THE MILLENNIUM (7 OF 8)
Scripture: Revelation 20:1-15
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The Millennium (7 of 8)
Series: The Revelation of Jesus Christ
Dave Gustavsen
Revelation 20
Good morning, Chapel family. Great to be with you today. We’re taking a few months to walk through the book of Revelation. For the first 25 years of my ministry I didn’t preach Revelation, because I saw it being misused in so many ways. I saw people obsessing and arguing over timelines and details and speculations. And I just didn’t want to be part of that. But a few months ago I had a change of heart, because I saw the world changing in some undeniable ways. I could feel our culture turning its back on God and becoming more secular and prideful and materialistic and violent and just darker. So I revisited Revelation, and I realized, ‘‘This is the message we need to hear.’’ Now that we’re nine weeks into this series, I believe that more than ever.
So Revelation is actually a letter written by John the Apostle to a group of churches at the end of the first century. If I had to summarize the message of Revelation, I would say something like this: The world is getting darker. Opposition to Christ and his church is getting stronger. But God is in control, and in the end God wins. So stand firm in your faith. That was the message to the churches in 95 AD-so the world was already getting darker back then; we’re just further down that road. So this is the message they needed to hear, and it’s the same exact message we need to hear.
So today we come to probably the most controversial chapter in the whole book-chapter 20. It talks about a thousand-year period of time that we call ‘‘The Millennium.’’ (‘‘Millennium’’ just means ‘‘a thousand years.’’) So that sounds pretty straightforward, right? Well...not really. Over the years, people have argued and debated over this; sadly, Christians have divided over this-like, ‘‘If you don’t believe what I believe about this chapter of the Bible, you can’t be in my church!’’ That’s embarrassing. So we’ll take a little bit of time ...
Series: The Revelation of Jesus Christ
Dave Gustavsen
Revelation 20
Good morning, Chapel family. Great to be with you today. We’re taking a few months to walk through the book of Revelation. For the first 25 years of my ministry I didn’t preach Revelation, because I saw it being misused in so many ways. I saw people obsessing and arguing over timelines and details and speculations. And I just didn’t want to be part of that. But a few months ago I had a change of heart, because I saw the world changing in some undeniable ways. I could feel our culture turning its back on God and becoming more secular and prideful and materialistic and violent and just darker. So I revisited Revelation, and I realized, ‘‘This is the message we need to hear.’’ Now that we’re nine weeks into this series, I believe that more than ever.
So Revelation is actually a letter written by John the Apostle to a group of churches at the end of the first century. If I had to summarize the message of Revelation, I would say something like this: The world is getting darker. Opposition to Christ and his church is getting stronger. But God is in control, and in the end God wins. So stand firm in your faith. That was the message to the churches in 95 AD-so the world was already getting darker back then; we’re just further down that road. So this is the message they needed to hear, and it’s the same exact message we need to hear.
So today we come to probably the most controversial chapter in the whole book-chapter 20. It talks about a thousand-year period of time that we call ‘‘The Millennium.’’ (‘‘Millennium’’ just means ‘‘a thousand years.’’) So that sounds pretty straightforward, right? Well...not really. Over the years, people have argued and debated over this; sadly, Christians have divided over this-like, ‘‘If you don’t believe what I believe about this chapter of the Bible, you can’t be in my church!’’ That’s embarrassing. So we’ll take a little bit of time ...
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