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Phase one of the Kingdom message is the day of Pentecost to the rapture.

Phase one will end at the rapture. Phase two will be from the beginning of the 1000 year reign until he and the Church have LITERALLY ruled over nations/peoples for a thousand years.

Incorrect. That is adding to the Word and jumbling the word while you ignore certain passages and statements which disallow for such a conglomeration.

All that there will be is the church from Pentecost to Rapture, at which time the Son of God ceases to rule because all enemies have been put Under His feet. This cessation of rule by the Son disallows for Him to rule during any 1000 years afterwards.

And Paul connects Isa 25:8 with the rapture, saying the prophecy is fulfilled at the rapture. Isa 25:8 says all tears are wiped away, which does not occur until the white throne judgment. The only way this fits together is if the rapture takes us to the white throne judgment. Otherwise you have Isa 25:8 fulfilled 1000 years before Rev 21 says it is fulfilled!

Phase two ends with the devil being allowed to come out of the bottomless pit to stir rebellion one last time. Jesus defeats them all as fire comes down and devours them.

Nope. Such a concoction of phases does not work, all for the reasons I showed above.

So Christ reigns until all enemies (satan included) are fully and completely defeated. Then (apparently) the Sonship will disappear and Jesus/Yeshua will reign as YHWH.

This occurs at the rapture.

The wording of the passage below disallows for time to stand between the rapture and the cessation of rule. The cessation of rule OCCURS AT THE RAPTURE.

1Co 15:23-26 KJV But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming. (24) Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. (25) For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. (26) The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.

the only way you can say there is a millennium here is to say the COMING OF CHRIST in verse 23 is at the end of the Millennium. But that cannot work, because Paul is speaking of the resurrection of those who are Christ's. The rapture is a resurrection of those who are Christ's, and the rapture occurs before your millennium in your thinking. So why did Paul not mention the rapture in verse 23?

If HE DID mention the rapture in verse 23, which I believe he did, then there can be no millennium afterwards because it is at the point of the rapture that the end occurs, when Christ ceases to rule.

Then phase three will begin where no unrighteousness will again rear its head. After the White Throne judgment. After satan is cast into the Gehenna.

Incorrect. Paul said the rapture causes Isa 25:8 to be fulfilled.

1Co 15:54 KJV So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.

Isa 25:8 KJV He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it.

Rev 21:4 KJV And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

The all important connection in the bible that shows the rapture takes us directly to the white throne judgment are two notes in Rev 21:4. When God wipes all tears from their eyes, there is no more death. That is exactly what Paul said in 1 Cor 15:23-26, speaking of the rapture! And the note of all tears being wiped away is in the prophecy Paul quotes in 1 Cor 15:54 in giving us the time of the fulfillment of that verse at the rapture.

As to 1 Cor. 15:51-53

51: Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
52: 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.
53: For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
54: So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
55: O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?

This of course is the fulfillment of this:

18: And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. Matt. 16:18

You ignore the actual prophecy Paul quoted. Isaiah 25:8, which betrays your entire millennial doctrine as error by the association of wiping all tears away with the defeat of death, which occurs after the white throne judgment directly to which I claim the rapture takes us.

Isa 25:8 KJV He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it.

When Saints die they go to the grave. The gates of death. At the resurrection they are set free. FOR THEM death is swallowed up in victory. The gates of hell have been overcome by Christ. Those who were held therein now gain the victory of life eternal.

Amen. But the actual prophecy Paul cites says that all tears are wiped away. That is shown in Rev 21:4 after the white throne!!!

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