THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM

 

With the coming of Christ all the righteous will be taken live in dwellings, martinice ones made for them in heaven       ( John 14.1-3 ; 1 Thess 4.16-17 ; Rev 14.1-4, 15.2-3, 19.1 ) .

The wicked will be killed by the glory of Christ ( 2 Thess 2.8; Is 13.6-9, 24.1-6; Sof 1.2-3 ) . Fire is the element of destruction  ( 2 Thess 1.7-9, Ps 49.3-5, Is 66.15-16 , Ezek 38.22; Revelation 19.19-21, 18.8-9, 19.3 ) .

 

Thus, the Earth will be "devastated and made desolate, and decimated the sinners”  ( Is 13.9; Jer 4.20,23,25 -28 ) .

Satan will be bound with "inaction" for 1000 years, as it will suit some stir. Jesus Christ put upon him the sins of his people (the high priest) and will wander through a deserted Earth ( Lev  20-22, Rev 20.1-3 ) .

 

During the 1000 years of the righteous will reign with Christ and to judge fallen angels and wicked  ( Rev 20.4 , 1 Cor 6.3-4 , Dan 7.22 ). They will participate in the Court to have your opinion on the punishment of the wicked and confirm the rightness of God, and this will prevent any possibility of discontent against their fate.

 

Millennial Kingdom begins the first resurrection and ends with the second  ( Rev 20.5 ) .

 

After the end of the 1000 years Satan tempts the resurrected of the wicked and convinces to take the city of God by storm and to establish his empire forever. But then the Lord pronounces a verdict on them and destroys them forever ( Rev 20. 15 ) .

   As you know, after the great sorrow, through which all those who did not worship the beast and did not accept its outline will pass, there will be a literal and visible second coming of Christ. Then the living and resurrected righteous will be taken to heaven for 1000 years, where they will examine the deeds of the wicked, and on earth there will be no one alive at this time, but only Satan and his angels. At the end of the millennium, the New Jerusalem with Christ and the Righteous will fall to earth and the last judgment - destruction - will take place over the wicked of all ages, which will be resurrected only for this and at the moment of trying to capture the city under the guidance of Satan. 

   After that, eternity will come - a new happy life on the renewed earth and in the universe without sin and its consequences.

   This position is called POSTTRIBULATIONISM-PREMLLENENAISM.

 

   But there are three more.

 

   They contradict the Bible, as:

 

1. PRETRIBULATIONISM- PREMLLENENAISM.  Unlike the previous one, though he teaches almost the same, but with one condition: before the beginning of the time of mourning, the righteous will be secretly admired from the earth, and who will remain, those inscribed beast will receive everything, and then return with the church.  This cannot be the case, since the comings of Christ are two, not three, the church is sure to go through all the trials on earth and will be the winner (Rev 15, Dan 12.1, Matthew 24.10-13), and the millennial kingdom is no "golden age" as well, on the contrary, the beginning of it will be a time when the wicked will be killed by the glory of the phenomenon of Christ (2 Thess 1.7-8 ), the Earth will be devastated and filled with corpses that will not be buried (Jer 4.23-27,25.33 ) and which will not decompose because the Earth's orbit has moved away from the Sun and the temperature on it has become lower (Is 13.13 ). In the same teaching, it is not clear why Christ secretly admire his church by giving all the other people to the antichrist (among other things, not everyone will receive the mark of the beast - Rev 14.9.12), and then return with the righteous back to earth, while the last trial is not soon, but only after 1000 years, and these years of "golden" as the "golden" chain of Satan. As for Satan, (Rev 20.1-3) he will not literally be put on a chain for 1000 years, but figuratively, because at this time he and his angels will have nothing to do, no one to seduce. He will only wander the earth and see the consequences of his deeds.  And at the end of the millennium - the destruction of all followers of Satan and himself, not the endless burning in hell. The same fire will re-create the planet and return it to a beautiful view.

 

2. POST-MILLENNIALISM.  The second coming will not be secret and symbolic, but literal to take your people to heaven (Rev 1.7, John 14.1-3).   And it can happen only at the beginning of the millennium, and not at the end of the so-called "golden age", for then it is not clear why the righteous from the happy world to take somewhere!  And then, nothing like this before the end of the world will not happen, because we see that the world is not going to prosperity, and rolls into the abyss, people do everything for this - it's an economic crisis, and poisoned nature, and depression, and the general decline of morals.  God does not rape the free will of man and therefore cannot force it all back.  Consequently, the world perishes, but those who keep God's faith and commandments will be saved.

 

3. AMILLENAISM.  Not only is the second coming of Christ at the end of the millennial kingdom, which cannot be as mentioned above, but it itself is not literal, as the Bible teaches, but figurative.

 

   Last one, by the way.  In the book of Revelation, these events follow each other in chronological order (the three-archangel news - chapter 14, great sorrow - chapters 15 and 16, the second coming - chapter 19, the last judgment - chapter 20, eternity - chapters 21 and 22) and this is a rather strong argument in favor of the first teaching of POSTTRIBULATION-PREMIUMENISM. It also says that according to the 15th chapter, the church is on earth, not in heaven before the coming of Christ, which ends the great sorrow, and the two resurrections of the dead is the beginning and end of the millennial kingdom.

 

   So, the choice is obvious and cannot be challenged, because it is the result of a serious study of biblical texts. But we should not forget that not this or such question is the main one in theology and Christianity, but about how and ON HOW AND ON HOW TO LIVE CHRISTIAN, WHERE TO LOVE FOR THIS POWER, HOW TO SHOW ON THE REALITY AND LOVE. A true disciple of Christ, though he does not know the date of His coming, he must live as if this event will take place today, to stay awake spiritually, to grow and to be consecrated.