1000 years

On the morning in the Sabbath school notified Toomas us that he will be there as a "tabula rasa". It had to mean that he had a plan to not talk much during the study. Hmmm... white sheet. I have thought sometimes I would like to have Toomas at home. You know, like a fidge or TV in a corner. Or actually like a Bibel on my desk. I have often questions for what I need answers but finding them took too much time. So easy would be ask then from him and get answers without googling or looking up from Bible. But ibidem why not become as Toomas?


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I had Bible study today again and we were talkling about the Second Coming of Jesus. It was oppressive. Well, not the point He is coming but some other thought I got from there...

About the lesson:

Jesus comes again and it happens soon. The good promise has always filled God's loyal people with glory. It's an event what ends the history of this World. But some of us afrain the end of it. The Bible says:

"And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth. In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats; To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth." Isaiah 2:19.21

The Second Coming of Jesus will be the event what everyone sees. There will happen big earthquakes and there will sound the angels' shout what everybody will hear.

"And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places." Revelation 6:14

"But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up." 2 Peter 3:10

"I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light. I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly. I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled. I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger." Jeremiah 4:23-26

The verses say that the atmosphere what rounds the Earth will vanish. It means there is not possible to live anymore and there will be dark and quiet. The Bible says it will last 1000 years. 20th chapter in the Revelation's book is talking about that. Rev. 20:6 metions the first resurrection ("Blessed and holy is he that hath 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.") But if there will be the first resurrection then there will be also the second one. As Jesus told by John 5:28,29

"Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation."

Like Revelation 20:6 is saying that People who will get part of the first resurrection they will live 1000 years together Christ. But rest of them...

"But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection." Revelation 20:5

It should make clear that 1000 years of reign will take part between the first resurrection for holy ones and the second resurraction for evil ones. But how looks like the first resurrection for holy?

"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 alive and remain 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." 1 Thessalonians 4:16,17

The resurrected and changed holies will join with Jesus and His angels. The promise says:

"Simon Peter said unto him, Lord, whither goest thou? Jesus answered him, Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; but thou shalt follow me afterwards." John 13:36

"Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also." John 14:1-3

By Revelation 20:6 raign resurrected together Jesus whole 1000 years. But how react the evil ones, it means those who have despise God's love and who have choosen to live in sins and rebelation against God?

"And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?" Revelation 6:14-17

On the day when the holies' heart will get filled with glory and happiness on this day will fall upon evils fear and death. God has warned humans thousands years before it. What is the wages of sin?

"For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." Romans 6:23

"Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it. For the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter. Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood. And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree /.../ For it is the day of the LORD's vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion." Isaiah 34:1-4,8

Lets take it shortly together now:
1. Jesus will come back,
2. the holies will get resurrected,
3. the living holies bodies will get changed,
4. all holies will be pulled up to the heaven
5. the evils will die and sleep 1000 years

Will there be life on the Earth during the 1000 years?

"I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light. I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly. I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled. I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger. For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end. For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it." Jeremiah 4:23-28

So the Satan has no work. There will be noone who he could cheat. He has to be 1000 years alone on the Earth. "And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, and cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season." Revelation 20:1-3 Can you image 1000 years in darkness?

And what are doing the holies during the 1000 years is told in Revelation 20:4 "And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment 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."

God will give to holies possibility to check evils' lives that everyone could be sure the God has been righeous with everybody. When everyone will be sure in it the evils will get destroyed. God wount doubt in his desicion but He wants that everyone do understand it and would be agree.

After 1000 years will come Jesus back again. We can call it as the third coming of His. "But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection /.../ And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison" (Revelation 20:5,7) The glory of God will light the Earth and evils will hear explanation of God, why they have to die. Everybody will hear it.

"Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father." Philippians 2:9-11

"And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them." Revelation 20:9

"For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. /.../ And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts." Malachi 4:1,3

"Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness." 2 Peter 3:13

"And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away." Revelation 21:4