MK2. Who enters the Millennial Kingdom?
Who will the Lord choose to be the new citizens of the 1,000 year Millennial Kingdom reign of Christ on earth?
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Key Points
- The time of Jacob’s trouble is marked by the rise of the antichrist beast of Revelation.
- This period will determine the sheep and the goats of Matt 25:31-46 that Jesus judges when He returns.
- Jesus in His Second Coming also returns to establish His Millennial Kingdom reign.
- The sheep will be welcomed as its new citizens but the goats will be cast into the lake of fire.
- The time of Jacob’s trouble is marked by the rise of the antichrist beast of Revelation.
- This period will determine the sheep and the goats of Matt 25:31-46 that Jesus judges when He returns.
- Jesus in His Second Coming also returns to establish His Millennial Kingdom reign.
- The sheep will be welcomed as its new citizens but the goats will be cast into the lake of fire.
The Word
- "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." Dan 12:1
- "4 Now these are the words that the Lord spoke concerning Israel and Judah. 7 Alas! For that day is great, So that none is like it; And it is the time of Jacob’s trouble, But he shall be saved out of it. 8 'For it shall come to pass in that day,' Says the Lord of hosts, … 9 But they shall serve the Lord their God, And David their king, Whom I will raise up for them. " Jer 30:4,8-9
- "8 And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein. 9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on My Name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is My people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God." Zec 13:8-9
- "31 When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory. 32 All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats. 33 And He will set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left. 34 Then the King will say to those on His right hand, 'Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: 41 Then He will also say to those on the left hand, 'Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels: " Matt 25:31,32-33,41
- "For the Son of man shall come in the glory of His Father with His angels; and then He shall reward every man according to his works." Matt 16:27
- "Behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to render to every man according to what he has done." Rev 22:12
Description
The three and a half year Great Tribulation begins when the antichrist "man of sin" "son of perdition" (2 Thess 2:3-4) is revealed as the beast of Revelation, a man possessed by Satan. This man will demand to be worshipped as God and will rule the world. This will be the start of a reign of terror against Israel and anyone who will not bow down to him or take his '666' mark (Rev 13:16-18). This is covered in greater detail in the section 'TR2. The Antichrist and the False Prophet.
At the end of the antichrist's reign, God has ordained for the glorious return of Jesus in the Second Coming and the setting up of the Lord' Millennial Kingdom reign on earth.
There will be key events that take place.
1. Israel and its mighty army will be attacked and overrun by the beast of Revelation and a global army filled with the rage of the antichrist spirit. Two thirds of Israel will perish in what the Bible refers to as "the time of Jacob's trouble" (Zec 13:8-9). Why will God permit this? Israel had rejected Jesus as Messiah when He first came some 2,000 years ago. A future time will come when the Lord will return and turn the hearts of His chosen one third to Him (Dan 12:1). Their eyes will be opened to realize that Jesus is in fact their long awaited Messiah Savior, which for Christians, is Christ' Second Coming.
2. At the end of the Great Tribulation, Christ will effortlessly crush all worldly rebellion against Him and Almighty God, and cast the antichrist beast and his wingman, the false prophet into the eternal damnation of the Lake of Fire (Rev 19:20).
3. At the same time, the Lord will send an angel to bind Satan in chains and cast him into the bottomless pit for a thousand years (Rev 20:1-3). The enemy’s power is curtailed and for the first time since the first man Adam, sinners can no longer excuse themselves by saying that, "the devil made me do it". These 1,000 years will coincide with the 1,000 year Millennial Kinngdom reign of Christ on earth from Jerusalem.
4. The Millennial Kingdom will need to be populated with righteous people. Where will they come from? For this, Jesus will summon before Him, the peoples of all the nations who are alive at that point and will judge them according to their works (Matt 25:32-33). He will set aside the sheep for His Kingdom reign on earth as its new citizens (Matt 16:27). The "sheep" people had courageously helped the fleeing Jews by hiding them and providing accommodation and medical care and even visiting the imprisoned Jews at the risk of their own lives (Matt 25:34-40). Their further reward is eternal salvation in the New Heaven and New Earth. (Matt 25:46)
5. For reasons opposite to the actions of the "sheep" people, the "goat" people (Matt 25:41-45) will be cast into the Lake of Fire to be eternally damned (Matt 25:46).
6. After this, the 1,000 year Millennial Kingdom reign of Christ on earth begins from His throne in modern day Jerusalem with the "sheep" as its joyful first citizens.
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