Q & A With a Believer on the Millenium Reign

Q & A WITH A BELIEVER ON THE MILLENNIUM REIGN 

Q. How is it possible for believers with spiritual bodies to mix with those with physical bodies during the millennium reign? 

MY TAKE 

I must admit that there are some residual mysteries in Christian eschatology. We cannot fully comprehend the splendour of God's glory during the millennium reign or even under the eternal state of the church described in Revelation 21-22. 

We cannot tell how the resurrected saints who will reign with Christ and those with mortal bodies would interface  the millennium reign. 

Some scholars consider Jesus' statement in Luke 20:36 as evidence that resurrected believers will possess angelic bodies and can therefore interact with humanity in the physical realm. 

It is also supposed that since the risen Christ could interact with, was touched by, and even ate with His disciples, the resurrected saints could possess these attributes. Besides, the task of governing humanity requires travel and interactive engagements. 

Having said as much, I must also reckon that Scripture cannot contradict itself. If we consider the millennium reign as a literal futuristic event in God's divine calendar, we cannot deny or doubt the validity of its prophecies in Scripture. 

For instance, if we treat the millennium reign as symbolic, how shall we reckon with the battle of Gog and Magog? Is this a mystical symbolic battle or a literal event in God's eschatological calendar? 

What about the second resurrection and judgement recorded in Revelation 20:11-15? Is this an allegorical or symbolic narrative or a description of a literal divine event awaiting humanity? 

How should we interpret the vision described in Revelation 21? Is it a symbolic pictorial image bereft of any truth? Is heaven real or symbolic?

My view is that the events described in Revelation 20 are not allegorical but real-time. Christ will indeed come to earth to fulfil the Old Testament prophecies relating to the end times. 

Take this to the bank....

We may disagree on when the resurrection will take place - either before the great tribulation (pre tribulation), or during the tribulation [mid-tribulation] or even at the end of the tribulation [post tribulation]. 

Here are inalienable truths conveyed in Scripture...

Christ will physically return with the resurrected saints and will literally reign in present day Jerusalem for 1000 years under His Messianic rule. Satan will be bound to the bottomless pit during Christ's millennium reign. He will be briefly released from the pit at the end of this period. The battle of Gog and Magog which is championed by Satan will take place at God's appointed time at the close of the millennium reign and Satan and his forces will be defeated. Satan and his angels will be cast into the lake of fire. The resurrection of the dead will take place and the final judgement will be convened. The wicked will join Satan in the lake of fire and the saints will be ushered into the new heaven and so the end shall come. 

If you are a professing Christian, you cannot afford to ignore these eschatological landmarks taught in Scripture. 

I rest my case. 

@ Ezekiel Kimosop