The Last Battle

After Jesus sets up His millennial kingdom for a thousand years, how long will satan be allowed to run loose to deceive the nations? I believe it will be for only one generation. Here’s why:

Earth was set up as a stage to display evidence that confirms the justice of God’s sentence against satan and his followers. The angels of God were friends with those angels before they turned rebellious. They loved them. There was sentimental attachment to them. They retained memories of precious times together with their comrades. God cares about the angels’ feelings and wants them to know, without any doubt in their mind, that the rebels’ eternal damnation is justified.

On Earth, the angels have witnessed what the fallen angels and demons do when they are allowed to interact with mankind in its vulnerability. They defiled babies and children, starved them, murdered them in the womb, tortured them, twisted them to make them evil, besides all their crimes against adults. Their will is to commit mayhem, suffering, and destruction. Satan proves every moment of his existence that he is unfit to rule the Universe. He would turn the whole of Creation into a complete Hell, if he was allowed to gain God’s Throne. Thankfully, though, he is just a created being, with a failsafe built into him that guaranteed he would self-destruct, if he rebelled against his Creator.

But mankind is not off the hook. Each of us must answer for giving in to temptation. Adam and Eve, though they were created perfect, gave in to temptation to indulge Self, and thus sold all their descendants into sin.

God weighs each case carefully. He takes into account the temptations and trials that each human soul faced from the time they were conceived on Earth. Those who underwent intense suffering in childhood and committed heinous crimes later in life might not receive as heavy a sentence as other humans think would be warranted. And those who lived in comfort and safety for most of their lives might be given heavier punishments for what seem to be minor errors.

I am speaking of those who refuse God’s salvation through Jesus Christ and so have not received forgiveness of their sins. God still has their sinful deeds, words, thoughts, and desires listed in His records.

Up until Jesus returns to set up His millennial kingdom, mankind can point to satan as the instigator of their sins, but not during the Millennium, when satan and his hordes are confined to the bottomless pit.

Did you know that there will still be sinners during the Millennium, even without satanic pressure? The depravity of mankind will still be evident, though individuals probably will not commit sins as deep and dark as what people indulge in now. People will still need to receive Jesus as their Saviour in that golden era.

The Bible says that Jesus will rule with a rod of iron. That means that crime prevention will be implemented, though police will probably not have to deal with rapes and murders. Justice will be appropriate to each crime and applied swiftly. Some of the Earth’s rulers will not want to submit to Jesus and obey all His commands. He will not tolerate their rebellion, which would affect the lives of many people.

On an individual basis, those who justify their sins and refuse to repent will experience the effect of their rebellion in their body. They will age more rapidly than those who love and serve Jesus. They will live for only 100 years, which gives them adequate time to repent of their sins, but does not burden society with them for too long, if they refuse to live holy.

The angels who are loyal to God will see how people conduct themself when placed in a wholesome societal structure, with Jesus Himself as the Ruler of the Earth, and mankind given every advantage that nature can offer, such as pure air, water, and soil, no poverty, healthy food sources, harmless plants, tame animals, and temperate weather.

At the very end, when satan is released, they will see how easily some will choose to abandon whatever goodness was in them due to a benevolent upbringing and a righteous society. This test will require only a span of one generation, for the next generation will not have had the advantage of being born during the Millennium.

There is a ridiculous theory that the Millennium has already come and gone, and that we are now living in the time of when satan was released to deceive the nations. There will be no images of idols during the Millennium, no art work that displays any kind of barbarism or sin, no temples to false gods, no evidence of decay in nature lying close to the Earth’s surface that spans hundreds or thousands of years. There is plenty of evidence that we are still in the pre-Millennial age.

The final attempt of satan to destroy mankind will probably not last more than 100 years, for that is the life expectancy given to sinners during the Millennium, but probably not even that long due to the pollution that will occur when weapons of mass destruction are once again manufactured, tested, and implemented, and all sorts of other crimes against humanity are committed that undermines health.

I am amazed at some of the things that people believe that go entirely against Biblical logic when they clamp onto various verses in the Bible, which deceivers deliberately take out of context, or the gullible use to support their erroneous beliefs due to ignorance of what the verses actually mean. Napoleon said, "It is strange what men will believe, as long as it isn’t in the Bible." It is also strange what people believe the Bible says, without putting it in the right context.

It's a good practice to ask God to open our understanding of the Bible. I have been a Christian for over 50 years, and, for most of those years, I asked God to open my understanding every time I read the Bible. God has been faithful to answer that prayer, deepening my understanding to see the wheels within wheels of His living Word. Receiving revelation from God is probably the most exciting of my life’s experiences. It keeps me anchored to my Creator, regardless of the world’s chaos and confusion.

Your word have I hid in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
[Psalm 119:11]