28-Questions Regarding the Millennium - NIV

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 _hearts_ be _troubled_. Trust in God; trust also in me. [2] In my _Father's_ house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. [3] And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be _where_ I am.

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 come down from heaven, with a loud _command_, with the voice of the archangel and with the _trumpet_ call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. [17] After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord _forever_.

3. Jesus Will Come with His Angels and His Rewards.
Matthew 16:27 For the Son of Man is going to come in his _Father's_ glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person _according_ to what he has done.

4. Jesus Also Comes with His Angels and Brings Destruction on the Wicked.
2 Thessalonians 1:7-8 And give relief to you who are _troubled_, and to us as well. This will happen when the Lord Jesus is _revealed_ from heaven in blazing fire with his _powerful_ angels. [8] He will punish those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

5. Jeremiah Describes the Wicked at the End of the Earth.
Jeremiah 25:33 At that time those slain by the LORD will be everywhere--from one end of the earth to the other. They will not be _mourned_ or _gathered_ up or buried, but will be like refuse lying on the ground.

6. Another Description by Jeremiah of the Earth's Desolate Condition During the Millennium.
Jeremiah 4:23-27 I looked at the earth, and it was _formless_ and empty; and at the heavens, and their light was gone. [24] I looked at the _mountains_, and they were quaking; all the hills were swaying. [25] I looked, and there were no people; every bird in the sky had flown away. [26] I looked, and the _fruitful_ land was a desert; all its towns lay in ruins before the LORD, before his fierce anger. [27] This is what the LORD says: "The whole land will be ruined, though I will not _destroy_ it _completely_.

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 And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key to the Abyss and holding in his hand a great chain. [2] He seized the dragon, that _ancient_ _serpent_, who is the devil, or 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 "Behold, I will create new _heavens_ and a new earth. The former things will not be _remembered_, nor will they come to mind.

Isaiah 66:22 "As the new heavens and the new earth that I make will endure before me," _declares_ the LORD, "so will your name and _descendants_ endure.

2 Peter 3:13 But in keeping with his promise we are looking _forward_ to a new heaven and a new earth, the home of _righteousness_.

Revelation 21:1-5 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. [2] I saw the Holy City, the new _Jerusalem_, coming down out of heaven from God, _prepared_ as a bride beautifully _dressed_ for her _husband_. [3] And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Now the _dwelling_ of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God _himself_ will be with them and be their God. [4] He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or _mourning_ or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away." [5] He who was seated on the throne said, "I am making _everything_ new!" Then he said, "Write this down, for these words are _trustworthy_ and true."

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