Rev.# 73~20:11-15 White Throne Judgment Series

Rev.# 73~20:11-15 WHITE THRONE JUDGMENT 10-2-10

Today we’ll continue our study to do with the “WHITE THRONE JUDGMENT” and make a few comments on these verses as the Lord so directs.

Ø Listen as I read Rev.20:11-15

11And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.

12And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

13And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.

14And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.

15And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.

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11And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.

Ø The 1st thing John says about the Throne was that it was (GREAT)

There are people that sit on judicial seats in most of the civilized world today and he or she will hand down the final penalty to a person that’s found to be guilty by a sitting Jury that has listened to the charges that are brought against the accused and the jurors will decide if guilty or innocent.

But of all the courts through out the world there has never been one so GREAT as this one.

The sinners who stand before it have rejected a "great salvation"

Hebrews 2:3 How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation---

And now they must stand before The Great Judge to listen to their final sentence.

-- and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.

I want us to get a real good picture of what we just read***what does this mean?

It means that these hopeless and helpless poor lost sinners are standing before the Great White Throne before the Lord Jesus Christ as He will be the Judge, and their standing there on absolutely nothing, their standing there some where out in space with no place to hide because;-- the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.

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I believe that when the Judgment of the lost is under way, the earth as we know it will be burning up.

2 Peter 3: 3-7 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, 4And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

5For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: 6Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: 7But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men**. (nails her down)

Listen-- 10-12 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise,**(explosion) and the elements(orderly arrangement) shall melt with fervent heat,**(extremely hot) the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. **The earth and every thing in it will be completely burned to nothing.

11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved,**( break (up) melt) what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,** (way of living)

12Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?

Now the skeptics and atheist can scoff and deny and make fun of what we just read if they so choose, but its here in the book, and these are among the people that will be standing before the Great White Throne.

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There’s another Throne that I want to talk a little about and it’s the Throne back in chapter 4:, here we have the Throne that the saved will around, and I want us to notice the difference in what they look like.