Previously, we found that at the “Second Coming,” Yeshua will conquer the nations of world and establish His kingdom on earth. 

• Then shall The Most High go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.

Zechariah 14:3 KJVm

We further found that the “second coming” will take place on the last day of the tribulation period…

 … which is also the first day of the Millennial Reign.

A closer examination reveals that this Millennial Reign can be further divided into four phases which will be the focus of this article.

 PHASE ONE

YESHUA’S RETURN

Phase one is the day of “the second coming” of Yeshua.

 It is the day of the first resurrection.  

 On that day, the Vials of Wrath will be poured out upon the earth.

• And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of The Most High upon the earth. 

Revelation 16:1 KJVm

It is then, at His return, that The Most High will fight the nations which will be sieging the Old City of Jerusalem .

• Then shall The Most High go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.

Zechariah 14:3 KJVm

And on that day, the Yeshua will come in the New Jerusalem… 

• Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom. 

Matthew 16:28 KJV

 …where we will dwell with The Most High…

• And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from The Most High out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of The Most High is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and The Most High himself shall be with them, and be their Most High.

Revelation 21:2-3 KJVm

 …on the earth.

• And hast made us unto our Most High kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.

Revelation 5:10 KJVm

INSIDE THE CITY

 All who are in the first resurrection, including “the Remnant” which will be alive to greet Yeshua, will reign with Him during “the Millennium”…

• 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 The Most High and of The Son of Man, and shall reign with him a thousand years. 

Revelation 20:6 KJVm

 …from inside the New City.

• Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.

Revelation 22:14 KJV

 The unrighteous, however, will not be allowed inside the city’s boundaries.

• And nothing unclean, and no one who practices abomination and lying, shall ever come into it, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

Revelation 21:27 NASB

OUTSIDE THE CITY

It is then, that those who are left of the nations which Yeshua will battle against… 

• And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, The Most High of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.

Zechariah 14:16 KJVm

 …and the rebellious individuals that will be purged from the Old City of Jerusalem…

• When The Most High has washed away the filth of the Daughters of Zion and purged the blood of Jerusalem from her midst by the spirit of judgment and of burning.

Isaiah 4: 4 KJVm

 …will be gathered up by the angels and cast outside the boundaries of the New Jerusalem…

• The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil.

Matthew 13:41 NIV

 …where the Vials of Wrath will have just been poured which will be a place where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

• And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. 

Matthew 13:42 KJV

 This is the first day of the Millennium.

PHASE TWO

THE THOUSAND YEARS THAT SATAN IS BOUND

Then Satan will be seized and imprisoned which is the starting point of phase two.

• And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key to the Abyss and holding in his hand a great chain.  He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. 

Revelation 20:1-2 NIV

The purpose of this imprisonment Is to prevent Satan from deceiving those left of “the nations,” which will have been cast outside the New Jerusalem.

• He threw him into the Abyss, and locked and sealed it over him, to keep him from deceiving the nations anymore until the thousand years were ended. After that, he must be set free for a short time.  

Revelation 20:3 NIV

 It is during Satan’s imprisonment that “the Remnant” and those who are in the first resurrection will reign with Yeshua…

• 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 The Most High and of The Son of Man, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

Revelation 20:6 KJVm

…over “the nations” with a rod-of-iron …

• And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treaded the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of The Most High.

Revelation 19:15 KJVm

 …which will be existing outside the holy city for the thousand years that Satan is bound.

• Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

Revelation 22:15 NIV

PHASE THREE

THE SEASON THAT SATAN IS RELEASED

 Phase Three begins at the completion of the thousand years where Satan is to be released from his prison…

• And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,

Revelation 20:7 KJV

…for an undisclosed duration the Bible identifies as a short season.

• 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. 

Revelation 20:3 KJV

And it is during this short season that Satan is released that the Devil will be permitted to deceive the nations outside the holy city.

• 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.

Revelation 20:8 KJV

 Then he will gather them in preparation for a final battle… 

• 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.

Revelation 20:8 KJV

 

 …by surrounding The Most High’s people inside the New Jerusalem which have been on the Earth during the Millennial Reign.

• They marched across the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of The Most High’s people, the city he loves. But fire came down from heaven and devoured them.

Revelation 20:9 NIV

Then The Most High will intercede and annihilate them.

Revelation 20:9 NIV

PHASE FOUR

The Great White Throne Judgment

The fourth and final phase of the Millennium begins with the Great White Throne Judgment…

• Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. The earth and the heavens fled from his presence, and there was no place for them.  

Revelation 20:11 NIV

 …which is a period with an undisclosed duration often referred to as Judgment Day…

 …where the unjust will be resurrected…

•  But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished…..

Revelation 20:5 KJV

 …and will be judged according to their deeds.

• And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books.

Revelation 20:12 NIV

All who are not written in the book of life will be cast into the lake of fire…

• And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.

Revelation 20:15 KJV

 … which is the second death.

• And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.

Revelation 20:14 KJV

These are the four phases of the Millennial Reign.

Next:  Resurrections of the Just and Unjust

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