The Return of Christ and the Millennium
To the Mount of Olives
- When Jesus Christ comes with His armies to Armageddon and destroys the Antichrist system, He will then
stand on the Mount of Olives.- And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before 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 be a very great valley” (Zechariah 14:4).
- And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the
- The landscape around Jerusalem will never be the same again after He comes in glory to set up His kingdom.
- The mountain will be divided as a monument to the deliverance of the Lord.
Characteristics of the Kingdom Age
- Jesus Christ Will Be King of the Earth
- And the LORD shall be king over all the earth; in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one (Zechariah 14:9).
- He Will Rule on the Earth for a Thousand Years
- 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 (Revelation 20:6).
- Judgment of the Nations
- The nations of the world that have blessed or persecuted the Jews, especially during the Tribulation, will then be judged (Matthew 25:31-46).
- God’s People Will Rule with Christ
- Revelation 20:1-6
- 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.
- 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.
- But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is 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.
- Revelation 20:1-6
- The Capital Will Be Jerusalem
- The nations will come there annually to worship the Lord.
- Zechariah 14:16-17 And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles. And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain.
- The nations will come there annually to worship the Lord.
- Satan Will Be Bound during this time
- Revelation 20:2-3 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.
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