The Coming World Reign of Jesus

 The Coming World Reign of Jesus - by Bill Perkins - https://compass.org/the-coming-world-reign-of-jesus/ God says to keep our eyes up and not down...up to heaven and not down on this earth. Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth. Col. 3:2 Keeping our eyes up today, despite all that's going on around us, is HUGE. Not because the 7-year Tribulation is close to beginning—hey, we'll miss that and enjoy a big dinnerwith a view. No, because after Tribulation the 1000-year reign of Jesus as King of Earth begins. And boy will things be different! Compared to today, it's almost incomprehensible. One of the things Jews and Christians can agree on is that one day there will be a Jew on the earthly throne in Jerusalem. There's probably not a Jew alive that doesn't knowthat last-days prophecy. On our tour overnights in Jerusalem, Susie and I have often taken a cab over to Ben Yehuda Street after dark. It’s not a tourist area but an upscale Jewish shopping streetwhere cars are not allowed. This is a place where you really got a sense of true Jewish life as you walk, shop, and eat with the locals in that area. It especially gets busy after dark on Saturday night—whenthe Jews come out of their homes after Shabbat. Having been forbidden to work for 24 hours, they're all smiles when the sun goes down. Families are everywhere, people are smiling, and there’s a wonderful spirit in the air. I love that place on Saturday nights! Once Susie and I were there soon after Shabbat ended, and we watched in amazement as about 10-12 Rabbical Jewish men in their 20s and 30s were holding hands in a circle inthe street as they deliriously sang and danced to Hebrew songs blaring from a boombox. Their dance gyrations and the looks on their faces told us that they were totally lost in the celebratory moment. Then we noticed the words to the song they were dancing tooften repeated the word “Yeshua.” Yeshua in Hebrew means “to rescue” or “to deliver.” The word Joshua, as in the Book of Joshua, comes from this. And in the English it's where we get "Jesus." So we realized that these Jewish men were excitedly singing about their Messiah coming one day to rescue them. Rabbinical Jews know their Old Testament scriptures, and theirMessiah is often mentioned. A few years before this in the Old City of Jerusalem I had asked a guide what a huge red and yellow banner said that was hung high over and opposite the wailing wall. Theguide shrugged it off saying, “It says ‘Prepare for the Coming Messiah.’ They think some guy in New York is the Jewish Messiah.” The falseness of the sign was obvious to the guide and me, but it wasn’t important who this group of Jews were promoting as the Messiah... it was the fact that they were lookingfor a Messiah! As Believers, we know their promised Messiah already came and they crucified Him. And because the Jews rejected Him, today most are blinded by God from understanding whatthey did to their Messiah. But though He [Jesus] had performed so many signs before them, yet they were not believing in Him. This was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet which he spoke: “LORD,WHO HAS BELIEVED OUR REPORT? AND TO WHOM HAS THE ARM OF THE LORD BEEN REVEALED? “For this reason they could not believe, for Isaiah said again, ‘HE HAS BLINDED THEIR EYES AND HE HARDENED THEIR HEART, SO THAT THEY WOULD NOT SEE WITH THEIR EYES AND PERCEIVE WITH THEIR HEART, AND BE CONVERTED AND I HEAL THEM.’” John12:37-40 Their Bible, our Old Testament, is full of references to the Jewish Deliverer one day coming to rule the world from Jerusalem. That’s one of the main reasons they rejectedJesus the first time He came–they were expecting a Moses-like deliverer. Consider these verses they expected to be fulfilled by their Messiah/Redeemer: Daniel 7:27 - The Jewish Messiah will rule the world. Micah 4:2-4 - The whole world will finally be at peace. Isaiah 65:25 - The animals will not feed on each other. Zechariah 14:16 - The world’s leaders will travel to Jerusalem once a year for the Feast of Tabernacles to worship the Jewish King of the Earth. Isaiah 66:24 - Jesus will righteously judge sin. Since He is God and can read minds, no one can get away with lying. This also means there will be no Democrats in the Millennium.(1) Amos 9:13 - The high mountains will not exist anymore (see also Revelation 16:20). This means the world’s weather will return to pre-flood days of no hurricanes, tornadoesor floods which are currently caused by the high mountains that were raised raised post-flood (Ps.104:8) Isaiah 65:20,22 - Humans again live to be hundreds of years old, like the pre-flood days. Amos 9:13, one of my favorites, the mountains will drip with sweet wine. 🙂 (The Hebrew word for “mountains” means “hill country.” Again, there are no HIGH mountains left after the Tribulation.) So the Jews know one day these prophetic passages will be fulfilled. And now that they’re back in their God-given land as prophesied in Ezekiel 37, they’re again looking fortheir Messiah to redeem them. For Believers, Jesus the Messiah is returning. But for the Jews, they’re looking for their Messiah’s first coming. In fact, often the Jewish tour guides in Israel, when pressedto give an answer about whether they think Jesus is the Messiah, will often smile and say, “When the Messiah comes, we’ll ask Him if He’s been here before.” And they will be shocked! CQLJ! BP Addendum: Ok, I know some people have a hard time when I ding the Democrats because of what their party supports. But what I’m explaining is that everyone who enters into the Millennialreign after the Tribulation and the Sheep and Goats judgment will be pro-life, pro-Bible, pro-God, pro-capitalism and pro-Israel. “But when the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him, then He will sit on His glorious throne. All the nations [citizens] will be gathered before Him;and He will separate them from one another, as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats; and He will put the sheep on His right, and the goats on the left. Then the King will say to those on His right, ‘Come, you who are blessed of My Father, inheritthe kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world." Matt. 25:31-34 “Then He will also say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, accursed ones, into the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels"; Matt. 25:41 “These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.” Matt. 25:46 So never worry about Bill, Hillary, George, Klaus or any of the other Globalists/Satanists not getting what’s due them. Unless they get saved by God’s grace, it will not endwell for them. And as you see in the verses above, their punishment will last forever…which is a long time to wail and gnash their teeth with no hope! These [who do not know God] will pay the penalty of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power, 2Th. 1:9 However, at the end of the 1000 years Satan will be loosed from his bondage to round up the last of the Democrats (again my chosen word for rebellious, unscriptural and unrepentantsinners) who weren’t properly taught scripture and were again deceived by Satan’s lies. Bummer for them. When the thousand years are completed, Satan will be released from his prison, and will come out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth … And thedevil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are also; and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever. Rev. 20:7-10 When Satan is released for at the end of the 1000 year reign of Jesus, it’s basically for weeding out, a last sifting to remove sinners before the New Heaven and Earth arecreated by God. Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth passed away, Rev. 21:1 There will no longer be any curse; and the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and His bond-servants will serve Him; they will see His face, and His name will beon their foreheads. Rev. 22:3-4