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You left out the ".. and His Kingdom" part in 2 Timothy 4:1:And Paul said Christ judges both the living and the dead at His appearing in 2 Timothy 4:1.
That judgment is found in Revelation 11:18, and also at the end of Revelation 20.
That appearing is found in Revelation 11:15-18, at the 7th trumpet which is the last trumpet in the Bible, and the time of the judgment of the dead.
Therefore, the "millennium" ends near the Second Coming of Christ.
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"I do fully testify, then, before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who is about to judge living and dead at his manifestation and his reign--" YLT
"I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom" KJV
"And this gospel of the kingdom shall be proclaimed in all the world as a witness to all nations. And then the end shall come." (Mat 24:14)
So His Kingdom is still coming - because after His reign, He will put an end to all rule and authority and power and hand the Kingdom back to God the Father:
20 But now Christ has risen from the dead, and has become the firstfruit of those who slept.
21 For since death is through man, the resurrection of the dead also is through a Man.
22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all will be made alive.
23 But each in his own order: Christ the first-fruit, and afterward they who are Christ's at His coming;
24 then is the end, when He delivers the kingdom to God, even the Father; when He makes to cease all rule and all authority and power.
25 for it is right for Him to reign until He has put all the enemies under His feet.
26 The last enemy made to cease is death.
27 For He put all things under His feet. But when He says that all things have been put under His feet, it is plain that it excepts Him who has put all things under Him.
28 But when all things are subjected to Him, then the Son Himself also will be subject to Him who has subjected things to Him, so that God may be all things in all. 1 Cor 15:20-28
Let's face facts now, those who are Christ's at His appearance will be resurrected from the dead at His appearance and His Kingdom . Paul says so. But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. The second death has no authority over these, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with Him a thousand years. Rev 20:5-6
Let's face facts now. Death is only destroyed at the close of the thousand years, when death and hades deliver ALL the dead in them, and those whose names are not found in the lamb's Book of Life are cast into the LOF where:-
1. death and hades have just gone; and where
2. Satan went when his Gog-Magog armies, which had gathered against the camp of the saints, were destroyed by fire coming down from heaven; and where
4. the beast and false prophet, which had martyred those who John saw living and reigning with Christ for a thousand years, had gone - a thousand years before.
My guess is that the rest of the dead who are not resurrected with the saints when the Lord appears, are going to feel themselves judged, knowing that the second death may have power over them.
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