What We Believe About the Future

Mashiach’s Earthly Kingdom

We believe in the pre-Tribulational and pre-Millennial Rapture (or “Translation”) of the Miqra, at which time Yeshua will bestow His rewards upon faithful believers for their service while in the world.

We believe that the translation of the Miqra will be immediately followed on earth by the fulfillment of “Daniel’s seventieth week,” during which time the Miqra, which is the Bride and Body of Mashiach, will be in heaven with Him. This entire period of seven years will be a time of G-d’s righteous judgment on the whole unbelieving earth.

We believe that the period of Great Tribulation on the earth will be climaxed by the return of Adonai Yeshua HaMashiach to the earth just as He went, in Person and in the body in which He was crucified, now glorified, coming on the clouds of heaven, and with power and great glory to introduce the Millennial Kingdom, to bind HaSatan and place him in the abyss, to lift the curse which now rests on the whole creation, to fully restore a reunited Israel to her own land and to give to her the realization of G-d’s covenant promises, to bring the whole world to the knowledge of G-d, and to personally and bodily reign over the whole earth for a thousand years.

We believe that during the Kingdom Age the Temple will be rebuilt in Jerusalem, and it will be from the Temple that HaMashiach will reign over a restored Israel. We believe that David will literally rule as co-regent with Mashiach, and that Avraham will be governor over the entire promised land from the Nile to the Euphrates. We believe that Israel will be recognized as the center of earth’s government, and that all the peoples of all the nations will come “up to Jerusalem” to observe all the Feasts of Adonai.

The Final Rebellion and Judgment

We believe that following the release of HaSatan at the end of the Millennium, he will deceive the nations of the earth and gather them to battle against the saints and against Jerusalem, and they will be destroyed by fire from heaven. HaSatan will then be cast into the lake of fire, where the Beast and the False Prophet live in eternal torment. All of the remaining dead will then be resurrected to stand before the Great White Throne, where the books of their lives will be opened and they will be judged according to their deeds. But regardless of their deeds, “since not one was found ever having been written in the Book of Life, he was cast into the lake of fire” (Revelation 20:15, literal), where they will experience eternal conscious torment.

The elements of the earth will then be dissolved with a great rushing sound and G-d will create a completely new heaven and earth. The new Jerusalem will come down out of heaven and will be the eternal dwelling place for all (and only) those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life, where they will enjoy eternal fellowship with G-d and with one another. Having fulfilled His redemptive mission, Adonai Yeshua HaMashiach will then deliver up the kingdom to G-d the Father.

The Eternal State

We believe in the bodily resurrection of all men, the saved to eternal life, and the unsaved to judgment and everlasting punishment. We believe that the souls of the redeemed are at death absent from the body and present with the Lord, where in conscious bliss they await the first resurrection, when spirit and body are reunited to be glorified forever with the Lord. We believe that the souls of unbelievers remain after death in conscious punishment and torment until the second resurrection when, with soul and body reunited, they shall appear at the Great White Throne Judgment, and shall be cast into the Lake of Fire, not to be annihilated, but to suffer everlasting conscious punishment and torment.

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