“He shall rule them with a rod of iron; They shall be dashed to pieces like the potter’s vessels’—as I also have received from My Father…“
He shall rule them with a rod of iron
This verse is a quotation of the second Psalm (2:8,9) and refers to Jesus setting up His millennial kingdom on earth.
“Ask of Me, and I will give You
The nations for Your inheritance,
And the ends of the earth for Your possession.
You shall break them with a rod of iron;
You shall dash them to pieces like a potter’s vessel” (Psalm 2:8-9).
Faithful believers in the church age will rule with Christ in the Millennium. The word “rule” means shepherd. A shepherd uses his crook and his rod. He protects his sheep. Christians will function with the authority of a shepherd.
Jesus will establish a perfect environment in the millennial state. He will control crime. The capital of the world will be in Jerusalem, not Washington, D.C.
They shall be dashed to pieces like the potter’s vessels’—
Jesus will remove every person and government that revolts against Him from the face of the earth. Jesus will break all the authority of the nations of the world. He will be King Jesus, King of the World. Jesus will break up the forces of evil in His kingdom.
as I also have received from My Father
The Christians will receive authority like the authority that the Father gave the Lord Jesus.
Principle:
Christians have a place of privilege as well as responsibility in the millennial kingdom.
Application:
When Jesus comes back, He will establish a perfect government. He will “rule them [governments of the world] with a rod of iron.” No one will have a vote or even a voice in the government of the millennium.
Democracy is not the ideal government in God’s economy. Jesus will reign as King, who knows best what the world needs.
Indeed I am looking forward for the government of the millennium. when I will be with my LOVE Lord Jesus. Yes! in His perfect government of peace righteousness and joy. What a joyous day!
Then this notorious world will now that the God of Abraham, Isac and Jacob; the God who created the world is the owner of it and that He has the right to rule (Col 1:16)
if there will be sin in the millennium how is it going to be a perfect environment, I thought that the garden of Eden was a perfect environment before sin enter the world?
Jose, thanks for your comment. All who enter the Millennium will be believers. Jesus will reign as King Jesus, King of the world. However, believers will have children who do not become believers. At the end of the Millennium Satan will be released from his imprisonment and lead non-believers in revolt against Christ. Christ will put down the revolt and ultimately usher the eternal kingdom into existence.
There is one King coming in first Jesus said the the One that is victorious I will give him the same authority the father gave me and he will rule with a rod of iron then after that Jesus will come to do the same only sin will be no more when he comes.
So when The millennium begins, it will have those in Christ who had died now raised in their resurrected body, Perfect and unable to sin…but the world will also have people still left in their natural bodies capable of sin and having children with sin nature?
A thousand years pass and the people who are still in the sin nature bodies live and die, so will there be another resurrection for them after the thousand years of rain on Earth ends?
Al, you ask a difficult question because there is not a lot of clarity in Scripture on this point. However, it may be that resurrected saints will reside in the satellite city 1,500 miles by 1,500 while Jews will be on earth. However, this is speculation.
Hi,
Will there be any saved people that Christians rule over with Christ Jesus in the millennial kingdom?