Spirit and Truth
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No...does scripture say where that thousand years will be spent?
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I'm sorry sir,Originally posted by Spirit and Truth:
The reason that I asked Ed, is because my Bible is not real clear on it:
None of the scriptures that you referenced say or require that the age being referred to does not include the tribulation. Christians who will live to enter into the great tribulation will be members of the church, for they (like other Christians) will have washed their robes in the blood of the Lamb (Revelation 7:14), will have the faith of Jesus (Revelation 14:12), and will die in the Lord (Revelation 14:13).From the post in this thread made on April 08, 2004 08:12 AM:
". . . These are what I'm calling 'the church age' . . . "
The "times of the Gentiles" referred to in Luke 21:24 can't be fulfilled before the tribulation because they will still be treading down Jerusalem during the tribulation (Revelation 11:2).From the post in this thread made on April 08, 2004 08:12 AM:
". . . times of the Gentiles . . . "
The scriptures nowhere refer to a church age, but instead say that the church will continue throughout all ages (Ephesians 3:21).From the post in this thread made on April 08, 2004 08:12 AM:
". . . the age which I call the 'church age' is in the Bible . . . "
No scripture says that all things on earth will pass away immediately after the second advent. The millennium of Revelation 20 must occur after the second advent of Revelation 19 because the millennium won't begin until after the resurrection of the church (Revelation 20:6), and those Christians martyred under the reign of the Antichrist will also reign with Christ for the thousand years (Revelation 20:4).From the post in this thread made on April 08, 2004 10:30 AM:
". . . All things on earth will be pass away at the second advent . . . "
Matthew 13:40's reference to the end of this world (or age) can be a reference to the world (or age) of this creation (John 9:32; Acts 15:18; 1 Corinthians 2:7), which will include the time of the millennium, subsequent to which creation heaven and earth will flee away (Revelation 20:11) and be replaced by the new creation (Revelation 21:1).From the post in this thread made on April 08, 2004 10:30 AM:
". . . AT THE END OF THIS AGE, the angels shall gather all unbelievers and cast them into eternality fire . . . "
Matthew 13:39-42 doesn't have to specifically mention the thousand years for it to be referring to the same event as Revelation 20:15, which is the casting of all those not written in the book of life into the lake of fire at the white throne judgment after the millennium and the battle of Gog and Magog (Revelation 20:7-15). The thousand years is clearly mentioned in the context of Revelation 20:7-15.From the post in this thread made on April 08, 2004 10:30 AM:
". . . The context of Matthew chapter 13 does not mentioned 'a thousand years' . . . "
Zechariah 14:3-5 shows the second coming of Christ and Zechariah 14:6-21 shows what will occur on the earth subsequent to the second coming. There will be unbelievers "left" after the second coming (Zechariah 14:16; compare Matthew 24:40), "heathen" nations who won't come up to worship Jesus without great punishment (Zechariah 14:17-19; see also Psalms 2:8-12), unbelieving nations which believers will rule over with a rod of iron during the millennium and break to shivers like a potter's vessel (Revelation 2:26-27).From the post in this thread made on April 08, 2004 03:31 PM:
". . . Zechariah 14 . . . "
In 2 Peter 3:10-13, the Apostle Peter is referring to that "day" which will begin with the second coming and end after the millennium, the battle of Gog and Magog, and the while throne judgment (Revelation 19:11-21:1), the same thousand-year "day" that the prophet Zechariah is referring to in Zechariah 14:20-21, which will continue "in summer and in winter" (Zechariah 14:8-9) and "from year to year" (Zechariah 14:16), for a thousand years are as a day in the Lord's sight (2 Peter 3:8).From the post in this thread made on April 09, 2004 08:14 AM:
". . . 2 Peter 3:10-13 tell us, old heavens and old earth shall be burned away by follow at the second coming of Christ . . . "
Are you referring to 2 Thessalonians 2:6-8? If so, the restrainer who is removed before the Antichrist is revealed (2 Thessalonians 2:7-8) can't be the Holy Spirit indwelling the church because Christians will be persecuted by the Antichrist (Revelation 13:10, 14:12-13), no one can be a Christian without the Spirit (Romans 8:9), no Christians are outside the church (Ephesians 4:4-5), and Christ's coming (parousia) to gather together the church will destroy the Antichrist (2 Thessalonians 2:1, 8).From the post in this thread made on April 09, 2004 03:04 PM:
". . . the restraining ministry of the Holy Spirit through the Church . . . "
In the Bible we see that no scripture says that the rapture will be before the tribulation. Matthew 24:29-31 shows Jesus coming and gathering together His elect in the rapture after the tribulation. 2 Thessalonians 2:1-8 refers to this same coming and gathering together (verse 1) and confirms that it can't happen until after the man of lawlessness is revealed (verse 3), for it must destroy him (verse 8). Revelation 7:14; 13:10; 14:12-13 confirms that we Christians will be here during the tribulation, and that we will need patience and faith during that time.From the post in this thread made on April 09, 2004 03:04 PM:
". . . at the pretrib rapture of the Church . . . "
John 14:3 refers to the second coming, when we will be raptured up to be where Jesus is in the clouds (1 Thessalonians 4:15-17). Once we are in the clouds with Jesus, no scripture says that we will be taken all the way into the third heaven, for Jesus and we must descend to reign on the earth for the thousand years (Revelation 20:4; Revelation 5:10). After the thousand years are expired, and after the battle of Gog and Magog and the white throne judgment (Revelation 20:7-15), we will then live forever in the Father's house, New Jerusalem (Revelation 21:2-3), where Jesus has prepared an eternal place for us (John 14:2).From the post in this thread made on April 10, 2004 10:00 AM:
". . . John 14:1-3 promises us, when Christ shall come again, He will received us, where He is, we shall dwell with him in our Father's house forever . . . "
From the abomination of desolation, the Antichrist will be given legal rule over the earth for 1,260 days (Revelation 13:5; compare Luke 4:5-7), at the end of which time the seventh trumpet will announce Christ's taking legal rule over the earth (Revelation 11:15-17), and the temple in heaven will be opened (Revelation 11:19). Out of this temple-opening will come forth the seven plagues of the seven vials (Revelation 15:5-7) to commence as temporal judgment upon the Antichrist and his kingdom. Vials 1-6 (Revelation 16:1-14) could last for thirty days. On the 1,290th day, after the sixth vial has been poured out, the promise of blessing of Daniel 12:12 and Revelation 16:15 will be given to those saints still alive on the earth. After this promise of blessing, the completion of the sixth vial's gathering of all the armies of the whole world to Armageddon (Revelation 16:16, 19:19), followed by the seventh vial (Revelation 16:17-21), could take forty-five days, so that Christ will come to resurrect, rapture and judge the church, and destroy the Antichrist and his armies (Revelation 19:20-21; 2 Thessalonians 2:8), on the 1,335th day, and blessed are those who wait until that day (Daniel 12:12, Revelation 16:15).From the post in this thread made on April 13, 2004 12:19 AM:
". . . Rev. 11:15 tells us, the seventh trumpet sounds, it says, 'The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ . . . . "
Jesus' reign will be for ever and ever as He will continue upon the throne with the Father even in the new creation (Revelation 22:3).From the post in this thread made on April 13, 2004 12:19 AM:
". . . and He shall reign for ever and ever . . . . "
Are you referring to Matthew 24:27? If so, Jesus' coming "as the lightning" in no way means that He will come secretly, for lightning doesn't come secretly -- everyone sees it. Rather, it means the opposite: Jesus' second coming will shine in the sky from the east to the west (Matthew 24:27); it will be unmistakable. In Matthew 24:27, Jesus is referring to the same coming of the Son of man as Matthew 24:29-30, immediately after the tribulation. There's no third coming.From the post in this thread made on April 13, 2004 12:11 PM:
". . . In a flash . . . . "
Are you referring to 1 Corinthians 15:52? If so, that passage doesn't say or require that the rapture will be before the tribulation, or that the rapture will be instantaneous, or that the rapture will be secret. All that that passage says will happen "in the twinkling of an eye" is the changing of the bodies of those believers who are still alive at the second coming into immortal bodies (1 Corinthians 15:51-52). The second coming itself will involve much more than that. First, Jesus must descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God (1 Thessalonians 4:16); then the dead in Christ must be resurrected (1 Corinthians 15:52; 1 Thessalonians 4:16); then we which are alive and remain must be changed in the twinkling of an eye into immortal bodies (1 Corinthians 15:52-53); then we which are alive and remain must be caught up together with the resurrected dead into the clouds to meet the Lord in the air (1 Thessalonians 4:17). No scripture says that all of this will happen before the tribulation, or that all of this will happen instantaneously, or that all of this will happen secretly.From the post in this thread made on April 13, 2004 12:11 PM:
". . . an instant . . . . "
In the world of actual physical applicationsOriginally posted by Spirit and Truth:
2Pe 3:8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day [is] with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
So if some people are taken out on the early rapture bus will their thousand years be longer, like say a thousand and three and a half years or a thousand and seven years longer than the ones who make the second "cut"?
Do you mean Luke 21:24? If so, Luke 21:24 says that Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled, and Revelation 11:2 says that Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles during the tribulation; therefore, the times of the Gentiles can't be fulfilled before the tribulation.From the post in this thread made on April 13, 2004 10:53 PM:
". . . The time when the Gentiles can be saved referred to in Luke 22:24 . . . "
The Christians who will live to enter into the great tribulation will be from every people (Revelation 7:9-14), not just the Jews.From the post in this thread made on April 13, 2004 10:53 PM:
". . . the time during which gentiles will be saved into the church . . . "
Because the Church has no end, it has no age. This is why the scriptures nowhere refer to a church age, but instead say that the church will continue "throughout all ages"(Ephesians 3:21).From the post in this thread made on April 13, 2004 10:53 PM:
". . . An age has a start time and an end time; the Church as spoken of in Ephesians 3:21 has
no end . . . "
What religion would the people in the tribulation be who will have washed their robes in the blood of the Lamb (Revelation 7:14), will have the faith of Jesus (Revelation 14:12), and will die in the Lord (Revelation 14:13), if not Christian?From the post in this thread made on April 13, 2004 10:53 PM:
". . . 'Christian who will live to enter into the great tribulation' denotes the null set . . . "
Christ said, "I will raise him up at the LAST DAY." - John 6:39,40,44, 54.In the world of Actual physical applications of arithmetic 1003 1/2 = 1000=1007.
How much more is a spiritual 1003 1/2 = 100=1007?
In your mind, it saying, "came out of great tribulaiton" means they rapture out BEFORE tribulation comes. But, not what the elder actual saying to John. The elder told John, they already through great tribulation before they come out. Please look to Rev. 6:9-11 "And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were SLAIN FOR THE WORD OF GOD, AND FOR THE TESTIMONY WHICH THEY HELD. And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their FELLOW SERVANTS also and their BRETREN, that should be KILLED as they were, should be fulfilled."This scripture shows Gentile Age saints in heaven. They have come out of the tribulation period judgment by being raptured BEFORE the tribulation period judgment.
When we look at the scriptures, we see that none of the seven seals (Revelation 6) or the seven trumpets (Revelation 8-9) of the tribulation is ever called a judgment. Only the seven vials (Revelation 16) are referred to as judgments (Revelation 15:4; 16:7), and they will in no way be directed against the believers who will be on the earth (Revelation 16:15).From the post in this thread made on April 20, 2004 07:01 AM:
". . . the tribulation period judgement . . . "
It says the great multitude "came out of great tribulation" (Revelation 7:14) because they had entered into it; they couldn't have come out of something that they hadn't entered into. And it doesn't say they were raptured; they could have entered heaven by dying in the seals in the chapter just prior (Revelation 6). In the Bible we see that no scripture says that the rapture will be before the tribulation. Matthew 24:29-31 shows Jesus coming and gathering together His elect in the rapture after the tribulation. 2 Thessalonians 2:1-8 refers to this same coming and gathering together (verse 1) and confirms that it can't happen until after the man of lawlessness is revealed (verse 3), for it must destroy him (verse 8). Revelation 7:14; 13:10; 14:12-13 confirms that we Christians will be here during the tribulation, and that we will need patience and faith during that time.From the post in this thread made on April 20, 2004 07:01 AM:
". . . They [Revelation 7:9-14] have come out of the tribulation . . . by being raptured BEFORE the tribulation . . . "
The Christians who will live to enter into the great tribulation will include Gentiles (Revelation 7:9-14), and there are no Christians outside of the church (Ephesians 4:4-6).From the post in this thread made on April 20, 2004 07:01 AM:
". . . the time during which one can join the church while being a gentile . . . "
Again, Luke 21:24 says that Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled, and Revelation 11:2 says that Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles during the tribulation; therefore, the times of the Gentiles can't be fulfilled before the tribulation.From the post in this thread made on April 20, 2004 07:01 AM:
". . . the age of Gentiles . . . "
"At the last day" in John 6:39-54 could refer to the beginning of the last thousand-year day of Creation, for a thousand years are as a day in the Lord's sight (2 Peter 3:8). The thousand years of Revelation 20 must occur after the second coming of Revelation 19 because the thousand years won't begin until after the resurrection of the church (Revelation 20:6), and those Christians martyred under the reign of the Antichrist will also reign with Christ for the thousand years (Revelation 20:4).From the post in this thread made on April 23, 2004 04:32 PM:
". . . I will raise him up at the LAST DAY . . . "
"The" resurrection (1 Corinthians 15:21) "at the last day" (John 6:39-54; 11:24) refers to the resurrection of believers (Revelation 20:4-6) at the beginning of the last thousand-year day of Creation, and of unbelievers at the end of the last thousand-year day (Revelation 20:5-13), for a thousand years are as a day in the Lord's sight (2 Peter 3:8).From the post in this thread made on April 27, 2004 01:42 PM:
". . . all scripture tell us one future resurrection at second coming of Jesus Christ . . . "