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Imagine when there will be no need for a
police force, or armies or the need for all
it takes to supply them.

The world will have enough money, enough
food, and enough of everything that it will
need to make heaven on earth.

All this because of the righteous rule of Jesus
Christ.

The nations are so poverty-stricken today.
They have war and poverty and difficulty
of every kind. It is because they are deceived
by the devil. That deception will be gone,
during the time of the Millennial Reign of
Jesus Christ.

The Mellennium is an example of what an
undeceived world could have known, if it
had chosen to follow Jesus.

Utopia will not come because man has been
so good, aspiring and righteous. It will come
because Jesus imposes His righteous rule.
And a part of the rod by which Jesus will use
to rule the world will be His saints.

The Millennium is something that ought to
be of real interest to everyone. The Word of
God describes it as heaven on earth.

Jesus will set up a government which is an
extension of the righteous rule of God.
It can't be withstood anywhere in the world.

During the Millennial Reign of Jesus, the
world will know the kind of heavenly place
it could have been all along had it decided to
receive Jesus and followed Him.

The army that comes with Jesus and helps
conquer the Antichrist will have a part of
the operation of the new world.

John tells us of Jesus' glorious return,
"And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword,
that with it he should smite the nations:
and he shall rule them with a rod of iron:
and he treadeth the winepress of the fierce-
ness and wrath of Almighty God."
Revelation 19:15

Jesus will destroy the Antichrist;

He will put every nation under subjection;

He will establish a new era in the world, that
will be characterized by His righteous rule;

He will rule from Jerusalem;

People from every nation will come to submit
to Jesus, who will set Himself up to be the
King over this world.

In the Battle of Armageddon, all the nations
in the world will go to the Middle East, and
then against Jerusalem. They will attempt
to do away with every last trace of the memory
of God.

But God's response will be the great and
glorious return of Jesus, when He will come
back with His army of saints!

The Bible says, "Why do the heathen rage,
and the people imagine a vain thing?
The kings of the earth set themselves, and
the rulers take counsel together, against the
LORD, and against his anointed, saying,
Let us break their bands asunder, and cast
away their cords from us.
He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh:
the LORD shall have them in derision."
Psalms 2:1-4

This really describes the rebellion in the
world against God, and how ridiculous it is
for them to think that they can win in a war
against the Lord Himself. But they will try!

The Bible says the saints will judge the world
and angels (1Corinthians 6:2-3).

God has commissioned the saints to be a part
of a judicial system before which the world
will stand one day. The world will be forced
to give an answer to God for the terrible life it
has lived and to give an answer to Jesus, and
the rest of the Christians.

The church will be a part of a mighty invasion
returning with Jesus to right every wrong, and
judge every sin; and will put to death all those
that resisted the Lord Himself.

The Antichrist will be destroyed with the very
brightness of Christ's coming and with the
breath of His mouth.

When you think of the Rapture of the Church
do not think of it just as the time that the
Christians are delivered from this present evil
world, but think of it as a great recruitment
call!

He is gathering us before Him and we will be
bringing the proof that we have earned this
moment through Jesus Christ.

Traditionally we speak of the Rapture as the
taking of the Church out of the world.

But it is God's calling of His own from every
end of the earth and gathering them together
to be with Him, and making an army out of
them.

Paul speaks of the rapture when he says:

" For the Lord himself shall descend from
heaven with a shout, with the voice of the
archangel, and with the trump of God:
and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
Then we which are alive and remain shall
be caught up together with them in the
clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so
shall we ever be with the Lord.
Wherefore comfort one another with these
words." 1Thessalonians 4:16-17

Jesus is coming back with an army of His
saints. The church is where these saints
come from.

1 Corinthians 15:51-52
"Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall
not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye,
at the last trump: for the trumpet shall
sound, and the dead shall be raised
incorruptible, and we shall be changed."

". . .Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thous-
ands of his saints," Jude 14

In the Bible, a saint is called "holy one."
Every person who has been made holy by
the Lord Jesus is a saint. Every person who
has received Jesus as their personal Savior.

By accepting the Gospel and believing in the
Lord Jesus, you have imputed righteousness.
You are called a 'holy one', which means that
you are not only a Christian; not only a follower
of Jesus but also a Saint.

"And I saw heaven opened, and behold a
white horse; and he that sat upon him was
called Faithful and True, and in righteous-
ness he doth judge and make war."
Revelation 19:11

This is not the Rapture of the Church. It is
Jesus returning as King of Kings and Lord
of Lords. Notice that He brings an army.

By this time, the world is a place of chaos
and the time for Divine intervention has
come; and it comes in the form of Jesus
returning with an army of saints to put down
the wickedness of the world.

When the days of the Tribulation have come
upon the world; they will come to an end by
a mightly invasion from Heaven.

The Great Tribulation ends when the saints
of God come down from heaven on horseback
with the Lord Jesus!!

This is not the rapture of the church. That has
already been raptured and they (the church)
are returning on white horses with Him who
John saw on 'a white horse called Faithful and
True'.

"There is a way that seemeth right unto a
man, but the end thereof are the ways of
death," Proverbs 16:25

This is what's happening in the world of
today. Can they build a utopia? Can it
bring into being beautiful possibilites, so
everyone can live without war and hunger?

No! The world is heading into chaos!

Jesus said that because of man's efforts, He
would bring to pass in the world a day so
awful that it would be called the Tribulation.
"And except those days should be shortened,
there should no flesh be saved. . . ."
Matthew 24:22

"This know also, that in the last days peril-
ous times shall come.
For men shall be lovers of their own selves,"
2 Timothy 3:1-2

"But evil men and seducers shall wax worse
and worse, deceiving, and being deceived."
2 Timothy 3:13

Then it continues to give a list of the awful
depravities of man as he turns from God to
his own pursuits.

Today there are people who call themselves
optimists. They say over and over that the
world is getting better and better. That it is
improving.

But when they look around, and try to find
evidence to prove it, they find it hard to
convince themselves and others; because
it is not there.

What will be the world's future? The Bible
and the evidence shows it declining.

God has a spectacular plan for the future, but
He's not going to do it alone. He will be using
people like you and me.To think about this,
there are some elements that will help in our
considering the future.

First, let's face the question, "Where is this
world going with it plans of the future?"