Faith Baptist Church
4258 Botetourt Road
Fincastle, Virginia 24090
(540) 473-2325
The pre-millennial viewpoint with regard to the millennial reign of Jesus Christ is based upon solid interpretation, taking the word of God literally based upon contextual analysis; prophetic integrity; and theological findings. God has stated his promises to Israel, and I stand behind the promises of God. [God will be no more faithful to his promises to me as a Church age believer, than he will be to his promises to past dispensation believers.] If God’s promises to previous dispensation believers are not to be taken literally, then why should his promises to me be taken literally? The word of God is alive, it is not dead.
It is illogical for someone who believes in Jesus Christ to write off God’s promises given to a past group of people such as Israel, and to not write off the God given promises to themselves as well. Godly faith requires us to believe in things not seen, yet promised. It does not require faith for us to believe in prophesies already fulfilled.
The times that most of us think of as being in heaven and all of its glories is not diminished because of the 1,000 year Kingdom of Christ on earth. The eternal state will come soon enough. Just because we may be in a hurry does not mean God is in a hurry. God never gets in a hurry. When his word has been given, it cannot and it will not be broken.
I Pet.1:23-25; Ps.119:89. His word is true, and he is true to his word.
[This is the definition of the veracity of God. His word is his bond.]
Summing up life in the Millennium there will be:
1. Universal righteousness and peace for 1,000 years. There have been many wars since some of us were born. Think of a time when we will have no wars. Think of the economic blessings of not spending over 17% of our national tax revenues on funding a military with all of its needs, and armaments.
No one will be able to cry out, unfair, or unjust, or I’m being discriminated against for 1,000 years because Jesus Christ will rule with absolute fairness, and those who are under his “ footstool ” in all the nations will have to deal fairly with their people, and the citizens will answer for accusing Christ of being unfair.
Ps.72:1-20; Isa.11:1-10 read..
Innocence will mark the nature of life during that day. Though we church age believers will be in our glorified bodies we will still see for ourselves what life is like when God’s Son is on the throne. As that new era of time begins with all those non-glorified millennial believers, think about how great it will be for them and the cooperation they will share as they seek the will of the Lord on a universal basis.
No excuses for bad behavior will be accepted or sponsored by a society that recognizes its universal blessings. Schools will not practice Dr. Benjamin Spock’s philosophy of permissive child rearing, nor John Dewey’s liberal minded approach to teaching nor will socialist liberal minded professors instruct young men and women to abandon their God given instincts. Drunkenness and debauchery and disrespect for the opposite sex will not be tolerated at any level. People will not be shy in praising the Lord for his goodness, and the name of Jesus Christ will not be an embarrassment in the public square as it is today.
No one will be able to sin and say the devil made me do it. No dictators will cause their people to live in squalor and starvation as they do in nations such as China, North Korea, India and so on. It is said between 5 to 20 million people die of starvation every year.
2. Another beautiful aspect of the millennium will be the curse on the earth is lifted. Isa.35:1-2; 30:23; 35:7. Great areas of desert will be turned to fruitful land in those days
It is said by the U.N that nearly 35% of the earth’s land mass is desert or of desert characteristics regarding the ability to grow food and sustain life on the earth.
This will all change during the millennium. Climactic changes will make this possible. Most deserts arise due to atmospheric wind conditions whether they result from the effects of ocean currents upon land masses or warm air masses that move without moisture in the jet stream. Jesus Christ controls the winds and the rains as we know, and he will make the winds to move to please his kingdom’s needs. Prov.30:4; Amos 4:13; Ps.107:35.
There will be an abundance of food for the world. No one will go hungry. Fair wages will be paid as per the law of the Lord, Isa.11:4; 65:23.
You will always have those who do not have as much as some. Some folks are more content with less. Qualifications to fill a position will not be because of who you know or the color of your skin, but because you are qualified.
The millennial Kingdom will not be a communistic, nor socialist society. Nor will it be a republic or a democracy. It will be a theocracy.
Animals will be seen in a different light in that day as per Isa.11:6-8; 65:25. The curse of danger and survival due to sin will be lifted in that day causing men and animals to dwell in peace as they did in the pre-fall days of Adam and Eve.
Also those with physical deformities and those in need of bodily healing will be made whole. Isa.33:24, 29:18; 35:5-6. Those with mental illness will be healed, Isa.61:1-3.
Longevity of life will be common in those days, Isa.65:20. To die at the age of 100 years will be compared to what we would call the age of a child today. They will live much longer.
Families will be large in those days, Jer.30:19-20. The absence of a corrupt media, and the practice of godly worship and living will make families strong again.
This time to come will characterize “ thy will on earth, as it is in heaven.”
Topographical changes will occur in Palestine as noted in Zech.14:4-8; Rev.16:17-19 read.
A great earthquake will cause a dividing of the Mount of Olives. This Mount was named after the olive groves that existed on the western flank of the Mount. It is located east of Jerusalem and center of Israel. It’s range is made up of three limestone ridges with the highest ridge reaching a height of a little over 2,700 feet. Gethsemane, where our Lord was betrayed by Judas Iscariot, is on this Mount. The name Gethsemane means the place where the oil is pressed.
Please hear what the Lord is saying here in Zech.14:4-5. This is no symbolical picture. This is no allegory only giving a moral story through the use of a narrative. This event cannot be turned into nothing more than a spiritualized application. Ezekiel as well as the revelations John received from Jesus Christ himself tell of a geographical return of our Lord preceded by the most powerful earthquake this planet has ever witnessed.
This great valley created by the great earthquake will provide an escape route for persecuted tribulation believers near Jerusalem.
The day of the Lord’s second coming will also be an unusual day in that at evening time it will still be light, 14:6-7.
Also a great river will flow out of Jerusalem. It will split with a portion going west and a portion going east, Zech.14:8. As a matter of fact the portion going east will spill into the Dead Sea and cause that sea to sustain an abundant fish life, Ezek.47:1-10.
As of today only a few microbes can survive it’s environment. Even sea fish die soon after being put into it.
There is so much more to discover if we were to study civil life and worship life and all the majesties of the city of Jerusalem in those days to come, but we will stop here.
Rev.20:7-9 tells us that at the end of Christ’s Millennial reign that he will release Satan for a short time to expose the will of the people. Those unbelievers who despise our Lord will be given the opportunity to show themselves and condemn themselves as they align with Satan. After Satan’s futile attempt at world domination is proved then time will be no more. Next is the Great White Judgment for all unbelievers. Satan will have been forever cast into the lake of fire.
The new heavens and the new earth will usher in the eternal state and the heavenly city Jerusalem will ascend to the earth. No more sorrow, no more death, only glory with God forever.