THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM - APPEARING HERE SOON – PART B
In the last teaching we covered key events leading up to the establishment of the Millennial Kingdom. Remember, the false Messiah or anti-Christ, will be chosen
by the 10 region states that will be formed from an amalgam of the
European Union (EU) or the Confederacy of Islamic States, or a combination of them both. This coming world dictator, the anti-Messiah, will be the one who implements the one world government for the New World Order, or the New World Governance.
The 10 region states that will be comprised of sub-governments in
Europe, the Middle East, and Western Asia will ultimately have the
political clout to control the Mediterranean. The composite of these 10
region states will be from the Middle East, Europe, Western Asia and
North Africa. The
final leader of this confederacy will overthrow three (3) of the 10
regions by a political, military and governmental takeover.
Today, in addition to disease and famine issues, the leaders of the dominant nations are concerned with three (3) primary factors:
1. Attaining peace among nations and ethnic groups;
2. Guaranteeing the flow of oil; and,
3. Stopping terrorism and conflict in the Middle East (especially between Israel and the Palestinians).
The CHIEF bargaining factor will be the city of Jerusalem!
Any peace settlements between Israel and the Palestinians you see now
or in the future are, and will be, only temporary on the part of the
Palestinians: with the motive to place themselves in an advantageous
position to later wage war on Israel. This has to be, because the
radical Palestinian groups will never agree to a permanent settlement.
The new world leader of the Mediterranean Confederacy (the New
World Governance) will seek world wide recognition by coordinating the
grand peace settlement between Israel and her enemies. However, the supposedly final peace will be the same: it is designed to deceive the Jews and to be broken.
Remember ... the KEY to getting the Jews to sign a treaty of peace with
the Palestinians and the Arab nations is a COVENANT for seven years,
which will most likely allow the Jews to build their temple on or near
the Holy Mount.
In the middle of the seven years, 42 months before Messiah returns to earth to establish His kingdom, the covenant is broken by the false messiah: the world dictator.
The temple will be desecrated by this dictator like Daniel foretold
2,600 years ago and Jesus foretold 2,000 years ago. (Daniel 9:27;
Matthew 24:21; Revelation 13:3-8)
A few months previous to Messiah’s second appearance to earth there will have been millions of people killed in fighting and terrorism.
Jerusalem will be under attack, with plunder happening from house to
house, women being raped, and half the city of Jerusalem going into
captivity. (Zechariah 14:2) It will be a time of trouble worse than the
Nazi holocaust. (Jeremiah 30:5-6) The Jews will actually start
experiencing extreme persecution after the world dictator takes over
control: 42 months before Messiah returns.
There will be NO permanent peace until the Prince of Peace, Messiah
Yeshua, returns and establishes His Kingdom: the Millennial Kingdom.
The spirits of demons, performing signs and counterfeit miracles (lying
wonders) will be sent out by Satan to the leaders of the whole world
and gather them to the great day of El Shaddai (God Almighty) at Mount
Megiddo (Armageddon). Just previous to this, the Euphrates River in Iraq is dried up, to make passage for military forces from the east to attack Israel. (Revelation 16:12-14)
The whole world will be amazed by the shaking of the earth, an
earthquake so great that every island will move away and mountains will
disappear. God will pour out the fierceness of His wrath upon Babylon.
(Revelation 16:17-21)
The false messiah and the leaders of the nations, with their armies,
will gather together to fight against God’s Messiah, Yeshua ha Meshiach
(Jesus the Christ). The
leaders of the world will be deceived by the counterfeit miracles of
the demons, and they will be influenced to do only what an idiot would
even think about doing: fighting against the Lord!
At this time, Heaven is opened, and the King of Kings and Lord of Lords
comes back to earth to fight against His enemies. He takes complete
control.
The Beast (the false messiah) and his false prophet (the
religious leader of the world) are cast alive into the Lake of Fire and
the rest of the rebels are destroyed by the command issued by the LORD
(which is symbolically represented by the sword out of His mouth). The
dragon, the serpent of old - who is known as the Devil, or Satan - is then bound for 1,000 years in the bottomless pit,
and shut up with a seal upon him, so that he should deceive the nations
no more until the 1,000 years are finished. (Revelation 19:11 through
20:3)
After this, the Messiah begins to set up His earthly kingdom.
What is it like? The kingdom of God is BOTH a literal and a spiritual
kingdom. Messiah Yeshua will rule during the Millennium and
His rulership will extend into eternity after the Millennium. [Editor’s
note: We have capitalized the word Millennium in our writing to
identify it as the scriptural reign of Messiah and to honor it as the
Kingdom dynasty on Planet Earth.]
The Millennium achieves three 3) primary purposes:
1. Peace and righteousness upon earth.
“He shall judge between the nations, and rebuke many people; they shall
beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks.
Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn
war anymore.” (Tanakh: Isaiah 2:4)
2. Establishment of Messiah’s Kingdom.
“When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory.” (Matthew 25:31)
3. Fulfills God’s promises to Abraham, to David, and to Israel.
Abraham’s descendants would be a great nation in a literal land (Torah:
Genesis 15:18-21) and David’s throne would be established forever. (2
Samuel 7:16)
The Millennial Kingdom will be a WONDERFUL place to LIVE and WORK.
God created the Garden of Eden to be such a place, but then sin
entered. That’s why Yeshua came to earth the FIRST TIME: to pay for our
sins and redeem us from the curse. Next, He will came back the SECOND
TIME to redeem the planet and rule from Jerusalem. Henry Thiessen in
his book Lectures in Theology lists seven (7) reasons for the SECOND APPEARANCE of Messiah to Planet Earth.
1. So we can see Him like He is.
“Yes, dear friends, we are already God’s children, and we can’t
even imagine what we will be like when Christ returns. But we do know
that when He comes we will be like Him, for we will see Him as He
really is.” (1 John 3:2 NLT)
2. To judge the anti-Messiah (the coming world dictator) and his false prophet and their armies.
“Then I saw the beast gathering the kings of the earth and their
armies in order to fight against the one sitting on the horse and his
army. And the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet ...
Both the beast and his false prophet were thrown alive into the lake of
fire that burns with sulfur.” (Revelation 19:19-20 - NLT)
3. To bind Satan.
“Then I saw an angel come down from heaven with the key to the
bottomless pit and a heavy chain in his hand. He seized the dragon -
that old serpent, the Devil, Satan - and bound him in chains for a
thousand years. The angel threw him into the bottomless pit, which he
then shut and locked so Satan could not deceive the nations anymore
until the thousand years were finished.” (Revelation 20:1-3 - NLT)
4. To deliver Israel.
Even though Yeshua came to earth the first time for His own people, the
people of Israel, they rejected Him. But God has NOT rejected His
people. Rabbi Shaul (Apostle Paul) tells us that when Messiah Yeshua
comes back again (the SECOND time), the Jews will accept Him.
“Did God’s people stumble and fall beyond recovery? Of course not! His
purpose was to make His salvation available to the goyim [the
Gentiles], and then the Jews would be jealous and want it for
themselves. Now if the Gentiles were enriched because the Jews turned
down God’s offer of salvation, think how much greater a blessing the
world will share when the Jews finally accept it.” (Romans 11:11-12 - NLT)
5. To judge the nations of the living.
After Messiah has judged the anti-Christ and his followers, He will
then gather all the nations before Him for judgment. The LIVING nations
will be judged BEFORE the Millennium. (Matthew 25:31-46) All of the DEAD will be judged in the skies at the “great white throne” AFTER the Millennium. (Revelation 20:11-15)
6. To deliver and bless creation.
The Planet Earth will be a mess after the 42 months of the “time of Jacob’s trouble” (Jeremiah 30:6), also known as “the great tribulation.” (Matthew 24:21-22) King Yeshua will remove the curse of sin from the earth and restore creation to its original glory.
“The creation itself will also be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.” (Romans 8:21)
7. To set up His kingdom.
The Millennium is just ONE PART of the Kingdom of God. The prophets
wrote about this kingdom in the Tanakh (the Old Testament) and also
about the Messiah who would be King.
“For a child is born, a son is given to us. And the government will
rest on His shoulders. These will be His royal titles: Wonderful,
Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. His ever
expanding, peaceful government will never end. He will rule forever
with fairness and justice from the throne of His ancestor David. The
passionate commitment of the Lord Almighty will guarantee this.” (Isaiah 9:6-7 - NLT)
Messiah Yeshua will literally sit on David’s throne in the city of Jerusalem!
Listed below are some of the benefits of living in the Kingdom. There will be:
No sickness or disease.
“And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.” (Isaiah 33:24)
“Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the
deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and
the tongue of the dumb shall sing: for in the wilderness shall waters
break out, and streams in the desert.” (saiah 35:5-6)
“Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun,
and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven
days.” In the day that the Lord binds up the bruise of His people and
heals the stroke of their wound.” (Isaiah 30:26)
After six millennia of being under the curse of sin, the entire Planet
Earth will be healed. Notice ... it is talking about LIGHT in this
scripture ... NOT heat! And it talks about bruises and wounds being
healed. Scientific research has proven that the ultraviolet rays of
ordinary light produce healing!
No war.
“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.” (Isaiah 11:9)
“He shall judge between the nations, and rebuke many people; they shall
beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks.
Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn
war anymore.” (Isaiah 2:4)
No poverty.
“And I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.” (Zechariah 8:12)
No sadness.
“For behold, I create Jerusalem as a rejoicing, and her people a joy. I
will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people; the voice of weeping
shall no longer be heard in her, nor the voice of crying.” (Isaiah 65:18-19)
No inclement weather.
“Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun,
and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven
days.” (Isaiah 30:26)
“ ... the ground shall give her increase and the heavens shall give their dew.” (Zechariah 8:12)
No bondage, witchcraft, magic or Satanic influence.
“And He will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast
over all people, and the vail that is spread over the nations. He will
swallow up death in victory; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from
off all the faces; and the rebuke of His people shall He take away from
off all the earth: for the Lord has spoken it.” (Isaiah 25:7-8)