Revelation 20: 4
Then I saw thrones, and the people sitting on them had been given the authority to judge.
And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their testimony about Jesus and for proclaiming the Word of God.
They had not worshiped the Beast or his statue, nor accepted his mark on their forehead or their hands.
They all came to life again, and they reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
Paul wrote to the church in Corinth, "Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life?" (I Corinthians 6:3). So it will be the Christians that Jesus rescued who will be ruling on these thrones with righteousness and judgment. We are His princes and princesses now, and will be His kings and queens ruling with Him for a thousand years on this Earth. The Golden Age yet to come.
Even today God's people are being beheaded for their testimony about Jesus and for proclaiming the Word of God. There are more martyrs today than at any other time in history, and more than all of history combined. And things will get worse before they get better; the beast, the man of sin, has not yet been revealed.
But nothing ever comes in this World to stay, everything "comes to pass." And that thousand years will also pass. Then this World, this Earth, and the whole Universe will explode and implode and this "order" will be done away, being recreated and remade into a whole New Heaven and New Earth running according to a "new order."
Today's science, the Laws of Thermodynamics, will no longer apply. Things won't wind down, order will no longer degrade into chaos. What is done will last. And the increase of His Kingdom will never end. I cannot imagine what all worlds we will be a part of throughout all Eternity Future!
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
