there will be those people during the millennium who will commit the unpardonable sin.  Very few, very rare, but when we come to the last generation those who have inherited all the blessings of 900 years and have had it all given to them on what we would call a golden platter.  Then it’s going to be a different situation.  We need to find out what is going to happen to those that sin.   Because there’s something that takes place at the end of the millennium that we’ll look at here in just a little bit, that has created difficulties in the minds of people cause they don’t understand it.  But hopefully we’ll understand it.

Now, let’s pick it up here in verse 16, “If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death…” Now what is a sin not unto death?  A sin not unto death is a sin that can be repented of.  It says, “…he shall ask…” In other words even today, if you see someone sin, not a sin unto death, you pray for them.  Ask God to grant them repentance.  Ask God to open their hearts and minds to see where they have sinned.  And lots of times that works a whole lot better than just running up and trying to correct them.  Because once a person comes to himself, as we saw in the parable of the prodigal son many times, he went out there and suffered but he came to himself.  So if there’s a sin that’s not a sin unto death a person is able to come to himself, come to repentance.  Repentance also is a gift of God.  Repentance also is something that God leads us to if we are willing to yield to God.  But you see we have to be willing.  Same way with the people during the millennium.  They will have to be willing.

Now here he says something else.  “…And He shall give him life for them that sin not unto death” (vs. 16).  Because they haven’t committed the unpardonable sin.  “There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it.”  No.  That is the incorrigible.  There is no prayer for the incorrigible who has committed the unpardonable sin.  Now we’ll go through and we will see all the things concerning the unpardonable sin, here in just a minute.

“All unrighteousness is sin.  There is a sin not unto death” (vs. 17).  Now that can be repented of.  All during the millennium when people have the things that they are going to choose, there will be many different sins.  There will be many things that people will go through but there will be repentance, there will be amends, there will be changes, there will be conversion, you see.  Now occasionally we’re going to come across people who will reject God’s way.

Now, let’s see how the unpardonable sin is defined here in Hebrews 6 so that we know what we’re dealing with.  So that we realize that God is going to be completely fair, completely open with everyone so that they will know.  Now, let’s pick it up here in verse 4.  And there comes a time… Now we have seen some people, at least as far as we’re able to determine right now.  We can’t judge their hearts, and we don’t know their minds, but we can know them by their fruits.  And there have been some people who we have known who’ve been in the Church of God who have given up on God’s way, who because of all of the things that came along, you see, determined to go against God.  And we’ve seen how that something happens to them.

I’ve had many people report to me that…or just comment to me…not just report because we don’t take reports.  So it’s not a reporting situation in that sense.  But say to me that they have met brethren that they’ve known in the past who were in the Church and something has happened to them.  You look in their eyes and it’s like looking into a blank wall.  And when you talk about God it is meaningless.  Or if they talk about God it is an emotional thing with them and a justification of their sins.  And God has removed something from them.  And let’s hope that there is still a chance for them to repent, if they can, but if not it is the unpardonable sin.

Now let’s read it here, Hebrews 6:4, “For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened…” That is to know and understand the truth.  To know what human nature is about.  To know right and wrong.  To know the commandments of God.  “…And have tasted of the heavenly gift…” Now the heavenly gift in this case then is the imputed righteousness, which God gives to us.  While we’re under grace we have the imputed righteousness that God gives to us as the same as the righteousness of Christ.  And this is what’s going to be given to the people as they receive the Holy Spirit all during the millennium.  And so once you have tasted of that heavenly gift, that you’re in right standing with God, you have the joy of the Lord, and continuing, “…and were made partakers of the Holy [Spirit] Ghost…”, that God the Father actually begat the very spirit of your mind with HIS Spirit and you became a son of God.  You became a daughter of God.

Now there’s such a thing, and we will liken the unpardonable sin to what we would say…a spontaneous abortion.  Because when the unpardonable sin has taken place then it becomes impossible, as it says here, impossible because something changes.  They reject the Spirit of God.

Now notice, “…and have tasted the good word of God…”, knowing about the truth of God, the Sabbath, the holy days, the love of God, the purpose of mankind, the purpose of God’s plan.  “…And the powers of the world to come…” (vs. 5).  Now then they will be living in the world which is to come.  And those powers will be there all the time.

Now notice it’s really a very profound thing, and the steps that take place to come to the unpardonable sin.  Now notice, “…if they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance…” Now there will be those, during the millennium, who will do that.  And it will be impossible to bring them to repentance.  So there are some people who’ll be impossible to renew to repentance because “…seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put Him to an open shame” (vs. 6).  And a lot of people will say, “Well how could that happen, how could that be?”  Remember, Satan fell and a third of the angels with him when they were in the perfect condition of being created by God and knowing God.  See, but something happens in the heart where there’s always choice, there is always a question as to whether the person will really do right.

Now let’s come back here to 2 Chronicles 26 and let’s see something that’s very important because this shows us that these things can occur.  2 Chronicles 26:16, now this is talking about Uzziah.  Now Uzziah was righteous and he lived a righteous life.  Now notice verse 5, “And he sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the visions of God: and as long as he sought the LORD, God made him to prosper.”  Now that’s going to be the same way all during the millennium.  People are going to have to constantly seek God, every day, every day, every week, every month, every year.  God will be right there.  But remember that human nature gets callused.  Human nature gets used to things the way that they are.  Now just picture today.  How many little children you see growing up are nothing but spoiled, rotten brats, because they have everything.  And everything is available to them.  So it will be during the millennium.  There will be those few who will just set their hearts and minds and just be stubborn and refuse.

Now let’s go over here to verse 16.  “But when he was strong…” You see that’s why they have to live 100 years, to see how they’re going to be.  “But when he was strong his heart was lifted up to his destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and he went into the temple…” I’m just drawing the principle here…but when he was strong then his heart hardened.

Now let’s look in Psalm 10 and let’s see what the unpardonable sin is going to be as described here.  And we can pick this out as a principle, and we can apply it to people who, during the millennium commit the sin unto death.  Now we’re going to see in a little bit that God has to do something toward the end of the millennium that will be different than He did all during the millennium.  Because those who commit the unpardonable sin, you know, they’re going to die and be buried.  Toward the end of the millennium now you’ve got say, 100 years in which they aren’t going to have time to die.  Because if God says they’re going to live to be 100 years old, and the sinner dies accursed at 100, well what if this person is born and you’re 910, maybe 950.  We don’t know exactly how God is going to do it.  So in some of these things we have to kind of project forward to see how it may be, but we may get some principles out of the Bible to understand it.

Now let’s pick it up here in verse 2.  “The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.”  So God is still going to allow that.  But He’s not going to allow it to hurt other people.  “For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.  The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts” (Psa. 10:2-4).  And that’s exactly what’s going to happen to the wicked then.

Now let’s come back to the book of Revelation 20, and let’s look at something here.  And let’s see if we can understand what it is that is going on.  Now remember at the beginning of the millennium something very profound took place, and let’s read that again.  Let’s pick it up here in Revelation 20:1.  And we know that when Satan is around he causes sin.  So that’s why he has to be removed, so that during the millennium there’s going to be the great righteousness, the great end-time harvest.  Most of the people, the majority, vast majority of all people that live in the millennium will enter into the Kingdom of God.  They will accept the salvation of God.

Now Revelation 20:1, “And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit [the abyss] and a great chain in his hand.  And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years” (Rev. 20:1-2).  Now why bind him a thousand years?  Why not just immediately cast him into the lake of fire, which we will see is his ultimate fate?  Why bind him a thousand years?  Is there a purpose to it.  Is God going to use him again, and if He does, why?  Let’s understand something here very clearly.  All during the millennium Satan is bound.  He is not allowed to be loosed on the civilization of people during the millennium in the Kingdom of God.

Now notice, “And cast him into the [abyss] bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season” (vs. 3).  Now why is he going to be loosed a little season, right at the end?  Now that’s the end part of the 1000 years.

Well, let’s come down here to verse 7 and see.  “And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison.  And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog…” Now remember we went through that on the first holy day.  The wars that Gog and Magog bring right at the beginning of the millennium and how God intervenes to stop that and to glorify Himself through the destruction of Gog and Magog.  Now Gog and Magog here, is this the people or is this a geographical area?  Well, we’ll answer that question in just a little bit.  Let’s read a little bit more here and then we’ll come back and we will see why God does this.  “…Four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is the sand of the sea.”

Now the sand of the sea tells you that it is a number sufficiently high enough that you cannot just give a definitive number.  And the reason that it’s given this way is also because we don’t know who are those who will commit the unpardonable sin.  Now we have to understand what is going to happen to them.  We have to understand how and why Satan is loosed upon them.

Now let’s come back and let’s begin to ask the question here.  Number one, if this were the people of Gog and Magog and they were doomed to this destruction then God is a respecter of persons.  Now we know that is not a respecter of persons.  Here, let’s come back to Acts 10.  Let’s see one of the first lesson the apostle Peter had to learn concerning Gentiles.  Acts 10:34, “Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons.”  So if Gog and Magog, back there as we see, if that is the people of Gog and Magog then God would be a respecter of persons, because He would say, “You can’t have salvation.  You are destined to be destroyed.”

Now on the other hand if Gog and Magog referred to back there in Genesis 20, is the geographical area of Gog and Magog, then we have a different situation.  God is not respecting persons, see.  Because God has said that He wants to give salvation to every one.  Every one’s going to have an opportunity for salvation, we know that, all during the millennium.  So at the end of the millennium we have this phenomena that Satan is loosed and sent against those who are in Gog and Magog of whom the number is the sand of the sea.  So we’ll see exactly how they get there.

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