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The Jews at the end of this dispensation will enter as a nation the millennium, when they will enjoy the fulfilment of the ancient promises of God to their fathers. The Abrahamic Covenant and the Davidic Covenant will be fulfilled fully. Zech. 8:7-8.
Christ also called the Gentile believers His brethren in Luke 8:21, so all who do the will of God could be termed Christ's brethren actually. The Gentile Nations will be judged on how they have treated the Jews in the Tribulation. Did they help them, feed them, hid them if need be and so on. There are three classes of people at the judgement, sheep, goats and brethren. There is no resurrection involved, they are not dead yet. This is NOT for Eternal Life, it is to enter the Millennial Reign. These nations judged would be saved already through trust in Christ, their actions toward the Jews show their respect for God and their acceptance of His messengers.
These Gentile nation people would be those who had refused the Mark of the Beast, yet have survived. Rev. 14:9-11. These are the sheep. The goats are exclusively the Gentiles, since the nation of Israel have been undergoing their judgement during the Tribulation. The Time of Jacob's Trouble. , which will end in an entire national conversion at the wonderful return of Christ. Zech. 12:10; 13:1. This Gentile nation judgement happens right at the end of the dispensation.
What are the four gospel, and how are we to understand them? You will note that the tribulation gospel was called the gospel of the kingdom. Two questions we should ask here are:
1. Is this Gospel the same as the Gospel we know today as the
gospel?
Answer, yes and no.
2. Are there any other gospels mentioned in Scripture? The answer is yes!
Another question we will ask and also answer is: What is the difference between the fullness of the Gentiles and the Times of the Gentiles. Firstly, what are these gospels, and how do they differ from each other? Four gospels are shown in the Bible. They are ALL aspects of the same good news of Christ Jesus. These are The Gospel of the kingdom; The Gospel of the Grace of God; the Everlasting Gospel and what Paul calls my Gospel.
1. The Gospel of the Kingdom. This is the wonderful news that God will set up a glorious reign on the earth, which is the good news of the fulfilment of the Davidic Covenant. A political, spiritual, universal Israelitish Kingdom, and the King will be God's Son, David's earthly heir. The kingdom will last one thousand years. The earth will see at last the manifestation of God's justice, glory and righteousness in the affairs of men on earth. This gospel was preached by John the Baptist, and by our Lord Himself and His disciples. It will be preached in the future, in the Tribulation, and it will also be preached just before Christ Jesus turns. Matt. 24:14. Matt. 3:2 shows John the Baptist preaching the kingdom of heaven, which is only in Matthew. NEVER imagine that these different gospels show that there is different ways of salvation from sin! Although various aspects of God's good news are shown, GRACE is the basis of salvation in all dispensations. The only way of salvation ever is by way of the shed Blood of Christ, faith alone, grace alone, Christ alone.
2. The Gospel of the Grace of God. This is the good news that Jesus Christ, has died on the Cross for our justification. That all who believe in Him are justified from all things. Praise God! It is the gospel God, because it originated in His love. Rom. 1:1. It is the Gospel of Christ Jesus, because it is only possible because of His sacrifice, and He alone is to be the centre of the Gospel. 11 Cor. 10:14. It is the grace of God, because it saves from the curse of the Law. Acts 20:24. It is the gospel of glory, because this Gospel of Grace is thee good news of the One who is glorious 1 Tim. 1:11; 11 Cor. 4:4. IT is the gospel of our salvation because it is the power of God unto salvation. Eph. 1:13.
3. The everlasting gospel, is the announcement of Divine judgement upon the wicked who will not repent! It is only good news to the suffering believers who are in agony in the Tribulation under the Antichrist regime. Rev. 14:6. It tells them to hang on, their deliverance and reward will be soon. Look at their patience in verse 12, Rev. 14. This aspect of the gospel is good news for the saved, and its burden is judgement, not salvation. It is good news to the suffering that they trials, Lord, will soon be over. Isa. 35:4-10.
4. The Gospel called by Paul, my Gospel. Paul was the apostle to the Gentiles. He it was who brought the Gospel in its fullness, and it included the wonderful mystery that God was outcalling a CHURCH! Paul's Gospel message included the Church's responsibility, her relationship to the Beloved Son, the privileges of the Church and her position IN CHRIST as His Body.
Remember, the way of salvation is never changed, there is Only One Way to God, through the Blood of Jesus Christ.
Remember too that there is another gospel which is mentioned in Scripture.
This is the fake gospel preaching which always adds to or subtracts from
the Gospel of Grace alone. It always denies the sufficiency of grace alone
to save, to keep and to make us perfect. It says, work for your salvation
in some way, and trust Christ as well, maybe. Or sometimes, just do something
else for salvation, with NO shed Blood at all. The World Council of Churches'
women's organisation, for example, Churches in Solidarity With Women (With
Women for short) speaks of the Gospel often. What do they mean by this?
They mean the feminist agenda, their gospel is the gospel of Patriarchial
demise and Feminine rule! Yet, they call this the gospel. Beware of the
false use of the word gospel. Gal.1:6; 11 Cor.11:4.
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It comes in two parts,
What we are looking at here is God's New World Order and the end of the whole dispensational history of earth, a New Heavens and a New, restored, regenerated Earth. This study is very exciting, as God has opened up for us His own plan of restoration and perfecting, until He is All in All.
The present age we live in will finish with the Rapture, this comes the time when God puts down His enemies, the Trib. Then at the end of the Trib. Christ is Revealed to all. There is two Rs we should remember, Rapture and Revelation. When Christ comes back to the earth atmosphere He takes His Bride out in the Rapture, the Bride is His Church. He judges them for rewards and service, and comes with His OURSELVES in attendance to be Revealed for the whole world to see. This is the REVELATION of Christ. The two sections of the same Second Coming are divided by something like seven years. After judging the nations, Christ sets up his Millennial Reign. Satan is busy at the moment seeking to set up a New World Order, a Golden Age, to try to stop Christ's Reign. But Satan's end is very sure. Rev 20: 1-3; see the final end of hell, the devil , the beast and the false prophet. Rev. 20:10 & 14.
THE GOLDEN AGE is an age of peace, righteousness and justice at last.
The Lord Jesus will indeed set up a thousand year reign of beauty beyond our imagination. The Bible indicates that we saints will reign with Him. We will assist Him in His wonderful Kingship. We have seen varied tests in the other dispensations, will there be a test in the Millennial Reign. surely not, say some, but this is NOT the Perfected universe, not yet. There is a test in the Millennium, as we shall see.
What were the tests through history, we will recap here:
1. In the dispensation of innocence the test was to obey God
by not eating the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
2. In the next dispensation Conscience it was to be good and offer
Blood sacrifice. I
3. In the dispensation of Human Government, the test was to scatter
and replenish,
4. In the Dispensation of Promise, it was to be separate and dwell
in the land of Canaan.
5. In the next, the Dispensation of the Law, it was to keep all
the Law.
6. In the Dispensation of Grace, it was to trust Christ as personal
Saviour.
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8. In the Millennial Kingdom Dispensation there will also be a test.
The test in this dispensation will be obey and worship Christ, who
will be THERE in the glorified Body of the Eternal Son of God. Under magnificent
condition of planet earth, which we will look at in a moment. Will man
again fail, and what could the excuse possibly be? there IS no excuse.
Gos gives one last test, and mankind is shown to be disobedient, sinful,
ungrateful, Godless, now hopelessly incorrigibly God-hating, not just Godless.
This last test will take away any hint of excuse or extenuating circumstances
buck-passing. NO MAN will say, you didn't give us a chance, God. In the
Millennial Reign God will deal with the people of earth as a whole, not
just as a called out Church. He will deal with the nation of Israel and
the Gentiles NATIONS. The Church will not be on earth in the Millennium,
but it will have representatives who will be assistants to the mighty King.
The Jews will be the head of the nations. Deut. 28:13. While they will
impart again observe the ceremonial law, this will be done NOT in a looking
forward to the promised sacrifice of the Lamb of God, His Son on the Cross,
but in a looking backwards in memorial to His death for sin. The Jews will
be under the New Covenant, even so. Jer. 31:31-37. Heb. 8:7-13. God will
deal with humanity in this dispensation with the basis RIGHTEOUSNESS. Not
Law, or Grace or Judgement per se, although all of these do operate of
course. This will be a real government! We have seen secular governments
come and go. Paul Keating, back to Hawk's government, the administration
of Margaret Thatcher and Bill Clinton, way back to JF. Kennedy. They were
and will be for a certain extent corrupt, unjust, and evil in some cases.
The Hitlers and Mussolinis of this world have shown far more horrifying
examples of the monstrosities that are supposed to be governments on this
earth. Not to mention ecclesiastical government like the Vatican with its
millions of billions of ill-gotten gains, covered with the blood of the
martyrs! But in the Kingdom Dispensation of a thousand years, CHRIST WILL
BE THE RULER. OUR LORD JESUS, the glorified One will rule.
What will this rule be like? Will it be gentle, so loving and compassionate that anyone can get away with anything. Never! It will overwhelmingly RIGHTEOUS! It will be an autocratic government a true Theocracy. Political pundits have always said that the best government of all must be a Dictatorship. But of course all dictators on earth have been sinful men or women! A democracy is not the perfect system, the majority can be foolish, careless and naive! But a perfect dictator who rules in justice with LOVE is a perfect government. This dispensation will be so entirely different to any other, that they cannot hold a candle to it. They could NEVER compare in any way at all.
BUT, this is still not the Perfect Eternal Age, as some people seem
to imagine.
All is not righted yet, believers.
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