stpio: “It’s not true. God’s reign will be spiritual.”
Cvenger: “He made man in body, soul, and spirit, not simply spirit.”
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Your words are true and so are mine.
And one day, everyone’s soul and body will be united at the
Final Judgment.
This thread is not about the Final Judgment but about
the Millennium, some call it the Era Peace, God’s 7th Day.
When I said “God’s reign will be spiritual”, I am meaning,
Jesus is NOT returning to the earth in His person during
the 7th Day. It is a “spiritual” reign. All will
believe the same finally. Prophesied, it will be the
Eucharistic reign of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Prior to the Final Judgment, the issues of good and evil must still be resolved in the angelic conflict.
Even after the provision of spiritual regeneration, the impact of sin upon the physical domain and the soulish must also be dealt with to show what God has made is not good for nothingness, otherwise, the Adversary and his minions may simply insist upon a domain independent of God for just resolution of their rebellion.
Quite frankly, it will be amazing for the next age to last only a Millennium, for as scarred as our souls are, even when we persevere to remain in fellowship with Him, for Him to grow us through faith in Christ, we have numerous, seemingly uncountable errors embedded in our old sin natures and scarred worldly habits, requiring education and eradication of our memories to come closer to following His Plan.
Psa 2:9
Rev 2:27
Rev 12:5
Rev 19:15 And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
Rev 20:1-5 (1) And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. (2) And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, (3) And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season. (4) 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. (5) But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
This reign reads a bit more physical than a spiritual reign.