The Reality of the Millennial Kingdom

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Davy

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There is nothing within the context that speaks of His return here. Both at the same time,, yes but that time is the post-millennial GWTJ.

I strongly disagree.

John 5:28-29
28 Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear His voice,


29 And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.

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The context there is a certain "hour", and all in the graves coming forth. That means a general resurrection. That includes the wicked dead, which verse 29 is proof of that with His mention of the "resurrection of damnation" along with the "resurrection of life".

Of course many go directly against what our Lord Jesus said there, because they'd rather keep the tradition from men they have been taught all their life.
 

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I strongly disagree.

John 5:28-29
28 Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear His voice,


29 And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.

KJV

The context there is a certain "hour", and all in the graves coming forth. That means a general resurrection. That includes the wicked dead, which verse 29 is proof of that with His mention of the "resurrection of damnation" along with the "resurrection of life".

Of course many go directly against what our Lord Jesus said there, because they'd rather keep the tradition from men they have been taught all their life.

The first and second resurrection are a thousand years apart.
 
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Considering that is the whole basis for Christianity, it is most certainly not a lie. Jesus died for my sins along with everyone else's. If we can't apply it on a personal level than His sacrifice becomes meaningless! For clarity's sake, we are responsible for why he was crucified, not the physical act of the crucifixion. His whole reason for coming was to purchase the world's gift of salvation, if we only accept it.

What I said isn't about what our Lord Jesus' crucifixion represents. I know what His Blood shed on the cross represents. That's not the point.

The point is with false preachers trying to assign the 'guilt' of His crucifixion, and thus His blood, upon us, His Church.

That is an idea very close to blasphemy, simply because it was Lucifer's own elect servants ("synagogue of Satan") hidden within the Jews that stirred up the people and had Him crucified, and that blood guilt is upon those enemies of God, not us who have believed on Jesus' death and resurrection and were not even there to see His death!
 

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Sounds cool. So we can do whatever we like now, nothing matters as we all get a second chance during the millennium. Wow, and not even Satan there to bother us. We can all have a good time and sign up at the last minute!

You have the great honor to be spoken to directly by Jesus Christ while he was on Earth, he left a message in the bible just for you...hopefully to listen to his words, he personalized just for you.

Matthew 20:1 For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard.

Matthew 20:2 And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

Matthew 20:3 And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace,

Matthew 20:4 And said unto them; Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you. And they went their way.

Matthew 20:5 Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour, and did likewise.

Matthew 20:6 And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?

Matthew 20:7 They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard; and whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive.

Matthew 20:8 So when even was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, Call the labourers, and give them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first.

Matthew 20:9 And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny.

Matthew 20:10 But when the first came, they supposed that they should have received more; and they likewise received every man a penny.

Matthew 20:11 And when they had received it, they murmured against the goodman of the house,

Matthew 20:12 Saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day.

Matthew 20:13 But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny?

Matthew 20:14 Take that thine is, and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee.

Matthew 20:15 Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?

Matthew 20:16 So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.
 

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Sounds cool. So we can do whatever we like now, nothing matters as we all get a second chance during the millennium. Wow, and not even Satan there to bother us. We can all have a good time and sign up at the last minute!

There is no such second chance idea with what he posted, because a soul that is in ignorance is in a different state than a soul that knows about Christ. And one would have to be naive to think that all souls during this present world have had their chance to hear The Gospel with ears to hear, and eyes to see. The main reason for Christ's future reign over the unsaved nations is to show those that are left that He is God The Son, and that His Salvation offer is real. Like Peter said in 2 Pet.3, God is not willing for anyone to perish. And because of that future reign, with God being revealed to them beyond all doubt, if they still choose unbelief then God is Just to destroy them with the devil who caused the original rebellion in the first place.
 
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I didn't really get that sense from the one who ruled for only an hour?

Consider: God put it in their heart to fulfill His will, ...until the words of God be fulfilled.

And they hate the whore, they make her desolate, naked, eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.

Revelation 17:16-17
[16] And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire. [17] For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.

Revelation 18:17
[17] For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,

In ‘one hour’ her, the whore’s riches come to nothing. —is it good that her riches come to nothing?

Did they do God’s will also?

But hold up: before you reply consider: Matthew 20:12 Saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day.

“...thou hast made them equal to us...” doesn’t God have the right?
 

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The new creation has begun. It is the new creature(s) that inherits the earth.

2 Corinthians 5:17-18
[17] Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. [18] And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;

That we become as a "new creature" inside, meaning our spirit/soul does, that's true. But the creation, along with us, still await the adoption and redemption of our bodies.

Going deep... some will get this, some won't:

Rom 8:18-25
18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.

The word for "creature" in the Greek is the same word used for "creation" further down in verse 22. Paul is talking about God's creation. God's creation is waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God. That means the future manifestation, when Jesus returns and ends this present world time. It's the state John said he didn't know what we would be, but that when He appears, we shall look like Him, pointing to the future resurrection body, and literal spirit body. So God's creation today, is still waiting for that change.



20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

Did you know that the creation was subjected to vanity, and put in bondage of corruption, and today still seeks a release from that? Few seem to understand this, even though Paul revealed it there.


When was God's creation place in bondage of corruption? Some will say at the fall of Adam and Eve, but actually it was before that, when Satan first rebelled in wanting to be God. The state of God's creation for this present world is in bondage to corruption, vanity, meaning there is nothing perfect; everything dies and is in an imperfect state. It's still a beautiful creation today, but it's now going to be comparable to the glory of the future world to come. God showed through Isaiah in the future world about wild animals that are enemies today laying down in peace with one another, the cow and bear feeding together and the lion eating straw like an ox.

So that "glorious liberty of the children of God" has not yet come today, for even the creation is waiting for it, because it will be when the creation also is delivered from the bondage of today's world.


23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.

Our spirit/soul within our flesh also groans for that release from this imperfect condition of today's world, and await the redemption of our body (which body? our spiritual body that Paul taught of in 1 Cor.15).



24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
KJV
 
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That we become as a "new creature" inside, meaning our spirit/soul does, that's true. But the creation, along with us, still await the adoption and redemption of our bodies.

Going deep... some will get this, some won't:

Rom 8:18-25
18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.

The word for "creature" in the Greek is the same word used for "creation" further down in verse 22. Paul is talking about God's creation. God's creation is waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God. That means the future manifestation, when Jesus returns and ends this present world time. It's the state John said he didn't know what we would be, but that when He appears, we shall look like Him, pointing to the future resurrection body, and literal spirit body. So God's creation today, is still waiting for that change.



20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

Did you know that the creation was subjected to vanity, and put in bondage of corruption, and today still seeks a release from that? Few seem to understand this, even though Paul revealed it there.


When was God's creation place in bondage of corruption? Some will say at the fall of Adam and Eve, but actually it was before that, when Satan first rebelled in wanting to be God. The state of God's creation for this present world is in bondage to corruption, vanity, meaning there is nothing perfect; everything dies and is in an imperfect state. It's still a beautiful creation today, but it's now going to be comparable to the glory of the future world to come. God showed through Isaiah in the future world about wild animals that are enemies today laying down in peace with one another, the cow and bear feeding together and the lion eating straw like an ox.

So that "glorious liberty of the children of God" has not yet come today, for even the creation is waiting for it, because it will be when the creation also is delivered from the bondage of today's world.


23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.

Our spirit/soul within our flesh also groans for that release from this imperfect condition of today's world, and await the redemption of our body (which body? our spiritual body that Paul taught of in 1 Cor.15).



24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
KJV

Admittedly I have no idea what a creation NOT in the bondage of vanity looks like. Maybe we get a glimpse in what we are supposed to display in the fruits of the Spirit. We are told to not have respect of persons. And that what man (without God)finds desirable is an abomination to God. The best seat. The highest position. Stepping on others to get there. Our definition of beauty is even subject to bondage (imo), in that the definition alone is warped.
 

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Consider: God put it in their heart to fulfill His will, ...until the words of God be fulfilled.

And they hate the whore, they make her desolate, naked, eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.

Revelation 17:16-17
[16] And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire. [17] For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.

Revelation 18:17
[17] For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,

In ‘one hour’ her, the whore’s riches come to nothing. —is it good that her riches come to nothing?

Did they do God’s will also?

But hold up: before you reply consider: Matthew 20:12 Saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day.

“...thou hast made them equal to us...” doesn’t God have the right?

Well, for this world God made some vessels to be destroyed...

2 Peter 2:12-13
12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;


13 And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;
KJV


Those are the "workers of iniquity" Peter is talking about. He doesn't use that term which is found mostly in the OT, but instead uses the idea of "brute beasts" to label them. Those are not simply brethren that slip up and sin at times. It's about those who sin willingly, and teach others to sin, even while having crept within Christ's Church!

Much of the New Testament Epistles include warnings against sinning and wickedness. But Paul himself warned the brethren when his end was drawing near, that he knew false ones would creep into the Church. Peter warned about it too for the last days. In 2 Cor.11, Paul even showed how Satan's workers disguise themselves as the ministers of righteousness.

So no wonder there's so many doctrines of men (basket of fragments) being taught in the Churches, and Biblically-blind preachers preaching world Socialism. God allows it for the same reasons He gave back in Judges 2 about not following the Canaanites in idol worship. He uses His enemies to test us with to see if we will listen to Him or not.
 
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Well, for this world God made some vessels to be destroyed...

2 Peter 2:12-13
12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;


13 And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;
KJV


Those are the "workers of iniquity" Peter is talking about. He doesn't use that term which is found mostly in the OT, but instead uses the idea of "brute beasts" to label them. Those are not simply brethren that slip up and sin at times. It's about those who sin willingly, and teach others to sin, even while having crept within Christ's Church!

Much of the New Testament Epistles include warnings against sinning and wickedness. But Paul himself warned the brethren when his end was drawing near, that he knew false ones would creep into the Church. Peter warned about it too for the last days. In 2 Cor.11, Paul even showed how Satan's workers disguise themselves as the ministers of righteousness.

So no wonder there's so many doctrines of men (basket of fragments) being taught in the Churches, and Biblically-blind preachers preaching world Socialism. God allows it for the same reasons He gave back in Judges 2 about not following the Canaanites in idol worship. He uses His enemies to test us with to see if we will listen to Him or not.

I get it ‘brute’ beast. Yet see, I have been the one doing the wasting. I was a vessel of destruction. I’ve also met vessels of destruction that made me all those things and brought riches to nothing. And now I’m shown mercy. They destoryed. I’ve destoryed.
Paul spoke of losing all and counting it dung that he might win Christ yet Paul also said ‘in witness of the Holy Ghost’his conscience lying not. Romans 9:1-3 I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, [2] That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. [3] For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:

“For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh.”

Don’t underestimate God’s love for what men despise.
 

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Well, for this world God made some vessels to be destroyed...

2 Peter 2:12-13
12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;


13 And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;
KJV


Those are the "workers of iniquity" Peter is talking about. He doesn't use that term which is found mostly in the OT, but instead uses the idea of "brute beasts" to label them. Those are not simply brethren that slip up and sin at times. It's about those who sin willingly, and teach others to sin, even while having crept within Christ's Church!

Much of the New Testament Epistles include warnings against sinning and wickedness. But Paul himself warned the brethren when his end was drawing near, that he knew false ones would creep into the Church. Peter warned about it too for the last days. In 2 Cor.11, Paul even showed how Satan's workers disguise themselves as the ministers of righteousness.

So no wonder there's so many doctrines of men (basket of fragments) being taught in the Churches, and Biblically-blind preachers preaching world Socialism. God allows it for the same reasons He gave back in Judges 2 about not following the Canaanites in idol worship. He uses His enemies to test us with to see if we will listen to Him or not.

Also, you get the bondage of vanity.

Revelation 18:17
[17] For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,

“...so great riches come to nought.” Absence of vanity. It has come to nought.
 

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Admittedly I have no idea what a creation NOT in the bondage of vanity looks like. Maybe we get a glimpse in what we are supposed to display in the fruits of the Spirit. We are told to not have respect of persons. And that what man (without God)finds desirable is an abomination to God. The best seat. The highest position. Stepping on others to get there. Our definition of beauty is even subject to bondage (imo), in that the definition alone is warped.

Yet our Heavenly Father gave us hints to the future world in His Word. We simply have to quit listening to man and instead to Him in His Word.

Rev 22:1-2
22:1 And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
2 In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
KJV

That River is further shown in Ezekiel 47 flowing out from under the Millennial sanctuary and contacting other waters on the earth healing them. It's literal location on earth in the middle east is even given. Strange that many forget Genesis 2 about this River that flowed out of God's Garden of Eden on earth, feeding four other rivers upon the earth, two of which we know still exist on earth today (Euphrates and Hiddekel or Tigris). Because our Lord Jesus used some spiritual metaphors to describe this River, men's doctrines have assigned this River as not being a literal manifesting on earth in the middle east. God's Word says different. And today we definitely have not seen trees that issue its fruits year round and the fruit never being consumed.



Rev 21:1
21:1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
KJV

That "no more sea" is a huge pointer to the difference with the world to come. That means the seventy percent of waters upon the earth today are going somewhere else. Just where was actually shown within God's Word elsewhere, but the "workers of iniquity" and the deceived preach strongly against it.



Rev 21:4
4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
KJV


No more death? What all would that apply to today? Could one ask if there ever was a time before that the concept of death never existed? It's hard to conceive of such an idea because today's world. But that's an example of how far away from understanding our Heavenly Father and His ways are from the majority today.

Heb 2:14-15
14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He also Himself likewise took part of the same; that through death He might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;
15 And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
KJV


The devil was given the power of death for a reason. It was because of Satan's original rebellion and sin. That is when the concept of 'death' began according to what God's Word shows with this contrast.


So there are hints about the future world to come that God left us. It just takes study and The Holy Spirit.

 

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I get it ‘brute’ beast. Yet see, I have been the one doing the wasting. I was a vessel of destruction. I’ve also met vessels of destruction that made me all those things and brought riches to nothing. And now I’m shown mercy. They destoryed. I’ve destoryed.
Paul spoke of losing all and counting it dung that he might win Christ yet Paul also said ‘in witness of the Holy Ghost’his conscience lying not. Romans 9:1-3 I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, [2] That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. [3] For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:

“For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh.”

Don’t underestimate God’s love for what men despise.

But there you're doing it again. You never were one of those "workers of iniquity", even before you came to Christ Jesus. If you had been, you would have been seeking to destroy the Faith even now. Those workers are different than the average sinner who doesn't know Christ. Those workers are the devil's own.

And Apostle Paul's kinsmen Jews there are not that "mystery of iniquity" either.

1 Chron 2:55
55 And the families of the scribes which dwelt at Jabez; the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and Suchathites. These are the Kenites that came of Hemath, the father of the house of Rechab.

KJV

Gen 15:18-21
18 In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
19 The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,

20 And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,
21 And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
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The scribes among Israel were peopled by the Kenites, a people that dwelt in the lands of Canaan when the children of Israel first entered those lands, and God told Israel to literally destroy 7 of those nations in Deut.20.

It was the scribes in Jesus' day that were one of the main contenders that wanted to murder Him.

1 Kings 9:19-21
19 And all the cities of store that Solomon had, and cities for his chariots, and cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
20 And all the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which were not of the children of Israel,

21 Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice unto this day.
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Israel disobeyed God's Deut.20 command to literally wipe out those Canaanites. So He allowed them to creep into Israel to test them with (Judges 2 & 3). There in Solomon's day, they still were among Israel, having become bondservants. Eventually they would become the Nethinims (temple servants), and the scribes and Pharisees that wanted to murder our Lord Jesus. Those are not Paul's brethren he was speaking about, those are Canaanites having crept in.

Zech 14:20-21
20 In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD; and the pots in the LORD's house shall be like the bowl's before the altar.
21 Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the LORD of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and seethe therein: and in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the LORD of hosts.

KJV

That is Millennial timing when Christ's Kingdom is reigning with His elect on earth over all nations.

When our Lord Jesus revealed the "synagogue of Satan" in Rev.2:9 and Rev.3:9, He said they lie and say they are Jews but are not. That means they CLAIM to be Jews, but instead they are the hidden 'tares' of the parable of the tares of the field, i.e., the children of the Wicked one, Satan, meaning his servants, his own elect.

If you don't understand about their existence in God's Word, then there is much of God's Word you will not truly understand.
 

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But there you're doing it again. You never were one of those "workers of iniquity", even before you came to Christ Jesus. If you had been, you would have been seeking to destroy the Faith even now. Those workers are different than the average sinner who doesn't know Christ. Those workers are the devil's own.

And Apostle Paul's kinsmen Jews there are not that "mystery of iniquity" either.

1 Chron 2:55
55 And the families of the scribes which dwelt at Jabez; the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and Suchathites. These are the Kenites that came of Hemath, the father of the house of Rechab.

KJV

Gen 15:18-21
18 In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
19 The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,

20 And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,
21 And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
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The scribes among Israel were peopled by the Kenites, a people that dwelt in the lands of Canaan when the children of Israel first entered those lands, and God told Israel to literally destroy 7 of those nations in Deut.20.

It was the scribes in Jesus' day that were one of the main contenders that wanted to murder Him.

1 Kings 9:19-21
19 And all the cities of store that Solomon had, and cities for his chariots, and cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
20 And all the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which were not of the children of Israel,

21 Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice unto this day.
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Israel disobeyed God's Deut.20 command to literally wipe out those Canaanites. So He allowed them to creep into Israel to test them with (Judges 2 & 3). There in Solomon's day, they still were among Israel, having become bondservants. Eventually they would become the Nethinims (temple servants), and the scribes and Pharisees that wanted to murder our Lord Jesus. Those are not Paul's brethren he was speaking about, those are Canaanites having crept in.

Zech 14:20-21
20 In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD; and the pots in the LORD's house shall be like the bowl's before the altar.
21 Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the LORD of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and seethe therein: and in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the LORD of hosts.

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That is Millennial timing when Christ's Kingdom is reigning with His elect on earth over all nations.

When our Lord Jesus revealed the "synagogue of Satan" in Rev.2:9 and Rev.3:9, He said they lie and say they are Jews but are not. That means they CLAIM to be Jews, but instead they are the hidden 'tares' of the parable of the tares of the field, i.e., the children of the Wicked one, Satan, meaning his servants, his own elect.

If you don't understand about their existence in God's Word, then there is much of God's Word you will not truly understand.

Then you are right, I don’t understand.
Galatians 1:23-24 But they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed. [24] And they glorified God in me.