God is so graceful, so patient... I tend to look at the last 1000 years as mankind’s one, last, chance (I know, we are saved as individuals, but bear with me, here...).
Everything will be PERFECT. There will be NOTHING about which to complain. It is almost as if God is proving and emphasizing a point. He has removed ALL the excuses, and man will still rebel, so God’s requirement for faith and belief is finally, totally, illustrated as 100% necessary. Man CANNOT save himself. God alone is sovereign.
Yeah.
I think the end of that 1,000 years will be to test those born during that 1,000 years. Those who survive and are still alive. Scripture says if a child dies at age 100 he or she will be thought to have died too young (I’ll have to find it again - for the old man shall have filled his days).
We believers will have already been Saved (of course) and will be there too, when we return with Him in Revelation 19 (following Him).
Oooh, I said “he or she” - how binary - how politically-incorrect.
Manchurian Candidate Barack Hussein Obama and Mooch Obama won’t like that.
Isaiah 65:17-22 King James Version (KJV)
17 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
18 But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.
19 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.
20 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.
21 And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.
22 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.