--There is still sin and suffering in some corner of God’s perfectly re-created paradise.
--The former would still be remembered and come into mind—and in a painful way for the saved in heaven who have loved ones continually suffering torment.
*How much better the doctrine, in which the unsaved living are killed by the brightness of Christ’s coming, and the unsaved dead are not resurrected until the end of the millennium.
*How much better the doctrine, in which the unsaved living are killed by the brightness of Christ’s coming, and the unsaved dead are not resurrected until the end of the millennium.
The saints are taken to heaven for the millennium, and during that time, the books of heaven are opened, each case examined, and all are satisfied that God has judged correctly in every case. The saved will have one thousand years to go through the lives of those who were not saved before judgment is executed.
Then, at the end of the millennium, the New Jerusalem descends to earth, the unsaved dead are all resurrected, and Satan is set loose. Rev. 20:7-10. It is at this time that “every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” Phil. 2:10-11. Everyone will admit that Christ’s judgment was just and fair.
--Then, the unsaved will be cast into the lake of fire. Rev. 21:8.
Then, at the end of the millennium, the New Jerusalem descends to earth, the unsaved dead are all resurrected, and Satan is set loose. Rev. 20:7-10. It is at this time that “every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” Phil. 2:10-11. Everyone will admit that Christ’s judgment was just and fair.
--Then, the unsaved will be cast into the lake of fire. Rev. 21:8.
--Some will be consumed instantaneously, some in mere seconds, some in minutes, a few in hours, and a very few, other than Satan himself, in days. But eventually all are consumed and reduced to ashes. Then the world is made anew, without any trace of sin or evil. Rev. 21:1-5."
F.D. Nichol
F.D. Nichol
“The great controversy is ended. Sin and sinners are no more. The entire universe is clean. One pulse of harmony and gladness beats through the vast creation. From Him who created all, flow life and light and gladness, throughout the realms of illimitable space. From the minutest atom to the greatest world, all things, animate and inanimate, in their unshadowed beauty and perfect joy,
declare that God is love.”
E.G.W.