Msg #2343 Best Way to Enter the Millennial Kingdom

What The Bible Says

Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

The very best way to enter into the Millennial Kingdom is to be in an incorruptible body (1Cor.15:52, 1Thes.4:16-17), and riding in with Christ (Rev.19:14), to reign with him a thousand years (Rev.20:6). But if you are unsaved (Jhn.3:17-18), and miss the rapture of the church, you could still get in as a plebeian living in your corruptible body. To do that you will need to survive the Great Tribulation where 1/3 of the world's population is destroyed three times; leaving about 2 billion of the 8. Then you will need to make it through the Battle of Armageddon, where, if you are a conscript in any nation's army, you die, if you receive the mark of the beast, you die, and if you worship his image, you die (Rev.19:19-21). If you become a follower of the Lamb through all this, and an innumerable number do (Rev.7:9-10), you will be a martyr, killed by the whore that sits on the beast (Rev.17:1-6, 6:9-10). Followers of the Lamb, you see, are beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and they enter the kingdom with incorruptible bodies, as part of the first resurrection (Rev.20:4).

So as a plebeian, in a physical body, the odds of you stepping into the Millennial Kingdom of Christ are very slim. If you do get there you will see Isaiah 4 fulfilled for Israel, the lion lay down with a lamb (Isa.11:6), and the river flowing out of the temple of God in Jerusalem (Ezk.47), which brings life, and a great multitude of fish, to the Dead Sea! (47:8-9).

With the war in Israel we are on the cusp of WWIII! Be saved (Jhn3:16-18) before Christ comes FOR his saints (1Thes.4:16), enter the Kingdom when he comes riding WITH his saints (Rev.19:14).

An Essay for week #43 - Oct 22, 2023

Msg in audio at www.GSBaptistChurch.com/audio/gs231022.mp3

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