I actually don't find much evidence for a millennial kingdom which is OF this earth (creation).
Peter says on the Day of the Lord, when He returns, the current creation will be consumed by fire, and we get new heavens and earth.
Paul says when Christ returns there will be this consuming fire and all the wicked will be destroyed, all those who do not know God and who do not obey the gospel.
There is no one left alive who is not of the Father. they are all of them gone, and the people of God inherit the earth. The wicked will be ashes under our feet, that mean they are left neither root nor branch they are all of them destroyed by the fire of God.
Just as in the time of Noah, the flood came and swept them all away and they all of them died.
Just as in the days of Lot, the fire fell and consumed them all, sparing only Lot and his daughters.
Matthew 24
The Coming of the Son of Man
29 “Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. 30 Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. 31 And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His [
d]elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
The Parable of the Fig Tree
32 “Now learn this parable from the fig tree: When its branch has already become tender and puts forth leaves, you know that summer
is near. 33 So you also, when you see all these things, know that [
e]it is near—at the doors! 34 Assuredly, I say to you, this generation will by no means pass away till all these things take place. 35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away.
No One Knows the Day or Hour
36 “But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of [
f]heaven, but My Father only. 37
But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. 38 For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, 39 and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. 40 Then two
men will be in the field: one will be taken and the other left. 41 Two
women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken and the other left. 42 Watch therefore, for you do not know what [
g]hour your Lord is coming. 43 But know this, that if the master of the house had known what [
h]hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into. 44 Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.
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Luke 17,
but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. 30 Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed.
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22 Then He said to the disciples, “The days will come when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see
it. 23 And they will say to you, [
h]‘Look here!’ or ‘Look there!’ Do not go after
them or follow
them. 24
For as the lightning that flashes out of one part under heaven shines to the other part under heaven, so also the Son of Man will be in His day. 25 But first He must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.
26 And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man: 27 They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. 28 Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; 29 but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. 30 Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed.
31 “In that day, he who is on the housetop, and his [
i]goods
are in the house, let him not come down to take them away. And likewise the one who is in the field, let him not turn back. 32 Remember Lot’s wife. 33 Whoever seeks to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it. 34 I tell you, in that night there will be two [
j]
men in one bed: the one will be taken and the other will be left. 35 Two
women will be grinding together: the one will be taken and the other left. 36 [
k]Two
men will be in the field: the one will be taken and the other left.”
37 And they answered and said to Him, “Where, Lord?”
So He said to them, “Wherever the body is, there the eagles will be gathered together.”
The birds are birds of prey, they eat the dead, recall the great supper of God in Revelation speaks to that.
No coming back for the wicked dead.
It is a total destruction. But we inherit the earth, we get new earth and new heaven. Like a restoration of a new creation , a new Eden.
Something to look forward to.
The Day of the Lord
10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be [
d]burned up. 11 Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner
of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, 12 looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat? 13 Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.
And between the dissolving of the old creation and the coming of the new creation, there is the great white throne judgement of God.
Where books are opened where everything they did was recorded, and the dead are judged by the things they did written in the books.
Everything everyone did is written into His book, your whole life is recorded.