Exposing the Millennium Reign – Part 4
“Reigning With Christ – God’s Plan for All”
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The real reign with Christ spoken about in the Scriptures is the one that has every man ruling and reigning in His kingdom within us having dominion over sin and the lusts of our flesh. This is our focus and our prayer that this rulership, our being risen to reign with Him in righteousness comes.
Mat 6:10 Your kingdom [and our ruling and reigning with Him] come. Your will be done on earth [G1093 – the land within] as it is in heaven
Lord willing, this gigantic plank of false doctrine regarding an outward Millennium Reign on the physical earth/world is completely removed from our spiritual eyes. The entire lie comes from the father of lies and our bowing to Satan who promises us this outward rulership if we only serve him.
Luk 4:5 And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world [kosmos] in a moment of time.
Luk 4:6 And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.
Luk 4:7 If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.
Just think of the huge false doctrines that have fallen away as we have come out of the lies and deceptions of Spiritual Babylon.
- No longer denying the Second Death, knowing this spiritual experience, which is the lake of fire [the cross] and the only way we will be saved
- No longer denying the “resurrection of damnation” [Joh 5:29, Dan 12] as belonging to those lesser Gentiles. Now we see this as the only way to get to salvation. Day 3 is only found by living through this Day 2 experience!
- We clearly see there is no spiritual event called the “second resurrection” in the Scriptures — it does not exist. There is only ONE blessed and holy FIRST resurrection that comes to all men in the two harvests of men. It is not a pattern of sound words to refer to the second harvest as the second resurrection.
- We have also been delivered of our exaltation of the Elect and our being given more respect from the Lord than other men and deserving of greater rewards and lesser punishments.
- The significance of the flesh profiting itself NOTHING [Joh 6:63] has taken on expanded comprehension. Now our focus can be returned to its proper place and we know the road is narrower and few there be shall find it.
- We continue to learn to not think above what is written [1Co 4:6], having learned a big lesson by this experience. We now know there are many things not written; including the details on how the physical earth comes to an end and how humanity and living flesh will cease to exist.
The flock has lost some who walk no more with Christ not being able to bear the loss of carnal profit and carrying our cross to the second death. This winnowing and sifting will continue as it is a precious few who will be given to lay down their lives and endure the walk of faith all the way to the end. The pursuit of the fishes and loaves i.e – the knowledge needs to be turned into our pursuit of love [obedience]. There are few who will be given to move on and finish the race.
Mat 24:12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
Mat 24:13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
While more studies could be done to expand upon all the connected errors propping up the Millennium Reign doctrine, it is time to move on and turn our eyes inwardly to the kingdom of God and where He is at work.
We Walk by Faith Not by Sight
We will continue to comfort one another with the promises of the Lord and the comfort given to us in the Scriptures.
Rom 15:4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
There are many details about the next age the Lord has not provided to us. He has not revealed all things to us and we know that the Lord [the truth, the way] will not be found in what the Scriptures do not reveal. We must be wise to not follow after such deception and the wanton spirit within our flesh that wants to know everything. Let’s stick to what is revealed in His Word.
Mat 24:23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.
Mat 24:26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.
The good fight of faith means we walk not on what we see [physically or spiritually revealed to us in the Scriptures]; but by faith. The very essence of faith is believing in what one cannot see.
Heb 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Rom 8:24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
Let’s look again at these verses that warn us to be content and not be wanton in seeking riches including the spiritual kind. We are to flee such lusts and idols that ensnare carnal minds in huge error as we have witnessed ourselves.
1Ti 6:8 And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.
1Ti 6:9 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
1Ti 6:10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
What are we to focus on and pursue if not spiritual riches as we wait on the Lord? Paul answers. It is all about love, which is our obedience [1Jo 5:3].
1Ti 6:11 But thou, O man of God, flee these things [wantonness, seeking to be rich, chasing knowledge, etc]; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
1Ti 6:12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.
To those given much [knowledge, riches], much more will be expected [Luk 12:48]. All riches are given by the Lord to the edifying and benefit of the Body of Christ that will be manifest in good works in service to the Lord.
1Ti 6:17 Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, [WALK BY FAITH] who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;
The sign of our maturity is the growing fruit of righteousness [obedience, charity, agape] which shall never fail us. Predictions of false prophets within and without ourselves will fail, our learning new mysteries [tongues] about the Lord will fail as our focus is turned back to the Lord and the love of God.
1Co 13:8 Charity [obedience] never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
The love of God is better than wine says the love book of Solomon, which is a type for our relationship with Jesus Christ our husband.
Son 1:2 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love [obedience] is better than wine [knowledge].
Rom 14:17 For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.
If we study the Epistles and writings to the early church, we will see an absence [lack] of focus on future mysteries and outward events, but instead a constant focus on the battle for truth and obedience within us. This is the struggle of flesh and Spirit we all battle and where our focus must always remain as only the queen of Babylon within us [Rev 18:7] thinks she needs nothing and has already arrived.
The Lord’s True Plan for Reigning on the Earth
Being raised up with Christ and occupying a new Temple in which He dwells takes a three-day process with some little seasons to be enduring in the transition between the days. There is simplicity and order to all that the Lord is working in His plan for the salvation of every man. God’s plan and order never change. First spiritual death, then spiritual life. First the flesh than the spirit. First the reign of death [flesh] then the reign of righteousness as we must live both experiences as His Two Witnesses.
1Co 15:46 Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.
1Co 15:47 The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.
1Co 15:49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
Bringing the complexity of the signified times and seasons of our Lord back to the simplicity that is Christ, both reigns beginning with the reign of death and damnation [Day 2] and the reign of eternal life and righteousness [Day3] are crucially important and are lived out in the specified order.
Rom 5:21 That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
Rom 15:12 And again, Esaias saith, There shall be a root of Jesse, and he that [Christ] shall rise to reign over the Gentiles [rest of the dead within us]; in him shall the Gentiles trust.
Death reigns on our earth when we hear the law but have not the power and overcoming to rule over sin. Hearing the gospel and the commands of Christ revives sin in us, the result being spiritual death reaping the wages of sin.
Rom 7:9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
Rom 7:10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
Heb 9:27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
Heb 9:28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
It is only when the Lord comes the second time, with power and fire, that the rest of the dead within us [the Gentiles] are raised to life as death is destroyed in the lake of fire.
Rev 20:5 But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
Rev 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.
His coming to us with power on high, at Pentecost, brings the Spirit of life that is setting us free the law of sin and death, little by little, as we abide in the fire carrying our cross by faith, crying out for deliverance.
Rom 7:24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
Rom 7:25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
Rom 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Rom 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death….
The reign of death is transformed into a reign of righteousness by the process as the heavens and earth within us continue to be purified.
Dominion and Rulership Comes by Death
We die daily to death in the lake of fire as our carnal mind is destroyed and we dispossess the land of all things that defile. This is reigning in righteousness and we grow into it as we mature in the faith thru great tribulations.
Rom 6:7 For he that is dead [to death] is freed from sin.
Rom 6:8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
Rom 6:9 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion [rulership] over him.
Rom 6:10 For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
Rom 6:11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Rom 6:12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
This fulfilling the plan of God was given way back in the beginning.
Gen 4:7 If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him [sin].
The Lord’s plan was set from the beginning of time and He has never wavered or changed. God made lights in the inward heavens, to rule over the times and divide light from darkness in His process of remaking each and every man.
Gen 1:16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
Gen 1:17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
The Lord is the Lord of heaven and the earth and in the process of remaking us [“Qal” ongoing tense like Aorist in Greek], that is being accomplished by His three-day process in rebuilding the temple of God which temple we are [1Co 3:16]. Gaining dominion is gaining rulership and that dominion is over our own personal earth, air [heaven] and over everything that lives within us. The plan was stated and has not changed from the very beginning.
Gen 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Gen 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Gen 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
This transition into the reign of righteousness, for the signified thousand years; signifies the third day, also known as the last day or the day of the Lord in which all men are perfected in Gods plan. The number three signifying the process [the three days] of how we are perfected by the hand of the Lord.
Mat 12:40 For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Joh 2:19 Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
The kingdom of Jesus Christ and His Christ has never been and never will be about ruling the physical kosmos [Joh 18:36, Joh 6:15, Luk 17:21]. The words of Scripture, which are all spirit, tell us the earth represents our bodies, emotions, and actions … our entire life experience which is also known as the promised land that is given to Israel [Elect, Spiritual Jews] to possess. We possess that land and learn to rule over it only through judgment that comes when Christ brings the fire to our earth.
Deu 4:1 Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you.
Isa 26:9 With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth [the promised land], the inhabitants of the world [kosmos] will learn righteousness.
The entire history of flesh Israel and all failed and immature kings is there to show us our Day 2 experience and the reign of death and our flesh and the futility we experience in overcoming sin and being obedient. A divided kingdom is a double-minded man who deceives himself and is ensnared in death having made a covenant with death. This is all part of the Lord’s plan to bring us to our wits end where we cry out for a savior.
Isa 3:4 And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them [first before the kingdom is established in righteousness with a true king]
Php 3:3 For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
When we are in the flesh before Christ comes in the Spirit with power, our ruling was all in vain and there was never any lasting righteousness or overcoming. Which is why Christ comes to us the second time [Day three] to bring the fire that saves us and establishes true righteousness on the earth. We look towards and focus on this.
2Pe 3:13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
The true reign with Christ is the result of our coming through the Lake of Fire and dying to death which is the Second Death. When death is dead within us, we have power in the Spirit and are reigning over and possess the land in holiness. This is salvation and the plan of God for every man in the appointed times for each.
Rev 5:10 And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.
Rev 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.
Being like Christ will have us ruling like Christ and being the servant of all and lording over no man. The outcome we should seek is the exact opposite focus the false doctrine of an outward Millennium Reign brought to those that believed it. Reigning with Christ is serving the dead within us and without us, preaching the gospel and teaching all the commandments of the Lord.
Mar 10:42 But Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them.
Mar 10:43 But so shall it not be among you: but whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister:
Mat 5:19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
We can praise the Lord for His mercy in bringing us out of our deceptions and turning us back to the message of the gospel.
The following study continued on in exposing error from the false Millennium Reign doctrine. That study can be found here: The “Is, Was and Is to Come” Coming of the Lord and I believe you will be greatly edified.
