LOOKING FORWARD TO THE THOUSAND YEAR MILLENNIUM

05-07-23 This message may be viewed live streaming video at youtube.com or tabernacleofmoses.org commencing at 11:00 am today and repeated 24/7 thereafter. The video, audio, and study notes are archived.

 

FOR BELIEVERS, A THOUSAND YEARS OF PEACE AND JOY (advanced training, graduate school) AS FULLY EMPOWERED WITNESSES

(Rev 20:1-3) And I saw an angel [i.e., Jesus Christ] [1] 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.

1.    (Jude 1:9) Yet Michael the archangel [Gk: the chief angel], when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst [Gk: dared] not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee[for only the triune Godhead has the power to control Satan]

 

OUR ACTIVITIES AFTER THE FIRST RESURRECTION

(Rev 20:4-6) And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them [the “four and twenty elders” Rev 4:4], 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 [i.e., basic carnal attempts to destroy God’s Thoughts], and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads [in their thoughts], or in their hands [by their works]; 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 resurrectionBlessed 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 [as “kings and priests” Rev 1:6; 5:10]

1.    (Isa 11:1-9)  And there shall come forth a rod [of correction leading to order, i.e., Jesus Christ] out of the stem of Jesse [the father of David], and a Branch [believers: David and us through David (i.e., humans), and possibly four more branches of believers, i.e., the “four living creatures” of (Ezek 1:4-28), i.e., four aliens who may also be the “four beasts” of (Rev 4:6-11)] shall grow out of his roots: And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD; And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears: But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity [Heb: justice] [fairness] for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips [i.e., with the sword of the Word that he speaks] shall he slay the wicked. And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins. The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea [Hab 2:14]

 

AND THE ULTIMATE DEFEAT OF SATAN

(Rev 20:7-10) 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 [surrounded] the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city [Jerusalem]: and fire came down from God out of heaven [in the form of worldwide thermo-nuclear war, i.e., as “a consuming fire”], 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, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever. 

 

THE GREAT WHITE THRONE OF JUDGMENT

(Rev 20:11-15) And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away [from the presence of God]; and there was found no place for themAnd I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books [of works] 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 [1]

1.    (Matt 25:41) Then shall he [Jesus] say also unto them [unto the goats] on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels [i.e., the goats]

 

 

 

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