ETERNAL GENERATIONS OF CONTINUAL HUMANITY ON EARTH THROUGHOUT ETERNITY
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Special Note - Some Men of God who Taught or Leaned Toward This Biblical Truth:
Bible Scholars Who Believe and/or Lean Toward This Belief:
1. Lewis Sperry Chafer
2. PHILIPPE R. STERLING Pastor
3. Robert Vacendak
4. E. R. Craven
5. Bob Bryant, pastor
6. Clarence Larkin
7. Herman Hoyt
8. J. A. Seiss
9. George N. H. Peters
10. Alexander Patterson
11. Bob Wilkin
12. Paul Fedena, Pastor and writer
13. William R Newell
14. Charles L Feinberg
15. Dr. W. A. Criswell - Sermon on Revelation 22:1-7
16. Robert L. Thomas - REVELATION 8-22 EXEGETICAL COMMENTARY
17. Alva McClain
18. Alford's Greek Testament Critical Exegetical Commentary
19. F. M. Riley, Pastor and writer
20. David Reagan, Author and evangelist
21. Robert Govett - "THE APOCALYPSE" - CHAPTER XXI THE FINAL STATE
22. Tony Garland
23. John MacArthur - “Another possible interpretation is that this phrase [nations on the New Earth] refers to the believers living at the end of the Millennium. According to that view, the statement…refers to the translation of those believers before the uncreation of the present planet.”
24. Henry Morris (1918–2006), the renowned creation scientist, speculates that the nations on the New Earth could very well be those saved during the Tribulation and Millennium who will be transferred to the New Earth in natural bodies.
25. David Hocking writes: “Probably those who come out of the Tribulation period, those described as ‘sheep’ in Matthew 25:31–26, and those born during the Millennium who do not rebel against the Messiah, are all a part of the ‘nations’ on earth in the eternal state.
27. Keith Krell, associate professor of biblical exposition at Moody Bible Institute in Spokane, explains his position in the following way:
🔹It is clear from the context that John is talking about a group of people who have access to the New Jerusalem but who don’t live there.
🔹There is only one group of people left on earth to go into eternity in their physical bodies — believers that served Christ during His millennium kingdom. They go into eternity in their physical, glorified bodies, not spiritual glorified bodies like we [Church Age saints] will have because they did not experience death and resurrection. These people will go into eternity with bodies like Adam and Eve had at their creation before they were flawed by sin.
28. Darrel Mitchell - God's Plan For The Ages
29. Dr. David L. Cooper – Biblical Research Study Group
(Installment Twenty-seven)
The Eternal Order (Chaps. 21:1-22:5)
Verse 24 is a very important and strikingly significant passage: "And the nations shall walk amidst the light thereof: and the kings of the earth bring their glory into it." The Common Version adds a modifying clause which reads: "And the nations of them that are saved." This clause was added to the original text by a very late Latin manuscript. It is not in any of the old, reliable Greek manuscripts.
Who are referred to in this passage? All of the saved from the present material universe will be in the city of Jerusalem, but these people and their kings will live out on that earth. These will come and visit this eternal city. This conclusion we cannot avoid, if we accept the statements as they are given. But, who are they?
I would like to venture a guess. I am inclined to believe that this will be a new race of people who will be created, and who will live upon that eternal earth. Sin will never touch them. They will be in perfect harmony with the will of God throughout all eternity. It is altogether possible that the saints who suffer and labor for the Lord, and who reign with Christ in the Millennium will likewise reign over this new race of people. But remember, my dear friends, I am only throwing this out as a possible suggestion, and not as a definite dogma.
...plus many more!
✨THE APOCALYPSE
Lectures on the Book of Revelation
by J.A. Seiss
LECTURE FIFTIETH
Rev: 22:1-5
Two classes of people are thus distinctly recognized in the new heaven and earth; — a class in glory who get the fruits of the Tree of Life, and a class in the estate of “nations” who get the leaves; but, whether fruits or leaves, a great and glorious blessing. As there will always be need for the ministrations of these celestial king-priests to those dwelling on the earth so will those ministrations also bring them the healing leaves from the Tree of Life. As the Life-waters are not wholly shut up in the city, but descend in a form to men on the earth; so the Life-tree, in a form, yields its benefits to them too. The meaning is not that the nations are full of sicknesses and ailments; for these remains of the curse are gone then, though it may be from the virtue of these leaves. The meaning rather is the preservation of health and comfort, and not that maladies then exist to be removed. The Life-leaves are for the conservation and augmentation of Life-blessedness of men on earth, as the Life-fruits are for the joy of the saints in heaven. “And they shall reign to the ages of the ages.” Not for the thousand years only, but forever shall their glory and dominion last. This tells at once their eternal dignity, and the eternal perpetuity of men in the flesh. If they are to be kings forever, they must have subjects forever; and their subjects, whom they shepardize, over whom they rule, and for whom they hold the dominion, are everywhere described as “the nations “— “all people, languages, and nations under the whole heaven.” (Revelation 2:26; 12:5; 22:1; 24:26; Daniel 7:14, 27; Matthew 19:28, 29; 1 Corinthians 6:2.) Either, then, their kingdom must come to an end for want of subjects, or nations, peoples, and men on the earth must continue in the flesh, as Adam and Eve before the fall. But these glorified ones are to “reign to the ages of the ages,” and their “kingdom is an everlasting kingdom;” and as they cannot reign without subjects, so nations on earth must last coequally with their regency. Both their office, and the activities in which their sublimest happiness is located, must fail them, if the nations over whom their rule is, ever cease to be. They neither marry, nor are given in marriage; for they are as the angels of God; but their subjects are of a different order, and their dominion and glory shall grow forever, by the ceaseless augmentation of the number of their subjects throughout unending generations.
✨William R Newell Commentary on Revelation 21:3
We know positively that at least one nation and one seed, ISRAEL, will belong upon the new earth. In Isaiah 66:22 we read, “As the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith Jehovah, so shall your seed and your name remain.” This is eternity for national Israel, and no escaping it! Because Isaiah 65:17, 18, which belongs to the new creation, has been confused with the millennial verses (20-25) men have rushed to the conclusion that all that Isaiah says concerning the new creation is millennial. But God says Israel’s “seed and name” shall remain, in the new heavens and earth, that is, in that new order beginning in Revelation 21:1. But in this new order, we are distinctly told “death shall be no more,” whereas, in Isaiah 65:20, “the child shall die a hundred years old.”
Now, Israel is God’s elect nation—elect not for the past, or even through the millennial age, but forever. Yet, if Israel be the elect nation, the existence of other nations is presupposed!
✨The Saints Reign Charles L Feinberg
Revelation 22:5 and they shall reign forever and ever.
The millennial reign and the Eternal reign are United. Saints will never cease to rreign as long as there will be subjects. (Romans 5:17) Why do earthly reigns come to an end? They are terminated either by injustices, fraud, ineptitude, or by death. None of these will be present when Christ the King reigns with his bride. Why then should not the millennial phase of his reign merge into the eternal phase? Verily it will!
✨Dr. W. A. Criswell - What I Believe About Heaven: The Pageantry - June 17th, 1990 @ 10:50 AM
I speak now of the Biblical revelation of the continuity of life, that it continues. When the shadow of this life is over, the real life begins there, over yonder. There is progress in the pursuit of the purpose of God for us in the rich meaning of life on a higher level. What we have begun on earth, we shall consummate in heaven.
✨Tony Garland Comm. on Revelation
Rev. 21:24
the kings of the earth shall bring their glory and honor into it
This had already been the experience of the earthly Jerusalem during the Millennial Kingdom (Isa. 60:3-12; 66:12). Here is evidence that “heaven” will be much different than is commonly conceived. These kings are of the earth: having their primary place of activity upon the earth rather than within the city. They bring their glory from outside the city into (εἰς [eis]) it. The glory and honor of the kings probably describes gifts of value and beauty which are brought as presents of worship to God and the Lamb in the midst of the city.
Some have seen this as evidence of two categories of the faithful: those who reside within the city (glorified saints) and those who reside outside the city on the earth (those left living at the end of the Millennial Kingdom). Those nations, during the Millennium, that walk in the Divine light of the earthly Jerusalem, are transferred to the new earth, to walk in the Heavenly light of the New Jerusalem.
Is there any way, however, that these could be nations of people still in a natural state (say, like Adam and Eve before the fall) continuing over from the millennium? . . . Admittedly, however, the Scriptures do not deal with this particular subject directly . . . one must certainly be tentative on this point, that this particular group of saints, some from each millennial nation, may have been (like Enoch and Elijah long before) translated to the heavenly Jerusalem still in the flesh. In such a hypothetical situation, they would then be in that state in the city when it descended to the earth. . . . This interpretation of this text, doubtful and fraught with difficulties though it may be, would help in answering certain other questions.
I . . . hold it to be a necessary and integral part of the Scriptural doctrine of human redemption, that our race, as a self-multiplying order of beings, will never cease either to exist or to possess the earth. . . . Ransomed nations in the flesh are therefore among the occupants of the new earth, and the blessed and happy dwellers in it, as Adam and Eve dwelt in Paradise.
This is an issue on which the text of Revelation is silent, but there is one . . . theory which seems to satisfy the available criteria best. . . . This opinion holds that “the nations” are composed of saved people who survive the millennial kingdom without dying and without joining Satan’s rebellion and who undergo some sort of transformation that suits them for life in the eternal state. They will be like Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden prior to the Fall (cf. Govett, Seiss). They will be un-resurrected human beings who will inhabit the new earth, Paradise restored (Rev. 22:1-5), throughout eternity.
Shall not God then during the “Renovation of the Earth by Fire,” in some manner, not as yet revealed, take off righteous representatives of the Millennial nations that he purposes to save, and when the earth is again fit to be the abode of men, place them back on the New Earth, that they may increase and multiply and replenish it, as Adam (Gen. 1:27-28), and Noah (Gen. 9:1), were told to multiply and replenish the present earth.
✨The City Of Perpetual Blessing:
(Commentary on Revelation By Dr. Paul Fedena - CLICK)
1. Outside the City the “nations” and “kings” reside, but since only the redeemed survive the Great White Throne Judgment at the end of the Millennium, the question is who are these people?
2. Perhaps they are those who have mansions in the city, but have estates and governments and activities outside the city.
3. Perhaps they are humans in an innocent state like Adam before the fall continuing on the earth after the Millennium (if so they would have had to have been “raptured” off the planet before it was purged by fire, and glorified ).
4. This would place a very literal interpretation on the Abrahamic Covenant which promised that his seed would be as the sand upon the seashore and the stars in the heavens.
5. It would also help us envision the fulfillment of the Messianic promise in Isaiah 9:7 that “of the increase of His government and peace there shall be no end.”
6. Also, if the nations of the saved were to continue to multiply, as would Adam and Eve, if they had not fallen, God’s command to “fill the earth” and “subdue it” would be finally accomplished.
7. Think of the productivity and promise of the planet where sin has been banished forever and where the nations can develop and expand infinitely.
8. Neither the kings of the earth nor the nations will seek their own glory, but “bring their glory and honor” into the city to the Lord of Glory!
9. ILLUS: Food for thought: the indication is that the only people who get glorified bodies like Christ are Church age saints. Those surviving the Tribulation and entering the Millennium have natural bodies. The eternal state is a continuation of the Mill. state and the health of those with natural bodies who will be born will require the leaves of the trees for their health and longevity or perhaps if their parents partake the children will have eternal life, health and perfection automatically. There may be 12 nations as “…the Most High divided the nations…when He separated the sons of Adam, He set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel (12).” (Deut.32:7-9) There are 12 gates, 12 foundations, 12 fruits, in 12 months for 12 nations in 12 geographical locations or continents on the New Earth. (?)
(This is one of the Greatest Mysteries of Bible Prophecy)
✨Robert Thomas’ “Who are the ‘nations’ and ‘kings’ of Rev. 21:24, 26?”)
There is one further theory which seems to satisfy the available criteria best. This opinion holds that ‘the nations’ are composed of saved people who survive the millennial kingdom without dying and without joining Satan’s rebellion and who undergo some sort of transformation that suits them for life in the eternal state. They will be like Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden prior to the Fall (cf. Govett, Seiss). They will be unresurrected human beings who will inhabit the new earth, Paradise restored (22:1-5), throughout eternity. These will be the ones over whom God’s resurrected saints will reign (22:5). Nations, peoples, and men on earth must continue in the flesh as Adam and Eve did before the Fall (Seiss).” Robert L. Thomas, Revelation 8-22, pg. 476-78
Some proponents of the eternal kingdom view suggest the “nations” and “kings” of Rev. 21:24-26 are people who survive the Millennium without dying and were transformed and given immortal, but not glorified, bodies to inhabit the earth throughout eternity.
✨Alva McClain, The Greatness of the Kingdom, pg. 216
“The reconciliation of the ‘many days’ with the idea of ‘everlasting’ will be found in the fact that, at the close of human history, the Mediatorial Kingdom of our Lord will be merged into the Universal Kingdom and thus perpetuated forever (1 Corinthians 15:24-28).”
✨Alford's Greek Testament Critical Exegetical Commentary - Revelation 21 - Among the mysteries of this new heaven and new earth this is set forth to us: that, besides the glorified church, there shall still be dwelling on the renewed earth nations, organized under kings, and (ch. Rev 22:2 ) saved by means of the influences of the heavenly city). And there shall never enter into her, every thing unclean, and working abomination and falsehood, but only (lit. except) they that are written in the book of life of the Lamb (if then the kings of the earth, and the nations, bring their glory and their treasures into her, and if none shall ever enter into her that is not written in the book of life, it follows, that these kings, and these nations, are written in the book of life. And so perhaps some light may be thrown on one of the darkest mysteries of redemption. There may be, I say it with all diffidence, those who have been saved by Christ without ever forming a part of his visible organized Church).
...plus many more!
SOME ARTICLES THAT GO INDEPTH
💥The Two Modes of Humanity, Part 1
💥The Two Modes of Humanity, Part 2
💥The Two Modes of Humanity, Part 3
1. Lewis Sperry Chafer
2. PHILIPPE R. STERLING Pastor
3. Robert Vacendak
4. E. R. Craven
5. Bob Bryant, pastor
6. Clarence Larkin
7. Herman Hoyt
8. J. A. Seiss
9. George N. H. Peters
10. Alexander Patterson
11. Bob Wilkin
12. Paul Fedena, Pastor and writer
13. William R Newell
14. Charles L Feinberg
15. Dr. W. A. Criswell - Sermon on Revelation 22:1-7
16. Robert L. Thomas - REVELATION 8-22 EXEGETICAL COMMENTARY
17. Alva McClain
18. Alford's Greek Testament Critical Exegetical Commentary
19. F. M. Riley, Pastor and writer
20. David Reagan, Author and evangelist
21. Robert Govett - "THE APOCALYPSE" - CHAPTER XXI THE FINAL STATE
22. Tony Garland
23. John MacArthur - “Another possible interpretation is that this phrase [nations on the New Earth] refers to the believers living at the end of the Millennium. According to that view, the statement…refers to the translation of those believers before the uncreation of the present planet.”
24. Henry Morris (1918–2006), the renowned creation scientist, speculates that the nations on the New Earth could very well be those saved during the Tribulation and Millennium who will be transferred to the New Earth in natural bodies.
25. David Hocking writes: “Probably those who come out of the Tribulation period, those described as ‘sheep’ in Matthew 25:31–26, and those born during the Millennium who do not rebel against the Messiah, are all a part of the ‘nations’ on earth in the eternal state.
27. Keith Krell, associate professor of biblical exposition at Moody Bible Institute in Spokane, explains his position in the following way:
🔹It is clear from the context that John is talking about a group of people who have access to the New Jerusalem but who don’t live there.
🔹There is only one group of people left on earth to go into eternity in their physical bodies — believers that served Christ during His millennium kingdom. They go into eternity in their physical, glorified bodies, not spiritual glorified bodies like we [Church Age saints] will have because they did not experience death and resurrection. These people will go into eternity with bodies like Adam and Eve had at their creation before they were flawed by sin.
28. Darrel Mitchell - God's Plan For The Ages
29. Dr. David L. Cooper – Biblical Research Study Group
(Installment Twenty-seven)
The Eternal Order (Chaps. 21:1-22:5)
Verse 24 is a very important and strikingly significant passage: "And the nations shall walk amidst the light thereof: and the kings of the earth bring their glory into it." The Common Version adds a modifying clause which reads: "And the nations of them that are saved." This clause was added to the original text by a very late Latin manuscript. It is not in any of the old, reliable Greek manuscripts.
Who are referred to in this passage? All of the saved from the present material universe will be in the city of Jerusalem, but these people and their kings will live out on that earth. These will come and visit this eternal city. This conclusion we cannot avoid, if we accept the statements as they are given. But, who are they?
I would like to venture a guess. I am inclined to believe that this will be a new race of people who will be created, and who will live upon that eternal earth. Sin will never touch them. They will be in perfect harmony with the will of God throughout all eternity. It is altogether possible that the saints who suffer and labor for the Lord, and who reign with Christ in the Millennium will likewise reign over this new race of people. But remember, my dear friends, I am only throwing this out as a possible suggestion, and not as a definite dogma.
...plus many more!
✨THE APOCALYPSE
Lectures on the Book of Revelation
by J.A. Seiss
LECTURE FIFTIETH
Rev: 22:1-5
Two classes of people are thus distinctly recognized in the new heaven and earth; — a class in glory who get the fruits of the Tree of Life, and a class in the estate of “nations” who get the leaves; but, whether fruits or leaves, a great and glorious blessing. As there will always be need for the ministrations of these celestial king-priests to those dwelling on the earth so will those ministrations also bring them the healing leaves from the Tree of Life. As the Life-waters are not wholly shut up in the city, but descend in a form to men on the earth; so the Life-tree, in a form, yields its benefits to them too. The meaning is not that the nations are full of sicknesses and ailments; for these remains of the curse are gone then, though it may be from the virtue of these leaves. The meaning rather is the preservation of health and comfort, and not that maladies then exist to be removed. The Life-leaves are for the conservation and augmentation of Life-blessedness of men on earth, as the Life-fruits are for the joy of the saints in heaven. “And they shall reign to the ages of the ages.” Not for the thousand years only, but forever shall their glory and dominion last. This tells at once their eternal dignity, and the eternal perpetuity of men in the flesh. If they are to be kings forever, they must have subjects forever; and their subjects, whom they shepardize, over whom they rule, and for whom they hold the dominion, are everywhere described as “the nations “— “all people, languages, and nations under the whole heaven.” (Revelation 2:26; 12:5; 22:1; 24:26; Daniel 7:14, 27; Matthew 19:28, 29; 1 Corinthians 6:2.) Either, then, their kingdom must come to an end for want of subjects, or nations, peoples, and men on the earth must continue in the flesh, as Adam and Eve before the fall. But these glorified ones are to “reign to the ages of the ages,” and their “kingdom is an everlasting kingdom;” and as they cannot reign without subjects, so nations on earth must last coequally with their regency. Both their office, and the activities in which their sublimest happiness is located, must fail them, if the nations over whom their rule is, ever cease to be. They neither marry, nor are given in marriage; for they are as the angels of God; but their subjects are of a different order, and their dominion and glory shall grow forever, by the ceaseless augmentation of the number of their subjects throughout unending generations.
✨William R Newell Commentary on Revelation 21:3
We know positively that at least one nation and one seed, ISRAEL, will belong upon the new earth. In Isaiah 66:22 we read, “As the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith Jehovah, so shall your seed and your name remain.” This is eternity for national Israel, and no escaping it! Because Isaiah 65:17, 18, which belongs to the new creation, has been confused with the millennial verses (20-25) men have rushed to the conclusion that all that Isaiah says concerning the new creation is millennial. But God says Israel’s “seed and name” shall remain, in the new heavens and earth, that is, in that new order beginning in Revelation 21:1. But in this new order, we are distinctly told “death shall be no more,” whereas, in Isaiah 65:20, “the child shall die a hundred years old.”
Now, Israel is God’s elect nation—elect not for the past, or even through the millennial age, but forever. Yet, if Israel be the elect nation, the existence of other nations is presupposed!
✨The Saints Reign Charles L Feinberg
Revelation 22:5 and they shall reign forever and ever.
The millennial reign and the Eternal reign are United. Saints will never cease to rreign as long as there will be subjects. (Romans 5:17) Why do earthly reigns come to an end? They are terminated either by injustices, fraud, ineptitude, or by death. None of these will be present when Christ the King reigns with his bride. Why then should not the millennial phase of his reign merge into the eternal phase? Verily it will!
✨Dr. W. A. Criswell - What I Believe About Heaven: The Pageantry - June 17th, 1990 @ 10:50 AM
I speak now of the Biblical revelation of the continuity of life, that it continues. When the shadow of this life is over, the real life begins there, over yonder. There is progress in the pursuit of the purpose of God for us in the rich meaning of life on a higher level. What we have begun on earth, we shall consummate in heaven.
✨Tony Garland Comm. on Revelation
Rev. 21:24
the kings of the earth shall bring their glory and honor into it
This had already been the experience of the earthly Jerusalem during the Millennial Kingdom (Isa. 60:3-12; 66:12). Here is evidence that “heaven” will be much different than is commonly conceived. These kings are of the earth: having their primary place of activity upon the earth rather than within the city. They bring their glory from outside the city into (εἰς [eis]) it. The glory and honor of the kings probably describes gifts of value and beauty which are brought as presents of worship to God and the Lamb in the midst of the city.
Some have seen this as evidence of two categories of the faithful: those who reside within the city (glorified saints) and those who reside outside the city on the earth (those left living at the end of the Millennial Kingdom). Those nations, during the Millennium, that walk in the Divine light of the earthly Jerusalem, are transferred to the new earth, to walk in the Heavenly light of the New Jerusalem.
Is there any way, however, that these could be nations of people still in a natural state (say, like Adam and Eve before the fall) continuing over from the millennium? . . . Admittedly, however, the Scriptures do not deal with this particular subject directly . . . one must certainly be tentative on this point, that this particular group of saints, some from each millennial nation, may have been (like Enoch and Elijah long before) translated to the heavenly Jerusalem still in the flesh. In such a hypothetical situation, they would then be in that state in the city when it descended to the earth. . . . This interpretation of this text, doubtful and fraught with difficulties though it may be, would help in answering certain other questions.
I . . . hold it to be a necessary and integral part of the Scriptural doctrine of human redemption, that our race, as a self-multiplying order of beings, will never cease either to exist or to possess the earth. . . . Ransomed nations in the flesh are therefore among the occupants of the new earth, and the blessed and happy dwellers in it, as Adam and Eve dwelt in Paradise.
This is an issue on which the text of Revelation is silent, but there is one . . . theory which seems to satisfy the available criteria best. . . . This opinion holds that “the nations” are composed of saved people who survive the millennial kingdom without dying and without joining Satan’s rebellion and who undergo some sort of transformation that suits them for life in the eternal state. They will be like Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden prior to the Fall (cf. Govett, Seiss). They will be un-resurrected human beings who will inhabit the new earth, Paradise restored (Rev. 22:1-5), throughout eternity.
Shall not God then during the “Renovation of the Earth by Fire,” in some manner, not as yet revealed, take off righteous representatives of the Millennial nations that he purposes to save, and when the earth is again fit to be the abode of men, place them back on the New Earth, that they may increase and multiply and replenish it, as Adam (Gen. 1:27-28), and Noah (Gen. 9:1), were told to multiply and replenish the present earth.
✨The City Of Perpetual Blessing:
(Commentary on Revelation By Dr. Paul Fedena - CLICK)
1. Outside the City the “nations” and “kings” reside, but since only the redeemed survive the Great White Throne Judgment at the end of the Millennium, the question is who are these people?
2. Perhaps they are those who have mansions in the city, but have estates and governments and activities outside the city.
3. Perhaps they are humans in an innocent state like Adam before the fall continuing on the earth after the Millennium (if so they would have had to have been “raptured” off the planet before it was purged by fire, and glorified ).
4. This would place a very literal interpretation on the Abrahamic Covenant which promised that his seed would be as the sand upon the seashore and the stars in the heavens.
5. It would also help us envision the fulfillment of the Messianic promise in Isaiah 9:7 that “of the increase of His government and peace there shall be no end.”
6. Also, if the nations of the saved were to continue to multiply, as would Adam and Eve, if they had not fallen, God’s command to “fill the earth” and “subdue it” would be finally accomplished.
7. Think of the productivity and promise of the planet where sin has been banished forever and where the nations can develop and expand infinitely.
8. Neither the kings of the earth nor the nations will seek their own glory, but “bring their glory and honor” into the city to the Lord of Glory!
9. ILLUS: Food for thought: the indication is that the only people who get glorified bodies like Christ are Church age saints. Those surviving the Tribulation and entering the Millennium have natural bodies. The eternal state is a continuation of the Mill. state and the health of those with natural bodies who will be born will require the leaves of the trees for their health and longevity or perhaps if their parents partake the children will have eternal life, health and perfection automatically. There may be 12 nations as “…the Most High divided the nations…when He separated the sons of Adam, He set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel (12).” (Deut.32:7-9) There are 12 gates, 12 foundations, 12 fruits, in 12 months for 12 nations in 12 geographical locations or continents on the New Earth. (?)
(This is one of the Greatest Mysteries of Bible Prophecy)
✨Robert Thomas’ “Who are the ‘nations’ and ‘kings’ of Rev. 21:24, 26?”)
There is one further theory which seems to satisfy the available criteria best. This opinion holds that ‘the nations’ are composed of saved people who survive the millennial kingdom without dying and without joining Satan’s rebellion and who undergo some sort of transformation that suits them for life in the eternal state. They will be like Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden prior to the Fall (cf. Govett, Seiss). They will be unresurrected human beings who will inhabit the new earth, Paradise restored (22:1-5), throughout eternity. These will be the ones over whom God’s resurrected saints will reign (22:5). Nations, peoples, and men on earth must continue in the flesh as Adam and Eve did before the Fall (Seiss).” Robert L. Thomas, Revelation 8-22, pg. 476-78
Some proponents of the eternal kingdom view suggest the “nations” and “kings” of Rev. 21:24-26 are people who survive the Millennium without dying and were transformed and given immortal, but not glorified, bodies to inhabit the earth throughout eternity.
✨Alva McClain, The Greatness of the Kingdom, pg. 216
“The reconciliation of the ‘many days’ with the idea of ‘everlasting’ will be found in the fact that, at the close of human history, the Mediatorial Kingdom of our Lord will be merged into the Universal Kingdom and thus perpetuated forever (1 Corinthians 15:24-28).”
✨Alford's Greek Testament Critical Exegetical Commentary - Revelation 21 - Among the mysteries of this new heaven and new earth this is set forth to us: that, besides the glorified church, there shall still be dwelling on the renewed earth nations, organized under kings, and (ch. Rev 22:2 ) saved by means of the influences of the heavenly city). And there shall never enter into her, every thing unclean, and working abomination and falsehood, but only (lit. except) they that are written in the book of life of the Lamb (if then the kings of the earth, and the nations, bring their glory and their treasures into her, and if none shall ever enter into her that is not written in the book of life, it follows, that these kings, and these nations, are written in the book of life. And so perhaps some light may be thrown on one of the darkest mysteries of redemption. There may be, I say it with all diffidence, those who have been saved by Christ without ever forming a part of his visible organized Church).
...plus many more!
SOME ARTICLES THAT GO INDEPTH
💥The Two Modes of Humanity, Part 1
💥The Two Modes of Humanity, Part 2
💥The Two Modes of Humanity, Part 3
AN EXPOSITION OF THE BOOK OF REVELATION
Dr. David L. Cooper – Biblical Research Study Group
(Installment Twenty-seven)
The Eternal Order (Chaps. 21:1-22:5)
Dr. David L. Cooper – Biblical Research Study Group
(Installment Twenty-seven)
The Eternal Order (Chaps. 21:1-22:5)
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- FROM A GARDEN TO A CITY - Dr. Paul Fedena
- New Heavens, New Earth and New Jerusalem - Dr. Paul Fedena
- WHEN THE WILL IS READ - Pastor Fedena
- Songs and Bible Verses about Heaven
- THE WHOLE TRUTH ABOUT HEAVEN & HELL or HELL IS NO JOKE & HEAVEN IS NO FAIRY TALE
- "WHAT NEXT?!" OR "WAR, WORKS AND WORSHIP IN HEAVEN"
- YOUR FUNERAL AND WHAT FOLLOWS - Dr. Paul Fedena
- How will the people in Heaven view Hell?
- HEAVEN – GOD’S HOME & THE BELIEVER’S HOPE Dr. Paul Fedena
- Will There Be Procreation In The New Heaven and New Earth?
- Just Think... Dr. Paul Fedena on Heaven
- WHAT WILL WE DO IN HEAVEN? - Dr. Paul Fedena
- Scars In Heaven - Casting Crowns
- SONGS ABOUT HEAVEN AND THE BELIEVERS FUTURE
- At Heaven’s Gate By Holly Spate - The Best Is Yet to Come
- The City Of Perpetual Blessing - Human Reproduction in Eternity
- WHAT IS MISSING IN HEAVEN? - Dr. Paul Fedena
- New Heaven and Earth and The Eternal State Dr. Paul Fedena and Others
- THE ETERNAL STATE: The Millennium is the First Thousand Years of The Eternal Kingdom
- WHEN THE DUST HAS SETTLED - Rob Madden
- Perpetual Generations In Eternity
- HOW I KNOW DAD IS IN HEAVEN - Dr. Paul Fedena
- MOVING UP TO GLORY LAND - Dr. Paul Fedena
- FUTURE WORLD - By Pastor Paul Fedena
- The Immensity of the New Jerusalem
