Do you anticipate Messiah's return before the Millennium? In this teaching we look at the scriptures to see if Messiah will be returning after the Millennium (a post millennium return) leaving us to fulfill-literally the ruling, reigning and dominium promises given to mankind in Gen 1:26.
Hebrews 1:1-2: “Elohim, who at various times and in different ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds.”
The last days began with Yahusha!
Our life is to be lived as a life of personal, progressive sanctification consisting of two things:
the removing more and more the principles of evil still infecting our nature, and destroying their power,
and secondly, the growth of the principle of spiritual life until controls the thoughts, the feelings, and acts, and brings our souls into conformity to the image of Messiah
The Mustard Seed Parable
Despite unimpressive beginnings the Messianic Kingdom will grow until it’s huge.
The Leaven Parable
This parable shows pervasive expanding growth until the Kingdom is fully risen!
The Kingdom has insignificant small beginnings, yet there’s a climatic expansion it will continue to grow until it fills the whole earth!
Dan 2:34 The Kingdom is like unto a stone that grows and crushes all opposing kingdoms until it fills the whole earth.
Creation: יהוה establishes the world where His righteous image can be manifest and dwell in mankind.
Covenant: By Oath He frames a legal building to house the promise.
Prophecy: He reveals His power to His servants to spread and direct His righteousness in history.
Kingdom: He establishes His dominion rule of Malki Tzedik over the nations. 1 Cor. 15:22, Death is the last enemy of Yahusha to be put under His feet. Since this victory over death will occur on the Last Day, all the rest of Yahusha’s enemies must be put under His feet before the Last Day!
So, the victory millennial rule must happen before His second coming when death is destroyed by raising His saints from the grave!
Resurrection: The resurrection is the final curtain of the “last days.” The resurrection is the “the end” of history: 1 Cor. 15:23-24 “But each one in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, afterward those who are Christ’s at His coming. Then comes the end.”
No new era begins: these are the last days that we now live in. No millennial period will follow the resurrection in history because“then comes the end.”
Jn 5:28, Paul and Yahusha agree because Yahusha teaches us that the resurrection of the just and the wicked will happen at the “same hour” so how can they separated by a 1000 interval?
V.24 “the end will come, when he hands over the kingdom to Elohim the Father.”
When He returns to hand over the millennial kingdom to His Father, then the earth is burnt up.
2 Pet 3:10 But the day of the Master vuvh will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are in it shall be burned up. 11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons should you be in all kadosh conduct and Shabbat-guarding piety, 12 Looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of vuvh, in which the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat!
When Yahusha comes, there will be no earth for us to rule over! How can this happen if He returns before the Millennium?
Rev 20:5 is used to build a intermission theology between the resurrection of the just and the unjust, whereas could it be that both just and unjust will be raised together after the millennium?
In Rev 20:4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given to them: and I saw the beings of them that were beheaded 9 for the witness of Yahush, and for the word of vuvh,and who had not worshipped the beast, or his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Messiah a thousand years. 5 This is the first resurrection. (But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished.)
V.5 does not appear in the Syriac version of the Aramaic text, so they either added it to the Greek or they took it out of the Aramaic.
The first resurrection more likely is dealing with these that were resurrected as a witness to Yahusha at his death burial and resurrection.
Hos. 6:2 after two days he will revive us and in the third day He will raise us up!
Matt 28:18 18 And Yahusha came and spoke to them, saying, All power is given to Me in the shamayim and in the earth. Go therefore, and make talmidim of all nations, doing mikvah upon them in My Name: Teaching them to guard all things, which I have commanded you: and, see, I am with you always, even to the end of the olam hazeh. Amein.
Yahusha is called Emmanuel or “Elohim with us.” (Isaiah 8:10).
Rev 20:4 emphasis is more to do with Israel ruling over the nations than with the physical presence of Yahusha. Yahusha is present, empowered by the Holy Spirit.
Heb 5:5 So also the Moshiach esteemed not Himself to be made a Kohen Gadol; but He that said to Him, You are My Son,today have I brought You forth. 6 As He says also in another place, You are a Kohen le- olam-va-ed after the order of Malki-Tzedek.
Ps. 2:7 I will declare the decree: vuvh has said to Me, You are My Son; 6 this day have I brought You forth. 8 Ask of Me, and I shall give You the nations for Your inheritance, and the farthest parts of the earth for Your possession. 9 You shall break them with a rod of iron; You shall dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.
Hebrews 5:5 quoting Ps 2 yet referencing Rev 2:26 tells us that the Malki Tzedik High Priest will rule the nations as part of the Malki Tzedik inheritance and break them with a rod of iron and dash them to pieces like a potters vessel. Rev 2:26 clarifies this rulership is carried out through the priesthood, the over comers.
Rev 2:26 And he that overcomes, and keeps My mitzvoth to the end, to him will I give power over the gentiles: 27 And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to pieces: even as I received from My Abba.
Jer 30:18 in the millennium יהוה will raise up a tzadik leader and governor from amongst His people!
18 This says vuvh; See, I will turn back the exile of Yaakov’s tents, and have rachamim on his dwelling places; and the city shall be rebuilt upon its own heap, and the palace shall remain in its right place. 19 And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving: and the voice of them that make joy: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also grant them glory, and they shall not be small.
Their children also shall be as before, and their congregation shall be established before Me, and I will punish all that oppress them. 21 And their leader shall be one of their own, and their Governor shall proceed from their midst.
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