28-Questions Regarding the Millennium - RSV

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 "Let not your _hearts_ be _troubled_; believe in God, believe also in me. [2] In my _Father's_ house are many rooms; if it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? [3] And when I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to _myself_, that where I am 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 cry of _command_, with the archangel's call, and with the sound of the _trumpet_ of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first; [17] then we who are alive, who are left, shall 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 to come with his _angels_ in the glory of his _Father_, and then he will repay every man for what he has done.

4. Jesus Also Comes with His Angels and Brings Destruction on the Wicked.
2 Thessalonians 1:7-8 And to grant rest with us to you who are afflicted, when the Lord Jesus is _revealed_ from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire, [8] _inflicting_ _vengeance_ upon those who do not know God and upon 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 "And those slain by the LORD on that day shall extend from one end of the earth to the other. They shall not be _lamented_, or _gathered_, or buried; they shall be dung on the surface 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 lo, it was waste and void; and to the _heavens_, and they had no light. [24] I looked on the _mountains_, and lo, they were _quaking_, and all the hills moved to and fro. [25] I looked, and lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the air had fled. [26] I looked, and lo, the _fruitful_ land was a desert, and all its cities were laid in ruins before the LORD, before his _fierce_ anger. [27] For thus says the LORD, "The whole land shall be a _desolation_; yet I will not make a full end.

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 in his hand the key of the _bottomless_ pit and a great chain. [2] And he seized the dragon, that ancient _serpent_, 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 shall not be _remembered_ or come into mind.

Isaiah 66:22 "For as the new _heavens_ and the new earth which I will make shall remain before me, says the LORD; so shall your _descendants_ and your name remain.

2 Peter 3:13 But according to his promise we wait 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 had passed away, and the sea was no more. [2] And I saw the holy city, new _Jerusalem_, coming down out of heaven from God, _prepared_ as a bride adorned for her _husband_; [3] and I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Behold, the dwelling of God is with men. He will dwell with them, and they shall be his _people_, and God _himself_ will be with them; [4] he will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, _neither_ shall there be _mourning_ nor _crying_ nor pain any more, for the former things have passed away." [5] And he who sat upon the throne said, "Behold, I make all things new." Also he said, "Write this, for these words are _trustworthy_ and true."

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