God's Day of Judgment -Its Joyous Outcome! -The Thousand-Year Judgment Day

 Who are left to be judged after the old earth and old heaven flee away?  Not the anointed remnant of the 144,000, for these have already been judged and sealed.  If any/ of the anointed are still alive on earth after Armageddon, they must shortly thereafter die and receive their heavenly reaward by resurrection(1 Peter 4:17; Revelation 7:2-4)  However, the millions of the great crowd who have now come out of the tribulatioon stand conspicously  "before the throne."  These have already been counted righteous for survival because of their faith in Jesus ' shed blood, but their judging must continue through the thousand years as Jesus keeps  on guiding them to "fountains of waters of life."  Then, having been restored to human perfection and thereafter tested, they will be declared righteous in the fullest sense.  (Revelation 7:9, 10, 14, 17) Childen who survive the great tribulation adn any children born  to the great crowd during the Millennium will similarly need to be judged during the thousand years. - Compare GENESIS 1:28; 9:7; 1 CORINTHIANS 7:14. 

John, however, observes a throng far more numerous than the surviving great crowd.  It will number into the thousands of millions!  "And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and the scrolls were opened. (Revelation 10:12a) "The great and the smalll" embraces the proinent as well as the less prominent ones of humans that have lived and died on this earth during the past 6,000 years.  In the Gospel that the apostle John wrote shortly after Revelation, Jesus said of the Father:  "He has given him [Jesus] authority to do judging, because Son of man he is.  Do not marvel at this, because the hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear his voice and come out." (John 5:27-29)  What a stupendous  project-the undoing of the deaths and burials throughout all history!  No doubth those countless milllions in God's memory will be brought forth gradually  so that the great crowd-so few by comparison-will be able to handle problems that may arise because resurrected ones may tend  at first to follow their own lifestyle, with its fleshly weakness es and attitudes. 

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