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| Millennial Kingdom and Beyond | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Now the time of pain and suffering for the world has passed and God's glory is coming to dwell on earth.� The world will be empty of sinners but will be filled with raptured Christians, the martyrs, resurrected saints, the raptured 144,000, and those unraptured mortals delivered from Petra.� The Anti-Christ has been destroyed he sits with his false prophet in the depths of the lake of fire.� Satan has been bound for 1,000 years.� Let the good times roll! | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Millennial Kingdom- | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Revelation 20:4-6� "Then I saw thrones, and the people sitting on them had been given authority to judge.� And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their testimony about Jesus, for proclaiming the word of God.� And I saw the souls of those who had not worshipped the beast or his statue, nor accepted his mark on their forehead or their right hands.� They came to life again, and they reigned with Christ for a thousand years.� This is the first resurrection.� (The rest of the dead did not come back to life until the thousand years had ended.)� 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." | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Who knew a thousand years to God is 2 verses to man.� We don't find out a whole lot of details here, but we find out the meat.� While it at first appears to be a restricted cast of saints and martyrs we know mortal survivors of Daniels 70th week will be on the earth serving with the resurrected believers. If this is true, meaning the folks at Petra are not raptured but delivered as mortals into the kingdom, they still won't be the decieved. As Isaiah 11 points to all being believers even children.� | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| This text also affirms our belief that those in Christ will not experience the second death of the lake of fire, but is reserved for those not of Christ.� Before the kingdom starts Jesus separates the sheep from the goats.� (Mathew 25:31-46) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| There are other scripture that goes into detail about what the kingdom will be like. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| There are books that rattle of all kinds of wondrous things of the millennium, but all too many are out of context, many references quoted are describing the new heaven and the new earth. We do know a little about the coming kingdom click here for that list. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Then this glorious kingdom with end. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Revelation 20:7-9� "When the thousand years end, Satan will be let out of his prison.� He will go out to deceive the nations from every corner of the earth, which are called Gog and Magog.� He will gather them together for battle-a mighty host, as numberless as sand along the shore.� And I saw them as they went up on the broad plain of the earth and surrounded God's people and the beloved city.� But fire from heaven came down on the attacking armies and consumed them." | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Satan tries for one last hurrah, and boom, he loses again.� Now if we follow the idea that te only people on earth are resurrected saints and beleiving mortals then who does Satan deceive?� It is generally taught that mortals who make it through the 70th week of Daniel will have children of their own.� Those sinful children would require salvation.� After 1,000 years of childbearing their could be a large army of unrepentants that Satan deceives.� I find that hard to swallow that innumerous amounts of people who lived in God's kingdom would deny his love. Especially when Isaiah tells us all would believe.� | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| I offer to you an alternative deceived army of uncountable size.� Revelation 20:5 explains that the rest of the dead (those in hell eternal separated from God) would rise to life at the end of the 1,000 years.� | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Imagine the army of hell, with uncountable numbers of enraged people raised to life not in their glorified bodies but rather in zombie like decayed bodies following their leader Satan in a last ditch effort against God.� As crazy as that may sound to you, it makes much more sense than the other. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Now the time has run out for old Lucifer. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Revelation 20:10� "Then the Devil, who betrayed them, was thrown into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur, joining the beast and the false prophet.� There they will be tormented day and night forever and ever." | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| He finally gets his due.� Sadly so does all who have rejected God. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Revelation 20:11-15� "And I saw a great white throne, and I saw the one who was sitting on it.� The earth and the sky fled from his presence, but they found no place to hide.� 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 the tings written in the books, according to what they had done.� The sea gave up the dead in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead in them.� They were all judged according to their deeds.� And death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire.� This is the second death-the lake of fire.� And anyone whose name was not found recorded in the Book of Life was thrown into the lake of fire." | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Every person who ever died without Christ is raised from their grave to stand and be judged.� They are judged according to their deeds.� How different will it be for us the believing as we are not judged by our own works, but the work of the Lamb.� Ever struggle with the idea of your moral next door neighbor whose only crime is rejecting Jesus, would receive the same punishment as Adolf Hitler?� I have.� It?s not true.� Jesus mentioned in Matthew� 11:22,24 that the unbelievers of Capernaum would face a harsher judgment then Sodom on the day of judgment.� | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Think of it this way.� Hell can't get better, it can only get worse. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| After all of their sins are read and the severity of their judgment is found the last book is checked, the Book of Life, and of course their name is missing, or they wouldn't be standing there.� For Christian there is another judgment-the Bema Seat. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| What's beyond the judgment? | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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