The Millennium

The Tribulation has ended and the Millennium begins.   How will things be when the Golden Age arrives?  How long until this happens?  

The reason the Tribulation needed to happen was in order to make the earth ready for the Millennium.  There are only a few verses written about the Millennium in Revelation 20.  Satan is bound for a thousand years and cast into the bottomless pit.  (verses 2 and 3).  The First Resurrection occurs - the resurrection of the saints.  At this time the saints will be installed as rulers in the Millennial Kingdom, and Christ will be the King on earth. (verses 4 and 5) The saints will have new bodies, but they will now be immortal. (verse 6)  

There will be other people still on the earth who lived through the Tribulation.  They will be governed by Christ as King and the saints as rulers.  The level of leadership for the saints will depend on the abilities of the individual saints, and also on their track records in their lives.  The martyrs will be given special places of honor and seats of power.  Judgment will be given to these rulers.   Christ will rule with a rod of iron.  This may surprise some, thinking that Christ is meek and mild.  Yes, but this kingdom will have law and order and he's not deviating from that.  

Due to the loss of Satan, mankind is no longer plagued by temptations to sin that seem to come out of nowhere.  The anger, malice, greed, hatred, all those thoughts that ruin things, will not occur to people, because Satan was putting them there in the first place.  He's gone to the place where he didn't want to go - the abyss, demon prison.  And he's got a lengthy sentence, a thousand years.  In that period of time, with perfect government, under ideal conditions, mankind flourishes.  

Imagine a world with no crime and no war.  Is it midnight? Sit in a park in a major metropolitan area and watch the stars if you like.  Are you at home?  There will be no prowlers.  

And speaking of situations that give one the creeps, there will be no more ghosts either, no haunted houses, poltergeists, or occult practices either.  Why would there be?  All the ghosts have gone to the bottomless pit.  There is no way to play with spirits because they can't communicate anymore.  

The saints will be resurrected in the first resurrection.  The saints who have died ever since Adam will come back to enjoy the Millennium and places of prestige in society.  This will include little children who died of all people.  Will they live as children and grow up?  Yes, I think so.  Who will care for them? I suppose they will live with their parents if their parents are there.  Otherwise, I think there will be a special home, probably administered by angels, where they will be cherished.  Their parents will be able to have them at home and see them grow up, and know that nothing can ever harm them again.  Will they grow up and have children?  I don't think so, because in the resurrection we will be neither male nor female, but as the angels.  

While Revelation tells us the point the Millennium will start, but few details, there are many places in Scripture that fill in the gaps.  

to be continued