The Kingdom has come.

Introduction

The Broken world...

An officer and a Gentlemen.

The 1000-year reign. (millennial reign or kingdom)

Why millennial reign? (Fulfill OT Covenants)

Acts 1:6 NASB95

6 So when they had come together, they were asking Him, saying, “Lord, is it at this time You are restoring the kingdom to Israel?”

Views

Post Millennialism

Amillennialism

Premillennialism

Rev 20:1-6

The Key (vv1-3)

Revelation 9:1 “1 Then the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from heaven which had fallen to the earth; and the key of the bottomless pit was given to him.” (“the abyss Rev 9:11)

Thrones and Judgment

Christ (King)

Raptured saints

Matthew 19:28 “28 And Jesus said to them, “Truly I say to you, that you who have followed Me, in the regeneration when the Son of Man will sit on His glorious throne, you also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.”

Revelation 3:21 “21 ‘He who overcomes, I will grant to him to sit down with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.”

Daniel 7:22 “22 until the Ancient of Days came and judgment was passed in favor of the saints of the Highest One, and the time arrived when the saints took possession of the kingdom.”

1 Corinthians 6:2 “2 Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? If the world is judged by you, are you not competent to constitute the smallest law courts?”

Martyred Tribulation Saints (Rev 20:4)

Exalting Jesus in Revelation During the Kingdom, the Saints Will Reign (Revelation 20:4–6)

A final blessing for the participants in the first resurrection is that they will reign with the Lord Jesus Christ for a thousand years, along with believers who survived the Tribulation. Politically and socially, the rule of Christ and His saints will be universal (

Satan Defeated

Four Corners

Revelation 7:1 NASB95

1 After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth, so that no wind would blow on the earth or on the sea or on any tree.

Gog and Magog - enemies of God (Ezekiel 38, 39)

Beloved city = Jerusalem

Fire=refinement, removal, judgement

Lake of Fire

Final Judgement - Great White Throne

Dead 4 times (Eph 2:1-3)

John 5:22 “22 “For not even the Father judges anyone, but He has given all judgment to the Son,”

John 5:26–27 “26 “For just as the Father has life in Himself, even so He gave to the Son also to have life in Himself; 27 and He gave Him authority to execute judgment, because He is the Son of Man.”

Acts 10:42 “42 “And He ordered us to preach to the people, and solemnly to testify that this is the One who has been appointed by God as Judge of the living and the dead.”

Acts 17:30–31 “30 “Therefore having overlooked the times of ignorance, God is now declaring to men that all people everywhere should repent, 31 because He has fixed a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness through a Man whom He has appointed, having furnished proof to all men by raising Him from the dead.””

Romans 2:15–16 “15 in that they show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending them, 16 on the day when, according to my gospel, God will judge the secrets of men through Christ Jesus.”

2 Timothy 4:1 “1 I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His kingdom:”

Conclusion

“We are not judged by our works but our works will be judged.”

The Judgement Seat of Christ (Bema

Romans 14:10–12 “10 But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you regard your brother with contempt? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God. 11 For it is written, “As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to Me, And every tongue shall give praise to God.” 12 So then each one of us will give an account of himself to God.”

2 Corinthians 5:10 “10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.”

1 Corinthians 3:10-15