Whom the heavens must receive until the time of the restitution of all things.
For he must reign, until His enemies be made His footstool.
Jesus is reigning - already, in heaven.
It's a reign which has a certain amount of waiting in it. Waiting for His enemies to be made His footstool.
And that doesn't necessarily happening as a result of a slow process in history, although that may be involved - but on the last Day all His enemies will be judged eternally.
So could Revelation's thousand year reign be a present reality - representative of the indeterminately long period of church history prior to the Second Coming?
Saints are raised spiritually to live and reign with Christ spiritually, whether on earth or in heaven (the first, spiritual resurrection, heavenly in character) - but on the last day the dead in Christ shall rise (second, bodily resurrection) to participate with we who are alive and remain on the earth, in His eternal, visible Kingdom in the new heavens and new earth.
The devil still goes around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. But he is bound in the sense that he can't wield the power of death over believers - not spiritual death, and not even physical death, because for believers physical death is only temporary, and in the mean time they live spiritually with Christ in heaven and reign with Him in the same sense that He reigns now, except that unlike Him they are still awaiting their bodily resurrection.
For he must reign, until His enemies be made His footstool.
Jesus is reigning - already, in heaven.
It's a reign which has a certain amount of waiting in it. Waiting for His enemies to be made His footstool.
And that doesn't necessarily happening as a result of a slow process in history, although that may be involved - but on the last Day all His enemies will be judged eternally.
So could Revelation's thousand year reign be a present reality - representative of the indeterminately long period of church history prior to the Second Coming?
Saints are raised spiritually to live and reign with Christ spiritually, whether on earth or in heaven (the first, spiritual resurrection, heavenly in character) - but on the last day the dead in Christ shall rise (second, bodily resurrection) to participate with we who are alive and remain on the earth, in His eternal, visible Kingdom in the new heavens and new earth.
The devil still goes around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. But he is bound in the sense that he can't wield the power of death over believers - not spiritual death, and not even physical death, because for believers physical death is only temporary, and in the mean time they live spiritually with Christ in heaven and reign with Him in the same sense that He reigns now, except that unlike Him they are still awaiting their bodily resurrection.
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