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Pamphlet #4098
My Note: People who are part of the first resurrection will have contact with unsaved family members during the Millennium. Ref. Scripture Ezek.44:23-25
If you are saved you will still have contact with unsaved family members during the Millennium!
Scripture: Ezekiel 44:23
And
they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane,
and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.
24 And in controversy
they shall stand in judgment; and they shall judge it according to my judgments:
and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies; and
they shall hallow my sabbaths.
25 And
they shall come at no dead person to defile themselves: but
for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or
for sister that hath had no husband, they
may defile themselves.
Complete text: Ezekiel 44:4 ¶Then
brought he me the way of the north gate before the house: and I looked,
and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD: and I
fell upon my face.
5 And the LORD said unto me, Son of man,
mark well, and behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all that
I say unto thee concerning all the ordinances of the house of the LORD,
and all the laws thereof; and mark well the entering in of the house, with
every going forth of the sanctuary.
6 And thou shalt say to the rebellious,
even to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O ye house of Israel,
let it suffice you of all your abominations,
7 In that ye have brought into my sanctuary
strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in
my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when ye offer my bread, the
fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your
abominations.
8 And ye have not kept the charge of mine
holy things: but ye have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.
9 Thus saith the Lord GOD; No stranger,
uncircumcised in heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my
sanctuary, of any stranger that is among the children of Israel.
10 ¶And the Levites that are gone
away far from me, when Israel went astray, which went astray away from
me after their idols; they shall even bear their iniquity.
11 Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary,
having charge at the gates of the house, and ministering to the house:
they shall slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and
they shall stand before them to minister unto them.
12 Because they ministered unto them before
their idols, and caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity; therefore
have I lifted up mine hand against them, saith the Lord GOD, and they shall
bear their iniquity.
13 And they shall not come near unto me,
to do the office of a priest unto me, nor to come near to any of my holy
things, in the most holy place: but they shall bear their shame, and their
abominations which they have committed.
14 But I will make them keepers of the
charge of the house, for all the service thereof, and for all that shall
be done therein.
15 But
the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my
sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come
near to me to minister unto me, and they shall stand before me to offer
unto me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord GOD:
16 They
shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to
minister unto me, and they shall keep my charge.
17 ¶And
it shall come to pass, that when they enter in at the gates of the inner
court, they shall be clothed with linen garments; and no wool shall come
upon them, whiles they minister in the gates of the inner court, and within.
18 They shall have linen bonnets upon their
heads, and shall have linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird
themselves with any thing that causeth sweat.
19 And when they go forth into the utter
court, even into the utter court to the people, they shall put off their
garments wherein they ministered, and lay them in the holy chambers, and
they shall put on other garments; and they shall not sanctify the people
with their garments.
20 Neither shall they shave their heads,
nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.
21 Neither shall any priest drink wine,
when they enter into the inner court.
22 Neither shall they take for their wives
a widow, nor her that is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seed
of the house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before.
23 And they shall teach my people the difference
between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean
and the clean.
24 And in controversy they shall stand
in judgment; and they shall judge it according to my judgments: and they
shall keep my laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies; and they shall
hallow my sabbaths.
25 And they shall come at no dead
person to defile themselves: but for
father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for
sister that hath had no husband, they may defile themselves.
Dead persons are those of us who were not part of the first resurrection to eternal life.
Even though they still exist they are spiritually dead!
To be called the "walking dead" during the Millennium!
26 And after he is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him seven
days.
27 And in the day that he goeth into the sanctuary, unto the
inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering,
saith the Lord GOD.
28 And it shall be unto them for an inheritance: I am their inheritance:
and ye shall give them no possession in Israel: I am their possession.
29 They shall eat the meat offering, and the sin offering, and
the trespass offering; and every dedicated thing in Israel shall be theirs.
30 And the first of all the firstfruits of all things, and every
oblation of all, of every sort of your oblations, shall be the priest's:
ye shall also give unto the priest the first of your dough, that he may
cause the blessing to rest in thine house.
31 The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of itself,
or torn, whether it be fowl or beast.
You see, people can still be granted eternal life after the Millennium, at the "great White Throne of Judgment", if they learn the difference between the holy and profane, and discern between the unclean and the clean. And pass the final test when the thousand years are expired, and Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, and shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth. Rev. 20:7-8 & 11-12.
Revelation
20:1 ¶And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key
of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
2
And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and
Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
3
And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon
him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years
should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.
4
And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto
them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of
Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast,
neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads,
or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
5
But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were
finished. This is the first resurrection.
6
Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such
the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of
Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
7
And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his
prison,
8
And
shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the
earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together
to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
9
And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of
the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out
of heaven, and devoured them.
10
And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone,
where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and
night for ever and ever.
11
¶And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose
face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for
them.
12
And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were
opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the
dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according
to their works.
13
And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered
up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according
to their works.
14
And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second
death.
15
And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the
lake of fire.
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