CHRIST WILL REIGN 1000 YEARS
- After all the nations of the earth have been conquered, or have subjected
themselves to the rule and authority of Christ and the saints, the reign of
Christ over the earth will begin and continue for 1000 years. Christ will
reign over the mortal populations of the earth, ending war. We learn of this
reign in Revelations:
- REV 20:4-6 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and
judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded
for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not
worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon
their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a
thousand years. But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand
years were finished. This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is he
that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no
power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with
him a thousand years.
- During the 1000 year reign of Christ, sickness and death and all the
results of Adam's sin on the earth will be greatly reduced. The general
condition of the mortal population of the kingdom is described thus:
- ISA 65:19-20 And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my
people: and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice
of crying. There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man
that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old;
but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.
Therefore Christadelphians believe:
XXVI.--That the Kingdom of God thus constituted, will continue a thousand
years, during which sin and death will continue among the earth's subject
inhabitants, though in a much milder degree than now.