That this is characteristic of millennial rule is seen by comparing

Revelation 2:27; 12:5 and 19:15:

'To him that overcometh ... will I give power over the nations, and he

shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessel of a potter shall

they be broken to shivers; even as I received of My Father' (Rev.

Psalm 110, which speaks also of that day, reveals the Lord ruling in the

midst of enemies, judging among the nations, and filling the places with dead

bodies!  Strange symbols of peace !!  The Oxford Gesenius renders verse 3:

'Thy people will be (all) voluntariness in the day of Thy host'.

In marked contrast with Israel will be the feigned

and constrained obedience of the nations.  The marginal reading of Psalm

18:44 is:

'The sons of the stranger shall yield feigned obedience unto Me'.

So again in Psalm 66:3 and 81:15.  The character of this kingdom is moreover

manifested by turning to the R.V. margin of Daniel 9:24 -- 'To restrain

transgression'.  This idea of restraint is seen in the fact that during this

period Satan will be bound, but not destroyed.  Psalm 21:1-13; 48:4-7; 66:7;

68:21; 72:9-14; and 97:1-7 seem to speak of that kingdom and the presence

therein of evil -doers.  Psalm 101:8 reads, 'I will early destroy all the

wicked of the land'.  The word 'early' is rendered by Rotherham 'morning by

morning' and indicates summary judgment upon offenders.  Psalm 149 calls upon

Israel to rejoice, and the children of Zion to be joyful in their king.  The

Psalm is evidently millennial:

'Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two -edged sword

in their hand. To execute vengeance upon the nations, and punishments

upon the people. To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with

fetters of iron. To execute upon them the judgment written. this honour

have all His saints. Hallelujah' (Psa. 149:6-9).

Here once again we see the 'iron rod' in action. It is evident from Zechariah

14:16-19 that throughout the millennium, and not merely at the commencement,

judgment will fall upon disobedience.  The two last verses of Isaiah bring

before us a dual picture -- 'all flesh' shall come to worship before the

Lord, and they shall also look upon the carcases of transgressors (presumably

in the valley called Gehenna), and they shall be an abhorring unto all

flesh'.  Death, if it occur, in the millennium will be the direct result of

personal sin.  This seems to be the meaning of Isaiah 65:20.  The A.V. reads

'There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that

hath not filled his days, for the child shall die an hundred years old,

but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed'.

Rotherham translates the passage:

'But a youth a hundred years old may die, yea, a sinner a hundred years

old shall be accursed',