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• The Revelation vision is told three times. Then rejoins at trumpet 7 [6:1-2 to 11:19; 12, but Mt.23:39 w/ vs.17; and 13:1 to 19:11].
• The seal descriptions at the beginning of the vision, as their full effects, first to last, veils much.
• Vs.13:13 pinpointed an office.
Through the Book of Revelation in a Year. Verses are paraphrased.
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BOOK OF REVELATION
11 - Then I saw a great white throne (GWT) and he who was seated upon it. And from his face the earth and heavens fled away, and no place was found for them.
12 And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne. Books were opened, and another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead [nekros - dead, deceased] were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done.
13 The sea gave up the dead who were in it, death and hades [“place of the dead”] {the grave, state of being gone} [hades - not seen] gave up the dead which were in them and they were judged, each one, according to what they had done. {Same as we were and even now are? And.. “all the world’s a stage”.. (Shakespeare) - proving to one and all, and all together at once..}
14 Then Death and Hades were hurled into the lake of fire. [2Pet.3:12-13 “..the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, the heavenly bodies melting.. (then) a new heavens and a new earth..”] This is the second death, the lake of fire. {The end of death and imperfection/“missing the mark” - One and done! 1Cor.15:24-26. First death is the one come about through, and “in Adam”.}
15 And if [ei - whether, iF] anyone was found, whose name was not written in the book of life {by then} they were thrown [ballΓ³ - thrown, cast, hurled, put, placed] into the lake of fire. 21:1 - And I saw - a new heavens, and a new earth - for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, [were “set on fire” and “dissolved”, the “heavenly bodies/planets and stars melting”] and the sea {separation upon earth} was no more. (Isaiah 11:7)
2 And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, radiant as a bride adorned for her husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will tabernacle/tent/dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God.”
Next - 21:4-9
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BOOK OF REVELATION
7 - And when “the” thousand years are ended, Satan will be released 8 and he will come out to mislead the nations that are at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog {these are, logically, descendants of mortal survivors of the (man done) apocalypse} and he gathers them for battle. Their number is like the sand at the seashore. 9 And they marched up over all the broad plain of earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. {Do we imagine this takes but a moment or two..?} But - fire - came from the heavens and consumed them. 10 And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and false prophet had been thrown, and {he} will be tormented day and night - to - the ages of the ages. {The two others are institutions active at Jesus’ return.}
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BOOK OF REVELATION
1 - Then I (John) saw an angel descending from heaven. He held in his hand the key to the abyss, and a great chain. 2 And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil [diabolos - devil, accuser, slanderer] and Satan [satanas - adversary] and bound him for a thousand years. {God has been permissive? letting things run course, even a semi ant farm is no paradise, so this ‘quick” unavoidable, all important one & done first, 1Tim.4:10.}
3 And then the angel threw him into the abyss. {Imperfection/straying/going rogue is an abyss of potential.} And he shut it and sealed it over him, so he could not deceive the nations any longer, untiL, “the” thousand years are over.
After that, he must be released for a little while. {Which will be for the first half of an “8th” millennium.. According to the pattern of the Fall holy days, Leviticus 23, and this chapter, although it’s portrayed like describing the crests of waves, but not much of the in between.}
4 And I saw thrones. [Thronos - seats of authority, from thrao - to sit, or thranos - bench.] And those sitting [kathizΓ³ - sitting, settled, seated] upon them, and judgment was given them and those beheaded because of the testimony of Jesus, and the word [logos - message, reasoning expressed in words] of God, which did not worship the beast, or the image of it, and didn’t take its mark [xΓ‘ragma - brand-mark, originally any impress on a coin or seal used by an engraver on a die (stamp, branding iron) and later became an identification-marker, an owner's unique brand-mark] upon their forehead and hand, and they live and reign with Christ a thousand years. (Help from biblehub dot com’s interlinear with links to the original words and their meanings.)
5 The rest of the dead do not live again until the thousand years are completed. This is the first resurrection. 6 Blessed [makarios - blessed, happy, fortunate] and holy [hagios - holy, sacred, set apart] are those who have a part {& role?} in the first resurrection! Over these the second death has no power, but they will be priests [hiereus - ministers in priestly office] {minister what to whom?} of God and of Christ, and they will reign [basileΓΊΕ - exercise dominion] with him {for/during} the thousand years. {And during GWT judgment ‘day’? Serving called reigning..}
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