Wait!

Wait!....before any of you scoffers out there in cyberspace fly off in a throw-the-baby-out-with-the-bathwater tizzy [but of course, not at all insinuating that you the reader are of that ilk].

Hear me out, and be pleased to participate in some rather-detailed astute erudition.

No where in the entire RSV Old and New Testaments of The Holy Bible is the phrase "second coming" found. You King James Version perusers can check it out in your translation.

That, obviously, does not mean that adult Jesus Christ will not in fact bodily return in glory [and we are not talking about some mythically-apostate-theory fly-by-night zoom-by-in-the-sky snatching up of scared-to-suffer pre-Tribbers].....and His blessed blazing feet touch down on the Mount of Olives at the Battle of Armageddon preceding The Millennium (referred to in Revelation chapter 20, verses 1 through 7) consisting of His worldwide Second Coming [His First Coming generally recognized by Him appearing in impoverished humble and humiliating baby-body form in the hopefully-it-was-not-stinky barnyard manger around two millennia ago].

But, who is that "Everlasting "Father"/Prince of Peace" Son-of-Man/"King" going to be, spoken of in the following reference:

Matthew 25:31 "When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him, then He will sit on His Glorious [White?] Throne.
25:32 In front of Him will be gathered all the nations, and He will separate them one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats,
25:33 and He will place the sheep at His right hand, but the goats at the left.
25:34 Then the King [Son of Man, as mentioned before?] will say to those at His right hand, 'Come, blessed of my Father [and Jesus Himself is The Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace?], inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;
25:35 for I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me,
25:36 I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.'
25:37 Then the righteous will answer Him [in massive unison-chorus-like fashion, or instead individually in myriad random-rapid succession?], 'Lord [but not then term Him: "Son of Man" nor "King" nor "Everlasting Father/Prince of Peace"], when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink?
25:38 And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you?
25:39 And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?'
25:40 And the King [THE "King?"] will answer them, 'Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me.'
25:41 Then He will say to those at His left hand, 'Depart from me, you cursed, into The Eternal Fire prepared for The Devil and his angels/[demons];
25:42 for I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink,
25:43 I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.'
25:44 Then they also will answer, 'Lord [they will also call the King: "Lord?"], when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to you?'
25:45 Then He will answer them, 'Truly, I say to you, as you did it not to one of the least of these, you did it not to me.'
25:46 And they will go away into Eternal Punishment, but the righteous into Eternal Life."

[ Merely donate a few clothes once in a while to the Salvation Army (or better yet, homeless shelters for arrogantly-impenitent-and-defiant Christians-despising AIDS-beset homogay homosodomites, or the ACLU) to insure entrance into Heaven someday, to acquire enough charitable brownie points to qualify and present to Peter at The Pearly Gate? ]

The logic of Ultimate-and-Final Massive Sheep-with-Goats Judgment occurring as described by the above-cited Matthew 25:31-46 passage should be plain to all (even though it is not plain whatsoever to and among pig-headed stuck-in-a-mental-rut heretically-wrong-headed pre-Tribbie-Rapture Presumptionists who mis-believe that it will instead occur before the Millennium, but who are nevertheless right about assuming a pre-Millennial second-coming-of-Jesus-Christ eschatology).

All righteous humans ["righteous" enough by their belief and trust in, plus dependence upon, God their Creator, in accord and consort with meritifying good works which prove such as qualification determiners] who have ever lived will - logically - not be raised back to life when Jesus Christ bodily returns at Armageddon before the Millennium (referred to in Daniel 7:19-27, Daniel 9:26-27, Zechariah chapters 12 through 14 and Revelation chapter 20:1-7), which [thousand-year] Millennium begins at the end of the Great Tribulation (referred to in Daniel chapter 12 and Revelation chapter 13).

Simple proof almost "goes with saying," but lamentably needs to be said, especially against diehard, heads-in-the-sand, pre-Trib-"Rapture" prejudiced who stubbornly refuse to "think out of the box" and thus get their apocalyptic timing straight according to what the inerrant Greek-Text words of THE New Testament of THE Holy Bible actually and only state [minus hallucinated imaginary insertions and inclusions of their own cowardice-based fear-of-persecution minds concocted and surreptiously slipped into the actual given and properly-translated New-Testament Text].

There can and will be NO Final Judgment of the type cited in Matthew chapter 25:31-46 above at the Second [bodily] Coming of Jesus Christ at Armageddon at the end of the Great Tribulation of only 42 months (NOT 7-1/2 years)....

...simply because the wicked dead will not be nor have been resurrected at THAT Second-Coming Armageddon Event to experience the Final Judgement referred to in the above-described Matthew 25:31-46 Final Judgment, at which Final-Judgment Event the aforementioned proverbial good "sheep" are judged in the same trial at the same time as the proverbial bad "goats" are judged [which Final Judgment, again, for the dull-of-mind who repeatedly must be reminded] relates to the very same above-cited Matthew 25:31-46 Judgment cited above, as does the Revelation chapter 20:11-15 Great-White-Throne-Judgment Event.

Indeed, most of the now-dead saints of all time previous will be resurrected at about the same exact time all the wicked dead are resurrected, [which - duh!- is at, and in, THE Post-Millennial Final Judgment], which will happen more or less instantaneously (in "twinkling-of-an-eye" speed), immediately prior to that Matthew chapter 25:31-46 Final-Judgment Event, the same, only-one-time-and-once-occurring Event also described below:

First Corinthians 15:51 Wow! I tell you a mystery: We [the Gentile/Jewish or Jewish/Gentile Church?] shall not all "sleep," but we shall all be changed,
15:52 in a moment, in "the twinkling of an eye," at The Last [the word, again, for the dull-of-mind, is: LAST!] Trumpet [perhaps Shofar?]. For THE Trumpet will sound, and the dead [both righteous and wicked!] will be raised imperishable, and we [i.e. everyone, including us righteous] shall be changed.
15:53 For this perishable nature must put on imperishable, and this mortal nature must put on immortality.
15:54 When the perishable puts on imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: "Death is swallowed up in victory."

Revelation 20:11 Then I saw a Great White Throne and Him who sat upon it; from His presence Earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for them.
20:12 And I saw the dead [righteous and wicked, as "sheep" and "goats"], great and small, standing [not sitting] before The Throne, and books [paper, or instead hard drives or thumb drives?] were opened. Also another book was opened, which is The Book of Life. And the dead [again: righteous and wicked] were judged by what was written in the books, by what what they had done [not simply by their non-reliable/faltering "faith" nor "faith in Christ" nor "[supposed] forgiveness by the blood of Christ" and sporadic noxious faithlessness].
20:13 And The Sea gave up the dead in it, [the angel/demon of] Death and [angel/demon of] Hades gave up the dead in them, and all were judged by what they had done [not simply by their non-reliable/faltering "faith" nor "faith in Christ" nor "[supposed] forgiveness by the blood of Christ" and sporadic noxious faithlessness].
20:14 Then [the angel/demon of] Death and [the angel/demon of] Hades were thrown into The Lake of [invisible torturously-flaming outer-darkness] Fire. This is The Second Death [of Eternal Destruction and Exclusion Away From The Presence of The Lord, as it states in RSV's Second Thessalonians 1:9], The Lake of Fire;
20:15 and if any one's name was not found written in The Book of Life, he [or she] was thrown [not politely asked to move themselves] into The Lake of Fire.

...immediately preceded by and nearly concurrent with the following to - sometime, in the distant future - transpire:

Second Peter 3:10 But The Day of The Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a loud noise, and the elements will disintegrate with fire, and the [entire-planet] Earth and the works [i.e. all created irreversibly-polluted-by-sinful-humans environmental entities and natural phenomena] that are upon it will be incinerated.
3:11 Being all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of persons ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness,
3:12 waiting for and hurrying up the coming of THE Day of God [obviously NOT occurring at Armageddon at Christ's bodily Second Coming], because of which the heavens will be ignited and annihilated, and the elements will disintegrate with fire!
3:13 But according to His promise we wait for new Heavens and a new Earth in which righteousness resides.
3:14 Therefore, beloved, being that you wait for these, be zealous to be found by Him without spot or blemish, and at peace.
3:15 And consider the forbearance of our Lord salvation. So also our beloved brother Paul wrote to you according to the wisdom given him,
3:16 speaking of this as he does in all his letters. There are some things in them hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own [wrong-apocalyptic-misinterpretation-and-misapplication] destruction, as they do the other scriptures.
3:17 You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, beware lest you be carried away with the error of lawless persons [be they males or females] and lose your own stability.
3:18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

Will any of the names of the raptured-alive/resurrected-from-the-dead proverbial "sheep" be found written in The Book of Life at that Matthew-25/Revelation-20 Last-Day Final Judgment among the wicked proverbial "goats?" But of course.

Not so concerning (not "regarding") the resurrected wicked "goats" standing at and in the same Matthew-25/Revelation-20 Last-Day Final-Judgment Event - on the other (or left) side of The King [with "left" and "right" in relation to the person and perspective of The King Himself, not various other three-dimensional-position possibilities of any would-be outside observer].

Most of such Book-of-Life-named sheep [who have been resurrected at about that time, and not one thousand years previously in The First Resurrection of merely Anti-Beast Beheaded, about the time Jesus Christ returns for the post-Great-Tribulation/pre-Millennial Battle of Armageddon] placed at the King's right hand....will - logically - be "Second Resurrection" "sheep."

In contrast, ONLY a particular category or type of post-Great-Tribulation/pre-Millennial "First Resurrection" sheep [and only those VERY-select and NOT all "sheep"] are described in verse 4 below:

Revelation 20:1 Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand The Key of The Abyss and a great Chain.
20:2 And he seized The Dragon, that Ancient Serpent, who is The Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand [or is it instead 845, or 397, or 1289, or 5055 or whatever?] years,
20:3 and threw him into The Pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, that he deceive the nations no more, until the thousand [maybe instead 127,453 - or maybe seventeen?] years were ended. After that he must be loosed for a little while.
20:4 Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom judgment was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their testimony to Jesus and for The Word of God, and who had not worshiped The Beast nor his Image and had not received his [666, or maybe 549 or 322?] Mark on their foreheads or their hands. They [and THEY alone] came to life, and reigned with Christ a thousand years [maybe instead 255.26 approximate years?].
20:5 The remainder of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is The First Resurrection.
20:6 Blessed and holy is he [or she] who shares in The First Resurrection! Over such The Second Death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and they shall reign with Him a thousand years [and what's that particular precise number again?].
20:7 And when the thousand years [maybe it's only a figure of speech or allegory or symbol or metaphor or whatever else should never ever ever ever be taken literally, and actually means 1,476,334,290 years or centuries or seconds or decades or minutes?] are ended, Satan will be loosed from his prison
20:8 and will come out to deceive the nations which are at The Four Corners of The Earth, that is, Gog and Magog, to gather them for battle; their number is like the sand of the sea.
20:9 And they marched up over the broad [contrasted with "narrow"] Earth and surrounded The Camp of the saints and The Beloved City; but fire came down from heaven and consumed them,
20:10 and The Devil who had deceived them was thrown into The Lake of Fire and Brimstone where The Beast [or: "Animal"] and The False Prophet were, and they will be tormented "day and night" [Earth-time duration periods] forever.

In other words . . .

There will be no pre-Millennial "pre-Tribulation" Rapture of "The Church."

Instead, there will be only one Rapture of whoever is post-Millennially alive (at that time) comprising "The Church" when the heavens and Earth pass away with a loud noise (Second Peter 3:10-12) immediately preceding that one Last-Day "sheep-and-goats" Final Judgment involving The King seated on His Great White Throne. (Study Matthew 25:31-46 and Revelation 20:7-15).

So many references in Scripture can be applied to a post-millennial (and obviously post-Great-Tribulation) Rapture, as for example, a previous one cited:

First Corinthians 15:51 Wow, I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
15:52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed.
15:53 For this perishable nature must put on the imperishable, and this mortal nature must put on immortality.
15:54 When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”
15:55 “Oh death, where is your victory? Oh death, where is your sting?”

The words "we shall not all sleep" indicate that after the Millennium there will be some yet-living saints who are raptured up alive at the sound of the Last Trumpet - or shofar (with those formerly anti-666 beheaded who were resurrected one thousand years previous at the return of Jesus at Armageddon and thus part of that First Resurrection mentioned in the opening verses of Revelation chapter 20) to join the resurrected saints and resurrected sinners to appear before The King on His Great White Throne in that Final "sheep-and-goats" Last-Day Final Judgment spoken of in Matthew chapter 25.

Such snatching up of raptured righteous living at that event (those Book-of-Life included "working in the field" or "grinding at the mill" who are whisked up to glory and stand as "sheep" before The Great White Throne in Final Judgment) plus the all the resurrected righteous dead since the beginning of human history (who also are Book-of-Life included and also whisked up to glory and stand as "sheep" before The Great White Throne in Final Judgment) plus the resurrected wicked dead (those others left behind incinerated but then stand as "goats" before The Great White Throne in Final Judgment) . . . . will occur in an instant (i.e. "the twinkling of an eye"), as the heavens and Earth are annihilated in fervent heat with a loud noise (as it states in Second Peter chapter 3).

The wicked, as will the righteous, be given eternal bodies - the former to constantly be painfully consumed forever in the invisible flames of Outer Darkness (but bodies eternally renewed for more to burn in "everlasting destruction") within the Lake of Fire . . . and the latter to enjoy the tear-less painless ecstatic bliss of Heaven and the blazing-sun-bright Host and hosts therein.

Presume (not assume) that:

Psalm 90:4 For a thousand years in your sight actually are only 895.3 or maybe 377.9 or probably 269.4 or perhaps we-can't-consistently-make-up-our-minds-how-many years when it is past, or as a watch in the night.
Second Peter 3:8 But do not ignore this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is (not "is as") a thousand years, and a thousand years IS only one day, because the Lord can't count, is bad at arithmetic, and the dunce should go back to elementary school.(?)

Note that Satan (i.e. The Devil) will not be there at THE Last/Final Judgment of proverbial "sheep" and "goats," but instead will have already been "thrown" (not gently escorted) into "The Lake of Fire and Brimstone" [and the best word there is KJV's: "brimstone" instead of RSV's word: "sulphur"].

The Gog and Magog in verse 8 above consists of the entire global surface of planetary Earth [evidenced by the "four corners of the Earth" allusion to east/south/west/north] -- perhaps or probably a greatly-expanded territory which formerly consisted of the God/Magog geography in the Old-Testament book of Ezekiel.

"Camp of the saints" might be considered identical with "The Beloved City" (i.e. Jerusalem?], existing previous to the pre-Matthew-25/Revelation-20 Great-White-Throne Last-Day Final Judgment [of proverbial "sheep" and proverbial "goats" - most of which "sheep" to be resurrected, and all of which "goats" to also be resurrected].

But won't ALL goats be resurrected for "salvation" by an alleged "non-discriminatory" "inclusive-diversity" "tolerantly-non-judgmental" Holy-Father/Holy-Jesus/Holy-Spirit Trinitarian LORD on that Final-Last-Day Judgment?

Shouldn't all religions coexist? Especially jihad islam with Jesus-Only Christianity? And Mohammed-or-Jesus-as-Messiah-rejecting ortho-jews with both of them?

Some would misconstrue the following theological treatise of St Paul (and my own additional [bracketed] insertions are included for the sake of exposing the absurdity of misinterpreters who misconstrue what the Spirit and Paul really meant, in the sense they meant it - in my maybe-confusing/clearly-quasi-questionable sheep-in-wolf's-clothing attempt to play the Devil's advocate)....which "twisting" St Peter warned us about pertaining to some deviates who indeed accursedly misinterpret and misconstrue):

Here we go, and please keep things straight now (with your remembrance of what the original text actually states instead):

Romans 5:1 Therefore, since we [us demons-worshipping forever-impenitent sinners) are justified by faith [in ourselves and our own relentless willful bondage to sinfulness], we have [V-sign hippie] peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ [the God-forgiving forever-impenitent Satan and his eternally-impenitent perverts].
5:2 Through Him we [who are impenitently giving in to incessant sinning, and love it] have obtained access to this grace [of unconditional forgiveness for whatever oopsies we relish in our defiant impenitence] in which we stand, and we rejoice in our hope of sharing the glory of God [with all-holy Falwell and the Christian political right we lividly despise?].
5:3 More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings [of being discriminated against by forbidding-to-sin Christian bigots], knowing that suffering produces endurance, character, hope,
5:5 and hope does not disappoint us, because God's love [for us impenitent perverts who relentlessly continue to hate His law and His perfect and pure holiness] has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit [perhaps a good feeling of comradery and brotherhood among us incessantly-impenitential perverts] which has been given to us.
5:6 While we were still weak [trying to resist being evil], at the right time Christ died for us [what a pathetic waste, as if we needed some kind of rectification stifling our cravings for screwing around by not obeying Satan].
5:7 Why, one will hardly die for a righteous man [that figures] --though perhaps for a good man one will dare even to die [but only "perhaps" - especially if that prude lives to harass us as he in vainly tries to pollute and defile our willfully-idolatrous lifestyle].
5:8 But God shows His love for us in that while we were yet sinners [defined as be "sinfully" converted to give up our sins we in no way want to give up] Christ died for us [so we can continue to fool around trying to be good, justified by cheap grace].
5:9 Therefore, we are now justified [to screw up] by His [let's-us-do-the-evil-we-want] blood [we can now live like the Devil, and yet expect to get into Heaven, but then to be eternally harassed by an always-be-perfect-required God and similarly-disgustingly-misintentioned saints], much more shall we be saved [to pleasurably sin] by Him from the wrath of God [anger inflicted on those hypocritically not true to their evil selves and not fully given in to it].
5:10 For if while we were enemies [against giving up our pet sins we have no intention of giving up] we were reconciled to God [to live like the Devil and still get into a Heaven full of noxious goody-goody-two-shoes holier-than-thou always-want-to-be-perfectly-pure-and-holy saints?] by the death of His Son, much more, now that we are reconciled [to screw around], shall we be saved [to continue doing our kinky and beloved sacred sins] by His life.
5:11 Not only so, but we also rejoice [with almost-giddy homo-gayness] in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received our reconciliation [thus being OK as we are, for healthy self-esteem].
5:12 Therefore as sin [of not giving in to the pleasure of perpetually sinning] came into the world through one man and death [from self-righteous people murderously bothering us with nitpicky and legalistic rules] through sin, and so death spread to all men because all men sinned [being confused by goody-goody saints disrupting our wicked peace of mind and tranquility].
5:13 sin [healthy curiosity to explore and delve into "something different" like Mother Eve and Father Adam did in obedient compliance with The Tempting Serpent regarding the Scientific-Knowledge-Accessing tasty Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil] indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin [of trying to change our freedom-loving pleasure-to-do-whatever-evil-we-want wicked minds to instead love repressive goodness] is not counted where there is no law.
5:14 Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sins [of indigestion from eating too much fruit from The Forbidden Tree?] were not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come.
5:15 But the free gift [of non-judgmental tolerance no matter whatever "sin" we like and want to continue to perform and not "commit"] is not like the trespass. For if many died through one man's trespass [to hypocritically not be true to his natural and innate sinful pleasurable desires making him happy], much more have the grace of God and the free gift in the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for many [of us sinners, forgiven for the occasional thought of giving up our pet sins and then becoming prudes].
5:16 And the free gift is not like the effect of that one man's sin [of repenting for the sin of abstinence]. For the judgment following one trespass [of hypocritically abusing ourselves by even considering giving up our pleasurable sins] brought condemnation, but the free gift following many trespasses [of hypocritically castigating ourselves by even considering giving up our pleasurable sins] brings justification.
5:17 If, because of one man's trespass [of hypocritically abusing ourselves by even considering giving up our pleasurable sins], death [to pleasure, and actual death relating to harassment from those who demand or force us to give up the pet sins they know darn well we do not want to give up] reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace [to live like the Devil, with impunity] and the free gift of righteousness [to be true to our sinful desires and not get repressed by anything to the contrary] reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.
5:18 Then as one man's trespass [of trying to change our freedom-loving pleasure-to-do-whatever-evil-we-want wicked minds to instead love repressive goodness] led to condemnation for all men, so one man's act of righteousness [of doing whatever he damm well pleases] leads to acquittal [we are guiltless without pitiable shame] and life for all men [and women, so we are not sexist about all this].
5:19 For as by one man's [do not mention woman's] disobedience [to not curiously explore and delve into sin like Mother Eve and Father Adam did in obedient compliance with The Tempting Serpent regarding the Scientifically-Knowledge-Accessing tasty Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil] many were made sinners [of not giving in to the pleasure of perpetually sinning], so by one man's obedience many will be made righteous [to joyfully screw around in constitutional liberty and freedom].
5:20 Law came in, to increase the ridiculous-naughtiness of trespass [in hypocritically not being true to our naturally innate sinful pleasurable desires which are fun and decadently titillating]; but where sin [of hypocritically abusing ourselves by even considering giving up our pleasurable sins] increased, grace [to not be intolerantly judged nor abusively condemned] abounded all the more,
5:21 so that, as sin [of trying to change our freedom-loving pleasure-to-do-whatever-evil-we-want wicked minds to instead love repressive goodness] reigned in death [shame on the do-gooders in confusing and harassing us impenitent sinners to death!], grace [to not be intolerantly judged nor abusively condemned, and leaving us alone to enjoy our particular pet sins which give us pleasure and which we have absolutely no intention of stopping] also might reign through righteousness [of freely screwing around without puritan obsessions and hang-ups] to eternal life [of continuous beer parties in Hell with blasphemously pierced-and-tattooed cute-and-young naked-boobied/bare-butsied/nude-pussied broads, away from do-goody legalistic nitpicky incessantly and futilely trying to proselytize us into rejecting our pet sin we worship and gives us great pleasure] through Jesus Christ our Lord [who Himself gave us the naughty gifts of the Tempting Serpent and luscious Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil so that we would no longer be a bunch of gullible robots unable to think of any alternatives to strict rules which take away and deprive us of sinful pleasures].

Well, lots of additions [inserted] into the above -- which are, of course, not actually found in traditional given Text of The Holy Bible.

Oh, well. We do await the THIRD Coming of Christ (after His First Coming in Bethlehem's cradle, and after His [has not happened yet] Second Coming at the end of the [has not occurred yet] Great Tribulation at [not-happened-yet] Armageddon before the [also not happened yet] Millennium, and finally His [at least 1000 years into the future]) Third Coming as Trinitarian-with-The-Father-and-the-Spirit Almighty GOD as Co-King or King or Whoever, who is to acclaim the proverbial good "sheep" but condamn the proverbial "goats" in That Last-Day Final Judgment.

And where will the glorified Jesus (who returns at Armageddon and rules during the Millennium "with a rod of iron") be when Satan is loosed from the Abyss described in Revelation chapter 20? Will He disappear up into Heaven just before The Final Judgement, to descend as Almighty Father and Prince of Peace, on that Great White Throne? Will He not be around when Satan is temporarily let loose out of The Abyss, to convince the Immoral Majority to gang up against the Beloved described in Revelation chapter 20?

It is not unprecedented that perhaps the loosed-Satan-allowed post-resurrection-embodied-and-empowered Jesus will not be willing to do much about loosed-Satan's-crusade-for-global-deception promptly after The Millennium, because (as one Baptist preacher recently put it): "Most people did not accept Jesus for who He was when He came at and after His First Coming, either."

I guess the overall apocalyptic-scenario answer is a rightly-understood combination of both the Pre-Millennial View and the Post-Millennial View of "the [bodily] coming" or "the [bodily] return" of Jesus Christ.....obviously excluding a clearly-defective Jesus-never-bodily-returns-at-all "only-spiritual-presence" Amillennial View.

Finally, if religio-theorist Nietzsche really believed that there is no such thing as human free will, Nietzsche was dead wrong about that. We cannot change the consequences of our actions [be they good or evil], but we can decide whether or not we like it. Can we not even choose what actions we do in the first place?

There comes a time in each human's life when they permanently decide to either be for God and His own, or instead against God and His own.

I said: permanently, and I meant it.

Even though they could or can change their minds about that, they absolutely will NOT - forever - change their minds, no matter what the consequences.

Indeed, Satan and his demons who [during The Millennium] will be kept confined within the so-called "bottomless pit" [actually: "Abyss" in the Greek Text] have already eternally used their free wills to irrevocably decide to be against God and His own, and forever will not rather than can not change their anti-God opinion and ultimate decision - no matter what punishment results, or any further available options (IF any). Angels in heaven are the same way, in terms of the everlasting permanence of their freewill decision.

When THE Final Judgment Day comes, right after the heavens and Earth are totally annihilated in fervent heat with a loud noise, what will occur is THE Great and Permanent Polarization of wicked proverbial "goats" confined to invisibly-flaming outer darkness incarceration, while righteous proverbial "sheep" are forever confined to ecstatic bliss and fellowship with the LORD and His own.

And that perfect environment, for the saints, will be a truly-sin-free environment which has never yet occurred in all of human history, which was never even back in the non-perfect Garden of Failure infested with the Tempting Serpent and lethally-poisonous Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

Should we ever "forgive" God for imposing the pollutive Tempter and Forbidden Tree in The Garden of Eden? Well, it does not matter if we do or do not forgive Him; it is irrelevant. God will do whatever He wants, no matter what, and doesn't give a sh*t what we think or decide.

Job 36:23 Who has prescribed for Him His way, or who can say, 'You have done wrong'?

It does not behoove the Creator to post warning signs everywhere on everything [be they in fine print or in large flashing-neon-sign billboards]. It would insult our intelligence if there was. We do not even expect that of humans. It should be obvious, even to the dull of mind who already have adequately-enough observed the admittedly perfect consistency of natural phenomena the Creator has created [such as gravity always existing and always pulling things down], that (for example) if the insane dunce jumps off a cliff, gravity will rapidly [as logically expected] pull him or her down to a sudden and bloody death on the rocks below.

It is a presumptuous lunatic who speeds up way past 30 mph in an already-adequately-posted 30 mph speed zone with the non-authorized and uncalled-for presumption that the sign will - all of a sudden, and magically - adjust to 70 mph to adjust and accommodate to him or her. And, if such lunatic actually acts on that presumption, suddenly sees flashing red and blue strobe lights behind him, and tells the squad car cop that he or she expected the speed-sign mph limit to change to adjust to and accommodate him or her, the cop might say (as he writes out the traffic ticket): "Well, it did not change, did it?"

Job 34:33 Will He then make requital to suit you, because you reject it? For you must choose, and not I; therefore declare what you know.

Ecclesiastes 11:3 If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves on the earth; and if a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it will lie.

No disruptive magical illusions, mysterious hocus-pocus tricks, nor unsettling shenanigans from the Lord. "God does not play dice with the Universe," Albert Einstein is said to have said. Even atheistic communists would go crazy if they did not [albeit non-admittedly] trust the consistency of God's creation enough in planning to put a cosmonaut into space and keep him there alive for a while.

Trust the Creator to never ever do something "goofy" again [i.e. concoct some kind of a new Eden-reminiscent stumbling-block situation somewhere into eternity]. And even if He did, what the h*ll could we do about it?

But, according to the hitherto-infallible Bible, He will NOT so concoct whatever. It is more a question of whether or not we sometimes-capricious humans will go off like an erratic fly under the influence of Raid:

Ezra 9:13 And after all that has come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great guilt, seeing that you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserved and have given us such a remnant as this
Job 11:6 and that He would tell you the secrets of wisdom! For He is manifold in understanding. Know then that God exacts of you less than your guilt deserves.
Job 19:6 know then that God has put me in the wrong, and closed His net about me.
Job 40:8 "Will you even put me in the wrong? Will you condemn me that you may be justified?"
Psalm 115:3 Our God is in the heavens; He does whatever He pleases.

When He, in His humanly-authored, Divinely-inspired Bible, solemnly promised [by His use of the formidable word: "forever"] that He will eternally never "screw up" again like He did concerning (and not "regarding") His stumbling blocks imposed into Eden, about which forbidden blocks He DID (in fact) adequately-enough previously warn our not-stupid primal parents about, we can "take Him at His word" - in view of His impeccable credentials of never ever [unlike HAL 9000] - even once or in the slightest and/or most temporary way - make one mistake in His awesomely-consistent Creation and never-ever-capricious created entities therein in terms of absolutely-perfect reliability and consistency -- not to mention our potential catatonically-paralyzing-by-over-contemplating the bizarre benevolence [accommodating human creatures] of all of what He created, plus His fully-compensatory gospel Contingency Plan involving the redemptive-Savior Jesus. That is quite a record, to say the least!

And even in those incredulous cases of natural phenomena exhibiting some non-precedented display or "miraculous" manifestation [an alleged or purported "violation against the laws of nature], He previously gave certain choice humans some and quite adequate pre-warning of the unusual to occur -- be it destroying most lifeforms on planet Earth with a awesome global flood so that at least a few reproduceable humans could construct and be rescued by being within a substantial-enough lifeboat [i.e. Ark], opening up a Red-Sea escape route with wind (thus preventing extermination of a whole race of people), causing a firestorm to incinerate entire-Earth-pollutive homoqueers in Sodom and Gomorrah, lightning to lick up a amply-watered-down sacrifice at Mount Carmel, causing "the Sun" to "stand still," making an iron axehead float, having fish and loaves (and widow's oil in a flask) not be depleted but supernaturally? multiplied, simply speaking people into blindness or resurrection from the dead - whatever.

Amos 3:7 Surely the Lord GOD does nothing, without revealing His secret to His servants the prophets.

In Heaven, the immutable Bible predicts that The Elect will eternally encounter NO temptation whatsoever - "to the ages of the ages" - and thus [logically] will always do what their permanent freewill decision [to be for and not against God and His own] has already been, and forever will continue to be.

But, again, can we assuredly trust GOD (in accord with what His Divinely-inspired human Bible authors wrote), that He nevermore will come up with some new and non-precedented Eden-similar stumbling blocks sometime into eternity?

Numbers 23:19 God is not man, that He would lie, or a son of man, that He whould repent. Has He said, and will He not do it? Or has He spoken, and will He not fulfill it?

The obvious rhetorical question is logically and appropriately answered: "Yes!"

But with treacherous and deceptive humans, it is quite a different story:

Proverbs 26:18 Like a madman who throws firebrands, arrows, and death,
Proverbs 26:19 is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, "I am only joking!"

and:

Jeremiah 9:5 Every one deceives his neighbor, and no one speaks the truth; they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they commit iniquity and are too weary to repent.

Additionally, it has been said that:

Proverbs 29:1 He who is often reproved, yet stiffens his neck, will suddenly be broken beyond healing.

Forever!

That ties right in with the following:

Romans 1:24 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves...
Romans 1:26 For this cause God gave them up to dishonorable passions. Their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural...
Romans 1:28 And being that they decided it inappropriate to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a base mind and to improper conduct.

and:

Second Thessalonians 2:11 Therefore God sends upon them a strong delusion, to make them believe what is false,
Second Thessalonians 2:12 so that all will be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.