Both the Old Testament and the New Testament speak of a thousand years after the end of the Tribulation where Jesus will reign, and we—His believers—will reign with Him. It’s called The Millennial Kingdom.
1 Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. 2 He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years; 3 and he cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal on him, so that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years were finished. But after these things he must be released for a little while. 4 And I saw thrones, and they sat on them and judgment was committed to them. Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. 5 But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. 6 Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ and shall reign with Him a thousand years (Revelation 20:1–6).
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But beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day (2 Peter 3:8).
The times we live in, our own history, was written 2,000 years ago. John, the beloved disciple wrote what he saw in a vision, and we call his writing Revelation. Planet Earth was corrupted then, in his day, as it is today, our day. The sin committed between the time of Noah’s flood and today with the Corona Virus is what accounts for all disasters, whether “natural” or “an act of God,” sin is responsible. Blessed is he who reads (the book of Revelation) and those who hear the words of this prophecy, (the book of Revelation) and keep those things which are written in it (the book of Revelation), for the time is near (Revelation 1:3). He (the beast) causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads (Revelation 13:16).
Years ago, I worked for a major, international bank in San Francisco. I was required to sit in on meetings concerning the executives of the bank as I was their event coordinator. In those days, banks had loads of money for entertaining their employees. In one meeting for all the vice presidents and other executives, the president of the bank informed us that they had been developing the means of implanting tiny discs in the hands of all employees and clients of the bank. The problem was the world was not ready for such means of identification. But the banks were. He felt it would take about twenty years to get the public ready. Actually, that speech was thirty years ago. Perhaps this Corona Virus is getting us ready. |
Marty
Delmon Writer
Evangelist Teacher Writing has been in my blood, so to speak, but when I surrendered my life to Jesus Christ and He told me to write, all my trepidations rolled away, and I began in earnest! After all, if God Almighty says it was His idea that I be a writer, who am I to stand in His way? My hope is that you not only like what I write, but that your life is moved by it, and that your party to Jesus and with Jesus turns your life into days of Heaven on Earth.
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