Sunday School Lesson	Pastor Randy Bloem
Revival Baptist Church Scranton, Pennsylvania
TOPICS OF REVELATION
Lesson 9 The Millennial Reign of Christ
Introduction
The millennium is the vindication of God's plan to restore the earth and mankind to Edenic Uke bliss after about 6,000 years of Satanic rule that has brought sin, death, suffering, and terrible anguish upon this planet earth! May His kingdom come and His will be done again on earth as it is in heaven!
I. The first event of the millennium is the binding of Satan and casting him into the bottomless pit (Rev. 20:1-3).
II. The second event is the bestowing of positions of authority in Christ's Millennial Kingdom (Rev. 20:4-5)
A.	The first has to do with church saints that are given various thrones and positions of
judgment (See I Cor. 6:2,3; Luke 22:30)
* Some will have no such positions (I Cor. 3)
B.	The second may be the rising and rewarding of a special class of martyrs.
 1.	Faithful Jewish witnesses in Israel who died by beheading of the beast (Rev. 6:9)
 2.	They went from city to city in Israel right under the rule of the Antichrist and
preached the gospel (Mtt. 10:22,23).
 3.	Since they gave their lives to warn and win Israel in the Tribulation, they will be
raised on the first day of the millennium to reign over that nation with Christ and the
apostles.
 4.	Daniel is referring directly to the faithful Jewish martyrs in Daniel 12:3.
C.	Both the raptured church which will reign with Christ and those resurrected Jewish
martyrs will be part of the first resurrection. (Rev. 20:6)
 1.	This includes Christ as the first fruit (I Cor. 15)
 2.	The raptured church (I Thes. 4)
 3.	The two witnesses (Rev. 11:11)
 4.	The Jewish Tribulation martyrs. (Rev. 20:4-5)
D.	The Resurrection at the end of the millennium is to wrath (Rev. 20:5)