Offenbarung 20:4
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Und ich sah Throne, und sie saßen darauf, und es wurde ihnen gegeben, Gericht zu halten; und die Seelen derer, welche um des Zeugnisses Jesu und um des Wortes Gottes willen enthauptet waren, und die, welche das Tier nicht angebetet hatten, noch sein Bild, und das Malzeichen nicht angenommen hatten an ihre Stirn und an ihre Hand, und sie lebten und herrschten mit dem Christus tausend Jahre.
Apocalypse Revealed #100
100. "'That you may be tested.'" This symbolically means, through falsities assailing them.
This is the symbolic meaning because every spiritual temptation or trial is a combat between the devil and the Lord as to who will possess the person. The devil or hell puts forth its falsities so as to reproach and condemn, while the Lord puts forth truths by which to lead away from falsities and liberate.
This combat is one that appears to a person to take place in him, because it is caused by evil spirits with him, and it is called a temptation or trial. I know from experience that this is what a spiritual temptation is, because in my temptations I have seen the infernal spirits who induced them and have perceived the influx from the Lord that delivered me from them.
