Read The Skeptics Annotated Bible Online
Authors: Steve Wells
(19.20)
“The beast … and … the false prophet … were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.”
21 And
the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.
(19.21)
“The remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.”
(20.1-3) An angel locks up Satan in a bottomless pit for 1000 years. After that God will let him out for a little while.
20
And
I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
(20.1)
“I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.”
2 And
he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
(20.2)
“He laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years.”
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.
(20.3)
“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.”
(20.4-6) Those who didn’t worship the beast will become priests and reign with Christ for 1000 years. The rest of the dead will remain dead until the 1000 years is over.
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.
(20.4)
“They
[dead people]
which had not worshipped the beast … lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.”
5
But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
(20.5)
“But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.”
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.
(20.6)
“They shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.”
7 And
when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
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.
(20.7-8)
“When the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, And shall go out to deceive the nations.”
When the thousand years are over, God will send Satan to deceive people.
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.
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.
(20.9-10)
“Fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them. 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.”
The people deceived by Satan will be burned to death by God. And the devil will be cast into a lake of fire to be be tormented forever.
157 Does Hell exist?
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.
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.
(20.12)
“The dead were judged … according to their works.”
167 Is death final?
304 Is salvation by faith alone?
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.
14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
15 And
whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
(20.15) “Whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.”
157 Does Hell exist?