28-Questions Regarding the Millennium - NAS

1. When Jesus Returns, Won't He Establish His Kingdom on Earth for 1000 Years? I Have Always Thought There Would Be People Alive During the 1000 Years of Peace on Earth During the Millennium.

Jesus Promised to Prepare a Place for Us.

John 14:1-3 "Do not let your heart be _troubled_; believe in God, believe also in Me. [2] "In My _Father's_ house are many _dwelling_ places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. [3] "If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and _receive_ you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also.

2. The Saved Are Caught up to Jesus in the Sky at His Second Coming.
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 For the Lord _Himself_ will _descend_ from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the _trumpet_ of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. [17] Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall _always_ be with the Lord.

3. Jesus Will Come with His Angels and His Rewards.
Matthew 16:27 "For the Son of Man is going to come in the glory of His Father with His _angels_, and WILL THEN REPAY EVERY MAN _ACCORDING_ TO HIS DEEDS.

4. Jesus Also Comes with His Angels and Brings Destruction on the Wicked.
2 Thessalonians 1:7-8 And to give relief to you who are afflicted and to us as well when the Lord Jesus will be _revealed_ from heaven with His mighty angels in flaming fire, [8] _dealing_ out _retribution_ to those who do not know God and to those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

5. Jeremiah Describes the Wicked at the End of the Earth.
Jeremiah 25:33 "Those slain by the LORD on that day will be from one end of the earth to the other. They will not be _lamented_, _gathered_ or buried; they will be like dung on the face of the ground.

6. Another Description by Jeremiah of the Earth's Desolate Condition During the Millennium.
Jeremiah 4:23-27 I looked on the earth, and behold, it was formless and void; And to the heavens, and they had no light. [24] I looked on the _mountains_, and behold, they were quaking, And all the hills moved to and fro. [25] I looked, and behold, there was no man, And all the birds of the heavens had fled. [26] I looked, and behold, the _fruitful_ land was a _wilderness_, And all its cities were pulled down Before the LORD, before His fierce anger. [27] For thus says the LORD, "The whole land shall be a _desolation_, Yet I will not execute a _complete_ _destruction_.

7. Revelation Describes Satan Being Bound in the Bottomless Pit for 1000 Years. This Binding of Satan Is with a Chain of Circumstances.
Revelation 20:1-2 Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. [2] And he laid hold of the _dragon_, the _serpent_ of old, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a _thousand_ years;

The "bottomless pit, " or abyss, comes from the Greek word abussos and is the same word in the Hebrew Old Testament used for "without form and void. In Genesis 1:2, when God spoke the world into existence, it was without form and void, a darkened, desolate abyss of nothingness until God immediately separated the dry land, and then created a new world full of life.

 8. Once Again, When God Is Ready, Sin Will Be Finally and Completely Destroyed. Out of the Abyss of the Old World, God Will Create a Marvelously Beautiful New World.
Isaiah 65:17 "For behold, I create new _heavens_ and a new earth; And the former things will not be _remembered_ or come to mind.

Isaiah 66:22 "For just as the new heavens and the new earth Which I make will endure before Me," _declares_ the LORD, "So your _offspring_ and your name will endure.

2 Peter 3:13 But according to His promise we are looking for new _heavens_ and a new earth, in which _righteousness_ dwells.

Revelation 21:1-5 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and there is no longer any sea. [2] And I saw the holy city, new _Jerusalem_, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her _husband_. [3] And I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, "Behold, the _tabernacle_ of God is among men, and He will dwell among them, and they shall be His _people_, and God _Himself_ will be among them, [4] and He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be any death; there will no longer be any _mourning_, or _crying_, or pain; the first things have passed away." [5] And He who sits on the throne said, "Behold, I am _making_ all things new." And He said, "Write, for these words are _faithful_ and true."

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