NOV 24

Isaiah 2:1-4
Memorise Micah 4:1-4
“they shall beat their swords into plowshares”

Who are the ones who will reign with Christ for a thousand years? First in the list are they who were beheaded for the witness of Jesus Christ and His Word, who had not worshipped the beast nor his image nor received his mark on their foreheads, nor in their hands. This should include martyrs of every age, which are seen in the opening of the fifth seal (Revelation 6:9-11). These reigned with Christ on the earth (Revelation 5:10) for a thousand years. In view of Christ coming before His thousand year reign takes place, this second coming is called premillennial. These who reign with Christ have suffered for Christ, even as our Lord has promised the Apostles, “Ye are they which have continued with me in my temptations, and I appoint to you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed me; that ye might eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel” (Luke 22:28-30).

That this thousand years will not be in heaven but on earth is so predicted so many times by the Old Testament prophets that we can quote but a few passages:

1. With the deceiver of nations under chains so that he cannot instigate them to fight, there shall be no war. “And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD’S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more” (Isaiah 2:2-4). This passage on Christ’s peaceful reign on earth is also recorded in Micah 4:1-3. Moreover, Micah adds, “But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts hath spoken it” (Micah 4:4).

Thought: If we are in the millennium today as some say, why then are there still weapons of war in the world?
Prayer: O Lord deliver us from World War III to come.