THE END TIMES - Part 2
BELIEVERS, DEAD AND ALIVE, ARE RAISED FOR JUDGMENT - THIS IS THE HARVEST
Matt 13:37-43 1Cor15:12-22
1Cor 15:35-58 1Thes 4:13-18 1Thes 5:6 1Thes 5:10 Rev 7:9-17
Rev 14:14-20
At the End of the Age God will Judge all those who live upon the Earth.
He will deal with the Church first (the two harvests) and then he will deal with
the Nations (Day of the Lord / Armageddon).
The Harvest is composed of True and False believers in the Church.
The True believers are the Wheat and will be harvested by One Like the Son
of Man at the End of the Age. The dead in Christ will also be raised at
this time (the First Resurrection).
The False believers are the Weeds (Tares) and will be harvested by the
Angel in charge of the fire at the same time the believers are Redeemed from the
Earth.
The Nations who are left on Earth to suffer God's Wrath (while the saints
attend the Wedding feast), will be gathered before Christ when he returns on the
Day of the Lord. The Nations will be divided into the Sheep (who were kind
to God's people) and the Goats (who persecuted God's people).
The Goats will be sent to eternal punishment and the Sheep will receive
the reward that was prepared for them before the creation of the World.
THE JUDGMENT SEAT OF CHRIST - THE BELIEVERS ARE JUDGED FOR WHAT THEY HAVE DONE WHILST IN THE BODY OF CHRIST
Rom 14:10 2Cor 5:10 Rev 11:15-19
THE BELIEVERS ARE REWARDED ACCORDING TO WHAT THEY HAVE DONE WHILE IN THE BODY
Psa 62:12 Prov 19:17 Mat 6:4 Mat 6:6 Mat 6:18 Matt 10:40-2 Mat 16:27 Matt 25:14-30 Matt 25:31-46 Mark 9:41-2 Luke 6:20-38 Luke 19:12-27 1Cor 3:9-15 2Cor 5:10 Eph 6:8 Col 3:23-4 Heb 11:26 Rev 22:12
THE MILLENNIUM - THE BELIEVERS REIGN WITH CHRIST
1Cor 15:25 Rev 20:2 Rev 20:3 Rev 20:4 Rev 20:5 Rev 20:6 Rev 20:7
THE GREAT WHITE THRONE
Rev 20:11-15
See Judgment of the Non Believers at the Great White Throne
The believers are called up to be with Christ in the clouds at the beginning of the Millennium (the end of the Great Tribulation). This is the first resurrection of the dead. Christ judges the believers (the Judgment seat of Christ) for the things that they have done in the body.
The Nations will be gathered before Christ when he returns. They will be divided into the Sheep (who were kind to God's people) and the Goats (who persecuted God's people). The Goats will go to eternal punishment and the Sheep will receive the reward that was prepared for them before the creation of the World. The Sheep and the Goats are the non believers in the Nations who are alive when Christ returns in power on the Great and Dreadful Day of the Lord.
The dead non believers are raised at the end of the Millennium to be judged at the Great White Throne. This is the second resurrection of the dead.
THOSE
DESTINED FOR HELL ARE RAISED FOR JUDGMENT
Mat 5:22 2 Pet 2:4
2 Pet 2:9-22
Rev 20:7-15
Mat 5:22 Mat 18:9 Mark 9:43 Rev 20:14 Rev 20:15
THE
NEW HEAVEN, THE NEW EARTH AND THE NEW JERUSALEM
At the End of the Millennium, Christ will hand the
kingdom back over to the Father. The Millennium is therefore the only way that
this prophesy can be fulfilled if Christ is to reign at his coming and the
believers are to reign with him. The Millennium is the period for which
the Believers are differentially rewarded according to what they have done
whilst in the body. People who preach amillennialism usually don't preach
about the reward of believers and Christ handing things back over to the father
once the devil has been thrown into the lake of fire.
2Peter 3:8 says that a thousand years are like a day to the
Lord. The old testament has many types and patterns that are seen in the
New Testament. God created the world in 6 days and rested on the 7th. We
are now 6000 years approximately since Adam. It may be that Christ will
reign in the Seventh millennium, after all, the Son of man is Lord of the
Sabbath (Matt 12:8 Mark 2:28 Luke 6:5)
Isa 65:17 Isa 66:22 1Cor 15:24-8 2Pet 3:13
Rev 3:12 Rev 21:1 Rev 21:2