Who will populate the earth in the 1000 year Reign
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The following passage is i believe giving details of the Battle of Armageddon.. Those that will populate the world after the start of the return of Jesus whom Jesus shall rule with a rod of iron.. The people who the Saints will rule over shall be made up of the ""every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem""
Zechariah 14: KJV
12 "¶ And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth. {13} And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour. {14} And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the heathen round about shall be gathered together, gold, and silver, and apparel, in great abundance. {15} And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the ass, and of all the beasts that shall be in these tents, as this plague. {16} ¶ And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles."
Zechariah 14: KJV
12 "¶ And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth. {13} And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour. {14} And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the heathen round about shall be gathered together, gold, and silver, and apparel, in great abundance. {15} And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the ass, and of all the beasts that shall be in these tents, as this plague. {16} ¶ And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles."
There is no 1000 year reign. If there were, flesh and blood cannot inherit it. Only saints in glorified bodies. This means when Satan is loosed he would have saints in glorified bodies attacking other saints in glorified bodies until the Lord returns.
The 1000 years = the binding of Satan. Not the kingdom. Satan attacks the kingdom when the 1000 years end.
When JESUS comes the second time ,The wicked will be slayed by the brightness of HIS coming , The dead that are in CHRIST , witch are asleep will rise , And meat JESUS in the air , then they witch alive in CHRIST ,will be changed and go up to meat JESUS in the air .
This leaves no one alive on the earth . but Satan and his demons , No one to temp , No one that he can deceive . This will be the spiritual chain that Satan will be bound by , No one for him to temp . for the 1000 year reign in Heaven,
Jer 25:33 , Jer 4:23-29 , GOD bless as HE sees fit .
Who will populate the earth in the 1000 year Reign
One day it occurred to me while reading this that it's a special time of privilege in service and worship of God for those who were martyred in this life:
And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God. They a had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years. 5(The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended.) This is the first resurrection. 6Blessed and holy are those who share in the first resurrection. The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with him for a thousand years. - Revelation 20:4-6
I'm not big on end times stuff, so I'm just throwing it out there for consideration and educated critique.
One day it occurred to me while reading this that it's a special time of privilege in service and worship of God for those who were martyred in this life:
And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God. They a had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years. 5(The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended.) This is the first resurrection. 6Blessed and holy are those who share in the first resurrection. The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with him for a thousand years. - Revelation 20:4-6
I'm not big on end times stuff, so I'm just throwing it out there for consideration and educated critique.
There is no millennium. If there were, only glorified saints would populate it since flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom. This leaves only glorified saints for Satan to rally in war against the other glorified saints when loosed.
this passage in Isaiah 65 describes who will populate the new heaven and earth...
17 “See, I will create
new heavens and a new earth.
The former things will not be remembered,
nor will they come to mind.
18 But be glad and rejoice forever
in what I will create,
for I will create Jerusalem to be a delight
and its people a joy.
19 I will rejoice over Jerusalem
and take delight in my people;
the sound of weeping and of crying
will be heard in it no more.
20 “Never again will there be in it
an infant who lives but a few days,
or an old man who does not live out his years;
the one who dies at a hundred
will be thought a mere child;
the one who fails to reach[a] a hundred
will be considered accursed.
21 They will build houses and dwell in them;
they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
22 No longer will they build houses and others live in them,
or plant and others eat.
For as the days of a tree,
so will be the days of my people;
my chosen ones will long enjoy
the work of their hands.
23 They will not labor in vain,
nor will they bear children doomed to misfortune;
for they will be a people blessed by the Lord,
they and their descendants with them.
24 Before they call I will answer;
while they are still speaking I will hear.
25 The wolf and the lamb will feed together,
and the lion will eat straw like the ox,
and dust will be the serpent’s food.
They will neither harm nor destroy
on all my holy mountain,”
says the Lord.
Every Jew in Israel (a small remnant) & every Jew worldwide converted via the 144, 000.
Good day bud62,
The on-going problem with the claim above is that it would put the living church (what would be left of them) through the entire wrath of God, which we are not appointed to suffer. You would in fact be saying that the Lord is going to first put His bride through His wrath right along with the wicked and then fulfill His promise to come and get her.
The truth is that the Lord will appear prior to the first seal being opened which initiates the wrath of God, with the dead in Christ rising first immortal and glorified. And then the living will be changed and caught up with them. At this point the entire church will be gathered where according to the Lord promise in John 14:1-3 and 1 Thess.4:13-18, He will take us back to the Father's house to those places that He went to prepare for all believers.
Paul called the Lord's return "the blessed hope." And at the end of Paul's detailed account of our being caught up he said, "therefore, comfort each other with these words. That said, if the church were to go through God's wrath first, it would be no blessed hope, nor would we have anything to comfort each other about. I would also mention that the last time the church is mentioned is at the end of Revelation chapter 3 and is therefore never mentioned within the narrative of God's wrath. The saints that are mentioned are the great tribulation saints.
Those who will be left on the earth to repopulate the millennial kingdom will be the remnant of Israel and the great tribulation saints, who will have made it alive through the tribulation period. Even Matthew 24:30-31 demonstrates that there will be people still alive on the earth when the Lord returns:
"At that time the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and all the tribes of the earth will mourn. They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory. And He will send out His angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather His elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other."
Those who the angels will be gathering will be those of Israel and the great tribulation saints (Gentiles) who will have made it alive throughout the tribulation period. This gathering by the angels is not referring to the gathering of the church. For angels do not gather the church at the resurrection. They, along with the living who are changed, will ascend up to meet the Lord in the air. Furthermore, the following scriptures would do away with your claim that there will be no one living on the earth when the Lord returns:
"For at that time there will be great tribulation, unmatched from the beginning of the world until now, and never to be seen again. If those days had not been cut short, nobody would be saved. But for the sake of the elect, those days will be cut short."
"He will judge between the nations and will settle disputes for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore." - Isaiah 2:4
So as you can see from just these two scriptures, those days will not go on any longer than the allotted time and that for the sake of the elect which will be those in their mortal bodies.
There is no thousand year reign in heaven, but will take place on the earth with the Lord ruling from the throne of king David just as the scripture declare.
At the end of the thousand years Satan will be released from the Abyss and will deceive those referred to as Gog and Magog and they will surround the city that God loves, Jerusalem, and God will send fire down upon them. Then Satan will be cast into the Lake of fire where the beast and false prophet will have been thrown a thousand years earlier. Then all of the unrighteous dead throughout all of history will be resurrected and will stand before God be judged and cast into the lake of fire.
Agreed. And it wouldn’t be His entire body. Most of the Church has died and are present with the Lord. One would have to believe only a small part of His body would go through the tribulation. And why would that be so?
Those who are converted durning the tribulation will populate the millennium right
No
In the 2nd coming, The Lord will be established as King of His Kingdom. The 12 apostles will judge the 12 tribes as Jesus told them Matthew 19:28
people will be call from all over the earth to come and worship the King Zechariah 14:16
Isaiah 2 King James Version (KJV)
1 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
3 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.
Jeremiah 3:17 King James Version (KJV)
17 At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the Lord; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the Lord, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart.
As for Christians, we are part of Body of Christ and He is the Head of the Body. Christian are not included with those of the circumcision.
Our destiny is Heaven to be co inheritors with Christ our Lord.
Hi John146,
No part of the Lord's church/bride will go through His wrath. It is the great tribulation saints, those who will have become believers in Christ after the church has been gathered and who are introduced in Rev.7:9-17 as that great multitude who are too large to count from every nation, tribe, people and language, who will be present during the tribulation period. Prior to the tribulation the entire church, from its beginning until the resurrection, will be gathered.
Agreed! The church will have been caught up immortal and glorified prior to the tribulation period. The church/bride is who will be returning with Christ when He returns to the earth to end the age. This is demonstrated in Rev.19:6-8 where the bride/church is present at the wedding of the Lamb and is receiving her fine linen. Rev.19:14 then shows the bride wearing her fine linen following Christ out of heaven on white horses. Rev.17:14 also mentions this event:
"They (beast and ten kings) will wage war against the Lamb, but the Lamb will triumph over them because he is Lord of lords and King of kings—and with him will be his called, chosen and faithful followers.” Jude quoting Enoch, also spoke of the church returning with the Lord:
"Enoch, the seventh from Adam, also prophesied about them: “Behold, the Lord is coming with myriads of His saints to judge everyone, and to convict all of them of all the ungodly acts they have committed in their ungodliness, and of all the defiant words ungodly sinners have spoken against him."
Jeconiah’s Curse and the Millennium.
The problem; God placed a curse on Jeconiah “Is this man Coniah [called Jechonias in the LXX ] a despised broken idol? is he a vessel wherein is no pleasure? wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not? O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD. Thus saith the LORD, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.” (Jeremiah 22:28–30)
Jesus was a descendant of Jeconiah through Shealtiel and Zerubbabel (Matthew 1:12 or Luke 3:27). (Some believe God removed the curse when Jeconiah’s grandson Zerubbabel led Judah. However Zerubbabel did not restore David’s throne. He was "governor of Judah" (Haggai 2:2)).
So, if you believe Jesus will one day sit on David’s throne in Jerusalem, have you thought about Jeconiah’s curse? If so, how do you cope with Jeconiah’s curse?
I counter the problem believing Jesus now reigns on David’s Throne at God’s right hand in heavenly Jerusalem above. So the curse does not apply.
Any thoughts?
The problem; God placed a curse on Jeconiah “Is this man Coniah [called Jechonias in the LXX ] a despised broken idol? is he a vessel wherein is no pleasure? wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not? O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD. Thus saith the LORD, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.” (Jeremiah 22:28–30)
Jesus was a descendant of Jeconiah through Shealtiel and Zerubbabel (Matthew 1:12 or Luke 3:27). (Some believe God removed the curse when Jeconiah’s grandson Zerubbabel led Judah. However Zerubbabel did not restore David’s throne. He was "governor of Judah" (Haggai 2:2)).
So, if you believe Jesus will one day sit on David’s throne in Jerusalem, have you thought about Jeconiah’s curse? If so, how do you cope with Jeconiah’s curse?
I counter the problem believing Jesus now reigns on David’s Throne at God’s right hand in heavenly Jerusalem above. So the curse does not apply.
Any thoughts?
Just like it was in Moses Day ,When GODs wrath was on Egypt , And the plagues was not on the Jews. If you will look in REV 16:12 is the sixth plague Or vial , And the Church is still here , AND JESUS IS STILL NOT COME AS A Thief , FOR HE comes as a thief In REV 16:15 And it all DONE in 16:17
The only ones that HE comes on as a thief , IS THOSE THAT ARE NOT LOOKING FOR HIM . GOD bless as HE sees fit .
Isaiah 26:20 Come , my people, enter thou into thy chambers , and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indigonation be over past. For , behold, the LORD cometh out of HIS place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood , and shall no more cover her slain . BY the way , GOD always takes the lost FIRST . THE ones that are taken are the LOST , They lay dead on the ground ,
And are the great supper that GOD gives to the BIRDs . As in the flood JESUS says that the flood came and took them all away .
MATTHEW 13:30 Let both grow together until the Harvest : and in the time of the Harvest I will say to the repapers , Gather ye together first the tares, The lost is first , Which is the tares , and bind them in bundles to burn them . But gather the wheat into my barn. And other places also .
If you read that right ,JESUS comes from heaven HIMSELF , AND HE gethers the CHURCH , Then GOD brings the CHURCH to heaven, HE dose not bring the church with HIM , YOU are miss lead there , You are not getting the whole meaning there.