PRAY WITH US about Christ’s Millennial Rule: Father God, You have already given Jesus all authority in heaven and on earth. But we long for the time that He will rule in Person here. And You have said we will rule with Him. So at this time we should be training for reigning. Help us to build the kind of fivefold ministry that prepare us all for that. And in the meantime bring as much from heaven to earth as possible.
We want to taste the powers of the age to come. So help us understand better the Scriptures which tell of that blessed time when Satan is bound. And when the powers of heaven are loosed to bring blessings to earth unhindered. We want to live in the light of our destiny with You. So defeat every false vision of the future. For true prophecy will not cease until the perfect comes, and You do away with the imperfect. In Jesus’ name, amen.
PRAYER ALERT: Christ’s Millennial Rule—How Will We Reign With Him?
How many Christians will experience the Rapture and return to earth to rule with Christ (Rev. 20:6)? Based on figures from Operation World and Wikipedia, we can make a wild guess: 30 billion.* Including all believers throughout history, since Adam and Eve until the end times.
But even if they amounted to only 3 billion, they would far outnumber the survivors of the end times. That means those who remain alive when the Millennium begins (Joel 2:31-32). End-times teacher Mike Bickle estimates that 100 million would survive after being left behind. Yet even if as many as 1 billion survive, raptured saints would outnumber them at least three to one.
Imagine the Millennium beginning with us raptured believers as rulers numbering three times the surviving population. That would mean each survivor could have three of us as “guardian” saints. But even if each survivor had only one of us as a guardian saint, what might that government look like?…
Read more in ETG article Christ’s Millennial Rule—How Will We Reign With Him?
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*Let’s begin with those living today. Operation World in 2010 calculated that 32.29% called themselves Christian. So with today’s world population of 8 billion, that would amount to about 2.6 billion Christians. But only born-again Christians would make it to heaven. Because Jesus said, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God” (Jn. 3:3).
The 2.6 billion includes those born as babies into the faith, plus those born again. So let’s be generous and say that half of them, or 1.3 billion, are born again. But let’s add to that, the one-billion soul harvest that we’re praying for. And that amounts to 2.3 billion believers entering into the end times.
Wikipedia estimates that a total of 109 billion people have lived and died till today. (See Max Roser, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons). Out of that 109 billion, let’s make a generous wild guess that 25% got saved, or 27.25 billion. Then add 2.3 billion and round off the total to 30 billion people raptured, dead and alive.