What Great Tribulation??
Do you mean "THE" Great Tribulation, conjured up by the many "religious" false prophets?
Or do you mean "these are they that came out of great tribulation"? Rev. 7:14
I checked the Greek text on 7:14 and "the" (
tes) is definitely used in the original.
OK, since you agree with that! Please explain to me who will be SAVED during "THE" Millennium, and what the purpose for "THE" Millennium is.
Those mortals who are "blameless" before God's law will be saved during the Millennium, in a return to the strict observance of and adherence to the law of God--including worship at the Temple (they will also have the additional requirement of faith in the Messiah, of course). Even the Gentile nations will come to Jerusalem bearing gifts and receiving blessings at the Millennial Temple--"a house of prayer for all nations". Those who are left ("the survivors") in the Gentile nations will be required to attend the Feast of Tabernacles
once a year. If they do not, no rain will fall on their land (Zechariah 14:16-17). Israelites were and will be required to "go up to Jerusalem" (i.e. to celebrate at the Temple)
three times a year--Passover (
Pesach), Pentecost (
Shavuot) and Tabernacles (
Sukkot). That is the meaning of Christ "ruling with a rod of iron"--that God's law will be strictly enforced and lawbreakers alone ("sinners" or "cursed"--see Isaiah 65:20) will die as young as 100. In Isaiah 65:22, God says, "In the future, my people will live as long as trees." All of this indicates that the pre-Flood, long life will return. Death will occur--but much less frequently--the prophet Isaiah said, in the same passage, that no longer will infants die when only a few days old. Those who are blameless before the law and who come to the Messiah in the faith that His Blood covers their remaining sin, will be resurrected to life, should they die during the Millennium. (That's actually the way the OT saints like Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were saved).
The reasons for the Millennium:
One extremely vital reason for the Millennial Kingdom is to fulfill God’s so-far-unfulfilled promises to Israel. All
unconditional promises God has made with Abraham and Israel will come to fruition during the Millennial Kingdom. It is unthinkable that God would allow His promises to go without being fulfilled--prophecy would be overturned. For example, the Land He promised Abraham extended from the "River of Egypt" on the west to the Euphrates River on the east. But Israel has NEVER occupied all the land God promised Israel, even at the peak of Joshua’s conquest or Solomon’s rule. In the future, Israel will occupy those lands--Ezekiel outlines all of that in great detail, in the latter chapters of his Book.
Another reason for the Millennial Kingdom is to silence God's critics by giving mortal men ideal conditions (and even with Satan bound), with Christ Himself governing the earth with a "rod of iron." It will prove that the unregenerate nature of mortal man will always leave him susceptible to deception, ingratitude and rank rebellion. Rebelliousness will apparently grow throughout the Millennium, as new generations are born. As soon as Satan is “let out of jail,” he is able to lead one last rebellion against God and Christ. And then fire comes down from heaven and burns up all the rebels, followed closely by the Second Resurrection to Final Judgment.
All through history there have been those who believed God and those who did not. This is not due to any circumstance--whether prosperity, health or lack of them. Some people make a decision to believe God, and some do not. The Millennial Reign of Christ will prove, for all time, that, even with health, peace, prosperity and justice over all the earth, some mortal humans will still choose to turn away from God. At the Final Judgment, no one will be able to accuse God of being unjust or to say that if circumstances had been better, faith would have been the outcome. After the Final Judgment, only those immortals who have been washed (purified) in the Blood of Jesus will be able to be citizens of the New Jerusalem. All unbelievers (those who "died in their sins") will be in either the "outer darkness" or in the Lake of Fire.