Revelation of Jesus 67, Resolution 3

The topic of this video is the events revolving around the thousand years mentioned in Revelation 20.

For a thousand years after the Second Coming of Christ, Satan, the originator and key instigator of sin, will be bound in the bottomless pit (more details on the meaning of the abyss/bottomless pit in video 30).

During that time, the redeemed will be with Jesus in heaven, where they will “reign with Him a thousand years” (Revelation 20:6): “Then [John] saw thrones, and those seated on them were given authority to judge. [He] also saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their testimony to Jesus and for the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years… This is the first resurrection” (Revelation 20:4,5).

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What is the purpose of this special thousand-year reign?

We might consider this to be an orientation to eternal life. God at the resurrection will “transform our lowly bodies that they may be conformed to His (that is, Jesus’) glorious body” (Philippians 3:21). But there is no indication that He is going to download new minds. Many of us will be woefully lacking in the basic concepts and principles of heaven. Considering how warped our minds have been by the life and environment of sin we have experienced, and how little we really know about loving the Lord with all our heart and our neighbors as ourselves, a thousand years is not really such a long time to learn all that we will need to know to carry out the “job description” that God has prepared for us. Fortunately, we will have a universe of angels as well as God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit to teach us what it means to “reign with Christ”!

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The focus in the resolution series shifts from events on earth to the heavenly realm, where all heaven is celebrating the final and permanent defeat of Babylon.

If you have not done so already, please check out the other videos in the Resolution series.

You can read the full transcript of this video here.

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