Wow, dfnj. I see gold here. I'm starting with your first post. Mods moderate me if you think this is getting too out of topic...
You would think an omnipotent God would be able to constrain Satan at any time. Kings have subjects. Priests have followers. You can't have a lord without slaves.
He can and does restrain satan constantly.
I think the second coming of Jesus would not be a monarchy but a love fest of religious humility. People would be on bended knee penitent and full of reverence. All men would be equal in the eyes of a loving and forgiving God.
Jesus is our King. There is a monarchy with YHWH at the top. At the second coming this age will have been ended and He comes to set up the 7th age of His reign on Earth. At that time, there will be those He protects throughout the tribulation who will be safe, and the rest will be destroyed and they will still refuse to bend the knee.
It seems to me an omnipotent God would not have any wants or desires and therefore would not be full of wrath against his creations.
Everything comes from Existence Who is YHWH, including emotions. Sin is the abuse of Existence (which we are a part of, so any sin against anything in existence is towards YHWH). Wrath comes from the longsuffering Jesus who ends those who would destroy rather than respect (love) existence in how it is meant to be.
I think and omnipotent God would only have infinite love and forgiveness for all of us in spite of all our Earthly sins.
Which is why He gave us a way out, Jesus Christ
People may be incapable of forgiveness. The "righteous" want their reward of eternal bliss and see the non-believers fry. But our omnipotent God is all powerful. It seems to me an omnipotent all powerful all loving God would not fulfill the "righteous" people's selfish desire of having revenge against the "sinners" or the satisfaction of seeing the non-believers get their due. I know my view on this may be unconventional so please forgive me if you think I am being irreverent to your beliefs.
No one considered righteous (which is only possible by Jesus making us righteous..) would want that. I want everyone to be saved. My reward will to be with my El-Shaddai in service to my King. That will be breathtakingly, eternally awesome.
Your comment about "we will have jobs to do and it won't be boring" is the one I find most interesting. Maybe what you mean by kings and priests is the followers of Christ would be some kind of God police enforcing God's law over the remaining flock after the second coming. So maybe you are suggesting after the second coming people will still be able to commit sins. I would think everyone remaining after the second coming would be equal before the eyes of God.
Those who Christ puts in authority are
servants, not lords. The joy of our work will be to express Elohim's love to existence and tutor each other as Images of YHWH in YHWH. Self exploration, is in an sense, exploring YHWH. There will be enforcement, but it will be swift and always just. But the environment will be one where good reigns, instead of evil as the age we are in today. And believe me, no one will want to have to enforce, and everyone will be dealt with as the Holy Spirit deals with us, lovingly in the agape way.
From my understanding of scripture it seems to me after the second coming the Universe would be destroyed and everyone would ascend into the spiritual realm of heaven. The "righteous" would immediately turn and look directly into the face of God. At that moment, time stops, and each soul would be absorbed into the light of God's mind experiencing everlasing eternal bliss. Once you look into the face of God you will be so enamored you will not have time to think about yourself as being separate from God. The more interesting question is what happens to the non-believers who turn away and do not look into the face of God.
The universe will be destroyed after satan is thrown into the lake of fire. The millenium comes after the second coming. I don't follow the rest of your theology to be accurate to address as it leads from what I see to be a false premise. If you'd like me to expound here let me know.
Now this may sound a little far fetched but hear me out. I think the non-believers, who turn away from the face of God are immediately given the power of omnipotence. You may say there can only be one omnipotent being. But an omnipotent God could of course share his omnipotence otherwise he would not be truly be omnipotent. So what does a non-believer do with the power of omnipotence? The non-believer uses his new found omnipotent powers to have every experience imaginable. Eternity is a long time. And there comes a point after you've experienced everything there is to experience an infinite number of times you inevitably become bored. You decide you've had enough. At that moment, our errant soul volunteeringly looks into the face of God, enamored completely for the first time, and experiences God's heavenly eternal bliss.
I have a hard time addressing this as I think it's founded on faulty knowledge. Although you might be hitting on something very interesting in relation to the White Throne Judgement (which is what I think you were really addressing in the paragraph above?)
You may think this is not fair because the "righteous" followed the Gospels and did not get the reward of having omnipotent powers. But the non-believer missed out on having eternal heavenly bliss for a very long time. So in the end it all works out. Everyone is saved. Everyone experiences infinite love, infinite forgiveness, and infinite oneness with God. All Men.
Interesting. This could in a sense reconcile my thoughts on why hell might not be truly eternal... More could be explored here..