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Introduction:
I.
The Removal of Satan (vs.
1-3)
II.
The Reign of the Saints (vs.
4-6)
Revelation 20:4-6
With Satan and all of the demons incarcerated, the rule of Jesus Christ in the Millennial Kingdom can commence.
The fulfillment of the proclamation of the angel Gabriel will now come to being.
The Lord Jesus Christ will reign as the supreme ruler.
However, He will allow His people to subordinately rule with Him during this thousand year reign.
The will be allowed to rule every aspect of the Kingdom life.
And being glorified and perfect, they will perfected carry out the will of the Lord during this time.
John says that he saw “thrones”, “θρόνος” in the Greek.
And speaks about a seat of judicial and regal authority.
During the Millennial reign of Jesus Christ, the ones sitting on the throne will both enforce God’s will and adjudicate disputes.
Now, just as with the angel who will capture and seal Satan so are the identities of the ones that are going to sit on the throne not expressly given.
So how to do we deduce who are the ones that are going to be sitting on the throne judging?
The identity of the ones that are going to be judging can easily be identified by the ones that are promised to reign from the thrones.
So, OT saints are promised to rule with Jesus Christ during His kingdom.
So, the Apostle were given the promise that they would rule with Christ.
So, NT saints are given the promise that they will rule with Christ in His kingdom.
The passage indicates for us who will the last group of people that are going to rule with Christ during His kingdom.
Revelation 20:4
The last group that will sit on the thrones and judge the world will be the believers that were killed during the time of the Tribulation.
“Beheaded” is the word “πελεκίζω” literally means to be cut off with an axe.
This is a figure of speech to symbolize those who had been killed.
The empire of the AntiChrist had terminated those who had a testimony for Jesus Christ, those who had not worshipped his image not taken his mark.
Because the Tribulation saints were faithful to the death, they were given the grace to come to life and rule reign with Christ and the rest of the saints in the Kingdom.
I want to point out something and clarify the statement that I just made when I said “those that were faithful to death”.
The reason that I say that is because the fact that they were willing to die for the testimony of Jesus Christ proves the genuineness of their faith.
Someone who does not endure to the end, shows that they were never truly a Christian.
And I know that this passage is used by many in the Church of God movement, as well as others, to try and say that if you go away from the faith, that you have “fallen from Grace” and lost your salvation.
Well, first of all, I would say that if someone falls away from the faith, it is not that they lost their salvation but that it is evidence that they never had it.
Second of all, every passage in the Scriptures must be interpreted in light of the context in which it is being written.
You take a statement that is made in the Scripture and then strip it from its context and then form a belief system based on that is just wrong and irresponsible.
The context of is eschatological and not the Church age and must be interpreted in light of that or you get some very bad doctrine.
These are the unbelieving people of all ages, whose judgment and damnation are describe in verses 11-15.
John calls thew resurrection of all the saints of all ages the first resurrection.
Just to give you a list, it is called by several names in the NT.
That resurrection is also called in Scripture the “resurrection of the righteous” (Luke 14:14; Acts 24:15), the “resurrection of life” (John 5:29), the resurrection of “those who are Christ’s at His coming” (1 Cor.
15:23), and the “better resurrection” (Heb.
11:35).
The word “resurrection” is “ἀνάστασις” and is used 42 times in the NT and it is always refers to a physical resurrection as opposed to a spiritual resurrection, as one may perhaps assume.
This is the fifth of the seven “Beatitudes” that are listed in the book of Revelation.
“Blessed” is the Greek word “μακάριος” and it means to be happy, to enjoy favorable circumstances.
John gives three reasons why those that have a part of the first resurrection should be happy.
First, because the second death has no power.
“Power” is the Greek word “ἐξουσία” and means “control”
Happy is the man that has a part of the first resurrection because the second death has no control or authority over them.
You say, “what is the second death”?
We will get to it later in our study, but verse 14 answers that question for us.
The comforting truth is that no true child of God will ever face God’s eternal wrath.
Those who participate in the first resurrection will also be happy because they will become priests or God and of Christ.
Did you know that you are your own priest before God?
Just as believers are royal priests called to proclaim the excellencies of God, so we will also do throughout the Millennial Kingdom.
Just as we do now, in the Millennial Kingdom we will have the responsibility of worshipping God and leading other in the worship and the knowledge of Him.
So during the Millennial Kingdom, one of our responsibilities will be to be witnesses for Christ.
The final blessing for those who participate in the first resurrection is that they will reign with Christ a thousand years.
The word “reign” is “βασιλεύω” and it has a root form “βασιλευς” which means “to be a king”.
We will share as kings in the Kingdom of our Lord.
III.
The Return of Satan (vs.
7)
As previously noted, Satan and his demon hordes will be imprisoned in the abyss for the duration of the Millennium, in which the Lord Jesus Christ will rule with unopposed sovereignty.
They will not be permitted to interfere in the affairs of the kingdom in any way.
Satan’s binding will end, however, when the thousand years are completed and he is released from his prison to lead a final rebellion of sinners.
To review briefly, Scripture teaches that no unsaved people will enter the kingdom.
Only the redeemed from among the Jewish (12:6, 13–17; Isa.
60:21; Rom.
11:26) and Gentile (7:9–17) survivors of the Tribulation will go into the kingdom in their normal, physical bodies.
The perfect environmental and social conditions of the Millennium, coupled with the lengthened life spans of those physically alive (Isa.
65:20), will cause their children to proliferate.
Though the initial inhabitants of the millennial kingdom will all be redeemed, they will still possess a sinful human nature.
And as all parents have done since the Fall, they will pass that sin nature on to their offspring.
Each successive generation throughout the thousand years will be made up of sinners in need of salvation.
Many will come to saving faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
But amazingly, despite the personal rule of Christ on earth, despite the most moral society the world will ever know, many others will love their sin and reject Him
Even the utopian conditions of the Millennium will not change the sad reality of human depravity.
As they did during His incarnational presence on earth, sinners will refuse the grace and reject the lordship of the King of all the earth.
That is not surprising, since even the perfect conditions of the Garden of Eden were not sufficient to keep sinless Adam and Eve from rebelling against God.
The issue regarding salvation is never lack of information (cf.
Rom.
1:18–20); it is love of sin (John 3:19).
Those who openly rebel will face swift judgment (2:27; 12:5; 19:15; Ps. 2:9), including the withholding of rain on their land (Zech.
14:16–19).
But enough unrepentant sinners will be alive at the end of the Millennium for Satan to lead a worldwide rebellion.
When Satan is loosed, He will have enough cohesive supernatural leadership to bring to the surface all of the latent sinful rebellion that is left in the universe.
He will pull together all the rebels, revealing the true character and intent of those Christ-rejecting sinners and making it evident that God’s judgment of them is just.
Satan’s desperate wickedness and violent hatred of God and Christ will not be altered by his thousand years of imprisonment in the abyss.
When he is released, he will immediately set about fomenting his final act of rebellion.
IV.
The Revolt of Society (vs.
8-10)
Satan will collect the deceived nations from the four corners of the earth (cf.
7:1; Isa.
11:12), an expression referring, not to a flat earth, but to the four main points of the compass: north, south, east, and west.
In other words, the rebels will come from all over the globe.
John gives these enemies of the King of Kings the symbolic title Gog and Magog, naming them after the invasion force that will assault Israel during the Tribulation (Ezek.
38–39).
Some believe that Ezekiel 38 and 39 describe this battle at the end of the Millennium.
There are, however, significant differences that argue against equating the two events.
Ezekiel 39:4 and 17 describe the invaders perishing on the mountains of Israel, but according to Revelation 20:9 the rebels at the end of the Millennium will be destroyed on a “broad plain.”
Also, the language of Ezekiel 39:17–20 seems to be describing the same event depicted in Revelation 19:17–18.
Finally, the events of Ezekiel 38–39 fit chronologically before the description of the millennial temple given in chapters 40–48, while the battle depicted in Revelation 20:7–10 takes place after the Millennium.
The name Gog appears to be used in Scripture as a general title for an enemy of God’s people (the Septuagint uses it to translate “Agag” in Num.
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