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ETERNITY

 

When the Saints Come Marching In

Joel 2

 

Battle of Armageddon and 7 proofs the army is supernatural.

 

  1. There has never been any like them appearing on earth before (v2)
  2. Nor will there be ever again…until the end of the Millennium when Satan and his angels and demons will appear on earth in an effort to take it over, at which time God will send this army of heaven against them. (v2; Isa. 24:22; Rev. 20:7-10)
  3. A fire will devour before them (v3; 2 Th 1:7-10)
  4. They will be riding horses or be in chariots (v4) This is pictured several times of God’s Army (2 Ki 2:11-12; 6:16-19; Zech 1:7-11; 6:1-8; Rev 19:11, 14  21)
  5. They will not be hurt even if they fall upon a sword (v8)
  6. Different from men, they are able to climb walls; and they will climb up upon the houses and enter into the windows like a thief (v9)
  7. THEY ARE THE LORD’S ARMY AND HE WILL BE LEADING THEM PERSONALLY. HIS ARMY IS DEFINETLY SPOKEN OF AS BEING THE HOLY ANGELS AND RESURRECTED SAINTS FROM HEAVEN. (Zech. 14:4-5; Mt. 16:27; 24:31; 2 Th 1:7-10; Jude 14-15; Rev. 19:11-21)

 

Jesus and the saints sitting on thrones will judge and be witnesses against the wicked dead, fallen angels and demons.

 

 

A literal earthly kingdom will continue on this planet forever. This is proved from the following Scriptures (Dan. 2:44-45; 7:9-14, 18; Isa. 9:6-7; Luke 1:32-33; Rev. 1:5; 5:10; 11:15; 22:5-6; Zech. 14; etc.).

 

Revelation 20 speaks of the saints reigning on the Earth over natural men and that at the end of the Millennium many people will rebel against the government and will be destroyed by fire. At the second coming of Christ before the Millennium the kingdom will be set up and it will continue forever.

 

Jerusalem will soon be the world’s center of law and religion. This will be in the Millennium and eternal ages when Christ reigns in Jerusalem. Then the law and the Word of the Lord shall go out from Jerusalem to the ends of the Earth (Isa. 2:1-4; Micah 4: Zech. 14; Joel 3; Ezek. 43:7; Jer. 17:25). No more terrorists, Muslim or otherwise.

 

Over one billion people who have never heard of Jesus Christ will be evangelized in less than one hundred years.  There is no question but what we are in the very last days of this age and we will be in the Millennium in less than one hundred years. It will be then that the knowledge of the Lord will fill the Earth as the waters cover the sea (Isa. 2:1-4; 11:9). This means that when Jesus comes the billion or more people who have never heard the gospel will hear and be evangelized. 

 

Thousand Year Reign of Christ and His Saints

Rev. 5:10; 11:15; Zech 14:9; Eph 1:10; Lk 1:32-33; 1 Cor 15:24-28; Isa 9:5-7; Dan 2:44-45; 7:13-14, 18, 27; Ezek 45:7; Mt 13:40-43; 25:31-46;Acts 15:13-18; Rom 11:25-27; Rev 1:5; 5:10; 11:15; 20:1-10

 

Revelation 20: 4-6

 

4. And I saw thrones, and they that sat upon them. Judgment was given to them. I also saw the souls of those beheaded because of their witness to Jesus and the WORD of GOD, who refused to worship the Beast or his image, refused to take the mark on forehead or hand. They lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years!

 

Note: The thrones here are those that saints will have, proving that all saints will rule with Christ in some capacity as kings and priests.

 

2 Classes of Eternal People

2 Tim 2:12; Heb:12:28; Ps 149:6-9; Dan 7:18, 27; Rev 1:6; 2:26-27; 3:21; 5:10; 12:5; 20:4-6: 22:4-5: Lk 22:30; Rom 8:17; 1 Cor 6:2-4

 

If one will keep in mind that there will be 2 classes of eternal people, eternal conditions on earth will be simple to comprehend.

 

  1. Natural people: will live from the future tribulation period through the Millennium and then on into the New Earth forever if they do not commit sin or rebel with Satan at the end of the Millennium (Rev. 20:7-10; Mt. 13:39-50)
  2. Resurrected people: The resurrected people will not marry or give in marriage (Mt. 22:30) but the natural people who are alive at the 2nd advent and who are permitted to be subjects of the eternal kingdom will marry, have children and carry out the natural program as God intended when HE created Adam. They will live forever by virtue of the tree of life (Rev. 22:1-2), not by virtue of a resurrection and a change from mortality to immortality as with glorified saints. (1 Cor 15:51-58; Phil 3:21)

 

5. (Rev. 20) The rest of the dead did not live until the 1000 years were up. This is the 1st resurrection.

 

Note: Those in the 1st resurrection are blessed and holy. No 2nd death for them. They’re priests of God and Christ; they’ll reign with Him a thousand years.

 

Christ will not rule with just a select few as taught by some (Rev 20:4-6). This resurrection may be called our resurrection ; that is a resurrection out of or from among the dead. (Lk 14:14; 20:35-36; Phil3:11-14; 1 Thes 4:14-17; I Cor 15:51-58; Heb 11:35; Rev 20: 4-6). Just as Christ came out from among the dead as the firstfruits of the dead, so at the rapture the dead in Christ will come forth from among the wicked dead according to the above passages. Even the tribulation saints will come out from among the wicked dead. The “wicked dead” live not again until the thousand years are finished.

 

The theory that a few of the righteous will be selected from among the righteous is a mere human invention based upon a few historical stories of the O.T. which were never intended as types. There is a lack of even one plain Scripture on the subject. ALL the dead and living in Christ will be in the first resurrection not just a few.

 

6. Blessed and holy is he that has part in the 1st resurrection. No 2nd death for them! They’re priests of God and Christ; they’ll reign with HIM a thousand years.

 

Note: When the thousand years are up it will be time for the segregation and destruction of all rebels (those who rebel with Satan when he is loosed), including Satan, and renovation of the heaven and the earth by fire, which will result in the New Heaven and New Earth (2 Pet 3:10-13; Rev 20:7-10; 21:1-22:5)

Marriage of the LAMB

Revelation 19 Notes and Comments

 

Verse 24--After these things: (destruction of mystery and literal Babylon) John sees the marriage of the LAMB in Heaven just before the 2nd Advent of Christ to the earth. The fact the much people are in Heaven here proves they have been caught up in time for the marriage of the LAMB. This contradicts the theory of no rapture of saints to Heaven, as well as the theory that the marriage supper of the LAMB ill be held in the air after Christ raptures the saints (1 Th 4:16-17) at the rapture the saints will go immediately to Heaven where they will remain during the last 7 years of this age and during the tribulation (Eph. 5:27; Col 3:4; 1 Th 3:13; 2 Th 2:7-8)

 

8 Events

 

  1. Presentation before God (Eph 5:27; Col 3:4; 1 Th 3:13)
  2. Saints declared blameless (1 Th 3:13; 5:32)
  3. Settlement in mansions (Jn 14:1-3; Heb. 11:10-16; 13:14; Rev. 3:12)
  4. Judgment of saints (Rom 14:10; 1 Cor 3:11-15; 2 Cor 5:10-11)
  5. Regular worship (Rev. 19:1-9; Lk. 22:16, 18)
  6. Routine of living (Lk 22:29-30; Jn 14:1-3; Rev 1:6; 1 Cor 2:9)
  7. Marriage of the LAMB (Rev 19:1-9)
  8. Preparation for the 2nd Advent, the battle of Armageddon and the establishment of an eternal government on earth (Rev 19: 11-21; 20:1-10; Zech 14)

 

Verse 6 voice of great multitudes    thunderous like a mighty waterfall, the sound of strong thunder. Halleluiah Praise to the Lord. (Think of the sound of Niagara Falls)

 

Note: The LAMB’s wife is the New Jerusalem. The wife or bride here is the Holy City, the New Jerusalem which is the redeemed of all ages (19:7) who will have part in the 1st Resurrection and who will live in the New Jerusalem forever. Are not all women who marry called brides? It is true that Israel is married to God, but this is no proof that she is the wife and bride of 19:7; 21:2, 9; 22:17.)

 

 

The Marriage of the LAMB is to all the redeemed from Abel to the Millennium who live in the New Jerusalem which is the true bride of Christ. (3:12; 20:4-6; 21:2, 9-10; Heb 11:10, 13-156; 13:14; J

 

 

 

After the Millennium and the Great White Throne Judgment all evil will have been destroyed. The saints will be free to explore the universe and those physical humans will be free to do so also under the protection and supervision of the saints in their glorified bodies.

 

Great White Throne

2nd Resurrection

Revelation 20:11-15

 

Note: The 2nd resurrection (20:4-5; Jn 5:28-29; Dan 12:2) and the final judgment: the wicked dead (Acts 17:31: Rom. 2:16) and fallen angels judged (2 Peter 2:4; Jude 6-7) All wicked angels, demons and men cast to the lake of fire forever (Mt. 5:22-30;10:28; 13:42-50; 25:30-46; Mk 9:42-48; Heb 6:2; 10:26:31; Rev 14:9-11; 19:20; 20:10-15)

 

11. I ,John, saw a Great White Throne and HIM that sat on it. Nothing could stand before or against the Presence, nothing in Heaven, nothing on earth.

 

12. An I saw all the dead, great and small standing there before the throne! And books were opened: the Book of Life. The dead were judged by what was written in the books, by the way they had lived.

 

13. The Sea released its dead, Death and Hell turned in their dead. Each man and woman was judged by the way he or she had lived.

 

14. And death and hell were cast into the Lake of Fire. This is the 2nd death.

 

15. Anyone whose name was not found in the Book of Life was hurled into the Lake of Fire.

 

End of earth’s second sinful career which started in Genesis 3.

 

Jesus and the saints sitting on thrones will judge and be witnesses against the wicked dead, fallen angels and demons.

 

 

Jesus and the saints sitting on thrones will judge and be witnesses against the wicked dead, fallen angels and demons.

 

New Heaven    New Earth

 

Note: The ages to come: the 3rd and eternal perfect state (21:1-22:5) New Heaven and New Earth (Isa 65:17; 66:22-24; 2 Pet 3:13)

 

This will be the result of the renovation of the  heavens and earth by fire (2 Peter 3:10-13) The atmospheric heavens, not the starry space or planet Heaven. Pass away: rushing sound: swish…illustrating the length and suddenness of the renovation (2 Peter 3) It means the loosing of the atmospheric heavens and the earth from the curse, by fire, not their annihilation. (like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the fiery furnace)

 

THE DAY OF GOD: is when God rules supremely again over all His creation without one person rebelling against Him, and as it was before Lucifer’s and Adam’s rebellions. (1 Cor 15:24:28; Eph 1:10; Rev 21:1-22; Isa 66:17; 66:22-24; 2 Pet 3:13)

 

This will be the end of the Day of the Lord and beginning of the Day of God..2 Pet:3:7,10-13; 1 Cor 15:24-28; Rev 20:7-15)

 

3 Times the Earth Made New

 

  1. At its first creation (Gen. 1:1)
  2. At the Recreation in the 6 days of Gen. 1-3-2:25; Ex 20:11, 31:15)
  3. At the renovation of the heaven and the earth by fire.

 

The earth and atmospheric heaven will pass from one condition to another.

 

The large oceans covering ¾ of the earth will be NO MORE!   But there will be an abundance of rivers, lakes and small seas on the earth forever. (Ps.72:8-17; 97:1-6; 146:6; Isa. 42:10, 60:5; 66:19; Ezek 47; Zech 14:8; Jer 5:22, 31:35:22)

 

Revelation 21

  1. I saw Heaven and earth newly created. Gone the 1st heaven, gone the 1st earth, gone the great oceans.
  2. An I, John, saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
  3. I heard a voice thunder from the Throne: “Look! God has moved into the neighborhood, making His home with men and women. They’re His people, He’s their God.

 

Note: The new and eternal peoples and conditions on earth (Gen 8:22; 9:12, 16; 17:7, 19; 2 Sam. 7:24-26; Isa 9:6-7; 51:8; 59:21; Jer 31:35-36; 32:38:40; Ezek. 37:24-28; 43:7: 48:35; Dan 2:44-45: 4:3, 34; 7:13-14, 18, 27; Joel 3:20; Mic. 4:7; Lk 1:32-33; Heb. 1:8; 12:28; Rev 11:15; 22:5)

 

Death Destroyed at the End of the Millennium

 

Revelation 21

 

  1. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. There shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the formers things are passed away.
  2. An He that sat on the Throne said, “Look! I make all things new. Write for these things are true and faithful.
  3. And He said to me, “It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is thirsty freely of the water of life.
  4. Conquerors (overcomers) inherit all this. I’ll be God to them, they be sons and daughter to Me.

Part 2 New Heaven and Earth

Revelation 21:8-22

 

Note: Eternal punishment displayed. Eternal conscious punishment as an eternal monument of God’s wrath on sin so that eternal generations will know that sin does not pay. (Isaiah 66:22-24; Rev. 14:9-11; 19:20; 20:10-15; Mt. 5:22-30; 10:28; 13:42, 50; 18:9; 23:15, 33; 24:51; 25:30, 41, 46: Mk. 9:43-47; Lk 12:5: Heb. 6:2: 10: 26-31)

 

10 Classes of people in hell: 1) the fearful, cowardly, vile 2) Unbelieving, infidel, faithless 3) abominable, polluted with unnatural lust, immoral practices, associated with idolatry 4) murderers 5) whoremongers, fornicators 6)sorcerers; persons who by use of drugs, enchanted potions, charms and enchantments seek to produce supernatural effects in the lives of others. 7) Idolators; those who practice idolatry and abominable immoral acts in worship of idols 8) Dogs, false prophets and homosexuals called dogs in Scripture. (Dt. 23:18; Isaiah 56:10-11; Phil. 3:2; Rev. 22:15) 9) Liars (Rev. 21:8; 22:15) 10) Lovers of lies (Rev. 22:15)

 

Verse 8   But the fearful and unbelieving and abominable and murderers, and whoremongers and sorcerers, and idolators and all liars shall have their part in the Lake of Fire and Brimstone: which is the second death.

 

Note: The true Bride of Christ (21:2, 9-22:5). Her identity (19:7; 21:2)

 

Verse 9  One of the 7 angels who had carried the bowls and filled with the 7 final disasters spoke to me: “Come here. I’ll show you the Bride, the wife of the Lamb.”

 

 Verse 10 He took me away in the Spirit to an enormous high mountain and showed me Holy Jerusalem descending from out of Heaven from God. (These are believers who will live in New Jerusalem, which is the bride, the Lamb’s wife)

 

Outward Appearance of the New Jerusalem

 

Verse 11  Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone (a beautiful sea green)

 

Verse 12  Had a majestic wall great and high, and had 12 gates. At each gate stood and Angel, and on the gates were inscribed the names of the 12 tribes of Israel.

Verse 13 3 gates on the East, 3 gates on the North, 3 gates on the South and 3 gates on the West.

 

Verse 14  The wall was set on 12 foundations, the names of the 12 apostles of the Lamb inscribed on them.

 

Verse 15 The angels speaking with me had a gold measuring stick(reed) to measure the city, its gates and its wall. (Reed = 12 ½ feet)

 

Measurements: 12,000 furlongs = 1500 miles; 144 cubits =300 feet; cubit = 25 inches. Measurements of the Earthly Eternal City, Jerusalem: Ezek 48:30-35; Joel 3:20.

 

Verse 16  The city was laid out in a perfect square. He measured the city with the measuring stick: 1500 Miles, its length, depth, width and height all equal.

 

Verse 17 Using the standard measure, the angels measured the thickness of its wall: 144 cubits (300 feet)

 

 Verse 18 The wall was jasper (sea green) and the City was pure gold, translucent as glass.

 

Verse 19 and 20  The foundations of the wall of the City were garnished with all manner of precious stones 1st Jasper (sea green), 2nd  sapphire (blue) 3rd chalcedony, (yellow/red) 4th emerald, 5th sardonyx, (blue, white and red) 6th sardius, (blood red) 7th chrysolyte, (dusky green with yellow hue) 8th beryl, (transparent bluish green) 9th topaz, (pale green) 10th chrysoprasus, (yellowish green) 11th jacinth, (red and yellow) 12th amethyst (purple).

 

Verse 21 The 12 gates were 12 pearls, each gate a single pearl. The main street of the City was pure gold, translucent as glass.

 

Verse 22 But there was no sign of a Temple, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple.

 

Verse 23 The City doesn’t need sun or moon for light. God’s glory is its light, the Lamb its lamp. 

 

Note: The traffic in the New Jerusalem (22:14; Zech 14:16; Isa 2:2)

 

Verse 24 And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honor into it.

 

Note: Natural earthly nations who have lived from the Tribulation period and through the Millennium will multiply and replenish the earth and carry out the original program of God on earth as Adam and others would have done if man had not sinned. All men in the New Earth will be saved from sin and be righteous eternally. The rebels will be destroyed, but the camp of the saints will remain. (20:7-10)

 

All nations will traffic in and bring their gifts into the City forever. (24-26)

 

Verse 25 It’s gates eill never be shut by day, and there won’t be any night.

 

Note: This refers to no night in the City, but outside the City there will be day and night eternally. (Gen1:14-19; 8:22; Ps. 89:2-3, 29-37; Jer 31:35-36)

 

Verse 26 An they shall bring the glory and honor of the nations into it.

 

Verse 27 Nothing dirty or defiled will get into the City and no one who defiles or deceives. Only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life. 

 

 

Christ will not rule with just a select few as taught by some (Rev 20:4-6). This resurrection may be called our resurrection ; that is a resurrection out of or from among the dead. (Lk 14:14; 20:35-36; Phil3:11-14; 1 Thes 4:14-17; I Cor 15:51-58; Heb 11:35; Rev 20: 4-6). Just as Christ came out from among the dead as the firstfruits of the dead, so at the rapture the dead in Christ will come forth from among the wicked dead according to the above passages. Even the tribulation saints will come out from among the wicked dead. The “wicked dead” live not again until the thousand years are finished.

 

The theory that a few of the righteous will be selected from among the righteous is a mere human invention based upon a few historical stories of the O.T. which were never intended as types. There is a lack of even one plain Scripture on the subject. ALL the dead and living in Christ will be in the first resurrection not just a few.

 

Blessed and holy is he that has part in the 1st resurrection. No 2nd death for them! They’re priests of God and Christ; they’ll reign with HIM a thousand years.

 

Note: When the thousand years are up it will be time for the segregation and destruction of all rebels (those who rebel with Satan when he is loosed), including Satan, and renovation of the heaven and the earth by fire, which will result in the New Heaven and New Earth (2 Pet 3:10-13; Rev 20:7-10; 21:1-22:5)

 

 

This will be the result of the renovation of the  heavens and earth by fire (2 Peter 3:10-13) The atmospheric heavens, not the starry space or planet Heaven. Pass away: rushing sound: swish…illustrating the length and suddenness of the renovation (2 Peter 3) It means the loosing of the atmospheric heavens and the earth from the curse, by fire, not their annihilation. (like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the fiery furnace)

 

THE DAY OF GOD: is when God rules supremely again over all His creation without one person rebelling against Him, and as it was before Lucifer’s and Adam’s rebellions. (1 Cor 15:24:28; Eph 1:10; Rev 21:1-22; Isa 66:17; 66:22-24; 2 Pet 3:13)

 

This will be the end of the Day of the Lord and beginning of the Day of God..2 Pet:3:7,10-13; 1 Cor 15:24-28; Rev 20:7-15)

 

3 Times the Earth Made New

 

  1. At its first creation (Gen. 1:1)
  2. At the Recreation in the 6 days of Gen. 1-3-2:25; Ex 20:11, 31:15)
  3. At the renovation of the heaven and the earth by fire.

 

The earth and atmospheric heaven will pass from one condition to another.

 

The large oceans covering ¾ of the earth will be NO MORE!   But there will be an abundance of rivers, lakes and small seas on the earth forever. (Ps.72:8-17; 97:1-6; 146:6; Isa. 42:10, 60:5; 66:19; Ezek 47; Zech 14:8; Jer 5:22, 31:35:22)

 

Revelation 21

  1. I saw Heaven and earth newly created. Gone the 1st heaven, gone the 1st earth, gone the great oceans.
  2. An I, John, saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
  3. I heard a voice thunder from the Throne: “Look! God has moved into the neighborhood, making His home with men and women. They’re His people, He’s their God.

 

Note: The new and eternal peoples and conditions on earth (Gen 8:22; 9:12, 16; 17:7, 19; 2 Sam. 7:24-26; Isa 9:6-7; 51:8; 59:21; Jer 31:35-36; 32:38:40; Ezek. 37:24-28; 43:7: 48:35; Dan 2:44-45: 4:3, 34; 7:13-14, 18, 27; Joel 3:20; Mic. 4:7; Lk 1:32-33; Heb. 1:8; 12:28; Rev 11:15; 22:5)

 

Death Destroyed at the End of the Millennium

 

Revelation 21

 

  1. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. There shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the formers things are passed away.
  2. An He that sat on the Throne said, “Look! I make all things new. Write for these things are true and faithful.
  3. And He said to me, “It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is thirsty freely of the water of life.
  4. Conquerors (overcomers) inherit all this. I’ll be God to them, they be sons and daughter to Me.

Part 2 New Heaven and Earth

Revelation 21:8-22

 

Note: Eternal punishment displayed. Eternal conscious punishment as an eternal monument of God’s wrath on sin so that eternal generations will know that sin does not pay. (Isaiah 66:22-24; Rev. 14:9-11; 19:20; 20:10-15; Mt. 5:22-30; 10:28; 13:42, 50; 18:9; 23:15, 33; 24:51; 25:30, 41, 46: Mk. 9:43-47; Lk 12:5: Heb. 6:2: 10: 26-31)

 

10 Classes of people in hell: 1) the fearful, cowardly, vile 2) Unbelieving, infidel, faithless 3) abominable, polluted with unnatural lust, immoral practices, associated with idolatry 4) murderers 5) whoremongers, fornicators 6)sorcerers; persons who by use of drugs, enchanted potions, charms and enchantments seek to produce supernatural effects in the lives of others. 7) Idolators; those who practice idolatry and abominable immoral acts in worship of idols 8) Dogs, false prophets and homosexuals called dogs in Scripture. (Dt. 23:18; Isaiah 56:10-11; Phil. 3:2; Rev. 22:15) 9) Liars (Rev. 21:8; 22:15) 10) Lovers of lies (Rev. 22:15)

 

Verse 8   But the fearful and unbelieving and abominable and murderers, and whoremongers and sorcerers, and idolators and all liars shall have their part in the Lake of Fire and Brimstone: which is the second death.

 

Note: The true Bride of Christ (21:2, 9-22:5). Her identity (19:7; 21:2)

 

Verse 9  One of the 7 angels who had carried the bowls and filled with the 7 final disasters spoke to me: “Come here. I’ll show you the Bride, the wife of the Lamb.”

 

 Verse 10 He took me away in the Spirit to an enormous high mountain and showed me Holy Jerusalem descending from out of Heaven from God. (These are believers who will live in New Jerusalem, which is the bride, the Lamb’s wife)

 

Outward Appearance of the New Jerusalem

 

Verse 11  Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone (a beautiful sea green)

 

Verse 12  Had a majestic wall great and high, and had 12 gates. At each gate stood and Angel, and on the gates were inscribed the names of the 12 tribes of Israel.

Verse 13 3 gates on the East, 3 gates on the North, 3 gates on the South and 3 gates on the West.

 

Verse 14  The wall was set on 12 foundations, the names of the 12 apostles of the Lamb inscribed on them.

 

Verse 15 The angels speaking with me had a gold measuring stick(reed) to measure the city, its gates and its wall. (Reed = 12 ½ feet)

 

Measurements: 12,000 furlongs = 1500 miles; 144 cubits =300 feet; cubit = 25 inches. Measurements of the Earthly Eternal City, Jerusalem: Ezek 48:30-35; Joel 3:20.

 

Verse 16  The city was laid out in a perfect square. He measured the city with the measuring stick: 1500 Miles, its length, depth, width and height all equal.

 

Verse 17 Using the standard measure, the angels measured the thickness of its wall: 144 cubits (300 feet)

 

 Verse 18 The wall was jasper (sea green) and the City was pure gold, translucent as glass.

 

Verse 19 and 20  The foundations of the wall of the City were garnished with all manner of precious stones 1st Jasper (sea green), 2nd  sapphire (blue) 3rd chalcedony, (yellow/red) 4th emerald, 5th sardonyx, (blue, white and red) 6th sardius, (blood red) 7th chrysolyte, (dusky green with yellow hue) 8th beryl, (transparent bluish green) 9th topaz, (pale green) 10th chrysoprasus, (yellowish green) 11th jacinth, (red and yellow) 12th amethyst (purple).

 

Verse 21 The 12 gates were 12 pearls, each gate a single pearl. The main street of the City was pure gold, translucent as glass.

 

Verse 22 But there was no sign of a Temple, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple.

 

Verse 23 The City doesn’t need sun or moon for light. God’s glory is its light, the Lamb its lamp.

 

 

 

 

Note: The traffic in the New Jerusalem (22:14; Zech 14:16; Isa 2:2)

 

Verse 24 And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honor into it.

 

Note: Natural earthly nations who have lived from the Tribulation period and through the Millennium will multiply and replenish the earth and carry out the original program of God on earth as Adam and others would have done if man had not sinned. All men in the New Earth will be saved from sin and be righteous eternally. The rebels will be destroyed, but the camp of the saints will remain. (20:7-10)

 

All nations will traffic in and bring their gifts into the City forever. (24-26)

 

Verse 25 It’s gates eill never be shut by day, and there won’t be any night.

 

Note: This refers to no night in the City, but outside the City there will be day and night eternally. (Gen1:14-19; 8:22; Ps. 89:2-3, 29-37; Jer 31:35-36)

 

Verse 26 An they shall bring the glory and honor of the nations into it.

 

Verse 27 Nothing dirty or defiled will get into the City and no one who defiles or deceives. Only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.

 

 

 

Revelation 20: 4-6

 

4. And I saw thrones, and they that sat upon them. Judgment was given to them. I also saw the souls of those beheaded because of their witness to Jesus and the WORD of GOD, who refused to worship the Beast or his image, refused to take the mark on forehead or hand. They lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years!

 

Note: The thrones here are those that saints will have, proving that all saints will rule with Christ in some capacity as kings and priests.

 

2 Classes of Eternal People

2 Tim 2:12; Heb:12:28; Ps 149:6-9; Dan 7:18, 27; Rev 1:6; 2:26-27; 3:21; 5:10; 12:5; 20:4-6: 22:4-5: Lk 22:30; Rom 8:17; 1 Cor 6:2-4

 

If one will keep in mind that there will be 2 classes of eternal people, eternal conditions on earth will be simple to comprehend.

 

  1. Natural people: will live from the future tribulation period through the Millennium and then on into the New Earth forever if they do not commit sin or rebel with Satan at the end of the Millennium (Rev. 20:7-10; Mt. 13:39-50)
  2. Resurrected people: The resurrected people will not marry or give in marriage (Mt. 22:30) but the natural people who are alive at the 2nd advent and who are permitted to be subjects of the eternal kingdom will marry, have children and carry out the natural program as God intended when HE created Adam. They will live forever by virtue of the tree of life (Rev. 22:1-2), not by virtue of a resurrection and a change from mortality to immortality as with glorified saints. (1 Cor 15:51-58; Phil 3:21)

 

5. (Rev. 20) The rest of the dead did not live until the 1000 years were up. This is the 1st resurrection.

 

Note: Those in the 1st resurrection are blessed and holy. No 2nd death for them. They’re priests of God and Christ; they’ll reign with Him a thousand years.

 

Christ will not rule with just a select few as taught by some (Rev 20:4-6). This resurrection may be called our resurrection ; that is a resurrection out of or from among the dead. (Lk 14:14; 20:35-36; Phil3:11-14; 1 Thes 4:14-17; I Cor 15:51-58; Heb 11:35; Rev 20: 4-6). Just as Christ came out from among the dead as the firstfruits of the dead, so at the rapture the dead in Christ will come forth from among the wicked dead according to the above passages. Even the tribulation saints will come out from among the wicked dead. The “wicked dead” live not again until the thousand years are finished.

 

The theory that a few of the righteous will be selected from among the righteous is a mere human invention based upon a few historical stories of the O.T. which were never intended as types. There is a lack of even one plain Scripture on the subject. ALL the dead and living in Christ will be in the first resurrection not just a few.

 

6. Blessed and holy is he that has part in the 1st resurrection. No 2nd death for them! They’re priests of God and Christ; they’ll reign with HIM a thousand years.

 

Note: When the thousand years are up it will be time for the segregation and destruction of all rebels (those who rebel with Satan when he is loosed), including Satan, and renovation of the heaven and the earth by fire, which will result in the New Heaven and New Earth (2 Pet 3:10-13; Rev 20:7-10; 21:1-22:5)

 

 

 

Outward Appearance of the New Jerusalem

 

Verse 11  Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone (a beautiful sea green)

 

Verse 12  Had a majestic wall great and high, and had 12 gates. At each gate stood and Angel, and on the gates were inscribed the names of the 12 tribes of Israel.

Verse 13 3 gates on the East, 3 gates on the North, 3 gates on the South and 3 gates on the West.

 

Verse 14  The wall was set on 12 foundations, the names of the 12 apostles of the Lamb inscribed on them.

 

Verse 15 The angels speaking with me had a gold measuring stick(reed) to measure the city, its gates and its wall. (Reed = 12 ½ feet)

 

Measurements: 12,000 furlongs = 1500 miles; 144 cubits =300 feet; cubit = 25 inches. Measurements of the Earthly Eternal City, Jerusalem: Ezek 48:30-35; Joel 3:20.

 

Verse 16  The city was laid out in a perfect square. He measured the city with the measuring stick: 1500 Miles, its length, depth, width and height all equal.

 

Verse 17 Using the standard measure, the angels measured the thickness of its wall: 144 cubits (300 feet)

 

 Verse 18 The wall was jasper (sea green) and the City was pure gold, translucent as glass.

 

Verse 19 and 20  The foundations of the wall of the City were garnished with all manner of precious stones 1st Jasper (sea green), 2nd  sapphire (blue) 3rd chalcedony, (yellow/red) 4th emerald, 5th sardonyx, (blue, white and red) 6th sardius, (blood red) 7th chrysolyte, (dusky green with yellow hue) 8th beryl, (transparent bluish green) 9th topaz, (pale green) 10th chrysoprasus, (yellowish green) 11th jacinth, (red and yellow) 12th amethyst (purple).

 

Verse 21 The 12 gates were 12 pearls, each gate a single pearl. The main street of the City was pure gold, translucent as glass.

 

Verse 22 But there was no sign of a Temple, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple.

 

Verse 23 The City doesn’t need sun or moon for light. God’s glory is its light, the Lamb its lamp. 

 

Note: The traffic in the New Jerusalem (22:14; Zech 14:16; Isa 2:2)

 

Verse 24 And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honor into it.

 

Note: Natural earthly nations who have lived from the Tribulation period and through the Millennium will multiply and replenish the earth and carry out the original program of God on earth as Adam and others would have done if man had not sinned. All men in the New Earth will be saved from sin and be righteous eternally. The rebels will be destroyed, but the camp of the saints will remain. (20:7-10)

 

All nations will traffic in and bring their gifts into the City forever. (24-26)

 

Verse 25 It’s gates eill never be shut by day, and there won’t be any night.

 

Note: This refers to no night in the City, but outside the City there will be day and night eternally. (Gen1:14-19; 8:22; Ps. 89:2-3, 29-37; Jer 31:35-36)

 

Verse 26 An they shall bring the glory and honor of the nations into it.

 

Verse 27 Nothing dirty or defiled will get into the City and no one who defiles or deceives. Only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.

 

 

Marriage of the LAMB

Revelation 19 Notes and Comments

 

Verse 24--After these things: (destruction of mystery and literal Babylon) John sees the marriage of the LAMB in Heaven just before the 2nd Advent of Christ to the earth. The fact the much people are in Heaven here proves they have been caught up in time for the marriage of the LAMB. This contradicts the theory of no rapture of saints to Heaven, as well as the theory that the marriage supper of the LAMB ill be held in the air after Christ raptures the saints (1 Th 4:16-17) at the rapture the saints will go immediately to Heaven where they will remain during the last 7 years of this age and during the tribulation (Eph. 5:27; Col 3:4; 1 Th 3:13; 2 Th 2:7-8)

 

8 Events

 

  1. Presentation before God (Eph 5:27; Col 3:4; 1 Th 3:13)
  2. Saints declared blameless (1 Th 3:13; 5:32)
  3. Settlement in mansions (Jn 14:1-3; Heb. 11:10-16; 13:14; Rev. 3:12)
  4. Judgment of saints (Rom 14:10; 1 Cor 3:11-15; 2 Cor 5:10-11)
  5. Regular worship (Rev. 19:1-9; Lk. 22:16, 18)
  6. Routine of living (Lk 22:29-30; Jn 14:1-3; Rev 1:6; 1 Cor 2:9)
  7. Marriage of the LAMB (Rev 19:1-9)
  8. Preparation for the 2nd Advent, the battle of Armageddon and the establishment of an eternal government on earth (Rev 19: 11-21; 20:1-10; Zech 14)

 

Verse 6 voice of great multitudes    thunderous like a mighty waterfall, the sound of strong thunder. Halleluiah Praise to the Lord. (Think of the sound of Niagara Falls)

 

Note: The LAMB’s wife is the New Jerusalem. The wife or bride here is the Holy City, the New Jerusalem which is the redeemed of all ages (19:7) who will have part in the 1st Resurrection and who will live in the New Jerusalem forever. Are not all women who marry called brides? It is true that Israel is married to God, but this is no proof that she is the wife and bride of 19:7; 21:2, 9; 22:17.)

 

The Marriage of the LAMB is to all the redeemed from Abel to the Millennium who live in the New Jerusalem which is the true bride of Christ. (3:12; 20:4-6; 21:2, 9-10; Heb 11:10, 13-156; 13:14; Jn

 

Thousand Year Reign of Christ and His Saints

Rev. 5:10; 11:15; Zech 14:9; Eph 1:10; Lk 1:32-33; 1 Cor 15:24-28; Isa 9:5-7; Dan 2:44-45; 7:13-14, 18, 27; Ezek 45:7; Mt 13:40-43; 25:31-46;Acts 15:13-18; Rom 11:25-27; Rev 1:5; 5:10; 11:15; 20:1-10

 

Revelation 20: 4-6

 

4. And I saw thrones, and they that sat upon them. Judgment was given to them. I also saw the souls of those beheaded because of their witness to Jesus and the WORD of GOD, who refused to worship the Beast or his image, refused to take the mark on forehead or hand. They lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years!

 

Note: The thrones here are those that saints will have, proving that all saints will rule with Christ in some capacity as kings and priests. 

 

Note: When the thousand years are up it will be time for the segregation and destruction of all rebels (those who rebel with Satan when he is loosed), including Satan, and renovation of the heaven and the earth by fire, which will result in the New Heaven and New Earth (2 Pet 3:10-13; Rev 20:7-10; 21:1-22:5)

 

The saints will be able to travel at the speed of a THOUGHT.

 

The future ahead is truly glorious and exciting beyond anything we could ever imagine.

 

PRAYER FOR SALVATION

Jesus Christ is the Son of God. If we have turned from all our sins and invited Jesus to come and live within us and be the Lord of our lives then our inheritance in the future kingdom is assured.

 

God’s Word says in John 14:6, “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”

 

In order to invite Jesus to be your Savior and Lord, you must believe in your heart that He is the Son of God, believe that He died upon the cross of Calvary as an atonement for your wrong doings and believe that He arose from death and the grave. We must confess with our mouth that Jesus is Lord. If you have never done this then stop right now and pray this prayer…

 

Heavenly Father, I come to You in the Name of Jesus. Your Word says, “whosoever shall call on the Name of the Lord shall be saved” (Acts 2:21).  I am calling on You.I pray and ask Jesus to come into my heart and be Lord over my life according to Romans 10:9-10. “If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God has raised Him from the dead, thou sahlt be saved” I do that now. I confess that Jesus is Lord, and I believe in my heart that God raised Him from the dead. I am a Christian – a child of Almighty god! I am saved!

 

You are now an heir to the Kingdom of God! Your future is assured. I want to encourage you to find a church in your local area to attend. Tell someone that you have just received Jesus as your Lord. Then start digging into God’s Word.