Jesus' Millennial Throne: “The Corridor of Glory”
I. CENTERPIECE OF GOD’S PURPOSE: BRING HEAVEN AND EARTH TOGETHER IN JESUS
Having made known to us the mystery (hidden plan) of His will…10 that...He might gather together in one ALL
things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth--in Him. (Ephesians 1:9-10)
A. We must understand God’s larger purposes to get the right perspective for the End-Times. The centerpiece of
God’s eternal purpose is for Jesus to come back to fully establish His Kingdom rule over all the earth as He joins the
heavenly and earthly realms together. In the fullness of time, Jesus will take everything (good) in heaven and earth and
bring them fully together. This is the interpretive key to understanding the End-Times.
B. God’s purpose has always been to make His final abode on earth to live with together His people. God will come
down to dwell on earth to us rather than people going to heaven to live with God. The only exception to this is the
2,000-year period (between the cross and the Second Coming) in which believers go to a heavenly glorious “temporary
holding place” to await their resurrected bodies that will enable them to live on earth with God forever.
C. Basic definitions: Heaven: is the supernatural spirit realm to experience God’s “immediate” presence and
power. Earth: is the material physical realm where human emotions and physical sensation are experienced to the fullness.
The materiality of the Millennial earth and then the New Earth will consist of concrete reality. The earthly realm’s
relationship with the heavenly realm requires a resurrected body. Note that demons (fallen spirit beings) seek to
inhabit humans to more fully experience and express themselves, etc.
D. Gathering together in ALL things (Ephesians 1:9-10) – both heavenly and earthly dimensions must come
together for God’s fullness to be manifest (Revelation 21-22). This happens initially, as the New Jerusalem descends to
the Millennial earth (Revelation 21:10), then, in the second stage it descends to the New Earth (Revelation 21:2). God
requires the spirit realm and the material realm to come together to fully express His personality and purposes.
Till we all come ...to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ...(Ephesians 4:13)
E. Four aspects of Jesus’ Kingdom necessary for the fullness of God. Heaven – supernatural spirit realm – divine
power and presence, angels, New Jerusalem. Garden of Eden – material paradise of pleasure expressed on the
Millennial earth and in the New Jerusalem (with the Tree of Life and the River of Life fully restored). Kingdom of David
(Throne of David) – theocratic government with a righteous king ruling all the earth. It is the revelation of Jesus as the
human King over the human kingdom on a material earth. Holy of Holies – worshipping Bride in intimate partnership.
F. The connecting point of earth and heaven is humanity. The point that God chose for heaven and earth to come
together is humanity in His image and filled with His Spirit. Then the resurrected saints work together with Jesus, the
angels and the Millennial inhabitants in this environment to fully transform the earth through a process.
II. JESUS’ THRONE OF GLORY: 2 DIMENSIONS (EARTHLY AND HEAVENLY)
A. When Jesus comes in glory, then He will set up His Throne of Glory to judge all earthly nations.
When the Son of Man comes in His glory...then He will sit on the Throne of His glory. 32 All the nations will
be gathered before Him...(Matthew 25:31-32)
Peter...said to Him, "See, we have left all and followed You. Therefore what shall we have?" 28 Jesus said,
“Assuredly I say to you, that in the regeneration, when the Son of Man sits on the Throne of His glory, you who
have followed Me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. 29 Everyone who has left
houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My name's sake, SHALL
receive a 100-fold...” (Matthew 19:27-29)
B. Jesus will establish His earthly Throne of glory in Jerusalem to judge all earthly nations. Jesus’ Throne is clearly in
the Millennial Jerusalem which is to be named the Throne of God.
At that time Jerusalem shall be called The Throne of the LORD, and all the nations shall be gathered to it, to
the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem. (Jeremiah 3:17)
C. His Place: Jesus’ Throne will be connected to the Millennial Temple that He builds in Jerusalem.
Thus says the LORD..."Behold, the Man (Jesus) whose name is the BRANCH! from His place He shall branch
out (progressively increase), and He shall build the Temple of the LORD; 13 Yes, He shall build the Temple of
the LORD. He shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule on His Throne; so He shall be a priest (serving in the
Temple) on His Throne.” (Zechariah 6:12-13)
D. The Place: Jesus’ Throne of Glory will be connected to the Millennial Temple in Jerusalem.
The glory of the LORD came into the Temple (Millennial Temple)... 5 The Spirit lifted me up and brought me
into the inner court...the glory of the LORD filled the Temple. 6 I heard Him speaking to me from the Temple...
7 He said, "This is the place of My Throne and the place of the soles of My feet, where I will dwell in the midst
of the children of Israel forever. (Ezekiel 43:4-7)
Thus says the LORD: "Heaven is My Throne, and earth is My footstool. Where is the house that you will build
Me? And where is the place of My rest?” (Isaiah 66:1)
Do not swear at all: neither by heaven, for it is God's Throne; 35 nor by the earth, for it is His footstool; nor
by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King.. (Matthew 5:34-35)
E. Jesus’ Throne will also be established in the heavenly New Jerusalem that descends to earth. Jesus’ Throne is
clearly in the New Jerusalem and is also clearly in the Millennial Jerusalem
The Throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it (New Jerusalem). (Revelation 22:3)
F. Jesus rules in heaven as the Son of God (New Jerusalem) and He rules on the earth as the Son of David (earthly
Jerusalem). He is the only one with authority to bring both realms together (Mt. 28:18). The government of heaven and of
earth come fully together at the Second Coming. The heavenly Jerusalem and earthly Jerusalem will be brought together
by Jesus as King of both cities. He brings the fullness of heaven and earth together resulting in the “resurrection of earth”
III. JOINING OF THE TWO JERUSALEMS: ESTABLISHING THE “CORRIDOR OF GLORY”
A. Jerusalem descends to the Millennial earth. Where does it go? To Jesus’ place of government, which is the
Millennial Temple in Jerusalem.
B. Does Jesus have one Throne or two? The answer is YES. I suggest Jesus’ Throne of glory is a vast glorious
governmental complex with a “far north end” of His Throne in the New Jerusalem and a “far south end” on the Millennial
Jerusalem with a “Corridor of Glory” between the two. I think of this “Corridor” as being filled with the brightness of God’s
weighty, tangible Presence connecting the Millennial Jerusalem and heavenly Jerusalem as an essential part of Jesus’ one
Throne.
Who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person... (Hebrews 1:3)
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God will shine forth. (Psalm 50:2)
I have seen the consummation of all perfection Your commandment is exceedingly broad. (Psalm 119:96)
C. Jesus’ Throne of glory is one reality with two dynamic dimensions to it – a heavenly and an earthly dimension. I often
refer to Psalm 48 and Ezekiel 40-48 as passages on “the Corridor of Glory” as they hold in tension the paradox of “Jerusalem
above” and “Jerusalem below” as one vast reality.
The nations (Millennial nations) of those who are saved shall walk in its light, and the kings of the earth bring
their glory and honor into it (New Jerusalem)....26 they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it.
(Revelation 21:24-26)
The nations also will know that I, the LORD, sanctify Israel, when My sanctuary is in their midst forevermore.
(Ezekiel 37:28)
The LORD...has given rest to His people, that they may dwell in Jerusalem forever (1 Chronicles 23:25)
D. The “Corridor of Glory” includes the divine cloud, smoke and shining fire and a highway into it.
When the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion (people of Israel) , and purged the blood of
Jerusalem (city) from her midst... 5 then the LORD will CREATE above every dwelling place of Mount Zion,
and above her assemblies (temple complex of Ezekiel 40-48), a cloud and smoke by day and the shining of a
flaming fire by night. For over all the glory there will be a covering. (Isaiah 4:4-5)
The smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, ascended before God... (Revelation 8:4)
The temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from His power... (Revelation 15:8)
A Highway shall be there...it shall be called the Highway of Holiness. The unclean shall not pass over it..
(Isaiah 35:8)
IV. THE NEW JERUSALEM HAS TWO DESCENTS (REVELATION 3:12; 21:2, 10)
A. Scripture reveals that the New Jerusalem descends to the earth, giving us the reality without designating its two
phases. The pattern in Scripture is that God gives us a certain fact through prophetic Scripture, then later reveals
it has two stages. This is much like how the OT prophesied of Jesus’ Coming without always pointing to its two phases.
I will write on him the name...of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven
from My God. (Revelation 3:12)
Showed me the great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God. (Revelation 21:10)
He who overcomes...I will write on him...the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, which comes
down out of heaven from My God. (Revelation 3:12)
B. The first descent of the New Jerusalem is related to the timing of the Second Coming at the start of the
Millennium. The New Jerusalem comes above the earth. It is not on the earth but above it. There are five reasons
that we know that the New Jerusalem is close to the earth during the millennium. Kings of the earth come to the
New Jerusalem during the Millennium to bring their glory.
C. Outline of Revelation 21-22 and its relationship to the two descents of the New Jerusalem.
1. Revelation 21:1-8 describes the dynamic quality of spiritual life in the New Jerusalem. This is the second
descent of the city following chronologically after the events of Revelation 20.
2. Revelation. 21:9-22:5 has dimensions of time and eternity! It is not either/or but it is both/and, with
eternal and temporal dimensions! This passages is parenthetical not chronological, which means that the
events are happening at the same time the Millennium is occurring. It is not all eternity or all time. Revelation
21:9-22 describes the glory of the city. Revelation 21:23-22:5 focuses on how the Millennial kings interact
with the New Jerusalem.
D. The saints reign on the Millennial earth (Matthew 19:28, Luke 22:29), yet we live with resurrected bodies in
New Jerusalem. Our residence is in the New Jerusalem, but our government takes place on the earth. Like
Senators who live in their home state yet have a government offices in Washington, DC
V. JERUSALEM LASTS FOREVER
The Lord...chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which He loved. 69 He built His sanctuary like the heights,
like the earth which He has established forever. (Psalm 78:68-69)
Those who trust...are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abides forever. (Psalm 125:1)
The LORD...has given rest to His people, that they may dwell in Jerusalem forever" (1 Chronicles 23:25)
They shall dwell in the land...where your fathers dwelt; and they shall dwell there...forever. (Ezekiel 37:25)
VI. THE CITY OF THE GREAT KING (PSALM 48)
Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in His holy mountain. 2 Beautiful in
elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.
3 God is in her palaces... 4 For behold, the kings assembled, they passed by together. 5 They saw it, and so
they marveled... 8 As we have heard, so we have seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God:
God will establish it forever. 12 Walk about Zion, and go all around her. Count her towers; 13 Mark well her
bulwarks; Consider her palaces; that you may tell it. (Psalm 48:1-13)
VII. MOUNTAIN OF ZION: INCLUDES MILLENNIAL JERUSALEM & NEW JERUSALEM
He carried me away in the Spirit...and showed me the great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven
from God, 11 having the glory of God. Her light was like a most precious stone, like a jasper stone, clear as
crystal. 12 Also she had a great and high wall with twelve gates, and twelve angels at the gates...16 The city
is laid out as a square; its length is as great as its breadth. He measured the city...: 12,000 furlongs
(approximately 1500 miles). Its length, breadth, and height are equal. 18 The construction of its wall was of
jasper; and the city was pure gold, like clear glass. 21 The twelve gates were twelve pearls...and the street
of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass. (Revelation 21:10-21)
A. The New Jerusalem is approximately 1500 miles high. Compare this to outer space being 800 miles away, the
highest mountain on the earth (Mt. Everest) being only 5 miles above sea level and the ocean being 8 miles deep.
B. The Millennial Jerusalem is also on a mountain. Ezekiel describes the Millennial Jerusalem (Ezekiel 40:2; 17:22; 20:40)
as on God’s mountain, which is raised up as the highest of all the mountains on earth (Isaiah 2:2; Micah 4:1). This description
cannot fit the hills on which Jerusalem is currently built (only 2,500 feet above sea level).
In the visions of God He took me into the land of Israel and set me on a very high mountain; on it toward the
south was something like the structure of a city. (Ezekiel 40:2)
C. The Mountain of the Lord’s House points to the Corridor of Glory connecting the two Jerusalems.
The word that Isaiah...concerning Jerusalem. 2 Now it shall come to pass in the latter days that THE MOUNTAIN
of the LORD's house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills;
and all nations shall flow to it. 3 Many people shall come and say, "Come, and let us go up to THE MOUNTAIN
of the LORD, to the House of the God of Jacob; He will teach us His ways...for out of Zion shall go forth the
law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. 4 He shall judge between the nations, and rebuke many
people (Isaiah 2:1-4)
The mountain of the LORD's house shall be established on the top of the mountains (Micah 4:1)
In that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives...and the Mount of Olives shall be split in two...making
a very large valley; half of the mountain shall move toward the north and half of it toward the south. 10 All
the land shall be turned into a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem. Jerusalem shall be raised up
and inhabited... (Zechariah 14:4, 10)
The Lord...chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which He loved. 69 He built His sanctuary like the heights,
like the earth which He has established forever. (Psalm 78:68-69)
They shall come and sing in the height of Zion, streaming to the goodness of the LORD (Jeremiah 31:12)
The LORD is great in Zion, and He is high above all the peoples. (Psalm 99:2)
You, LORD, are on high forevermore. (Psalm 92:8)
VIII. JERUSALEM WILL BE FILLED WITH GOD’S GLORY
A. “Zion” here is referring to the earthly Jerusalem in relationship with the New Jerusalem established as the
governmental corridor of glory in which the whole earth is amazed.
Give Him no rest till...He makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth. (Isaiah 62:7)
He put on garments of vengeance...zeal as a cloak. 18...He will repay, fury to His adversaries...19 So shall they
fear the name of the LORD from the west, and His glory from the rising of the sun (east); when the enemy
comes in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD will lift up a standard against him. 20 The Redeemer (Jesus)
will come to Zion (Jerusalem)… (Isaiah 59:17-20)
In that day that the LORD will punish on high the host of exalted ones (demonic principalities), and on the
earth the kings of the earth. 22 They will be gathered together...and shut up in the prison; after many days
(after the Millennium) they will be punished (cast into Lake of Fire). 23 Then the moon will be disgraced and the
sun ashamed (on the New Earth); for the LORD of hosts will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem and before
His elders, gloriously. (Isaiah 24:21-23)
IX. SPEAK OF THE GLORIES OF JERUSALEM
"Son of man, look with your eyes and hear with your ears, and fix your mind on everything I show you... Declare
to the house of Israel everything you see." (Ezekiel 40:4)
His foundation is in the holy mountains. 2 The LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
3 Glorious things are spoken of you, O city of God! (Psalm 87:1-3)
Walk about Zion, and go all around her. Count her towers; 13 Mark well her bulwarks; Consider her palaces;
that you may tell it to the generation following. (Psalm 48:12-13)
Note: THE EARTH AND ISRAEL LAST FOREVER - Psalm 37:29; 78:68-69; 104:5; 105:10-11; 125:1-2;.1 Kings 8:13; 9:1-3;
2 Kings 21:7; 1 Chronicles 15:2; 23:25; 28:8; 2 Chronicles 7:16; 20:7; 30:8; 33:4, 7; Isaiah 60:20-21; Ezekiel 37:25.