Nations in the Millennium (Part 1)

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The Lord led me to review the predicted conditions across Earth at the end of the apocalypse. This is what I ‘saw’, based on Scripture:

•  People are super rare on Earth.
•  Those who remain are utterly filthy, famished and flat out EXHAUSTED.
•  The stench and mental stains of cannibalism linger.
•  Trust among people is very thin in response to fears of theft and cannibalism.
•  Trees and grass are also very rare, and severely stressed.
•  Animals may be rare and stressed from the shortage of water and grass .
•  Every constructed shelter is destroyed by a GLOBAL earthquake.
•  No mountains or islands are insight anywhere, as they were destroyed in the GLOBAL earthquake, possibly triggering massive tsunamis across the Earth, and creating new lands where oceans, rivers and lakes previously appeared.
•  No major bodies of waters are in view.
•  All lands are a relatively flat plain, possibly except Jerusalem.
•  No prior geographic reference points remain.
•. No sense of national or political groupings anywhere.
•. No governments at any level remains.

ALL THE EARTH IS SEVERELY DESTITUTE! 

Heaven’s age-long siege against her 

(that began circa AD 200 - 300)

is over!!!

NOW WHAT?!

1. Somehow, The Lord’s presence on Earth is visible, globally, with ALL of His holy angels, and ALL His (then immortal) saints from the first 4 ages of human history, all GLOWING RADIANTLY to the point of dimming the light of the sun and moon. (Isaiah 24:23)
2. In an instant, He unifies all human languages, thereby reversing His division of languages at the Tower of Babel (Zephaniah 3:9)
3. He commands peace between humans and animals. (Isaiah 11:6 and 65:25)
4. Most heavy weapons strewn across the Earth were likely buried in the global earthquake.
5. He somehow causes every remaining Jew to make their way to a GREATLY EXPANDED Israel. (for the Zechariah 12:10-14 and 13:8-9. event), thereby segregating all remaining Jews and Gentile
6. He segregates all Gentiles into distinct, new nations!
7. He appoints His immortal, Gentile saints over those nations, to rule them under His iron rod authority, and with the support of His angels, to guide a global system of disaster relief, recovery and rehabilitation. 

‘Seeing’ those people, I thought:

 

Just as I did, these people had many chances to perceive The Lord’s GRACE, and to be counted among us, The Lord’s saints. But they chose otherwise. We have the mark of The Lord’s GRACE on our foreheads. The ‘mark of the beast’ on their foreheads or hand means they rather believed, and thus they worshiped the anti-Christ leader as God Almighty. As a result,  they no longer have the choice The Lord God extended to them during their lifetimes. Sadly, they will eventually join the anti-Christ and his prophet in The Lord’s brimstone-lit lake of fire, as fully sentient, immortal humans, FOREVER.’ (Revelation 14:9-11)  Alas, if only…

 

 As I completed my review, point #6 above grabbed my attention!

 

Today, nations are defined principally as sovereign political states and a population sharing a unifying ethnicity, and/or language, history or governing political ideology, etc. Absent all of those organizing principles, nations that The Lord will commanded into existence during the hinge period between the end of the 4th, and the start of The Millennial Reign age—the 5^th Biblical age, will be formed on a totally different set of unifying and dividing principles.

 

A core principle will obviously be geographic, because eventually, all of the restructured, Millennial Earth will likely be populated. Without our customary natural landmarks and divisive boundaries (e.g., oceans, mountains, islands, valleys, gorges, canyons), we cannot imagine the usual geographical distinctions. But, we can imagine ‘Millennial kingdom administrative assignments and functions’—some possibly geographically based! In Revelation 21, on the massive, new, eternal Earth, Apostle John saw nations of The Lord’s righteous saints surrounding the new, eternal Jerusalem—the capital city. I have long pondered what might distinguish those nations, apart from geographic location and distance from the capital. In this regard, there might be some parallels between the Millennial Earth, and the eternal Earth—in both cases, some unknowable basis for distinguishing ‘nations’.

 

We also can imagine those new nations comprising mixed ethnic backgrounds, mixed former nationalities, family clusters, refugee survivor communities, and even possible known enemies becoming a unified people. The Lord, as Global King, might designate them as distinct, administrative populations—divinely-defined, monarchically-managed populations to perform specific strategic functions. Within this context, the concept of nations shifts to distinguishable population groups under a common governing order.

 

Ponder this: During the early part of this current, 3rd age of our history, people in many nations rebelled against, and overthrew the very governance model their descendants will be forced to live under—a monarchy! But after the apocalypse, their descendants will GLADLY bow their knees and their lives to whatever the King will demand!

 

In light of this FUTURE FACT,

what message might The Lord be sending to us TODAY?!

(It ain't 'Get a king!') 

Stay tuned for Part 2­­