Revelation 20, The Lord's Day, The Millennium

revelation 20 - what happens in the millennium

Revelation 20 The Lord's Day, Thousand Years With Christ, The Millennium

Revelation 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,10,11,12,13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22

2 Peter 3:8-10 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

It's the millennium = The Day of the Lord
Revelation 20 = the Millennium
Bible study The last eight chapters of Ezekiel

9 The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

God loves His children, He hopes none will perish. But that all should come to repentance
We all come short and need repentance. When you do something wrong, ask God to forgive you

10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

he Day of the Lord will come as a thief = you don't know when a thief comes, means you don't have the seal of God in your forehead
In the night = Darkness means opposite of the truth = deception and confusing

Revelation 20:1 And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.

This angel is Michael the Archangel, Michael has the key to bottomless pit
Revelation 12:7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
8 And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.
9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
The chain and pit, whatever they may be composed of, are literal.
Aramaic the word "chain", means "a band that can totally hold".
Daniel 12:1 And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.

2 And he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,

During the Millennium, Satan's locked up into the bottomless pit, until the end of the Millennium
Note the different names used here
This is done so there won't be a shadow of a doubt about whom we are talking about
At this time, Satan's seed are still here, but his influence on them is utterly locked away.
Do you see the greatness, graciousness, goodness and love of God?
Isaiah 14 Even Satan's seed will have a opportunity not to be influenced by their father and will listen to the elect's teachings and learn the truth, and they will then have a choice when Satan is released again.
This is just.

3 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.

Satan's locked up into the bottomless pit, until the end of the Millennium, after the Millennium Satan is loosed again for short season.
Rev 20:7 And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
The millennium is over. Blindness has been removed from all the people by the teaching of Christ and the elect.
No longer can ignorance be used as a cloak of innocence.

8 And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.

Here we see Satan's last stand against Christ.
Many people ask, why doesn't God just leave Satan locked up, and be done with Satan. We have a fair and just God. The first fruits or the very elect, had to stand and confront him and have already overcome. Now the others must confront and overcome Satan at the end of the millennium again.

4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: 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.

Keywords, his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, his = Satan
I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus.
Who were the souls beheaded? John the Baptist, etc...
Revelation 11, Satan and his seed kills the two witnesses
Matthew 19:28 And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
What did the Lord tell Satan's angels = Revelation 9:4 And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.
Them = Satan's angels
Luke 21:18 But there shall not an hair of your head perish.
One of the rewards of the very elect is to reign with Him for 1000 years
Isaiah 61:6 But ye shall be named the Priests of the Lord: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.

5 But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.

The dead = these still have their mortal soul, meaning liable to die soul (1 Cor 15)
Dead = All that followed Satan will keep their mortal soul, liable to die soul
All on the left side of the gulf in heaven, they still have liable to die soul. They will be here and will be taught God's Word. They will be taught my their own race.
Matthew 25:32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:
Meaning the world going be be divided into four corner of the earth. All tribes of Israel and all races will be with their own kind.

God's very elect are from all tribes of Israel and all races, meaning they will be teaching their race through the Millennium, and God's very elect can come in the Millennium Temple and are taught by Christ.
Let's fix the time. The last trumpet has sounded. The present dispensation has ended.
Death of the flesh is no longer a reality. Because there are no longer any flesh bodies.
Luke 20:38 For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.
1 Corinthians15:51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
Paul is telling us - This is the beginning of the millennium - Because of the LAST trumpet
Note the word ''DEAD'', it says the dead shall be raised.
1 Corinthians15:38 But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
1 Corinthians 15:44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
After your flesh body dies or at the last trumpet, All will be raised and changed into their own incorruptible body, this is your spiritual body.
Means: Your spiritual body that would not decay, shrivel, wither or age.
Let s understand Paul's explanation.
Those who had not been deceived by Satan, They were resurrected into their Immortality (deathlessness) soul, alive with Christ.
Those who worshipped Satan will be raised and changed into their own incorruptible spiritual body, but they still have a mortal soul, liable to die soul.
They keep their mortal soul until Satan is loosed at the end of the millennium.
If at this time they do not follow Satan. They may take part in the second resurrection, being judges again. Now they are changed into their Immortality (deathlessness) of the soul, alive with Christ forever.
If you follow Satan again, you're going into the lake of fire with Satan.
They must stay in the state until the end of the thousand years.
Matthew 10:28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
The word ''soul'', is the Greek word # 5590, means "immortal soul"
Revelation 20: The Lord's day is the beginning of the millennium all will be taught God's laws and God's word, and will have seen the Lord face to face.

6 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.

This is the first resurrection = 1000 years = The Millennium = The Day of The Lord
Satan is death = Satan will be locked in the pit, he has no power at this time
Second death = death of your spiritually body
Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
7 As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame.
Matthew 28:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
Exodus 19:5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
6 And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.
God does NOT judge anyone to death ... Until they know the word of God.
1000 years - This is the millennium - The day of the Lord - time of teaching
Ezekiel 44:23 And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.
The nations (the Gentiles) will be priest of their own people. They will come into the millennium temple with the Lord, and they will be teaching their own people the laws of God.
He that comes forth in the first resurrection shall reign with Christ 1000 years.
This is another reward of the very elect. They are resurrected in an Immortal body
Therefore, they cannot die in the second death...Nor will they be exposed to it.
They will be priests to teach, many that were only awakened or raised.
Some of the ones that are only awakened will be deceived a second time, by Satan when he is loosed.
Therefore, verse 12 tell us that they shall die a second death. If they follow Satan after the millennium, they have been taught God's word and seen The Lord, face to face.
If people would just study this chapter, They would be hungry for God's word.
Who wants to wait another 1000 years, Before they can be with Christ.

7 And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,

Satan shall be loosed out of his prison to see how many will follow him into the lake of fire.
The millennium is over. Blindness has been removed from all the people by the teaching of Christ and the elect.
What did Christ stated in John 9:41?
John 9:41 Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth.
No longer can ignorance be used as a cloak of innocence.

8 And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.

Here we see Satan's last stand against Christ.
God purpose in this is to let each prove their love for Him, after they are taught the truth, or to follow Satan to damnation.
Gog and Magog merely symbolize all Gentile nations in the four quarters (corners) of the earth
Gog and Magog = Here, apparently an inclusive term for all the Gentile nations; East (Gog) and West (Magog).
The destruction of Gog and Magog, Ezekiel 39, is pre-millennial.
Battle = the war Reference to the war predicted and determined.
Many think Satan's coming setup another temple in Jerusalem after he is loosed... read again... Satan shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth.
Now read verse 9 where does Satan go? They went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints. Now where are the saints? With Christ. Rev 21 Christ bring the new Jerusalem.
Rev 21 = Christ returned and set up the Millennial Temple

Revelation 21:1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.

2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
Once Satan comes near the Millennium Temple, fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them...meaning Satan's short season is over ...time for judgment... all that followed Satan will go into the lake of fire.
Also you will notice..judgment is after the Millennium, all have been taught God's word...all on the left side of the gulf in heaven...The gulf in heaven is a holding place until the millennium. So why does most pastors teach hell fire after the death of the flesh.. We have two pastors in our family .. both teaches hell fire after the flesh body.
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9 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.

The camp of the saints, no doubt, is in the millennial temple. Built as described by Ezekiel.
Note, Satan's army does not enter into the camp, But only surround it.
There are no earthquakes or hailstones this time
Only the consuming fire of God.
This here shows Satan doesn't setup in Jerusalem. Christ is setup in Jerusalem
If you are teaching Satan's setup again in Jerusalem, you can see here it's not true.
Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
Sin cannot stand before God, Therefore, if you are a man of sin, You will die the second death.
Hebrew 12:18 For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
19 And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard in treated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:
20 (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:
21 And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)
22 But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
25 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:
26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
27 And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
29 For our God is a consuming fire.

10 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.

At last, Praise God! The end of Satan. Here he is only himself.
He had this role stripped from him in Revelation 19:20
Revelation 19:20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
He is no longer the great false messiah. He is turned to ashes forevermore.
Ezekiel 28 has been fulfilled.
Ezekiel 28:18 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.
19 All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more

11 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.

Final judgment has come God has returned Rev 22
There is no place to hide and we see the full Godhead. God, return with all His glory and righteousness.
2 Peter 3:7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men

12 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.

Dead people can't stand = you can't judge dead people
Dead = These still have their mortal soul, meaning liable to die
At this time, the millennium is over and it time for judgment. Without the Lord, you are dead.
Mark 12:27 He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.
If you have worshipped Satan, you still have your mortal soul, meaning liable to die soul.
It is the right of God only.
Notice there are two sets of books = the book of life and the books according to their works.
His books are fair and just. The fate of everyone at this time, will have already been written.
How are you judged? Verse 13 According to your works

13 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.

Without the Lord you are dead. If you worshipped Satan, you still have your mortal soul, meaning liable to die.
It is the right of God only. His books are fair and just.
The fate of everyone at this time, will have already been written.
How are you judged? According to your works

14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.

God has destroyed Satan - Death and Hell
Second death = Is the death of your spiritually body = first death is death of your flesh body
Gulf in heaven = Hell = holding place = until after the millennium = all on the left side of the gulf have mortal soul, liable to die soul
Second death, this is the final death, this happens after the millennium
In the millennium you are in your spiritually body. The wicked still have their mortal soul, meaning liable to die soul and the very elect have immoral soul alive with Christ forever.

15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.

After they are judged, after the Millennium, if they still follow Satan they go into the lake of fire, this is the second dead.
Christ, however, will have taught them face to face in the millennium
Thus, it is written in verse 13: ''They shall be judged according to their works.''
How many go into the lake of fire = the number of whom is as the sand of the sea = many will still follow Satan.
Rev 20:7 And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison
The millennium is over. Blindness has been removed from all the people by the teaching of Christ and the elect.
Rev 20:8 And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.