Lisa
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If they are going to rule and judge then there has to be someone to rule and judge over...is Jesus goodness to just create people to rule over...or are they gonna come out of the great trib?The Bible doesn't tell us who the righteous and Christ will rule over. It just tells us they will rule and judge with Christ.
REVELATION 19:15
From His mouth comes a sharp sword, so that with it He may strike down the nations, and He will rule them with a rod of iron; and He treads the wine press of the fierce wrath of God, the Almighty.
You sure get Revelation 20:7-10 wrong...you’re reading too much into a very straightforward text. Jesus has been ruling what’s left of the world for a thousand years. At the end of those thousand years, God let’s satan our of his prison to deceive the nations and it looks like he’s done a great job, because he is able to get people to turn away from God and assemble again to fight God, but God easily puts down their army by fire. The lake of fire is a different place that the devil is cast into. The text does not say that the earth is the lake of fire there. From His mouth comes a sharp sword, so that with it He may strike down the nations, and He will rule them with a rod of iron; and He treads the wine press of the fierce wrath of God, the Almighty.
No, new Jerusalem comes down after satan deceives the nations and God takes out the nations. Then the white throne judgement where people learn their fate. People who’s names are not written in the boom are thrown into the lake of fire where there is weeping and gnashing of teethe and then God makes a new heaven and a new earth and a new Jerusalem that comes down from heaven.
REVELATION 22:12
You left out the rest of the verse @phipps, He is going to render to each man, not just the righteous.
There is nothing that says God made a new heaven and a new earth because the old earth is hell. I think you’re very wrong in how you read Revelation.