THE WHOLE WORLD REACHED WITH THE GOSPEL
During the Millennium, everyone will be reached!-- "For the Earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea." (Hab.2:14.)
How do the waters cover the seas?--Completely! So the World will be completely covered with the knowledge of the Lord and the righteous Kingdom of Jesus Christ! So it sounds like this thousand years of the Millennial rule and reign of Jesus Christ on Earth will be another testing time for those worldlings who remain, the unsaved who survived the horrors that have gone before whom God blessed with another chance, or perhaps their first chance. They may have never really heard the Gospel before, they may have never really felt the Love of Jesus before or known God's Will or His ways before! So it will be a time of learning His laws and His ways and His Love.
It's obvious from the Bible's description of the Millennium that the survivors from the Age of Man will be given another chance to obey through the personal rule and reign of Christ and His Children and the universal knowledge of the Lord and His Love. In fact, I think that's what the whole Millennium is all about, to give these people such a chance, otherwise there would be no point to it!
If it's as some of the churches teach, just to give us a chance to wreak vengeance on our enemies and be mean to all the people who were mean to us, what good would that be? If it's just to show how the World should have been run and just to demonstrate what man will be like under us and the angels and Jesus personally and just to kind of show-off, what purpose would there be to that?--Unless it's going to save souls or make some people better in some way or improve things somehow. THE VAIL OF UNSPIRITUALITY REMOVED
During the Millennium, His Word says that "He will destroy in this mountain (kingdom) the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations." (Is.25:7.)--
 What vail?--The vail of misunderstanding, the vail of unbelief, the vail of non-comprehension of spiritual things.
In the face of the visible rule and reign of Christ on Earth, His personal appearance to man, His Second Coming in mighty power and glory, His wiping out of the Antichrist and his kingdom and the imprisonment of Satan, and His obvious visible rule and reign of firm love with a rod of iron, forcing people to be good whether they like it or not, I think some are going to believe and receive who perhaps never heard before! And maybe there will be some who might even have heard, but didn't understand or couldn't believe until they saw something.
After all, that's pretty strong, powerful persuasion!--To see the Coming of the Lord and His taking over the reins of this Earth to rule and reign--that's pretty strong persuasion and enough to convince almost anybody to believe and receive! So I think the Millennium will be the time when God gives what I would call not a second chance, but a first chance to a lot of people who didn't have a chance before, because the church failed and even we failed to give'm all the Gospel!
"For in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness. The meek also shall increase their joy in the Lord, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel. Behold, a King shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgement. And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it!" (Is.29:18,19;32:1;40:5.)
 Everyone on Earth will see His glorious power and kingdom, and everybody will believe then!--He even says, "And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know Me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord." (Jer.31:34.)
There won't be any unbelievers then, but I'm afraid there will still be some unreceivers who won't yield and won't obey and will still be stubborn and disobedient and rebellious and iniquitous and wicked at heart and defiant--still! It's obvious from the Scriptures that there will be many who will receive it and obey and will be blessed of the Lord!--And others who will still rebel.
THE MILLENNIUM ANOTHER TESTING TIME!
So it looks to me like the Millennium is going to be another testing time or trying time, a proving ground. We, the saints, who heard the Gospel and voluntarily received the Lord, will be running things under the direct supervision of the Lord. And all of the people who survived the Tribulation, the Wrath of God and the Battle of Armageddon, we're going to govern and rule over and judge and organise and teach them!
We won't have to say "Know the Lord!" because everybody will be able to see Him and they'll all know HE'S there! But they'll need to know a lot of other things, and we're actually going to be doing a lot of what we're doing right now! Our main job now, as Jesus put it, is "Feed My Sheep!" (Jn.21:15-17.)--They'll all "know the Lord" and will actually see that He and His Kingdom are real, but they may not know Him as well or as personally as we do, because we already knew Him in this life and learned to know Him well and communicate with Him and love Him and live with Him and serve Him throughout this life.
So I think it will be part of our job to re-educate them and train them in the ways of the Lord! They're going to be just as human as you and I are right now.--They won't be any more supernatural in their intelligence or in their mental capacities or their learning capacities or the ways they have to learn than we are in this present age.
And the Scriptures definitely confirm that the Millennium is going to be a period of learning for them: "Many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and He will teach us of His ways, and we will walk in His paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the Word of the Lord from Jerusalem." (Micah 4:2.)
How will He teach them His ways and give them His Word?--The same way He's trying to teach and feed them now!--Through us, His children, His "kings and priests"! (Rev.1:6.)
So frankly, I think we're going to be doing just what we're doing now: Teaching and educating people in the ways of the Lord! In fact, when I think of the job we'll have to do in the Millennium, it is almost beyond comprehension!--We're not only going to be teaching and educating and ruling and reigning over them, but because it's the World's last chance to repent and confess and try to get things straightened out and make things right, we're going to have to try to make everybody be honest and make everybody confess and get everybody to make things right--right all wrongs and confess all faults. So we are going to be very busy! PTL! NEXT
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