MILLENNIUM
The
Age when all your dreams could come true! A 1000 year Empire of Love
And Peace, and no more war!
"Th'evil" one, or "Devil" for short, is a personality
or spirit who was never born. Also called Lucifer by his close human
worshippers, Satan was a son of God who chose to go his own way
and play god over the Earth. The Bible names him the "god of this
world". Satan resides with other fallen angels in the spiritual
regions of this Earth, going back and forth through the Earth to recruit
as many human souls as he can to his lost cause.
"For we
wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against
powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual
wickedness in high places." Ephesians 6:12
True
Subversives
COURTESY:
CRISTINA ODONE,
THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
No
wonder they are so unpopular. True Christians are the true
subversives. Unimpressed by success, celebrity or the bottom line, they
prefer the company of the weak, and love without bounds. Ever
since the carpenter’s son started agitating for change almost 2,000
years ago, His message has been twisted or manipulated
and His followers have been made into scapegoats. Yet if history
is a catalogue of attacks on Christianity, to this day the religion
holds us in thrall, informing our laws and social code, our education
and the arts. The story of Jesus Christ remains our single greatest
narrative. In terms of brand names, Christianity is up there with
Coca-Cola, Walt Disney and Gap, but it will not subside into mood music,
or a pair of Mickey Mouse ears we can pick up and wear to entertain.
Even today, snug in an atheism that has become commonplace, we come
across Christians who give us pause for thought. A young volunteer,
sitting on the floor of a Catholic home for the disabled, feeding a
handicapped child whose head rests in her lap; a middle-aged missionary,
who lives and works alongside the villagers in remote Mali, celebrating
an outdoor Mass at a makeshift altar of straw; a monk helping
Serb refugees in Kosovo load a lorry with their belongings as they prepare
to set off on their lives of exile. These subversives are working for
a truly “inclusive society.” Forget the political catch phrase;
theirs is the real thing, an uncomfortable, relentless quest
to place others above me-myself-and-I. It’s an outrageous
message that goes against the grain. Don’t seek the successful, the
profit motive or the bottom line; look out, instead, for the weak and
the misfit, for the occasion to give everything and to love without
bounds. No wonder Christianity is so unpopular. To paraphrase
G.K. Chesterton, it has been tried, and found too damned difficult.
And too damned irreverent. Christians, like the little boy who told
the emperor he was naked, are forever puncturing our self-importance,
hinting that, actually, there is something missing from our lives. We
feel vulnerable because we have turned our backs on their ancient Christian
atlas, the Bible, which placed us in a universe in which God was firmly
in the heavens above and in the midst of a life that stretched into
eternity. In our harsh new world, instead, we doubt the presence
of a guiding spirit and that our existence goes beyond the here and
now. We play out our lives against a backdrop that has been reduced
from the eternal to the earth-bound. Boxed in this new, manmade landscape,
we peer at a world where everything looms larger and more menacing.
We are reduced to a cluster of individuals wandering aimlessly
over a small corner of the universe. It’s a shallow, finite world we
have created, and one that makes us feel precarious as we proceed, terrified
of losing our footing. Little wonder, then, that we cast a curious,
almost envious eye upon those who, led by their beliefs, journey forth
so determinedly.
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BEFORE
GOOD CAN SPRING FORTH
The only way this World can ever be redeemed and
be turned into some kind of an Earthly Paradise, is by getting rid of
the external inspirations in man, that are behind the evil physical manifestations.
In order to do that, the powers of God have to ban and bind the spiritual
powers and entities that play on man's minds, hearts and souls, thus getting
rid of external demonic thoughts, oppressions, obsessions and possessions!
Yes, "evil spirits" and "ghosts" if you like, glorified
and ridiculed in Hollywood thrillers, and debunked by Secular Humanist
Science socalled,instead labeled "schizophrenia" or "split
personalities!"
(Yet personalities can and do not split! Instead there
are double, triple or even many multiples or legions of personalities
using one body!)
MAN'S
SPIRITUAL ENEMY HAS TO BE BOUND!
The
Devil will be bound and cast as a prisoner into the
bottomless pit for a thousand years, with nobody left to run his
business! We'll be rid of him, thank God! For a thousand years he will
no longer bother us and no longer lead his legions and his demons across
the face of the Earth to plague the World and its citizens!
It is during this thousand years, while the Devil is in prison in the
heart of the Earth, in the Bottomless Pit, that the Saints, including
all the new arrivals who resisted the Antichrist and rejected his chip
implant--the Mark of the Beast--choosing rather to give their lives than
to deny Christ, will live and reign with Christ
for a thousand years:
4. "And I saw thrones,
and they sat upon them, and judgement was given unto them: and I saw
the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for
the Word of God, and which had not worshipped the Beast, neither his
Image, neither had received his Mark upon their foreheads, or in their
hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. They
shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand
years. 5. But the rest of the dead (the
unsaved dead)
lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the
first resurrection." (Rev.20:4,
5.)
During
the Millennium, Jesus is going to reign and rule in person
 using
us as His instruments! So our work will not be over with the resurrection
and the Rapture! We're still going to be busy, ruling and reigning
with Jesus!--It's all very literal!
Many people get all theoretical, and they get hazy ideas, dreamy ideas
about all of this, that after Jesus returns we're all going to be way
off somewhere in some place called Heaven or something. Well, Heaven is
not just going to be way off somewhere, it's going to be right here
on Earth, a Heaven-on-Earth during the Millennium! We're going to
rule and reign with Christ right here on Earth over the
unsaved nations and the unsaved people who are left, who
were not destroyed by the judgements God heaps upon the Antichrist
kingdom.
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Blessed and holy is he that has part in the first resurrection: on such
the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and
of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
"THY
KINGDOM COME! THY WILL BE DONE! IN EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN!"
(Mat. 6:10)
Everyday, millions of Church people all over the world pray, "thy
kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven!"
But I'm sure most of them don't really appreciate the tremendousness
of that statement in the Lord's Prayer and how literally it is
going to come true and be fulfilled! It's actually going to be like Heaven,
Heaven on Earth,  with
God's Will being done and His Kingdom come--on Earth as it is in Heaven!
And we will be His officers, enforcing His Will as we rule and reign over
the Earth with Him!
But most of the church people don't seem to realise how real the
Millennium is going to be! They've got that imaginary picture of just
floating around aimlessly on a cloud playing a harp or something! They
don't realise how real and practical and down-to-Earth
it will all be!
THE
VISION OF DANIEL THE PROPHET (Daniel chapter 2)
 The prophet
Daniel described the takeover of this world's governments by Christ's
Millennial Kingdom in his famous vision in Daniel, Chapter 2.
He saw a great image, which represented History's various great
World Empires, being destroyed by "a Stone which
smote the image upon his feet", smashing it to pieces which
are blown away like the chaff!--"And the Stone
that smote the image became a Great Mountain (Kingdom), and
filled the whole Earth!" (Dan.2:34,35.) 22. "For
in the days of these kings" --the ten toes of the image, the
ten final government leaders who fully cooperate with and yield
to the Antichrist (See Rev.17:12-14.)
"For
in the days of these kings shall
the God of Heaven set up a Kingdom, which shall never be destroyed:
and the Kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break
in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever!"
(Dan.2:44.)
THE
KING & HIS PEOPLE RETURN TO CLAIM HIS KINGDOM
One of these days very soon, the king is going to come back to claim his
kingdom!--The Kingdom of the Most High shall come and shall destroy all
the anti-Christ kingdoms of the World! Jesus is going to restore the World
under us and we're going to rule and reign over it with Him! God
will then sweep away all this world's kingdoms, but not
all the people!--Many of them will still be here, but we'll be
ruling over them.
--"And
there was given Him dominion, and glory,
and a Kingdom, that all
people, nations, and languages, should serve Him:
His dominion is an everlasting dominion,
which shall not pass away, and His Kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.
But the saints of th e Most High shall
take the Kingdom, and possess
the Kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever!"
(Dan.7:14,18.)
Whether man likes
it or not, God is going to be supreme and Jesus will reign from shore
to shore and we will rule and reign with Him! Then wicked man will be
forced to do what's right for a thousand years!--
"And
judgement was given to the saints of the
Most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the Kingdom.
And the Kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the Kingdom under
the whole Heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the
Most High, whose Kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom, and all dominions
shall serve and obey Him!"
(Dan.7:22,27.)
Right now the ungodly
and antichrist powers of this World treat us as Aliens.
They will eventually banish us and exile us and even drive
some of us from our own countries, forcing us to be refugees and
fugitives from their injustice. But then, under the
supreme reign of Christ Himself, the pitiful little bands of persecuted
Christians and believers and children of God are going to inherit the
Earth and the Kingdom of God on Earth and run and govern it by love
and the power of God!
We will no longer be the poor, persecuted, hounded few of
the poor little bedeviled sects or cults or whatever they want to call
us!--We will then number in the millions and the billions*,
and we are going to rule the Earth with Jesus Christ over our God-damned
enemies who have tormented us and persecuted us and hounded
us from country to country throughout the Earth, until the very end of
the Great Tribulation when they virtually drive us clear off the
Earth and we're all Raptured up to be with Jesus!
So don't worry, we're going to have a country to call our own one
of these days, thank the Lord! In fact, it'll all be our country
then!--Because our country will be a World-wide, Earth-wide, Kingdom of
God on Earth! All the countries are going to be ours in that day when
Jesus comes!--And our former enemies and persecutors will be our guests!
They will be the men without a country then, because it will be
our country!--And they'd better behave, too, or they'll not only be without
a country, but without an Earth!
*CHRISTIANITY
RETAINS HOLD AS NO. 1 RELIGION IN THE WORLD
Courtesy: RICHARD N. OSTLING, THE ASSOCIATED
PRESS
 Christianity
remained the world’s biggest religion while Islam and the non-religious
population posted notable increases in the 20th century, according to
a major religious reference book. The trends are reported in the second
edition of the World Christian Encyclopedia (Oxford University Press),
a compilation of statistical estimates and descriptions for each religious
group in each nation. “Christianity has become the most extensive and
universal religion in history,” the encyclopedia states, and has a majority
of the population in two-thirds of the world’s 238 countries. In addition,
“Christianity has become massively accepted as the religion of developing
countries in the so-called Third World.” Even so, no one in 1900 would
have predicted the sweeping defections from Christianity
that took place “in Western Europe due to secularism, in
Russia and later Eastern Europe due to communism, and in the Americas
due to materialism,” the book says. Christianity began and ended
the century as the world’s biggest religion, the encyclopedia says, with
555 million believers in 1900 or 32.2 percent of world population, and
1.9 billion or 31 percent as of last year. Counted Christians are divided
among 33,820 denominations or similar distinct organizations. Some 386
million believers are in “independent” churches apart from the historic
Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican and Protestant branches, the book reports.
Islam ranks second, and during the last century grew from 200 million
or 12.3 percent of population to 1.2 billion or 19.6 percent. Non-religious
people increased from a negligible 3 million in 1900 to today’s 768 million
or 12.7 percent of the world population. Other current totals: Hinduism,
811 million; Buddhism, 360 million; Sikhism, 23 million; and Judaism,
14 million.
MILLENNIUM
OF PEACE
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