Prophetic Events — page 23

Satan will be chained and confined in the abyss for a thousand years. Rev. 20:1-3. The Lord will put an end to all war and violence. From then on no oppressor will be allowed to trouble Israel again. Nah. 1:15; Joel 3:17; Ps. 46:9; 147:14; Isa. 60:18; Zech. 9:10; Isa. 2:4; Mic. 4:3; 1 Kings 5:4.

The Lord will then establish the Throne of His Glory in Israel, and all the nations that remain on the earth will be gathered before Him and judged according to the way they treated the messengers of the gospel of the Kingdom who will by then have gone through all the nations and preached (Matt. 24:14). Then the Lord will separate them as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. The nations that proved righteous will enter, together with Israel, into the blessing upon the earth. The nations that proved unrighteous will be destined for eternal judgment. This is the judgment that the Lord will carry out in the character of a court session. Matt. 25:31-46. The 1335 days counted from the middle of the week will then have run their course. Every adversary, and everyone who is evil, will have been overcome. Dan. 12:12; 1 Kings 5:4.