The First Trumpet Sweeps Away
The Lies About The Millennium
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THE FIRST TRUMPET SWEEPS AWAY THE LIES ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM… When the first trumpet sounded there was hail and fire mingled with blood. Some may desire to have some hail as it actually fell in the morning time. “Show us a few lies swept away.” Turn to Acts 2. We say that this first trumpet covered about 270 years and when sounded off, there was hail and fire mingled with blood and we want to see it sweep away the refuge of lies. After the coming of the Holy Spirit, God moved on Peter and he preached. Acts 2:16 “This is that which was spoken of by the prophet Joel, and it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams; and on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my spirit, And they shall prophesy; and I will show wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood and fire, and vapour of smoke; The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come; and it shall come to pass that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.” What about the sun turning dark at noon? Acts 2:22, “Ye men of Israel,” (Israel had been in a false refuge and had many ideas of false doctrine). Truth was sweeping away those refuges. “Hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you” (a little hard on those fellows that had killed Him) that was hail, wasn’t it? Peter had to have the power of the Holy Ghost go up and down his backbone to be able to stand. He continues, “A man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by Him in the midst of you as ye yourselves also know.” You know that He was Christ of Calvary. “Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain.” There were some of the best members present when Peter took his stand to cry out the truth of the situation. He called them murderers and crucifiers. He went on, “Whom God hath raised up.” There was one lie. They said He was not the Christ. They also said His men had come and stolen Him away, but Peter preached that God had raised Him up. Then there was another lie. We read on, “Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death, because it was not possible that He should be holden of it. “ David speaketh concerning Him, “I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for He is on my right hand that I should not be moved; Therefore did my heart rejoice and my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope; because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine holy One to see corruption. Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance.” “Men and brethren, let me speak freely unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulcher is with us to this day. Therefore, being a prophet and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ on his throne.” All the millennialists say He’s going to come back and sit on David’s throne, in a second advent. Israel believed that too! The Jews believed that Christ was literally and actually to sit on David’s throne, but when the Holy Ghost came and Peter sounded the trumpet, he strove to clear out the lies from their heads and hearts. “But,” said Peter, “David is still lying in his tomb and his sepulcher is in our midst.” So, “He seeing this, spake of the resurrection of Christ, that His soul was not left in hell, neither did His flesh see corruption. This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.” Therefore, being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, He hath she forth this, which ye now see and hear. For David is not ascended into the heavens; but he saith himself, “The Lord said unto my Lord, sit thou on my right hand, until I make they foes thy footstool.” Therefore, let all the household of Israel know assuredly that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified both Lord and Christ.” He’s already ruler. The millennialists get their foundation clear from Judaism, but the very first sounding of the first trumpet was against the millennium theory. Christ will never sit on David’s throne, only as He sits on it, right now. In 2 Samuel, chapter 7:12, “And when thy days be fulfilled,” (speaking of David) “and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shalt proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish His kingdom. He shalt build an house for my name and I will establish the throne of His kingdom forever.” Some will say that was Solomon. First Kings 1:33 David was still alive when Solomon was crowned king. First Kings, the first chapter, tells us that he was old and weary and said, “I am no longer able to be the king, let us crown my son, Solomon, king.” While David yet lived they put Solomon on David’s mule and let him ride into town and crowned him king. “This matter” (prophecy in 2 Samuel 2:12) was to take place after David died and David was still alive when Solomon was crowned king, and of him (Christ) God said, I will be his father and he will be my son. When John was baptizing Him He came up out of the water and again God spoke and said, “This is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased.” Verse 14, “I will be a Father and He will be my son…verse16, and thine house and they kingdom shall be established forever.” When was it to take place? When David lay in his grave. It can’t happen after his second coming. Christ had to sit on David’s throne while David was still in his tomb. And Christ’s own words were: John 5:28 “The hour is coming when all that are in the graves (that included David too) shall hear His voice and shall come forth. When Christ comes again, the dead are going to rise and all in the graves will come forth---both Christians and sinners. “They that have done good to the resurrection of life; they that have done evil to the resurrection of damnation” ---all in the same resurrection---David will come out, too! “This” (Christ on David’s throne) had to be done while he was still in the grave. Peter stood up and said, “The Holy Ghost has shed this thing abroad.” How is Christ sitting on David’s throne? David’s throne was a symbol of a throne of mercy. David was a merciful king. Christ sits on the throne of mercy for a lost and dying world. Christ has sat on David’s throne ever since the day of Pentecost. And before David ever leaves his grave, Christ will be off the throne. When God says time will be no more, when He says, “It’s enough” Christ is going to leave His mediatorial throne and come back for His own. When He leaves the throne, then, David will come out of his grave, and so will we and others, if we’re in there, at His coming. [ The End ]


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