npetreley: //As far as I can see, the Bible doesn't answer this question.
All it says is that at the end of the 1,000 years, satan
is let loose and manages to rally a lot of people.
I'm not sure that even relates to your question, but you'd
have a hard time convincing me that the people satan rallies are saved.//
Beautiful example of an answer. The question is NOT delt with directly
in the Bible. But principles are in the Bible. One of the principles
is that Satan (Lead Devil) cannot 'rally' the saved.
So there have to be some unsaved people after the Millinnial Messanic
Kingdom for Satan to deceive. Where do they come from?
Again, a question with no direct answer.
I beleive that the MOD (MOunt Olivet Discourse) of Jesus
is contained in Mattew chapters 24-25. The questions the disciples
asked are in Matthew 25:3
The signs of the destruction of the Temple (also signs of the
continuing Church age) are in Matthew 24:4-14.
The signs of the Second Coming of Jesus and the Tribulation SIGN
before it is in Matthew 24:14-30.
The signless pretribulation rapture (end of the age) is
in Matthew 24:31-44.
Matthew 24:45 through Matthew 25:30 are
Matthew 31-46 is NOT A PARABLE and disucsses the Sheep And Goat
NATIONS judgement. This judgement takes place at the end of the
Tribulation Period and before the Millinnial Messanic Kingdom.
On trial here are the nations other than Israel that were around
during the Tribulation Period. Recall that in general 5/6 of all
humanity dies in the Tribulation Period. Perchance some countries
will sill be half populated, some almost non-existant.
Anway, the nations will be judged.
All these nations are composed of unsaved people.
Those nations that in general
helped the Jewish/Israeli people (the BRETHEREN of JESUS) will go
into the Millinnial Messanic Kingdom.
Those nations that in general did not help the Jewish/Israeli people
in the Tribulation Period will be cast into hell. All the members of
the nation ARE NOT SAVED and were hell-bound anyway.
BTW, I strongly believe that there will be few if any gentiles
saved during the Tribulation Period (they sure won't go around
fooling the Antichrist like in Millionare LEFT BEHIND prophets for profit
may suggest)
So then there will be four classes of people (persons) in the
Millinnial Messanic Kingdom:
1. eternal - non-reproducing - God the Son
- Messiah Jesus, will rule with a rod of Iron:
directly Israel, indirectly (by Godly example/ perfect role
model of a leader/ etc) the whole world. The Gentile world will
beat a path to Israel, the model theocry.
2. eternal - non-reproducing - Church age elect saints
- Those who in the Judgement Seat of Christ were given
the reward of serving Jesus in the Millinnial Messanic Kingdom (MMK),
including the 12 apostiles (there are over 200 Million uncountable
Christians - way more than is needed to judge/administer a world
with a population only about 1 Billion (could be less) - not every
one of them will be rewared with service in the MMK
3. temporal - reproducing - Jewish/Isreaeli elect saints
- those protected in the widlerness by the very hand of God,
the O.T. heritage, the Promise of the Promised Land, the Godly
inhertance, the greatness of the nation Israel restored
4. temporal - reproducing - other nations, the Sheep nations
-Israel is only part of the world. These other nations (the meek)
shall inherit the rest of the earth.
But that is only what Ed gets out of reading the prophecies for
the last 54 years, less one month. The milage of others may vary.
See the latter chapters of Ezekiel and Zechariah, etc.
