To PlainWord, OH, OK, LOL, I now see, you are A-Mill. NO!, YES?
I, mock you, sorry, but seriously, I can not respect a A-mill or no- mill. position, the Bible is so clear on the 1,000 yr. reign of Jesus on this present earth. Love Hoffco
Actually my view is different. It has taken me many years of studying and reconciling scripture to come to my view. I may not be 100% right but it is the only view that seems to fit everything. Here it is:
I believe Christ returns for a 1,000 year reign after Satan's Great Tribulation. He defeats the BEAST and False religion. Christ slays 1/3 of the world (wicked part). All earthly governments are overthrown. Satanic influence is removed. Christ reigns the nations with a rod of iron under a new global Christ ordered government. All nations must come and pay homage to the Lord each year in Jerusalem. Nations that disobey, will be punished by having rain (thus food and water) withheld.
Christ returns with the Martyrs of the Tribulation and they live and reign with Him. This is the first resurrection. When Christ returns His angels are sent forth to gather the ELECT from the four corners of earth. Anybody can call on the name of the Lord even up to His coming, and be saved. The Lord destroys all evil at Armageddon and establishes His throne in Jerusalem.
The earth undergoes a transformation back to the Garden of Eden (original creation) state at the coming of the Lord. I believe something dramatic happens such as a pole shift/complete rotation or flip of the earth. This causes massive earthquakes and the sky to recede as a scroll because the atmosphere is trying to keep up. The pre-flood canopy is restored blocking aging UV rays. The 1,000 years will be peaceful and people will live to a very old and ripe age as it was pre Flood. There will be immortals and mortals on earth.
Those in heaven who were not martyred during the Tribulation remain in heaven (at rest) with God the Father for the 1,000 years which to them will seem very short, like a day. When the 1,000 earth years are up, Satan is set loose to again deceive the nations. Satan and His followers surround the Saints and Jerusalem. God the Father intervenes and just melts them on the spot.
God the Father returns to earth with the rest of the souls in heaven for the main resurrection. Those still alive in mortal bodies will be caught up to meet the Father in the "air" (1 Thes 4:13-17). These mortals will be changed in a twinkling of an eye (1 Cor 15:50-52). Now that everyone is immortal, the earth will be dissolved with fervent heat. The wicked are cast into the Lake of Fire for eternity. The New Jerusalem, the Bride of Christ will descend to the new earth. Believers enter the eternal state. There will be no more sin, no more tears. There will be no more debate on Christian Chat about what is to come
. Then you and I get to hold VCO in a headlock and give him a nookie.