Millennium

The word "mellennium" does not appear in the Bible; it is derived from the Latin mille annus and means simply "a thousand years." The term has been used by the Christian church to refer to the 1000-year period mentioned in Revelation 20. It is important to understand the end time events which will transpire at the beginning and at the close of the Millennium. They are outlined below:

Before the 1,000-years:

1. Devastating earthquake and hailstorm (Revelation 16:18-21; Revelation 6:14-17).
2. Second coming of Jesus for His saints (Mathew 24:30, 31).
3. Righteous dead rise to life (1Thessalonians 4:16, 17).
4. Righteous given immortality (1 Corinthians 15:51-55).
5. Righteous given glorified body (1 John 3:2, Philippians 3:21).
6. All righteous caught up into the clouds (1 Thessalonians 4:16, 17).
7. Living wicked slain by the breath of the Lord’s mouth (Isaiah 11:4).
8. Wicked in graves remain dead until the end of the 1,000 years (Revelation 20:5).
9. Jesus takes righteous to heaven (John13:33, 36; 14:1- 3).
10. Satan bound (Revelation 20:1-3).

 
During the 1,000-years:

1. Earth in battered condition from huge hailstones and devastating earthquake (Revelation 16:18-21).
2. Earth in total blackout-bottomless pit (Jeremiah 4:23, 28).
3. Satan and his angels forced to stay on the earth-bound (Revelation 20:1-3).
4. Righteous in heaven participating in the judgment (Revelation 20:4).
5. Wicked are all dead (Jeremiah 4:25; Isaiah 11:4).

 
After the 1,000-years:

1. Third coming of Jesus with His saints (Zechariah 14:5).
2. Holy city settles on Mount of Olives, which becomes a great Plain (Zechariah 14:4, 10).
3. The Father, angels, and all of the righteous come with Jesus (Revelation 21:1-3; Matthew 25:31; Zechariah 14:5).
4. Wicked dead raised; Satan loosed (Revelation 20:5, 7).
5. Satan deceives entire world (Revelation 20:8).
6. Wicked surround the holy city (Revelation 20:9).
7. Wicked destroyed by fire (Revelation 20:9).
8. New heavens and earth created (Isaiah 65:17; 2 Peter 3:13; Revelation 21:1).
9. God’s people enjoy eternity with Christ on the new earth (Revelation 21:2-4). 
   

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