The unsaved dead come back to life in the second resurrection after the 1000 year Millennium. Read Rev. 20. I also believe the saved Christians who were not martyred will be in the second resurrection as well. Only martyrs will reign with Christ during the Millennium.
This post isn't about judgment.
Oh, but that is where you are wrong! It most surely is about judgment:
1. The judgment of death through Adam
2. The judgment of Life through Christ.
John 3:18.
Could it be that your thinking has been skewed by Religion? I am going to give you alot to think about, that is contrary to many popular religious beliefs.
Are you
sure that it is the
unsaved dead who is being referenced here?
KJV Rev. 20[
4] And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and
judgment was given unto them:
> Is that not taking place now?
Spiritually speaking, in Christ, are we not
ambassadors for Christ, holding forth to the unsaved, the words of His Truth for salvation? They either accept Him or reject Him by our witness.
That is judgment.
and I saw the souls of them that were
beheaded
1. for the witness of Jesus,
and
2. for the word of God,
and
3. which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands;
4. and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
Q. Were there not Christians being beheaded, BEFORE the MoB shall be revealed?
Surely you don't think that only those who will not take the MoB, will be the only Christians beheaded, since the time of Jesus. Lets begin with John the Baptist.
Wasn't he "a witness of Jesus"?
> When did
they live and reign with Christ?
A. Before His Glorious and Fiery return?
B. After His Glorious and Fiery return?
Lets see:
[
5] But
the rest of the dead [those Christians who were not martyrs]
lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
Q. When did the
first resurrection take place?
A. Jesus.
Q. Who was/is the
first resurrection?
A. Jesus.
Q. If you are now a "
partaker of the divine nature", what are you now taking "part" in?
A. Jesus, who is "the
Firstborn from the dead", aka the FIRST resurrection!!
Q. Have you been born again by His Spirit?
If not, then you are not a "partaker" in the first resurrection, aka "the divine nature", who is Jesus, and therefore Romans 8:9 applies to you.
So the questions remain, when is the 1000 years, who and what does it involve, and when is it "finished"? Is it happening now, ever since Pentecost?
Clue:
1 Peter 2[
9] But
ye are [present tense]
a chosen generation,
a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
Rev. 1[6] And
hath made us [present tense] kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
Q. So, what do "
priests unto God" do?
A. They serve God, in the work/act of
reconciliation!
Q. Are we not now doing that work of reconciliation (judgment) now, everytime we bare witness about Jesus, with those who are unsaved?
Yes! We are!
Could it be that a thousand years is meant to be understood as being figuratively, and not literally? Maybe one day to God, really "is as a thousand years"!
Therefore, could it be, that a 1000 years is symbolic, and is only pointing to God's Age of Grace, and not anything else?
When will God's Age of Grace end?
Correct- you do not know, and neither does Jesus! Only the Father knows. He has set no time limit on the length of time for His Grace to us. It could end now in this year of 2020 and/or in another 500-1000 years after that. Only the Father knows.
However, Jesus did give us a clue, of what it will be, that shall
cause the Father to send His Son for His Saints. Luke 18:8
Yes, as you probably guessed by now, I am
of the Amillennial view.