The Bible says God has given us the Holy Spirit to give us a taste of the kingdom now.

Dr Tony Evans says there's a reason the Lord wants us to catch a preview of the future.

The whole point of God telling us prophecy

is for us to live now in light of them.

This is the alternative with Dr. Tony Evans, author, speaker, senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship

in Dallas, Texas and president of the Urban Alternative.

It's common practice for movies and TV series to show previews of coming attractions

and God has done the same for us in the Bible giving us a taste of what's coming

in the time between now and eternity.

Today Dr Evans talks about humankind's longing for a perfect world

and what's kept us from living there so far.

Let's join him in the book of revelation as he begins.

Something has interrupted the dream of utopia.

It's called sin.

Whether it's your sin or somebody else's sin that affects you or even the environment that has been cursed by sin,

sin has disrupted the possibility of utopia, Paradise.

However, there is coming a time when there will be utopia,

and that time is coming in history before we ever get to eternity

and we call it the Millennium.

The millennial rule of Jesus Christ. Millennium means a thousand. So when you

talk about the millennium, you're talking about a thousand year period of time. Let's review. Jesus raptures the

church, seven years of tribulation. Jesus comes back to set up his millennial kingdom.

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