A Millennium Question

Rev 20:1-3 The Millenial Reign. Ok, I don’t understand something. Where are we, who have been faithful to Jesus all of our lives during this time period?

Q. Rev 20:1-3 The Millenial Reign. Ok, I don’t understand something. Where are we, who have been faithful to Jesus all of our lives during this time period?

I gave my life to Christ and am a firm believer. If Satan is released during the 1000 years, and there’s enough sin left in the heart of man, do I have to fight this battle with myself all over again?

OR, do we who have accepted Jesus sacrifice get to rule with Him and be protected from Satan’s lies during the millenium? Please clarify for me.

Q. During the Millennium, the church will be in the New Jerusalem, home of the redeemed. Rev. 20 confuses some because it carries the subject of Satan’s disposition to its conclusion at the end of the Millennium. Same with the resurrection of the unsaved. But in Rev. 21 John backs up to the beginning of the Millennium again to describe the New Jerusalem. We know this because Rev. 21:1 is a direct quote from Isaiah 65:17, a passage that describes the Millennium on Earth. Rev. 22:2 confirms this by telling us about fruit trees bearing fruit every month. That means there’s still time. In Eternity time does not exist. Rev. 21-22 describe conditions during the Millennium, not in Eternity as some mistakenly teach.

But read Rev. 20:7. “When the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison.” According to this verse Satan will not be released until the 1000 years are over. Even so, once we’re raptured and given our perfected bodies, our fight with sin is over. We will have overcome the world, just like the Lord.

The sinful men that Satan recruits at the end of the Millennium (Rev. 20:8) are those born to natural humans who survived the Great Tribulation and went into the Millennium to re-populate the Earth as foretold in Matt. 25.31-36.