Revelation 20
The Thousand
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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, Gen. 3.1 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: Dan. 7.9, 22 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, Ezek.
38.1-16 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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The Judgment at the
Great White Throne |
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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. Dan. 7.9, 10
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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.
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And whosoever was not found written in
the book of life was cast into the lake of
fire.
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