Mankind is given seven thousand years upon this earth. Six of those millennia are past, and one is yet to come.
The point at which we go into the seventh millennium is called the midpoint between 3.5-years of tribulation and 3.5-years of judgment.
That is, the last 3.5 years of the sixth millennium are followed by the beginning of the seventh millennium. And the beginning of the seventh millennium is followed by the 3.5-year judgment.
Following this “seven-year period” of tribulation and judgment comes the millennial reign of Jesus Christ upon the earth. Actually, his millennial reign begins at the midpoint. But the peace of Jesus Christ upon the earth comes after the 3.5-year judgment.
We are currently at the leading edge of the 3.5-year tribulation. And, we should be into the tribulation by this fall, 2026. Some of the saints will be taken on an exodus similar to the one with Moses, and this is referenced in Rev. 15:3. Others of the saints will be harvested in a second harvest. And both of these harvests are noted in Rev. 12:6 and Rev. 12:14.
At the end of the seven years of tribulation and judgment comes the rapture from the earth. After the rapture the earth is burned, and then at some point the city of New Jerusalem descends to the earth as shown in Rev. 21.
The vast majority of the people currently upon the earth will be removed during the tribulation and judgment years. We are removed to that world of spirits from which we came to await our eternal rewards. These eternal rewards are predicated upon our choices.
Those who choose to follow Jesus Christ have eternal salvation from sin. Those who do not follow Jesus Christ will be judged according to their choices of good or evil. We do not have all the details concerning God’s judgment process. But we know his eternal judgments are correct because we know that he loves us.
I encourage everyone to stay focused on the prize. We have this special gift of eternal life.
Stay strong in your daily life. Do not let the burdons of this world take you away from the honor you seek. To stand with your head high, knowing that you played an important part in the salvation of souls.
We are almost there. Move forward with courage, knowing that Jesus Christ is with us. Stand firm in your testimony and have eternal salvation (Rev. 12:10-11, Rev. 20:4).
Amen
I respectfully reject the doctrine that Jesus Christ will return after the tribulation and then physically remain on this present earth for a literal thousand-year kingdom among surviving nations.
When the totality of Scripture is examined carefully, that interpretation becomes difficult to sustain, because the Bible consistently presents Christ’s second coming as a singular, universal, and terminal event of reward, destruction, removal, and cosmic dissolution—not the beginning of ordinary earthly civilization.
The issue is not what men have imagined the millennium to look like, but what the text itself actually says.
1. Christ’s Coming After the Tribulation Is the Gathering of the Elect, Not the Beginning of an Earthly Political Reign
Jesus Himself gives the chronological order plainly in Matthew:
“Immediately after the tribulation of those days… shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven… and he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect…” (Matt. 24:29–31)
Notice what the text emphasizes:
Christ appears in glory,
the trumpet sounds,
angels gather the elect,
believers are removed from the earth.
There is no statement here that Christ descends to set up an earthly throne among mortal survivors.
The central event is the supernatural collection of His people.
Paul gives the exact same event in 1 Thessalonians:
“For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven… and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive… shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air…” (1 Thess. 4:16–17)
Again, They are caught upward to meet Christ in the air to meet Jesus hust like Noah was taken up the day of the flood. The righteous do not remain on earth to greet Jesus on an earthly kingdom. They are taken up into heaven while the wicked stay on earth to burn because of their wickedness in rejecting and truly following Jesus Malachi 4:1-3
This harmonizes perfectly with John, where Jesus said:
“I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.” (John 14:3)
Christ does not say, “I will come again and stay with you on this present corrupted earth.”
He says He comes to receive His people unto Himself.
Thus the second advent-(coming of JEsus) is a translation event, not an earthly settlement event.
2. The Second Coming Is Simultaneously a Day of Catastrophic Judgment Upon the Entire Earth
Peter destroys the idea of a peaceful post-trib earthly society continuing under Christ on this old globe.
2 Peter 3:10 declares:
“But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away… the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.”
This is crucial.
Peter explicitly attaches the day of the Lord—the same coming of Christ—to:
heavens passing away,
elements melting,
earth burned up.
This is not language of Christ beginning an administrative kingdom over farming, commerce, marriage, and surviving populations. It’s a day of recompense and judgment upon all. 1 Peter 3:5
2 Peter 3:10 is language of planetary judgment.
Peter then says believers are not looking for continuation of this present world order, but:
“Nevertheless we… look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.”
Meaning:
the old earth is judged first,
the new earth comes later.
Therefore the present earth is not the scene of a blessed millennial civilization immediately at Christ’s return.
3. The Wicked Are Not Left Alive to Populate a Millennial Earth
Scripture repeatedly teaches that the ungodly perish at Christ’s appearing.
Malachi 4:1-3 states:
“For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven… and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble.”
Not some wicked.
All that do wickedly.
Luke 17:26-31 compares Christ’s coming to:
Noah’s day — the flood took them all away,
Lot’s day — fire destroyed them all.
Jesus concludes:
“Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.”
The revealed Son of Man does not arrive while the wicked continue living under His administration.
They are overtaken in destruction.
This is why Revelation 22:12 says:
“Behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.”
His coming is judicial.
reward to saints,
recompense to rebels.
There is no textual indication of a thousand-year probationary extension for those who missed readiness.
4. The Earth Is Left Desolate During the Thousand Years, Explaining Satan’s Binding
Many overlook a major logical question in Revelation 21:1:
Why is Satan bound for a thousand years?
The text says he is shut up so that he “should deceive the nations no more.”
But if all righteous are caught up and all wicked are slain at Christ’s appearing, then there are no nations left for him to deceive.
That is precisely the point.
Satan is bound by a chain of circumstances—an empty, ruined earth and no living human subjects.
This fits the prophetic imagery of Jeremiah 4:23, where the prophet sees the earth after divine judgment:
“I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void… there was no man… all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger.”
This is not a thriving kingdom world.
This is a depopulated judgment scene.
Meanwhile Revelation 20:4 places the saints not farming vineyards on earth, but sitting on thrones engaged in judgment with Christ.
The millennial activity is heavenly judicial review, not earthly coexistence with sinners.
5. The New Earth of Revelation 21:1-3 Appears After the Thousand Years, Not Before
Only after Revelation 20 concludes does John say in Revelation:
“And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away… And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven.”
The sequence is decisive:
Revelation 19 = Christ returns
Revelation 20 = thousand years
Revelation 21 = new earth appears
John does not place the restored earth before the millennium.
He places it after. This means the meek inherit the earth only after sin has been fully eradicated.
That is when Matthew 5:5 is fulfilled after the tribulation, the coming of Jesus, and 1000 year millennial that gives the earth 1000 years to restore itself from the devastating fire that burned it because of the judgment of God at the the coming of Jesus, they the “meek” will inherit the newly restored earth like it was in the garden in Genesis before Satan decieved man, It will be a paradise on earth with no evil person living in it:
“Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.”
Not this present cursed order.
The renewed one.
6. Therefore Christ Does Not Return Twice, Nor Is There a Second Chance for anyone, the only chance they have is while they are living on God’s earth now to bow their knee and humble themselves before him in reverence of face the coming judgment of God.
The popular notion that Christ returns:
once to start an earthly millennium,
then again later for final judgment,
fractures the unity of the second advent texts.
Scripture consistently presents His coming as only one coming of Jesus as stated in John 14:3:
Add when Jesus returns it will be…
visible,
trumpet-accompanied,
resurrection-producing,
saint-gathering,
wicked-destroying,
earth-shaking,
reward-rendering.
That is one comprehensive eschatological event.
The repeated biblical warning is readiness now, not another opportunity later.
Jesus compared it to the wedding feast: when the door shuts, it shuts.
There is no verse teaching that those who were unprepared at His appearing are granted a thousand years to reconsider.
Probation closes at His coming.
Conclusion
The full biblical testimony therefore indicates:
Christ returns one time after the tribulation.
The righteous are resurrected and caught up to meet Him.
The wicked are consumed in judgment.
The earth is left desolate during the thousand years.
The saints reign with Christ in heaven in judgment.
After the millennium, God creates the new earth.
Then the meek inherit the restored creation forever.
For these reasons, I do not find scriptural support for the idea that Jesus will walk around on this present fallen earth immediately after the tribulation ruling over surviving sinners for one thousand years.
The second coming is not the start of earthly normalcy.
It is the end of this world as we know it.