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Originally Posted by Raptor
[B]The Lord is praying for the Kingdom to be manifested, to come to the earth with itīs fullest expession: the Millenial Kingdom in the coming age, where Christ will rule as King on the earth with all His faithful and victorious believers.
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We both agree there will be a millennial kingdom where Christ will come to reign. This argument doesn't build any evidence for why the warnings about not inheriting the kingdom given by Paul are limited to the 1000 year kingdom and not the eternal kingdom.
Also your assertion that the millennial kingdom is the fullest expression doesn't seem to be biblical. During this period people still sin and die:
Isaiah 65:20
... the young man shall
die a hundred years old,
and the
sinner a hundred years old shall be accursed.
There is a huge rebellion at the end where Satan tempts a sea of people to fight against Jesus and the saints.
Revelation 20:7-9
And when the thousand years are ended, Satan will be released from his prison and will come out to
deceive the nations that are at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them for battle;
their number is like the sand of the sea. And they marched up over the broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city, but fire came down from heaven and consumed them
The millennial kingdom is finite, takes place during the "old creation" where sin and death are still present and falls short of the glory of the new heavens and new earth so it is a shadow of the eternal kingdom of Christ where God's will is done perfectly as described in the hope of the Lord's prayer.
Revelation 21:1-2
Then I saw “
a new heaven and a new earth,” for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband.