Its simple really. I imagine we will be able to traverse from the third heaven to the second heaven at will. They will be utterly destroyed even during the Millennium if they do not repent. This fleshly Satan has been and will continue gathering the wicked people of the nations to cause trouble/tribulation for Gods redeemed saints (Revelation 16:14-16) hes not and will not be gathering zombified dead people from the ground, but actual people from the four quarters of the earth for the battle of Armageddon which is the last day (Revelation 20:8). The duration of this glorious reign of Christ and His saints on earth, is frequently given as one thousand years. For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. All the various aspects about the Lord's millennial reign are spelled out in detail in the book of Isaiah. Ask God for strength of faith in Christ Jesus, your blessed hope of Truth who overcomes all deception! He has allowed Satan to attack us through the works of evil men all throughout this entire church age for our refinement, and He has kept us through it all. [39][40] During the millennial reign of Christ, Satan will be incarcerated for a thousand years. Jesus will defeat His enemies at His coming on the LAST day, then He tells us HIS REIGN ENDS on the last day when all is in subjection to God (1 Corinthians 15:25-26). The English word millennium does mean a LITERAL number of exactly 1,000 actual, measurable years. They will be seen by the righteous. They believe that Jesus will have a reign on this earth with people in both fallible and infallible bodies, and that they will reign with Him at that time (after His appearance melts the earth with fervent heat). 37:25, Israel will be particularly blessed. This passage is notoriously difficult to interpret has been the source of debate among three eschatological schools of thought: Amillennialism, Postmillennialism, and Premillennialism. 9:7), Full knowledge (Isa. The beast is the physical earthly Satan in all his forms. Re-Unification of Israel When Yahusha the Messiah returns to earth He will initiate "the time of universal restoration that God announced long ago through his holy prophets" (Acts 3:21, NRSV). Overcoming in this Age of Deception through Jesus Christ and God's Word. Satans spiritual short time among us in this church age is among the people of the earth these are the unbelievers who hes constantly attacking (Revelation 12:12). 36:8-12, Ezek. After this period, Satan will be released and will deceive the nations, enticing them to attack Christ (Rev. Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the LORD of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and seethe therein: and in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the LORD of hosts. During the millennium, the world will not be sinless, but there will be law and order enforced to eradicate many of the evils which are prevalent today. All will know who the Lord is and will be given the choice to follow Him or reject Him. No one will form armies or learn war or make weapons. The millennial kingdom is the title given to the 1,000-year reign of Jesus Christ on the earth. The Millennial Reign of Christ | Reformed Bible Studies & Devotionals at Ligonier.org | Reformed Bible Studies & Devotionals at Ligonier.org Given the disagreements over the millennium in church history, it is wise to hold our millennial views with humility. 3:19-20, Isaiah 14:12, Isaiah 60:4, Jews will be honored. Satan was sealed for destruction and bound in the bottomless pit (Revelation 12:7-9). Catholic author Bernard LeFrois wrote: The early Christian concepts of millennialism had ramifications far beyond strictly religious concerns during the centuries to come, as various theorists blended and enhanced them with ideas of utopia. Zech 8:23, Psalm 126:2-3, Micah 4:7, The Messiah will provide a unique cleansing and salvation of Jews. The "second resurrection" after the millennial reign of the Messiah (Rev. The saints of God will be judges of the world on behalf of Jesus. Rev 20:14 Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. In short, the beast is that which carries and symbolizes all the physical earthly works of the dragon which is the devil and Satan (Revelation 13:1-9). 39:27-28, Psalm 50:5, Micah 4:6, Zeph. One of the names for the Messiah is The Prince Of Peace. The Latin word for a thousand years is millennium. (16261676). Isaiah 2:4 says of the millennial reign: "He shall judge between the nations, and rebuke many people; they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore." A plowshare is the cutting blade of a plow. Premillennialism: "pre" - before; "millennium" - one thousand years; "ism" - a doctrine or theory. Joy and happiness without end or limit for the righteous, but for the ungodly it will mean pain and suffering without end or limit. 19:28, The Kingdom of Messiah will be everlasting. The twelve apostles of the Lamb will be the judges over the nation of Israel . It is a very popular belief accepted by certain premillennialists who usually promote young earth creationism. "[26], Augustine in his early days affirmed premillennialism, but later changed to amillennialism, causing the view to become popularized together with Pope Gregory the Great. "Nazism as a Millennialist Movement", in Catherine Wessinger (ed. Remember that the words for thousand (G5505 chilias, and G5507 chilioi) are both of uncertain affinity this means no one knows the origin of these words they are never a number or an indeclinable numeral, and in Revelation 20, chilioi is not a noun that can be used as a number. The wrath itself IS the judgment. Isaiah 52:13-15 (see also verses 7-10 for context that its the Messiah; see also Isaiah 53). 8:19, Nations will seek the favor of the Messiah. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus - Christian Classics Ethereal Library", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Millennialism&oldid=1130816738. Strongs defines H504 (which is also H505) as a family; also (from the sense of yoking or taming) an ox or cow and is from the primitive root meaning to associate with. Do we see a NUMBER in this definition? Longevity of age (Isa. Similarities to millennialism appear in Zoroastrianism, which identified successive thousand-year periods, each of which will end in a cataclysm of heresy and destruction, until the final destruction of evil and of the spirit of evil by a triumphant king of peace at the end of the final millennial age. Isaiah 24:23, Psalm 2:6-9, Psalm 9:11, Psalm 14:7 (and matching verse Psalm 53:6), Psalm 50:2, Psalm 87:1-3, Psalm 99:2, Psalm 102:13&16, Psalm 110:2, Psalm 132:13-14, Psalm 134:3, Psalm 135:21, Zech. Zech. Massive confusion exists within Christian churches about the "Millennium," a unique thousand-year period depicted in the book of Revelation. The wicked dead will rise after the earth has been destroyed with fervent heat to face judgment/Gods wrath and be cast into the lake of fire. In Biblical interpretation, you can make two wrongs appear to be right. It is derived from the word chilioi which is not a number and is not affiliated with any other Greek word. He is bound/restrained which accompanies his being loosened a little for the church age metaphorically speaking, he is on a long leash (read Rev. Hallelujah! God judges the wicked, but not from His place of righteousness. However, the mainstream fundamentalist churches all teach that a man's soul goes instantly to heaven when he dies, denying a millennial reign on the earth, while one of the major Sabbatarian religions (Seventh-day Adventist) teaches the millennium will be spent in heaven. These souls: came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years. 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Your kingdom is here NOW and youre reigning with your Savior, waiting to be in the very presence of the Lord upon your earthly death. With that background explained, let's get an idea of the Millennium by looking at ten changes that Bible prophecy describes for this time. Men will still be depraved and will need a savior. Proud member For the Millennial generation, see, Some examples are given by Gerschom Scholem in, Among the Apostolic Fathers Barnabas is the first and the only one who expressly teaches a pre-millennial reign of Christ on earth. (Ps. War will be no more. Perhaps the best way to understand the concept is to read the text to which the doctrine is referenced. In particular, new emphasis was placed on the passages in the Book of Revelation which seemed to say that as Christ would return to judge the living and the dead, Satan would be locked away for 1000 years, but then released on the world to instigate a final battle against God and his Saints. Chilioi is only translated as a thousand or the thousand.1000 is ONLY associated with chilias. We should not divide with others who affir Millennialism (from millennium, Latin for "a thousand years") or chiliasm (from the Greek equivalent) is a belief advanced by some religious denominations that a Golden Age or Paradise will occur on Earth prior to the final judgment and future eternal state of the "World to Come". millennial reign of jesus christ and the three classes of people to be in it. We see the glorious arrival of Jesus coming in the clouds with the spirits of the saints (who physically died), taking up His physically alive righteous into the clouds with Him, then destroying the earth and all who are in it with fire and brimstone. They understand the 1,000 years as merely a figurative way of saying "a long period of time," not a literal, physical reign of Jesus Christ on the earth. This is why you do not find the word millennium or millennial anywhere in the bible. We could apply the Hebrew noun definition to the Greek uncertain affinity adjective words its application is just as accurate in the Greek scriptures as in the Hebrew, when the Greek thousand is not a noun or not a numeral. The Messiah will stand on the Mount of Olives, and it shall split in two at His arrival. Amos 9:11, The Messiah will establish His sanctuary among His people from this point and continuing forever. The righteous dead who were slaughtered, both metaphorically and physically for their testimony of Jesus Christ, are ALIVE and reigning with Christ. The Old Covenant Great Tribulation has already happened to the literal House of Jacob/Israel prior to Jesus second coming in late-66 AD (details here). This time period will be 1,000 years which has been called the Millennial Reign of Christ. And thou, O tower of the flock, the stronghold of the daughter of Zion , unto thee shall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem . And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. The Theosophist Alice Bailey taught that Christ (in her books she refers to the powerful spiritual being best known by Theosophists as Maitreya as The Christ or The World Teacher, not as Maitreya)[clarification needed] would return sometime after AD 2025, and that this would be the New Age equivalent of the Christian concept of the Second Coming of Christ. If you read the study on Isaiah 65:20, you will see that this verse in the original Hebrew refutes all aspects of what people are expecting to see in a 1,000-year reign of Christ on earth after His second coming. [30] Previous Catholic and Orthodox theologians had no clear or consensus view on what this actually meant (only the concept of the end of the world coming unexpectedly, "like a thief in a night", and the concept of "the antichrist" were almost universally held). However, the bible does explain the Thousand Years to us. David will be His vice president and will sit on the throne with Him. Jesus will set up His capital in Jerusalem . The word thousand in Revelation 20 is the Greek word chilioi, not chilias. So we see that the beast that was and is not, also exists today (and yet is). Gods wrath on the wicked is determined by what was done to the saints. Devils are in our flawed human reasoning. It is interesting to note that these were pilgrimage feasts symbolizing the resurrections into the Kingdom of Heaven or the New Jerusalem. They will possess the fullness of what God had promised thousands of years ago but have never been able to accomplish on their own. 34:23-24, The Messiah, before He reigns, is marred to the point of not looking human. Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods. We see that Gods judgment IS His wrath He already knows what they have done and what they deserve there is no courtroom process. 20:7-9); all participants in this rebellion along with Satan will be defeated and cast into the Lake of Fire. 20:16 in which "Christ's reign" is current in and through the church. Isa 2:1 4 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem . We will need an intimate relationship with God, Jesus, and the Holy Ghost continually to be able to do such an important duty correctly. 1Co 6:2, 3 Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? Mic 4:4, 5 But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts hath spoken it. reflecting the typical features of some manifestations of millennialism. No one is leaving before the Second Coming of Christ on the last day at the last trump because Jesus has already came! 34:11-13, Ezek. Everything will be brought to the feet of Jesus and will submit in the end. For example, in his book, Because the Time is Near (2007), Dr. John MacArthur states that "Christ will return, and then establish a literal kingdom on earth, which will last for a thousand years" (pg. that the Age of the Holy Spirit would begin at around 1260, and that from then on all believers would live as monks, mystically transfigured and full of praise for God, for a thousand years until Judgment Day would put an end to the history of our planet. The Jewish-Roman War & the Two Witnesses in the Great Tribulation, The Noahide Laws U.S. Government Law Approves Killing Christians, The Sabbath & Commandments According to Jesus, What is Gods Will for Me? This article "The Millennial Reign" was excerpted from the book Revelation Unveiled by Dustin L. Abbott. It will end once evil has complete and total control of the world and there is only a small remnant remaining. Spirit: Do the Wicked Cease to Exist? Ask of Me, and I will give You the nations for Your inheritance, and the ends of the earth for Your possession. 8:12, People will be healed when the Messiah arrives. And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORDs house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is. They are waiting on some earth-type fantasy land stuff to happen when in actuality, they will become spirits in the many mansions that is God! After that, he must be let out for a little while. In other words, the Sabbath day is an foreshadow or anti-type of the coming "Sabbath millennium" following six millennia that the other six days of the week foreshadow or typify. Rev 2:26 , 27 And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father. He will come from heaven with the elect angels and the church to deliver Israel from Satan and the non-elect angels and Antichrist, the false prophet and the Tribulational armies. In fact, a man may even be able to live during the entire 1,000 years. Its false doctrines are the cause of the Falling Away that deceived and continues to deceive many (2 Thessalonians 2:3). Many nations will choose to follow Jesus and will come to Jerusalem to worship Him. How glorious it will be! 297). It will be a time of unprecedented peace between men and even the animal kingdom. The New Covenant saints will escape the second death because of their first resurrection which was being born again this is their dying to self (Romans 6:6-11) and putting on the new man (Ephesians 4:24). At the time he was bound, the beast/Satan was loosened (i.e. It taught them that they are lowlier than the unrepentant group because of their DNA. Jesus disciples will also reign with Himjudging Israel. People today try to eradicate war but it is futile to try and wrong. Over these the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him a thousand years, During the first centuries after Christ, various forms of chiliasm (millennialism) were to be found in the Church, both East and West. 11:1-2), Instruction and learning (Isa. The Jews from this point on and forever will dwell in safety. . Rev. ARTICLE 13 We believe in the pre-millennial second coming of Jesus. Why is this called the Millennium? The Millennial Reign "The Time of Universal Restoration" The Re-Unification of the Whole Nation of Israel. When it comes to Gods people, God has turned a deaf ear to Satans accusations against us. Jesus will forever rule over the earth with His servants from this point on. Example: In the 144,000 in Revelation 7:4, only the hundred, forty and four are indeclinable numerals used as adjectives, but the word thousand is not (it is only an adjective, not a numeral). The Italian monk and theologian Joachim of Fiore (died 1202) saw all of human history as a succession of three ages: It was believed[by whom?] [citation needed] Millennial social movements need not have a religious foundation, but they must[need quotation to verify] have a vision of an apocalypse that can be utopian or dystopian. The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is. Israel and the church: The church is the fulfillment of Israel. When Jesus returns to this earth, He will bring His saints with Him ( Jude 1:14; Revelation 19:14 ). [32], Jehovah's Witnesses believe that Christ will rule from heaven for 1,000 years as king over the earth, assisted by the 144,000 ascended humans. Ellwood, Robert. [43][need quotation to verify]. The beast was Satan who once stood before God accusing Gods people, and could directly affect the saints. I have set My King on My holy hill of Zion. Kingdom of God: present through the Spirit since Pentecost - to be experienced by sight during the millennium after Christ's return. Certainly it is true what Paul said in First Corinthians, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. GLORY TO GOD! And people will love his leadership! Great Tribulation Period: Occurs before the 1000 year reign of Christ. Learn how and when to remove this template message, a final battle against God and his Saints, Eastern Lightning, The Church of Almighty God, his plans to have major parts of Berlin torn down and rebuilt, "Philip Schaff: ANF01. The bottomless pit is unique in scripture it is only mentioned in the book of Revelation because its only happened to Satan and his spirit powers after his defeat at the cross. The world will worship the dragon/Satan that powers the beast (Revelation 13:4). But the saddest of all. H505 is a NOUN but used as a cardinal number in some places when it has a derivative in front of it. Postmillennialism sees Christ's second coming as subsequent to the millennium and concurrent with the final judgment. 8:20-22, Isaiah 2:2-3, Many people will seek His instruction. The first element of the millennium is that Jesus Christ will visibly reign. The Old Covenant saints have already escaped the second death (the lake of fire) when they ascended into the heavenly spiritual realm during Jesus first coming after the cross (Matthew 27:52-53). 37:23-28, Ezek. We are literally waiting on Jesus to take up the living saints into the air because that has not yet happened, then Father God will end the remainder of this creation to rebuild it anew again. Rev 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 worshiped 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. Rev. We are the 'Joshua Generation,' who are called to take God's people into the promised land, by ushering in the millennial reign of Messiah. 8:12&16, Zech. Its sole meaning is simply one (the italicized words in the Strongs definitions were added/made up by men). Revelation 17:8 caught my attention you can read all its translations on one page here (Bible Gateway link opens in a new tab). Later, however, the Nazi authorities banned the informal use of "Third Reich" throughout the German press in the summer of 1939, instructing it to use more official terms such as "German Reich", "Greater German Reich", and "National Socialist Germany" exclusively.[44]. This reign, purchased with the blood of Christ, must increasingly be manifested on the earth until the end of the millenium. danner bulalinrevelation 20:1 1 and. . The Future Millennial Reign of the Messiah. The antichrist spirit still works in the world through evil people and sin Satan can empower them but Satan himself is not actively accusing the redeemed before God anymore. Our doctrinal statement also reads: "We believe that following the tribulation Christ will return to the earth with His glorified saints to establish the millennial kingdom; that during the 1,000 years of peace and prosperity Satan will be bound and Christ will reign with a rod of iron; that at the end of the millennium Satan will be released . 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