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indianabob:
Very helpful and interesting study Kat,

Now what is the next step?
How will Christ's Kingdom deal with the remaining mortals on the earth?
How will human society be organized? Will it have a new pure language?
Is there a plan that we can think upon and learn from?
Inquiring minds want to know.

Regards, indianabob

dave:
Wonderful! Excellent offering! Glory!

Kat:

Well Bob, let's see Christ will have an "army" of elect (Rev 19:14) that will be raised to glory as Christ was, we can certainly comprehend that they will be given great power to enforce Christ's government on earth. Also there is the whole host of heavenly servants of God (Rev 19:10; 22:9)... not hard for me to envisions these fearsome angels would be of great help as well.

Another thought is that there have been many righteous men and women that died through all those centuries before Christ came and since as well. The Scripture mention some of them.

Gen. 7:1 And the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

2Pe 2:7  and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked

Acts 13:22 And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave their testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all my will.

1Ki 15:11  Asa did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, as did his father David.

2Ki 18:1 ...Hezekiah the son of Ahaz, king of Judah, began to reign.
v. 3  And he did what was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father David had done.

2Ki 22:1  Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem...
v. 2  And he did what was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in all the ways of his father David; he did not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.

There is also those mentioned in Hebrews 11 from OT times; "all these, having obtained a good testimony through faith, did not receive the promise," (Heb 11:39). As well as John the Baptist I guess he was almost in NT times.

Luke 7:28  For I say to you, among those born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist; but he who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he."

None of these will be elect in the first resurrection. But what I'm showing here is that these are just those few mentioned in Scripture, there can be no doubt there are many many more not mentions that lived through the centuries that were known as righteous men and women. These people will be in the resurrection of the dead and though they will not know of their Savior, they will need to be taught the gospel of Jesus Christ. But it should be easy to see they will readily accept this, as they were already servants of the OT God. All these people will already have proven themselves by the lives they lived, so they will be pretty much ready to serve and quite capable as well.

I believe that every government of man in this world will be cast down and remove all those politicians and God will have His own servants put in place to form a proper judicial system. Of course Christ will be head over all, and all the elect directly under Him to function as the spiritual teachers of the world. These elect raised up will now be 'one' with God, perfected, no more carnality, directly connected to the power source of the universe... they will be given whatever is necessary to carry out God purpose.

Isa 30:20  And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your Teacher will not hide himself anymore, but your eyes shall see your Teacher.

There will be no struggling with the wicked of the world, they will cower like helpless puppies when they see the glorified Christ and His elect. There will be no trying to convince people what is truth, there will be no questions about who the elect are and what they say. When Christ appears, with the elect, the world will know who He is and that He is in now in control.

Mat 24:30  Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

Eze 7:16  Some will escape to the mountains like doves frightened from the valleys. All of them will moan over their sins.
v. 17  Everyone's hands will be weak, and their knees will shake.
v. 18  They will put on sackcloth and they will tremble all over. Their heads will be shaved, and they will all be disgraced. (GNB)

The people of the world will be terrified and probably fear that what they see happening is the literal destruction of the earth... but they will soon learn He is bringing peace and mercy to the weak and helpless, but the wicked cannot hide from His retribution.

Rom 14:12  So then each of us shall give account of himself to God.

Heb 4:13 And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.

I can see how having one language would be very helpful, many things will be restored at that time and the curses removed.

Rev 22:2  In the middle of its street, and on either side of the river, was the tree of life, which bore twelve fruits, each tree yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
v. 3  And there shall be no more curse, but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall serve Him.
v. 4  They shall see His face, and His name shall be on their foreheads.
v. 5  There shall be no night there: They need no lamp nor light of the sun, for the Lord God gives them light. And they shall reign forever and ever to the ages of the ages.

mercy, peace and love
Kat

dave:
A worldly WOW and a Godly GLORY!

indianabob:
Thanks Kat, well stated and helpful.
I know that we will have to wait and see, but taking a hint from how God dealt with Israel can't we speculate a little about what life could be like for my family and other ancestors in their resurrection? I think it could be fun and informative.

Indianabob

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