From the End to Eternity/Why the Millennium

From The Endtime

Besides being a time of peace, plenty, and joy for those who survive the Battle of Armageddon, it appears that the Millennium could be an additional period of grace for those who didn't have a chance to hear the Gospel or know the Lord during this life. They may have never heard the Gospel; they may have never felt the love of Jesus, or known God's will or His ways before. Saint Paul said Jesus "desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth."^[1] That was the whole point of Jesus' life, death, and resurrection, and that will undoubtedly remain His prime focus even in the Millennium. Those who have received Jesus as their Savior will have been resurrected and/or raptured into Heaven, so obviously the Millennium and the restored Earth are primarily for the benefit of those who have not received the Lord, but who didn't follow the Antichrist.

During the Millennium everyone will be reached with the Gospel. "For the Earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea."^[1] As anyone knows, the waters completely cover the sea, and likewise the world will be completely covered with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord and the righteous Kingdom of Jesus Christ.

The Bible says that during the Millennium the Lord "will destroy on this mountain [His Millennial Kingdom] the surface of the covering cast over all people, and the veil that is spread over all nations."^[1] The veil is the veil of misunderstanding, the veil of unbelief, the veil of incomprehension of spiritual things.

In the face of the visible rule and reign of Christ on Earth, His second coming in mighty power and glory, His wiping out of the Antichrist and his Kingdom and the imprisonment of Satan, it would stand to reason that most who had never heard of Jesus before are going to believe and receive Him. And most likely there will be many who might have heard something about Jesus, but didn't fully understand, or just couldn't believe until they saw a physical manifestation. To see the coming of the Lord and His taking over the Earth will be pretty strong persuasion, and probably enough to convince almost anybody to believe and receive.

There are some who say that people only get one chance to receive the Lord, and that's it. Therefore they argue that the Millennium cannot be a second chance for those who had not received Him previously. But if the Lord wants all men to come to know Him, then for many He is going to have to come knocking at the door of their hearts multiple times. Although we only really deserve one chance at salvation, experience will bear out that most of us are given multiple chances throughout our lives to receive Him. We don't deserve all those chances, just as many of these survivors may not deserve them, but thankfully we have a God who is "full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering and abundant in mercy and truth."^[1]

Everyone on Earth will see His glorious power and Kingdom, and everybody will at least believe in the existence and supremacy of Jesus. His Word says, "No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord."^[1]

However, as we'll see in the next chapter, there will be some during the Millennium who refuse to receive Jesus as their Savior and who still won't yield and will remain rebellious and defiant and iniquitous and wicked at heart. It can be understood from the Scriptures that there will be many who will receive Jesus as their King and Savior and will be blessed of the Lord. But sadly and incredibly, others will still rebel.

So the Millennium is going to be another proving ground for humanity, another chance for humanity to receive and accept God's love through Jesus, or to choose their own way. It'll also be an opportunity, for those who are willing and receptive, to learn about the ways of God and how to live His laws of love by living for Him and one another.

The saved, those who heard the Gospel and voluntarily received the Lord by faith prior to His return, will be running things under the direct supervision of the Lord and with the help of His good angels. And their main job then will probably be, as Jesus put it, to "feed His sheep."^[1] The survivors will all "know the Lord" and will actually see that He and His Kingdom are real, but they may not know Him well or personally.

So the saints will need to help reeducate the survivors and train them in the ways of the Lord. The survivors are going to be just as human as people are right now; they won't be any more supernatural in their intelligence or in their mental capacities or their learning capacities or the ways they have to learn than people are in this present age. The Scriptures confirm that the Millennium is going to be a period of learning for them:

The Lord's ways are so different than the way people run things today, so it's going to take a lot of adjustment and reeducation for some people.

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