WORSHIP SONGS
-Crown Him With Many Crowns
-Great Is The Lord
-Blessed Be The Name
-Break Every Chain
-Above All
SCRIPTURE READING
Psalm 1:1-6
SERMON TEXT Revelation 20:1-10
“Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain. And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, and threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he might not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be released for a little while.
Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years.
And when the thousand years are ended, Satan will be released from his prison and will come out to deceive the nations that are at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them for battle; their number is like the sand of the sea. And they marched up over the broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city, but fire came down from heaven and consumed them, and the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.”
SERMON OUTLINE
“The Millennium – The
Thousand-Year Reign of Christ”
(Revelation 20:1-6)
Introduction
The main theme of the entire book of Revelation is:
the victory of Christ and of His church over every enemy!
-Premillennialism
-Postmillennialism
-Amillennialism
“Revelation 20 is not difficult to understand if we remember the sequence of events: Christ’s first coming is followed by a long period during which Satan is bound; followed by Satan’s ‘little season’; followed by the second coming of Christ; and then the judgment.” (W. Hendricksen, More Than Conquerors Commentary, on Rev 20)
1. The Binding of Satan (Rev 20:1-3)
Rev 1:18, 3:7-9, 6:8, 9:1-2
Mt 12:29; Mk 3:27; Lk 10:17-20;
Jn 12:31-33; Col 2:14-15; Heb 2:14-15
Rev 1:5-6, 5:9-10, 6:11, 7:1-8;
Matt 16:18-19; Acts 13:47, 26:18, 23
Matt 28:19, 24:14; 2 Thes 2:6-12
