Just how much do your circumstances and life experiences limit your ability to trust God? How much of your struggle with sin and temptations is because of your childhood, because of your traumas? It’s someone else’s fault, right? They caused you to be broken, now that brokenness in you causes you to stray from God and fall into sin.
Right?
Actually no. The harsh reality is, even with a perfect childhood, you would still struggle with life. Even with the best of examples and the sweetest of circumstances, you would still be prone to stray. That sin nature in you is strong. It’s not changed circumstances that would save you, it’s only the mercy of God and a relationship with Jesus that can do the job. Today, we’re going to look at a prophetic word in the book of Revelation that proves even in a world of perfection, you would still struggle without Jesus and end up in a losing battle.
Revelation chapter 19 and 20 holds a part of the world’s future destiny I honestly was never told about. Perhaps this will be a little known fact of the future for you too.
Now, here’s what we know: It’s prophesy, it will happen. God has aligned it and ordained it and in it’s time it will unfold just as God foretold. We know when God gives a prophetic word, it will happen. Did you know the Old Testament is filled with hundreds of prophetic statements about the coming Messiah. Specific details of a Savior to come that the world had never seen. Jesus came and fulfilled every one of those prophesies through his miraculous birth, life, death and resurrection. The mathematical probability of Jesus being able to fulfill even a FEW of the ancient prophesies was staggeringly improbable, yet Jesus fulfilled all of them. It was impossible.
Now, when we read Revelation, it’s a prophesy of the end times to come. Every one will be fulfilled. One by one, the details will align and it will happen. How is that possible? Because God has already made it so. John is given the visions of these future events that hadn’t even happened yet, and still haven’t happened now, but he could see them because God has ordained it. It’s coming.
So, here’s what will happen at the end of the unleashing of hell on earth, after the time of Tribulation. Revelation 19 tells us the beast, who is the Antichrist, will be captured and thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur. That’s hell. His time and his deception will be over. That’s the sure end of him. That’s his undeniable fate.
Then chapter 20 tells us an angel will come down from heaven with the key to the bottomless pit and a heavy chain in his hand. He seizes the dragon, who is the devil, Satan – and binds him in chains for a thousand years. The angel throws him into the bottomless pit, which he then shut and locked so Satan could not deceive the nations anymore until the thousand years were finished. Afterward he must be released for a little while.
So, Satan is chained up and locked away with absolutely no power for 1,000 years. The world is void of his evil deceptions and attacks. For this 1,000 years, Jesus rules the earth. Imagine what this time will be like. There will be no force of evil in the world. No voices from the pits of hell. Jesus rules. There will be love. There will be peace. There will be unity. It’s basically heaven on earth for 1,000 years. People will know of no broken childhoods, no trauma, no abuse, no neglect. There won’t be bad mommies or absent daddies. No one will be walking around with wounded hearts or nightmares. No addictions. No temptations.
Amazing right?
Then after that 1,000 years of Jesus ruling this world with a complete absence of the devil while he’s locked away in the bottomless pit with zero ability to deceive a single soul, the devil is let out again for a short period of time.