[CCWoody]

It is irrelavent what it means to me for the Lord to rule with a rod of iron and to dash them into pieces. It is what the Bible says that this means and I just can't imagine that you are now telling me that the Millennium of peace, where the swords are beat into plowshares, must be ruled with a rod of iron and the Lord must dash them into pieces to keep all the citizens "obedient" as you have said.

Of course, I'd expect that the Lord must rule like this while His kingdom is full of offensive things and persons. Yet, I have the sure word of the Lord that at the end of this age, the age where the Son of Man sows the good seed and Satan sows the Tares, The Lord will have all things offensive cast into the furnace of fire (Mat 13:40). Unfortunately for your Millennium, this occurs 1000 years too soon.

[xzins]

Woody, there will be a 1000 year reign of Christ on earth. Rev 5:10.

It will be with a "rod of iron." He will maintain the peace.

The Christ, who was "caught up to the throne of God," will return and will "rule them with a rod of iron."

After that rule, Satan will be released for a short season. He will deceive again. He and those who follow him, gog and magog, will be eternally cast into the lake of fire.

(BTW, is the "lake of fire" figurative, symbolic, phsical, metaphoric.....what in the amil view?)

[RnMomof7]

and I just can't imagine that you are now telling me that the Millennium of peace, where the swords are beat into plowshares, must be ruled with a rod of iron and the Lord must dash them into pieces to keep all the citizens "obedient" as you have said.



Good point Woody