Posted by Cygnus [Cygnus] on October 29, 1999 at 14:34:14 {CAtoZJLIp2QPTcl/wbssL4bdfUTIaI}:
In Reply to: ****Jesus Rule In 1914??? posted by ros on October 29, 1999 at 14:11:04:
Duh...
*** w67 8/1 455 A New Administration of Earth's Affairs ***
WHEN THE ADMINISTRATION BEGINS"And they came to life and ruled as kings with the Christ for a thousand years." The thousand-year reign of Christ begins immediately after the binding of Satan and his demons and the hurling of them into the abyss. We can appreciate that not every member of the 144,000 will be in the heavens at the start of the thousand-year reign, for there will be a small remnant on the earth who survive Armageddon and who remain on earth for an unstated time. So the statement does not mean that every last one has to be in the heavens with Christ for the entire thousand-year reign. Those who died prior to the establishment of the Kingdom were resurrected at the time of Jehovah's coming to the temple with his messenger of the covenant in 1918. Revelation 14:13 indicates that a number of the remnant die after the birth of God's Messianic kingdom in 1914. These do not have to sleep in death until Satan the Devil is bound. They join him by a resurrection without delay.-1 Thess. 4:15, 16; 1 Cor. 15:51-54.
Therefore, when Christ's thousand-year reign begins, the "remnant" left on earth will not glorify themselves as kings, but they will be here serving the Kingdom interests until their death occurs and they are resurrected. (2 Pet. 3:11-14; Mal. 3:17 to 4:3) They will share in Christ's thousand-year reign. But Christ is the King and it is his thousand-year rule. It is not necessary for all to be with him the full thousand years. He has been given full Kingdom power. (Rev. 12:5, 10; Ps. 2:8) His reign is a thousand years long from the time of the abyssing of Satan, and most of the 144,000 are with him from the beginning of this period.