The Thousand Years
This is where it gets a bit dicey.
We tend to think that Christ comes back and that’s it. The unbelievers are sent to hell. The believers go to heaven. Somehow heaven and earth get mingled and that’s that. That’s what we think but that’s not what the Bible teaches.
Christ returns and the devil is bound for a thousand years. During that thousand years Christ reigns on the earth and apparently there are those (presumably believers) who reign with Him. After all, a King needs a court and governors and the like to govern effectively. Apparently a select number of the dead come to life during this time and they too become priests and assist in the reign of Christ.
At the end if this thousand years the devil is released and apparently there are those who even after a thousand years of remarkable peace, plenty, and prosperity believe they could do a better job of ruling and join a rebellion. (Are we that wicked and dumb? Yes.) Their rebellion doesn’t fare any better than the armies assembled against Christ did at His return.
At this point the devil and his minions are cast into the lake of fire. Also, the wicked dead are judged and cast into the lake of fire. Death and Hades are also thrown into the lake of fire. (What does that mean? I don’t know. It’s a mystery.) The only ones not thrown into the lake of fire are those whose names are found written in the book of life.
That’s how the Bible says it will go.
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