Today, Pastor Darth will conclude the Foundations of Faith series as we look at God’s plans for the future.

1. The Blessed Hope
   

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   1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 NIV
   

   16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.
   17 After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.
2. The Millennial Reign of Christ
   

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   Revelation 20: 1-6 NLT

   1 Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven with the key to the bottomless pit and a heavy chain in his hand.
   2 He seized the dragon—that old serpent, who is the devil, Satan—and bound him in chains for a thousand years.
   3 The angel threw him into the bottomless pit, which he then shut and locked so Satan could not deceive the nations anymore until the thousand years were finished. Afterward he must be released for a little while.
   4 Then I saw thrones, and the people sitting on them had been given the authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their testimony about Jesus and for proclaiming the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or his statue, nor accepted his mark on their foreheads or their hands. They all came to life again, and they reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
   5 This is the first resurrection. (The rest of the dead did not come back to life until the thousand years had ended.)
   6 Blessed and holy are those who share in the first resurrection. For them the second death holds no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with him a thousand years.
3. The Final Judgement
   

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   Revelation 20:11-15 NLT

   11 And I saw a great white throne and the one sitting on it. The earth and sky fled from his presence, but they found no place to hide.
   12 I saw the dead, both great and small, standing before God’s throne. And the books were opened, including the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to what they had done, as recorded in the books.
   13 The sea gave up its dead, and death and the grave gave up their dead. And all were judged according to their deeds.
   14 Then death and the grave were thrown into the lake of fire. This lake of fire is the second death.
   15 And anyone whose name was not found recorded in the Book of Life was thrown into the lake of fire.

4. The New Heavens and New Earth
   

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   2 Peter 3:13 NLT

   13 But we are looking forward to the new heavens and new earth he has promised, a world filled with God’s righteousness.