I read with much interest the posting by Pastor Riley on 11-8-06,
however, I beg to differ on the issue of the wicked Russians in Siberia
during the Millennium.  Revelation 19: 17-21 states that an angel will
gather the kings, generals, and mighty men, and the flesh of all people
who gather to make war against Jesus Christ.  They will all be killed by
the sword that comes out of the mouth of the rider (Jesus Christ) on the
white horse.

Revelation 21: 8 states that the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile,
the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the
idolaters, and all liars, there place will be in the fiery lake of
burning sulfur.  This means that those who are killed by the sword of
God, will not reappear until the White Throne Judgment, after the
Millennium.

Matthew 25:  31 - 46, speaks of the judgment of the sheep and the goats
by Jesus Christ at his return to earth.  Jesus tells those who are on
his left, the goats, "Depart from me you who are cursed, into the fire
prepared for the devil and his angels."  Revelation 20: 7 - 10 states
that at the end of the millennium satan will be released from his
prison, and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of
the earth (the whole earth) to gather them for battle.  Those who are
deceived are those  among those who were born during the millennium,
and all of them will have free will, to either access Christ or reject
him, just as we have today.  Those who reject Christ and follow satan,
will be like the sand on the seashore, but they will be destroyed by God
by fire from heaven.

Nothing will be a part of the millennial reign of Christ here on earth
that is unacceptable to Christ.

Wes K.