Matthew 6:34 Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

No one knows what tomorrow will bring unless someone is sent with purpose.

Exodus 8:10 And he said, “Tomorrow.” Moses said, “Be it as you say, so that you may know that there is no one like the Lord our God.

God will do what He knows He has to do to wake them up to the fact that He is God.

And yet some will still refuse to surrender.

Exodus 8:23 Thus I will put a division between my people and your people. Tomorrow this sign shall happen.

Sometimes division occurs because of a sign.

Matthew 13:30 Let both grow together until the harvest, and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, “Gather the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn.”

The weeds among the wheat did not know what they were. 

Here is a sobering thought, no one knows when the gathering is going to occur.

If you do not know what you are it is best you figure that out today because no one can count on tomorrow.

Deuteronomy 31:21 And when many evils and troubles have come upon them, this song shall confront them as a witness (for it will live unforgotten in the mouths of their offspring). For I know what they are inclined to do even today, before I have brought them into the land that I swore to give.”

Some will say that they have never heard this song.

Matthew 11:17 We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.

The truth is that when Jesus says “We” He is including you and me today.

Revelation 20

The Thousand Years

Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain. And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, and threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he might not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were ended.

Revelation 20:4 Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

I have no expectation of being one of those who died and came to life and stayed alive to rule with Christ for a thousand years. What I would like to comment on is the life of those who lived under Christ’s reign during their lives.

Isaiah 65:20-23 English Standard Version

No more shall there be in it an infant who lives but a few days, or an old man who does not fill out his days, for the young man shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner a hundred years old shall be accursed. They shall build houses and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit. They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat; for like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands. They shall not labor in vain or bear children for calamity, for they shall be the offspring of the blessed of the Lord, and their descendants with them.

If the prophecy of Isaiah 65 is a description of life under Christ in His 1,000 year reign, then those born will live long enough to realize that Christ and those that rule over them never age and never die. They will get to see what the end result will be for them after they die if they remain faithful to their King Jesus Christ.

Why would any of them risk that by falling to the temptations of Satan once he is released after those 1,000 years?

John 20:29 Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”

We fall into that second category, having not seen Jesus with our physical eyes. We see ourselves as being faithful and blessed. We are tested yes but not yet as we might be if we should live during the great tribulation. We tell ourselves we want to be like those in Revelation 20:4 but we have not been tested like that. Yet!