SCRIPTURE: Revelation 19:11-20:15 (Page 1471); Ezekiel 38:1-23 (Page 1035)
SERMON: The End of the Old							       29 April 2001

REVIEW & INTRODUCTION
A. INTRODUCTION//LETTERS/VISIONS//CONCLUSION (chps.1a//1b-3/4-22a//22b)

B. VISIONS: SEALS, TRUMPETS, BOWLS (chps.5-8, 8-14,15-22a)

C. SEVEN PLAGUES: CREATION REDEMPTION (5:1f; 8:2f; 16:1f / Gen1:1-2:3; Ex7-12 & Ps78:43f; 105:27f; Am4:6f)

  I. THE FINAL ATTACK (20:7-9a; see Ezk.38,39)
A. SATAN RELEASED FROM HIS IMPRISONMENT (7,3; see 1f; 11:7; 17:8; 2Pt.2:4; Lk.8:31; see 2Th.2:6)

B. TO DECEIVE THE NATIONS AGAIN (8a; see 20:3; 19:19f; see Acts 14:16; 17:30; Job 1:6f; 2:1f)

C. ALL THE NATIONS (8b)
1. Gog of Magog (8; see Ezk.38:1f; 39:1f; Gen.10:1f; see Gen.14:18f; Ps.110:4; Heb.5-7)

2. universal multitude (8; 16:14; see Ezk.38:6,9,15,22,23; 39:4; see Ezk.39:11,15; see Acts 4:25-27=Ps.2:1,2f)

3. overwhelming multitude (8; see Josh.11:4; Judg.7;12; 1Sam.13:5)

4. gathered together (8; 19:19; 16:14,16; see Ezk.38:7see Acts 4:26,27=Ps.2:2)

D. INTO THE WAR (8; see 19:19,11; 17:14; 12:7; see 11:7; 13:4,7; 12:7; see Dan.7:21,22; see 1Kngs.22:20-23; Rom.9:14f,22)

E. ON THE MOUNTAIN-PLAIN (8c; 16:16; see Ezk.38:8,20,21; 39:4; Zech.12:11; see Mt.5:1f; Lk.6:17,12f; see Rev.19:17; Ezk.39:17,19)

F. SEIGE (9a; see Ps.22:12; 119:16; Heb.11:30; see Ezk.38:8,12)

G. HOLY & BELOVED (9b; see Col.3:12; see 2Th.2:13)

 II. THE FINAL DELIVERANCE (20:9b-15; see Ezk.38,39)
A. CONSUMING FIRE (9c; see 19:21; see Ezk.38:18,19,22; 39:6; see 2Kngs.1:10; Heb.12:29,18f; see 2Th.1:7f; 2:8; Rev.19:11f)

B. THE DECEIVING DEVIL (10a; see 19:20; 17:16; 18:8; see Jn.8:44; Gen.3:13)

C. THE LAKE OF FIRE (10; see 14,15; 19:20; 20:8; see Mt.25:41)
1. unending torment (10b; see 14:10,11; see Lk.16:24; 2Pt.2:4)

2. the second death (14; see 6; 21:8; 2:11; Mt.25:41)

3. second is permanent (see 21:4; see 1Cor.15:45f,53b; Heb.10:9; 8:13f; see Is.43:18f; 65:17b,16f; 66:22)

D. THE THRONE OF JUDGMENT (11f; see 4f; 3:21; 2:26f; see Dan.7:9f; Rev.4:2f; 5:6f; see Rev.19:11f)
1. first things brought to an end (11; see 21:4,1f; see 2Pt.3:10f; Is.65:17b)

2. the dead (12; see 5a; see Heb.12:23; Phil.1:23; 2Cor.5:8; see Lk.16:22,23)
a. great & small; sea & land (12; see 19:5,18; see 10:2; Ps.95:4,5; Hag.2:6)
b. standing before the throne (13; see Rom.14:10; 2Cor.5:10)
c. the books of the dead (12a; see 12c,13b; see Rom.3:21-24)
d. the book  of the living (12b,15; Dan.12:1; see Ex.32:32,33; Ps.69:28; 139:16; Is.4:3; Ezk.13:9 
and Phil.4:3; Rev.3:5; see Rev.13:8; 17:8; 21:27;  see Lk.10:20; see Heb.12:23(Lk.2:1,3,5))

E. THE END OF THE OLD (14; 21:1; see 21:4,8; see 2Pt.3:10f; 1Jn.2:17)

III. HE WILL DELIVER US FROM EVIL COMPLETELY! (Rev20:7-15; 21:4,8; Is66:24 / Gen.3:15 / prophets: discipline church-destroy nations-deliver church; eg,Ezk,Amos(Judges) / Lk.1:67f,71,74; 2Sam.3:18; 8:1f / Mt.6:13)