Sun.’s Devo - The Last Millennium

Read: Zechariah 14:1-21; Revelation 20:1-15; Psalm 148:1-14; Proverbs 31:8-9
The day of the Lord will come with great turmoil and destruction as the world has never seen. Jerusalem will fall first because judgment always comes to the house of the Lord first. Once Jerusalem is taken, the Lord will take his army and go out to fight all the nations who hated Israel.
When God comes down and puts his feet on the mount of Olives it will cause the earth to split the mountain dividing Syria. It will make a valley from Jerusalem to Azal which will admit the ocean waters from the west to the Dead Sea. The waters will rush down the valley of Arabah, the old bed of the Jordan, clear away the sand-drift of four thousand years, and cause the commerce of Petra and Tyre to enter into the holy city. The Dead Sea will overflow by the valley of Edom, making the straits of Azal into the Red Sea. This will form the great pool of Jerusalem (compare Zechariah 14:8; Ezekiel 47:1; Joel 3:18). Euphrates will be the north boundary, and the Red Sea the south. Twenty-five miles north and twenty-five miles south of Jerusalem will form one side of the fifty miles square of the Lord's Holy Oblation (Sacrificial Offering) talked about in Ezekiel 48:1-35. There are seven spaces of fifty miles each from Jerusalem northward to the Euphrates, and five spaces of fifty miles each southward to the Red Sea. Thus there are thirteen equal distances on the breadth of the future promised land, one for the offering and twelve for the tribes, according to Ezekiel 48:1-35. The Euphrates will be to the north, Mediterranean to the west, the Nile and Red Sea to the south. This will be the boundaries of the new millennium. God’s people will live in their tribes again and will come up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles each year. The curse of sin will be gone. People will enjoy prosperity, long life, blessings and joy. The heathen will live in Egypt and if they refuse to come up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles every year, they will have no rain.
In Revelation, we see this same “day” or millennium. Satan will be locked up during this time. The martyrs will come to life and live during this day. When this “day” is over, Satan will be released to deceive the nations and gather them for the battle. He will be defeated and thrown into the lake of fire with the beast and the false prophet where they will be tormented day and night.
God will sit on the throne of judgment and open the books of remembrance and reward the deeds of the saints and punish the deeds of the wicked. Then he will open the Book of Life and sentence the wicked to the lake of fire and sentence the saints to eternal life.
Lord, your plan is amazing and true. May we serve you faithfully to the end.