Friday, September 18, 2020

SOME MAJOR EVENTS ON CHRIST JESUS' RETURN!

 Beginning of the 1,000 years


Some major events at the coming of Christ


by


Keith Hunt



     There are dozens of verses and passages in the Bible that

proclaim the literal Kingdom of God on earth. The book of

Revelation, chapter 20, uses the phrase "one thousand years" 

in reference to the Messiah and the saints ruling on this earth. 

     We shall in this study look at some of the passages that

concern the coming of God's Kingdom and the time setting 

of the beginning of that 1,000 year reign.


     First, we see the Kingdom age is promised in Isaiah chapter

2, verses one to five (basically repeated in Micah chapter 4). In

the last days of man's reign on earth the Kingdom of God will 

be established on the top of all other nations. All nations will

flow to it, people will finally say that they do want to learn

God's way of life and live by His laws and commandment and 

walk in His way.

     It is the time when the law of the Lord shall go forth from

Zion and Jerusalem. He, the Lord will judge the people of earth,

and rebuke when rebuke is needed. People will turn their swords

into farming implements. Nations will no longer war against each

other, neither will they have academies where war is taught and

learned.


     When will this all take place, or begin to take place? It

will be at the sound of the SEVENTH trumpet, according to

Revelation 11:15-19. This seventh trumpet will sound, and a great

cry will go from the beings in heaven that it is NOW the time for

God to take His great power and to reign, and it is the time for

the DEAD to be judged and rewards given to the saints.

     As we study the book of Revelation we will discover that

there are ONLY SEVEN trumpets to sound, and it is when the

SEVENTH trumpet sounds that God comes to destroy and punish 

them that are destroying the earth (and Revelation is about much 

of man's destruction to man and the earth) and to reward the saints,

and for God to reign.


     This trumpet sound is mentioned by the apostle Paul in two

very important passages concerning the Kingdom of God on earth.

One of those passages in the famous "resurrection chapter" of 1

Corinthians 15. Paul explains many wonderful truths about the

immortal resurrection of the saints and with what body they will

have in that mighty resurrection. A change must come for as he

states in verse 50, flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of

God, neither does corruption inherit incorruption. He admits in

verse 51, that not all saints or children of God will be asleep

in death, some will be living in their flesh and blood body. Yet

in a twinkling of an eye, AT THE LAST TRUMP (the same trump 

as the seventh one in the book of Revelation), at the sound of the 

last trumpet, the dead shall be RAISED incorruptible and those still

alive in the flesh, shall be CHANGED. 


     This is unquestionably talking about the RESURRECTION of 

the saints, the FIRST resurrection as Revelation 20 informs us. It is

the time when the Job knew he would be raised from the dead and

CHANGED (Job 14:10-15), when the REDEEMER would COME 

in the latter days and STAND on the earth (Job 19:25).


     Paul talks about the same time in 1 Thessalonians chapter 4,

verses 13-18.


     He wants us not to be ignorant of those who have died in

Christ (verse 13). If we believe Jesus died and rose again, then

those who die in Christ, will come with Him, when He returns to

this earth to once more stand upon it (as Job said he would). How

will they come with Him? They will come with Him, not because

they are up in heaven and come with Him to earth from heaven,

but, or "FOR" the connecting word, Paul goes on to tell us how

they will come with Jesus to earth.

     Those that are alive in the flesh will not precede to meet

Jesus before those which are asleep in the graves. FOR, the

connecting word again, verse 16, the Lord shall descend from

heaven with ...a TRUMPET sound, and the dead in christ shall 

rise first, and those saints alive in the flesh (shall be changed as

we have seen in 1 Corinthians 15), both groups of saints, will

caught up into the CLOUDS, into the AIR, to meet with the Lord

(nothing here about going back to heaven, nothing here about

going any higher than the clouds). Then as Paul says, we shall

ever be with the Lord.


     What Paul does not answer here, is WHERE shall we go 

AFTER me meet the Lord in the clouds of the air of this earth?


     The answer is in another part of the Bible. Ah, yes, that is

why we are to read the Bible from COVER to COVER. God often 

does not give us the answer to a certain truth or topic in just one

place. Certainly the truths of what takes place at the coming of

the Lord Messiah, is not all in one place or one passage of

Scripture.


     The answer as to where we go after we have met the Lord in

the clouds is given to us in the book of Zechariah, chapter 14.


     The chapter opens and we are in "the day of the Lord" and

specifically  when all nations are gathered to fight at

Jerusalem, and the Lord (Hebrew is YHVH in verse 3,5,7,9) will 

go forth and fight against them. This is the same as Revelation

chapter 16, and 19. Notice verse 4. It is IN THAT DAY, just

spoken about in verse 1-3, that the Lord's FEET will STAND on the

Mount of Olives which is before Jerusalem. Notice verse 5 and the

last words, "...and the Lord my God (yes Jesus the Messiah is

Lord and God, but so is His Father, two beings but both are part

of the Godhead. See other in-depth studies on this Website about

God) shall come and all the saints (or holy ones) with thee." 


     The CONTEXT of the chapter and verses that follow, prove

this is the very day of Jesus' return to earth, and in that day

His feet stand on the mount of Olives. The saints are with Him!

Yes, because they have been resurrected or changed to glory as we

have already seen. From the meeting with Christ in the clouds of

the air, we saints will continue to descend with Him, to the

mount of Olives, to fight against the nations that have come up

to Jerusalem to fight, which ties in with Revelation 16 and 19.


NOT ALL UNBELIEVERS WILL BE DESTROYED


     Not all people from all nations will come up to Jerusalem to

fight against Jesus and the saints on His day of return. But the

main armies of the Beast power and the main armies of the men 

of the east, on the east side of the river Euphrates (see Rev.16:12-

16) will comprise the overall ten kings or kingdoms to unite with

the man beast and fight the Lamb (Jesus) on His coming 

(see Rev.17:12-14).


     The prophet Isaiah was given the same vision of this

specific day of the Lord, when the Lord will come with fire and 

a sword to fight (Isa.66:15-24). Notice verse 19. There will be

some nations of people who despite seeing the signs of heaven,

and the glory of the coming Messiah, will NOT know what is going

on. They will not know the Lord. They will not understand God's

word, nor will they have been shown the fame and the glory of the

Lord. God will send missionaries to these people and they shall

be taught the word and ways of the Lord. Again read carefully the

words of Isaiah 2:1-4. People will learn and will want to come up

to Jerusalem for they will have heard that God is dwelling there.

They will want to know the laws and commandments of God.


     There are many passages on how the blindness of the

spiritual veil covering the minds of people, will be lifted, from

the day forward that Jesus' feet touch the mount of Olives. 


JUDAH WILL FIGHT AT JERUSALEM


     Everywhere in the prophets of old where you read about the

House of Judah and the House of Israel at the coming of the

Messiah, you will find BOTH Houses, both the people of Judah 

and Israel, are in CAPTIVITY to their enemies, out of which 

Jesus saves them, delivers them. Some of the Jews will still be 

in Judea and Jerusalem as captives from the time of the last 42

months of this age, to the time of Christ's glorious coming. 

We find this truth in chapters 12 and 13 of Zechariah.


     Jerusalem is a cup of trembling to all nations, and all

nations are gathered together against it (verses 2 and 3). God

will again open His eyes upon Judah, and those Jews inhabiting

Jerusalem will be strong again through the Lord (verses 4,5). God

will save the Jews left there, he will now defend them from their

enemies, and they shall become strong, as the Lord seeks to

destroy the nations that come against Jerusalem (verses 8,9).

Grace, salvation will be poured upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem

as they look upon Him whom they pierced, and they shall weep 

as they now will admit Jesus the Christ was and is indeed the

Messiah (verse 10). There will be mourning and weeping of

repentance and joy mingled as one (verses 11-14).


     Chapter 13 continues with "in that day" - it is national

repentance and a time when so-called "prophets" (religious

leaders) admit they should have been farmers and not teachers of

God's word (verses 1-5).


     The time has come for God to do battle against the nations

at Jerusalem as foretold in Revelation 16. It is the battle of

Armageddon and the battle of Jerusalem.  It is time to deliver

Israel and Judah out of their enemies hands. It is time to cast

the beast man with the false prophet man into the fire burning

with brimstone (Revelation 19:19-21).


ISRAEL AND JUDAH UNITE AND RETURN TO PALESTINE


     The house of Israel and the House of Judah have been

scattered into the nations of their enemies (Ezekiel 34:1-8). It

is for their sins that they have been punished with destruction

and captivity, and in a large part that punishment for sins came

upon them because the "shepherds" (leaders - especially religious

leaders) did not feed them on the truth of the word of the Lord.

     God will now upon his coming to earth DELIVER Israel and

Judah from the nations they have been scattered into (verses

11-16). It is the time of the RESURRECTION for David is raised 

up to be again their king under the Messiah. It is the time when

Israel shall NEVER again be a prey to the heathen. They will

dwell in full safety, which has never happened in all history

(verses 22-28).


     Ezekiel 36. What a wonderful chapter. Deliverance for Israel

(all 13 tribes) from their enemies. It is a time of RESTITUTION

of Israel and all good physical things. It is a time when a NEW

heart is given them, a heart of flesh and not stone, a heart

filled with God's Spirit.


     Then comes the little understood chapter 37 of Ezekiel. 

The valley of dry bones. It is a physical resurrection of physical

Israelites that have died, especially in the last 42 months of

the age of man, during the Great Tribulation and the Day of the

Lord.

     This is clearly a physical resurrection of Israelites, the

words are plain to understand.

     This section ties directly in with Isaiah chapter 24 through

chapter 27. The Feast of Tabernacles is now a reality

(chap.25:6). Blindness of the heart is removed, and death and

tears are wiped away (verses 7,8). Now it truly can be said "Lo,

this is our God, and we have waited for Him, and He will save

us,: this is the Lord and we have waited for Him, we will be glad

and rejoice in his salvation" (verse 9).

     Notice the song to be sung in the land of Judah in that day

- chapter 26. Isaiah tells them, Israel and Judah, that when HE

arises in the resurrection, their dead men will also rise (verse

19). Here is Ezekiel 37, a physical resurrection for Israelites,

the time when the stick of Israel and the stick of Judah will be

united as ONE stick. It is the coming of the Lord to raise the

saints to immortality and to raise many physical Israelites back

to physical life, at the last trumpet, when the angels shall go

forth and gather the ELECT from the four winds, to CHANGE 

the living saints from flesh and blood to immortal spirit, to lead

them to the clouds of the air of this world, so they can be

united with their Savior, and come with Him to fight the nations

gathered at Jerusalem, and to set foot on the mount of Olives

that same day.


     It is the time to raise many physical Israelites to physical

life, and to gather ALL living Israelites from the nations of the

world where they have been scattered, as punishment for their

sins, and to lead them back to Palestine, where they will be

given a heart of flesh and God's Spirit, and everlasting peace

and safety, as well as the spiritual salvation of the Lord God,

who will now dwell in their midst.


THE WONDERFUL ISAIAH ELEVEN AND TWELVE 


     This has only been a short brief look at the many prophecies

of the beginning of the 1,000 year reign of Jesus the Messiah on

earth.


     Isaiah chapter 11 and 12 add some more in a relative

nut-shell passage of inspiring truths of promises, concerning

that age to come at the glorious coming of the Messiah.

     

     Most agree that verse one of chapter 11, is talking about

the Branch of Jesse as Jesus the Christ, and how He will judge

the world in righteousness. When He does this it is the time of

miracles among the physical animals of the world, when the lion

shall eat straw like the ox. In that day the Lord shall set His

hand to recover the remnant of the people of Israel from certain

nations. The outcasts of Israel and the dispersed of Judah shall

be gathered as one people from the four corners of the earth.

There will be another great Exodus as like it was when the tribes

of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt under the leadership

of Moses.

     It is a time of singing, praising the Lord. It is the time

when HE will DWELL, literally in the midst of them.


     What a mighty and WONDERFUL day that will be!!


                     ..................



Written 2004


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