The World and the Word

         The Advents and the Judgments of Christ

Jesus will come as King of Kings and Lord of Lords mounted on a white horse with His army of saints to end the Tribulation period and rescue the nation of Israel and the Tribulation saints from being annihilated by the Beast and the False Prophet. Christ will defeat these evil armies, and He will cast the Beast and the False Prophet alive into the lake of fire, and He will send an angel to find the Devil whom the angel will chain in the bottomless pit. Christ will then take the Devil's place as the ruler of the evil part of the world, and Christ will establish His millennial kingdom in righteousness. Revelation 19:11-21; Revelation 20:1-3. The Tribulation saints will reign with Christ, and He will make them the judges of the world. Revelation 20:4-5. Up to this time, Christ has made no judgment of the quick and the dead. II Timothy 4:1. This fact means that Christ's millennial kingdom cannot be His final appearance or His final kingdom.

The millennial reign of Christ actually will not end the influence of evil in the world. The mystery of iniquity to God happens to be that God has not yet discovered how evil emerges from the bottomless pit to influence His living humans to commit sins. II Thessalonians 2:7. Ezekiel 28:15 relates that iniquity was suddenly found in Lucifer with no explanation of how it got there. But with the trinity of evil eliminated from any influence over humanity, God will be able to observe exactly how devils will be able to emerge from the bottomless pit, under cover of darkness, to influence even the righteous humans in the millennium to sin again. The evil army that God will allow the Devil loosed from his prison to lead into the final battle with Christ will have already turned to evil before the Devil assumes command of it. God will use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve this evil army in the final battle of the world, and He will cast the Devil alive into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:7-10.

Following this final battle with evil, Christ will burn up the present universe to eliminate any taint of evil, and He will then recreate a righteous Heaven and earth thoroughly purged of all sin and evil and with no possibility of its ever being able to enter His new Heaven and earth again. II Peter 3:10-14; Revelation 22:3.

At that time, God the Father will give His Son the "preeminence" over all of His recreations, and Christ will assume His rightful throne as the eternal King over all of His new creations because He alone purged it of all sin and evil. Colossians 1:18; Revelation 21:5. Christ will sit on His Great White Throne and administer His final judgments of  "the quick and the dead." II Timothy 4:1. Christ will raise all living humans whom He caused to repent and believe in Him from the regions of the dead for Him to recreate with righteous bodies to live on His recreated earth. Revelation 5:11-14; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5. God can create systems or dissolve them as He wills, but whatever He creates lasts forever. Ecclesiastes 3:14; Genesis 3:20; Luke 20:38; Psalm 36:6; Romans 11:29. All systems which God dissolves remains eternal in His Infinite Mind. But the Word of God which equals His Infinite Set of Eternal Ideas from which He draws His ideas to create good systems remains the same forever. Psalm 119:89; Psalm 147:5; Matthew 24:35; Hebrews 13:8; John 1:1.