For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

-Ephesians 6:12

Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years; and he cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal on him, so that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years were finished. But after these things he must be released for a little while.

-Revelation 20:1-3

But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, surely the kingdom of God has come upon you. Or how can one enter a strong man’s house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man? And then he will plunder his house.

-Matthew 12:28-29

  

The devil’s existence glorifies God and compels people into a relationship with God more than his non-existence.

  

…so that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years were finished.

-Revelation 20:3b

Then the seventy returned with joy, saying, 'Lord, even the demons are subject to us in Your name.' And He said to them, 'I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.'

-Luke 10:17-18

When the servant of the man of God got up and went out early the next morning, an army with horses and chariots had surrounded the city. 'Oh no, my lord! What shall we do?' the servant asked. 'Don’t be afraid,' the prophet answered. 'Those who are with us are more than those who are with them.' And Elisha prayed, 'Open his eyes, Lord, so that he may see.'

-2 Kings 6:15-17a

You are either for me or against me.

-Matthew 12:30

And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

-Revelation 20:4

Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

-Romans 6:4

And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him…

-Colossians 2:13

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!

-2 Corinthians 5:17

But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus…

-Ephesians 2:4-6

'And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.'

-Matthew 16:18-19

'No weapon formed against you shall prosper, And every tongue which rises against you in judgment You shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, And their righteousness is from Me,' says the Lord.

-Isaiah 54:17

  

As we stand on the Word of God, culture and society will hate us.

  

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.

-John 10:10

Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands.

-Revelation 20:4b

But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.

-Revelation 20:5

Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life.

-John 5:24

But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus...

-Ephesians 2:4-6

But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished.

-Revelation 20:5a

Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ and shall reign with Him a thousand years.

-Revelation 20:6

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.

-1 Peter 2:9

When the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth—Gog and Magog—and to gather them for battle.

-Revelation 20:7-8

'Look, I come like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake and remains clothed, so as not to go naked and be shamefully exposed.' Then they gathered the kings together to the place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon.

-Revelation 16:15-16

Har (Greek): Mountain.

Meggido (Greek): Valley where major offensives against God’s people were fought!

Then I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to wage war against the rider on the horse and his army.

-Revelation 19:19

He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God. The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean. Coming out of his mouth is a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. 'He will rule them with an iron scepter.'

-Revelation 19:13-15b

In number they are like the sand on the seashore. They marched across the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of God’s people, the city he loves.

-Revelation 20:8b-9a

But fire came down from heaven and devoured them. 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.

-Revelation 20:9b-10

  

One day, justice is going to roll like a river.

  

When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained. They called out in a loud voice, 'How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood? Then each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to wait a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and brothers who were to be killed as they had been was completed.'

-Revelation 6:9-11

  

The spiritually dead can come alive.

  

But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’

-Luke 12:20

  

And although I will often feel like a traveler in an unholy land, I am part of a kingdom that is unshakable.

  

The story that neither life nor death shall defeat us.

  

1. We become great risk takers in this life.

  

Risk often becomes the process of elimination through which you discover the will of God!

  

If Christianity is a call to anything it is a call to not play it safe!

2. We live knowing the end of the story.

“I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now.”

-C.S.Lewis

  

    

  

  

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