Will ordinary mortal people still live during the thousand-year reign?

Quick Answer

The Teaching says yes: it describes survivors outside the New Jerusalem who remain mortal, live and reproduce, while the resurrected faithful have glorified bodies.

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HELL – Separating Biblical Fact from Fantasy & Myth

This Teaching examines common cultural pictures of hell against the biblical vocabulary and passages used for judgment. It distinguishes Sheol/the grave, Gehenna, Hades, Tartarus, Tophet, and the Lake of Fire, then traces the repeated biblical connection between fire and the presence of Yahovah/Yeshua. The Teaching argues that the familiar image of an underground dungeon ruled by Satan does not accurately represent the passages it surveys. It then distinguishes the second death experienced by condemned humanity from the explicit forever-and-ever torment described for Satan, the Beast, the false prophet, and, in the Teaching’s reading of Revelation 14, those who worship the Beast and receive his mark. The final discussion places these ideas within the Teaching’s end-times timeline and openly identifies several details that the speaker says remain uncertain.

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