HUMAN KINGS
SOME BAD!
SOME WORSE
SOME WORST!

AUGUSTUS

HITLER

KISSINGER

LENIN

LINCOLN

NIXON

PUTIN

RAMBO

ROCKEFELLER

STALIN

WASHINGTON

CLINTON

ALEXANDER

ANTICHRIST

ABOMINATION

"HE SHALL RULE THE NATIONS WITH A ROD OF IRON!" (Rev.19:15.)
Sad to say, some of the people who survive into this wonderful period of the Millennium will be so stubborn and so rebellious of heart and mind and so Satanically and diabolically conditioned that, even with the Devil and his demons gone, they're still going to be of the same evil mind just naturally--natural carnal evil men! Even without the help of Satan or his devils, they will still be mean and we're still going to have to deal with them!
Even though the Devil and all his demons will be bound in the bottomless pit during this thousand-year period of what is going to be like Heaven-on-Earth, there will still be plenty of devils left behind in human form, human beings who are devils at heart and who still reject the King of kings and His Kingdom, who still resent our rule over them and their punishment and just deserts which we mete out to them, and who still rebel against our reign and power--sometimes whole nations which will rebel and refuse to obey the commandments of Christ and the dictates of His Kingdom and His officers.
That's why we'll have to rule with a "rod of iron"! He said He will dash the nations and their power to pieces, into shivers like a piece of pottery! (Ps.2:8,9.) It's going to be an enforced rule, a strong iron dictatorship over the wicked. It will have to be, otherwise the wicked would never obey! So in some ways it's going to be a tough, hard, strong, forceful government!

NOW STILL AN AGE OF CHOICE & GRACE--THEN BENIGN DICTATORSHIP
"God is love" (1JN.4:8), and today He's showing His love to the World--His patience, His mercy, His longsuffering, His forgiveness! He's showing love to the World to try to get them to love Him! But the day is coming when, if all else fails and they reject His Love, He will rule them with a rod of iron and of force!--Not because His Love failed, for Love never fails! Jesus never fails, God never fails, and God is Love, so Love can't fail! (1Co.13:8.)
But the Christ-rejecting, love-resisting wicked of this World failed!--It's they, who fail to receive His Love now, who cause the failure, their own failure!--The fall of the kingdoms of this Earth and the final collapse of their last great one-World Government, etc.!--Because they rejected the Love of God and the Love of Jesus Christ! So since they failed to appreciate His Love and to obey Him in love voluntarily, He is going to rule the World with a rod of iron, of force, and they are going to be compelled to serve and worship and obey Him whether they like it or not!--By force!--The force of the great God of Heaven and His Kingdom on Earth and His great World Dictator, Jesus Christ!
Talk about a dictatorship, talk about authoritarian rule, talk about totalitarianism!--The Earth has never seen and there will never be any totalitarianism as total as is going to be the Kingdom of God on Earth and the rule and reign of Jesus Christ over the World through us! That's going to be the most total, totalitarian government the World has ever known--absolute dictatorship!

THE WICKED ONLY RESPOND TO FORCEFUL GOVERNMENT
They will all be compelled and forced to obey whether they like it or not!--Absolutely no democracy, absolutely no freedom of man, of wicked man!--No more wicked democracies with wicked majorities voting for wicked governments and wicked rulers in a wicked World--but a completely total totalitarian dictatorship of the righteous with Jesus Christ as Dictator!
So although in some ways life is going to be pretty normal and not so greatly changed for the natural men of this World, there is going to be one very big difference!--There will still be free will and there will still be choice, but God will not let man have his wicked way! If they choose to go their own way and try to rebel--Bam!--God is going to swat them with a rod of iron!--Bam, whammy, zap!--Whatever you want to call it!--And they'll get it quick!
Because the only thing the truly wicked and rebellious ever understand is force and violence and the rod! And God is really going to lower His rod upon them! He's going to lower the boom on them, as they say, and He's going to punish them for their sins. And we, you and I, are going to be the instruments of His punishment, the officers of His Law who are going to carry out His judgements against those who have troubled and tribulated us! For He says clearly and plainly that we shall rule and reign with Him as He rules on the Earth with a rod of iron!

"He that overcomes, and keeps My works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of My Father." (Rev.2:26,27.)

SUPERNATURAL POWERS TO RULE
We will be endued with tremendous supernatural powers to rule over them! We will be the power, we will have the force! And exactly what that rod of iron will be, God only knows! But there are instances in the Bible where people were made immobile, they were blinded, they were devoured by fire from Heaven and all kinds of things when God wanted to stop'm!--We'll have the kind of power that you see in some of these sci-fi movies, only we won't need any little ray-guns! We'll just look at them or think or point our finger at them or whatever we want to do! And they won't be able to touch us or do a thing!--We will be the power and the government in control!
We will have bodies like the angels of God which can appear or disappear at will, travel with the speed of thought or have such a rod of God's power that they can destroy God's enemies by the millions if they so choose, with the lightning of God! There will be no more crime, no more vice, no more drugs, no more riots and no more war!--Just perfect peace, total perfect peace under the iron-rule dictatorship of the Lord in which you and I will be His supermen with superpower!--Absolute Law and Order, with redistribution and sharing of the wealth and lands, etc.--Not at the point of a gun, but at the point of a rod of iron!
So the Millennium will be a period of dealing with such people and punishing them and forcing them to obey--whether they like it or not!--Or destroying them if they absolutely flatly refuse and cause us too much trouble!--That's the dark, sad side of the picture. But the happy side is that many in that day, having seen, will believe and will bow and will yield and will obey and will receive with gladness the Kingdom of God on Earth, and will become its happy citizens and members and cooperate and help us to rebuild and to reconstruct and to clean up, rehabilitate and give the World its last chance for salvation.

WHOLE NATIONS WILL STILL REFUSE TO SUBMIT
It's obvious from the Scriptures that, during that time, some people and nations will submit and obey and yield to the Kingdom of God on Earth, and therefore will be blessed.--But others will rebel, and therefore will be disciplined!

"And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem"—survivors from the Battle of Armageddon—"shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles." (Zech.14:16.) "And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the Earth unto Jerusalem to worship the king, the Lord of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain." (Zech.14:17.)

This is going to be such a literal Kingdom on Earth and the wicked are still going to be so literally wicked that some of them are actually going to refuse to come up and worship, think of that! But if they don't obey and they don't do what they're supposed to do and they don't come up to pay homage to the King and the Kingdom of God, etc., He's going to withhold the rain from them and give them all kinds of diseases and plagues, just like He did the ancient Egyptians!--Any country that won't do what they're told to do is going to have nothing but trouble!
So there will definitely still be free will and choice during the Millennium. They won't have to submit and obey, they can rebel if they want to, but they'll be punished! And although the curse will be largely lifted and it's going to be a lot nicer World then--beautiful, wonderful, virtually Heaven-on-Earth in a way--there will still be some people there who don't belong in Heaven!--Therefore there will still be individual curses on individual people or nations who, even under those circumstances, will refuse to obey.
So again, it looks like the Millennium will be a testing time to give the survivors of Armageddon a chance to choose between the Kingdom of God and the sin already in the World since Adam and Eve!--That's the whole idea, to give'm a final test and chance! They're going to have a thousand years of another chance and mercy and goodness and peace on Earth and the very presence of Jesus Christ Himself!--Perfect government, plenty for all, peace on Earth!--A rule of Love as well as a rod of iron!--Love for those who obey, and the rod of iron for those who don't.--A thousand years to prove the Love and mercy and power of God!

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