Millennium

 

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 1^st 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.