Episode notes
This podcast explains the conditions of the earth and people during the 1000-year millennium. The events of the Second Coming will transfigure the earth from a fallen telestial world to a terrestrial earth with paradisiacal conditions similar to the Garden of Eden. Enmity will cease to exist and there will be no warfare. Animals will live in harmony with each other and with mankind. There will be abundant water and the earth will produce food abundantly. Satan will be bound, so there will be no wickedness. Children born during the millennium will grow up without sin unto salvation (exaltation).
There will be no sickness and premature death during the millennium. People will still be mortal, which means that—unlike resurrected people—their spirit is not inseparably connected with their body. “Millennial mortals” will have translated bodies that will live without physical deformity or mental handicap to the age of 100 years. At the end of their lifespan, celestial-worthy people will be translated in the twinkling of an eye to a resurrected and immortal condition. People who live only terrestrial law during the millennium will die, and their disembodied spirits will enter the postmortal spirit world to await the resurrection at the end of the millennium.
Temple work is one of the major activities that will occur during the millennium. In that future day, vicarious temple ordinances will be performed for people of all ages who did not have the opportunity to receive these exalting ordinances during their lifetime. The immense amount of temple work will be performed in thousands of temple that will dot the earth. Saviors on Mount Zion from both sides of the veil will cooperate to ensure that the patriarchal chain is complete back to Adam so that all worthy people have both roots and branches (Mal 4:1) in their eternal family.