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lol, I feel ya. I've been back and forth so many times over the years. What brought me here was thinking about the Millennial Reign and it's relation to the Sabbath. How there is a 7 day sabbath, 7 year sabbath, 7x7 year sabbath and then if 1 day is as a thousand years, you would have a Millennial Sabbath.

But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day [is] with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. {2Pe 3:8 KJV}

So the last thousand years would be the millennial sabbath when Christ will rule on Earth with those who were beheaded...

And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and [I saw] the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received [his] mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. {Rev 20:4 KJV}

Once this made sense to me, it also made sense that if the beheaded were going to reign with Christ on Earth for 1,000 years, then they would have to get beheaded first, and that wouldn't be possible if Jesus came before antichrist. So Jesus would have to come after antichrist cuts the heads off all the people who are going to reign on earth for 1000 years with Jesus for the Millennial Sabbath...

But then also, there will be some who survive the 7 years:

Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, {1Co 15:51 KJV}

However, I am still on the fence about whether or not all the people of God will raise from the dead and reign with Christ for 1,000 years or if it will only be the people who were beheaded and the elect.

There is this:

But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This [is] the first resurrection. {Rev 20:5 KJV}

But there is also this:

In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. {1Co 15:52 KJV}

So it seems to me that it is possible that everyone who is a Child of God will either raise from the dead or be translated and reign with Christ for 1,000 years on earth in their spiritual bodies from the new city that comes from heaven and is placed in the valley that forms between the Mt. of Olives after the tribulation, at the last trump, when Christ returns. Then the rest of the dead would continue to sleep for the last thousand years while they wait for their final judgement.

Blessed and holy [is] he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years. {Rev 20:6 KJV}