Revelation 20

This chapter introduces the sixth & seventh cataclysms.

The earth is populated despite the fact that there are others with Christ.

In Matthew 13:11, Christ told His disciples that the mystery is to be known by only a few in those days - those days are over

 

 

1: & I SAW AN ANGEL COME DOWN FROM HEAVEN, HAVING THE KEY OF THE BOTTOMLESS PIT & A GREAT CHAIN IN HIS HAND. 2: & HE LAID HOLD ON THE DRAGON, THAT OLD SERPENT, WHICH IS THE DEVIL, & SATAN, & BOUND HIM A THOUSAND YEARS,

This messenger is not a great angel, just a messenger, neither Michael nor Gabriel, & yet it can overpower Satan, a mighty archangel. Perhaps Satan's strength comes from those who subject themselves to it.

Bottomless pit must be understood by now as a dimension, like heaven, far from our understanding at present 

 

3: & CAST HIM INTO THE BOTTOMLESS PIT, & SHUT HIM UP, & SET A SEAL UPON HIM, THAT

 HE SHOULD DECEIVE THE NATIONS NO MORE, TILL THE THOUSAND YEARS SHOULD BE FULFILLED:

& AFTER THAT HE MUST BE LOOSED A LITTLE SEASON. 

DID GOD PURPOSELY DESIGN SATAN AHEAD OF MAN? IS SATAN EVIL

Satan is loose to deceive the nations again - obviously Satan is GOD CREATED & GOD CONTROLLED - thus God creates evil if Satan is considered evil

A day has - throughout this commentary - represented a year; thus a thousand years must carry greater significance.  To use such a number of years - as years - & to have appointed others differently would be inconsistent

- however, the time between cataclysms could very easily amount to 360,000 years -1000 times 360 [30 days to a month, 12 months to a year] - the time Satan is bound, in remission.  

The devil shall eventually be liberated to duplicate its practices. 

Satan is, in sense, the god of the earth - HELL

A MIND GAME:

WHAT IS MOST INTERESTING IS THAT SATAN WAS DESIGNED FOR JUST WHAT IT IS DOING, LONG BEFORE THE ENTRANCE OF MANKIND - MAKES ONE WONDER WHY SUCH A BEING SHOULD EXIST, AFTER ALL, GOD COULD ELIMINATE IT AS EASILY AS THE ALMIGHTY CREATED IT - OR DID THE ALMIGHTY HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH ITS CREATION? OBVIOUSLY IF IT COULD BE TIED DOWN, BOUND, IT CAN BE DESTROYED

IS SATAN EVIL/SIN? IS EVIL A PRODUCT OF GOD? IF THE BIBLE IS TO BE BELIEVED, WAS EVIL WAS PURPOSELY DESIGNED. SATAN IS PART OF THE  1st, 2nd, & the 3rd HEAVEN TO COME [as shown in Revelations]: Isaiah 44:24, Eccle. 11:5, John 1:3, Eph. 3:9, Rev. 4:11  & other verses insinuate that God created everything.

REVELATIONS SHOWS GOD HIDES EVIL RATHER THEN GETTING RID OF IT WHEN THE NEW EARTH BEGINS & CAST HIM INTO THE BOTTOMLESS PIT, & SHUT HIM UP, & SET A SEAL UPON HIM, THAT HE SHOULD DECEIVE THE NATIONS

NO MORE, TILL THE THOUSAND YEARS SHOULD BE FULFILLED:
& AFTER THAT HE MUST BE LOOSED A LITTLE SEASON

 

4: & I SAW THRONES, & THEY SAT UPON THEM, & JUDGMENT WAS GIVEN UNTO THEM: & I SAW THE SOULS OF THEM THAT WERE BEHEADED FOR THE WITNESS OF JESUS, & FOR THE WORD OF GOD, & WHICH HAD NOT WORSHIPPED THE BEAST, NEITHER HIS IMAGE, NEITHER HAD RECEIVED HIS MARK UPON THEIR FOREHEADS, OR IN THEIR HANDS; & THEY LIVED & REIGNED WITH CHRIST A THOUSAND YEARS       

The Christly souls - His angels - are with Him in Heaven for this period of 360,000 years.

 

EXAMPLES OF DEATH THRU THE PAPACY:

-Gibbon detail - in 782, Charlemagne had taken four & one half thousand Saxon prisoners & beheaded them

- Pope Innocent IV, 1241-54, May 15, 1252, declared, by bull, Ad Extirpanda, that even the magistrate would be required to use torture to compel heretics to confess - one hundred percent convictions.

Leo X 1513-21 - archbishop at eight years old; eventually declares the burning of heretics as Divine appointment.

In 378 begins the common-law relationship between the papacy & the Roman Empire - Christianity is now declared a state religion, forced on all by the blade.

Under Pope Sixtus II, 432-40, Rome is now considered the papacy's - he advocates the DEATH PENALTY for heresy - for what goes against the grain of the Catholic authority. Only Christians could now enter the Roman army; thus one had to have the belief in Christ for the right to kill.

Charlemagne, 742-814, assists the church by slaughtering in great numbers all those who dispute her.

 

5: BUT THE REST OF THE DEAD LIVED NOT AGAIN UNTIL THE THOUSAND YEARS WERE FINISHED       

The evils - Satan's controlled - are not dead, nor alive, nor in bondage with Satan; they are none existent for 360,000 years in a place between heaven & earth, so to speak.

 

......THIS IS THE FIRST RESURRECTION

There shall obviously be at least one more resurrection by the very expression - 'the first resurrection' - if there were to be no other resurrection then it would have been declared as the resurrection

 

6: BLESSED & 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 & OF CHRIST, & SHALL REIGN WITH HIM A THOUSAND YEARS       

Repeated is the good - Christly - reign with Him 360,00 years - they do not take part in the second death, which is being defined

 

7: & WHEN THE THOUSAND YEARS ARE EXPIRED, SATAN SHALL BE LOOSED OUT OF HIS PRISON, 8: & SHALL GO OUT TO DECEIVE THE NATIONS

Satan shall be released again - TO DECEIVE THE NATIONS AGAIN

Interesting, the Holy plan always seems to need evil to a big part of our being - that is, Satan was designed ahead of man to do exactly what it is doing. In other words, God does not see all or there would be no need for Satan.

Who is populating the earth when the evils of verse five are in a state of nonexistence for now, & the Christly are in Heaven.

 

WHICH ARE IN THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH, GOG & MAGOG, TO GATHER THEM TOGETHER TO BATTLE: THE NUMBER OF WHOM IS AS THE SAND OF THE SEA  

Another cycle & Armageddon repeats itself after Satan is released.  

Another cataclysm, possibly the seventh, shall end this heaven & earth.

 

9: & THEY WENT UP ON THE BREADTH OF THE EARTH, & COMPASSED THE CAMP OF THE SAINTS ABOUT, & THE BELOVED CITY: & FIRE CAME DOWN FROM GOD OUT OF HEAVEN, & DEVOURED THEM. 10: & THE DEVIL THAT DECEIVED THEM WAS CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE & BRIMSTONE, WHERE THE BEAST & THE FALSE PROPHET ARE, & SHALL BE TORMENTED DAY & NIGHT FOR EVER & EVER

This is not the bottomless pit but a dimension perhaps far from most understanding.  

Again, another cataclysm transpired.

The 'new earth' begins with these evil & good - verses 14; & 21;8.

 

11: & I SAW A GREAT WHITE THRONE, & HIM THAT SAT ON IT, FROM WHOSE FACE THE EARTH & THE HEAVEN FLED AWAY; & THERE WAS FOUND NO PLACE FOR THEM      

After the second [perhaps the7th ] cataclysm our heaven & earth become non-existent

- one molecule is deleted from this vast universe, like an atomic explosion nothing remains but a black hole - or  totally lifeless planet - perhaps Mars was populated once

 

12: & I SAW THE DEAD, SMALL & GREAT, STAND BEFORE GOD; & THE BOOKS WERE OPENED: & ANOTHER BOOK WAS OPENED, WHICH IS THE BOOK OF LIFE: & THE DEAD WERE JUDGED OUT OF THOSE THINGS WHICH WERE WRITTEN IN THE BOOKS, ACCORDING TO THEIR WORKS       

The dead are those who ceased to exist for the 360,000 years - possibly many of the new dead of the last era of the Christ's Earth.

 

13: & THE SEA GAVE UP THE DEAD WHICH WERE IN IT; & DEATH & HELL DELIVERED UP THE DEAD WHICH WERE IN THEM: & THEY WERE JUDGED EVERY MAN ACCORDING TO THEIR WORKS. 14: & DEATH & HELL WERE CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE. THIS IS THE SECOND DEATH

What good does execution do to an individual when there is no repentance/remorse?

Logic is that God is not going to compel the Satanic to non-existence, nor punish them eternally.

- to be imprisoned, permanently, is only a reminder of the event that has placed one there.

There is no reason for God to act like a human being.

- common sense - many were born into violence to learn that violence & murder as a natural way of living - WHY? -  why would God punish their ignorance once again - such beings may have been reborn into such circumstances for good reasons. 'HAVE NOT KNOWN THE DEPTHS OF SATAN'

God is going to recycle the souls -  the lake of fire or bottomless pit; they have to exist on the new earth, complete with a return to turmoil & tribulation - take part in the second death.

- THUS THE NEW EARTH WILL BEGIN WITH SINNERS

Those who went the Way of Christ are in heaven with Him - not to partake in the earth. Revelation 2:5 REMEMBER THEREFORE FROM WHENCE THOU ART FALLEN  - not to partake of the second death; the entire procedure all over again, & again, & again, until it is accomplished.

 

15: & WHOSOEVER WAS NOT FOUND WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE WAS CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE 

 

put not off from day & from cycle

in the belief that you will succeed in obtaining the mysteries

when you return to the world in another cycle

We are a small part of God, the Creator's invention.

We are part of the Master's mystery.

It is illogical to obliterate what one has designed intentionally - like the creation of Satan

We have had brainwashing techniques for centuries, creating totally new individuals. There is no rationality to think God is less advanced than us.