"THE TIME OF THE DEAD THAT THEY SHOULD BE JUDGED, BOTH SMALL AND GREAT" This is critical that we see this because we are being told the seventh trumpet is AFTER THE 1,000 YEARS OF REVELATION 20. Rev 20: 12, "I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God..." This can only be true in the amillennial position of eschatology and appears to disprove premillennialism.
Rev 11 finishes with, "AND THAT YOU SHOULD REWARD YOUR SERVANTS THE PROPHETS AND THE SAINTS" This is critical again because we are told it happens AFTER THE 1,000 YEAR REIGN ON THE SAME DAY THE DEAD ARE JUDGED. All of this is contained in Rev 11: 15-19.
There is no 1,000 year reign of Christ on earth according to Revelation 11: 15-19. Premillennialism is proven false by Scripture.
I wanted to make another important observation about Rev 11: 18 and its description of what happens at the seventh trumpet.
The premillennialist might attempt to say that this verse is only a judgment of the righteous in order to preserve premillennialism. The Scripture in Rev 11: 18 refutes this. I will breakdown Rev 11: 18 as briefly and clearly as I can and will show why this judgment cannot be the righteous only.
Rev 11: 18 says, "
The nations were angry, and Your wrath has come,
And the time of the dead, that they should be judged,
And that You should reward Your servants the prophets and the saints,
And those who fear Your name, small and great,
And should destroy those who destroy the earth."
Rev 11: 18 is given to us in three parts.
The first part is "AND THE TIME OF THE DEAD, that they should be judged" So we must ask ourselves, who are the dead? Obviously it is everyone who has ever lived and died on this planet. Now we must ask this question...
Are the dead only the righteous? Or just the unrighteous? Of course not. It is made up of both good and bad, righteous and unrighteous, just and unjust people.
So the first part of Rev 11: 18 "AND THE TIME OF THE DEAD, that they should be judged" can only mean EVERYONE. THE JUST AND UNJUST. The second and third parts of Rev 11: 18 confirm this.
The second part of Rev 11: 18 describes the judgment of the righteous. Their judgment is favorable and so they receive rewards.
The third part of Rev 11: 18 describes the judgment of the unrighteous. Their judgment is unfavorable and they are destroyed.
So the Scripture refutes any limiting of this judgment to only the righteous.
The premillennialist may still try and insist that this is a judgment of the righteous only by using one other fallacious argument. The argument goes like this...
The righteous are judged at His return and given rewards but the last part of Rev 11: 18 where it says, "And should destroy those who destroy the earth." just means wicked people that are living at the time will die at His return.
This argument is refuted by Revelation 11: 18 where it says, "THE TIME OF THE DEAD, THAT THEY SHOULD BE JUDGED". If wicked people who are ALIVE at His return are killed that is not a "JUDGMENT OF THE DEAD" but of the living.
Revelation 11: 15-19 and especially verse 18 disprove a 1,000 year reign of Christ on earth. This seventh trumpet event can only happen AFTER THE 1,000 YEARS of Rev 20 are over and happens at the same time as the Great White Throne judgment as my original post has shown.
