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THE
WHOLE WORLD REACHED WITH THE GOSPEL
During the Millennium, everyone will be reached!--
"For
the Earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord,
as the waters cover the sea." (Hab.2:14.)
How do the waters
cover the seas?--Completely! So the World will be completely
covered with the knowledge of the Lord and the righteous Kingdom
of Jesus Christ! So it sounds like this thousand years of the Millennial
rule and reign of Jesus Christ on Earth will be another testing time
for those worldlings who remain, the unsaved who survived the horrors
that have gone before whom God blessed with another chance, or perhaps
their first chance. They may have never really heard the Gospel
before, they may have never really felt the Love of Jesus before or known
God's Will or His ways before! So it will be a time of learning His laws
and His ways and His Love.
It's obvious from the Bible's description of the Millennium that the survivors
from the Age of Man will be given another chance to obey
through the personal rule and reign of Christ and His Children and the
universal knowledge of the Lord and His Love. In fact, I think that's
what the whole Millennium is all about, to give these people such a chance,
otherwise there would be no point to it!
If it's as some of the churches teach, just to give us a chance to wreak
vengeance on our enemies and be mean to all the people who were mean to
us, what good would that be? If it's just to show how the World should
have been run and just to demonstrate what man will be like under us and
the angels and Jesus personally and just to kind of show-off, what purpose
would there be to that?--Unless it's going to save souls or make
some people better in some way or improve things somehow.
THE
VAIL OF UNSPIRITUALITY REMOVED
During the Millennium, His Word says that
"He will destroy in this mountain (kingdom)
the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is
spread over all nations." (Is.25:7.)--
 What
vail?--The vail of misunderstanding, the vail of unbelief,
the vail of non-comprehension of spiritual things.
In the face of the visible rule and reign of Christ
on Earth, His personal appearance to man, His Second
Coming in mighty power and glory, His wiping out of the Antichrist
and his kingdom and the imprisonment of Satan, and His obvious visible
rule and reign of firm love with a rod of iron, forcing people to be good
whether they like it or not, I think some are going to believe and receive
who perhaps never heard before! And maybe there will be some who might
even have heard, but didn't understand or couldn't believe until they
saw something.
After all, that's pretty strong, powerful persuasion!--To see the
Coming of the Lord and His taking over the reins of this
Earth to rule and reign--that's pretty strong persuasion and enough to
convince almost anybody to believe and receive! So I think the Millennium
will be the time when God gives what I would call not a second chance,
but a first chance to a lot of people who didn't have a chance before,
because the church failed and even we failed to give'm all the
Gospel!
"For
in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes
of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness. The meek
also shall increase their joy in the Lord, and the poor among men shall
rejoice in the Holy One of Israel. Behold, a King shall reign in righteousness,
and princes shall rule in judgement. And the glory of the Lord shall
be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the
Lord hath spoken it!"
(Is.29:18,19;32:1;40:5.)
 Everyone
on Earth will see His glorious power and kingdom, and everybody will believe
then!--He even says,
"And
they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his
brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know Me, from the
least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord."
(Jer.31:34.)
There won't be
any unbelievers then, but I'm afraid there will still be some unreceivers
who won't yield and won't obey and will still be stubborn and disobedient
and rebellious and iniquitous and wicked at heart and defiant--still!
It's obvious from the Scriptures that there will be many who will
receive it and obey and will be blessed of the Lord!--And others
who will still rebel.
THE
MILLENNIUM ANOTHER TESTING TIME!
So it looks to me like the Millennium is going to be another testing time
or trying time, a proving ground. We, the saints, who heard the Gospel
and voluntarily received the Lord, will be running things under the direct
supervision of the Lord. And all of the people who survived the Tribulation,
the Wrath of God and the Battle of Armageddon, we're going to govern and
rule over and judge and organise and teach them!
We won't have to say
"Know the Lord!" because everybody
will be able to see Him and they'll all know HE'S there! But they'll
need to know a lot of other things, and we're actually going to be doing
a lot of what we're doing right now! Our main job now, as Jesus put it,
is "Feed My Sheep!" (Jn.21:15-17.)--They'll
all "know the Lord" and will actually see
that He and His Kingdom are real, but they may not know Him as
well or as personally as we do, because we already knew Him in
this life and learned to know Him well and communicate with Him and love
Him and live with Him and serve Him throughout this life.
So I think it will
be part of our job to re-educate them and train them in the ways of the
Lord! They're going to be just as human as you and I 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 we are in this present age.
And the Scriptures
definitely confirm that the Millennium is going to be a period of learning
for them:
"Many
nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain
of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and He will teach
us of His ways, and we will walk in His paths: for the law shall go
forth of Zion, and the Word of the Lord from Jerusalem."
(Micah 4:2.)
How will He teach
them His ways and give them His Word?--The same way He's trying to teach
and feed them now!--Through us, His children, His "kings
and priests"! (Rev.1:6.)
So frankly, I think we're going to be doing just what we're doing now:
Teaching and educating people in the ways of the Lord!
In fact, when I think of the job we'll have to do in the Millennium, it
is almost beyond comprehension!--We're not only going to be teaching and
educating and ruling and reigning over them, but because it's the World's
last chance to repent and confess and try to get things straightened out
and make things right, we're going to have to try to make everybody
be honest and make everybody confess and get everybody to make
things right--right all wrongs and confess all faults. So we are
going to be very busy! PTL!
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