Revelation 11:18: “and the time of the dead, that they should be judged;” 

Compare that with Revelation 20, is that accurate? 

Yes. 

Revelation 20:11-12: “And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; …”.

Notice there is a time jump here at the seventh trumpet. From the seventh trumpet, we see that God is at the end of the Millennium and the great white throne of judgment happens when His seventh trumpet sounds.

Here’s something that a lot of people don’t get. We dispensationalists believe in several judgments. Many people only think of a final judgment, one wrath, one dispensation, one salvation, and one group. You just get a cupful of mess. You have to divide.

It’s not one group of people; there are two groups: Israel and the church.

It’s not one wrath; there are several wraths.

It’s not one dispensation; you can go to seven or eight dispensations.

It’s not one salvation; it’s dispensational salvation.

It’s not one judgment; there are several judgments. There’s a judgment of nations, there’s a judgment seat of christ, and there’s a great white throne of judgment.

Why is there a book of life in Revelation 20:12? Aren’t all these people lost? Aren’t all the names not in the book of life? So, people assume the great white throne of judgment is only for lost souls. That’s not true. You got to realize that there is a saved group and a lost group. In the judgment seat of Christ, even if one sins and their works aren’t good, they are still saved out of the fire according to 1 Corinthians 3. They however lose their rewards. But in the great white throne of judgment, their works are judged, and God tests their name in the book of life if one is saved or lost.

Revelation 20:12: “And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.”

God has to check up with the book: if their names are in it and if their works match it.

If the judgment seat of Christ is for Christians, then all the other saints fit into the great white throne of judgment. 

  • What is the Old Testament salvation? Faith and works. 
  • What is the tribulation salvation? Faith and works. 
  • What’s the Millennium salvation? It’s a works system.

Let’s look at Revelation 11:18 and see if this matches up with the remaining dispensations.

Revelation 11:18: “And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.”

“and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets,”

Look at the word prophets throughout your Bible. 1 Peter talks about the prophets testifying about the Messiah to come. That’s referring to the Old Testament.

“and to the saints,”

Look up the word ‘saint’ throughout the book of Revelation, it refers to tribulation saints.

“and them that fear thy name, small and great;”

That’s the remaining people, small and great. That’s the Millennium.

Look at Matthew 5. That’s the gospel of the kingdom. Remember God’s kingdom that He reigned. That’s Millennium. What does it talk about? It talks about fearing God.

Look at the book of Isaiah 33. When they see the king face to face, they have to be fearful of His wrath and be afraid of Him. That’s why they’re going to commit all these works because it’s a military dictatorship. But not under a bad dictator. It’s under a holy, righteous, good dictator.

How do we get a proper kingdom? 

It’s not by democracy, we already went through Laodicean democracy. It’s a mess. Now, we Christians are all about individual liberty and freedom, and America was born with that principle through democracy. It works only from a humanitarian perspective. 

But mankind becomes worse, and the majority of people want to vote out God. Bible-believing Christians are becoming the minority. So what happened to the rights of the people? It becomes the rights of the majority. 

How we get the right proper government is a military dictatorship where one has no say against pure and honest rulership. Throughout the last 6000 years of history, God has proven that one’s free will always mess things up. That’s why God says, ‘Okay, enough is enough. Let’s make it happily ever after. I’m going to make everything like this. We have to do this.’

Church attendance is not free anymore. It’s mandatory. Nations have to travel to Jerusalem. God will say, ‘Okay, worshipping me is mandatory, you’re going to travel all the way here and if you don’t then I’m not going to send rain on your nation.’ That’s what He says in the book of Isaiah.

That’s how everyone’s going to start living right.

“and them that fear thy name,”

They’re going to fear His military dictatorship in the Millennium.

“small and great;”

It doesn’t matter whether they’re small or big, it’s everybody.

“and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.”

God’s going to destroy all the remaining lost people.

Notice what God referred to these lost people as. These aren’t environmentalists, they are destructionists. If they let sin continue and condone all these heresies, these different blasphemous religions, and these different sexual identifications and garbage like that, they’re going to destroy this planet. They’re not saving it.

Why does society mess up?

Why do people litter anyway? Because of sin. Just because you preserve every water bottle, that’s not going to stop sex trafficking, for example. They’re still going to destroy this earth. Why? Because of sin. Sin is the issue here. “Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin;“

“For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.” Why? Because of sin.

Revelation 11:19: “And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.”

“And the temple of God was opened in heaven,”

So God has a temple in heaven that’s opening up.

“and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament:”

A lot of people are wondering about the mystery of where is the ark of the covenant. The Bible already showed you the answer. The ark is right there at Revelation 11. It got raptured up to heaven.

What happened is that when Jerusalem fell atBabylonian’s captivity and Nebuchadnezzar and his soldiers were desecrating the temple, God took His ark of the covenant, and it’s up in heaven.

“and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings,”

There’s lightning going out, different voices, and thundering sounding out.

“and an earthquake, and great hail.”

Earthquakes and hail happen as well.

Notice that when the ark of the covenant opens up in heaven, all of this chaos and fire shoots out of everywhere.

What’s going on? At verse 18, God is cleansing all the earth, and in verse 19, all of this destruction happens because the earth is blowing up. And that’s what that happens at 2 Peter 3, after the Millennium when God pours out His wrath on the nations, He makes all of the world blow up, and He starts off brand new again.