Open Discussion 2 - Millennial Reign of Christ (in Depth).

Open Discussion 2 - Millennial Reign of Christ (in Depth).

Christ will come at the end of the period of the Witnesses to destroy the Empire of the Beast and for the Establishment the Millennium.

Introduction
During the time of Christ and the Apostles in the first century, primitive Christianity understood that a Millennial Reign of Christ, the Messiah, would occur. They understood that Satan had been allowed a rule of six thousand years and that would be replaced by the rule of Christ, who would reign for one thousand years, as we see in No. 299F. The biblical position presents clear and coherent evidence of a Millennium period that is specifically mentioned in Revelation 20:2-7. The thousand-year reign of the Messiah is referred to as a Millennium or Chiliad. That is represented by the Seventh Day Sabbath of the Fourth Commandment (No. 256). The restoration of the biblical system and the millennial advent of Messiah are also found in Zechariah 14:4-5. Christ said by parable that he had to go away and then return (Lk. 19:12). Contrarily, modern Christianity has lost the understanding of the Millennium. That loss of understanding was through the Gnostic Heaven and Hell heresy and the Trinitarian fabrications. Likewise the Churches of God in both Sardis and Laodicean eras, and especially the offshoots of Herbert Armstrong’s Worldwide Church of God, are in total confusion, and do not biblically understand the development that is to occur during the Millennial Reign of the Messiah. All of the various branches of Christianity and pseudo-Christianity have become antinomian and polytheist. Most of the church academics knew that the end of Satan's rule was in the 120th Jubilee of 2026-2027. They did know that Adam was created in 4004 BCE and they were expelled from Eden in 3974 BCE when Adam came under Judgment and Eden was closed and the earth was cursed (Nos. 246; 248; 272).

God laid out what was to occur in the last days in many prophecies in both the OT and NT works, and most importantly in the Book of Revelation at the end of the First Century with the Apostle John. These activities are explained in the works dealing with the Time of the End (No. 141D_4D). Over the last four Centuries, before the coming of the Messiah, there was to be a time of unmerited blessings (Four Hundred Years of Abraham's Legacy (No. 212J). That period ended in Chislev (Nov.-Dec.) 2023. Before the Day of the Lord, there will be a rebellion or apostasy, a falling away (from apostasia) from the truth and the law among the elect. The man of lawlessness (anomias), so named for the falling away from the laws of God, through his teaching among the elect, is revealed (2Thes. 2:3-8). He sits in the Temple of God and is called God. This is not physical. He sits in the Temple of God, being an edifice that was already destroyed in 70 CE, and is called God. So he is one of the elohim acting as an elohim from the early church. He will be killed by Messiah at his coming. This is obviously an ongoing entity. The time of Lawlessness has been ongoing under Israel and Judah since they occupied the Holy Land. As a result Israel was sent into dispersion and Judah was sent with them over the last two thousand years. In the Last Days there will be an Empire of the Beast (299A). That final empire was confined to forty-two months and was to occur within a period of Great Tribulation (No. 141D_2) that would occur over the last five years before the Coming of the Messiah (Nos. 210A and 210B; 300; 300B).

Christian Churches of God
No. 300C - Millennial Reign of Christ
http://www.ccg.org/weblibs/study-papers/p300c.html