The "Millennium" SERIES: Intro

"The word “millennium” is composed of two Latin words, mille, “a thousand,” and annus, “a year,” and signifies “a thousand years.” Any period of a thousand years is a millennium; but that period of a thousand years designated and understood universally as “the millennium” is a certain thousand years mentioned and measured off in the Scriptures.

The particular scripture which defines the thousand years—the millennium—is Revelation 20:1-7. 

The connection in which this thousand years is set is such that from it can be certainly known, not the date of its beginning, but the event that marks its beginning.

 Also, the connection in which it is set is such that from it can be certainly known what the character of that millennium is to be. In that scripture it is said that Satan is to be bound and shut up for a thousand years, and that the saints live and reign with Christ a thousand years. 

Revelation 20:5 

But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This [living of the saints] is the first resurrection. 

6 Blessed and holy is he that has part in the first resurrection: on such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years. By these words we know that the event that marks the beginning of the millennium is “the first resurrection,”—the resurrection of the “blessed and holy,”—the resurrection of... 4 ...the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshiped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands.

--And this resurrection of the saints, this “first resurrection,” is at the coming of the Lord in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory; 

for it is written, 1 Thessalonians 4 15 

For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 

16 For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven 

with a shout, 

with the voice of the archangel, 

and with the trump of God: 

and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 

17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 

And again, 1 Corinthians 15:51 

Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 

52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: 

for the trumpet shall sound, 

and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, 

and we shall be changed. 

And again, 22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. 

23 But every man in his own order: Christ the first fruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at His coming. 

There are many other scriptures to the same purpose, but these are enough to settle it as the truth of God that the second coming of Christ marks the beginning of the millennium, because the second coming of Christ brings the resurrection of the just, of the blessed and holy; and this resurrection, the first one, marks the beginning of the thousand years—the millennium. 

Q:  What, then, of the wicked at the beginning of the thousand years,

and during the thousand years? 

Q: What occurs to them at the coming of the Lord? 

A: Read: 2 Thessalonians 1:7 

And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with His mighty angels, 

8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. 

They call for the mountains and rocks to fall on them and hide them... 

Revelation 6:16 ...from the face of Him that sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:

17 For the great day of His wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?

Jeremiah 25:30 The Lord 

shall roar from on high, 

and utter His voice from His holy habitation; 

He shall mightily roar upon His habitation; He shall give a shout, as they that tread the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth. 

31 A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the Lord has a controversy with the nations, He will plead with all flesh; He will give them that are wicked to the sword, says the Lord.
33 And the slain of the Lord shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth: 

they shall not be lamented, 

neither gathered, 

nor buried; 

they shall be dung upon the ground. 

Now, since it is the truth of the word of God that the resurrection of the righteous—the first resurrection—marks the beginning of the millennium." 

A.T. Jones