The Millennial Reign?

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Revelation Introduction Part One Introduction Seven Spirits Of God Walking Amidst The Candlesticks The Seven Angels - A Mystery A Sharp Two Edged Sword The Little Horn And The Synagogue Of Satan The Throne Of God The Lamb Of God Part Two Introduction The Seals - Shifting Identity The Tail Of The Dragon Is Constructed The Removal Of The Restrainer Behold A Pale Horse Last Three Seals - Alignment The Last Three Seals - The Resurrection The Last Three Seals - Triune Part Three Introduction The Trumpets - Shifting Octal Subgroups The First Trumpet The Second Trumpet The Third Trumpet The Fourth Trumpet Wormwood = 'Death' Part Four Introduction The Fifth Tumpet The Sixth Trumpet. Why Serpents, Why Not Just Scorpions? Seven Angels And Seven Candlesticks The Angel Of The Church On The Earth And Sea Witnesses To Left And Right The Two Witnesses The Trumpets Rest Part Five Introduction The Woman Clothed With The Sun The Dragon War In Heaven The Angel's Mechanism To Salvation God's Sovereignty Questioned Michael Fights Back With His Angels Time No Longer The Dragon Defeated Jesus' Epistle To Satan The Flood From The Dragon The Beast From The Sea The First Beast Explained The Beast Come Up From The Earth Part Six Introduction Life To The Image I Life To The Image II Life To The Image III Life To The Image IV Life To The Image V The Three Angels To The Right And Left The Wrath Is Come Part Seven Introduction The Wrath Poured Out - Part I The Wrath Poured Out - Part II The Wrath Poured Out - Part III Three Unclean Spirits Like Frogs I Come As A Thief Mystery, Babylon The Great The Woman Riding The Beast Explained The Angel Of The Church Overcomes Laodicea The Smoke Of Her Burning Part Eight Introduction The Victor The Spoils The Lake Of Fire Does Not Equal Reign One Thousand Years The Millennial Reign? A Caveat The Second Coming Is When? The Judgement The More Sure Word Of Prophecy Part Nine Introduction A New Earth The River Of Life The Final Promises Redux Introduction Section One Static Subgroups Spirits, Candlesticks And Stars A Sharp And Two-Edged Sword The Lord's Bow, The Elders, The Four Beasts The Book, The Lamb, The Right Octal Reversals, Alignments Horses, Bows, Crowns, Swords And Balances Death, Hell And The Earth Section Two The Altar - Two Parts Cut Off The Sun, Moon And Stars Of Heaven Mountains, Islands, Blood And Trees The Four Winds Of The Earth The Blood Of The Lamb The Censer And Prayers Of The Saints Hail And Fire Mingled With Blood Section Three The Third Part Of... Voices, Thunderings, Lightnings And Earthquakes Flying Through The Midst Of Heaven The Bottomless Pit Smoke, Locusts, Green Things Tormented Five Months The Appearance Of Locusts Section Four The Great River Euphrates The Army Of The Horsemen And The Rest Of The Men The Little Book Power To Tread On Serpents And Scorpions The Reed, Rod and Temple Witnesses And Olive Trees Rain, Waters Into Blood, Plagues On The Earth Section Five The Beast That Ascendeth Overcome -The Great City The Spirit of Life, Clouds And An Earthquake The Tenth Part The Kingdoms Of Our Lord Wonders In Heaven The Beast Risen Up From The Sea Section Six Worshipping The Dragon The Beast Coming Up Out Of The Earth The Last Trumpet Six Hundred Threescore And Six The Mark, Number And Name Of The Beast Stood On Mount Zion The Harvest Of Sharp Sickles The Temple Filled With Smoke Section Seven The First Vial Of Wrath The Second Vial Of Wrath The Third Vial Of Wrath The Fourth Vial Of Wrath The Fifth Vial Of Wrath The Sixth Vial Of Wrath The Rest Of The Wrath Section Eight Divided Into Three Parts The Judgement Of Babylon The Beast That Was, And Is Not The Beast Dissected The Beast Rebooted Babylon The Great Is Fallen Death, Mourning And Famine Section Nine It Is Done The Sabbath Continues After The Wrath The Word Of God Predestination And Deliverance The Last Day Burn In Hell? The Tabernacle Of God With Men The City Descends The Final Word Sayings Faithful And True Structure, Sequence and Segue Introduction The Seven Letters In Ephesus In Smyrna In Pergamos In Thyatira In Sardis In Philadelphia Of Laodicea Seven Thunders Uttered The Seven Trumpets The Seals - Loosed Restraint The Seals Opened On The Earth The Seals Opened In Heaven What Or Whom Is Being Restrained? The Seventh Seal Of Rest The Trumpets And Viols The Trumpets - In Or Out? Overcoming In Stages - Treading The Winepress The Alignment Of Trumpets To Viols The Completion Of The Viols Is The Wrath In Reversal? The Scope Of Wrath The Peculiar Structure Of The Viols. Sequence Within Segue Wonders In Heaven The Burning Of Babylon The Descent Of New Jerusalem Gathered Together To Armageddon Alignments In The Sequence Sequence Completed Babylon Fallen No Millenium Those That Have The Victory The Book Of Daniel I Introduction An Opening The Statue Dream The Matter Gone A God That Reveals Secrets The Dream And It's Interpretation The Dragons Tail Revealed The Image And The Fiery Furnace Imitating The Kingdom Of God Falling Down - Instruments Of Ishtar That God That Shall Deliver The Tree Dream Nebuchadnezzar's Dream Daniel's Interpretation Is Not This Great Babylon? Babylon The Great Is Fallen The Party To End All Parties Daniel Interprets The Writing The Kingdom Is Taken Daniel In The Lion's Den Working In The World Daniel Breaks The King's Decree Interred To Be Devoured Delivered From Evil The Four Beasts Racing The Restrainer The Four Beasts The Ancient Of Days Did Sit The Fourth Beast Explained The Book Of Daniel II Introduction The Ram And He-Goat Greece Subdues The Medes And Persians The Little Horn The Interpretation In Summation Daniel's Seventy Weeks Daniel's Prayer Seventy Weeks Determined Skill And Understanding A Matter Of Timing? The Kings Of The North And South I Daniel's Revelation Of Christ To The End Of Persian Rule The 1335 Days - The Power Of The Arm The 1290 days - The Abomination Identifiers In The Text The Abstraction Of Daniel's Vision The Kings Of The North And South II The South Establishes His Kingdom His Sons Stirred Up Casting Up A Mount The Strength Of The Kingdom A Raiser Of Taxes The Kings Of The North And South III A Vile Person Stands Up Stirring Up His Power And Courage Lies At One Table The Kings Of The North And South IV The Restrainer Removed The Ships Of Chittim The Abomination - A Little Help Given That That Is Determined Shall Be Done At The Time Of The End The Final Clash Made Succinct The Conclusion - The People Are Tried	The Millennial Reign? Now the question we have to ask is, "Is there a literal thousand year period during which Jesus returns and reigns with the saints before satan is loosed from his prison?" If we answer in the affirmative then what of those armies satan gathers to himself (to surround the camp of God's people), where did they come from? Jesus has not lost a single one of all whom He saved, so these armies must be formed of the "rest of the dead" that lived not again until the thousand years were completed. (actually "expired".) We hope to eliminate this case. After all, Christ will raise up every believer also upon the last day. The period of thousand years makes sense in terms of applied grace - through the "foreknowing" of God of His chosen. The foreknowing of each believer by God of a period of one thousand years, separates out those that would show their love for God by repenting and being obedient from those that are irreparably disobedient (continually by their own choice). On an individual basis the thousand years foreknowing continues indefinitely or "expires" at the time as to whether a potential believer is favourably chosen or not, respectively. (As under grace) - Therefore the thousand years expires when the Lord has chosen His last disciple, gifting the Holy Spirit and predestinating them into His kingdom, guiding them into that predestined obedience. (Read 2nd Peter Chapter 3 again, in particular noting 2Pet Ch3:v15.) 2Pe 3:15 And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; (KJV) However the thousand years "prescience" of grace for a believer being foreknown would appear to allow Christ to return and reign for up to a thousand years until that "final" person has become suitably obedient. (And all His people have been made subject to Him.) However a thousand years is completely arbitrary then, (as a figure pleasing to God.) and is only a bounding maximum for some chosen measure of usefulness for a "millennial reign". Then immediately comes the judgement. The "mystery shopper" as above (I know it's a nonsense) is foreknown by grace to be obedient over a thousand years: yet predestination is itself grace, so the judgement could occur straight away, there is nothing stopping God saving someone who is "currently not fully obedient" but "yet will be". (as elected among His chosen.) Why would grace preclude forgiveness? So if the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished, what does that tell us? It shows that the first resurrection is taken part in only by those worthy of it. The cut-off point for grace is such that from the foreknowing that the Lord has of these "dead ones", grace never applies when the potential for obedience takes longer than a "thousand years"; Even in gifting His Holy Spirit to predestine them, they are not able to reign with Christ, but only under Him. Those that take part in the first resurrection are described as those upon whom the second death has no power. This immediately qualifies them as having no involvement to damnation with the beast or the false prophet, or even the dragon. They are inside the "camp of God's people". However then, after the thousand years are finally fully and universally expired (read "failed"), there is no one left worthy to be "entered into" the book of life. We see then that when the thousand years have "expired" no one is worthy of the qualification to become chosen and elect. We could consider this the "tipping point" or the judgement for the timing of the sealing of the saints. We then equate those in this setting that have part in the first resurrection as those that are kept from the hour of temptation as in the letter to Philadelphia. They are the sealed. This passage describes precisely the meaning of the seal. To the sealed believer only those serpents of the sixth trumpet tempt: whereas to the unsealed satan is able to tempt also. That, (the thousand years and the sealing) is God's answer to the satanic copy of His grace found in the image system of 660+6. His sealed may tread on serpents and scorpions, but God has reserved the right to tread on satan to Himself. We know that satan is bound by his "I will be like unto the most high..." statements under the inability to construct the key to the bottomless pit - he is unable to construct the image in all its completeness, (1/10 of the system forming S5 fails over the five refining churches, aka "laodicea".) Unable to complete his work of damnation of the Church, satan is unable to complete his intentions until the outpouring of God's wrath, in which God states; Rev 18:6 Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double. (KJV) Then, as the scarlet beast and Church is damned and the devices of Death and Hell are cast into the lake of fire in her - in filling the missing 12 elements of 120 in the image of the Church (with her judgement) God looses satan upon those that have polluted His holy name, lastly casting them into the lake of fire - a "synchronym" for the judgement upon the Church, the second death. (Evidently the damned surround the camp of God's saints and will be consumed with fire from the Most High.) Satan it seems, is loosed from His prison only upon those that are not separated, and not elect. A slim opening for satan to attack God is not given in the text, neither shall one hair on the head of the just be harmed by him - to come out of the church and stand before God is to have God between the believer and satan. The closed system of the image is a cage for satan and is intended to remain so. All the elect within must come out. Then satan is loosed from His prison; the sealed are they which are immune to satan's temptation within the "hour of temptation" (re: the forcing of the mark of the beast) and follow Christ, (as faithful until death) they have the "thousand years principle" that will never end: (They will reign with Christ in eternity.) but the unsealed are they who have failed the calling of God to be His elect - and satan is loosed from his prison after the "foreknowing in grace is broken" or after "a thousand years expires" and satan moves in as if he were the unbeliever's spiritual father. Then satan gathers (tempts) the unsaved world together to fight against the remaining elect. I.e. the thousand years "expire" when each individual rejects Christ. So the first resurrection is at the time of the end at the sealing of the saints, and is before Christ returns to judgement on the last day. The first resurrection is in the book of revelation a term to describe the sealed alive and present in these last days that have part in Christ. The rest of the believers Christ will raise with Him on the last day, for he comes soon and "His reward is with Him". There is only one resurrection of (all) the just and unjust and it is on that last day. Although there is a first resurrection, those that have part in the first resurrection are alive already at the end of the age, and their raising is to become spiritually confirmed to eternal life in Christ, though they can be put to death - they have nothing to fear of the second death. (Thrones are prepared for them in heaven.) Continue To Next Page Return To Section Start Return To Previous Page