This is a period when earth again is placed under the direct rule of God, and when all the believers of all the ages reign with Christ. It is not yet, however, the perfect state of the new earth and the new heavens which comes later.
Those previously resurrected at the rapture and those saints who died in the tribulation and were resurrecterd along with Old Testament saints...will reign with Christ in the millennial age as resurrected believers. This includes all of the believers who, alive at the time of the rapture, were changed "in the twinkling of an eye." The Millennium will occur after the tribulation period.
Are there two types of believers at that time?
Yes. There are RESURRECTED believers and LIVING believers. Resurrected believers, those already raised from the dead, have been previously described above. They will be given positions of responsibility in the Millennial Kingdom (Matthew 19:28, Luke 19:12-27). Living believers will be Gentiles and Jews alike who are still living at the close of Armageddon, and who are permitted to enter the Millennial Kingdom. These were not raptured (they were not believers at the time of the rapture), nor did they die in the tribulation period (they survived). They are still in their human unresurrected bodies.
Will living believers still have children?
Yes. During the Millennium these living believers will still be fully normal people who are able to reproduce children. Children born of these living believers will still be born with a sin nature. And for them, as for all humans born at any time, salvation is still required. They must individually make a decision whether to accept Jesus Christ as Saviour and Lord...or to deny Him.
Related verses: Jeremiah 30:19-20, Ezekiel 36:33-38, Zechariah 8:20-23; 14:16-21,
Isaiah 65:19-25, Revelation 20:1-7
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