SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 7/25/2016 10:29 PM
My Worship Time Focus: Divine Peace
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Zechariah 8:4 4
Message
of the verses: "4 “Thus says
the LORD of hosts, ’Old men and old women will again sit in the streets of
Jerusalem, each man with his staff in his hand because of age. 5 ’And the
streets of the city will be filled with boys and girls playing in its streets.’”
What we are looking at in these two
verses is millennial peace that will happen during those 1000 years of having
Jesus Christ rule the world from the city of Jerusalem. As we look at all of the problems that are
going around in our world today we can be sure that what is described in these
two verses are not happening. The other
night in Niece France people were out celebrating and 84 of those celebrating
were run down and killed. In Chicago
there have been thousands of people killed in the past few years so not many
old folks and young kids will be willing to be out in the streets, especially
at night. When Jesus Christ rules and
reigns from Jerusalem during the millennial kingdom there will be divine peace,
and another thing we can see from these verses is that people will grow old,
really old, for the Word of God says that if a person during the kingdom age
dies at 100 years old it will be like a child dying. Not so today as my wife and I visit her
father each Sunday and he is 98 years old and where he lives there are people
over 100 years old, but I have to say that though they have lived that long
they are not in the kind of shape of people who will live during the Millennial
Kingdom.
We have to understand that the
Millennial Kingdom will be different from any other time that we have seen on
this earth since it was created, with the exception of the earth that God
created as seen in the first two chapters of the book of Genesis. After sin entered in chapter three it was all
downhill. After sin and before the flood
there were people who lived a very long time on the earth, some over 900 years,
but after the flood when the earth was changed people began to live less and
less time on the earth. Our country had
great medicine to help prolong life as in other countries, but because of sin
people still die very young at times.
This will not be the case in the Millennial Kingdom for unless a person
continually sins they will live throughout the age until the end of that age
which will be 1000 years after the return of Christ as seen in the 19th
chapter of the book of Revelation. It
will only be believers who enter the kingdom and they will have children and
those who accept the Lord Jesus as Savior and Lord will live until the end of
the kingdom, however there will be those who reject the Lord and they will not
live that long. At the very end of the
kingdom there will be a war as Satan will be left out of his prison and gather
many unbelievers to fight against the Lord’s people, but this will not last
long as God will destroy them all. Satan
will then be put back into hell and the great white throne judgment will take
place. No believers will be in that
judgment as their sins have been paid for by the blood of the Lamb on the
cross. After that the earth and all of
the stars and planets will be “un-created” as seen in 2 Peter chapter 3:10 and
following. The eternal kingdom will then
begin with no end to that and all believers will be a part of that from the
earliest OT believers to those in the Millennial Kingdom. Next
we will look at “Divine Punishment” in our next SD from Zechariah chapter
eight.
7/25/2016 10:52 PM
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