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ASHEBORO — Harrison Eldridge may stand all of 5-foot-6, but the Asheboro Copperheads outfielder can swing a big bat.
Tuesday, Eldridge hit a 3-run home run in the bottom of the sixth to give the Copperheads the lead and hit an RBI single to rightfield for the insurance run in the bottom of the eighth as Asheboro notched a 8-5 win over the Florence RedWolves at McCrary Park. The win not only snapped the Copperheads' four-game losing streak, but also put an end to the RedWolves' four-game win streak.
"We've been getting big hits, but we just haven't gotten things to go our way," said Eldridge, whose hits were both off of first pitches. "It was good to get back in the groove.
"Coach told me to sit on something inside. My approach is to put the ball in play. I was looking for something around the strike zone. It doesn't matter if its the first pitch or the sixth, I want to put it in play."
"Things went a lot better," Copperheads coach Patrick Swift said. "Everything came out as planned."
While Florence didn't have an answer for the rest of the game, Asheboro added another run in the top of the eighth as Cooper hit a one-out bunt single, stole second and was sent home by Eldridge's single to rightfield.
Brad Boob got the start for Asheboro (3-6), allowing five runs on eight hits, while striking out six batters and walking one in 51/3 innings of work. Mike Williams picked up the win, shutting out the RedWolves in 22/3 innings, while giving up five hits and striking out three batters and walking none. Rob Hallberg notched a save, striking out two of the three batters he faced in the ninth.
"Boob did a good job," Swift said. "Williams came in and pitched well. Hallberg closed the door. We had a couple of errors, but that'll happen on a wet field."
"We had some big hits," Swift said. "Harrison had a couple big hits; Pat had a big hit early."
Lee Tabor took the loss for Florence (6-3), allowing seven runs on eight hits, while striking out five batters and walking four in 51/3 innings. Tyler Hoffman finished the game, allowing one run on two hits, while striking out two batters and walking none.
Chris Keenan went 3-for-5 with a run scored while Joe Luli went 2-for-4 with a home run, three RBIs and a run scored. David Sappelt went 2-for-3 with a double and a run scored, and Jesse Barbaro went 2-for-4 with a solo home run.
The game was a back-and-fourth affair that didn't start until close to an hour after the expected 7:05 p.m. start thanks to a rain/umpire delay.
Asheoro scored three runs in the bottom of the first, loading the bases with two out on a single, a hit batter and a walk. Haughie's double to the centerfield fence meant a 3-0 lead for the Copperheads.
But, Florence answered in the top of the second thanks to two home runs, knotting the game at 3-all.
Despite loading the bases in the bottom of the second, the Copperheads didn't score again until the top of the fifth, which tied the game at 4-all.
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future. On the left is President Coriolanus Snow of Panem and on the right, President Ulysses S. Grant.
When blond-haired, blue-eyed Jennifer Lawrence was cast last year as the dark-haired, olive-skinned and grey-eyed heroine Katniss for the film adaptation of Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games trilogy the decision was met with outrage from some bloggers. Perhaps they hadn't considered hair dye or contact lenses, but that doesn't diminish the fact that it's much more rare to see Hollywood go darker than lighter when casting films. One exception was Will Smith in I Am Legend, which suggested cross-racial casting is rooted just as much in the stupidity of star power as it is racism. Lawrence had just been nominated for playing a hillbilly in Winter's Bone, so she was as obvious a choice for the role of the Appalachian Katniss as Peter Dinklage is for any character under 5 feet, or Hayden Panettiere a cheerleader. Having just seen the movie, what's baffling to me is why anyone would find it preferable -- as in less offensive -- to have a black or mixed-race girl in the role given the fantasy world that's been (re-)constructed.


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Matthew was born in Chelmsford and at the age of four his family moved to Southend on Sea where he started dancing in a small church hall. He started competing at a young age in local school medallist competitions and by the age of ten he was winning most of them. He was then approached by a judge who suggested he entered more challenging competitions and so he decided to try out the open competitions and started taking Ballroom lessons in Birmingham and Latin lessons in Hendon supported along the way by his incredibly supportive parents and family.
In 1994 he teamed up with Nicole Westdyk, winning numerous titles culminating in winning the World, European and International Amateur Latin Championships in 1999 before turning Professional in 2000. In 1999 Matthew and Nicole were also the principal couple in the sell out Stage Show "Burn the Floor". Matthew continued to win many major titles as a professional until 2005 when he joined the Strictly Come Dancing line up. He won Series 5 in 2007 partnering Alesha Dixon and beating off Matt Di Angela and Flavia Cacace to take the Strictly Come Dancing title.
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That is a most excellent piece of work, please post some videos of your robot walking and moving when you have the time.
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Jin Sato,
That is a most excellent piece of work, please post some videos of your robot walking and moving when you have the time.
I know that what I am about to share isn't even the slightest bit related to robotics, however, its definitely work saying: my wife came home from the doctors office this morning with a prescription that forbids her from speaking for a period of no less than 72 hours. I was totally and completely amazed at this, I'm planning on going out tonight after work and purchasing at minimum a dozen roses...... and send them to my doctor with a thank you note attached. Not only did she manage to keep my wife quite for 72 hours, my insurance covered the bill.....
Hey Tim,
How do you consider that a good news / bad news situation, I see that as a GOOD news and More GOOD news situation; I've been involved in manufacturing and what not for a very long time and fully understand how all of this works. The good news being, VIA is in the process of manufacturing the Nano-ITX and the other good news is that I will be able to get some. So what if I have to wait a little more! I would have to say that a (standardized) 4.5in x 4.5in motherboard is well worth the wait.
I periodically check the VIA site for any info on the Nano- ITX product, and finally, this very morning, the Nano-ITX is under the listed products. Could this in fact mean that we will be able to get our hands on them soon?
My new robot controller is coming along nicely; I have the TCP/IP stack up and running on the embedded hardware, just waiting patiently for those VIA Nano-ITX motherboards to become available.
I decided to used the Ethernet port to communicate with the VIA motherboard, that leaves the USB ports open for Bluetooth and 80211. Not to mention, normally the Ethernet port would be pretty useless on a mobile robot
At last, after 4 years of exciting robot building, my company is moving the facility where I work here in southern California, back east! Brrrrrr! Much too cold for me, I will remain here, although I will be unemployed some time around June, I will still be warm :)
Any ways, if any one is looking for an Electrical / Software engineer with lots of robot building experience here in the LA / Orange county area, send me an email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Inspired by VIA`s Nano-ITX I started to develop a universal remote development system for robotics users; at this time I have the hardware interfacing COM object completed and I am vary close to releasing the first look at the development tools; IDE, runtime engine and miscellaneous hardware engines. The first version of the IDE / Runtime will support Pascal; subsequent releases will include Basic and C++; also if there is enough interest I will develop a Lisp version.
The DeviceIOControl object is now available for download from my site; you can get a jump start on your next PC based robot project by writing the hardware interfacing portion now! You can find the files here: http://www.roboshack.com
Tim Brown,
If your reading this post, please send me an email (firstname.lastname@example.com), I would like to talk with you regarding the VIA products.
I just finished reading Timsters Post regarding VIA; I've been following what VIA is doing very closely, with their mini-ITX footprint; with a nifty DC-DC power supply you can run their motherboards from 12V. I've created a simple test platform based on one of the mini-itx machines; the ``controller'' is currently utilizing the USB port. This is all well and good, however it would be much better if the motherboard had a CAN port on board and maybe a slightly smaller foot print.
The search for free web space continues! You would think with all the advertising sponsored sites out there you could find a decent free web provider with service that would actually work most of the time.
I think I found one that might do the job, if you get a chance, sign up for an account with www.100free.com. Their free service appears to work pretty good, lets hope they stick around for a while.
This weekend is the Grid Navigation contest at the Robot Society of Southern California held at Cal. State Fullerton, www.rssc.org: if your in the area, come on by, starts at around 12am.
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Local canine response team aided Boston bombing probe
The dust had barely settled when Gerry O'Sullivan and Dolly arrived in Massachusetts the morning of April 16, several hours after a pair of bomb blasts during the Boston Marathon killed three people and wounded hundreds.
O'Sullivan is a senior special agent canine handler for the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, based in Buffalo. K-9 Dolly, his five-year-old partner, is a yellow Labrador retriever with the job title of Explosives Detection Canine and a dog tag-sized badge on her collar.
Throughout that week, they were part of the investigation that culminated with the death of one suspected terrorist and capture of another. They returned to Buffalo Monday morning.
"In my 24 years, it was the most unbelievable response I have ever seen. Every police officer within the greater New England area wanted to be there," O'Sullivan said during an interview Friday.
Details about the work performed by O'Sullivan and Dolly remain confidential, however.
"Dolly worked all the crime scenes … searching for evidence," was about all he could say.
An explosives expert in his own right, O'Sullivan is trained in identifying post-blast evidence.
"We know what to look for. We know the difference between a car part and an explosive device," he said. "You can waste a lot of time if you don't know what you're looking for."
The two were among ATF resources sent to Boston, traveling aboard the local bureau's National Response Team Bomb Truck. "We were activated within hours of the incident," said Frank Christiano, special agent in charge of the Buffalo field office.
O'Sullivan said they arrived at 4 a.m. and attended a briefing three hours later. From that point on, work days averaged 16 hours – at least for O'Sullivan.
"Nobody minded," O'Sullivan said. "Nobody wanted to leave."
But for Dolly, trained to detect up to 19,000 different types of explosive compounds, her time on the job is environmentally driven; she can work up to an hour at a time.
"The weather in Boston was absolutely perfect … for deploying the canines," O'Sullivan said.
A product of the Puppies Behind Bars Foundation, Dolly was raised by inmates in a minimum-security federal prison in Connecticut before spending 16 weeks training at the ATF's National Canine Academy in Virginia. O'Sullivan also trained with her before they began working together in the summer of 2009.
The ATF uses Labrador retrievers, exclusively, largely because of their docile demeanor.
"We don't want an aggressive dog by a … possible explosive device for obvious reasons," O'Sullivan said. Labs are hardy, adaptable to the environment and easy to train, he added.
Dolly also is part of his family, which includes 13-year-old Cliff, another yellow lab who was O'Sullivan's K-9 partner when the agent first became a handler in 2002.
While Cliff is free to simply be a pampered pet in his retirement, O'Sullivan and Dolly train together daily, year-round. "It keeps the dog sharp," O'Sullivan explained.
Training is food-driven, so that when Dolly detects an explosive compound – signaling O'Sullivan by suddenly sitting upright – she's rewarded with a piece of dry dog food. Her daily diet – two cups of dry food – is meted out as she responds to spent shell casings and other materials that O'Sullivan uses.
And Dolly faces an annual recertification process that will, coincidentally, be held in Boston this year.
O'Sullivan reflected on visiting the stricken city in its darkest hours.
"The citizens of Boston were just outstanding," he said, describing how residents dropped off food and drinks for law enforcement officers guarding the perimeters of the crime scene.
"They were very, very supportive. That whole city came together," O'Sullivan said.
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Claudia Pahls and Larry Franks, 2013 Citizens of the Year, were honored Monday at the Sturgis Fest kickoff dinner.
Claudia Pahls and Larry Franks, 2013 Citizens of the Year, were honored Monday at the Sturgis Fest kickoff dinner at Sturges-Young Auditorium.
State Rep. Matt Lori presented Pahls with a state of Michigan proclamation of her title of Citizen of the Year.
Skip Sisson, president of the Sturgis Area Chamber of Commerce
Executive Board, followed up with a plaque from the Chamber.
Sisson, a past Sturgis Public Schools superintendent, was instrumental in Pahls' career. Since 1980, Pahls has worked at Sturgis High School, most recently as a career prep coordinator. She developed an extensive program for students grades K-12, matching them with local business partners.
Addressing the dinner gathering Monday, Pahls said, "I am so grateful to have found Sturgis. The citizens and employers of this community are like family. I am completely humbled and delighted by this honor."
Franks was introduced by State Rep. Bruce Caswell, followed by Sisson.
Franks, a past president of Burr Oak Tool and Gauge and Oak Products, has been active in many aspects of the community since 1959. One of his passions is the Sturgis Historical Society, where he currently serves as president.
Addressing the audience Monday, Franks noted that he was especially humbled by the honor as he was following in the footsteps of his father, Newell Franks, who also was named a Sturgis Citizen of the Year during his lifetime.
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Contagion (US - BD RA)
Jonathan is afraid of touching his own face after watching Soderbergh's latest
Contagion follows the rapid progress of a lethal airborne virus that kills within days. As the fast-moving epidemic grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself. At the same time, ordinary people struggle to survive in a society coming apart. (From the WB synopsis)
This film held up quite well on a second viewing at home. Soderbergh has put together a wonderfully talented cast and for the most part he gets great use out of them. Personally I felt like the plot line surrounding Marion Cotillard's character wasn't fleshed out enough. It's aptly directed and well performed, but it didn't have the impact it appeared to be going for. I would have preferred that portion of the runtime be dedicated to more involving segments of the story. Where Contagion's real strength lies is in it's realism. Now, I'm not an expert on viral epidemics and how different agencies would handle the situation, but to an uneducated viewer like myself this movie feels totally believable. Soderbergh is smart to avoid sensationalizing the infection with too many violent images or by pushing it into apocalyptic territory. This isn't a zombie thriller, but a thoughtful examination on how society would react to a viral outbreak and how different kinds of individuals and institutions would work to handle the situation. It gets under your skin not with cheap scares and creepy imagery, but by showing just how easily a disease can spread and how fragile our bodies are. In a way, seeing a realistic depiction of how society, the economy, and government institutions could crumble from a biological outbreak is scarier than any army of flesh eaters.
As expected, Soderbergh uses the Red One Mysterium X camera which makes for a very clean digital picture with deep blacks and smooth surfaces. As with most Red One films, it looks quite good. Colours mostly consist of a filtered yellow appearance, with outdoor scenes in the cold having a particularly cool palette of blues and greens. Detail is often soft, but it appears to be intentional. Often scenes will have some blurring to give it a weary diseased look. The effect is very similar to a tilt-shift lens. Despite coming from an impressive source, this 1080p transfer from Warner Bros. has a few faults. Certain dark areas of the picture are prone to distracting digital noise, which I've begun to see a trend in with Red One transfers. I also noticed a couple instances of blocking and a minor case of haloing. When checking the disc, the total feature takes up 18 GB on a BD-25. It seems Warner Bros. went the cheap route instead of going all out with a high bit rate (seems to be a trend with their recent titles), which could account for the compression artefacts. Luckily because the equipment it was filmed on is so impressive, the majority of the movie still looks very good and only the pickiest videophiles will find much to complain about.
For the most part, this DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 track doesn't disappoint. Aside from Cliff Martinez's awesome thumping score, there isn't a lot of spatial quality to the mix. Aside from ambient noise, the only scenes that really take advantage of the surround setup are those that features rioters and crowds of upset people, or traffic jams of cars trying to get out of a city. The score is also where the LFE channel gets most of its activity. For all its paranoia and tension, at the end of the day Contagion is mostly a movie of people talking, and on that front this audio track delivers without a hitch. Dialogue levels are perfectly clear and understandable, never being drowned out by the moody score or the noisy surroundings. It's not an audio track that will stand out as an example of brilliant sound mixing, but there are no apparent flaws either.
The Reality of Contagion (HD, 11:29) is a brief featurette where producers, writers, actors, and some scientists talk about viruses and how they work in the context of the movie. Studied biology students will probably find most of this information unsurprising and some of the interviewed subjects statements filled with hyperbole. It's a good introduction for those that are unfamiliar with the science, but it really only scratches the surface.
The Contagion Detectives (HD, 04:57) is a look at the real scientists and doctors who work to fight epidemics and strive to understand them. The segment is filled mostly with interview footage of producers and actors talking about how real the science in the movie is, and the valuable advising resources they had on set while filming.
Contagion: How A Virus Changes the World (HD, 02:01) A brief, and frankly obnoxious, educational look at how a virus spreads. It's done with graphical representations and a hokey elevator music in the background. There's a even a few very unfunny pop culture references (Did I really see the words "haters gonna hate"?) The narration goes so fast that you wonder if someone restricted them to the two minute runtime. I suppose if you're feeling particularly patient and slow the video down, you might learn something or find some useful info on how to prepare yourself for a viral outbreak. I wouldn't bother.
Contagion is a smart and effective thriller from Steven Soderbergh that works best as a realistic depiction of how the world would respond to a viral outbreak. Some of the more personal stories don't hold much water, but the overall experience is enough to at least recommend a rental. Warner Bros. delivers a solid video and audio presentation of the film, but the extras are disappointing fluff. I really would've liked a Soderbergh commentary track.
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Disc Details
Release Date: 3rd January 2011
Discs: 2
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 1.85:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 English, Dolby Digital 2.0 English, Dolby Digital 5.1 French, Dolby Digital 5.1 Spanish
Subtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish
Extras: The Reality of Contagion, The Contagion Detectives, Contagion: How a Virus Changes the World, DVD Copy, Ultraviolet Digital Copy
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Laurence Fishburne, Gwyneth Paltrow,
Genre: Drama and Thriller
Length: 106 minutes
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Leading media websites in the Czech Republic say they have come under repeated and powerful cyberattacks.india Updated: Mar 05, 2013 11:53 IST
Leading media websites in the Czech Republic say they have come under repeated and powerful cyberattacks.
The online editions of Mlada Fronta Dnes, a major newspaper, and of the respected business daily Hospodarske Noviny were among the affected.
The attacks occurred Monday morning and again in the afternoon.
Mlada Fronta Dnes' iDNES.cz says it considers the denial of service attacks the biggest it has ever faced. It says they likely originated from infected computers abroad.
Lucie Tvaruzkova, editor-in-chief of IHNED.cz, the site that belongs to Hospodarske Noviny, says "it was a coordinated attack on big media websites in the Czech Republic."
Tvaruzkova says it is not clear who is behind the attacks.
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CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - May 2, 2012) - Enerflex Ltd. (TSX:EFX) ("Enerflex" or the "Company"), a leading supplier of products and services to the global energy industry, will release its first quarter 2012 financial results on May 10, 2012.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - In its first meeting with nationally-ranked No. 5 Springfield College in four years, No. 11 MIT fell to the host Pride, 30-25, 30-21, 30-25. With the loss, the Engineers' ledger fell to 3-1 on the year.
Eric Reuland had a solid outing as he finished with six kills, four blocks, and three aces while Praveen Pamidimukkala registered a team-high eight kills and three blocks. Ryan Dean posted eight digs as Scott Pollom led the way with five blocks. Philip Rogoz dished out 19 assists in the loss.


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Insurgents dig in; Ukraine tanks seen in the east
Pro-Russian insurgents dug in Tuesday across eastern Ukraine, fortifying positions around seized buildings and erecting new barricades even as Ukrainian troops and tanks set up outside one eastern city now controlled by armed men.
In Kiev, Ukraine's acting president, Oleksandr Turchynov, announced an "anti-terrorist operation" to root out the separatists, but it was unclear how that measure differed from the one announced Monday, which resulted in no visible action.
Much of the focus Tuesday was on the eastern city of Slovyansk, 160 kilometers (100 miles) from the Russian border, which has come under ever more secure control of the gunmen since it was taken over last weekend.
An Associated Press reporter saw at least 14 armored personnel carriers with Ukrainian flags, one helicopter and military trucks parked 40 kilometers (24 miles) north of the city Tuesday. Other heavy military equipment appeared nearby, along with at least seven busloads of government troops in black military fatigues.
"We are awaiting the order to move on Sloyvansk," said one soldier, who gave only his first name, Taras.
Government troops at a checkpoint there, located outside the town of Izyum, searched vehicles driving by for weapons.
Despite fears of a possible imminent assault by Ukrainian troops, the city appeared calm. Roads into Slovyansk were dotted with militia checkpoints, at least one with a Russian flag. Another bore a sign "If we don't do it, nobody will."
Still, the threat the Ukrainian military posed to the highly organized, pro-Russian insurgents was unclear. One video posted online late Monday showed a hapless Ukrainian tank stuck in the mud in a field reportedly outside Slovyansk. Residents chased it on foot, shouting "Who are you going to fire at?"
The insurgents, many of them armed, continued to occupy government, police and other administrative buildings in at least nine cities in the country's Russian-speaking east of the country, demanding broader autonomy and closer ties with Russia. The central government has so far been unable to rein in the insurgents, and many local security forces have switched to their side.
Ukraine's security services on Tuesday identified a man it says is a Russian foreign intelligence agent who is running the pro-Russian operations in Slovyansk. It named him as Igor Strelkov, and said he also coordinated Russian troops in Crimea during the seizure of military facilities there.
Russia itself still has tens of thousands of troops massed along Ukraine's eastern border. Western governments accuse Moscow of fueling the unrest in eastern Ukraine and worry that any bloodshed could be used as a pretext for a Russian invasion, in a repeat of events in Crimea a few weeks ago. Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula after seizing it last month following the ouster of Ukraine's pro-Russian president in February.
In a phone call Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin urged President Barack Obama to discourage the Ukrainian government from using force against protesters in the country's east.
A wave of sit-ins, meanwhile, has hit the eastern city of Horlivka, where a police station was seized Monday by unidentified gunmen. Outside the station, a sign pinned to a barricade of tires listed items required by protesters, including blankets, drinking water and tape to cover up windows smashed during the storming.
Anatoly Zhurov, a 53-year-old Horlivka resident, said the insurgents' goal was to resist the government in Kiev.
Elsewhere, the Interior Ministry said a police station in the eastern city of Kramatorsk that had been seized by pro-Russian gunmen was "liberated" Tuesday, but a small airport nearby was still controlled by the militia.
Turchynov, speaking to the parliament in Kiev, gave few details of the "anti-terrorist operation," saying only that it would be conducted in a "responsible and balanced" manner. He blamed Russia for sponsoring the camouflage-wearing insurgents, who are often armed and move with a precision unlikely for local militia.
"(Russia wants) the whole south and east of Ukraine to be engulfed by fire," Turchynov said, adding the government operation aimed to "defend the citizens of Ukraine, to stop terror, stop crime and stop attempts to tear our country into pieces."
Russia strongly warned Kiev against using force against the pro-Russian protesters, saying that could prompt Moscow to walk out of Thursday's international conference on Ukraine in Geneva.
"You can't send in tanks and at the same time hold talks. The use of force would sabotage the opportunity offered by the four-party negotiations in Geneva," Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Tuesday.
In a sign that Ukraine's economic situation is becoming even more dire, its central bank increased its benchmark interest rate by a whopping 7 percent to 14.5 percent. The move aims to contain the risk of inflation by supporting the currency, which has been falling to record lows in recent days.
However, hiking interest rates can damage the economy by making loans and mortgages more expensive.
Ukraine has relied on cheap gas supplies from Russia for years. Moscow raised the gas prices for Kiev in the past weeks, leaving Ukraine scrambling to pay the mounting gas bills as well as past bills that Putin now says adds up to over $35 billion.
In the wake of Moscow's threats to cut off energy supplies to Ukraine, the German utility company RWE AG said Tuesday it has started supplying gas to Ukraine via Poland and could sell it up to 10 billion cubic meters of natural gas a year. Ukraine consumes between 52 and 55 billion cubic meters of gas a year.
In Kiev, two pro-Russian politicians were attacked by pro-Western activists as tensions mounted over unrest in the east.
Oleh Tsaryov, a pro-Russian lawmaker and a candidate in the May 25 presidential elections, was beaten by dozens of enraged activists early Tuesday as he was leaving a television studio. The activists pelted him with eggs, shouted insults and then assaulted him.
The Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office said it has opened a probe into the attack — as well as a criminal case against Tsaryov's calls to "encroach on Ukraine's territorial integrity." The lawmaker has met with pro-Russian protesters in Donetsk.
Another Russian-leaning politician and presidential hopeful, Mikhaylo Dobkin, was hit by green disinfectant and flour late Monday.
Moscow has accused the Kiev authorities of condoning such radicalism and says attacks against pro-Russian candidates show that the presidential election will not be fair or democratic.


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Can you imagine a world where justice always prevails. Where righteousness and goodness is always the rule and there is never an exception. Where there is total and lasting peace where joy is the dominant attitude. A world where health is so widespread that if somebody dies a hundred years old, they'll be said to be dying as if they were a child. A world where children can play in snake pits and not be afraid of being bitten or poisoned. A world where lions and lambs walk together with bears and cows and a little child leads them all. A world where agriculture is so effective and products are so profuse and food is so plentiful that even with a fantastic population explosion everybody has enough of everything. In fact, more than they could ever ask for.
Can you imagine a world ruled by a perfect ruler, loving, saving, caring, all wise, all knowing? That's the real world of the kingdom of Jesus Christ, and it's coming to this earth. Now last time we began our study, just the beginnings of the study were indicated to us in Revelation 19 and 20 and I invite you to turn there again in your Bibles.
People are looking for a new world. They always have been. But as they look for this new world, they're not convinced that this Jesus is the one who's going to bring it about. In fact, in most cases they are convinced that that is not the case at all. And even in the time of Peter in 2 Peter that most familiar passage, Chapter 3, "the scoffers come in the last days saying where is the promise of His coming?"
People have always doubted that Jesus will return. There are some Christians that really aren't too sure about it. There are people who have always held the kingdom of Jesus Christ somewhat suspect. And while they're looking for a new world, they're not sure that it's going to come in the terms that the Bible presents it.
Now as we come to Revelation 19 and 20 again, we find a very clear picture of the kingdom. Not in great detail, but really in kind of overview and yet it does give us some specific insights. Now we told you last time that there were six basic points that we were going to cover and we covered three last time. We'll cover the final three tonight.
The kingdom, according to Revelation 19 and 20, includes the rule of the Son, the removal of the serpent, the reign of the saints, the return of Satan, the revolt of society and the resurrection of sinners. Now let's review with some additional thoughts those first three. The kingdom to begin with is the rule of the Son. Chapter 19, in verse 11, "heaven opens, behold a white horse, He that sat on him was faithful and true, He comes to judge and make war." Describes Him in verse 12. Verse 13 describes His vesture dipped in blood and gives His name the word of God and we know that to be Jesus Christ.
He's given another name in verse 16, King of Kings and Lord of Lords. And so here we see the picture of the arrival of the Lord Jesus Christ to set up His kingdom. And if we were to compare Matthew Chapter 24, we would read that immediately after the tribulation of those days, "the sun shall not give its light, the moon shall turn to darkness, the stars of heaven shall fall, then shall the sign of the Son of man be revealed and we shall see Him in heaven coming with His angels and power and great glory."
So it is immediately after the tribulation that Christ comes back to set up His kingdom. The promise is that Jesus, the very same Jesus that walked in this world, is going to be the one who comes back to set up the kingdom of promise that all men are looking for but that not all men will experience.
In Daniel 7:13, it says, "And I saw in the night visions and behold one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven and came to the ancient of days and they brought Him near before Him and there was given Him dominion and glory and a kingdom. That all people and nations and languages should serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion which shall not pass away and His kingdom that which shall not be destroyed."
Now there Daniel says the Son of man was granted by the ancient of days, the Son of man is Christ, the ancient of days is God the Father, a kingdom and He will bring that kingdom to pass.
In Revelation Chapter 11, verse 15, the promise again is repeated regarding the kingdom. "The seventh angel sounded and there were voices in heaven saying the kingdom of this world is become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ and He shall reign forever and ever." Now though the kingdom specifically on earth last a thousand years, the reign of Christ is forever. And the kingdom merely phases into the eternal reign of Christ.
So the first phase of the kingdom that is so very important for us to recognize is that is the rule of the Son. That the earthly kingdom is going to be the place where Jesus Himself rules. Now we saw last time from Psalm 2 that it's going to be a universal rule. The Psalmist says in Psalm 2 very specifically in verse 6, "I have set my king upon my holy hill of Zion." This is God talking. "I will declare the decree the Lord said unto me thou art my Son this day have I begotten thee. Ask of me and I'll give thee the nations for thine inheritance and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession."
The Psalm then promises that the kings rule will be universal. He will give, the Father will, to the Son, the rule of all the nations. It also will be an absolute kingdom as well as universal. It says in Psalm 72:10-11, "The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents. The kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts. Ye all kings shall fall down before Him all nations shall serve Him."
And verse 9 says, "His enemies shall lick the dust." So it's universal and it's absolute. And then in Isaiah's wonderful prophecy, Chapter 11 in verses 3 to 5, just again reviewing, it says, "In the kingdom the Spirit shall make of him, make him of quick understanding in the fear of Lord and He shall not judge after the sight of His eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of His ears, but with righteousness shall He judge the poor and reprove with equity or equality the meek of the earth."
And so it's going to be a just kingdom. Absolute, universal, and just and Jesus Christ will reign. Now the second feature we saw of the kingdom was the removal of the serpent. We know that today the prince of this world is Satan. He is the ruler. He is the god of the age. And as we look at our world today, we see Satan in control and we know that when Christ comes the control must change. And if Christ is to take control, He has to deal with Satan. And He does, and we begin in Chapter 20 and we read this.
Revelation 20, verse 1, "I saw an angel come down from heaven having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, who is the devil and Satan and bound him a thousand years and cast him into the bottomless pit and shut him up and set a seal on him that he should deceive the nation no more until the thousand years shall be fulfilled, and after that he must be loosed a little season."
During the thousand year kingdom, Satan is going to be chained in the abyss which is the bottomless pit. The word in the Greek is abussos. Now let me give you a little word study that I think might help to clear up some confusion. If you're like most people who read the Bible and study the Bible you read about Sheol and you read about Hades and you about Hell and you read about the pit and you read about all of these things and you're not quite clear what's what and what's where.
So maybe I can just give you a little look at that. What is the abyss? And where is the abyss? Or as it's translated here, the bottomless pit, which is literally what abussos means. The word abussos is used nine times in the New Testament. It is a Greek word which means bottomless pit. Now if we were to look, for example, at one and seven times in Revelation twice outside Revelation, but one of the times outside Revelation gives us a good indication about it. In Luke 8:31, you remember that Jesus had cast the demons out of the mad man of the Gadarenes, remember? And where did He send those demons? Into pigs, a herd of swine. And they besought Him the demons did, they were talking to Him and they besought Him that He would not command them to go into the abussos. And there it translates it into the deep in the King James. I don't know why it takes the...that particular translation. It's rather arbitrary, but it's really the same word, bottomless pit. Now that gives us an idea what the bottomless pit is. The bottomless pit is where demons don't want to go. You say well, that's not a very clear definition. The bottomless pit is a place where demons are chained. That's what it is. It's not for people who die, the souls of men, it's for demons.
Now, it has the very same meaning every other time that it is used with no exceptions. In the book of Revelation it is once used in Romans 10:7 with the same meaning. In Revelation seven times it has the same meaning, abussos. Someone asked me this morning why I believe that in Revelation Chapter 9 the locusts...the locusts that came out of the pit were demons. And someone said that has been interpreted to be Muslims. Others interpret that to be a helicopters because it describes them like grasshoppers and all those little things.
And they said well, why do you feel that it is demons described like locusts? And I said, very clearly the answer is this, it is the word abyss that is used again. It says that the bottomless pit is opened up and they come out of there and all other times that that word is used it speaks of the place where demons are chained. So if somebody is unlocking the pit the only thing in the pit is demons.
And so the word abussos then is used to speak of the place where demons are bound. Now you say well which demons are bound? Well, if you were to read Peter and you were to read Jude, you would find that God has chained demons there since clear back in Genesis 6. Remember the demons in Genesis 6 who cohabitated with women? And He has reserved them in everlasting chains. See? And so there have been demons bound since Genesis 6. And apparently throughout history whenever God so desired, He could send other demons to the pit and so there is in this place the pit, a group of bound demons from Genesis 6 a pile of them and whoever else has been sent there since.
And you see that's why Revelation 9 says that when the tribulation begins in all of its terror, God lets this angel unlock the pit and the demons who have been bound from whenever they were bound, as far back as Genesis 6 come gushing out of the pit and overrun the earth. And that's what makes the intensity of the tribulation so much greater than any other time of evil in the world, because there will be more demons then there have ever been overrunning the earth.
The abyss then is not a place for the souls of men. It is a special place for bound demons. Now that is the place where Satan is going to get chained. Look verse 3, "and cast him into the bottomless pit and shut him up." Now that is what the abyss is. Now let me hasten to say this. There are other places besides the abyss, and we need to understand that.
I'll show you another one. Back up to Revelation 19:20, "And the beast was taken and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles," that's the antichrist and his religious cohort which he..."which he deceived them that received the mark of the beast and them that worship their image. These both were cast alive," not into the pit, not into abussos, "but into a lake of fire burning with brimstone." Now the beast is a man, right? He's a human, the antichrist. The false prophet is a human. They don't go into the pit. They go into the place called the lake of fire burning with brimstone.
Now you say well what is this place? Well, look at that. It's a rather ultimate place isn't it. The first ones that are ever said in the Bible to go to that place are these two. This beloved is Hell. And I hasten to add this, and then I qualify it, as clearly as I can understand the Bible, no one at the present time is in Hell. Now hang on to your hat. No one at the present time is in the lake of fire as we see it here. And I'll try to defend that.
Notice here the beast and the false prophet are thrown into a lake of fire. Now go to Chapter 20, verse 10 and I'll show you something else. "At the end of the kingdom," now the beast and false prophet were sent there at the beginning of the kingdom, at the end of the tribulation. A thousand years later after the kingdom is over, verse 10 of 20, "The devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone." Now it says "where the beast and the false prophet are and they've been there a thousand years and they shall be tormented day and night forever and ever."
Now here is the final Hell, see? The beast and false prophet are there. Notice how interesting it is that he says the devil was only...was cast into the lake of fire where the beast and false prophet are. It doesn't say anybody else is there. Interesting.
Now that's an argument from silence and not a heavy one, but it's interesting that it does exclude anyone else in statement. And so the devil is going to go to the lake of fire. You say anybody else going to the lake of fire? Go to verse 13. Here we are at the great white throne judgment of all the unsaved human beings of all time. And the sea gave up the dead that were in it and death and Hades delivered up the dead that were in them. Oh isn't that interesting.
Do you know where the dead have been until the great white throne? Not in the lake of fire, but in what, Hades. "And they were judged every many according to their works and death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire." Now you see then all these people are into the lake of fire. The lake of fire then is the technical term for final Hell. Verse 15, "And whosoever was not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire." Now the problem comes up and the reason everybody gets confused is because the King James translates so arbitrarily the word Hades.
Do you remember an Old Testament word Sheol, S-h-e-o-l? Sheol simply means the world of the dead. That's all it means. It doesn't have any more specific meaning than that. It simply means the world of the dead. Now in the Old Testament Sheol had two parts didn't it? A person who died could go into the part where evil men were separated from God and believe me there was torment there in the absence of God. Or one who died as a Godly individual would go into the good part which Jesus called paradise. Remember what He said to the thief, "This day shalt thou be with me in paradise." Which was the good part of the place of the Old Testament dead. Now watch when Jesus died on the cross, Ephesians 4:8 says, "He led captivity captive." And we've interpreted that in our study and if you want more detail on it, you can get that tape or study a commentary on that passage, but in...what happen was while Jesus was physically dead on the cross, His spirit descended into that place into the paradise and scooped up the good folks, the souls of those who were righteous and took them up to heaven. So then Hades only had one compartment left. See? Old Testament saints their spirits waiting for the time when Jesus died and when Jesus accomplished salvation on the cross He went right down scooped them up and took them to heaven, led captivity captive. And then Hades only had one part. Now Sheol in the Old Testament and Hades in the New Testament, same thing, just a Hebrew word and a Greek word.
Now watch, when anybody dies since Jesus' death right on out or since the very beginning of death in the world, they go into a place called Hades. That is not to be confused with Hell. Let me hasten to say this, Hades is bad. It is very bad. But Hell is different. In the Old Testament it is a completely different word. It's the word tophet. And in the New Testament it is a completely different word is the word Gehenna. But the King James fouls it up because the King James translates Hades, Hades sometimes and Hell some other times. You see?
Now stay with me on this. In Matthew 5:29-30, I'll give you a Scripture that you can kind of sink your teeth into a little bit here and maybe get some clarity on it. Matthew 5:29, "If thy right hand offend thee, pluck it out. Cast if from thee for it's profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish and not thy whole body should be cast into Hell." Now watch, now watch, what does he say there is going to be cast into Hell? What? Your body. People say John, do you believe in a literal Hell? How could I not believe in a literal Hell. I says right there your whole body would be cast into Hell. Now watch, There is no unsaved person dead now in a body, right. Where are the bodies of the unsaved? They're in the grave. When are they going to get resurrected? At the great white throne judgment. Therefore, they don't get their bodies until the great white throne. They couldn't be cast into the final Hell until that time.
So they're not in Hell today, they're in Hades, which is a spiritual waiting place, but believe me it is a tormented place. It is a place of burning in a spiritual sense. Now verse 30 says "if you're right hand offend you cut off and cast it from you for it's profitable for the that one of they members should perish and not that thy whole body should be cast into Hell."
Hell is a literal place. Do you believe that heaven's a literal place? Do you believe you're going to go to heaven in a literal, glorified body? Jesus is there right now in one, isn't He? And Hell is a literal place. Now the term Hell here in this passage is the Greek word Gehenna, G-e-h-e-n-n-a. Now Gehenna was the valley of Hinom. It's just a term for the valley of Hinom. Now the valley of Hinom was outside Jerusalem. You can go to Jerusalem today and it'll be pointed out to you, the valley of Hinom.
In that valley, first of all, idolaters burned their children to the god Molech. So it began as a place of burning and God cursed the valley of Hinom. And you know what happened at the valley of Hinom? The people of Israel then since God cursed it wouldn't use it for anything except the city dump. And so the valley of Hinom became the dump for the city of Jerusalem. And for centuries and centuries filth and garbage and animal carcasses were thrown into the fire of the valley. Now watch, they made sure that the fire never died out. There was always something new being thrown into that valley. And the worms never died either because there was always enough new stuff for the worms to thrive. See? And when our Lord describes Hell, He said it is a place that the fire never ceases and the worm never dies. See?
And you remember that you if you look back in history and see such a terrible place, you would know that would be a place where scavenger animals would gather and the jackals would gnash their teeth as they ate the garbage in the terrible place called the valley of Hinom. That's Gehenna and that is the picture of Hell that Jesus chose. And whenever He wanted to speak of Hell, in the final sense, He chose the word Gehenna.
Now from that background the word Gehenna was used to describe the everlasting damnation of Hell where there is weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth and the worm never dies and the fire is never quenched and that is Hell.
You say then John, do you mean that my particular friends who die today without Jesus Christ go into some kind of a nice little waiting place? No, that...they go into a waiting place, not the final Hell, but it's not nice. I'll prove it's not nice. I'll show you a man who went there. And he not only went there, but he told us what it was like.
Luke 16, verse 19, now listen, "There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day. There was a certain beggar named Lazarus who was laid at his feet full of sores. And desire to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table. Moreover the dogs came and licked his sores." He was in bad shape. "It came to pass that the beggar died and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom." Do you know what that is? That's the good part of Hades. You see Christ hasn't died yet, so He hasn't emptied that part. But here's a godly beggar who dies and he goes into Abraham's bosom. He goes into a place of blessing. He goes to be with blessed Abraham whose waiting yet the death of Messiah, but that place that Abraham was in place of blessing and joy.
"But the rich man died and was buried," and watch, "and in," and your Bible might say Hell, that's unfortunate, "and in Hades." The word is Hades, not Gehenna. "He lifted up his eyes being in," what, "torment." And in verse 24, he says, "send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger and water and cool my tongue for I am tormented in this flame." It is not the eternal lake of fire, but believe it's the absence of God and it's the presence of punishment. So just because I say that the people who die now do not go to final Hell, they do not go to the terrible, fearful Gehenna does not mean that they're waiting in some waiting place that's about as comfortable as a lounge. They're as apart from God as they'll ever be and they're in the pain and the agony of punishment and mostly the remorse of conscience for knowing that they have sealed their eternal doom by a wrong decision.
Now, I say all that because I want you to understand that though there is no one in Hell, to die without Jesus Christ now is to be in a place of terrible torment. Only to await the final lake of fire. Now, Jesus made the statement "Fear not them who destroy the body, but fear Him who is able to destroy both body and soul in Hell."
And the one you are to fear is not Satan. He doesn't run Hell, God does. That verse is talking about God. Now back to Revelation 20, I said all of that just because I want you to understand what the abyss is in relation to other things. I hope that helps.
And so Satan is bound and it says in verse 2 that "The old serpent is bound a thousand years." Have you ever heard the kingdom called the millennium? Yes, that comes from two Latin words, milla which means thousand and annum which means year. So a thousand years is a milla annum, millennium.
All right, then the kingdom begins with the rule of the Son and the removal of the serpent. Thirdly, the reign of the saints and we saw this last time. With Satan out of the way, the kingdom begins. And what a blessed thing it is. Verse 4, now remember Satan is not yet in the final Hell. He's bound where? In the bottomless pit. He is going to get cast into the final Hell at the end of the kingdom. He's just bound there. This is a temporary place.
All right, verse 4 tells us the reign of the saints. "And I saw thrones and they sat upon them. Remember I told you last week about the they and the them? And the they are all the saints of all the ages. Daniel 7:18 says, "The saints of the Most High shall inherit the kingdom." That's Old Testament saints. Matthew 19:28-30 the apostles are going to rule in the kingdom, that's between Old Testament and New Testament, those in the time of Christ.
And I told you about 1 Corinthians 6:2, which says the New Testament saints are going to reign. So the they refers to all the saints of all the ages. Thrones and they sat upon them. We're all going to reign. "And judgment was given unto them and I saw the souls of them." Oh now we have the them. We know who the they are. Who are the them? It tells us, "Them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus. That's an interesting statement because apparently people who die during the tribulation are going to die through the method of beheading.
And the reason they died was for the word of God and who had not worshiped..."for the witness of Jesus and the word of God and who had not worshiped the beast, neither his image, neither received his mark upon their foreheads or in their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a millennium."
Now it says that not only all the saints of the ages, but the saints of the tribulation are going to be there, those who didn't bow down to the beast. Notice what it says, interesting thing there. It says they didn't worship the beast. Do you remember that the antichrist back in Chapter 13 during the tribulation requires that the whole world worship him, remember that? 13:8, "And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him except those whose names are written in the Lamb's Book of Life from the foundation of the world."
And then it says, "Not only they did not worship the beast, but they didn't receive the mark of the beast or worship his image." And you know over in verse 15 the false prophet sets up a big image, a big...some kind of a super idol of the beast and requires everybody to bow down to the image. And then it requires that everybody has a mark. He says that, verse 16, "everybody whether you're small, great, rich, or poor, free or enslaved, receive a mark in your hand or your forehead." And if you don't have the mark, you can't buy or sell.
In other words, the economy's going to reduce to numbers. And we're already in that economy, credit cards and number systems and you're social security numbers becoming increasingly important. There all kinds of new deals. I'm not even going to go into it. We've covered that in other messages. Where numbers are becoming the system by which we identify each other. And there's going to be ways to imprint those numbers on your hand and on your head and in any society no matter what people wear as clothing, the two most visible places is the back of the hand and the forehead, because you may cover a lot, but the forehead usually stays revealed.
And so in these places you will be marked with a number and by that number be able to buy or sell. If you don't have the number you can't exist. So the beast will require worship of himself, worship of his image and that you join his economy. Anybody who doesn't is going to be beheaded. They're going to lose their heads.
And they may lose their heads, but they'll reign with Jesus forever and ever. The reign of the saints. And during the kingdom, you say what's it going to be like? We covered that last week. I mean it's exciting. Do you know that I'm looking forward to the kingdom. I know you are. I get so excited about the kingdom just unbelievable. I mean, I start thinking about those things just really zeroing in on some of those qualities of the kingdom and I just...it just blows my mind. I mean, I can't even handle it. But you know, I'm not the only waiting for it. Did you know that...did you know that your front lawn is waiting for the kingdom? Did you know that your dog, you know, the dog world is waiting and that's facetious, but let me show you what I mean. Verse 19 of Romans 8, "For the earnest expectation," and don't start telling that I believe dogs are going in the rapture because I don't, but that's only a figure of speech. Okay, verse 19, "For the earnest expectation of the creation waits for the manifestation of the sons of God." You see the whole world is waiting to be returned to its prime existence before the curse. The creation was made subject to vanity not willingly. Verse 21, "The creation itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption." In other words, the curse of the earth will be reversed. And we said in verse 22, "The whole creation groans and travails in birth pains together until now, until this great day when redemption comes."
You see all of creation wants the kingdom. It's going to be fantastic. The reign of the saints. Now we covered some detail last week we won't cover tonight. Now verses 5 and 6, we're going to come back to so we'll skip them and go to our fourth point.
The reign of the saints follows the removal of the serpent, which follows the rule of the Son, but fourthly, and this is most interesting. We have the return of Satan, the return of Satan, verse 7. "And when the thousand years are ended, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison."
Now the kingdom is going to come to a climax and Satan is going to be loosed. I told you last week and I want you to understand this, I told you last week that Satan is not necessary for individuals to sin, right? We do real well on our own with our own sin nature and our own depravity. We don't need Satan for that. But watch, Satan is the one, now watch, who organizes evil on a worldwide scale. You got it? It doesn't...Satan isn't necessarily involved in what you do as an individual and what I do as an individual in terms of sin, the works of the flesh are these. Read them Galatians 5, but Satan is the mastermind that coordinates it all so that it has a total global impact. That's why when you remove Satan from the kingdom, you don't remove individual sin, but sin can't get together enough to have an impact. You see?
And what happens at the end of the kingdom is God releases Satan from the abyss and he comes to the earth and he organizes the sinners. And they get all together in this gigantic rebellion against Christ and they march on Jerusalem. Now during the kingdom, children are going to be born. The children of saints. Now watch, you say oh my. Imagine being born in the kingdom. They'll never know what we've been through. That's right.
And you know something else they won't know? They won't know how good the kingdom is, because that's all they'll ever know. And you know the sad thing is everybody's going to conform to the rule of Christ, but some are going to conform only outwardly. And inwardly, some of those children born of the saints are going to be rebels.
And there will be no way that they can have a concerted effort to get together because Christ will rule and Satan isn't around with his demons to organize it. And so they sublimate their rebellion and they put on a fasod of obedience to Christ. But you know why Satan's released? He's released so that he can reveal the true character of the hypocrites. You see that's the last batch of sinners in existence and they have to be dealt with before the eternal kingdom.
And so if Satan is loosed and he sweeps across the world and he finds all the hypocritical hearts and he organizes them into a worldwide rebellion. I'll tell you something folks, if somebody comes to me and says they don't believe in depravity of man, I don't think they understand this area of history yet to come. How could you believe that man isn't depraved when he does that in the kingdom where Jesus is on the earth and reigning?
Sinners can't be changed by changing their environment. We have this idea well, if we just clean up the slums we'll get rid of crime. That is ridiculous. You won't have thugs, you'll just have embezzlers. You can't clean up crime by cleaning up the slums. You'll just scatter crime around and it'll become more sophisticated. It won't be hitting little old ladies in the back of the head and stealing their purses. It'll be cheating the government out of their rights in terms of the income tax.
Oh we'll get all the prostitutes off the street. Sure and then everybody will just play hanky panky with his neighbor's wife in suburbia. Why? Because that's man's nature and the environment does little to change his nature. It only changes the format of his disobedience that's all.
There's just some more refined type criminals. And that doesn't mean I'm against cleaning up the slums, understand that. Of course, I'm for that. But I'm just saying if you're going about that for the sake of the love of humanity and the care of individuals and supplying the needs, that's great. If you think you're going to change human nature, you're wrong. It doesn't work.
So here what happens, here are people living in the kingdom. They have everything. This is the golden age that has been dreamed about and they're in the middle of it and they still don't receive Christ. They say it's impossible I can't believe it. Just remember this, they didn't receive Him the first time He came either and He was in their midst.
Well, you say maybe Satan would be a little better after being bound for a thousand years. He's the same old vial character that he was when he went into that pit. He just sat there in that pit for a thousand years and got madder. He's as diabolical and as evil as he ever was. He hasn't changed.
He comes out of there and you know something he hasn't changed and neither has human nature changed. And he finds uncounted millions of people to join his rebellion and the Bible says they are numbered as the sand of the sea. Can you believe that? Now when somebody tells you that man's heart is hard against God's grace you can know it can't you?
You wonder why people resist your witness. Imagine they'll do the same thing with Jesus right there in Jerusalem. And so it's the return of Satan. The return of Satan leads to the fifth point the revolt of society. Boy he stirs up a revolution. Look at verse 8.
"And Satan after he gets out of his abyss, his prison, he goes out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth." Boy he covers the globe, "Gog and Magog," now it's not the Gog and Magog of Ezekiel 38, that was the uttermost part of Israel wasn't it? Gog being the land and Magog being the prince. That was Russia.
But here it's every Gog and every Magog, every land and every prince from every corner of the world joins the rebellion and the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. You talk about population explosion. Man, can you imagine in a thousand years what can be done in productivity in a world where everything is perfect and people aren't sick and people have babies and just multiplies and multiplies and multiplies? Number as the sand of the sea. And look what they do. Boy Satan is so...he could deceive...these people are so witless to buy his bill. They go up to the...up on the breadth of the earth. They come from everywhere and they compass the camp of the saints about and the beloved city. Can you believe that?
Satan actually talks them into attacking Jerusalem with Jesus Christ on the throne. Boy you say Satan is a deceiver. Yes, he can actually deceive people living in the glorious kingdom of Jesus Christ that they can go to Jerusalem and knock off Jesus Christ. Now he's clever. Keep that in mind. Cunning, craftiness, and they buy his bill. And they all arrive there. Oh man. Terrible tragedy. You know what this is when they get there? It's what I call the Waterloo of the world. It's the end.
Verse 9 says, "And fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them." Some would tell us that that's atomic fire. That God sets off an atomic chain reaction and the whole earth goes up in a blaze. Because you see by the time you come to Chapter 21, verse 1, "I saw a new heaven and a," what, "new earth for the first heaven and first earth were," what, "passed away." That the fire is an atomic holocaust that destroys the earth and immediately, immediately the devil is shot into the lake of fire and everybody else appears in heaven at the great white throne or in the heavens in the sky at the great white throne.
Nobody ever appears on earth again. And so it's very possible that nine is the destruction of the earth. Verse 10 says, "And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone." That's Hell isn't it? Not the pit this time, but into the eternal Hell. "Where the beast and false prophet are and shall be tormented day and night forever and ever."
This is the last confederation against God. I don't know how you feel, but it kind of is a sigh of relief. This is the last rebellion. This is the last death, listen beloved, this is the last sin never again for eternity shall sin never touch God's universe. That's it. Satan's had a long career. It started back in the heavens before the world as we know it. Decided to be like God. Isaiah tells us about his beginning. Revelation tells us about his end. Back to the abyss, no. Hell for eternal torment. You say well, yeah, if Satan goes to his place and he runs hell, right? No, he doesn't run Hell. You know who runs Hell? God does. Satan and Hell is the same kind of victim that anybody else is. Now the Hell of Satan is in some sense different, since he is a spiritual being. Just to add a final note, keep in mind that Satan suffers just like the rest. And one thing that I've often thought about in terms of Hell that's just a fearful thing is that Hell is not going to be...you know, you hear people say well, I want to go to Hell because my friends are all going to be there. You know, that's really a...that's really a tragic statement because you know that Hell is going to be absolute and total isolation. There isn't going to be anybody there as far as you're concerned and that's sad. So what do we see about the kingdom? We see the rule of the Son, the removal of the serpent, the reign of the saints, the return of Satan, the revolt of society and lastly, the resurrection of sinners, verses 11 to 15. Once the earth is burned up by fire oh of the ungodly are resurrected.
Now listen friends, everybody, say it again, everybody is going to be resurrected. Are you with me? Everybody, the godly are going to be resurrected and so are the ungodly. All of the ungodly are going to be resurrected at the same time. The Bible talks about here the first resurrection, that's the resurrection of the godly, the second resurrection that's the resurrection of the ungodly.
Now let's go back to verses 5 and 6 and we'll move right into this and just close with it. And it's clear...you just see it, it's clear to your own your eyes. Verse 5, "The saints lived and reigned with Christ during the thousand years, but," verse 5, "the rest of the dead lived not until the thousand years were finished." Right? The ungodly spirits are waiting in Hades but their bodies are in graves all decayed and so forth.
Now this is the first resurrection, he says, and I really think that ought to go with verse 6, "Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection." Whatever the first resurrection is, it's blessed and holy, right? So it's not the second resurrection is it? The second resurrection is the resurrection of the damned. The first resurrection is the resurrection of the blessed and holy.
And on such the second death has no power, "but they shall be priests of God and of Christ and shall reign with Him a thousand years." Watch, the first resurrection, now get this, the first resurrection takes place before what? The kingdom, has to. Why? You're going to have to reign with Him.
The second resurrection not until the thousand years were what? Finished, the first resurrection, the second resurrection separated by how long, a thousand years. Now the first resurrection is our resurrection, but the same word is used for both, anastasus. It means the raising again of a fallen body. It's a bodily resurrection. You say John, you mean that actually the sinners are going to be...have bodily resurrection? Yes. Yes, in a body that's prepared for their eternal punishment. There are several passages that really ought to be carefully looked at this...in an understanding of this. In terms of the first resurrection, we have the promise of Jesus Christ in these words, "Because I live," what, "ye too shall live also." And Jesus said to Martha, "Thy brother shall rise again." And Martha said, "I know that. He shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day."
You see she knew all about it. Jesus said, No, no, no, I wasn't talk about that. I was talking about in a few minutes. But she was right. They all knew about the resurrection. In Philippians 3:11, there is an interesting statement that bears the thought because of the Greek that is used. Paul says, "If by any means I might obtain unto the resurrection of the dead." The literal Greek is "The resurrection out from among the dead."
The first resurrection is out from among the dead. "And on them," go back to Revelation 20, "on them the second death has no power." And of course, the second death means eternal death. The first death is what? Physical death. The second death is eternal death. And so those who are save are in, now watch this, those who are save are in the first resurrection and they escape the second death. Those who are not saved are in the second resurrection and experience the second death.
Now the second death if you'll notice there in verse 6, is eternal damnation. Go over to verse 14. "And death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire." Now watch, this is the second death even "whosoever was not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire. That is the second death." The first death is when you die physically. The second one is when you're sent to Hell without God.
Beloved there are two resurrections. I'm glad I'm in the first one aren't you? You say what's it going to be like at that second resurrection? Well, let's look at verse 11 and see. "I saw a great white throne and Him that sat on it." You know who sat on it? Jesus, because Jesus said in John that the Father had committed all judgment unto the Son. And in that most powerful statement, it must have boggled the brains of the people listening, Jesus said, "Marvel not at this for the hour is coming in which all that are in the grave shall hear His voice and shall come forth. They that have done good under the resurrection of life and they that have done evil unto the resurrection of damnation."
The first resurrection Jesus calls the resurrection of life. The second one, the resurrection of damnation. And Jesus even makes the statement in verse 25, "the hour is coming and now is when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God and they that hear shall live." He claimed that resurrection power. He, by His own power, will bring the bodies of the dead unsaved to the great white throne.
And from His face, the earth and the heaven flood away. And this is where the earth as we know it is gone. It had been rejuvenated in the wonderful kingdom. It is consumed in judgment in verse 9 and it flees away in verse 11. "And there was no place for them." No more earth and heaven as we know it. And John says in his fearful, "I saw the dead, small ones, great ones, stand before God." This is judgment. You say well, John, how are they going to be judged? Listen, the books were opened, the books were opened. Verse 13, watch, "And the sea gave up the dead that were in it," this is bodies, it has to be. People have drowned. "And death and Hades delivered up," that is the grave death and Hades the place of the spirits, "delivered up the dead that were in them, and here come the spirits joined a resurrected bodies and they were judged every man according to their," what, "works."
You say John, but you can't be saved by works. That's right. But if you don't believe in Jesus Christ, what do you have left to commend yourself. Works. And isn't God a fair God and a just God so God has kept a running record of the works of every man. Per chance that some man might be perfect.
The books were opened, verse 12. God has kept a record of the deeds of every man. Why? If you're going to go into court and you're going to say the man is guilty, you better have, what? The evidence. And the books are open. Now this is the congregation of the doomed. They're judged according to their works, but by the deeds of the law, no flesh is justified.
Romans 3:20, "Not of works." Ephesians 2:9, "No way to be saved by works." Many will say unto me in that day Lord, Lord we prophesied in Your name. We cast out demons and we did many wonderful works. And He shall say unto them, "Depart from me, I never knew you."
Nobody's ever saved by works are they? It doesn't matter how good you are. God will keep a work of your works and nobody will make it. Look at the end of verse 12. "But another book was opened." Oh I'm so glad for that book. "Which is the Book of Life. The dead were judged out of those things that's written in the books according to their works." You say what's the Book of Life? It's called elsewhere, listen to this, I love this. Revelation 17:8 "The beast that thou sawest was and is not and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit and into perdition and they that dwell on earth shall wonder," listen, "whose names were not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world." Whose Book of Life is it? The Lamb's Book of Life. You say, how do you get in that book? How do you get your name in that book? One way. Peter said, "Neither is there salvation in any other for there is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved." And who was that man? Jesus. Jesus.
Put your faith in Jesus Christ it means that your name is written in the Book of Life. If your name is not in the Book of Life, you'll be judged out of the books by your works and no man shall ever be justified by works.
No man can ever say that God sent him to Hell. No man can ever say that God damned his soul. In Matthew 25:41, Jesus said, "Depart from me, ye cursed into everlasting fire," listen, "prepared for the devil and his angels." Hell was never even prepared for people. God is not willing that any, what, should perish.
But they all should come to repentance. Verse 14 says, "And death and Hades," now there's Hades, "were cast into the lake of fire." You see the Hades that we talked about now just is thrown into the eternal Hell." And verse 15, what can I say? "Whosoever was not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire."
You say John, this disturbs me. Well, it disturbs me too. It hurts to even study this. It's painful. Because I don't like to think about people going to the lake of fire. But it's here isn't it? It's here. I close by saying what Jesus said, listen to His words. "Truly, truly, I say unto you he who hears my word," listen, "and believes on Him who sent me, has eternal life and does not come into judgment, but is passed from death unto life."
All you have to do is hear the Son and believe and God will put your name in the Book.
Father, thank you tonight for clarity of the word and marvelous plan that you've laid out for those that are righteous and those that love Jesus Christ. But Lord we just...we just hurt inside and it sickens us to think of a place of torment for those who know not Christ. But God we know that if somebody didn't want You, You'd never force your presence on them for eternity, surely not. And we know that Hell doesn't change anything. It just makes permanent what you were in this life if you want to live without God, you'll live without Him forever. If you want to know God, you'll know Him forever.
Father, we thank you that You've given us the truth that we might choose and choose wisely. While our heads are bowed as we close tonight in just a...I feel just in a message like this that I need to just pinpoint some thoughts in your mind. And while you're meditating with your eyes closed and silently sitting where you are, I would just not be fair with my own heart nor with the Holy Spirit if I didn't say if you don't know Jesus Christ tonight and have never put your faith in Him, you are in a dangerous position. And there are no words that I can add to the Scriptures to soften the blow. Judgment awaits. I don't understand that. I don't understand all about that. And it grieves me and like John I...it's bitter but it's in the Bible and I believe it. But God calls and He says "believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and ye shall be saved." That's all that's required.
And if you're sitting there in you're saying well, I don't know Jesus Christ and I don't know if I've ever asked Him into my life and I think if I were to die I'd be in Hades and ultimately I'd be at that great white throne and I'd have nothing but works and works won't make it and I'm in trouble. What do I do? I'd just say to you just silently, quietly say this, God I don't think my name...I don't think my name is really there, at least from my perspective." I've never committed myself to Jesus Christ, but tonight Father I want to do that. Forgive my sin, take over my life. Can you pray that prayer?
I'm not trying to get you to join a religious system. I'm just...I just want to get you right with God. Just invite Jesus Christ to come into your life. Some of us as Christians have sure taken lightly this haven't we, in terms of our witnessing? We need to stop to think about where people go when they die without God.
Father as we sing a closing hymn, we ask that You'll speak to hearts and bring those into the prayer Lord who just need tonight to make the decision of committing everything to Jesus Christ. We pray in His name, Amen.
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