Revelation 20:1

Chapter 20 - Judgment Against the Dragon The Binding of Satan, vv. 1-3 The Reign of Saints, vv. 4-6 The Loosing of Satan, vv. 7-10 The Final Judgment, vv. 11-15

Revelation 20:2

No doubt about the identity of the Dragon (The old Serpent), he is the Devil, or Satan. #Matthew 12:28-29; Luke 11:22; Hebrews 2:14; #Colossians 2:14-15; John 12:31-32; Luke 10:18; One thousand years… 1,000 used symbolically of a totality. 1000 not quanity but quality #Deuteronomy 7:9; Psalms 50:10

Revelation 20:3

Satan in Rev had deceived nations into persecuting the church. There has been no world-wide universal (or general) persecution of Christianity since the time the Woman-Babylon was destroyed and the Beasts (ch. 19) were slain with the gospel. After the “1,000” years he will be loosed and go out to deceive the nations again and gather them against the camp of the saints. (20:7-8).

Revelation 20:4

These souls had been previously seen under the altar in Rev. 6:9. The souls are pictured as reigning with Christ. Nothing said about “us” reigning “Judgment” was given to them. For what did these souls cry? “Vengence!” They are now .[I wonder if John might have recogned the soul of his brother James? Acts 12

Revelation 6 9

In this “1000 year” reign John did NOT see:

1. A bodily resurrection of bodies and spirits
2. A reign on earth from literal Jerusalem
3. A literal throne of David
4. “Us” (but it is rather the martyred “souls”)
5. Christ on earth
6. Doesn’ t mention Jerusalm or Palestine
7. No mention of the Second Coming IT IS:1. “They” and not “us”
8. Past Tense… not “we will reign”
9. Reign of souls is “with” Christ, not a 1000 year reign “of” Christ
10. No mention of an earthly reign

Revelation 20:5

Note the word for “live again” #326 is used figuratively in Luke 15. The “rest” is the wicked, those persecutors, who, when they die are forgotten. #Isaiah 26:13-19 The “First Resurrection” is described as the resurrection of the souls from beneath the altar (Rev. 6:9) to thones with the Lord. This resurrection is a figurative or symbolic one like that in Ezekiel 38 in the Valley of Dry Bones Vision. With the destruction of the Womon-Babylon, the saints are vindicated. All that they had prophesied about (Matthew 24, Luke 18-21; Mark 13) had come true and they were .