If you do overcome the distractions and problems because of your doctrine perceived, metabolized, but not truly applied, it will be revealed by the results of doctrine alive inside of your soul.
The signs of the last days are given in a passage most of you are very familiar with, 2TI 3:1-8.
For you have no information on which to make a decision from a position of strength.
The person who in self‑determination is positive toward doctrine and a tactical winner is not going to lose out but he is going to enjoy being a winner believer.
REV 12:11 "And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love their life even to death.
One thing more than anything else, which is mentioned at the end of this verse, you can tell when you become or start to become a winner, because you are not afraid of death.
If the Lord wants to take you home that's His business, not yours; PSA 68:20 To God the Lord belong escapes from death.
If you are a tactical winner you're going to have dying grace whether it takes you a year to die, or five seconds to die.
Everyone apart from the Rapture generation is going to die and be absent from their physical body and face-to-face with the Lord and it's a marvelous thought.
If the Rapture doesn't occur for another hundred, or two hundred, or three hundred years, we're all going to die.
I have found a lot of selfish individuals who all they care about is not losing a loved one.
DEU 32:4 “The Rock! His work is perfect, For all His ways are just; A God of faithfulness and without injustice, Righteous and upright is He.
They are angry with God and blaming God that they have to suffer because they would rather not suffer themselves and have the one they are mourning for suffer so that they don’t have to live in pain.
If you asked him; “Should God give the one who is suffering another year to live….they would say yes, I want them to live longer.
The point is that this is what happens when a believer lives in fear of death, has regrets, blames others for being a loser in time.
No one knows when the Rapture is going to occur, sure it could occur tonight.
Death has no fear for the mature believer, the one who has a tactical victory.
The beast and the false prophet were proof of Satan's guilt and deception toward the human race.
They were interrogated separately and Satan was indicted once again.
The first set of books are records of every good deed every member of the human race has ever done, all adding up to -R.
The second set of books, the book of life, a book that at one time contained the name of every member of the human race under the principle of the unlimited atonement, but names are blotted out when someone rejects Christ as Savior.
The chief witness in all of human history is the humanity of Jesus Christ in hypostatic union.
Our Lord is what we would classify as the strategic witness.
By strategic I mean that He came up with a strategy to defeat Satan and executed that plan magnificently and defeated Satan.
The other believers who execute the PPOG in the Church-age become tactical winners.
Mature believers are classified as tactical witnesses.
Tactical means we have do the same but in lesser form.
Tactical means relating to combat tactics as involving actions or means of less magnitude from a base of operations than those of strategy.
Our Lord accomplished the strategic victory of the angelic conflict through His salvation ministry on the cross plus his physical death, burial, resurrection and ascension.
The believer accomplishes the tactical victory of the angelic conflict through his advance to spiritual maturity in the PPOG, at this point he becomes an invisible hero.
One thing you should learn as we progress in our study is that the Church-age is the most important phase of all in the angelic conflict, outside of course of the dispensation of the hypostatic union.
You should also emphasize in your souls the fact that every believer is a part of the PPOG and that every believer has equal privilege and equal opportunity to execute God's plan.
And, when we study a fantastic doctrine like this, it not only explains why we are really here but it also should provide for you a personal sense of destiny.
Never in the history of the human race has the individual life of the ordinary believer been so important as it is today.
The ordinary believer has become an extra ordinary believer so that later on we adopted the phrase that; The ordinary believer can become an the extraordinary believer.”
Your execution of the PPOG is one of the most critical factors in the tactical phase of this rebuttal trial.
In the dispensation of the Hypostatic union and the witness of every believer pro or con, in the Church-age and the testimony of the invisible hero generally occurs in evidence testing.
Evidence testing is one of the greatest forms of suffering in the Church-age because it requires personal attention from Satan and the kingdom of darkness.
We have the formal presentation of the case: the prosecution presents its case, followed by the defense presenting its case, that's Old Testament history.
Then again, we have the rebuttal phase: The rebuttal arguments of the prosecution [God] followed by the rebuttal arguments of the defense [Satan].
God's rebutal again is the dispensation of the hypostatic union and the Church-age believer who becomes a winner.
Satan as the defense attorney for the fallen angels presents his rebuttal argument for the defense in the Tribulation.
All of Satan's rebuttal arguments come in the form of violence and anti-Semitism.
Satan's rebuttal argument indicates of course his own failure and the fact that he knows the cross really knocked him out.
Satan practices violence which indicates the fact that Satan has already loss the case.
- We have the trial in the Old Testament where the prosecution presents its case and the defense attorney, Satan with his kingdom of darkness.
- We have the rebuttal arguments of the prosecution in the dispensation of the Hypostatic Union and the and then the rebutal arguments of the defense attorney for the fallen angels, Satan himself.
The roles of these different phases and how they fit into the activity of Satan in the Tribulation period cannot be underestimated.
- There is a third and final phase of the trial, the closing arguments and summary of the prosecution includes the Second Advent and the Millennial rule of Christ.
The Second Advent is the second time TLJC comes down on earth as a member of the human race and he returns with the Church-age believers, the royal family of God with special emphasis on invisible heroes.
1TH 3:13 so that He may establish your hearts unblamable in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all His saints.
The winners will be the ones who come back with our Lord and watch Him defeat Satan while the losers are either in heaven learning things like the dispensation of the Hypostatic Union or they are in the rear of this army from heaven on horses.
So, the closing arguments and summary include the Millennial rule of Jesus Christ on earth!
This is a time of 1000 years of perfect environment coming on this earth!
God's man, the Lord Jesus Christ, will rule the earth like Satan was unable to do.
And…..
This duplicates the conditions before the fall of Satan and before the fall of man in the garden.
There are three areas of perfect environment that are taught in the Bible.
- One is prehistoric times of perfect environment which occurred and existed prior to Satan's fall and the angelic revolution.
- Then when man was created to duplicate the same conditions, perfect environment was provided on the earth.
And man's revolution destroyed perfect environment.
- In the last 1000 years of human history, there will be perfect environment.
The Millennial reign will be a time of world peace.
The Millennial reign will be a fantastic time of inner happiness and joy.
The kingdom will be characterized by glory.
It will be a kingdom manifested by holiness.
The King will personally minister to every need so that there will be the fullness of "comfort."
There will be the administration of perfect justice.
There will be the most fantastic teaching ministry of of God the Holy Spirit.
There will be direct instruction from TLJC as the King of kings and Lord of lords.
The original curse placed upon creation in Gen 2:17-19 will be removed.
The Distinction Between the Rapture and the Second Advent needs to be noted as it relates to PSD #7 and PSD #8.
First of all, we will use “R” for the Rapture and “SA” for the Second Advent.
- Private, ACT 1:11
SA Public, REV 1:7.
REV 1:7 Behold, He is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him; and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over Him. Even so. Amen.
1TH 3:13 so that He may establish your hearts unblamable in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all His saints.
- Change in believer's body, PHI 3:21.
- Earth is changed, ZEC 14:9; ROM 8:19-22.
1TI 3:16 And by common confession great is the mystery of godliness: He who was revealed in the flesh [HU], was vindicated in the Spirit [HEB 9:14], Beheld by angels [AC], Proclaimed among the nations [Gospel], Believed on in the world; [ACT 16:31], taken up in glory [operation footstool].
- Israel under the fifth cycle of discipline; LEV 26.
- Termination of the fifth cycle of discipline; 1CO 15:51-57.
- Believers taken from the earth, 1Th 4:13-18.
- Unbelievers taken from the earth, Mat 24:37‑43.
- A time of comfort, 1TH 4:18.
- A time of terror, Rev 6:15‑17.
Analogies to the Second Advent as it relates to PSD #7 and PSD #8 .
- The Analogy of Nature: Lightning, Mat 24:27.
- The Second Advent will be seen by all, REV 1:7 "Behold, He is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see Him."
- The Second Advent travels at great speed, Rev 22:7, 12, the Lord is coming quickly.
- The Second Advent disturbs and frightens the unenlightened, Rev 6:15‑17.
- The Second Advent warns of coming storms.
The Second Advent is characterized by the storms of coming judgment.
(1) Annihilation of the invading armies.
(2) Judgment of Satan and the fallen angels.
(3) Judgment of the beast and false prophet.
(4) Baptism of fire removes all unbelievers from the earth.
(5) Administration of the fifth cycle of discipline to certain nations.
First of all in Mat 24:37 it will like the days of Noah which really points to people living under the wrong priorities even thought may refer to the presence of super-creatures on the earth once again.
Secondly, in verse 39, "they did not know" a big judgment was on the horizon.
- Thirdly, in verses 40 and 41, the believer is left and the unbeliever is taken in the baptism of fire.
In Noah's day unbelievers were removed by water but this time fire will be used.
PSD #7 and PSD #8 also apply to the Second Advent and the War of Armageddon.
Armageddon is when Jesus Christ comes back to slaughter the anti-Semitic armies, EXO 14:14; JOS 5:13‑6:2; ISA 37:36; EZE 38:16.
EXO 14:14 "The Lord will fight for you while you keep silent.
Now, Our Lord's own record is broken at the Second Advent, ISA 34:5‑6, 63:1‑6.
The Second Advent and Operation Footstool.
This is the final victory of Jesus Christ over Satan and the fallen angels together.
He will defeat Satan one more time at the end of human history but the fallen angels will not be there then.
PSA 110:1 The Lord says to my Lord: "Sit at My right hand, Until I make Thine enemies a footstool for Thy feet."
HEB 1:13, 10:13 teach that Christ receives His battlefield royalty and waits.
During the Church Age, the royal family represents Christ on earth, not Israel.
After the Rapture, the Age of Israel resumes.
During the Tribulation period, the royal family is being prepared in heaven.
The bride receives a body like Christ's, PHI 3:21; 1TH 5:23. Then the bride returns with Christ as a part of operation footstool, 1TH 3:13; REV 19:6‑8.
Satan is locked up for 1000 years, Rev 20:1‑3.
There is the triumphal procession of Christ, ZEC 13:2; COL 2:15; 1CO 15:24‑25.
Then Christ rules over Israel and the entire earth, which changes the environment of the world.
Satan and demons are removed, Rev 20:1‑3.
There will be maximum spirituality, Isa 65:24.
Israel is restored as a client nation to God, Isa 5:26‑30;
Zec 2:28‑29.
All the unconditional covenants to Israel are fulfilled, Dan 9:24.
- Universal prosperity, Psa 72:7, 16.
- Nature changes radically.
Creation shares the bondage of sin, Rom 8:19‑22, and is released from this bondage.
ISA 35 says that flowers abound. See also ISA11:6‑9, 65:25.
- There is a population explosion, no death except for capital punishment.
Then the Gog revolution is started by Satan after his release from prison because there are unbelievers on the earth, Rev 20:7‑10.