seekeroftruth
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Revelation 20:7 When the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison 8 and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth—Gog and Magog—and to gather them for battle. In number they are like the sand on the seashore. 9 They marched across the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of God’s people, the city he loves. But fire came down from heaven and devoured them. 10 And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
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Here's a link to the commentary I read. I commentary out again.Satan will be released: For the thousand years of the direct reign of Jesus over this earth, Satan was bound and inactive. But after the thousand years are over, he will be released and successfully organize many people of the earth in another rebellion against God.
If Jesus has reigned so wonderfully for a thousand years, then why will the earth rebel? They will do it, and God will allow it, as a final demonstration of man’s rebellion and depravity. Outward conformity to Jesus’ rule will be required during His reign, but seemingly, an inward embrace of His Lordship will still be up to the individual.
Gather them together to battle: Who will these rebels be? They will be those who survive the Great Tribulation, enter into the Millennial Kingdom, and their descendants. “Infants born during the millennium will live to its conclusion and will not be required to make a choice between the devil and Christ until the end.” (Walvoord)
Gog and Magog: These are prophetic enemies of Israel in Ezekiel 38-39, but the battle described in those chapters of Ezekiel seems to be distinct and different from this final battle.
John seems to borrow the term and use it as a symbol. Seemingly, the battles described in Ezekiel 38-39 take place before the return of Jesus, perhaps right before or during the tribulation. This final battle clearly takes place at the end of the thousand-year reign of Jesus.
Surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city: We don’t know if the saints referred to here are glorified saints who reign with Jesus, or earth-inhabitants who come to faith in Jesus during the Millennium. Either way, the strategy of this vast Satanic army is clear: to destroy God’s people, and the “headquarters” or “capital city” of His administration, Jerusalem (the beloved city).
Fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them: We shouldn’t even call this a final battle, because there is no battle. The fight is over before it begins. At this point, God finally deals with the devil and his followers forever.
Cast into the lake of fire… they will be tormented day and night forever and ever: After this aborted battle, Satan is then judged and tormented forever — together with the beast and the false prophet, who were cast into the lake of fire at the beginning of the thousand years (Revelation 19:20).
Forever and ever: Is this really eternal punishment? Yes it is; the words mean exactly what they appear to mean. “There would be no way possible in the Greek language to state more emphatically the everlasting punishment of the lost than here in mentioning both day and night and the expression ‘forever and ever,’ literally ‘to the ages of ages.’” (Walvoord)
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Here's my take.
At the end of 1,000 years, humans will once again have personal choice. After 1,000 years no one will remember the wars or the hate or the depression and starving people. No one will remember the shape-shifting of the earth. No one will remember the days of darkness, that was so thick a human could taste it. No one will remember how the headless humans lost their heads.
The only history any humans will remember will be the Reign of Jesus the Messiah. Acronyms are popular right now. If they somehow remained popular during the 1,000 Reigh of Jesus the Messiah... the people would probably call Him KOK... King of Kings.
At the end of 1,000 years, there will still be people who are hateful. The kings of the earth, Satan's minions, will still hate Jesus. This time, however, humans won't be able to use "the Apostate Church made me go down the wrong path".
All living humans on earth will be given the choice "one last time". Choose Jesus or Satan... Those are the only two candidates.
The humans who choose Jesus will stay with Him right around Jerusalem. Those who choose Satan's army, will head for Jerusalem. Those troops blinded by Satan will come from all over the world to try to do away with Jesus and His troops.
Jesus is God's only Begotten Son. He's already been murdered once by humans. God's not going to let them harm a hair on the head of Jesus or His troops.
Jesus is God's only Begotten Son. So, God will take command of nature.
Fire will devour every Satan loving minion on earth! Then He will round them all back, bring them all back to life, and throw them in the lake of fire. Mass cremation!
Then God will throw Satan in the lake of fire and all of his troops. Satan isn't dead.... he'll just be crisped... he's crisped every day, all day long, every night, all night long... every week every month every year every decade and every century and on and on and on and on. The same thing will be true of Satan's troops... Mass Cremation!!!
Mass Cremation
