Peace, prosperity, and a world without war? Why isn't every believer excited about this time period?

We're talking about a period of time after the tribulation when Jesus Christ comes back and he

literally reigns on this earth. And all the promises of the Old Testament concerning the

kingdom are fulfilled in that period of time.

And the redeemed Jews live in their homeland, and the millennium ends with the final rebellion,

and the old earth is replaced by a transformed new heaven and new earth.

And this is the view that is found in all of the writings of the early church fathers,

and which is more widely

believed by evangelicals than any other view on the millennium.

Welcome to Understanding the Times Radio with Jan Markell, Radio for the Remnant, brought to you

by Olive Tree Ministries.

In part one of our program, Jan Markell continues and concludes her two-week discussion with Nathan Jones of Lamb and Lion Ministries.

There is a temporary destination of 1,000 years for every believer.

It is heaven on earth, the millennium.

In part two of our programming, Ken Michael and Josh Schwartz talked to

Brandon Holdhouse. Always a compelling discussion. Here is today's programming.

Almost everyone knows the lyrics to Isaac Watts' famous hymn, Joy to the world, but few people realize that it is really a miscast hymn.

It's not a Christmas hymn, really, at all, even though it's in the top three of the favorite Christmas hymns of all time.

Listen to the words and see if you understand what I mean.

Joy to the world, the Lord has come. Let earth receive her king. Did we receive the

king when Jesus was born at Bethlehem? Let every heart prepare him room and heaven and nature sing.

Joy to the world, the Savior reigns. Let men their songs employ, while fields and floods, rocks, rocks hills and plains repeat the sounding joy no more let sin and sorrow grow nor thorns infest the ground

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