What does this have to do with the subject?
Obviously will The New Jerusalem (which is an image of the church) not be 'empty'. But what does that have to do with the Millenium? Nothing.
There are many good arguments for a physical millenium, but these are really not among them.
Can you please reflect on yourself and on the way you use the scripture to form your own theology?
I'm sorry, I can't bring up to say it in love anymore. I'm really angry.
Now, just hold on...no need to get angry...I was trying to demonstrate that the New Jerusalem is in heaven until it comes down at the end of the millenium. I was demonstrating with scriptures that those who believe in Jesus' sacrifice have a home (a city prepared for us) in heaven. We go there before the millenium (prior to wrath which we are not appointed to suffer) and we don't return until the city comes down at the end of the millenium.
Now, if proof that there is death and sin during the millenium is what you want, then, you are right, I posted the wrong scriptures.
Remember that Jesus must reign until He puts everything under His feet and then He hands it all back to the Father...as a perfect existence - heaven and earth together - God tabernacling among us. But that isn't until the end of the millenium.
Here's how I know that there is sin and death during the millenium:
#1. Death is not thrown into the Lake of Fire until the end of the millenium.
Rev 20:10 And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
Rev 20:11 Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. Earth and sky fled from his presence, and there was no place for them.
Rev 20:12 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books.
Rev 20:13 The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what he had done.
Rev 20:14 Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death.
Rev 20:15 If anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
#2. Lifespans will be expanding but there will still be death.
Isa 65:20 “Never again will there be in it
an infant who lives but a few days,
or an old man who does not live out his years;
he who dies at a hundred
will be thought a mere youth;
he who fails to reach
[fn1] a hundred
will be considered accursed.
#3. There is still sin, death and disobedience.
Zec 13:3 And if anyone still prophesies, his father and mother, to whom he was born, will say to him, ‘
You must die, because you have
told lies in the Lord's name.’ When he prophesies, his own parents will stab him.
and this...willfull disobedience:
Zec 14:16 Then the survivors from all the nations that have attacked Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King, the Lord Almighty, and to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.
Zec 14:17 If any of the peoples of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord Almighty, they will have no rain.
#4. The devil is released at the end of the millenium and gathers some people together to fight against Jerusalem. So, undoubtedly there are people who still do not believe in God even though the Glory filled the Temple and life is better during the millenium.
Rev 20:7 When the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison
Rev 20:8 and
will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth–Gog and Magog–to gather them for battle. In number they are like the sand on the seashore.
Rev 20:9 They marched across the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of God's people, the city he loves. But fire came down from heaven and devoured them.
Rev 20:10 And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
#5. There will be sacrifices and a temple during the millenium.
Zec 14:21 Every pot in Jerusalem and Judah will be holy to the Lord Almighty, and
all who come to sacrifice will take some of the pots and cook in them. And on that day there will no longer be a Canaanite
[fn5] in the house of the Lord Almighty.
and this...
Ezekiel 40-48 but here is a portion:
Eze 43:26 For seven days they are to make atonement for the altar and cleanse it; thus they will dedicate it.
Eze 43:27 At the end of these days, from the eighth day on, the priests are to present your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings
[fn8] on the altar. Then I will accept you, declares the Sovereign LORD.”
By the way, the reason I use scripture is because God told us the truth in His Word. Why should I speak my own words when God has spoken?