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A Thousand Years Of Justice A THOUSAND YEARS OF JUSTICE By PAUL RADER   "Mr. Paul Rader was in the foremost rank of evangelists, and his enunciation of this truth, so grievously needed by the people of God today, is a notable symptom of its progress.  His booklet, "A Thousand Years of Justice", from which these extracts were taken, marshals the vestige with the simplicity and directness of the evangelist.  It is as rare as it is refreshing to read of one who spoke in holy awe on a believer's sin in the sight of the Most High."  (D. M. PANTON.)   The thousand years of Christ's reign on earth with its judgements and justice make the unconfined upper peak presented in the Scriptures.  It is the subject of the greater part of prophecy.  Since it is a time of justice and judgement, and since it is presided over by One who has been thoroughly tempted and tried, One who has suffered and died, to prove His merit - therefore all who take part in this thousand years must moreover be of proven merit, many of them plane proven by martyrdom.  Any position held in this regime and reign is upon individual merit, and individual merit alone.  No position in this Kingdom is held considering of grace alone.  Everyone in this reign with Christ, of course, is a born-again, saved, Christian; but, increasingly than that, everyone, abreast stuff a saved individual, is an overcomer, a Christian, Spirit-filled, and one who has walked in spiritual victory, a worthy.   Everything that has to do with this thousand years must meet the most terrific fires of testing.  Only that which can pass through the fire test at the Judgement Seat of Christ can be admitted into this thousand years of millennial splendour.  This millennial splendour of a thousand years is not salvation, is not eternal life, is not heaven.  It is a manifestation of the kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ, and an earthly manifestation of the kingdom of the heavenlies.  There are Scriptures that would scrutinizingly lead one to believe that a regenerate parishioner can be lost, considering of the terrific tests upon weft and self-mastery at the Judgement Seat of Christ, which prove a parishioner worthy of a place in this kingdom reign and blessing.  The excluding of believers as unfit to take part in this kingdom and in this thousand year reign cannot be the tossing out of believers from eternal life which is given on the ground of grace and faith vacated in the merits and work of Jesus Christ.   All believers are members of the soul of Christ, and every member of the soul of Christ has the privilege of inward into this kingdom, and is eligible to compete for a place in the kingdom.  But the parishioner does not enter this kingdom simply considering he is a believer, but considering as a parishioner he has walked in the will of God, and is worthy of a place in this kingdom.  The kingdom is the place of rewards for worthy Christians, and the most zesty tests are to be given during his present life and at the Judgement Seat of Christ to determine who are worthy to enter the kingdom, and just what position they shall occupy considering of their worth; and just what crown they shall wear, considering of their individual merit as true-blue Christians.  The test at the Judgement Seat is not a test of whether one is lost or damned; for only the truly born then and saved towards there, and the "accounted worthy" will be resurrected at the "first resurrection" and given a place in this coming, glorious kingdom, (Luke 20:35,36; Rev. 20: 5, 6).   With these truths of the millennial judgements and the reign of justice, we can now bring into unvigilant relief the teaching of the Scripture concerning salvation by grace vacated untied from works.  The outstanding Scripture is Ephesians, the second chapter, the eighth and ninth verses: "For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith - and this not from yourselves, it is the souvenir of God - not by works, so that no-one can boast." Planea sinner's works not only come very far from saving him, but these works unquestionably have to be repented of.  When we truly see salvation through the merits of Jesus Christ alone, works (before salvation) towards surpassing God as filthy rags from which we are to turn yonder as from things that have no value.  Can we take a sufferer tree and prune the branches, expecting that it will bring along fruit?  Therefore, it is useless to talk to the unregenerate sinner well-nigh works.  It is only the living believer, made working in Christ, who can be subdued and pruned, in order that he may withstand fruit.  We are made a new megacosm in Christ, when we by faith winnow Him as our new life.  It is by faith vacated that the life of the Lord Jesus Christ is given to us.  This life is the souvenir of God, and is tabbed "eternal life."   God has provided a method of bringing believers from their habits and natural ways and from their sins of omission and legation by a wonderful system of chastening: and the reason for this talion is stated in Hebrews 12:10 thus: He chastens us "for our good, that we may share in His holiness."  The chastening, then, of God is not to get us saved by making us walk right, but by making us walk right through talion considering we are saved, to make us "share in His holiness."  This talion is all for one purpose, that is, that when we come to the Judgement Seat of Christ, we might be found cleansed from these sins for which we are chastened.  We are to towards to be judged at the Judgement Seat, but not for destruction.  The Judgement Seat of Christ, with its punishments, is to fully bring well-nigh final perfection in those who have received this souvenir of eternal life.  God has promised to perfect those to whom He has given God's life.  They cannot be lost.  Therefore they must be judged and perfected.  If they are found at the Judgement Seat of Christ - considering of their walk as a Christian - unworthy of a place in the thousand-year reign of Christ and are held [in 'Hades']* for judgement, it is only that they show up perfected without the thousand years are finished.   We see that the incestuous parishioner (1Cor. 5) was excommunicated, but not damned, plane surpassing the dawning of the Judgement Seat of Christ.  Believers were to "hand this man over to Satan that the sinful nature may be destroyed and his spirit saved on the day of the Lord."  This man, so terribly handed over, turns when then in obedience to Jesus Christ: for then in 2 Cor. 2: 7, 8, we find Paul telling them "to forgive and repletion him and to reaffirm their love for him."  This shows us that all severe talion is that "the sinful nature may be destroyed and his spirit saved on the day of the Lord," plane though he may not share, in the future reign of the Lord Jesus Christ, considering of his chequered walking - for we have this passage: "If we suffer with Him, we shall moreover reign with Him."  The opposite, of course, becomes true: if we will not forsake sin and suffer with Him, we cannot reign with Him.   Some of the withered branches (that is, branches that had formerly life-giving power by the indwelling Holy Spirit) in the Vine are tint yonder early by judgements that Christ lets happen in this life - plane surpassing they get to the Judgement Seat of Christ.  Their very withering is Christ's judgement and chastening, that He might shrivel up their self-sufficiency, their thought that they can undergo in themselves.  He has said plainly:- "Apart from Me you can do nothing" (John 15:5).  What gathering men have made of these disgraced and back-slidden, "branches"!  What a urgent there will be of all their workshop growth and work - outside the will of God, by deliberate sin and defiant mutiny to the principles and commands of Christ, - at His Judgement Seat!  It will all be shown for what it is -"wood, hay or straw," (1Cor.3:12).  Paul speaks of those who are "weak and sick" (1Cor. 11:30) considering of some cherished, selfish, sin.  God speaks of those who have been killed early - and this death sentence is from Christ, though they are believers.  It is not eternal death, but a premature natural death, (Acts 5:1-11).  Surely these, without this villainous urgent at the Judgement Seat, who were given no opportunity to repent, will be the variety spoken of previously, who are saved "but only as one escaping through the flames" (1Cor.3:15); they will certainly not be 'accounted worthy' to rise at 'the first resurrection' to rule over two, five or ten cities, during the thousand year rule of Christ.   All sin finds terrific judgement with God, and though the worldly servant (Luke 12:46) is not to loose his eternal life, his judgement for walking like an unbeliever and like a sinner is to taste a portion of the sinner's judgement.  Such verses as have been quoted here can be held up versus the unconfined mountain peaks of salvation eternally secured by faith and faith alone.  Such verses do not shake in the least the principle of eternal security and salvation by grace built upon a foundation which is Christ and His righteousness and His merit; but it does let the Christian know that his walk is to be circumspect, that he is to seek holiness, that he is to seek all the fullness of the Spirit, and have an glut of oil in his vessel with his lamp, and to watch for and walk with Jesus, if he is to escape judgement, and if he is to receive for overcoming a unconfined reward.   Let me say in latter that at the judgement seat punishment is passed out to the guilty.  If punishment is not to be passed out, a judgement throne would be a joke.  Remember, the unconfined slipperiness hour is tabbed by God, "The Judgement Seat of Christ."  It is not just a reward seat of Christ.  To hear some Christians who believe in eternal security and in sure salvation by faith vacated talk, you would think that they can walk to suit themselves and then come up to this unconfined hour, as if all they had to do was to walk up and receive a "well done" from God.  We are coming to a throne of judgement.  We are coming to have the white light of God fall upon every act of our lives, and plane the motives which were responsible for them, since we have wilt Christians.  The visitation of all these servants and these stewards and these backsliders and these Christians who have not walked properly at the Judgement Seat of Christ, and not at the judgement of sinners a thousand years from that time, proves their conversion, and that they were born then people who must be judged as Christians and not as lost sinners.   We must squint into the squatter of Him who has suffered for us, who has died for us, who lives for us, who can do all things for us, and be judged for what we have unliable Him to do in us, through us, and for us. Scrutinizinglyunthinkable judgements are to be passed upon Christians.  Think of the words, "torment," "outer darkness," "weeping and gnashing of teeth," (Matt.8:12), "until you have paid the utmost farthing," (Matt.5:26).  O dear Christian friend, how dare you live a wasteful moment in sin, in unforgiveness, in self will?  We are those who have received much, oh! so much, and from us much is expected.   Such promises as the pursuit should rationalization any real Christian to forsake anything in order to be one who gets all that is here promised.  Jesus Christ says in Rev.2, and at the end of the chapter: "he that overcometh, and keepeth my works (look in Acts for his works) unto the end, to him will I requite power over the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter they shall be wrenched to shivers" (Rev.2: 26, 27).  And here again.  Could anything be whilom this?  Oh soul of mine, reach forward for this :- "Lay whispered every weight and the sin that doth so hands pressurize us" (Heb.12:1).  Let us proceeds this :- "To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, plane as I moreover overcame, and am set lanugo with my Father in his throne" (Rev. 3:21).   Ours is a fight for fellowship, so that Christ can do in us, and for us and through us all that He has planned.  One of the saints of God has said: "If I can be thus crowned, can I be otherwise than a fool, if I am not prepared to sacrifice all to win it?"  Hear Christ say: "To him that overcometh will I requite a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it" (Rev. 2:17).  Oh, to have a secret like this with Christ!  What an entry it must be into life's deepest joys!