so,Linda, is that what the millennium kingdom is for, to fulfill the land promise? because what other promise is there? i read that david is going to be a king and there will be gentile kings and normal bodies and resurrected bodies, which makes no sense (to me). like, are you saying that for the covenant with abrham to be fulfilled there needs to be a temple again and as someone else wrote memorial ordinacnes from the covenant with moses?
because i don't see how you have memorial ordinaces without it being the laws of moses again. just tell me straight - does the bible say after the church age there is going to be a kingdom like israel had in the old testament with all the things from the law? which means we are going back to the old covenant??? please just keep it simple for me. tell me where i can read it in the new testament. ty. plaese
May I try to answer your questions? It is one of my favorite subjects.
I believe in letting Scripture itself answer as much as possible, so I will keep my comments brief.
The error most Christian assume to be truth, is that GOD is finished with Israel the Nation.
Luke 1:32-33 (NASB)
[SUP]
32 [/SUP] "He will be great and will be called
the Son of the Most High; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David;
[SUP]
33 [/SUP] and
He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and His kingdom will have no end."
What NATION are David and Jacob associated with? So then, what Nation do you suppose the Lord GOD is giving CHRIST to reign over for a 1000 years?
Revelation 20:2-4 (NKJV)
[SUP]
2 [/SUP] He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is
the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years;
[SUP]
3 [/SUP] and he cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal on him, so that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years were finished. But after these things he must be released for a little while.
[SUP]
4 [/SUP] And
I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them.
(There Is the Bride of Christ made up of genuine Believers of the O.T. and N.T.) Then
I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God,
(There are those who turned to believe in Jesus Christ after He removed the Church from the Earth during the Great Tribulation.) who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received
his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
So they are ALL resurrected to reign with HIM as priests (teachers of the people) for a Thousand Years, not in a mortal body, but a glorified body like CHRIST's. And what about the rest of the unbelievers left on earth at the time of CHRIST's Return to reign on the Throne of David?
Revelation 19:21 (NIV)
[SUP]
21 [/SUP]
The rest of them were killed with the sword that came out of the mouth of the rider on the horse, and all the birds gorged themselves on their flesh.
Christ is the Rider of the White Horse coming down out of Heaven, if you read that whole Chapter you will see that. The sword that came out of His mouth is symbolism for HIS WORD.
Doesn't that leave NO MORTALS LEFT AT ALL? NO, because He sealed from harm 100,000 Mortals from Israel.
Revelation 7:2-12 (NKJV)
[SUP]
2 [/SUP] Then I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God. And he cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was granted to harm the earth and the sea,
[SUP]
3 [/SUP] saying, "Do not harm the earth, the sea, or the trees till we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads."
[SUP]
4 [/SUP] And I heard the number of those who were sealed.
One hundred and forty-four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel were sealed:
[SUP]
5 [/SUP] of the tribe of Judah twelve thousand
were sealed;
of the tribe of Reuben twelve thousand
were sealed;
of the tribe of Gad twelve thousand
were sealed;
[SUP]
6 [/SUP] of the tribe of Asher twelve thousand
were sealed;
of the tribe of Naphtali twelve thousand
were sealed;
of the tribe of Manasseh twelve thousand
were sealed;
[SUP]
7 [/SUP] of the tribe of Simeon twelve thousand
were sealed;
of the tribe of Levi twelve thousand
were sealed;
of the tribe of Issachar twelve thousand
were sealed;
[SUP]
8 [/SUP] of the tribe of Zebulun twelve thousand
were sealed;
of the tribe of Joseph twelve thousand
were sealed;
of the tribe of Benjamin twelve thousand
were sealed.
(These are the only mortals sealed to enter the KINGDOM of Christ to repopulate the the earth. And ALL OF THEM are from the Nation ISRAEL.)
[SUP]
9 [/SUP] After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude
(The Bride of Christ the Church made up of true believers of all time prior to the start of HIS KINGDOM.) which no one could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palm branches in their hands,
[SUP]
10 [/SUP] and crying out with a loud voice, saying, "Salvation
belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!"
[SUP]
11 [/SUP] All the angels stood around the throne and the elders and the four living creatures, and fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God,
[SUP]
12 [/SUP] saying: "Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom, Thanksgiving and honor and power and might,
Be to our God forever and ever. Amen."
Why do I say the O.T. saints are part of the Bride?
True O.T. saints are those who Believed GOD and were willing to submit to Messiah as LORD.
True N.T. saints are those who Believed GOD and were willing to submit to Messiah as LORD.
Genesis 17:7-8 (ASV)
[SUP]
7 [/SUP] And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee throughout their generations for an
everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee and to thy seed after thee.
[SUP]
8 [/SUP] And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for
an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
Remember GOD does not lie.
John 1:12-13 (ASV)
[SUP]
12 [/SUP] But
as many as received him, to them gave he the right to become children of God,
even to them that believe on his name:
[SUP]
13 [/SUP] who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
Genesis 17:19 (ESV)
[SUP]
19 [/SUP] God said, “No, but Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as
an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him.
1 Chronicles 16:17-18 (ESV)
[SUP]
17 [/SUP] which he confirmed to Jacob as a statute,
to Israel as an everlasting covenant,
[SUP]
18 [/SUP] saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan, as your portion for an inheritance.”
So GOD KEEPS His Promise to the Remnant of Israel, thus the 144,000 will enter the KINGDOM in their mortal bodies to repopulate the Earth after the Great Tribulation. And it will be those children born of the 144,000, that we will be teaching for a Thousand Years. There was a pause between the 69th Week of Daniel and the 70th week of Daniel, that we call the Church Age.
Daniel 9:24-27 (HCSB)
[SUP]
24 [/SUP] Seventy weeks are decreed about your people and your holy city— to bring the rebellion to an end, to put a stop to sin, to wipe away iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy place.
[SUP]
25 [/SUP] Know and understand this: From the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince will be seven weeks and 62 weeks. It will be rebuilt with a plaza and a moat, but in difficult times.
[SUP]
26 [/SUP] After those 62 weeks the Messiah will be cut off and will have nothing. The people of the coming prince will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come with a flood, and until the end there will be war; desolations are decreed.
[SUP]
27 [/SUP] He will make a firm covenant with many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put a stop to sacrifice and offering. And the abomination of desolation will be on a wing of the temple until the decreed destruction is poured out on the desolator.”