Nothing in this post or any other post points to the kingdom of God reigning on the earth. We seek that kingdom and pray that it come on earth as it is in heaven, but it's in heaven right now and is coming in the future with the second coming when Christ will reign for 1,000 years on earth. We have seen glimpses of this kingdom demonstrated in power but not reigning over nations. Reigning over nations is far from having the gospel preached in all the world. Reigning over nations is when all nations come under your rule and authority ans judgment is executed under that rule. No such thing exists on the earth and the church does not represent any rule over nations. In order for the kingdom of God to be able to reign on the earth, Satan must be bound for that period of time unable to deceive the nations that the kingdom is reigning over. Then Satan will be loosed for a time at the end of the kingdom age.
satan isn't bound now.
and you think Jesus is going to sit on a throne smashing people.
when it's about God's Love and salvation of souls.
you never did say where the Plan B gentile church is during the Millennium.
Israel is ruling, right?
where'd the church go?
anyways.....more later (again)
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Dispensationalists see God as pursuing two distinct purposes throughout history, one related to an earthly goal and an earthly people (the Jews), the other to heavenly goals and a heavenly people (the church).Dispensationalists believe that in the Old Testament God promised the Jewish people an earthly kingdom ruled by Messiah ben David, and that when Christ came He offered this prophesied kingdom to the Jews. When the Jews of the time rejected Christ and the earthly kingdom, the promise was postponed, and the "mystery form" of the kingdom - the church - was established.
The church, according to dispensational doctrine, was unforeseen in the Old Testament and constitutes a "parenthesis" in God's plan for Israel. In the future, the distinction between Jew and Gentile will be reestablished and will continue throughout all eternity. The "parenthesis", or church age, will end at the rapture when Christ comes invisibly to take all believers (excepting OT saints) to heaven to celebrate the "marriage feast of the Lamb" with Christ for a period of seven years.God's program for the Jews then resumes with the tribulation, Antichrist, bowls of wrath, 144,000 Jews preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom, and Armageddon.
Then, the Second (third, if you count the preTrib rapture) Coming, the instantaneous conversion of the entire nation of Israel, the resurrection of the Tribulation and Old Testament saints, and the "sheep and goats" judgment. The "goats" will be cast into hell, the "sheep" and the believing Jews will enter the millennium in natural human bodies, marrying, reproducing, and dying. The "mystery church" and the resurrected Tribulation and Old Testament saints will live in the heavenly Jerusalem suspended above the earthly city. This millennium will be a time of great peace and prosperity, with Christ ruling on David's throne. After 1,000 yrs. Satan will be released from the chain with which he had been bound at the beginning of the millennium and many of the children born to the "sheep" and the Israelites will follow him in revolt against Christ.
The King will again destroy His enemies, followed by another resurrection of the righteous, another resurrection of the unrighteous, a final judgment, and at last the New Heavens and the New Earth.