Sorry man, He may have been given the authority in Matthew 28 but Jesus does not begin to reign until the days of the trumpet call sounded by the seventh angel, the 24 elders call it in Revelation 11:
“We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty, who is and who was, for you have taken your great power and begun to reign. The nations raged, but your wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, and for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints, and those who fear your name, both small and great, and for destroying the destroyers of the earth.”
Jesus is going to destroy the destroyers of the earth. That's what it means to rule them with a rod of iron. He's not going to govern the wicked in a post tribulation kingdom on earth, He's going to kill the wicked or destroy the destroyers of the earth. This doesn't sound to me like a "spiritual" destruction.
"From his mouth came a sharp sword to strike down the nations. He will rule them with an iron rod."
Which is the equivalent of "destroying the destroyers of the earth."
"You shall break them with a rod of iron and dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”
This will be hard to miss because the wicked will all be dead and the rest of us will be transformed into whatever we become next.
That means no more human beings right? The mystery of God would be fulfilled. His servants, the prophets and saints, and those who fear His name, both small and great will be rewarded with the crown of life and reign with Him for a thousand years. So if the reign is not on a destroyed earth then it's to the Father's House with many rooms that we go. After all, He spent so much time preparing a place for us, if it were not so would He have told us?
It's too easy to "spiritualize" everything away. We're going to be in a very large physical structure built by the Hand of God and we're going to eat food and drink beverages just like Jesus did with the disciples after He was resurrected.
"I tell you I will not drink again of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.”
Jesus' words are very clear to me. We are not going to just be wispy spirit vapors floating around in a strange void. Even the cast out demons from Matthew 8 would rather go into a heard of pigs than to float around in the abyss:
"And the demons begged him, saying, “If you cast us out, send us away into the herd of pigs.”
It didn't work out too well for them though. The pigs ran down the steep bank into the sea and drowned in the waters. They should have asked Jesus to put them into a flock of seagulls or something.
Maybe not all demons are that smart?
