(tm)The Invasion of the Earth by the Army of the Lord
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As soon as the Christian organizational structure has been judged and burned, never again to appear among men, the Wife of the Lamb will be revealed. The Wife of the Lamb cannot be seen as long as the elect are part of an organizational hierarchy governed by the mind of man.
The Wife of the Lamb described in Revelation, Chapter 19 is not the entire Wife of the Lamb, the whole Israel of God, the fullness of the new Jerusalem, but a firstfruits who are ready spiritually to be revealed together with Christ at His appearing.
Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness [righteous deeds] of saints. (Revelation 19:7,8)
The firstfruits of the Bride appear here marking the beginning of the thousand-year Kingdom Age. She is clothed in the white robes of righteous behavior; not the white robes of a righteousness ascribed to her because Christ is righteous but a righteousness of behavior originating with Christ who is in her and who has changed her into His moral image.
At the end of the thousand-year Kingdom Age the entire Israel of God, the full number of the elect, will come down from Heaven, not only in the white robes of righteous character but as the new Jerusalem, the holy city, the glorified, holy Word of God.
The firstfruits of the Wife now have appeared (Revelation, Chapter 19). Satan has been cast down to the earth because the firstfruits have overcome him through the blood of the Lamb, through the word of their testimony, and by loving not their lives to the death (Revelation 12:11). The spiritual thrones located in the air, which govern mankind on the earth, will be occupied by those who overcome the Antichrist (Revelation 20:4-6).
Antichrist and the kings of the earth will assemble in the holy land because they (or Satan in them) will understand from the Scriptures (as did King Herod of old) that Christ will return to sit on the throne of David in Jerusalem.
And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. (Revelation 19:19)
The firstfruits of God’s royal priesthood will appear, riding, we believe, on the bed of the dried up Euphrates River (Revelation 16:12).
The Commander in Chief, the Lord Jesus Christ, will descend to the Mount of Olives (perhaps with a few chosen warriors, as on the Mount of Transfiguration) and then ride toward Jerusalem through the new valley which has been formed by the cleaving of the Mount of Olives. He is ready to go through the Beautiful Gate and take His place on the throne of David in Jerusalem.
The armies of the wicked will be gathered together at Megiddo.
And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon. (Revelation 16:16)
The battle will be joined at Megiddo and there the forces of Hell will be destroyed.
And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh. (Revelation 19:20,21)
The army of Christ will go throughout the earth destroying every trace of Satan and his works.
A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them. The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run. Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array. (Joel 2:3-5)
Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah. (Habakkuk 3:13)
And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the Lord of hosts. (Malachi 4:3)
And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. (Jude 1:14,15)
At some point, whether at the beginning or at the end of the thousand-year Kingdom Age we are not certain, the Lord will summon the nations to appear before Himself. The nations that did not help and nourish the saints, the Lord’s brothers, will be led away to eternal punishment. But those that did bless and assist the saints will enter eternal life (Matthew 25:46).
There will be peace for a thousand years (or for a period of time symbolized by one thousand years) as the saints enforce the laws of Christ with a rod of iron. All resistance will be crushed.
As we understand the Scriptures, during the thousand years of the Kingdom Age the firstfruits of the Bride, the strongest members of the Church, will teach and help the remainder of Israel, of God’s elect. By the end of the thousand years of Christ’s rule on earth the entire Body of Christ will have been made perfect and complete in all the will of God.
Satan will be released from the bottomless pit that there may be one final sifting of the hearts of men. The rebellious nations will gather together against the saints and against the city of Jerusalem. But fire will come down from God and destroy them (Revelation 20:9).
Satan will be cast into the Lake of Fire, into the place where Antichrist and the False Prophet are existing in torment.
The earth and the firmament will pass away with a thunderous noise. The dead of all ages will be raised and stand before Christ. This is the second resurrection. Each individual will be judged according to his works. Those who have been found worthy of eternal life will be saved. Those whose conduct has been such that Christ has blotted their name from the Book of Life will be thrown into the Lake of Fire along with death and Hell.
A new firmament and a new earth will appear. Down from Heaven through the new sky will descend the new Jerusalem, the glorified Church, the Wife of the Lamb. The nations of the saved will find their places on the new earth. The throne of God and of the Lamb now will be on the earth instead of in Heaven and the nations of saved peoples of the earth will walk in the light of it.
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