The Millenial Rest

John wrote, "And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season" (Rev. 20:1-3).

Who is this "ANGEL"? Astronomically, Ophiuchus grabs hold of Serpens which is a "great chain" and binds Scorpio which is alternately the "serpent" and locks him in Crater, the "bottomless pit," using Cassiopeia which is alternately the "key." Historically, in Malachi, the Messiah is called the "ANGEL" or "MESSENGER of the Covenant" (Mal. 3:1) and in Revelation 1:18 we read that Jesus Christ has "the keys of the grave and of death." Therefore, Christ binds Satan just as the live GOAT is bound and carried "by the hand of a FIT MAN into the wilderness ... unto a land not inhabited" (Lev. 16:20-22; cp. Isa. 24:21-22) which is the bottomless pit (abyss). Yes, "Satan ... deceiveth the whole world" (Rev. 12:9).

Sunday is the first day of the week. Saturday is the seventh day of the week. To be consistent with this Millennial rest, Christians need to rest on Saturday rather than Sunday. Bible chronology indicates Adam and Even were created approximately 4000 B.C. Man has been given the first 6000 YEARS to do what he pleases. But the seventh period of 1000 YEARS is God's MILLENIUM. This teaching can be found in the Slavic version of the Book of Enoch 33:1-2 ; Talmud Sanhedrin 97a; Avodah Zarah 9a; Epistle of Barnabas 13:4 as well as Psalm 90:4, 2 Peter 3:8, Revelation 20:1-7 and Hebrews 4:1-11. The first SIX MONTHS of the sacred calendar contain only THREE holy days. But in the SEVENTH MONTH the remaining FOUR holy days all come together. This tells us that MAJOR EVENTS CRESCENDO in the MILLENIUM. SOLOMON, the prince of peace, in his wisdom, wealth and glory was a shadow of the MESSIAH to come. SIX STEPS (six thousand years) led to his THRONE (the millenium) (2 Chr.9:17-19). Both Solomon and Christ are wise, wealthy KINGS and SONS of DAVID who build a wonderful TEMPLE and create an era of PEACE. Solomon had 1000 wives from around the WORLD which typifies the true church, composed of Jewish Christians from around the WORLD, married to Christ. Jesus went to the WEDDING in Cana on the seventh day SABBATH. The first four days are found in John 1:19, 29, 35 and 43. On the fourth day he TAKES a TRIP, and is not seen again until the seventh day in chapter 2 (John 2:3). Yes, after 4000 YEARS, Christ TOOK A TRIP to earth, but we won't see him again till the end of 6000 YEARS when he has his WEDDING. Noah was 600 YEARS old when the FLOOD came (Gen.7:6). Then "in the 601st year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up ... and Noah removed the covering of the ark" (Gen.8:13 ). Christ said "There are some standing here, who shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom" (Matt.16:28). Then, "AFTER SIX DAYS Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John, his brother, and bringeth them up into an high MOUNTAIN (kingdom -- Dan.2:35,44-45) privately, and was TRANSFIGURED before them; and his face did shine like the sun, and his raiment was as white as the light. And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elijah talking with him" (Matt.17:1-3). Again, we read about JOASH the HEIR to the throne of Judah being "hidden in the house of the Eternal SIX YEARS ... And the SEVENTH YEAR Jehoiada sent and fetched the rulers over hundreds, with the captains and the guard, and brought them to him into the house of the Eternal, and made a covenant with them ... And he brought forth the king's son, and put the crown upon him" (2 Kings 11:3,4,12). Even with all this evidence, some have suggested that the Millenium is not literal but symbolic. However, the scale of a day for a year (Nu. 14:34; Ez. 4:6) only applies to the "seven times" in which it operates. With the close of that era, the necessity for concealment by use of a cypher disappears. This is a literal 1000-year Sabbath. Not forever in heaven playing harps. But 1000 years on earth (rev. 5:10) administering church and state affairs.

"And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years" (Rev. 20:4-6).

God said to Israel, "If ye will obey my voice ... ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests" (Ex. 19:5-6). The "saints shall judge the world" (1 Cor.6:2). Saints will be "kings and priests" and "reign on the earth" (Rev. 5:10). These saints are "a royal priesthood" (1 Pet. 2:9) The twelve apostles will sit on twelve thrones (Matt. 19:28). Here we see that "he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it" (Matt. 10:39). "If we suffer, we shall also reign with him" (2 Tim. 2:12). Verse 5 should have parentheses around it from "But" to "finished."

There are two resurrections. Those who qualify will be resurrected to immortal life at the end of this 6000 YEARS (1 Cor.15:23). This is "a better resurrection" (Heb. 11:35) -- "the resurrection of the just" (Luke 14:14). "For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God" (1 Pet.4:17; Rom.8:14). Then the "saints shall judge the world" for 1000 years (1 Cor.6:2). ALL THE REST of humanity who have lived and died without ever knowing the plan of salvation (Matt.10:14-15; 11:21-25; 12:41-42) will be resurrected back to physical life (Ez.37:1-14) AFTER the Millenium (Rev.20:5; Isa. 65:20). They will also be "JUDGED every man according to their works" (Rev.20:13) and then resurrected or destroyed (Rev.20:15). As Christ said, "the hour is coming, in which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, And shall come forth: they that have done good, unto THE RESURRECTION of LIFE (the first resurrection to immortality); and they that have done evil, unto THE RESURRECTION of DAMNATION (lit. "judgment") (the resurrection to mortality)" (John 5:28-29). In Revelation 20:4-6 we read that John "saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and who had not worshipped the beast ... and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. (But the REST OF THE DEAD lived not again until the THOUSAND YEARS WERE FINISHED.) This is the FIRST RESURRECTION. Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the FIRST RESURRECTION; on such the second death hath no power." Again we see TWO RESURRECTIONS one thousand years apart. The first to IMMORTALITY and the second to MORTALITY. "And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to EVERLASTING LIFE (first resurrection after 6000 years) and some to shame and EVERLASTING CONTEMPT" (second resurrection after 7000 years)" (Dan.12:2). Yes, "in Christ shall all be made alive; But every man in his own order: Christ the first fruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming (FIRST RESURRECTION to IMMORTALITY). Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom of God, even the Father, when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power (RESURRECTION to MORTALITY). For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death" (1 Cor.15:22-26). Jesus the Messiah "shall judge the quick (living) and the dead at his appearing (FIRST RESURRECTION to IMMORTALITY) and his kingdom" (SECOND RESURRECTION to MORTALITY) (2 Tim.4:1). "For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that everyone may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad."

In the Millenium, humans will live out a full life of "an hundred years" before dying (Isa.65:20). War will end (Isa. 2:4). "All shall know the Lord, from the least even to the greatest" (Jer. 31:34). Carnivorous and poisonous animals (as well as men) will become vegetarians and harmless (Isa. 11:6-9; 65:25) just as originally at creation (Gen. 1:29-31) and before the flood (Gen. 9:3). Whenever men "turn to the right hand" or "turn to the left" they will "hear a word behind" them saying "This is the way, walk ye in it" (Isa. 30:21).

"And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them. And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are (were cast), and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever. And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire" (Rev. 20:7-15).

Verse 10 should be translated "were cast" not "are" since this is now 1000 years later. Astronomically, the "lake of fire" is Ara (the altar).

Who sits on the "WHITE THRONE"? God has "appointed a day, in which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man (Jesus Christ) whom he hath ordained" (Acts 17:31). "In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ" (Rom. 2:16). "The Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son" (John 5:22). Therefore, Jesus the Son, not God the Father, sits in that "white throne."

Which "BOOKS" are opened? The "books" are opened to people's understanding (Isa. 25:7). They are "the Book of the Law" (John 5:45), the book of the Bible (John 12:48), the "Book of Remembrance" in which are written the deeds of the good and the wicked (Isa. 65:6; Ps. 56:3; Mal. 3:16), and the "Book of Life" (Ex. 32:32-33; Dan. 12:1; Luke 10:20). "He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him; the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day" (John 12:48). True Christians do not come before this throne. They already have eternal life. With immortality, the dying process is stopped (v.14). "Hell" in verse 14 is Greek "hades" referring to the grave. "The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death" (1 Cor. 15:26).

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