The Lake Of Fire Series

Now, Revelation 20:10 15, this is my text. There are several places that talk about the lake of fire, but this is very clear. And just so you know, I could do a five part series on this one. It bothered me, too. I wanted to do a bonus sermon on a bonus sermon, but I won't. I'll cram it all in.

10 And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.

11 Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. The earth and the heavens fled from his presence, and there was no place for them. 12 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books. 13 The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what they had done. 14 Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death. 15 Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.

Okay, so we have it there. Again, this is a very serious, serious thing. But I want to give you an end time crash course so you understand the context of where Revelation 20 is talking about. And so you understand this, the Bible talks about the end, and he gives us insight into the end. Like, how will this all end, how will this earth end? And I'm glad that it does. Revelation is a very tough book to understand. But if you read Daniel and Matthew and Revelation, you'll start to get a glimpse of how this thing ends. And I'm so glad God gives us the end time scenario so we can be aware of what's going on.

But here is what happened. When Jesus was on this earth, he died and paid the price for our sins. He became the sacrifice, the substitute for all that we've done wrong. All of our sin was placed on him, and then we were given a way to be right with God. And when Jesus left this earth, after he rose from the dead, he met with his disciples, and he said, "Guys, I'm building my church. You're going to go into all the world. You're going to be my witnesses. I'm going to giving you power. I'm going to give you the Holy Spirit, and He's going to empower you to be my witnesses everywhere you go. And you've got to share this good news that God loves mankind and sent his Son, and they can be forgiven. That's your job."

It's really something we know as the great commission. We are commissioned to go into all the world and preach the good news that God has made a way for us to be forgiven. And so we are in that age right now. We're in the age of the church where we are out there preaching the good news. We have an obligation to do that.

And we are waiting for this moment. We are waiting for this moment that God will say, "Time's up." And when God says, "Time's up," there is going to be something that's going to happen, and that event is called the rapture. Now, you may look in your Bible, you may look at a concordance, you may word search it; "rapture." The actual term is not there, but the idea is there. The idea is there that God is going to tell Jesus God, the Father is going to say to Jesus, "It's time. Time's up. Go get your bride. Go get the church, all those that believe in you. All those that asked you for forgiveness, go get them. It's time. Time's up."