Yes, we will be with Christ for 1000 years, in heaven.
When it says God, through Jesus, will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep, Paul's talking about bringing them from here (earth), to heaven (New Jerusalem).
Revelation 20 says the camp of the saints is next to Jerusalem.
Not really. You're doing the same thing as Keras. You're mixing the OT end times with the Daniel and Revelation narrative. Think about it. What happens after Revelation 20, after fire falls from heaven and kills the wicked. Do we go out and mark their remains? Burn their wooden weapons for seven years? And then watch while an infant sticks his hand down a viper hole?
No. That stuff is off the table. The Zachariah and Ezekiel end times were part of the Judaic conditional prophecies. Those things would have happened if the Old Time Jews would have redeemed the 70 weeks. The OT end times would have occurred IF the Old Time Jews would have let Jesus gather them as a hen gathers it's chicks.
That's where the saints live during the thousand years.
You got this one right old boy, but it's not what you think. The saints will live in NEW Jerusalem. It's a giant building made by God where billions of saints can fit inside and not even know their inside a building. Remember the Father's House with many rooms? Jesus went there to prepare a place for us. If it were not true, would He have told us? He's going to come back HERE and get us, and take us back to that place where He is.
After the thousand years are finished, New Jerusalem comes down from heaven, (with us inside it), like a Beloved City.
“Come, I will show you the Bride, the wife of the Lamb.” And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great, high mountain, and showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God,
Plus, there is no one in heaven to reign over anyways.
There won't be anyone alive here on earth during the thousand years. The saints reigning WITH Christ doesn't mean we're going to be governing nations of mortal men and women. The saints reigning with Christ means this:
"Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
It's the Pauline phase of the judgment process. The saints, WITH Christ, will participate in the judgment process. Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? We, especially those who were the victims of crime, will review the lives of every single person who has died, and has NOT made it to New Jerusalem with us. I hope it won't take the full thousand years.
The nations are on the Earth and will be reigned over there.
Nope, I'm sorry man, they're all as dead as door nails. The ones that weren't killed by the plagues did not repent from their evil. The rest were killed by a sharp sword, a command to die, that came from the white horse Rider.
The only reason for the days to be shortened, for flesh to be saved alive, is so that scripture could be fulfilled: "we who are alive and remain.
"Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
If the days were not shortened, there would be no saints left alive to be changed in the twinkling of an eye. But after that it's just the carrion birds doing their job of cleanup on aisle 144. The great feast of God Almighty.
The only sentient life remaining here on earth, will be Satan and his demons. So it would be a bit spooky if you did survive as a human here.
Like the old bartender said at closing time,
"You might not have to go Home, but you can't stay here!