Judgement happened, happens, and will happen. It begins at Genesis and ends at Revelation. It happens when you steal a pen and feel bad - and it happens after death if you don't repent and give that pen back (or at least stop stealing stuff). It happens when you commit adultery and get an STD, or caught, or both - and it happens again after death if you don't repent and stop your wicked ways.
This "second judgement" is what I think leads to the "second death". You coninue to sin here, you will eventually suffer here. You unrepentently continue to sin and then die, you are irredeemably wicked and cast into the lake of fire.
Now, our Lord said, "the kingdom of heaven is within you". He also likened it to a long lost gem found again, like a small amount of leaven that enlarges bread, like the smallest of seeds that becomes the greatest of trees.
He said many are called to be citizens of this "kingdom", but few are chosen.
He said the kingdom doesn't "come by observation".
So if the kingdom's already in us, we [b]are[/b] reigning with Christ.
So what are the whatever-tribbers waiting for?
Pre-tribbers believe Jesus is going to appear (Second Coming) before the Tribulation and will "rapture" all Christians into the clouds. Then He will appear again after the Tribulation (3rd Coming) to blow the antichrist and his followers to smithereens. Then He will raise the dead and reign on earth for exactly 1000 years - then he'll leave, Satan will be released just one more time - and He'll return yet again (Forth Coming)... And I'm sure he'll keep leaving and returning with each new installment of the "Left Behind" series.
Post-tribbers, from what I gather, formulated their doctrines during the advent of the technological age. Another word for post-tribbers is "dominionists" - they believe Christianity and technology will result, after the Tribulation, in a utopian , righteous, world - and that Christ will reappear to rule for a literal thousand years only when we get our act together.
I'm not sure if pre/post-millenialist is the same or different than pre/post-trib (and not sure if I want to know).
But every doctrine I've read on the subject is carnal, carnal, carnal.
I'm of the opinion that since I'm the Temple of God, the kingdom of heaven is within me, the Holy Ghost is teaching me to pray, Jesus is answering my prayers, and that I'm communing with the Living God... That the kingdom is [b]now[/b], the Millenium of Grace is now. When the gospel is preached to the last nation or tribe on earth, and everyone's been warned, and no one has an excuse for not believing in Jesus and doing what He says... then the end of the earth will come by fire.
Then the dead are raised, judged, and rewarded or punished.
Then the Almighty will create a New Heaven and New Earth, and His Faithful will dwell in New Jerusalem FOREVER.
That's my interpretation. I'm probably wrong on one or more points. Ask me for scripture if you need anything clarified - I have to go cook now >;')
