There is no coming millennium, we are in the millennium (it's not a literal thousand year time, but an age). The next age will be eternal.
Luke 17:21
Luke 17:21
New King James Version (NKJV)
21 nor will they say, ‘See here!’ or ‘See there!’[a] For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you.”
Ephesians 2:6
Ephesians 2:6
New King James Version (NKJV)
6 and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
Luke 17:21 huh?
Luk 17:20 Now when
He was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, He answered them and said, "The kingdom of God does not come with observation;
Luk 17:21 nor will they say, 'See here!' or 'See there!' For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you."
To whom is He speaking? The Pharisees. What did He really say?
New International Version
nor will people say, 'Here it is,' or 'There it is,' because the kingdom of God
is in your midst."
English Standard Version
nor will they say, ‘Look, here it is!’ or ‘There!’ for behold, the kingdom of God
is in the midst of you.”
New American Standard Bible
nor will they say, 'Look, here it is!' or, 'There it is!' For behold, the kingdom of God is in your midst."
Most translations have this correct. Here is a place where the KJV falls down. Why do I say this? Let's see, to whom was He speaking?
Luk 17:20 And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:
Was the Kingdom of God inside these Pharisees?
Mat 23:13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
Read Mat 23 and then decide if these Pharisees had the Kingdom of God inside them.
If you are sitting in a heavenly place right this moment, ruling with Christ...
Rev 2:26 And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations:
Rev 2:27 And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.
Rev 5:10 And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.
How about doing something about Syria? Maybe you can tame (Ras)Putin? How about the bloodshed in Africa? Perhaps you could deign to intervene in Iraq or Afghanistan?
Can't huh? That's because this is talking about a future time. If this is the best God can do to rule over men on the earth, He is a miserable failure. This is not His world currently...
2Co 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
This is not God's world and won't be until Jesus Christ returns...
Luk 19:11 And as they heard these things, he added and spake a parable, because he was nigh to Jerusalem, and because they thought that the kingdom of God should immediately appear.
Luk 19:12 He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.
Luk 19:13 And he called his ten servants, and delivered them ten pounds, and said unto them, Occupy till I come.
Oh and about that 1000 years...
Rev 20:4 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.
Rev 20:5 But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
If this is just metaphor, where do you stop spiritualizing away the clear statements of the Bible? Seems to me if you can spiritualize away part of it, why not all of it. It becomes meaninless.