Did you see what I wrote earlier?
I would like your critique where I am missing it.
I split the reapers between rev 14:16 and rev 14: 17 , Jesus reaping 14:16 and death 14:17
Hello again, Rev316,
Sorry that I did not comment on that subject in the previous post. The first angel that swings his sickle over the earth is a harvest. However, what type of harvest it is and who is being harvested is not revealed. What we can deduce from this, is that it appears to be neutral, in that it doesn't tell us whether it is a bad harvest, as is the following harvest, or a good harvest. It just says "and the earth was harvested."
The second one is also called a harvest or reaping, but it seems to have to do with Armageddon, which takes place when the Lord returns to the earth to end the age, where beast and the kings of the earth are gathered together to wage war against Him who sits on the horse and His army (Rev.19:19). We also know that it is a harvest of wrath of living people because of the mention of the Lord trampling the winepress of God's wrath and the mention of blood as high as the horses bridle. However, that reaping cannot have anything to do with the gathering of the church, because that harvest takes place well into God's wrath, which again we are not appointed to suffer. The church will not be on the earth during the time when these plagues of wrath are taking place. It is for the wicked, those who have rejected Christ, the arrogant, the proud, the sexually immoral, etc.
I have a question about the millennial reign though. Who gets ruled and reigned over? ("Lesser" Christians [carnal, missing rewards] or rule over the remnant of the earth?
In answer to this, we have to remember that after the church is gone, there will be a group of people who will become believers during the time of God's wrath. This group is introduced in Rev.7:9-17 as that great number which no man can count from every nation, tribe, language and people, which would make them all Gentiles. The fact that the elder asks John who these are and where they came from, demonstrates that this group is not the church, but another group. In response John says that he doesn't know who they are. Then the elder tells him "these are those who have come out of the great tribulation." These are the same who will keep their testimony of Jesus and the word of God and who will not worship the beast, his image and will not receive his mark.
That said, the majority of this group will be killed by the beast. But there will be those who survive through the entire time period until the Lord returns to the earth. These along with the remnant of Israel, will be those who will be allowed to enter the millennial kingdom and who will repopulate the earth, still being in their mortal bodies. The church, the 144,000 and those great tribulation saints who will have been resurrect in Rev.20:4-6, will rule with the Lord on the earth during the millennial kingdom in their immortal and glorified bodies. The wicked will be killed with that double-edged sword when the Lord returns, so none of the wicked will enter into the millennial kingdom (Rev.19:15, 21).
Then every (surviving) knee would bow and tongue confess Jesus is Lord, then the millennium begins
(It seems fair for those who gave up their life [martyrs] and giving up seeking what they would want to do and their own pleasure and instead, to suffer for righteousness sake and deny themselves, to lose their life to find it in Christ... it's a blessing of the Lord for them to take part in the first resurrection to live with Jesus as King and potentially to a thousand in a physical reality )
Actually, the scripture says that every knee shall bow, whether in heaven, on the earth and under the earth. So, it is not just referring to the people that enter into the millennial kingdom.
"Therefore God exalted Him to the highest place and gave Him the name above all names, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father." - Phil.2:9-11