Mon.’s Devo - The Last Millenium

Read: Eze. 47:1-48:35; 1 Pet. 2:11-3:7; Ps. 119:49-64; Pr. 28:12-13 These last two chapters in Ezekiel look like a picture of the new millennium. The waters are a picture of the Spirit cleansing the land. The trees are the people of the land. They bring forth fruit in their season just like Psalms 1 talks about. Joseph shall have two portions. Joseph is the tribes of Manasseh and Ephraim who were Joseph’s two sons. They stand for the Gentile Church. This looks like a picture of what it will be like in the 7th Millennium when we will come back to earth. There will be some unbelievers who will live through the Great Tribulation and they are the strangers mentioned in verses 22-23. We are to welcome them in our towns and let them dwell amongst us. The earth will mainly be filled with God’s people who will divide by their tribes. Everyone is a member of a tribe according to their gifting even if they are not Jewish. We will dwell in these tribes during this thousand years. No one dies and Jesus is King until the end of the thousand years at which time we will have the Great Judgment. I don’t claim to know how all this is going to work but this is my understanding. In reading 1 Peter today I was struck again by how many references he made to our conversation. If our conversation is honest then it will change the conversation of the evil and they will glorify God in the end. It will be the conversation of the godly wife that will win over the unbelieving husband. The power of life and death is in our tongues so let’s issue out life. Lord, thank you for your plan that is already in motion. We can trust in You, knowing that You have this all worked out. Guard our tongues and train us to bring forth life.