Title: Final Gathering, Attack, and Collapse (Rev. 19-20)
Topic: Second Coming
Summary: Final Gathering, Attack, and Collapse (Rev. 19-20)
Use the reference links below to follow along in the Bible as you watch.
References:
Revelation 19; 20:1-14; 6:9
Hebrews 9:27
Exodus 15:6, 8-10
Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43
Ezekiel 38:8-13, 20-23; 39:1, 4-7, 17-29
034 - Final Gathering, Attack, and Collapse (Rev. 19-20)
Par Jonathan S. Rose
Spirit and Life Bible Study broadcast from 3/30/2011. The complete series is available at: www.spiritandlifebiblestudy.com
Revelation 20:1-14
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And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
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And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
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And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.
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And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
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But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
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Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
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And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
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And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
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And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.
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And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
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And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
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And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
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And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
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And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
Last Judgment (Posthumous) #139
139. [140.] 7. After numerous destructions and quasi-judgments had been accomplished, which were forerunners of the general destruction and judgment, and companies of spirits who were impure had been cast into pools, lakes, swamps and gulfs, that is, into hells, others then came there who were skilled in the art of inspiring and inciting others to evils in their inner thought. These stirred up their hearts against the Lord, and against the Divine truth issuing from Him, causing a multitude to begin to rise as one whole mass in ferment. The tumult then spread from there in every direction, as when a rebellion is begun by a few and yet at last incites a mob - in this case spreading onto a number of rocks and mountains, extending to their peaks and from there to the sides, and descending even to their foundations. I saw the mob stretching far and wide. Their intent was to destroy those who acknowledged the Lord and also worshiped Him, and who were in possession of Divine truths from Him.
When it was noticed how broadly the contagion had spread, then the Lord's advent took place for the general judgment. This advent was a flowing in of the Lord through the heavens into those people, an influx which looked like a misty atmosphere enveloping those mountains and rocks, and it carried off the inhabitants there - not casting them down but bearing them away. That Divine atmosphere entered into their interior elements and laid them open. Thus what lay hidden in their will and heart became apparent, and this carried them away and bore them down into hells in accordance with the evils of their life. I saw that Divine atmosphere swirling around in circles, sometimes reversing course, and it also drew those people from places where they had hidden themselves. This was accomplished with tens of thousands within an hour's time.
At the conclusion of these events, the tops of the mountains began to subside, and the mountains themselves sank down all the way to level ground, and a solitude appeared.
Such phenomena are meant in the book of Revelation by the first heaven and the first earth which John saw pass away, 1 for mountains in the spiritual world, with their rocks and valleys, look there like our earth in the world, and they call their habitations on mountains there heavens. The people who were thus carried off and cast down are those meant in the book of Revelation by the dragon and its two beasts (chapters 12, 13), and by the false prophet, who were cast into the lake of brimstone and fire (chapters [19, 20]). 2
Notes de bas de page:
2. See Revelation 19:20, 20:10.
