Authors note:Due to my need to concentrate on other matters as I prepare for speaking at the Colorado Springs Prophecy Watchers Conference, my commentaries this week will be selections I’ve written in the recent past. This segment appeared in the recent book Jonathan Brentner and I wrote: HEREAFTER: It’s Far Better Than You Imagine.
Life in the Millennium
New World Order architects today claim to want to make life on planet Earth much better than humankind has thus far managed to construct. The slogan for those who want to create the equivalent of Utopia is“Build Back Better,”and they call this construction project “TheGreat Reset.”
In making their grandiose plans, they make the same deliberate, monumental mistake the antediluvians did. It is the same egregious error Nimrod and his minions made in their construction catastrophe on the plains of Shinar when they built the tower intended to reach into Heaven.
These earlier one-world, would-be masters of planet Earth, like their father Lucifer, determined to usurp the throne of God. They desired to be likethe Most High—to take the place of the Creator. They fell for Satan’s lie that they could“be as God.”
The writer of Ecclesiastes was certainly on the mark with the line: “There is nothing new under the sun” (1:9).The present-day globalists elite, like the earlier rebels, areinfected by the reprobate mind forewarned by the Apostle Paul:
And even as they did not like to retain God intheirknowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient. (Romans 1:28)
Their insane drive, through their sin-infected, upside-down thinking, will eventuate in God judging their rebellious wickedness. He will, like in destroying the antediluvianworld order and in decimating the Towerof Babel construction, completely erase the final effort to build world order in the image of humankind. Daniel chapter 2 tells of the great stone from Heaven that will strike this final, evil world order, with the winds of God’s eternal Kingdom sweeping away all vestiges of fallen humanity’s rebellion. That great stone is the Lord Jesus Christ, the King of all kings.
We are witnessing today the build-up toward the final form of worldwide wickedness the globalists elite are planning. For a time, they will seem to be successful. As a matter of fact, their efforts are obviously making tremendous strides at the moment of this writing.
The effort seems led by the minions of theWorld Economic Forum (WEF). However,this anti-God organization is but the nucleus—the center—of a rapidly expanding range of concentric circles spreading the devil’s doctrine of “Building Back (Babel) Better.”
If we only consider all of the above, we have every reason to sense being plunged into the deepest abyss of depression. There would seem no hope of being able to climb out of that abyss of Ephesians 6:12 evil.
But, as the renowned broadcaster Paul Harvey used to say, this isn’t the end of the matter. Here is the rest of the story.
Just as the powers and principalities of Ephesians 6:12 are about to reestablish their long-sought Tower of Babel, creating–especially through a transformed worldwide economy (monetary system)—Satan’s desired one-world order, God will say“Enough!” Webelieve that exclamation is forecast in the following words:
Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyedthemall.Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed. (Luke 17:28–30)
Jesus will remove God’s children from Earth, just as He removed Lot (whom He saw as“just”—that is, “righteous”—because of Lot’s belief for salvation) from the wicked city of Sodom.
Here is how that removal will happen:
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:Then we which are aliveandremain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.Wherefore comfort one another with these words. (1 Thessalonians 4: 16–18)
With all believers of the Church Age (Age of Grace) removed to safety (Revelation 3:10), God will begin dealing in judgment and wrath with the anti-God, neo-Babel builders. That will eventuate in heavenly action, as described by the prophet Daniel when he interpreted Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar’s dream:
Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereofwasterrible.This image’s headwasof fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass,His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay.Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feetthat wereof iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth. (Daniel 2:31–35)
This prophecy says God will forever do away with the Babylonian system of Earth’s rebels—a system that was, since antiquity, fomented, instigated, and put into effect by the masterarchitect of all rebellion against the Almighty.
Again…here is the rest of the story. And, it is a glorious story to be sure! The Lord Jesus Christ is the stone of Daniel’s prophecy. He will descend to strike that rebellious system and cause it to crumble:
And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon himwascalled Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.His eyeswereas a flame of fire, and on his headweremany crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.And hewasclothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.And the armieswhich werein heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. (Revelation 19:11–15)
We pick up this return of King Jesus, who will smite that Babylonian system and cause it to crumble and blow away in the winds of eternity:
Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, whichisbefore Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west,and there shall bea very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south. (Zechariah 14:3–4)
At that moment, the topography of Jerusalem and the entire world will change. Earth will begin transforming into the pristine world it was before the Fall in Eden.
MountMoriah, the Temple Mount, will lift high into the sky to overlook the Earth, and King Jesus will proceed down through the great valley just created. He will ascend the mountain to take up residence in the gloriously constructed Holy Temple where the Third Temple, desecrated by Antichrist, had previously stood during Daniel’s seventieth week (the Tribulation).
And this is where we will commute to and from each moment of the Millennial Kingdom–the thousand-year reign of the King of kings and Lord of lords.
As supernatural beings, having become so at the Rapture, we will be with King Jesus, or have access to Him, at every moment of the thousand years He reigns. Not only will we be priests, prophets, and kings over all the Earth, we will, as children of God, have the same inheritance that belongs to Jesus Himself. Everything that is His, God gives us when we become His children. We then come fully into that indescribably magnificent inheritance in the Hereafter–the time that begins upon cessation of physical life of the believer, or at the moment when Jesus shouts, “Come up here!” (Revelation 4:1–2).
God’s great plan was to have a family that would love Him unconditionally, just as He loves unconditionally. We are and will be the Heavenly Father’s joy throughout eternity.
Imagine! No…neither you nor I can even to begin to imagine in our finite minds what it means to be considered the same as the Father’s Only Begotten Son in terms of eternity, or even for a second. We accept it by simple faith in the Father’s promises.
That’s what it means to be as one with the Heavenly Father and Jesus, whose words in the moments before He died for the sins of the world confirm our coequal status in God’s family.
Hallelujah!
That they all may be one; as thou, Father,artin me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast lovedme.Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me. (John 17:21–25)
Thisonenesswe will enjoy for eternity means we have great responsibility. We are, of course, directed to go forth and share the Gospel with the whole world, making disciples of all people and baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. But that is only the beginning of our responsibility.
Our commission during the thousand years of the Millennial Kingdom will be beyond anything we can fully grasp at the present, while having only finite thinking.
By the time we follow the Lord Jesus to planet Earth,accompanying Him while He returns, we will each have gone before the Judgment Seat of Christ.
Each child of God will stand before that holy bench of judgment for rewards and crowns earned during life on Earth. There will be no condemnation–no judgment—for sin. All sin was paid for through Christ’s sacrifice on the cross. Each of us will, however, be rewarded with different levels of attainment, depending on the faithfulness we demonstrated in using our gifts and talents on Earth. How we honored the Lord’s desires will determine the level of responsibilities we will be given for ruling and reigning with Jesus during the Millennial Kingdom.
There will be nocompetitors, no envy, no jealousy in all this Hereafter activity. We will have the mind of Christ; our thinking will be like His. All we will be concerned with is doing His holy will. Our goals and desires will be precisely the same as His. Our love will be not for ourselves, but for our brothers, our sisters, and especially for our “big brother” Jesus–the King of all kings.
Our friend Daymond Duck researched what we will do during the Millennial Kingdom and throughout the Hereafter:
1) Worship (Revelation 4:9–10)
2) Keep the Feast of Tabernacles (Zechariah 14:16–19)
3) Visit Jerusalem to learn (Isaiah 2:2–3; 1 Corinthians 13:11–12)
4) Fellowship (Revelation 19:9)
5) Serve Jesus (Psalm. 72:11; Revelation 22:3)
6) Judge fallen angels (1 Corinthians 6:3)
7) Reign on the Earth (Luke 19:11–27; Revelation 5:10; 2 Timothy 2:12)
These things will be more than enough to keep us busy! (Daymond Duck,Prophecy Plus Ministries)
