3222.—The One Thousand Years
By Editor
Rev. 20:6 says that those who are raised from the dead at the first resurrection are to be priests of God and of Christ during the one thousand years. What are they doing during the one thousand years? This perhaps can best be explained by 1 Cor. 6:2, 3. "Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? Know ye not that we shall judge angels?" And again in the same epistle, fourth chapter and fifth verse, "Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come." God has not set men to be judges here; but when the time comes that His own people are made immortal and their minds are enlightened so that they can see clearly in the light of God, then will He associate them with Himself in the examination of the books of record during the one thousand years when the earth lies desolate, and the judgment then written will be executed at the end of the thousand years. Then will those who have had faith in God during all the perplexities and seeming inconsistencies of this life, see that God has done all things well, and will join in that song referred to in Rev. 15:3, "Just and true are Thy ways, Thou King of ages."