God is our Father, but Jesus Christ is our Lord, through whom the Father rules. Although the Father chastens us, comforts us, rebukes us, teaches us, and gives us heavenly messages to prophesy, it is the Son of God who rules the kingdom. He it is who tells us how to rule the kingdom, where to build a church, whom to excommunicate. This is what he means when He says: All power in heaven and in earth has been given unto me. (Matt 28:18) Although it is the Father who has the ultimate power, it is the Son who determines how that power is directed.
The story of man is a continuing saga which began about six thousand years ago with the creation of Adam from the dust. (Before then there were man like creatures, perhaps a modification of Apes.) It seems likely that the saga will be completed in seven thousand years, and just as a week has seven days with the last day be a day of rest, so the earth will rest from tyranny for the last thousand years, when the Lord reigns.
During the saga of history, the earth has known a theocracy after Moses, when a nation was ruled by God, through King David and others. This was a foretaste of the future theocracy, although life will then be superior. God has even grander plan for some, but to attain the greatest rewards, requires much perseverance. This is God’s means of perfection and proving who is worthy of reward. The Lord is coming soon, perhaps in a hundred years, but not in a thousand years, as Paul says: a short work will the Lord make upon the earth. (Rom 9:28)
God created four types of creatures, which take part in his creation: cherubim, angels, men and animals. Animals have no real value to God, although we should care for them as they have feelings. God’s concern is for man, angel, and cherub.
Cherubim are the most mighty. They have a different body to man, and, they, like Christ, are supernaturally enhanced by atomic miniaturisation: 144,000 times more than man today. Their function is to give or withhold pleasures from men and angels, a function which Satan, who was the anointed cherub and has present power over the earth, now misuses to tempt to evil.
His wickedness, however, is limited by God, who has already punished him somewhat to deter him: Art thou not it that hath . . . wounded the dragon. (Isaiah 51:9) And there is worse to come for Satan, when: in that day the Lord with his sore great and strong sword shall punish Leviathon the piercing serpent . . . and shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.
Pleasures experienced today on earth are natural and not enhanced by cherubim as they were supposed to be. Nevertheless, by goodness and obedience and wisdom, peace and adequate pleasure may be obtained.
But in the future Satan shall die, and his memorial will be a place of everlasting shame, covered with worms, and consumed by fire. In his stead will be four female cherubim, who also will be the future wives of Jesus. These cherubim will enhance pleasure for those in their kingdoms.
The cherubim are now as little girls, but during the last century of the millennium they will mature, and at the close of the millennium they will marry Jesus, and then for all eternity, Jesus’ four wives will bring him joy. They and Jesus, being dedicated to their duty, did not dream that the heavenly Father planned romance and a marriage for even them. Even now perhaps that believe not for joy.
Of Christ it is written: Let all the angels worship him. (Heb 1:6) In the future kingdom men are equal to, or: are as the angels. (Matt 22:30) Yet: unto the angels hath he not put into subjection the world to come whereof we speak, but one in a certain place hath testified: what is man . . . Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. (Heb 2:5-8)
If angels have equal status to man, but do not rule, what is their function? We see angels bringing judgement in this dispensation. The angel of the Lord smote Herod and he died. In a lesser manner, the angel made Zacharias dumb. Angels can also heal. We see an angel healing the first to step into the pool when the waters were troubled, in the gospels.
In the new creation angels presumably have the same function. The city of the New Jerusalem has twelve gates, to allow entry to the city, some of those who do not permanently dwell there: and at the gates twelve angels. (Rev 21:12) So it seems that angels will be the police force of the new creation, and man the government. The angels, as judges, will enforce the laws of God and the regulations imposed by the men and women of the eternal city, for the good of the nations.
To the angels also belongs the future role of prophesy. Angels will bring new messages from God the Father to his children: messages of rebuke and comfort; messages of fellowship.
There will be twenty-four angels which stand around the throne of God, in the same way, and with equal status to the twenty-four elders who are seen sitting around the throne in Rev 4.
These twenty-four have been sent to earth in weak human like bodies during this dispensation, so that they, like the Son of God: may be made perfect through sufferings (Heb 2:10); and that they, like the Son, may: learn obedience (Heb 5:8). I believe that all angels, like these twenty-four, undergo a temporary transformation to weakness, from power, and that during their trials on earth, they do not remember that they are angels.
God so ordains it that the weak angels interact with those humans, with whom they will be most closely associated when ruling in the future kingdom, and to whom, perhaps, they even marry. I know of one such angel. Little did she know, when she was wooed, that it was by the man who would be her future lover in glory, and that he would be her only one.
All ten million angels will see the Father’s face and dwell permanently within the New Jerusalem (Heb 12:22). And all angels within the city see the full glory of the Son of God, being with often in his presence.
Not all will reign. Only the few, of the order of ten million, Christians will fully overcome and reign. They will have supernatural bodies and live permanently within the New Jerusalem.
Jerusalem, one day, will be the capital of the world, and Israel the head of nations. This suggests that many or most overcomers will be Jews, from the tribe of Judah, which he loved. The other overcomers will be from that nation of angels, and their genealogy is half angel, half man.
The remainder of men on this earth, which will be renewed, will total 864 million and have bodies enhanced to a lesser degree of supernature, and will be reigned over. Their bodies will be enhanced by being chemically changed to be like Christ. They are, in a manner, born of Christ’s rib, and are his chief joy and love and bride. But they undergo less supernatural enhancement than those who dwell permanently in the city. The Father, also, shines around and through Christ to have fellowship with them, but the Father’s joy over them is as the joy of a father or mother over an infant.
The Father's joy over the rulers is, as the joy of a father or mother, over a son who has done them proud. The rulers are the Father's chief joy, whereas the nations are Christ's chief joy. But both companies bring joy to both Father and Son.
Outside the New Jerusalem, there are six kingdoms, each with 144 million people. Three of these are Christian, and three of which are former non Christian: one of which is Abrahamic, of the twelve tribes of Israel, with the descendants of Ishmael, the Arabs, who are all now Muslim); one former Roman Catholics; and one former Hindu.
The men and women of the three Southern, nations live and die and live again in a cycle of one thousand years. Almost as soon as they die, after a few years of peaceful sleep are reborn. It will be as for the Jews in the millennium, when: as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of mine hands. (Isaiah 55:22)
Men have one or two wives, as there are one and a half times as many women as men. The statement, that they do not marry like the angels, does not apply to these, but only to those who are equal to the angels and who live in the New Jerusalem and reign.
One cherub facilitates pleasures for these three nations, diluting her power somewhat, as she reigns over several nations.
Their joys are seventy times thirty, the joys of Adam. And if they are disobedient they become sick for a while being chastened of an angel. And then when they repent, the men in the Holy City pray for them, and the Lord sends an angel to take them the leaves of the tree of life for medicine for their healing (Rev 22:2). Their nation is a paradise greater than the Garden of Eden.
They are allowed entry to the New Jerusalem once a week. Hence the names of the twelve tribes of Israel on the twelve gates of the Holy City (Rev 21:12).
There will be many former nominal Christians among these three nations: those who attended church, but never came to a full realisation of sins forgiven, being born again. It must be very difficult for a Roman Catholic to be born again, as they believe that Mary has a mediatory role, not believing that there is only: one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus. There will also be many former Muslims in one of these nations, who will, eventually, believe only in Jesus Christ.
The twelve tribes of Israel (which is every tribe except Judah, from whence come the Jews, God having some better plan for them), live in Africa with the children of Ishmael and with the other Muslims. The former Hindus live in India and southern Asia, and the former Roman Catholics live in South America.
Their world, and indeed the whole world outside the city of the New Jerusalem, is powered by hydrogen. Electricity is generated by hydrogen fusion, which unlike uranium fission, is fairly safe. This electricity will be used to dissociate water into hydrogen and oxygen, and this hydrogen will be used to fuel transport. There will be no planes, but only high speed super-sonic trains in these three kingdoms, powered by hydrogen engines, and supported by magnetic levitation. Each week these trains will travel to the New Jerusalem. Cars will also be powered by hydrogen, producing water vapour as exhaust.
Then there are two nations, each of 144 million, of those Christians, who also never grow old and infirm, but when they reach the age of a thousand years, they transform to infants. They mature at the same rate as men today, and men each have two wives. Their joys are seventy times fifty the joys of Adam.
They suffer no pain or sickness, only loss of reward. If they sin, an angel may threaten to chasten them, or may say nasty things, but no chastening is ever necessary to make them repent, and the angel is too kind anyway. And after they have repented, another angel comforts. Also if they sin, rewards are withheld for a while.
One cherub facilitates pleasures over these two nations: One nation, the West Europe kingdom includes all the British and many from France, Scandinavia and Holland, and all the Jews who are not half angels, who inherit Germany. Their numbers in the West Europe nation is boosted by marrying black women from America, and the Jews marry black Christian women from Africa. The other middle kingdom, the Eastern kingdom is comprised of Chinese, who will dwell in the East and in the USA. There are twice as many women as men in these kingdoms.
These two nations build for themselves, as means of long distance transport, a network of supersonic trains, powered by hydrogen engines, which run in channels, to prevent the spread of noise. Twice a week, these high speed trains travel, instead of to their usual destinations, to the Holy City.
The Northern kingdom of Christians of 144 million: 36 million men, and 108 million women, overcome much, but they do not attain unto permanent dwelling within the New Jerusalem.
They have the second greatest cherub over them exclusively. Their enhancement, and that the cherub facilitates pleasure of only one nation, makes the joys of these seventy times seventy times the joys of Adam. The Garden of Eden pales into insignificance compared to their glory. If they sin rewards are withheld for a while, but they suffer no rebuke.
Increases in reward are the product of both duration and intensity. It would not be possible to increase the intensity of pleasure so much, without becoming drunk with pleasures. Not all joys are increased to the same degree. The intensity of spiritual joys, which have a greater bearing upon overall happiness and contentment, than physical joys, will be increased by a somewhat greater factor than the aforementioned intensity of natural joys.
They never grow old, but when women reach the age of one thousand years, they are transformed to daughters of the age of three, and adopted by mothers. Men each have three wives, most of their lives. They dwell in the Russia, Scandinavia and the North of North America. By number the greatest representation is from the persecuted church in the Northern nation, which suffered for a generation.
Because they have been very obedient in this life, they are allowed three visits into the New Jerusalem (Rev 22:14) each week. They are allowed into the city by the angel at the gate (Rev 21:12).
To reach the city, which may be thousands of miles north, they travel on supersonic trains, powered by hydrogen rockets, to the wall of the city. These trains, run in evacuated, transparent roofed, tunnels, to reduce air resistance and to prevent noise pollution.
Although local peoples in each of the nations will do their work themselves, the overall planning of major works will belong to those who dwell within the Holy City, although the technologies used may be constrained by the ability of the locals to build.
The world is continually changing, as people migrate to where they want to live, things wear out, and fashions change. And no one, even though supernatural, remembers learning forever. They must continually revise or relearn their sciences.
The rulers for each of the six kingdoms (who number twelve times 144,000 per kingdom), dwell permanently in the New Jerusalem (Rev 4:12). The total number is over ten million men and women (and the same number of angels). These have the same chemistry as the people over whom they reign (that of Jesus Christ), but the atoms of their bodies undergo further miniaturisation to the supernatural state, than those in the nations over whom they reign.
Whilst the nations are for the Son, these are for the Father. Their bodies are not derived from the rib of Christ, although of the same chemistry. Instead their bodies metamorphosise in stages, towards the beginning of the millennium: First to the Adamic state; then to that of the chemistry of Christ; and finally to the supernatural.
Transport for the nations, when visiting the outer portions of the city, is constructed by the angels, during the millennial reign of Christ, before the city descends to the earth. Men travel around the outer portions of the Holy City in mechanical transport, for large distances, then perhaps elephant transport for the remainder. (Being supernatural does not imply an ability to fly or walk through walls. It is simply another state of matter.)
Those men and angels within the New Jerusalem do not reign over each other. God the Father himself, directly reigns over them, and if they are disobedient, in any slight way, and I don't know whether they ever are, their cherub might reduce pleasures for a while. (It may be more true to say that cherubim facilitate pleasure rather than give it.) Perhaps they will not sleep so peacefully. Having only one cherub and the new anointed cherub at that, over only twenty million, means much potential for pleasure.
But no punishment will ever happen to them, as they walk the streets of gold, fellowshipping with both the Father and the Son. It is better that pleasures come more directly from a cherub than from God, whose Spirit is a source of strength and holiness and righteousness and virtue. We should look to God for love rather than pleasure.
Leading the kingdoms are the twenty-four elders, with seventy times the reward of Christians in the Northern kingdom. After them are the 144,000 men and women who will stand upon Mount Zion (Rev 14). The 144,000 have almost one third of the reward of the twenty-four angels or elders. And after them are 10,368,000 with one tenth the reward of the twenty-four elders.
This is to say, that the reward of least of the approximately ten million overcomers with supernatural bodies, who dwell permanently within the city, is seven times greater than that of those in the Northern nation, who only enter temporarily into the city. This is seven, times seventy, times seventy, the joys of Adam, and with no sorrows.
Heavenly bliss is not only directly proportional to pleasures received. It is possible to have much pleasure and still be unhappy. Awareness and capability, which are related to the degree of enhancement, are also relevant. Bliss properly belongs to those who dwell within the city, as they remember God’s word: well done thou good and faithful servant; great joy is to those on earth outside the city.
Consciousness and responsibility are also increased in a supernatural body in sympathy with the Holy Spirit, so that what pleasures are enjoyed, can be enjoyed responsibly, so that it does not happen that one loves the gift too much, and the giver not enough. With obedience, the experiences of this life teach us to love: Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned. (1 Tim 1:5)
All who dwell permanently within the city have the name of the Father written upon their foreheads, indicating identification with him, and they see the Father’s face (Rev 22:4). And all men within the city see the full glory of the Son of God, being with often in his presence (John 17:24).
The earth also will be transformed. John: saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. (Rev 21:1) The word new means renewed, rather than recreated. It must be new because it will interact with the supernatural rather than the natural. The pollution of this world will not contaminate, because the natural cannot contaminate the supernatural. But in a sense this world will be old because the supernatural earth will occupy the same sphere in space as the natural earth, and the continents will occupy approximately same areas. But perhaps the mountains will not have worn away, and the rugged beauty of a youthful landscape, with enough air to scale the peaks, will remain.
The land of the earth will rise, so that the continental shelves are above water, so that all continents are bridged, except Antarctica. This is the meaning of the word: there was no more sea (Rev 21:1) to divide the nations.
But excelling all the earth in beauty, a great mountain more than one and half thousand miles across and one and a half thousand miles high (Rev 21) will descend upon the North Pole of the earth. (Remember that Satan wanted to: sit also upon the mount of the congregation on the sides of the North (Rev 14:13). This is the New Jerusalem, the home of the overcomers, and is lit by the light of the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ.
In the New Jerusalem: the sun shall no more be thy light by day . . . but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light. (Isaiah 61:19) And: the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it (the New Jerusalem). (Rev 21:24) The further away from the city to the South, the more the nations will need the light of the sun.
And on the South Pole will be a giant volcano, the place of damnation, where the demons are punished. Their memorial is a place of shame, where their dead bodies remain after their punishment ceases (Isaiah 66:24, Matt 25:41). It is the role of each angel of judgement, who never so punishes those in her kingdom, or any man, to punish the damned before they cease, and to enact their punishment after they cease consciousness.
Why must the place of damnation be on Antarctica? Because it is said that the earth dwellers go from new moon to new moon to look upon their dead bodies; so it must be on the earth. They could not contaminate the kingdom of God; so it must be on the only continent, not joined to the Northern land mass by continental shelf. And that means Antarctica, the furthest place from the Holy City.
Who are the damned? They, the tares in the field of the world: are the children of the wicked one. The enemy that sowed them is the devil and: in the end of the world . . . the tares are gathered and burned in the fire. (Matt 13:38-40) God created man in his image (Gen 1,2). So those planted by the Devil cannot be true men. They are demons, who have left their first estate to become men. They number about ten million, or half of the angels (Rev 12:4). They came to earth to hinder and stumble men, under the mistaken belief that man would usurp their position, when in fact angels shall be equal to the highest station of men and women, and do marry them. They were told that men would govern the earth, but what they were not told was that angels would police it, the two stations being equal. Satan similarly rebelled, thinking that Christ would usurp his position, when in fact he could have been Christ’s co-worker, complementing his authority.
Those men who are unworthy of everlasting life, the majority of men ever born are buried in the sea, not being joined to Satan’s place of burial (Isaiah 14:20). These are not punished after death. And attached to these buried in the sea is some honour. Kings have glory (Isaiah 14:18). And soldiers for example have their swords under their heads (Ezekiel 32:27). But unfortunately these are they who constitute the many who go through the broad gate to destruction, not being among the few (10%) who find life, according to Jesus (Matt 13:13,14)