Questions and Answers: Will the Lord Reign on Earth During the 1,000 Years?

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Revelation 20:4 • 1 min. read • grade level: 9

QUESTION: Will the Lord reign with His saints on the earth during the 1000 years (Rev. 20:4⁴And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. (Revelation 20:4))?

ANSWER: All the Old Testament saints, with all believers of this present age, and all those who suffer martyrdom during the tribulation period will reign with Christ, not on the earth, but over the earth. Rev. 5:10¹⁰And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth. (Revelation 5:10) reads in a better translation, "And they shall reign over the earth." However, in Zech. 14:4⁴And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south. (Zechariah 14:4), we are told that in one act of judgment His [Christ's] feet shall stand upon the Mount of Olives.

QUESTION: What is the lawful use of the law spoken of in 1 Tim. 1:8⁸But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully; (1 Timothy 1:8)?

ANSWER: That for which it was intended: namely, as a rule for man in the flesh, not that he could ever keep it, but to demonstrate that he could not. The Christian is not under law, so to put him under it is not a lawful use of it. Nevertheless, he is to walk in the spirit of it and indeed far beyond it (Matt. 5, etc.).

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