Millennium
The millennial
reign starts at the Second coming of Christ’s appearing.
Revelation 19:11-14 11 And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat
upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and
make war.
12 His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were
many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.
13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and
his name is called The Word of God.
14 And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon
white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
Revelation 19:20 20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that
wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the
mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast
alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
This is when
Jesus comes to earth with the saints to fight against the armies of the anti-Christ
in the Jezreel valley also known as Megiddo of the battle of Armageddon.
There will be
three classes of people who reign with Christ during the millennium which is
also called the thousand-year reign
One will be
the saints that have been raptured at the last day of the period of grace…
Revelation
19:14 14 And the armies which were in heaven
followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
Group
two will be made up of resurrected Old Testament saints, as well as Enoch: Also, the armies which were in heaven.
This class
will be the old testament saints such as the disciples and the first people to
accept Jesus as Lord.
Daniel 12: 1-2 12
And at that time shall Michael stand
up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there
shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to
that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that
shall be found written in the book.
2 And many of them that sleep in the
dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and
everlasting contempt.
Group
three will be the host of resurrected saints of the tribulation hour.
Group
three are the saints resurrected sometime during the tribulation hour.
Revelation 20:4
And I saw thrones, and
they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of
them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and
which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his
mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with
Christ a thousand years.
These
are the ones that were beheaded as witnesses of Jesus and the ones who had not
worshiped the beast, neither his image.
The sixth seal releases a
cataclysmic event, a great earthquake. This is reserved for the last day of the
tribulation when Jesus returns to set up his kingdom on earth.
Revelation
6:12-14 12
And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a
great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon
became as blood;
13 And the stars of heaven fell unto the
earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a
mighty wind.
14 And the heaven departed as a scroll
when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of
their places.
No man can escape Jesus, the
final day and the battle of Armageddon.
Revelation
6: 15-17 15
And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the
chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid
themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;
16 And said to the mountains and rocks,
Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and
from the wrath of the Lamb:
17 For the great day of his wrath is
come; and who shall be able to stand
The word of God makes it
clear that the event to usher in the millennium will be when the Lords feet
touch down on the Mount of Olives.
Zechariah
14: 3-4 3
Then shall the Lord go forth, and fight
against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
4 And his feet shall stand in that day
upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount
of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the
west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall
remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
Jesus’ promise to his church
is fulfilled, the rapture has com and gone, and the tribulation upon earth has
accomplished its goal.
At the return of Christ,
there will be an earthquake with such force that it will break the mountains in
two halves, violence will increase.
Revelation
16:18 18 And there were voices, and thunders, and
lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were
upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.
The
last battles at the end of the seven year tribulation period are three
different battles.
First
Russia and her allies will come against Israel, China and its army of two
hundred million, then the final battle with Christ.
Now
in the Millennium of a thousand years you need to understand that righteous
living will occur during this time period but it is not a time of perfection.
Because
those who entered the Kingdom after the judgment of the nations in Matthew 25
will still be housed in normal bodies with old natural ways which their children
will inherit.
It
is important to remember that when we are raptured, our bodies will be like
Jesus’ body.
But
those who remain will still have their natural bodies with which they will
still be able to procreate and have children.
These
people will escape the terrible tribulation period, they had to have accepted
Jesus as Lord to make it.
Because
of this situation, Christ must rule with a rod of iron to keep people in line.
Even though there’s no devil to tempt them.
Millions
will go into His kingdom as righteous people but bear children who turn away
from the Lord.
These
people are on earth, but we will be in the Holy City hovering above the earth.
The
good news concerning the Earth dwellers is that sin is limited, making it
possible for people to live long lives during the millennium
Isaiah 65:20-25 20 There shall be no more thence an
infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child
shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall
be accursed.
21 And they shall build houses, and
inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.
22 They shall not build, and another
inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are
the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
23 They shall not labour in vain, nor
bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the Lord, and their offspring with them.
24 And it shall come to pass, that
before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed
together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the
serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith
the Lord.
We that live in the Holy City
have glorified bodies and don’t sin, we live eternally in the city at the
beginning of the millennium reign.
The sinner being a hundred
years old shall be accursed means that any person living at that time who hasn’t
given his heart and life to Christ by that time he is 100 years old will be
judged at the white throne judgement.
As well as during Christ’s
eternal kingdom reign upon the earth after the millennium.
At this time after the thousand-year
reign, all the people will have received glorified bodies.
Matthew
6:10 10 Thy
kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
What
some do not realize is that the Jews are preparing to build a third temple in
Jerusalem for worship.
This
temple becomes the temple where the Anti-christ sits. This can not be the
fourth temple of Ezekiel 40:48 that Jesus occupies.
Ezekiel 40:48 48 And he brought me to the porch of the
house, and measured each post of the porch, five cubits on this side, and five
cubits on that side: and the breadth of the gate was three cubits on this side,
and three cubits on that side
The
sacrifices are still in the last three and a half years in the third temple.
Reason for that is the same reason that Christians remember Christ’s sacrifice
today.
It is called communion and we
read of its significance in 1st Corinthians.
1
Corinthians 11:23-26 23 For I have received of the Lord that which
also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was
betrayed took bread:
24 And when he had given thanks, he brake
it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in
remembrance of me.
25 After the same manner also he took the
cup, when he had supped, saying, this cup is the new testament in my blood:
this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.
26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and
drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.
The Jews will be saying we now bring our
loving remembrance to you because of what you did for us on the cross to
provide for our remission of sins.
This is the Jewish peoples
way of taking communion in remembrance of Christ Jesus.
Now the New Jerusalem which
is the Holy City is so bright that its glow will light the world both day and
night.
It’s where we will live in
new spiritual bodies that allow us to walk through walls, disappear and
reappear at will, travel at the speed of our own desires, just as Jesus did in
his resurrection body.
Luke
24;36 36
And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and
saith unto them, Peace be unto you.
37 But they were terrified and
affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit.
38 And he said unto them, Why are ye
troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts?
39 Behold my hands and my feet, that it
is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye
see me have.
40 And when he had thus spoken, he shewed
them his hands and his feet.
41 And while they yet believed not for
joy, and wondered, he said unto them, Have ye here any meat?
1
CORINTHIAN 15:3-8 3 For I delivered unto you first of all that
which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the
scriptures;
4 And that he was buried, and that he
rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
5 And that he was seen of Cephas, then
of the twelve:
6 After that, he was seen of above five
hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present,
but some are fallen asleep.
7 After that, he was seen of James; then
of all the apostles.
8 And last of all he was seen of me
also, as of one born out of due time.
Like Jesus housed in spirit
bodies we will be able to see, touch, partake of food, and co-mingle with the
humans on earth.
Luke
24:39-42 39
Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for
a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.
40 And when he had thus spoken, he shewed
them his hands and his feet.
41 And while they yet believed not for
joy, and wondered, he said unto them, Have ye here any meat?
42 And they gave him a piece of a broiled
fish, and of an honeycomb.
Same as Luke 24:36-41
We will be able to move
across the universe at the speed of thought.
Even more exciting we will
love in that new Holy City that hovers over the globe in the millennium
Another key ingredient that
will contribute to the millennium’s new way of doing business will be the
elimination of the curse of Adams sin.
In Genesis chapter three God
cursed the earth because of Adams iniquity. When Christ returns the terrible
curse will be lifted.
Isaiah
30:23 23
Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the ground
withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and
plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures.
What
a day this will be.
When
we speak of Jerusalem in the study of bible prophecy, we need to remember that
we are referring to two Jerusalems.
There
is the city that exists in the holy land of Israel, and the New Jerusalem that
hovers over the earth. Same name two entities.
So
we observe two Jerusalems. The heavenly Jerusalem for those with new translated
bodies, that are unable to sin, and the earthly Jerusalem, where the inhabitants
still have fleshly bodies.
It
is seventy trillion billion miles from earth to heaven and we can reach it in a
twinkling of the eye. That’s eleven one hundredths of a second. How’s that for
bolt of lightening thought.
Revelation 21:1-3 And
I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth
were passed away; and there was no more sea.
2 And I John saw the holy city, new
Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her
husband.
3 And I heard a great voice out of
heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell
with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them,
and be their God.
Hebrews 12:22-23 22
But ye are come unto
mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to
an innumerable company of angels,
23 To the general assembly and church of
the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to
the spirits of just men made perfect,
New
Jerusalem, new name, new people, new life.
In
the New Jerusalem, there will be a service to God as never before.
Revelation 22:3 And there shall be no more curse: but
the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve
him:
The
throne of God and the Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall serve Him. We
are those servants.
All
sin is wiped away in Heaven and there is nothing left that is a reminder of
sin. This is Gods provision of a happy home for the saints of all ages.
