Eternity is in Our Heart: Session 6 – He Shall Reign

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He Shall Reign    See Session Slides Here

The Kingdom is bigger than the Church. Who will be in the Kingdom?

1) The Nations. Those who survive Tribulation and Armageddon, who had not followed Antichrist. ‘Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and those who dwell in it are desolate. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men are left’ (Isa.24:6). ‘And it shall come to pass that everyone who is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles’ (Zech.14:16). The judgment of the nations, Matt.25:31-46.

  • Satan will be bound 1000 yrs. Now he deceives individuals (Rev.12:9) and nations ‘…and he cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal on him, so that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years were finished’ (Rev.20:3).
  • There will be universal knowledge of the Lord, (Isa.11:9). ‘Now it shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow to it. Many people shall come and say, “Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; He will teach us His ways, and we shall walk in His paths” (Isa.2:2-3).
  • These will be unregenerate, therefore Christ will reign over them with a rod of iron, (11:4; Rev.19:15; Rev.2:26-27). The earth will be populated, partly, by unsaved people. ‘He shall judge between the nations, and rebuke many people’ (Isa.2:4). ‘And it shall be that whichever of the families of the earth do not come up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, on them there will be no rain’ (Zech.14:17).
  • At the end of the 1,000-year period Satan will be loosed, and he will deceive many of these natural people and incite them to rebel against God. Their rebellion will fail (Rev. 20:7–9).

2) Israel

  • The Kingdom of God has currently been taken from Israel and given to another ‘nation’ (the Church). ‘O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing! See! Your house is left to you desolate;for I say to you, you shall see Me no more till you say, “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!”’ (Mt.23:37-39).
  • But it will be restored to Israel, Acts 1:3-7. ‘For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: “The Deliverer will come out of Zion, And He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob; For this is My covenant with them, when I take away their sins”’ (Rom. 11:25-27).
  • The elect will be saved, (Zech.12:10; 13:8-9) and be God’s witness in the earth during the Tribulation.

3) The Church

  • The Church is betrothed to Christ. The Marriage of the Lamb will be at the Father’s House, i.e. heaven.
  • The Marriage Supper, however, will be on earth. ‘Then he said to me, “Write: ‘Blessed are those who are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb!’”’ (Rev.19:9). It begins the Millennium, Lk.22:16-18, 29-30. Mt.22:1-14. Who are the guests?
  • The redeemed who are not part of the Church.
  • The OT saints. ‘And I say to you that many will come from east and west, and sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven’ (Mt. 8:11).
  • The Tribulation saints. 144,000 Jewish evangelists. ‘“Therefore go into the highways, and as many as you find, invite to the wedding.So those servants went out into the highways and gathered together all whom they found, both bad and good. And the wedding hall was filled with guests”’ (Mt. 22:1-14).
  • We will reign on earth. God placed Adam & Eve to rule Eden as king & queen. They failed. Christ, the Second Adam, and the Church, His Bride, will reign, Rev.5:10.