So....who are the people that marry and repopulate the earth during the 1000 year reign with Christ? The people raptured? or the saved left-behinds or both? the end is near and I yet have to experience marriage and having children!! I'm hoping the 1000 year reign is a chance to have an opportunity.

Hi Lemual,
Very interesting question. I am going to be digging into Revelation to see what the Bible says about this. Here is Rev chapter 20:

Re 20:2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,

Re 20:3 And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.

Re 20:4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image *, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

Re 20:5 But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.

Re 20:6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
Re 20:7 And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,

Re 20:8 And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.

Re 20:9 And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.

Re 20:10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.

Re 20:11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.

Re 20:12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

Re 20:13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.

Re 20:14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.

Re 20:15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.

We know from Isaiah that We will give birth without pain, so I am assuming there is marraige. I hat to assume even that though, without the bible specifically saying it. I will accept it for simplicities sake yet remember that it is an assumption. We know there will be children in "heaven" because they will not be hurt by the cobra. We know that we will eat because the hills will overflow with grain and there will be enough food for all, plus we are given the tree of life to eat from that provided fruit in every season and so on. We know that there will be animals because the lion will lay down with the lamb.

I don't take this as allegory. some do. I believe the bible is both physical and spiritual and that my God has the capacity to do that with the Word so that lion means an actual lion but it also means the mighty.

WHEN there will be marraige, if there is marraige attached to giveing birth without pain, Revelation does not say. I can only find it in the above reference. but assuming that the bible does not condradict itself, there are actually three possibilities that I see. The 144,000 which is doubtful in my mind because part of their "beauty" is that they are decicated oly to christ and are not bound in bonds of marraige.

Then the ones that come out of the tribulation who robes are washed white. The unnumberable that rein with Christ for 1,000 years. Possible. I am pretty sure in my mind that this gathering will not be a "rapture" but rather we will be taken up into the clouds to be with the Lord after denying the antichrist and then killed for it. At least I am prepared for that possibility. Whether we will have a body at that time which is marriable during that 1,000 years, it does not say.

And then the "rest", after the thousand years, are gathered both rightous and unrightous to judgement. Some go to distruction and apparently they won't marry.
though some would say that would be their worst punishment conceivable.....and the rest to glory. At the very latest, it will be then. Perhaps sooner during the 1,000 years, probably not the 144,000, but at the very latest after the 1,000 years.

Can you wait that long? HA!

leia

Think how many kids you could have in 1000 years. In the other direction, I have wondered when Adam was 900 could he remember what he got for his 29th birthday?

>>>Re 20:15 And "whosoever" was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire

I rebuke that in Jesus name

Greetings all:

Hmm, now there's an intriguing question. I, too, have never experienced marriage nor the joy of having children. But in place of that, God has given me the gift of promise found in Isaiah 56:1-8. I made a promise unto myself that if the Lord have found me worthy to be in heaven with Him, then I will be an mother unto those children that have never been born. I keep thinking of what Jesus had said about how Heaven belongs to the little ones. Just imagine all those kids never having the pleasure of having either a mother or father to care for them on earth. But they do have their Heavenly Father looking after them as well as us here on earth.

Sincerely yours,

Wendy

HAHAHHHAHAHAHAHAH good one

The people who are raptured will be in their eternal bodies and will not have childeren. The people who will populate the earth are those who will survive the wrath. Not all flesh will be destroyed.

All Praise The Ancient Of Days

Hi Adstar,
I kinda thought the same thing as well, but then I thought about how we will have glorified bodies like JESUS does:

Luke 24:39 Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.
Luke 24:40 And when he had thus spoken, he showed them his hands and his feet.
Luke 24:41 And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said unto them, Have ye here any meat?
Luke 24:42 And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb.
Luke 24:43 And he took it, and did eat before them.

HE was physical and could be touched and could eat. If HE did these things, we will do them as well.

However, I am not sure if we will marry during the 1000 year reign or afterward, though I do believe we will be able to. I have felt the LORD telling me on many occasions when I pray about the 1000 year reign that the universe HE has made is so big that HIS desire is to fill it with as many of HIS sons and daughters as possible. Imagine, a whole universe filled with people who are both physical and spiritual, eternal in nature, obeying and praising GOD, filled with HIS very SPIRIT! If Adam and Eve were told to multiple and be fruitful in the garden in Genesis:

Ge 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Ge 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

maybe that same commandment extends during and/or after the 1000 year reign across the universe.
I am hoping HE wants us to do that! How much fun would that be! And an eternity to do it!

Just IMHO....

^ Yes I hope that he wants us to do it with eachother. Blah sorry my immaturity is kicking in.

Hi gr8tobesaved.

I do not believe we "raptured/reasurected" Saints will be getting married or having children during the 1000 years.

Matthew 22
23 The same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Him and asked Him, 24 saying: “Teacher, Moses said that if a man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife and raise up offspring for his brother. 25 Now there were with us seven brothers. The first died after he had married, and having no offspring, left his wife to his brother. 26 Likewise the second also, and the third, even to the seventh. 27 Last of all the woman died also. 28 Therefore, in the resurrection, whose wife of the seven will she be? For they all had her.”
29 Jesus answered and said to them, “You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God. 30 For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels of God in heaven.

I believe the remnant of Isreal is the 144,000 spoken of in the Book of revelation. I believe they will be the ones to populate the Kingdom of the Messiah. Also i do not believe all flesh of the nations will be destroyed in the wrath.

Matthew 24
21 For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be. 22 And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect’s sake those days will be shortened.

At the end of the 1000 years satan will be released from his prison and he will go out to the surrounding nations to deceive the people:

Revelation 20
6 Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years.
7 Now when the thousand years have expired, satan will be released from his prison 8 and will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, whose number is as the sand of the sea. 9 They went up on the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. And fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them. 10 The devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are. And they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

Note how the camp of the saints is distinguished from Jerusalem. (the beloved city)



All Praise The Ancient Of Days

:'(!!!!!!!!!!

Hi Adstar,
Thanks for the reply. I have looked at Matt 22:29 to mean that when we are resurrected, we will no longer be married to a spouse if we were before the resurrection occured, nor givien in marriage if we were about to be married to someone. The Sadducees were clearly tempting JESUS and showing their ignorance. But that scripture does not lock it in for me about marrying during the 1000 year reign until we reach the following verse you that you included in your reply:



The scriptures you used helped me out. Thanks! If we, those who will take part in the first resurrection, are to be priests of GOD and CHRIST and reign with HIM a thousnd years, then our first love will be CHRIST, and we will not marry (Matt 22:29). But after the 1000 year reign, who knows?

It is fun to think about...

Blessings to Lemuel and you for a great question and answer!:D

Well think of it. Eternal people having babies, forever? I suppose there would soon be a very big population problem LOL . But then again How big is the universe. Well i suppose there is no harm thinking about it.


All Praise The Ancient Of Days

Interesting discussion, don't forget the meek.

During the seven years of the tribulation period............ those that refuse the mark of the beast and survive ...............

Rev 2: 25 But that which ye have already hold fast till I come. (saved)

26 And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: (Lives through or survives the tribulation and does not get the mark)

27 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. (these will Jesus rule over with an iron rod............. for they are still corruptable flesh and can still reproduce on earth)

28 And I will give him the morning star. (Jesus is the Morning Star)

29 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.(he who understands let him hear)

Revelation 22:16 I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.

This makes sense if you believe the Rapture happens in Rev. 4:1 After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said,........... Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.

I Thess. 4:17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.


IIThess. 2:4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. ANTICHRIST

5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? WE SHOULD KNOW AND BE READY.

6 And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.
HE WITHHOLDS THE ANTICHRIST

7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. STAGE IS BEING SET, GOD RESTRAINS THE BEAST UNTIL THE CHURCH BE TAKEN OUT OF THE WAY.

8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
NOW THE ANTICHRIST IS REVEALED HIS REIN ON EARTH FOR THE TRIBULATION TIME.

IF YOU BELIEVE IN RAPTURE FIRST THIS WORKS FOR YOU.
IF YOU ARE SAVED..................... SORRY YOU WILL NOT BE HERE.

IF YOU ARE NOT SAVED AND GO THROUGH WITHOUT TAKING THE MARK AND DO NOT GET KILLED DURING THE SEVEN YEARS........
YOU WILL INDEED WALK INTO THE MILLENIUM, YOU WILL REPRODUCE AND JESUS WILL RULE WITH AN IRON ROD.

Fence riders.............. those who know of the Mark of the Beast.........
those who know of the love of Jesus and yet did not make a choice to accept Jesus into their hearts.............. miss the Rapture.
They refuse the Mark of the Beast because they know.............. it means eternal damnation....................

I also believe that those of us that are saved.............. if we are caught in some sin when the trump is blown and the Rapture occurs........ we will also be left behind............... to go through the tribulation...........

I am a pre- trib believer...............
A post-trib believer will have another formula for success for you.

As we differ in this area of Pre and Post ............. we can agree on one thing.

We know of Salvation and the only way to be saved is through the shed blood of Jesus Christ................



God Bless

The 8th day (Shemini Atzeret)

Old Testament meaning
A seven-day celebration of the great fall harvest, observed by living in temporary dwellings for the duration of the Feast. (Leviticus 23:33-43)
New Testament meaning
Pictures the Millennium, when the earth will be ruled by Jesus Christ and His saints.
The seven day Feast of Tabernacles is immediately followed by the eighth day. Christians normally call this the Last Great Day based on these statement from Jesus in John 7:37-38:
On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, "If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water."
Old Testament meaning
Adjacent to the Feast of Tabernacles, this eighth day is considered a separate Feast. (Leviticus 23:36, 39)
New Testament meaning
Pictures the coming "Great White Throne Judgment" at which all of humanity not previously called will have the chance to hear the True Gospel and accept salvation.
The Last Day - the 8th day of the Feast of Tabernacles picturing the later physical resurrection of the vast majority of humanity who were not resurrected to spirit at the Return of Jesus Christ. (Leviticus 23:39, Revelation 20:5,11-15)

All human beings who have lived and died since Adam and Eve, will be resurrected back to physical life, all mankind will once again be given the oportunity to live again and, this time, come to know the truth, this time, they will be given the oportunity to repent and to become the sons of God in the way that we are given in this age. During the thousand years , the saints in the first resurrection will be preparing the earth to receive the final harvest of all humanity which is pictured by the fall harvest season of the Holy Days. Leviticus 23 speaks of this Last Great Day as the Eighth Day, and in verse 39, in the fifteenth day of the seventh month on the first day shall be a Sabbath to you. The eighth day is referred to as the Great Day in John 7:37, In the last day that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, if any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink, Truly it will be a great day because it ushers in the resurrection of all human kind that has lived and died and never yet has had the opportunity to be converted, these people are spoken of in Ezekiel 37, God identifies these dead people in verse 11,as the whole house of Israel:, and in verse 12, Therefore prophesy and say unto them thus saith the Lord God, Behold, O my people, I will open you graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, God will be preparing the earth for 1000 years, to receive these many billions of people that are going to be resurrected in that last Great Day of humanity, It is refered by some as a new beginning. God makes it available to all human kind to receive everlasting life, verse 14, and shall put My Spirit in you, and ye shall live. There are seven annual Holy Days which are called High Day Sabbaths, these annual High Sabbaths teach us the plan of God which is designed to save all humankind, these Sabbath days are of great importance and without observing them it is truly impossible to understand the plan that God is working out, God said: Speak saying, verily My Sabbath ye shall keep it is a sign between Me and thee through out all your generations,that ye may know that I Am the Lord which sanctify you. and of course there is the weekly Sabbath, You shall keep my Sabbath therefore: for it is holy unto you. Everyone that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people,verse 17:, the Sabbath day is a sign between Me and you forever. Your Bible plainly says that the SIGN BETWEEN GOD AND HIS PEOPLE or the "mark", on God's people is the Sabbath day.

Last Great Day: Resurrection of all the dead who never knew the truth; all will then have an opportunity for salvation.

Pictures the coming "Great White Throne Judgment" at which all of humanity not previously called will have the chance to hear the True Gospel and accept salvation.
The Last Day - the 8th day of the Feast of Tabernacles picturing the later physical resurrection of the vast majority of humanity who were not resurrected to spirit at the Return of Jesus Christ. (Leviticus 23:39, Revelation 20:5,11-15)