9. The Work at last period of Era of Thousand-year (Revelation 20:7~10)

Here explains how will be the Work at last period of Era of Thousand-year. This Era of Thousand-year indicates the reign on the earth, and the ‘last period’ does not mean the last period of the saints’ kingship, but the moment of testing on Gog and Magog. It is not righteous if Gog and Magog, which have prospered for thousand years as many as the sand of the seashore, move into the eternal Kingdom without any verification, so God will release Satan from the bottomless pit to deceive them.

This deception is what provokes rebellious mind in them against the kingship of the saints. Those supporting the camp and the city of the saints until the end will be proved as sincere and move into the eternal Kingdom, but the disobedient, deceived ones will be annihilated. God Himself will bring down fire to devour them.

It doesn’t need to test those who have received the protection and the salvation through the preaching of the transfigured saints and entered New Era, because they have already passed the test. However, the people who are born in New Era must be tested. Yet the children of the transfigured saints, who are raised in the holy city, will not face the deception, because they are the ones who have been served. So they will not have disobedient mind and will not perish forever. (Isaiah 66:22) The most blessed is the servants who receive the authority by overcoming the deception of the red dragon at the end. All Books of Prophets show the transfigured saints, who will receive the blessing of the Kingdom on the earth, and their afflictions, tribulations, and blessing.

The first Adam had lost the blessing of Eden due to the devil’s deception, but the believers in the second Adam, Jesus, will inherit the blessing of New Era by overcoming the deception. It is not fair if the children of the servants with the kingship, having been proved over trials, are given the equal glory to the descendants of the people who just have repented and followed. For this reason, God will release the devil to deceive them.

The Books of Prophets didn’t write separately the Era of Thousand-year and the endless World of new heaven and earth, yet they briefly said that the Kingdom of saints will last for ever and ever. (Daniel 7:18, Isaiah 9:7, 35:10, 60:19~20, 65:18)

Besides, all prophecies of Prophets merely teach that the kingship of saints is eternal, and it only indicates the blessing given to Abraham, saying “In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed.” However, Revelation distinguish the Kingdom of Thousand-year between the new heaven and earth as follows.

The Kingdom of Thousand-year is going to be fulfilled on the earth through 144,000 who are sealed by the seal of the living God, which begins from the East at the end.

Everyone whose name is written in the book of life will enter the Heavenly Kingdom regardless of ethnicity or nationality. There in the Heavenly Kingdom, too, will exist the kingship and the citizenship. Therefore, at the last period of the Era of Thousand-year, the deception will come upon Gog and Magog and those deceived among them will be burned at White Throne Judgement.

The purposes of the Thousand-year Kingdom and the endless World are different. First, the Thousand-year Kingdom signifies the blessing of Eden, which will be fulfilled by the Work arising from the edge of the East, the tent of Shem, based on the Word covenanted in the tent of Shem. It is certain that the garden of Eden was in western Asia, and also, all prophets unanimously testified that New Era, the blessing of the earth, will be fulfilled centrally from the mountain of the far East.

Isaiah 24:1 says “the LORD lays the earth waste, devastates it, distorts its surface,” and verse 6 says “a curse devours the earth, and those who live in it are held guilty. Therefore, the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men are left.” Also verse 14 says “They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea, Therefore glorify the LORD in the east” and verse 16 says “From the ends of the earth we have heard songs: ‘Glory to the righteous!’ But I said, ‘I am ruined, ruined! Woe to me!’” According to these verses, when the great woe comes to the world, people will glorify God from the ends of the East. At that time, the tribulation which no human power can overcome will come and then the Era of the reign on Mountain Zion will arrive.

In Isaiah Chapter 25, the praise of man in the edge of the East, verse 1 says “For You have done wonderful things; Your counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.” Praising the LORD who is a refuge for the needy in distress, this Chapter prophesies the coming of the Truth Movement, that is like ‘aged wine prepared on this mountain,’ and it also says “on this mountain He will swallow up the covering which is over all peoples,” and then it shows the arrival of New Era without death.

Moreover, it describes that the hand of the LORD will rest on this mountain to destroy the enemy. Chapter 26 teaches the second coming of the Lord, and Chapter 27 shows Judgement. Chapter 40 has prophesied the testimony of John the Baptist and the testimony of the time of Judgement, that will begin from the high mountain. Chapter 41 says that these things above are the Work for Judgement and that it will begin for New Era from the ends of the East.

Chapter 42 shows the doctrine of Messiah to be preached worldwide and the doctrine about New Things which the LORD mentioned by His own, and from the end of the earth people will sing a new song and the LORD will prevail against His enemies. In summary, the Work to fulfill New Era at the end will definitely begin from the tent of Shem, that is, the end of the East.

The Books of Prophets describe in detail Judgement and New Era, yet as to the first coming of the Lord they spoke briefly. In Isaiah 59:18, it says that the glory of the LORD will be revealed from the rising of the sun in the day of His revenge, and that the Spirit would rest on a man of the East and the Word on his mouth will shine the perfect light over the world to bring New Era.

Therefore, God reveals that the Kingdom on the earth will be fulfilled by the Truth Movement from the East, that is, the warning of Judgement. The Work to ‘prophesy again’ this Word of the warning will occur, and according to it the tribulation and plagues will come, and eventually New Era will arrive. 

At that time, by the Work of the East, the remnant from all nations will constitute the new Kingdom of unified world. Thus, the Kingdom of Thousand-year will be fulfilled by the Work from the East, and the Heavenly Kingdom by the ones whose name is written in the book of life.