ISRAEL’S MILLENNIAL KINGDOM 

We have ministered before the Word as to God’s 2 peoples who are to be rescued from the Great Tribulation of the last days. And God did distinguish those two peoples (1) His Jewish “People” from (2) the New Man, in that in those last days He put a seal upon certain Jews that they would not be harmed in the last of the plagues to come upon the Earth. This distinguishing of the Jewish contingent was presented primarily from the Book of Revelation chapter 7 in the first 8 verses where the scene corresponds in detail with all other prophecies of continuation for future Israel. 

And then continuing on in that chapter, we are given a glimpse of what John saw at the end of that Tribulation Period, which is the New Man contingent, being made up of the caught up Man-child/first fruits joined by the harvest ingathering, all together now rejoicing, having been raised up and brought out from among living and dead men by rapture and resurrection. The two distinct groups, Jewish and Bride of Christ then chosen and then separately and distinctly rewarded for faithfulness for all to see, them being His heir representatives of the two realms of His Millennial Kingdom; earthly and heavenly. 

The 144,000 Jews of Revelation 7 living and sealed in the day of the great prince/Anti-Christ (Daniel 9:26,27) are like those in the day of Elisha. “And it shall come to pass, that him that escapeth the sword of Hazael shall Jehu slay: and him that escapeth from the sword of Jehu shall Elisha slay. Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.” Now after the securing of the 2 Peoples of God at the end of the Great Tribulation period that Jeremiah called “Jacob’s Trouble”, what is being brought into view is the Millennial Kingdom of Christ and the answering of God’s promises to Abraham “….in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.” This, mostly having been forgotten by those Jews in the Days of Christ upon the Earth, was always God’s intent; to bless the Gentiles. (Genesis 12:3) Not unlike today, when Christians have forgot that God has promised to bless the Jews. So it is that Paul, in the 11th chapter of Romans, reminds us that not all Israel is hardened. Not in Elisha’s day, nor in Christ’s Day, nor in these; the last days. In that the Jews rejected the calling of the blessing of the Gentiles, God took it upon Himself in Jesus to bless them.  

So just as Abraham’s and Israel’s calling was out of the Gentile Nations, a special call unto Himself, so then was the New Man calling out of the Gentile Nations a special call “…to take out of them a people for His Name.” [Acts 15:14] Which answers to the “…blindness in part is happened to Israel… (so this out-gathering from the Gentiles) until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in… (in the Harvest toward the end of the Great Tribulation after which) … all Israel  shall be saved.”  And how shall they be saved? Paul quotes Isaiah 59…. “There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: For this is my covenant unto them (the Jewish people) when I shall take away their sins.” (Romans 11:25-27) This is Zechariah 14 and Revelation 19 fulfilled. 

Romans 11 is then also that further distinction of the Jewish contingent of Revelation chapter 7 that is later established in the Millennial period. Natural Israel, now spiritual, is not the Body of Christ and was distinguished then from the New Man, and now from the Gentile Nations left upon the Earth as well. Natural now SPIRITUAL Israel, will not lose its ethnic identity, but come into the purposes of their unique calling. This being the meaning of Paul’s question “…did God cast off his people?” And his emphatic answer “no”, and then his olive tree parable where he depicts current Israel broken off from, but predicts a future ingrafting into, with their restoration. (Romans 11:26-32) This passage then expressly denies the contention that Israel, in lieu of the Bride of Christ, has no future or continuance as a nation nor its Godly fullness of calling. “Now, if the fall of them (Israel) be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them be the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness?….Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God!  How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out!” 

Not only the Millennial promises but the eternal promises to the Jews hinge on the future enacting of the New Covenant of Jeremiah 31:31-34 exclusive to Jews. (read)… And partially relayed in Hebrews 8 a covenant to be enacted after Jacob’s Trouble (Jeremiah 30:7) in the re-gathering. (Jeremiah 31:8) 

Hebrews 8 says,  “For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel (the two sticks joined Judah and Ephraim representative of all Millennial Israel Ezekiel 37) after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, for the least to the greatest. For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. In that he saith, a new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.” That which is likely the expression of the just desolation unto their restoration sealed in the book described in Revelation 5:1. “And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals.”  

The New Covenant, prophesied by Jeremiah, is designed to replace the Mosaic, the Word then to be written upon their hearts rather than on stones. The argument of Hebrews 8 being that Jesus Christ as the High Priest has a more excellent ministry and is the Mediator of a better covenant providing better promises than that of the Aaronic priesthood built on the Mosaic covenant.  This is stated in Hebrews 8:6…. “But now hath he obtained a ministry the more excellent, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which hath been enacted upon better promises.”  The writer of Hebrews then proceeds to prove this by quoting the new covenant of Jeremiah as demonstrating that the Mosaic covenant was faulty and needed to be replaced (thereby tying the New Covenant offering made for the New Man with that of the future New Covenant with Millennial Israel). He states in verse 7…. “For if that first covenant had been faultless, then would no place have been sought for a second.”  He continues by quoting Jeremiah’s new covenant with the words…. “For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come (in the Millennium), saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah.”  Verses 9 through 12 are a quotation from the provisions of the new covenant given in Jeremiah 31. The writer of Hebrews then concludes in verse 13; “In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old.  But that which is becoming old and waxeth aged is nigh unto vanishing away.” 

Israel is regarded by God a separate nation, not only separate and apart from Gentiles but from the New Man. The New Testament of Jesus Christ is currently being offered to the Jew and Gentile through which either may come into that better Covenant with the better promises of the New Man. Upon entering into, neither then are Jew or Gentile. That Covenant people being completed….realized in the statement “the fullness of the Gentiles come in..” is now the opening of Jeremiah’s and Isaiah’s prophesied New Covenant for natural Israel to be spiritual. The nation of Israel in the Millennium (and beyond) does not now become members of the church of the new creature in Christ Jesus (2nd Corinthians 5:17). But now the latter day reign of the Holy Spirit when Israel, as God’s chosen people on the earth (and the new earth), have a prophesied promised future ministry to the blessing of the Gentile nations. Their New Covenant is distinct from Christ’s heavenly Bride’s Covenant. The natural seed of Abraham entering into the New Covenant prophesied by Jeremiah, is after Christians, who are in the body of Christ, have received their heavenly positions (Revelation 20:4-6). Spiritual Israelites, that is to say those of Jeremiah’s prophesied New Covenant will never become partakers of promises set aside for those of the Bride of Christ. Nor will the eternal promises unique to Israelites be those of the Gentile nations.  

Psalm 2, Daniel 7:13–14, and Isaiah 2:2-4 has come to pass. 

With the destruction of the enemies of Christ, Israel and the Earth, and His Return comes the establishment of the millennial kingdom, the process of Israel’s re-gathering and restoration will be begun.  According to Ezekiel 20:34-38, re-gathered Israel will be judged and rebels or unbelievers will be purged out.  Only those who pass the searching judgment of Christ are allowed to enter into the millennial period. These are brought back to their ancient land and possess the area from the River of Egypt to the river Euphrates.  Over the world will Christ rule; through Israel on the earth and through His first–born of the heavens.  The resurrection of the righteous of Israel is indicated in Daniel 12: 2–3 in these words: “And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.  And they that are wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.” The fact that these are separated in time (one being the 1st and the other being the 2nd Resurrection) is clearly spelled out in Revelation 20. 

David, who is raised from the dead along with Old Testament saints, has a part in the government of the people of Israel. “And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd. And I, Jehovah, will be their God, and my servant David prince among them; I, Jehovah, have spoken it.…” [Ezekiel 34: 23–24] This will also be shared by the twelve apostles, whom Christ assured participation in His government of Israel. Scriptures also describe the temple worship which will characterize the millennial kingdom. * According to Ezekiel, a magnificent temple will be built, and a system of priesthood and memorial sacrifices will be set up. Israel will have an ordered worship with Jerusalem once again the centre of their religious as well as political life. A new order of priesthood would be required somewhat different than the Aaronic order, and rituals will be observed similar to the Mosaic order but differing in many aspects.  In any case, a spiritual life of wonderful depth and reality far beyond anything Israel had known in her entire history will characterize her experience in the millennial kingdom. There will be complete fulfillment of Joel 2:28–29 and blessings unmeasured will extend throughout the entire kingdom period. 

Zechariah 14:16–17 gives us an insight into the character of the millennial reign of Christ.  Zechariah writes, “And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, Jehovah of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.  And it shall be, that whoso of all the families of the earth goeth not up unto Jerusalem to worship the King, Jehovah of hosts, upon them there shall be no rain.” It is clear that Jesus Christ is in view and will rule through His intermediaries both on the earth and from the heavens (see Luke 19:17,19) as all religious activities will then understood to conform to Him in the millennial period.   

During the thousand-year reign of Christ, the remnant nation Israel, surviving the great tribulation, will greatly increase as will the Gentile nations, and repopulate the earth and rebuild their cities.  At the end of the millennial reign of Christ, Satan is loosed and divine judgment overtakes any born in the millennium who then rebel against Christ’s established rulers. This will bring about the final destruction. The new heaven and the new earth will be created, the duality with which the universe began (…in the beginning, God created the Heavens and the earth) is to continue for ever. The saints living on earth at the end of the millennium will be transfigured and translated into their eternal state. The heavenly city, the New Jerusalem, will descend and rest upon the new earth.  The description of the new earth given in Revelation 21:2-4,26 & Chapter 22 seems clearly to include Israel as well as Gentile nations. The Millennial passes into the eternal, and in the eternal it will still be by means of Israel that the nations will enjoy the benefits mediated primarily by the Son of God, secondarily by the church of the firstborn sons of God from the heavenly New Jerusalem, and finally by Israel unto the Nations. Why has God thus preserved them as a people if He has no future for them as a people? The providence of God has confirmed the specific promise of God that Abraham’s seed shall never be “utterly” destroyed. (Leviticus 26: 44; Deuteronomy 4:30–31; Jeremiah 30:11)   

A King alone with His family does not make a Kingdom. There must be subjects….