Timtofly
Well-Known Member
This is not proof of denying Revelation 20 is a future 1,000 year day of the Lord. I accept all the redeemed have been physically enjoying Paradise since the Cross. They have physically been seated with Christ. They have been serving day and night in the heavenly temple. Paradise is a physical place in the firmament.Martyrdom has been happening throughout this current period since the first resurrection. The saints are reigning with Christ since He defeated the grave 2000 years ago.
They all have permanent incorruptible physical bodies. They have entered that eternal state. There are not any souls laying around waiting for the Second Coming.
You are the one denying and limiting your perspective to the extent of what you claim. The last 1992 years have been great tribulation. They have been the tribulation of those days. What the last 1992 years have not been is Jacob's trouble the GT that only happens after the Second Coming.
The sheep in Matthew 25 are those living on earth after the Second Coming. They are made righteous the same way all the redeemed have been restored. They just don't go to Paradise. They reign on earth for 1,000 years, and then the New Jerusalem comes down to where they are on the new earth.
When the New Jerusalem comes down to the new earth there will already be established nations from the previous 1,000 years. Those nations don't just pop into existence magically.
At the Second Coming all nations and Adam's offspring have been wiped clean. The sheep and wheat represents the remnant. It will take 1,000 years to establish these nations, because John gave us a literal length of 1,000 years.
They don't magically pop up after your claimed climatic and destructive end to the earth as we know it. They all don't march out of the New Jerusalem like Noah did and repopulate the earth. Those living in Paradise for 1992 years will continue to do so for as long as God has determined the length of the next creation to be. The established nations will continue to cover the earth as always.
And the reason that you can't change Revelation 20 to suit your needs, is because there will be some physically beheaded after the Second Coming, who live for 1,000 years. You can't just keep avoiding the fact those beheaded are alive on earth today, and have yet to be presented with the choice to take the mark or chop off their head. That is not the alter call today. The alter call today is accepting Christ by faith and repentance of sin. No one has been beheaded for not taking the mark of the beast.