The Return of Jesus / Millennial Kingdom
At the end of the Apocalypse, Jesus will return with all of His immortal saints to fight the final battle of this era, the Armageddon (Deuteronomy 33:2-3, Revelation 1:7, Revelation 16:16, Zephaniah 3:8, Jude 1:14-15, Revelation 17:14, Joel 3:2 and Revelation 19:19). A fragment of the prophecy:
Now I saw Heaven opened, and behold, a white horse. And He who sat on him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and makes war. His eyes were like a flame of fire, and on His head were many crowns. He had a name written that no one knew except Himself. He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God. And the armies in Heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, followed Him on white horses.
Revelation 19:11-14 NKJV
Jesus will defeat the Antichrist, the false prophet and his allies; both will be placed alive in the lake of fire (Revelation 19:19-21).
Afterwards, Satan (Lucifer) will be placed in the Abyss (Hell) and will literally be locked in there for 1000 years (Revelation 20:1-3). Jesus has the key! (Revelation 1:18). 🙂
This part makes us very happy, that Satan, the leader of the kingdom of darkness and the source of all evil (II Corinthians 11:14, Revelation 12:9 and John 8:44), will be trapped in the underworld and not able to deceive or hurt anyone else for 1000 years! To put it in simple terms, the worst bad guy of all the Universe will be in prison for a long, very LONG time!!! Yay!!! 🙂
Then Jesus (Yeshua of Nazareth) will be established as the King of Israel and the Earth (Revelation 19:16, I Timothy 6:15 and Revelation 1:5). Israel will have their long-awaited King, whom they did not understand had already come as the Lamb of God (Psalm 22, Zechariah 12:10 and Isaiah 53), went to Heaven for a period of time (Hosea 5:14-15), and would later return as their glorious King (Deuteronomy 33:2-3).
Jesus will save the children of Israel who did not comprehend the mystery of the prophecy of the Messiah who was to come. He will redeem His people who very sadly disobeyed and betrayed their own God YHWH, I Am (Adonai), over and over during the lapse of history (Isaiah 1:2-4, Hosea 6:7-10 and II Kings 21:1-9). Despite their unfaithfulness, He never stopped loving them or forgot all of His promises to His chosen ones (Isaiah 49:14-16, Jeremiah 31:20 and Hosea 11:8). Adonai was simply going to redeem them His way and not according to their own human perceptions. As is written:
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord.
Isaiah 55:8 NKJV
YHWH will give the children of Israel a new and circumcised heart, replacing their heart of stone with one of flesh (Jeremiah 31:33, Ezekiel 36:26-27 and Ezekiel 11:19). The nation of Israel will not understand the plan of the Eternal until all the prophecy concerning Israel has been fulfilled and the Most High God decides to reveal it to them (Micah 4:12). He will do this to humble them (Isaiah 66:2, Psalm 25:9, James 4:6 and Matthew 11:29).
“…if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from Heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”
II Chronicles 7:14 NKJV
Several children of Israel have already been saved and will go in the rapture, but the nation of Israel will not understand that Yeshua of Nazareth is and was their King Messiah until the time that God, Adonai, has appointed for them to understand (Isaiah 6:9-10 and Micah 4:12). When YHWH opens their eyes and reveals it to them, the entire house of Israel will weep for the one they pierced (Psalm 22:16).
The prophecy in the book of Zechariah:
“And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will look on Me whom they pierced.” Yes, they will mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son, and grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn. In that day there shall be a great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning at Hadad Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.
Zechariah 12:10-11 NKJV
We interpret that this prophecy will be fulfilled on Yom Kippur, a holiday celebrated by the Hebrew people, which means the day of atonement.
This next prophecy explains why the God of Israel, YHWH, turned towards the gentiles:
“They aroused my jealousy with a non-god and provoked me with their vanities; I will arouse their jealousy with a non-people and provoke them with a vile nation.”
D’varim (Deuteronomy) 32:21 CJB
The plan of the Creator of the Universe was to redeem, through the Gospel, the Gentiles and the children of Israel who were also children of the Gentiles and forgot their Hebrew roots (Revelation 7:9-11 and Ezekiel 47:21-23). The descendants of Israel had been scattered throughout the Earth (Judges 3:5-6, Hosea 5:7, I Kings 11:1-2 and Nehemiah 13:23-27); even though God told the Israelites not to have children with Gentiles (Deuteronomy 7:3-4), they disobeyed from the beginning (Deuteronomy 31:16, 20-21 and Isaiah 65:2).
The following prophecies reveal in further detail the beautiful plan of the Most High God:
“Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah – not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them,” says the Lord. “But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says the Lord: “I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people… For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”
Jeremiah 31:31-34 NKJV
Hear the word of the Lord, O nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, “He who scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him as a shepherd does his flock.” For the Lord has redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of one stronger than he. Therefore, they shall come and sing in the height of Zion… Their souls shall be like a well-watered garden, and they shall sorrow no more at all.
Jeremiah 31:10-12 NKJV
“Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the ends of the earth, among them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and the one who labors with child, together; a great throng shall return there.”
Jeremiah 31:8 NKJV
For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will still choose Israel, and settle them in their own land. The strangers will be joined with them, and they will cling to the house of Jacob.
Isaiah 14:1 NKJV
On one of the seven feasts that the Hebrew people celebrate, Yeshua will take His rightful place on Earth as the High Priest of the house of Israel (Psalm 110:1-7, Ezekiel 43:1-9, Hebrews 5:8-10 and Hebrews 6:19-20). The plan of Adonai was to established a priest who was also King, as the enigmatic king and priest Melchizedek, who lived during the time of Abraham (Genesis 14:18-20, Hebrews 7:1-28, Ezekiel 44:2-3, Jeremiah 30:21 and Zechariah 6:12-13).
We share a fragment of the prophecy:
The Lord has sworn and will not relent, “You are a Priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.”
Psalm 110:4 NKJV
When Jesus establishes His Kingdom in this world, the ones taken in the rapture will reign by His side and also function as priests (II Timothy 2:11-12, Revelation 5:9-10 and Revelation 1:5-6). The 1000 years that Jesus will reign the Earth with the Saints is known as the Millennial Kingdom. It will be a time of great peace and prosperity (Isaiah 65:20-22, Revelation 20:1-3 and Isaiah 11:4-12).
This Heavenly story begins with great joy and triumph! 🙂
And it shall come to pass that everyone who is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.
Zechariah 14:16 NKJV
To be continued…