You're mixed up in Revisionist history.
Actually Veteran, I have been a life-long student of New Testament history and my views are based on my own study of the historical record. I’m afraid it is you who has gotten tangled up with a biased view of history that millennialists use to try to support their view claiming it is the historic view of the New Testament church. The truth of that is self-evident to you as you know what and who your sources are, and it’s not history, it’s men who are teaching you these views.
When I speak of the 'early Church', I'm speaking of the time of Apostle Paul and the 1st century Church. The ideas of Amillennialism among a minority in the Church didn't even begin... until the later 2nd century A.D.!
That’s not true Veteran. The doctrine that the kingdom Jesus came to establish is
the Kingdom of Heaven is the whole point of the entire Bible. It’s what the Law foreshadowed, it’s what the Prophets foretold, it’s what the Old Covenant kingdom of Israel and Jerusalem and the temple and its sacrifices and observances all pointed to, and it is the
only kingdom the New Testament teaches. Jesus himself said his kingdom
is not of this world.
Jesus did not lay down his life to set up an earthly kingdom in Israel for the Jews, he laid down his life to open a Way into the kingdom of Heaven for all nations. Think about it brother, Jesus taught constantly about the coming kingdom, but not one time did he ever teach an earthly kingdom.
The only kingdom he taught was the Kingdom of heaven. Go back and read the Gospels again, and don’t let the current popularity of secular interpretations of prophecy get you all tangled up in the error of a secular kingdom, the same error made by Rabbinic Judaism that caused them to miss the very promise they were looking for. The true kingdom, the one Jesus came to establish, the one Jesus taught, the one the New Testament church believed in, the one true Christendom has believed in for 1983 years, is not an earthly kingdom … its God’s Kingdom of Heaven.
Furthermore, Judaism claimed to look for Christ and an eternal everlasting fleshy kingdom at His appearance, and not involving just a 1,000 years.
Again, that’s not correct Veteran. A 1000-year physical, earthly kingdom that will precede the eternal state began as a Rabbinic Jewish doctrine even before the time of Jesus, and they still believe that to this day. It’s what historians call the “messianic expectation” of Rabbinic Judaism, and it reached a fever pitch during New Testament times. Rabbinic Jewish messianic doctrine had taught the people to expect a messiah that was vastly different from Jesus. They were and still are expecting a glorious warrior messiah who will “deliver Israel from her enemies” (foreign political domination), set up his throne in Jerusalem, and establish the Jewish nation to rule and reign over a restored Davidic kingdom, but on a global scale.
And when Jesus came to them, poor and humble, preaching repentance and forgiveness, even of your enemies, the Jewish authorities rejected him outright and flatly refused his message, even in the face of the wondrous things he taught and the many miracles he did. The fact that Jesus did not liberate Israel from Roman occupation, set up a throne in Jerusalem, and bring the nations into subjection to Jewish authority is why they rejected him and why they crucified him. He wasn’t the kind of messiah they were looking for based on their secular interpretations of prophecy. They wanted, and still want, the kind of messianic kingdom that millennialism envisions.
But the “earthly” messianic kingdom of millennialism was not what the Law and the prophets foretold, it was a false vision based on their own carnal interpretation of the Scriptures. Not only did that false vision lead them to crucify the Lord, it also led them to revolt against Rome and try to establish the kingdom they envisioned by the sword under the leadership of a series of false messiahs, and in that they fulfilled the Law and the Prophets and brought about the judgment and destruction of the Jewish state and the Old Covenant economy exactly as the Law and the Prophets, and John the Baptist, and Jesus and Paul all foretold.
The citations for a 1000-year earthly kingdom taught by Rabbinism are far, far too many to try to list, but here’s a link to the Jewish Encyclopedia from 1906, before the current popularity that millennialism is enjoying in the western evangelical churches so it is uninfluenced by the currently popular interpretations. It lists citations in the Hebrew Scriptures as well as the Talmudic literature but also a little bit about the history of the 1000-year earthly kingdom doctrine.
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/10840-millennium
So you are very much mistaken when you insist that the idea of a 1000-year secular kingdom was the belief of the New Testament church. That was and still is the doctrine of Rabbinic Judaism and was the prevailing view at the time of Jesus, which is why the Jewish authorities rejected Jesus, and why the vast majority of the Jewish people reject Jesus down to this very day … because they are blinded by the glory of the earthly things of the Old Covenant, the old earthly temple and kingdom, which were glorious to be sure, but glorious as they were their glory is but a shadow compared to the glory of the heavenly temple and kingdom Jesus has established:
“But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away: How shall not the ministration of the spirit be more glorious? For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth. For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious. Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech: And not as Moses, who put a veil over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished: But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ. But even to this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.” 2 Corinthians 3:7-
So you see then that the majority of the Jewish people do not accept Jesus even today because they are blinded by the glory of the Old Covenant earthly temple and earthly kingdom, things which were done away in the days of the 1st coming of Jesus, but still the memory and the hope of them is what blinds so many of the Jewish people to the heavenly temple and kingdom which Jesus established at his 1st coming, of which he himself is the chief cornerstone, a temple and kingdom even more glorious than the shadows that were created to point to and teach about them. As a long-time student of the Mosaic Law I can, with the Spirit of God in Christ as my witness, state with all my heart that those old earthly things even today serve to teach us about all the heavenly blessings which we already have been given in Christ Jesus, things which no eye has seen or ear heard or man’s wisdom ever even imagined but which God reveals to us by His Spirit.
“At that time Jesus said, ‘I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.” Matthew 11:25
The Jews received the Law of God but the vast majority failed to look to Him to interpret it to them, and they were led astray by their own conceited interpretations. And while the evangelical church has from the very beginning recognized the insufficiency of our own righteousness, at least in theory, the greatest error of the nineteenth century evangelical church has been an overweening intellectual conceit which, in the case of interpretation of prophecy, is best summed up by the popular millennial teacher J. Dwight Pentecost, whom Dr. John F. Walvoord, President of Dallas Theological Seminary deemed the “father of modern millennialsm”: “If the literal meaning of any word or expression makes good sense in its connections, it is literal; but if the literal meaning does not make good sense, it is figurative.”(1)
Such a view makes the meaning of Scripture subject to “good sense,” or what the Scripture calls “mans’ wisdom,” without the need of spiritual revelation, a point on which I am at disagreement with our brother Wormwood on this same thread. The need for and utter dependence on the Spirit of God for our understanding and knowledge is repeatedly testified to in Scripture, and notice what Paul prayed for regarding the Ephesians: “Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints, cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers; That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory,
may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe…” Ephesians 1:15-19
It is God who gives us the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the rich and glorious blessings we have inherited, an inheritance which these secularists do not even begin to understand while they go about teaching the same old dust-and-ashes kingdom of their conceited interpretations that brought down the vast majority of the Jewish nation and excluded them from obtaining the very inheritance they were waiting for … God’s kingdom where Messiah Jesus sits on the throne of glory ruling and reigning over a kingdom they will never even see, let alone enter into.
“These things I have written to you concerning those who are trying to deceive you. As for you, the anointing which you received from Him abides in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you; but as
His anointing teaches you about all things, and is true and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, abide in Him.”
In Christ,
Pilgrimer
(1) Things To Come: A Study in Biblical Eschatology, Chapter III: General Considerations in Interpretation, Part V: The Interpretation of Figurative Language, page 40.
I would balk at the language of God's "final judgment of the Law." God does not judge his Law as there is nothing wrong with the Law. The Law is perfect and holy as Paul claims in Romans 7. The problem is not with God's law but man's weakness to keep the Law. The purpose of the cross was to provide a means of righteousness apart from law since none could be made righteous by law (again, not because of any fault in the law). The law will never pass away (Matthew 5). However, the purpose of the law is not to provide righteousness, but to point to Christ. I know you probably recognize all this, but I just think some clarification is in order because God's judgment is not aimed at law, but toward the rejection of his provision of righteousness in Christ.
First let me say that the statement “final judgment of the Law” does not mean God’s law was being judged. It means the final time that those who had covenanted with God to keep the Law (Israel) would be judged by the Law.
And second, when I say the Law “passed away,” I don’t mean the Law ceased to exist. I have numerous copies, in several languages. And I love the Law, and have studied it for most of my Christian life.
But the Law
as a means of being reconciled with God has passed away. Passed away in the sense that all those things which God provided to make it possible to keep the Law
have ceased to exist. That’s what I mean, and that’s what Paul meant when he said, “that which decays and waxes old is ready to vanish away.”
Even if we grant that your assessment is accurate, you would have to admit that such interpretations are based on implications not expressly stated in Scripture.
Oh not so, my brother! But I believe you simply read right over things that have a long and deep source in the Law and the Prophets that you are simply unfamiliar with. Perhaps, Lord willing, we’ll have time to take a look at some of them together.
I think trying to connect Matt. 24-25 with 2 Thess and so forth is to do so out of a preconceived notion rather than on any explicit statement of Paul or other Scripture writers.
You can assume that, but you would be wrong. We have only begun to discuss these things, I have many things I would like to share with you, but I assure you my beliefs are not based on implications and preconceived notions, but are very thoroughly grounded in Scripture, and particularly on the Law and the Prophets seen in the light of the Gospel.
Moreover, Isaiah and other prophets were very clear in their prophetic utterances about Assyria and Babylon in their role of exacting God's judgment for very specific behaviors (idolatry, injustice, etc.). It seems to me that if Paul's writing in 2 Thess were to be speaking of a specific revolution as indicating God's ultimate and "final judgment of the Law" that he would state such rather than using code and language of angels and second coming to make such an utterance. Paul does not seem like the kind of person who beat around the bush with his audiences.
Well why not back up and read how Paul began this letter:
“… we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure: which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer: Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you; And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power …”
Paul was clearly speaking to the Christians at Thessalonia who were enduring persecution and tribulation, and he was telling them that the Lord would recompense tribulation
on those who were troubling
them when he would be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels (revealed from heaven, not come from heaven, and angels are spirits, by the way) in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the Gospel of Jesus Christ.”
It is perhaps your own limited view that insists this language can only be talking about the 2nd coming, when clearly it’s talking not about Jesus physically coming from heaven (the 2nd coming) but talking about Jesus being “revealed” from heaven.
And also, at the 2nd coming it’s not angels that will accompany Jesus, it’s the saints that have died and gone to be with him who will accompany him at his 2nd coming: “For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him …” 1 Thessalonians 4:15
The fact that you don’t associate apocalyptic language with the judgment and destruction of the Jewish state isn’t because it’s not there, but because you automatically apply it to the 2nd coming. But the Scriptures are filled with it. For example, John the Baptist spoke of this fiery judgment of Israel:
“But he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire: Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
John used a parabolic image that was very familiar to his 1st century audience. When grain was harvested, they brought the stalks of grain to the threshing floor and then beat the stalks to break up the straws and to loosen the grain. Then they would scoop up pitchforks full and toss it in the air. The wind would carry away the lighter pieces of straw (chaff) and the heavier grain would fall back onto the floor to be gathered up and brought to the storehouse. The chaff would be gathered up and burned. If there was no wind to carry off the chaff, fanners would stand around the floor waving palm branches to blow off the chaff. This was what John meant about Jesus “having his fan in his hand,” and that he would thoroughly purge his “floor” (an old metaphor for the land of Israel) and gather his wheat into God’s storehouse, but the “chaff” he would burn up with fire.
And mind you, John aimed this dire warning directly at the Pharisees and Sadducees who had come to hear him preach, saying, “O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee the wrath to come?” Matthew 3:7-12
So the Gospels and Epistles do in fact use apocalyptic language in talking about the judgment and destruction of the Jewish state, and in the context of the coming of Jesus, the
first coming of Jesus, but when we have for so long viewed all this language as references to the 2nd coming it can be difficult to adjust our horizons and see things in a different light.
True, perhaps my comments were a bit overstated. However, as much as I love incorporating the historical context and understanding the perspective of the original audience, I think we really strip the heavenly focus of the early believers if we seek to make every claim in the NT attributable to some immediate historical event.
You tend to overstate quite often. I have never suggested that we “seek to make every claim in the NT attributable to some immediate historical event.” I have simply encouraged you to not seek to make every claim in the New Testament attributable to some distant historical event. Some apocalyptic language refers to the judgment in the last days of the Jewish state during the 1st coming of Jesus, and some apocalyptic language refers to the judgment of all nations in the days of the world at the 2nd coming of Jesus.
Again, I think Paul, of all writers, would be very explicit about 70AD if he was speaking specifically of the destruction of the Temple as the key event which signaled the end of the Old Covenant era.
Actually, Paul was very explicit about it, and taught more on the judgment and destruction of the Jewish state than he did on the final judgment and the end of the world. He especially wrote about it in Romans, for three straight chapters, repeatedly quoting the Old Testament and expounding on it. You have read it, I’m sure many times, but your read right over it and miss it.
And his letter to the Hebrews, to whom it most applied, he repeatedly drew on the Old Testament to warn them to not follow the example of their forefathers, “whose carcasses fell in the wilderness” (there is so much apocalyptic import to those few words). And he constantly juxtaposes the Christian Jews against those who rejected the Gospel: “For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God: But that which bearest thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.” And who can deny that Paul taught very explicitly that the Old Covenant was “ready to vanish away” and explained why. And it was in this letter that he wrote the passage which we have already discussed, about how it was foretold that God would “shake the heavens and the earth” so that the earthly kingdom would pass away and the kingdom which cannot be shaken would remain.
And in many other places and in many other ways Paul taught the judgment and destruction that was soon coming.
Rather, I think Paul's eschatology focused much more on the hearing of the Gospel as the moment when those under the old covenant were now held accountable by the new covenant message.
Again, perhaps an unfamiliarity with the Old Testament Law makes it difficult to see it, but let me show you how easily you can read right over apocalyptic language and not even realize it.
You know Paul is the one who taught that the Gospel was to the Jews first, and then to the Gentiles. That wasn’t just a theory with Paul, he actually practiced it. Every city and town and village he went to on his missionary journeys, he always went first the synagogue and preached to the Jews.
But one particular incident at Corinth perhaps expresses best the way Paul would use apocalyptic language that is easy for a student to miss without a strong familiarity with the Old Testament. I’m sure you know this story. Paul was pressed in the spirit to testify to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ, and when the Jews opposed themselves and blasphemed, Paul “shook his raiment, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.” Acts 18:5-6
That phrase, “your blood be upon your own heads, I am clean,” it had a lot of significance for the Jews. It was a well-known saying and it harked back to the Law of the Watchman.
“Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon the land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman: If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people; then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head. He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall be upon him. But he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul. But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his inquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand. So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me.” Ezekiel 33:1-6
So you see then how a phrase Paul uses can be loaded with Old Testament meaning but can pass right over our heads if we are not familiar with it. Just like Gehenna passes over the average Christian’s head because they do not know the history of the place. And how the “Supper of the Great God” in the Revelation passes over our heads if we do not know the source of such apocalyptic imagery.
There is simply no text in the NT that suggest that 70AD marks such a transition.
Yes, there is. For example:
“And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh. Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto. For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.” Luke 21:20-22
It would be impossible to argue that this did not come to pass in 70 A.D.
“Lo, he taketh away the first [offerings of the law] that he may establish the second [the body of Christ]. Hebrews 10:9
Again, it would impossible to argue that the offerings of the law did not stop in 70 A.D.
“In that he saith, a new covenant, he has made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.”
It is impossible to argue that the Old Covenant things did not pass away in 70 A.D.
“Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken …” Hebrews 12:26-28
It is impossible to argue that the “things that were made” were not “removed” in 70 A.D.
“O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?” Matthew 3:8
It is impossible to argue that this was not speaking of 70 A.D.
“And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven. But the children of the kingdom shall be cast into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” Matthew 8:11-12
It is impossible to argue that the “children of the kingdom” was not talking about the Jews and their being “cast into outer darkness” being excluded from the light.
“And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that city, shake off the dust of your feet. Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.” Matthew 10:15
It is impossible to argue that this was not speaking of the judgment and destruction of the 7-year war of 66 to 72 A.D. as the Romans destroyed every city, town, and village throughout the land in the war.
“Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves; be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues … But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over all the cities of Israel, till the Son of Man be come.” Matthew 10:16-23
It is impossible to argue that this was not fulfilled in the years before the cities of Israel were all destroyed in the war.
I can go on and on, but I think you get the point. There is far more about the judgment that was to occur in that generation than there is about the final judgment at the end of the world.
In Christ,
Pilgrimer
No, not... two resurrections, but two TYPES of resurrection at the SAME time. Resurrection unto Life is one type, the resurrection of damnation is another type. That is what my Lord Jesus showed in John 5:28-29, and it's HIS CAKE that I'm eating, not man's cake.
Either you accept that John 5:28-29 Scripture as it is written, or... you've left the simplicity it is written in. There's no way to misinterpret those two very different types of resurrection He gave there with the same "hour".
First statement yes. Second statement partially wrong.
Believing that the "dead" of Rev.20:5 remain unresurrected at Christ's second coming goes directly... against the John 5:28-29 Scripture. Believing that is an old tradition in the Church, and it is not correct.
When Paul revealed in 1 Cor.15 that as all have borne the image of the earthy, all shall also bear the image of the heavenly, that naturally includes the wicked also. That's who those "dead" are, the resurrection of damnation that also occurs at the time of Christ's return per John 5:28-29.
Just because John 5:28-29 is an obstacle to men's tradition of when the "dead" of Rev.20:5 are resurrected, it does mean to simply omit that John Scripture.
Christ showed this meaning also in Matt.25 about the sheep and goats. The goats would not be separated if they weren't raised at His coming too.
An Outline appears necessary:
A. Christ's coming:
1. resurrection of life and resurrection of damnation occurs at same time.
2. Christ's sheep separated from the goats
3. Christ's sheep reign with Him as the 1st resurrection
B. 1,000 years
1. Christ's elect reign with Him over...
2. ... the resurrection of damnation or goats or dead (spiritually dead)
3. time of all enemies put under His feet (timing of Rev.2:9); these are the nations outside the camp, the wicked outside the gates of the holy city (Rev.22:14-15); those in the "outer darkness"
4. these goats will learn doctrine and understanding
C. 1,000 years end
1. Satan loosed one more time to tempt the wicked
2. fire from God rains down on the group of wicked that go up against the "camp of the saints" and destroys them
3. Satan cast into the fire
D. Great White Judgment
1. the remaining wicked, or goats, or "dead", stand before the Judgment Seat
2. any of their names NOT found in the Book are cast into the lake of fire with haides
E. The SECOND Resurrection (unto Life)
1. SOME of the wicked that turned to Christ during the 1,000 years
2. THESE have their names found in the Book
3. THESE changed to the Resurrection of Life through Christ
F. God's Eternity of the New Heavens and a New Earth
Might be difficult to grasp that because of how so many assume the implied 2nd resurrection is about literally dead people that aren't resurrected until after the 1,000 years. The "second death" isn't about flesh death.
God's consuming fire is going to end this present world at Christ's coming. That is when the 1st resurrection is along with the resurrection of damnation.
Like I tried to explain, for man on earth today people are in either one of 2 states. One's spirit either is a 'new creature' through Christ Jesus or still... 'dead', even while... both are living and walking upon this earth. No different after Christ's return, except all will have the "spiritual body" type Paul taught in 1 Cor.15.
1 Cor 15:48-49
48 As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
(KJV)
Exactly who is Paul's "we" there? Well, have the wicked borne the "image of the earthy"? Yes. Likewise they will also bear the "image of the heavenly" during Christ's 1,000 years reign. Afterall, what exactly is... the idea of 'resurrection', even for the wicked per John 5:28-29?
That's been many's problem, thinking the "spiritual body" Paul taught is only for those in Christ Jesus when He comes. It's just... a body type for the Heavenly, the "image" required for the Heavenly dimension, even for the goats.
What's different is, the condition of one's 'spirit' or soul that's attached to that "spiriutal body". Paul taught this also in 1 Cor.15, but in the Greek of verse 53.
1. the idea of bodies - "corruptible must put on incorruption"
2. condition of one's spirit - "this mortal must put on immortality"
Each one of those underlined words are 4 separate Greek words.
At Christ's coming:
1. Resurrection of Life = spiritual body of incorruption AND the mortal soul being made immortal
2. resurrection of damnation = spiritual body of incorruption AND still a mortal soul 'liable to die' the "second death"
How about a much more simple explanation based on the Gospel.
1st Coming of Jesus
Salvation of Jews and Gentiles begins – spiritual resurrection of sheep
Judgment of Israel by the Law – goats cast out of kingdom into outer darkness
1000 years
Church Age – sheep reign with Christ
2nd Coming of Jesus
Redemption – saints physically resurrected/raptured to immortality
Judgment – wicked physically resurrected to damnation
Eternal State
Glorification – saints live forever in new heavens and earth
. 
