When Jesus returns in glory, there will be a judgment of the nations to determine who is allowed to go into the millennial kingdom and who just simply goes to Hades, awaiting the final judgment.
So that will eliminate some people. In addition, I would not say that worship or the recognition that everyone will give in the Millennium will be more than an outward recognition and worship. Everyone will be required to submit to the rule and reign of Jesus Christ.
If they will not, they will certainly be punished immediately. I mean, that means a way, a very strict rulership over the earth. But all that will be required will be the outward actions of people.
We know that not everyone on the earth in the millennial Earth is truly worshipping Jesus, because at the end of the millennium when Satan is released Revelation 20 , Satan is immediately able to gather some kind of multitude to help him oppose God all over again. This leads me to believe that it will really be the outward form of worship that is required, — one must respect and honor Jesus Christ, but the inward thing will still be a matter of the heart for each individual.
Mathew says they called Jesus a drunkard. Does this means that Jesus did drink alcohol? I believe that Jesus drank what was commonly drank, which was a wine that was quite watered down.
We have reason to believe that Jesus drank what people commonly drank and that day and there are many reasons why people drank wine that was watered down wine in those days. The first being that that process of fermentation had a purifying aspect to the water and it could be healthier to drink. I have read the arguments that try to make the case that what Jesus drank was unfermented wine, essentially grape juice.
I have to say that I have found those arguments unpersuasive, though I have read them and considered them. We also know that Jesus took part in the Jewish ceremonial meals, such as Passover celebrations with His disciples, and at those we would expect that He drank wine.
What we do know is that Jesus Christ was never drunk. He was never impaired in His faculties from drinking too much wine or any other alcoholic beverage, because being drunk is a sin. Jesus did not and would not sin in this way.
If you go to other places on my YouTube channel, you can find videos and then on my own website enduringword. I believe in what is often termed to be the pre-tribulation rapture of the church. I know that there are many people today who mock that idea. I believe that! This ordering makes me pre-millennial.
You can find more resources about what I believe about the rapture of the church on my website or the YouTube channel. So, they would often use placeholders for the word God, one of the placeholders they would use was heaven.
This is a great survey of the Bible, to get a good comprehensive view of what the Bible is all about. So if you lack that knowledge, this is a great book.
Also, I think that my online commentary is very helpful for people who just want to walk verse by verse through the Bible. Go to enduringword. Look for my commentary through the Scriptures, pick up the book of the Bible, read the text and just walk through it with me together. I think that will help a person just to understand the Bible, and to learn how to study it.
Finally, I recommend that you read through the Bible from Genesis to Revelation. Use a notebook and a journal and write a one sentence summary of every chapter of the Bible. Read through the entire Bible and write a one sentence summary of every chapter. How then was the thief on the cross born again? Jesus completely completed his work at the cross. We know that the thieves on their crosses lived longer than Jesus, because they had to have their legs broken on the cross — Jesus had already yielded his life to God the Father on the cross.
Before the thief on the cross died, Jesus had paid for his sins and instituted the New Covenant. Jesus instituted the New Covenant by His death of Jesus, and that happened also regarding the thief on the cross. That happened before the thief on the cross died. Can you explain Isaiah ? It says that the heathens will build up the Israelites kingdom. If this is this is not true, does that mean that Isaiah was a false prophet? In Acts says the kingdom is for Israel. If you go back to Isaiah, and there are many, many passages in the book of Isaiah, that speak of this ultimate kingdom that God would establish.
Isaiah starts:. I think this finds its ultimate fulfillment in the millennial kingdom to come. One of the things I think that the Bible makes very clear about the millennial kingdom to come, which will be established by Jesus Christ, is simply this is: that Israel will be the superpower of the world.
How strange that is, little Israel, and by size and population, is a fairly insignificant nation. In that day, God will make Israel the leading nation of the world — this is shown in many of these prophecies. You could have quoted from many passages in the Old Testament that speak of the ultimate restoration and exaltation of Israel in the coming Kingdom. Our tears do not appease God's wrath but only the blood of Jesus.
The repentant does not live a good life to merit forgiveness; he lives a clean and godly life because he is forever grateful to God's forgiving grace!
Sadly Catholic tradition distorts the biblical concept of repentance. Repentance is substituted by "doing penance" - a punishment inflicted on oneself to atone make satisfaction for sin. To be fair, Catholicism also speaks of penance as an inner attitude - "that disposition of the heart in which we detest and bewail our sins because they were offensive to God.
The big problem with the Catholic doctrine is the intended purpose of such acts: penance is performed to make satisfaction for sin, as can be verified from the following citations from official Catholic sources:. This satisfaction is called 'penance. Penance "is meant not merely as a safeguard for the new life and as a remedy to weakness, but also as a vindicatory punishment for former sins" Council of Trent, Accordingly, even though a person is genuinely contrite and having confessed his sins, he is still required to atone for sin by performing various works of penance in this world and by suffering in purgatory after death.
He is not fit to enter heaven until he has made complete satisfaction. The practical effects of the doctrine of penance are most disturbing and hurtful to the Christian religion:.
I have shed many tears over my sins. The Heavenly Father, however, does not hear your prayers, because you are in reality asking Him for help so that you can continue to live a life which is independent of God.
What these people seek from God is enough grace to be strong in themselves. They do not need or want a constant flow of water from heaven. For truly repentant sinners have discovered, through the renewing work of the Holy Spirit, that all their doing is full of sin. Their doing is the source of their wretched emptiness, their black depression and their self-despising.
But now they have come undone. They turn from their sinful doing and trust in what Christ has done. This is the essence of repentance. On your recommendation I bought and read that book, and it has forever changed my prayer life — and deepened my walk.
Let us trust completely in Christ whose blood cleanses from all sin. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. The Difference between Repentance and Penance!!
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