Gentiles Entering the Earthly Millennial Kingdom

It is helpful first to distinguish between:

• The body of Christ in this present age, and
• Those who will live on earth as subjects in the millennial kingdom.

The Body of Christ and the Millennium

Members of the body of Christ---those saved in this present dispensation---will be with the Lord when he returns and will have a role related to the millennial kingdom, but not as ordinary earthly subjects in the same sense as surviving Jews and Gentiles.

Scripture suggests that believers of this age will be glorified and associated with Christ's rule rather than simply being among the nations on earth under that rule. Details of our exact function are not fully spelled out, but our status is different from that of mortal peoples living through the thousand years.

Post-Rapture Gentiles and Entry into the Kingdom

Your question appears to concern Gentiles who live after the rapture, during the tribulation, and who might survive into the millennial kingdom as mortal subjects. We know there will be Gentiles in the kingdom (nations who come to Jerusalem, etc.), so some do indeed enter.

However, the path for a Gentile alive in that future period will be extremely difficult. Several factors make survival and faithfulness challenging:

• A strong delusion will come upon those who have rejected the truth; many will be swept into deception.
• Economic life will be controlled by the beast system, requiring the mark of the beast to buy and sell.
• Taking the mark of the beast is incompatible with entering the kingdom; those who receive it are excluded.
• Social and political pressure to conform to the beast will be intense; nonconformity can easily cost one's life.

Human beings typically yield quickly under such concentrated pressure. Even among those naturally skeptical of government power, history shows that the great majority will conform when survival and comfort are at stake, and that they will often actively oppose the small minority who resist.

Yet Scripture indicates that some will refuse the mark, endure to the end, and be counted among the nations who enter the kingdom. Their number, however, is likely small relative to the total population.

Slim but Real Possibility

Therefore, to your question "What are the chances?":

• The chances are not zero, since Gentile nations clearly exist in the millennial kingdom.
• But the conditions of the tribulation---deception, coercion, and persecution---make it very unlikely, in human terms, that large numbers of Gentiles will both refuse the mark and survive physically into the kingdom.
• The probable number of such Gentiles is small, though not specified.

The broader lesson is that presuming upon future opportunities under such conditions is unwise. The present age of grace offers a far clearer and freer opportunity to be reconciled to God than the tribulation period will provide.

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