Most prophesies in Scripture speak in terms and analogies that Ancient Israel would have understood in order to encourage them and bring them back into the right Blood-Covenant Behaviour. However there is a very specific picture that’s being painted in the minds of most 21st Century believers . . . of a Millennial Kingdom, which is fuelled by various warped views of Scripture texts.
WHAT IS A MILLENNIAL KINGDOM/REIGN?
1000 years where the Devil and his minions are chained up and there is peace. The general idea (erroneously) is that a King will rise up from the root of Jesse (which is King David) to finally conquer this earth, heal it, shepherd it, and rule it with a rod of iron. The two stick of the broken, scattered 12 Tribes of Israel will finally be reunited under this Majestic Messiah and the nations (that survive the global scorching by fire) will be given a second chance, and will be trained and taught the Instructions and Feasts of Yahusha as they come up to His mountain and be ruled in peace for 1000 years.
There are 4 main views on how and when this will happen :
Pre-Millennialist state that the Second Coming of Messiah happens BEFORE the 1000 year Millennial Kingdom on earth. As you can see (above and below) there is a RIFT between Pre-Millennalists where many believe that the true Bride will be caught up (RAPTURED) into Heaven right before the Great Tribulation on earth. Then they will return to rule with Messiah.
PRE-MILLENNIALISM
POST-MILLENNIALISM
Post-Millennialists state that the Second Coming of Messiah happens AFTER the 1000 year Millennial Kingdom on earth and that the forces of Satan will gradually be defeated by the expansion of the Kingdom throughout history up until Messiah's Secod Coming. Some state that the Millennium is a literal 1000 years while others say it is referring to the entire 'New Testament' Age (PROMOTING DISPENSATIONALISM):
DISPENSATIONALISM IS A SYSTEM THAT WAS INVENTED BY JOHN DARBY IN 1827 AND STATES THAT HISTORY IS DIVIDED INTO MULTIPLE AGES OR "DISPENSATIONS” (2000 YEARS) IN WHICH THE CREATOR ACTS WITH HUMANITY IN DIFFERENT WAYS (AGE OF LAW, AGE OF GRACE, JEWISH AGE, CHRISIAN AGE ETC ETC). IT PROMOTES A FUTURE RESTORATION OF NATIONAL ISRAEL AND A RAPTURE THAT WILL HAPPEN BEFORE THE SECOND COMING, GENERALLY SEEN AS HAPPENING BEFORE THE TRIBULATION.
A-MILLENNIALISM
A-Millennialists state that there is no literal 1000 year reign on the earth but that Messiah's Second Coming happens at the end of history. The Millennium is purely spiritual in nature at the end of the church age (DISPENSATIONALISM AGAIN) and Messiah will return in final judgmennt and establish a permanent physical reign then. So the millennium and the trib are happening together.
NOW LET'S EXPLORE A FRESH APPROACH :
NEW ETERNAL HEAVEN & EARTH
MILLENNIALISM
Now before you throw stones, let's remember that NO SOLID DOCTRINE CAN BE FORMED FROM THE BOOK OF REVELATION ALONE JUST LIKE NONE CAN BE FORMED FROM THE PROPHETS OF OLD EITHER! They are all a bunch of random (though true and divinely inspired) visions by old dudes in a trance! Revelation is like a book-end for the reader who has travelled right from the beginning in Genesis, through the entire story. SOLID DOCTRINE BEGIN WITH THE TORAH OF MOSES ... AND ALL OTHER PROPHECIES, ACCOUNTS, STORIES, PARABLES, LETTERS AND REVELATIONS ARE BUILT UPON THAT FOUNDATION, FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF WITNESSING THE HISTORY OF YAHUSHA PROVING HIS WORD TRUE AND DELIVERING HIS PEOPLE IN ORDER TO DWELL WITH THEM.
In the very beginning Adam and Eve were expelled for choosing their own way and the Tree of Eternal Life was hidden - because either they continued to disobey and MAKE SIN ETERNAL through access to the Tree - (which means sin would pollute YAHUAH and His dimension - which He will never allow) ... so Adam and Eve would be frackled up due to the Divine Radiation of YAHUAH'S Perfect Set-Apartness, hence their expulsion.
Yahusha's cosmic `universe-creating' omnipotent power is displayed time and time again, over and over through each and every book of Scripture, showing us especially through Sinai and the Tabernacle that NONE DARE COME CLOSE TO YAHUAH WITH SIN IN THEM ... for the ground will open up, plagues will ensue and flesh will dissintegrate completely in His shekinah presence. Blood had to be shed, sins confessed, fires burnt and lots of washing, washing, washing ... for there to be a Divine Anointing. Even Moses (the most perfected man at the time) was unable to see YAHUAH in His true form, for he would have been destroyed from the experience . . . even just seeing the back of Him (from behind the protection of the rocks) was enough the send him home glowing like a nuclear reactor.
Yahusha was a whole NEW CREATION unlike any spirit or man before Him ... for within his simple, weak, flesh and blood body HE POSESSED THE FULNESS OF THE CREATOR YAHUAH IN ALL HIS POWER AND DIVINITY - able to cleanse, heal, deliver and vanquish any darkness from anyone even without seeing them. And (like Moses) Peter, James and John were given a tiny peak at who Yahusha really is when He was transfigured on the mountain to have a chitty-chat with Moses & Elijah (THE TWO LAST-DAY WITNESSES).
The reason for this completely new abstract view of the Millennial Reign is because I have yet to hear anyone out there FACTOR IN THE SCRIPTURAL PRINCIPLE OF YAHUSHA'S DIVINE RADIOACTIVE SET-APARTNESS INTO HIS RETURN AND REIGN. NOR DO THEY INCLUDE HIS ABSOLUTE HATRED FOR ANYTHING SINFUL AND WORLDLY IN A VERY PRACTICAL SENSE AS PERTAINING TO ETERNITY . . . so let's do that now :
ANY EXPLANATION OR INTERPRETATION OF YAHUSHA'S RETURN THAT DOES NOT INVOLVE A DESTRUCTION OF EVERYTHING IN THIS DIMENSION (THE HEAVENS AND THE HEAVEN) ... IS ERRONEOUS. THIS EARTH IS COMPLETELY DEFILED BY THE SINS OF ITS INHABITANTS, AND MUST BE ... WILL BE COMPLETELY ANNIHILATED WHEN BROUGHT INTO CONTACT WITH THE PERFECT DIMENSION OF HEAVEN (WHERE YAHUSHA IS). HEAVEN HAS BEEN CLEANSED COMPLETELY BY YAHUSHA'S BLOOD AND THAT'S WHY THE DEVIL CAN NO LONGER MEANDRE IN AND OUT AS HE PLEASES, TO ACCUSE EARTHLY CITIZENS, AS HE DID IN DAYS OF OLD.
SO WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT SOME GLOBAL SURFACE-LEVEL SCORCHING BY THE SUN HERE .. O' THE SUN HAS IT'S PART TO PLAY IN THE WRATH-BOWL JUDGMENTS BUT YAHUSHA'S RETURN IS SOMETHING ALTOGTHER DIFFERENT, FOR HE WILL BE UNZIPPING THE GREAT DIMENSIONAL SEAM THAT SEPARATES LIGHT FROM DARKNESS, AND LET ME ASK YOU ... WHAT HAPPENS TO A DARK ROOM WHEN YOU BRING EVEN THE DIMMEST OF LIGHT IN ... IT DISSIPATES IT COMPLETELY.
NOW DO THE TORAH PRINCIPLES OF CLEAN AND UNCLEAN STILL APPLY FROM THE GARDEN, FROM THE BURNING BUSH (TAKE OFF YOUR SANDALS), FROM THE MOUNTAIN, FROM THE TABERNACLE ORACLE AND FROM YAHUSHA'S OWN BODY WHEN HE WALKED AROUND CONFRONTED WITH EVIL? OBVIOUSLY THEY DO, OTHERWISE WHY WOULD YOU AND I BE FLOGGED AND CHASTISED AS YAHUSHA BURNS AND PURGES THE SIN OUT OF US TO MAKE US CLEAN AND PREPARED . . .
NO FLESH OR SIN CAN SURVIVE IN YAHUSHA'S PRESENCE, SO THE ONLY WAY THERE COULD BE AN 1000 YEAR MILLENNIAL REIGN WITH UNBELIEVERS (EVEN WITH UNWISE IMMERSED BRIDAL PEOPLE) STILL ON THIS EARTH, IS IF :
1. All Yahusha's plagues, judgments, reapers and destruction were totally incompetent and missed some people ... and
2. Yahusha can (all of a sudden) tolerate and stand to be around sin now, which (not that it really matters) would be a huge cosmic slap in the face to all those WISE-BRIDE who genuinely fought with all their might to overcome the flesh to please Yahusha and be ready for His return.
DOES YAHUSHA CHANGE? - IS SIN STILL SIN? - CAN HE BE AROUND IT?
Most texts refer to this MILLENNIAL KINGDOM OF REST through the lense of Israel finally being delivered, having a mighty sovereign and no more enemies to oppress them (which was always their own fault anyway), and while Scripture does speak of all these things, it’s in shadow-form and very carnal/earthly in it’s perspective. In other words people assume that the earth (as we know it) will still be in existence during the 1000 years of rest. BUT HOW CAN TWO DIMENSIONS EXIST IN THE SAME PLACE, ESPECIALLY SINCE ONE IS PERFECT AND THE OTHER IS UNCLEAN?
Even though Yahusha’s Blood has legally redeemed His Bride back from the enemy and she is seen as clean and acceptable in His sight (able to have direct access through the portal on her new clean heart), we know that while-ever the Bride still lives in this frail, fallen earthly vessel, she can never come in contact with the divine realm, or be fully consummated with her Bridegroom, otherwise she’ll be frackled up too.
And that’s why A MAJOR METAMORPHOSIS IS UNDERWAY FOR YAHUSHA'S TRUE BRIDE, BEGINNING WITH A DIVINE HEART OPERATION AND IMPLANTING OF THE INCORRUPTIBLE SEED OF ETERNAL LIFE (JUST LIKE THE TREE OF LIFE) ... THIS IS A PROCESS WHICH WILL TRAIN, CLEANSE AND READY THE BRIDE, CLIMAXING IN HER FINAL TRANSFORMATION FROM FLESH IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE, INTO AN IMMORTAL, FIRST-FRUIT BODY, JUST LIKE HER HUSBAND’S, READY FOR THE WEDDING FEAST - AND THE TWO CAN THEN BE EQUALLY YOKED.
The 'older' prophesies being held up to support many erroneous views of the Millennial Kingdom are all being viewed through the lense of the Promised Land still being in Israel and Yahusha’s Kingdom and final Temple (in Ezekiel) being rebuilt in a natural, earthy sense. But nothing could be further from the truth. Yahusha is the Living Words and Tree of Life made flesh and His New Blood-Covenant was a complete fulfillment by Him through His own perfect blood. Yes it’s always going to be about blood because that is the only thing able to redeem/atone/deliver someone from darkness to light, death to life. So Yahusha never abolished or changed any of His Instructions or replaced them with more hip-hip modern ones either.
EVERY WORD THAT COMES FROM HIM IS LIVING AND TRUE HOWEVER THE BEHAVIOURAL EXECUTION (AND CUSTOMS SURROUNDING HIS INSTRUCTIONS) TRANSFORMS THROUGH TIME, BECAUSE HE NEVER CHANGES (ie circumcison is now of the heart, the commandments are written on our heart, not on stone, the temple is our bodies, the daily sacrifices are our behaviour to Him etc etc etc .... and the portal-door to His Heavenly Dimension will never again be found in a building, but in the living stones of His chosen Bridal Fellowship of people. ISRAEL OF OLD, JERUSALEM, ZION AND THE PROMISED LAND ARE ALL SHADOWS OF THE SECRET THAT IS BEING FULFILLED RIGHT NOW AS WE SPEAK, IN YAHUSHA'S BRIDAL FELLOWSHIP !!
NO THIS IS NOT REPLACEMENT THEOLOGY - ISRAEL HAS NOT BEEN REPLACED WITH THE CHURCH AND THE COMMANDMENTS HAVE NOT BEEN DONE AWAY WITH ... BUT YAHUSHA INDEED ESTABLISHED A NEW COVENANT AND THE JEW MUST GRAFT INTO THE OLIVE TREE (YAHUSHA) TO BECOME HIS NEW BRIDE JUST AS THE GENTILE MUST ... ANCESTRY & BLOODLINE MEANS ZIP !!
CAN YOU SEE HOW YAHUSHA HAS BROUGHT ME TO THIS CONCLUSION :
NEW ETERNAL HEAVEN & EARTH
MILLENNIALISM
LET'S CONCLUDE WITH SOME SCRIPTURAL UNDERSTANDING :
ISAIAH 43:2
“When you walk through the waters, I'm with you and through rivers, they don't drown you. When you walk through fire, you are not scorched, and a the flame won't burn you.”
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
“And this is the plague with which Yahuah plagues all the people who fought against Jerusalem (HIS FELLOWSHIP - THE PLACE THAT HOUSES THE TEMPLE & PRIESTS OF HIS PRESENCE) : their flesh will frackle while they stand on their feet, and their eyes melt in their sockets, and their tongues decay in their mouths. And it will be in that day that a great confusion from Yahusha is among them, and everyone of them will grab the hand of his neighbour, and his hand rise up against his neighbour’s hand”.
JOEL 2:1 & 28-32
“Blow a ram’s horn in Zion, and sound an alarm in My set-apart mountain! (BRIDAL FELLOWSHIP) Let all the inhabitants of the earth tremble, for the day of Yahuah is coming, and it is near: a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness, like the morning clouds spread over the mountains – And after this I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh. And your sons and your daughters will prophesy, your old men dream dreams, your young men see visions .... And I will give signs in the heavens and on the arets earth: blood and fire and columns of smoke, the sun is turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the coming of the great and awesome day of Yahusha. And it will be that everyone who calls on the Name of Yahusha will be delivered. For on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem (HIS FELLOWSHIP - THE PLACE THAT HOUSES THE TEMPLE & PRIESTS OF HIS PRESENCE) there will be an escape (as Yahusha has said) and among the survivors who Yahusha calls.”
2 PETER 3:7-13
“And the present heavens and the earth are treasured up by the same Word, being kept for fire, to a day of judgment and destruction of wicked men. But, beloved ones, let not this one thing be hidden from you: that with Yahuah one day is as 1,000 years, and 1,000 years as 1 day. Yahuah is not slow in regard to the promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward us, not wishing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. But the day of Yahuah will come as a thief in the night, in which the heaven will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with intense heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up. Seeing all these are to be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be in set-apart behaviour and reverence, looking for and hastening the coming of the day of Yahusha, through which the heaven will be destroyed, being set on fire, and the elements melt with intense heat! But according to His promise we wait for a new Heaven and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.”
1 THESSALONIANS 4:13-18
“Now, brothers, we do not wish you to be ignorant concerning those who have fallen asleep (DIED), incase you be sad as others are who have no hope. For if we believe that Yahusha died and rose again, so also Yahuah will bring with Him those who `sleep in Yahusha'. For this we say to you by the word of the Master, that we, the living who are left over at the coming of the Master will in no way go before those who are asleep. Because the Master Himself will come down from heaven with a shout, with the voice of a Arch-Angel, and with the trumpet of Yahuah, and the dead in Messiah will rise first. Then we, the living who are left over, will be caught away together with them in the clouds to meet the Master in the air – and so we will always be with the Master. So, then, encourage one another with these words.”
PHILIPPIANS 3:9-17
And be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through belief in Yahusha, the righteousness which is from Yahuah on the basis of belief, to know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, if somehow I might attain to the resurrection from the dead (FIRST RESURRECTION AT YAHUSHA'S RETURN, BEFORE THE MILLENNIAL REST) Not that I have already received, or already been perfected, but I press on, to lay hold of that for which Messiah Yahusha has also laid hold of me.Brothers, I do not count myself to have laid hold of it yet, but only this: forgetting what is behind and reaching out for what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling (FIRST RESURRECTION & WEDDING FEAST) of Yahusha. As many, then, as are perfect, should have this mind. And if you think differently in any respect, Yahusha will also reveal this to you. But to what we have already attained –walk by the same rule, be of the same mind. Become joint imitators of me, brothers, and observe those who so walk, as you have us for a pattern.
