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A Victorious Celebration and a Feast!

The Times of the Gentiles is now a thing of history; a new dispensation has started and it will start with a festive happy time for all! I’m of the opinion that the mysterious 45 days, referenced in Daniel 12:12 will indicate the time our Lord takes to totally restore the earth to Millennial standards.

Day 45 may be the day all of the Old Testament saints and the Tribulation saints will be resurrected from the dead and brought into their fully restored Israel. This addition will complete a mighty assembly of God’s creation that includes all the resurrected saints from both the Church age, and the age of Israel.

In addition, the mortal believers who were saved through the Tribulation will also be included; this will indeed be a mighty assembly of both mortal and immortal people who love the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord! The entire population of the world will all love our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ!

The time has come for all of God’s children to rejoice in the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ; a time of celebration to observe the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. The Lord Jesus Christ had given his life, “that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, ²⁷ that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish.”

In Ephesians 5:25-27 it is written:

“²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, ²⁶ that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, ²⁷ that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish.”

The Marriage Supper of the Lamb

In Revelation 19:6-9 it is written:

“⁶ Then I heard what seemed to be the voice of a great multitude, like the roar of many waters and like the sound of mighty peals of thunder, crying out,

“Hallelujah!
For the Lord our God
    the Almighty reigns.
⁷ Let us rejoice and exult
    and give him the glory,
for the marriage of the Lamb has come,
    and his Bride has made herself ready;
⁸ it was granted her to clothe herself
    with fine linen, bright and pure”—

for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints.

⁹ And the angel said to me, “Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.” And he said to me, “These are the true words of God.”

It would be impossible to express in words all that God has planned for this event!

The Millennial Kingdom, God’s Ultimate Pass/Fail Test of Humanity

I believe the Lord will restore the earth to pre-flood conditions which will provide a perfect environment for all living beings. As then, life expectancy will increase and people will live much longer. Just as the Lord started mankind with perfect environment in the Garden of Eden, so shall it end with perfect environment in the Millennial Kingdom!

There will be a perfect harmony between mankind and the animals, in Isaiah 11:6-9 it is written:

“⁶ “The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb,
The leopard shall lie down with the young goat,
The calf and the young lion and the fatling together;
And a little child shall lead them.
⁷ The cow and the bear shall graze;
Their young ones shall lie down together;
And the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
⁸ The nursing child shall play by the cobra’s hole,
And the weaned child shall put his hand in the viper’s den.
⁹ They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain,
For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord
As the waters cover the sea.”

Although all aspects of life are perfect for the 1,000 years, as children are born to mortal parents there are many who will reject the Lord Jesus Christ and the amazing wonders of his kingdom and look for something else. Just as Adam failed in the perfect environment of the Garden of Eden, so these will fail in the perfection of the Millennial Kingdom.

At the end of the 1,000 years, Satan is released from the abyss and moves freely among the population. This is described in Revelation 20:7-10 where it is written:

“⁷ And when the thousand years are ended, Satan will be released from his prison ⁸ and will come out to deceive the nations that are at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them for battle; their number is like the sand of the sea. ⁹ And they marched up over the broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city, but fire came down from heaven and consumed them, ¹⁰ and the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.”

This blatant rejection of the Lord Jesus Christ, after 1,000 years of perfection, is a clear indication of the depravity of fallen humanity! The incredible wonders of the Millennium are simply brushed aside in favor of Satan’s deception! It helps the Christian understand why so many are falling for Satan’s deceptions today!

This, the second battle of Gog and Magog, will close the Millennial Kingdom; once again perfect environment ending in judgment and fire.

The Great White Throne

This final judgment will be preceded by the resurrection of all those who have rejected the gift of salvation by faith in Jesus Christ. The Great White Throne judgment is described in Revelation 20:11-15 where it is written:

“¹¹ Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. From his presence earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for them. ¹² And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done. ¹³ And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done. ¹⁴ Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. ¹⁵ And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.”

Next time, God’s Seventh Intervention, the New Heaven and the New Earth.