And where do you see Christ ruling and reigning then?
He reigns now in heaven where the souls of dead believers are and also He reigns in our hearts and we obviously are on the earth.
My view comes from passages like these:
Matthew 28:16 Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. 17 When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. 18 Then
Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
Ephesians 1:17 I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. 18 I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, 19 and his incomparably great power for us who believe.
That power is the same as the mighty strength 20 he exerted when he raised Christ from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms, 21 far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is invoked, not only in the present age but also in the one to come. 22 And
God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the church, 23 which is his body, the fullness of him who fills everything in every way. 2:1 As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2 in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. 3 All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. 4 But
because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. 6
And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus.
Rev 1:5 and from
Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and
the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood, 6 and
has made us to be a kingdom and priests to serve his God and Father—
to him be glory and power for ever and ever! Amen.
So, Jesus is reigning over His kingdom now and will deliver His kingdom to the Father when He returns.
1 Cor 15:22 For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive. 23 But each in turn: Christ, the firstfruits; then,
when he comes, those who belong to him. 24
Then the end will come, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father after he has destroyed all dominion, authority and power. 25 For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. 26
The last enemy to be destroyed is death.
This passage indicates that He reigns now and will continue to reign until the last of His enemies has been put under His feet and that last enemy is death.
The following shows that this will happen "at the last trumpet".
1 Cor 15:50 I declare to you, brothers and sisters, that
flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. 51 Listen, I tell you a mystery:
We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— 52 in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53 For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. 54
When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”
Notice that it is at the last trumpet when death will be swallowed up in victory. Premils miss the connection between verse 54 and 26 even though it should be obvious. Surely, when death has been swallowed up in victory, death will have been defeated. How would anyone think otherwise except for doctrinal bias? This places the fulfillment of verse 26 at Christ's second coming at the last trumpet and not 1000+ years later.