Our Bible study was very exciting this past Sunday, as we went over the Kingdom of Heaven / Kingdom of God chart in its entirety. I was exhausted! Buck asked a great question concerning the millennium and the role of the Holy Spirit.
The responsibility of the Holy Spirit in this age is to convict sinners of their need of a savior, indwell every born again believer, and be the comforter Jesus proclaimed to the disciples he would be sending to replace him in this world.
John 14:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
He is the earnest of our inheritance, the down payment until our full redemption occurs at the rapture of the church. At the moment we receive our incorruptible, immortal bodies (1 Cor 15:50 – 58), and we are caught up to meet the Lord in the air (1 Thess 4:13 – 18), to go to the Bema judgment (Rom 14:9 – 12, 1 Cor 3:11 – 15, 2 Cor 5:9 – 10, ), the Holy Spirit, the ONE who is withholding the full onslaught of Satan, in the person of the Antichrist, will be taken out of the way (2 Thess 2:6 – 10).
In the millennium, Jesus Christ will be on his rightful throne in Jerusalem. Faith will give way to sight — every eye shall see him! We shall know even as we are known. We will have the mind of Christ, and be just like him, for we shall see him as he is. The Holy Spirit will have a different responsibility, because he will no longer need to indwell us. It is the time of the ruling with the Rod of Iron.