Tuesday, March 2, 2021

Revelation Chapter 20 (cR20)

      Millennium Rule of Jesus
 
Satan Bound for 1000 years
Rev 20:1-2  Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years;
    At the 7th trumpet/bowl (7th Seal), Satan will be chained and cast into the bottomless pit, which will be sealed for a thousand years.
Rev 20:3  and he cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal on him, so that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years were finished. But after these things he must be released for a little while.

Jesus Millennium Rule
Rev 20:4  And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
     At Rapture, which is the first resurrection, all godly saints and martyrs (elects) since the beginning of human history will be resurrected into their new glorious incorruptible bodies.
    The rest will only be resurrected until after the Millennium Rule of Jesus to appear before the Great White Throne.
    During Jesus Millennium Rule, only martyrs, killed during the wrath of Satan (5th Seal), will sit on thrones as priests of God and of Christ, to rule with Christ.
Rev 20:5-6  But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years.

Satan's Final Battle
Rev 20:7-9  Now when the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison and will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, whose number is as the sand of the sea. They went up on the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. And fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them.
    After the thousand years, Satan will be released from the bottomless pit. Immediately, he again will deceive the nations (all those with the mark of the beast) and gather them to fight against our Lord Jesus
     Fire from heaven will kill all of them. The devil will be cast into the Lake of fire, where he will be tormented forever. Earlier, after the Battle of Armageddon, the beast and false prophet were cast there.
Rev 20:10  The devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are. And they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

Great White Throne Judgment
Rev 20:11-13  Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. And there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books. The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one according to his works.
    All those who are not resurrected yet, will resurrect before the Great White Throne for God's fair judgment since everyone will be judged according to his works.

Lake of Fire
Rev 20:14-15  Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.
     All those, whose names are not found in the Book of Life will be cast into the Lake of fire.