How sad it is that one should want not to be refined in the fire as God puts His torch to the earth by escaping from God's truth.
If you ran that race by faith in Jesus Christ to help you lay aside every weight & sin, then with no works of iniquity on that foundation to be removed by that fire, thus avoiding the penalty for defiling the temple of God which is to be left behind to incur a physical death in the coming great tribulation, then where would you be?
Revelation 2:21 And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not. 22
Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds. 23 And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.
So when they do repent of their deeds, what does His words says? They will not be cast into the bed of the coming great tribulation.
Now here is the same promise but in a positive word for holding fast what we have been taught;
Revelation 3:10 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience,
I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. 11 Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.
Now if they do not continue to keep the word of His patience, He will not keep them from that hour of temptation which shall come upon all the world to try them that dwell upon the earth. What is that hour of temptation? The 3 angels has set it up wherein every one will know the gospel, everyone will know that USA is fallen Babylon on that third of the earth that got burnt up which is the western hemisphere, and after that calamity, everyone will know the consequence for taking the mark of the beast to buy and sell in order to survive in the new world order which is the eternal lake of fire.
Yes many times, and I have also considered what people have presented as their scriptural proofs as to why they believe that Christ will be "permanently" on the face of the earth during the first 1,000 years of the Millennium Age. But just like your scriptural proofs, they did not support a pre-tribulation perspective to escape the time of God's wrath should they still be alive at that time or that Christ's "rule" during the first 1,000 years of the Millennium Age would be from the face of the earth at Jerusalem.
How is it that you can take the title "King of kings" as if it is an empty title?
Your own words condemn you.
First you say there is no mention of a thousand year reign in the Bible; wrong
Then you ask where does it say He would be physically on this earth for the thousand year reign and Zechariah has Him coming back with the saints to do battle, touching foot down on Mount of Olives where the people of Jerusalem will see Him as the One Whom they had pierced to now.. demanding proof that He will be here permanently for that thousand year reign for which being the King of kings should be obvious in being here to reign.
A such I have no need to defend my understanding of what the scripture actually state concerning the End Times.
Okay. I can accept that you have made up your mind about this and consider all relevant scripture to the contrary as irrelevant.
In the Parable of the Judgement of the nations where Jesus separated the sheep from the goats, the goats wanted their "salvation" on their "terms without pain." It seems to me that you have chosen which flock you want to reside in, since you do not want to be refined during the time of God's wrath, if you should remain on the earth when that happens.
If you are referring to Matthew 25:31-46, then read it:
Matthew 25:31 When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him,
then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:
Jesus has come and is sitting on His throne as King judging the people of the world.
32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: 33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. 34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
So in this parable of the judgment of the nations, has it ever occurred to you that Jesus has come and is on earth to gather the nations of the world to judge them as King of kings?
Has it ever occurred to you that the reference has Him having come with the angels and THEN citing an event that could very well happen a thousand years later?
Has it occurred to you that the parable in Matthew 25:31-46 is how as King of kings, He will judge the generations coming out of that thousand years reign in how they would treat His people during that small season during the last rebellion of Satan after His reign to judge them by?
You may lobby that parable around all you want, but your application is contrary to the rest of scripture and that parable has already disproven several key points of your conclusion, brother, when He is here on earth judging the nations as King of kings.
There is still time to study the word of God and renew your mind and to put on the refurbished nature that God intended you to have from the beginning of time.
Then there is a time to pray in asking the Lord to help you discern any thing you may be lacking in in the knowledge of Him in sharing with others.
