Title: Final Gathering, Attack, and Collapse (Rev. 19-20)

Topic: Second Coming

Summary: Final Gathering, Attack, and Collapse (Rev. 19-20)

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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

844. Till the thousand years were completed. But after that it must be released for a little while. This symbolically means that this was the case for a while or for a period of time until people with truths springing from goodness were raised by the Lord into heaven, after which those meant by the dragon would for a short time be set loose and have a communication opened with those who were left.

Till the thousand years were completed means, symbolically, for a while or for a period of time, because the thousand years does not mean a thousand years, but a while or a period of time, as in no. 842 above. That the dragon must be released for a little while means, symbolically, that the people here meant by the dragon, described above, must be afterward set loose from their prison and have a communication opened then with the people who were left. That this is the symbolic meaning is apparent from what has been said before, thus from the context, and from its connection with what follows after this in the spiritual sense.

The subject that follows now in verses 4-6 is people raised by the Lord into heaven, for whose sake the dragon was removed and shut away.