Does the Bible Say All Babies Go to Heaven
Lesson 12
Yous can be certain that it's coming—an incredible millennium that volition be ushered in later Christ's render. And the devil doesn't want you to know virtually information technology, his chiliad-twelvemonth prison sentence, because it reveals his true character. Indeed, Satan has concocted a counterfeit bulletin for the millennium just to trick you! This is an crawly, fascinating study that could very well shake upwards everything you've heard. But now you can know the Bible's amazing truths about the soon-coming 1,000 years!
1. What event begins this 1,000-year flow?
"They lived [came alive] and reigned with Christ for a k years" (Revelation 20:iv).
(For more on the subject of death, see Written report Guide ten.)
Answer: A resurrection begins the ane,000-twelvemonth period.
2. What is this resurrection called? Who will be raised in it?
"This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is he who has function in the first resurrection" (Revelation 20:v, half-dozen).
Respond: It is called the start resurrection. The saved—"blessed and holy" from all ages—will exist raised in information technology.
3. The Bible says there are two resurrections. When is the second resurrection, and who will be raised in it?
"The balance of the dead [those who were not saved] did non live again until the thousand years were finished" (Revelation 20:5).
"All who are in the graves will hear His voice and come forth—those who have washed skilful, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation" (John 5:28, 29).
Answer: The second resurrection takes identify at the close of the 1,000-twelvemonth period. The unsaved volition be raised in this resurrection. Information technology is called the resurrection of condemnation.
Delight notice: The resurrection of the saved begins the 1,000 years. The resurrection of the unsaved ends the 1,000 years.
four. What other momentous events have place when the 1,000 years begin?
"Behold, He is coming with clouds, and every centre will see Him" (Revelation i:7).
"The Lord Himself will descend from sky with a shout. ... And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to come across the Lord in the air" (one Thessalonians 4:xvi, 17).
"In that location was a great earthquake, such a mighty and great earthquake as had not occurred since men were on the globe. ... And groovy hail from heaven roughshod upon men, each hailstone nigh the weight of a talent" (Revelation 16:18, 21).
(See also Jeremiah 4:23–26; Isaiah 24:i, 3, xix, twenty; Isaiah 2:21.)
Scholars' estimates of the weight of a talent vary from 58 to 100 pounds!
Answer: Other momentous events that have identify as the i,000 years begin are: the almost devastating convulsion and hailstorm in history strike the earth; Jesus returns in the clouds for His people; and all the saints are defenseless up into the air to meet Jesus.
(See Study Guide 8 for more on the 2d coming of Christ.)
The living wicked will be slain by the effulgence of Jesus' 2d coming.
5. What happens to the unsaved—living and dead—at Jesus' 2nd coming?
"With the breath of His lips He shall slay the wicked" (Isaiah eleven:4).
"When the Lord Jesus is revealed from sky with His mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God" (2 Thessalonians 1:7, 8).
"Let the wicked perish at the presence of God" (Psalm 68:two).
"The rest of the expressionless did not live once more until the m years were finished" (Revelation twenty:5)
Answer: The living unsaved will exist slain by the very presence of Christ at the 2d coming.
When an angel appeared at Jesus' tomb, the entire group of Roman guards fell equally dead men (Matthew 28:2, 4). When the brightness of all the angels, God the Male parent, and God the Son combine, the unsaved will die equally if hit past lightning. The wicked already dead when Jesus returns will remain in their graves until the end of the one,000 years.
The righteous will be in heaven with Jesus during the 1,000 years.
half-dozen. Many believe the unsaved will have an opportunity to repent during the 1,000 years. What does the Bible say about this?
"The slain of the Lord shall exist from one end of the earth even to the other finish of the earth. They shall not be lamented, or gathered, or buried; they shall become refuse on the ground" (Jeremiah 25:33).
"I beheld, and indeed there was no man" (Jeremiah 4:25).
The wicked will lay dead upon the earth during the 1,000 years.
Answer: Information technology volition be impossible for any person to repent during the one,000 years considering in that location will not be a person alive on the earth. The righteous will all exist in sky. All the wicked will be laying expressionless upon the world. Revelation 22:11, 12 makes information technology articulate that the case of every person is closed earlier Jesus returns. Those who wait to accept Christ until the 1,000 years begin will accept waited besides long.
vii. The Bible says that Satan will be bound in the "abysmal pit" during the 1,000 years. What is this pit?
"I saw an affections coming down from heaven, having the key to the abysmal pit. ...
He laid agree of the dragon, that ophidian of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and spring him for a thousand years; and he cast him into the bottomless pit ... till the one thousand years were finished" (Revelation xx:i–3).
Reply: The word for "bottomless pit" in the original Greek is "abussos," or abyss. That same word is used in Genesis 1:two in the Greek version of the Sometime Testament in connection with the creation of the earth, but at that place it is translated "deep." "The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep." The words "deep," "abysmal pit," and "abyss" hither refer to the same affair—the earth in its totally night, disorganized form before God made order of information technology. Jeremiah, in describing this world during the 1,000 years, used near the same terms equally these in Genesis 1:ii: "without form, and void," "no calorie-free," "no homo," and "blackness" (Jeremiah 4:23, 25, 28). And so the battered, nighttime globe with no people alive will exist called the bottomless pit, or abyss, during the i,000 years, simply as it was in the beginning earlier Creation was completed. Likewise, Isaiah 24:22 speaks of Satan and his angels during the one,000 years equally "gathered in the pit" and "shut upwards in the prison."
eight. What is the chain that binds Satan? Why is he bound?
"An angel ... having ... a great chain in his hand ... laid hold of ... Satan, and jump him for a one thousand years ... and shut him upward, and set a seal on him, and then that he should deceive the nations no more than till the thousand years were finished" (Revelation 20:1–3).
The earth, in a torn-upwardly, darkened condition, is the "bottomless pit" where Satan will exist forced to stay during the 1,000 years.
Answer: The chain is symbolic—a chain of circumstances. A super-natural being cannot be confined with a literal chain. Satan is "tied downwards" considering he has no people to deceive. The unsaved are all dead and the saved are all in sky. The Lord confines the devil to this earth so he cannot roam the universe hoping to find someone to deceive. Forcing the devil to stay on the globe, lone with his demons for a thousand years with no one to deceive, will be for him the most galling concatenation e'er forged.
- A devastating earthquake and hailstorm (Revelation 16:xviii–21)
- The 2d coming of Jesus for His saints (Matthew 24:thirty, 31)
- The saved expressionless raised to life (1 Thessalonians 4:16)
- The saved given immortality (one Corinthians 15:51–55)
- The saved given bodies like Jesus (1 John 3:two; Philippians three:xx, 21)
- All the righteous caught upwardly into the clouds (1 Thessalonians 4:17)
- The living wicked slain by the jiff of the Lord's oral fissure (Isaiah xi:4)
- The unsaved dead remain in their graves until the finish of the one,000 years (Revelation 20:5)
- Jesus takes the righteous to heaven (John xiii:33, 36; 14:2, 3)
- Satan leap (Revelation 20:1–3)
ix. Revelation twenty:4 says at that place will be a judgment in heaven during the 1,000 years. What for? Who will participate?
"I saw thrones, and they saturday on them, and judgment was committed to them. ... And they lived and reigned with Christ for a k years" (Revelation xx:iv).
"Do you not know that the saints will judge the earth? ... Practice you lot not know that we shall approximate angels?" (1 Corinthians 6:ii, 3).
Reply: The saved from all ages (and probably even good angels) will participate in the judgment during the 1,000 years. The cases of all who are lost, including the devil and his angels, will be reviewed. This judgment will articulate upwards any questions the saved might have about those who were lost.
In the stop, all will encounter that people are close out of sky but if they did not really desire to live like Jesus or to be with Him.
- The earth in a battered condition from huge hailstones and a devastating earthquake (Revelation 16:xviii–21)
- The world in total coma and desolate, a "bottomless pit" (Jeremiah 4:23, 28)
- Satan bound and forced to stay on the earth (Revelation 20:ane–iii)
- The righteous in sky participate in the judgment (Revelation twenty:4)
- The wicked are all dead (Jeremiah 4:25; Isaiah xi:four)
During the 1,000 years, every soul who has ever lived on earth will be in one of ii places: (i) on the world, dead and lost, or (two) in heaven, taking part in the judgment. The Lord invites you to be in heaven. Delight accept His invitation!
The holy metropolis, forth with all God'due south people, will descend to earth at the close of the 1,000 years.
x. At the close of the ane,000 years, the holy city, New Jerusalem, volition come downwards from sky to this globe. Who will come up with it? Where will it settle?
"I ... saw the holy urban center, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God. ... And I heard a loud voice from heaven maxim, 'Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men' " (Revelation 21:ii, three).
"Behold, the day of the Lord is coming. ... And in that mean solar day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, which faces Jerusalem on the east. And the Mount of Olives shall be split in two. ... Thus the Lord my God volition come, and all the saints with You. ... All the state shall exist turned into a plain from Geba to Rimmon due south of Jerusalem" (Zechariah xiv:one, 4, v, 10).
Answer: The New Jerusalem volition settle where the mount of Olives now stands. The mountain will be flattened to make a great plain, upon which the city will come up to rest. All of the righteous people of all ages (Zechariah 14:5), the angels of heaven (Matthew 25:31), God the Father (Revelation 21:ii, iii),
and God the Son (Matthew 25:31) volition return to the earth with the holy city for Jesus' special third coming. The second coming volition exist for His saints, while the third will exist with His saints.
Jesus' Three Advents:
 Offset coming to Bethlehem in a manger. |  Second coming in the clouds at the beginning of the i,000 years to take His people to heaven. |  Third coming with the holy city and all righteous people at the shut of the 1,000 years. |
11. What will happen to the wicked expressionless at this time? How will this affect Satan?
"The rest of the dead did not live over again until the thou years were finished. ...
When the thousand years have expired, Satan volition be released from his prison and will go out
to deceive the nations" (Revelation xx:5, 7, 8).
Answer: At the close of the 1,000 years (when Jesus comes the third time), the wicked will be raised. Satan, loosed from his bonds, will so take an earth full of people (all the nations of the world) to deceive.
12. What will Satan do then?
"Satan will … go out to deceive the nations … of the world … to gather them together to battle, whose number is equally the sand of the body of water. They went upward on the breadth of the world and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city" (Revelation 20:7–ix).
Respond: Satan, true to his nature, will immediately begin lying to the people left on the earth—the wicked from all ages. (For more than data on the origin of Satan, run into Study Guide 2.) He may claim that the urban center is actually his, that he was unjustly deposed from the heavenly kingdom, that God is power hungry and ruthless. He will convince them that, if they unify, God does not have a chance. With the entire globe against 1 urban center, victory will likely appear sure to them. The nations will then unite and marshal their armies to surround the New Jerusalem.
13. What volition interrupt Satan's plan to capture or destroy the city?
"Fire came downwards from God out of heaven and devoured them. The devil, who deceived them, was bandage into ... the lake which burns with burn down and brimstone, which is the 2d death" (Revelation 20:9, 10; 21:8).
" 'The wicked ... shall be ashes under the soles of your feet on the twenty-four hour period that I do this,' says the Lord of hosts" (Malachi 4:3).
Answer: Fire will all of a sudden come up down from sky (not up from hell, as many believe) upon the wicked and all will be turned into ashes, including the devil and his angels (Matthew 25:41). This fire that destroys sin and sinners is called the second death. In that location is no resurrection from this decease. It is concluding. Discover that the devil will not be tending the burn, every bit is ordinarily believed. He will be in it, and it will put him out of existence.
(For full information on this burn down, sometimes chosen hell, meet Study Guide 11. For information on death, run across Report Guide 10.)
xiv. When the wicked are burned upward and the fire goes out, what glorious, thrilling event will take place next?
"Behold, I create new heavens and a new world" (Isaiah 65:17).
"Look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells" (2 Peter 3:xiii).
"He who saturday on the throne said, 'Behold, I make all things new' " (Revelation 21:5).
"The tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God" (Revelation 21:3).
Answer: God will create new heavens and a new earth, and the New Jerusalem will exist the capital city of the earth made new. Sin and its ugliness will be gone forever. God's people will at long last receive the kingdom promised to them. "They shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall abscond away" (Isaiah 35:10). Information technology'south merely as well fabled to describe and too glorious to miss! God has a place prepared at that place for you lot (John fourteen:1–three). Programme to live in information technology. Jesus is waiting for your consent. (For full information on heaven, see Report Guide 4.)
- 3rd coming of Jesus with His saints (Zechariah fourteen:5).
- Holy metropolis settles on the Mountain of Olives, which becomes a swell plain (Zechariah xiv:4, 10).
- The Male parent, His angels, and all of the righteous come with Jesus (Revelation 21:1–3; Matthew 25:31; Zechariah 14:5).
- The wicked expressionless are raised; Satan is loosed (Revelation 20:v, vii).
- Satan deceives the entire world (Revelation 20:8).
- The wicked surround the holy city (Revelation twenty:9).
- The wicked are destroyed past fire (Revelation 20:nine).
- New heavens and earth created (Isaiah 65:17; 2 Peter 3:13; Revelation 21:1).
- God'southward people savor eternity with God on the new world (Revelation 21:two–iv).
xv. Tin we know how soon all these momentous events volition accept place?
"When yous see all these things, know that it is near—at the doors!" (Matthew 24:33).
"When these things begin to happen, expect upwardly and lift upward your heads, because your redemption draws near" (Luke 21:28).
"He will stop the piece of work and cut information technology short in righteousness, because the Lord volition make a brusk work upon the earth" (Romans 9:28).
"When they say, 'Peace and condom!' then sudden destruction comes upon them" (ane Thessalonians 5:3).
Answer: Jesus said when the signs of His coming are being fulfilled speedily, as they are today, nosotros should rejoice and know that the finish of this earth of sin is nearly—fifty-fifty at the doors. And the apostle Paul said nosotros can know the end is near when there is a slap-up movement for peace in the world. Finally, the Bible says God will cut the work short (Romans ix:28). So without a doubt, we are living on borrowed time. While on earth, Jesus taught that the Lord will get in suddenly and unexpectedly—at an hour known to no ane, merely to God the Male parent only (Matthew 24:36; Acts one:7). Our simply safe is to be ready at present.
16. Jesus, who loves you lot very much, has prepared a place for you in His fantastic eternal kingdom. Are you making plans to live in that glorious home custom-built for yous by Jesus Himself?
Thought Questions
1. How long volition the time period be from the twenty-four hour period the holy metropolis descends until the wicked are destroyed by fire from heaven?
The Bible says it will be a "footling while" (Revelation 20:3). Enough time will be required for Satan to persuade people to follow his programme and prepare weapons of war. The verbal length of time is not revealed in Scripture.
2. What kind of bodies will people accept in God'due south new kingdom?
The Bible says the redeemed will have bodies like that of Jesus (Philippians iii:20, 21). Jesus had a real torso of flesh and bones subsequently His resurrection (Luke 24:36–43). The saved will not exist ghosts. They will be real people, just every bit Adam and Eve had real bodies.
iii. Does the Bible say how the lost will react at Jesus' 2nd coming?
Aye. The Bible says they will cry "to the mountains and rocks, 'Fall on us and hibernate us from the face of Him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! For the keen 24-hour interval of His wrath has come, and who is able to stand?' " (Revelation 6:sixteen, 17). (Run across also verses 14 and fifteen.) The righteous, on the other hand, will say, "Behold, this is our God; we accept waited for Him, and He will save us. This is the Lord; we have waited for Him; we will be glad and rejoice in His
salvation" (Isaiah 25:9).
four. Will the wicked be able to see the righteous people who are inside the New Jerusalem?
Nosotros don't know with certainty, but the Bible does say the city wall volition be the see-through blazon—articulate as crystal (Revelation 21:11, 18). Some believe that Psalm 37:34 and Luke 13:28 advise the saved and the unsaved will exist able to see each other.
5. The Bible says God will wipe away all tears from the eyes of His people and that at that place will be no more death, sorrow, or pain. When volition this happen?
From Revelation 21:1–4 and Isaiah 65:17, information technology appears that this will happen after sin is apple-pie from the world. During the last judgment and destruction of sin by fire, God'southward people volition have many reasons for deep sorrow. As they realize that relatives and friends are lost and that people they loved are being destroyed in the burn down, ache will doubtless bring tears and heartache to God's people. But after the fire goes out, the Lord will wipe away their tears. He will and then create new heavens and a new earth for His people, which will bring them unspeakable joy and fulfillment. And sorrow, sadness, crying, and heartache will be forever gone. (For more on the heavenly home of God's people, see Study Guide 4.)
half-dozen. How will the destruction of wicked angels and people affect God the Male parent and His Son?
Doubtless they will be relieved and overjoyed that the ugly cancer of sin is gone forever and that the universe is forever secure. Only just as sure, they will also experience deep sadness over the fact that so many of those they love—and for whom Jesus died—chose to cling to sin and refuse conservancy. Satan himself was once their friend, and many people in the fire were once their dearly beloved children. Information technology volition exist like the agony of seeing one of your own errant children killed. Sin has been a crushing load upon both Male parent and Son since its inception. Their aim has been to dearest people and gently draw them to conservancy. Their feelings are expressed in Hosea 11:8, which says, "How can I give y'all up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, State of israel? ... My heart churns within Me; My sympathy is stirred."
vii. What kind of body does Jesus have?
He has a trunk of flesh and bones. Afterward His resurrection, Jesus appeared to His disciples (Luke 24:36–43) and demonstrated that He was flesh and bones past having them experience His body and past eating some fish and honey.
Jesus Ascends
He then walked with them to Bethany and, as He finished conversing with them, ascended to sky (Luke 24:50, 51). The angel who appeared to the disciples as Jesus ascended explained, "This same Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will then come in like manner as you saw Him go into heaven" (Acts ane:11).
This Same Jesus Will Return
The angel's emphasis was that this same Jesus (of flesh and basic) will come over again. He will exist existent, not ghostly, and the risen saints volition have bodies like His (Philippians 3:20, 21; 1 John 3:2). The saints' new bodies will also exist incorruptible and immortal (ane Corinthians 15:51–55).
Quiz Questions
i. Mark the events that will accept place at the beginning of the one,000 years of Revelation chapter twenty: (10)
_____ Second coming of Jesus.
_____ Earthquake and hailstorm.
_____ Righteous dead raised.
_____ Satan bound.
_____ Living wicked slain.
_____ Righteous given immortality.
_____ Holy city descends.
_____ Righteous taken to heaven.
_____ Wicked in graves remain expressionless.
_____ Righteous given bodies like Jesus.
_____ Righteous caught upwardly into the clouds.
_____ Some saved will be left on the earth.
2. Every living person on earth will see Jesus at His second coming. (1)
_____ Truthful.
_____ False.
3. The righteous will have ghost-similar bodies in sky. (1)
_____ True.
_____ Simulated.
4. Which of the following items are true nearly the 1,000-year period? (2)
_____ Many sinners will be converted.
_____ Satan and his angels will be forced to stay on the earth.
_____ Satan will be spring by the fact that at that place is no goggle box to picket.
_____ It will be brilliant and sunny on earth during the i,000 years.
_____ Satan will raise the wicked dead to life to keep him visitor.
_____ The righteous volition be in heaven, participating in the judgment.
v. Which of the following are true regarding the events at the shut of the 1,000-year flow? (4)
_____ Christ will come for a fifth time.
_____ The holy metropolis will country in the Washington, D.C., surface area.
_____ The proficient angels, God the Begetter, and the saints will come with Jesus.
_____ The wicked will exist raised.
_____ Jesus will come with His saints.
_____ God will determine not to heighten the wicked subsequently all.
_____ The wicked will be destroyed by angry evil angels.
_____ God will create new heavens and a new earth.
_____ God volition banish Satan to the outer reaches of the universe.
_____ The devil will wipe out the holy city with a powerful new missile.
half-dozen. The chain that binds Satan will (3)
_____ Be symbolic--a chain of circumstances.
_____ Force him to stay on the earth.
_____ Be made of a new, very hard metal.
_____ Exist cleaved past the devil within 24 hours.
_____ Go along him from tempting God's people, who will be rubber in sky.
7. Which statements are truthful of the bottomless pit? (2)
_____ It is a vast pigsty deep inside the earth.
_____ It ways abyss.
_____ Information technology refers to the globe--dark and without class and void.
_____ It is some other name for hell.
8. Which items are true about the first, 2nd, and third comings of Jesus? (3)
_____ Kickoff coming was to Bethlehem as a infant.
_____ First coming was in Noah's solar day.
_____ Second coming was in Martin Luther's mean solar day.
_____ Second coming volition be at the kickoff of the ane,000 years.
_____ Third coming will be at the finish of the i,000 years.
_____ Third coming takes place after the new globe is created.
ix. The death the wicked die in the lake of fire is the second decease. (i)
_____ True.
_____ False.
10. I am definitely planning to live in the fantastic custom-congenital home that Jesus is preparing for me in heaven.
_____ Yes.
_____ No.
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