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NASB | Revelation 20:8 and will come out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together for the war; the number of them is like the sand of the seashore. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Revelation 20:8 and will come out to deceive and mislead the nations which are in the four corners of the earth--[including] Gog and Magog--to gather them together for the war; their number is like the sand of the seashore. [Ezek 38:2; 39:1, 6] |
Subject: Millions led by Satan equal Goat Nations |
Bible Note: My fellow Bible student you are reading things into the Scriptures that are not there by taking prophetic language and reading it literally. The book of Revelation is a book that tells of the coming destruction of Jerusalem in 70CE. When you read the first chater you find that it is (1)a Revelation (1:1); (2) to the seven churches of Asia (1:11); (3) in signs (He sent and sign-i-fied it) (1:1); (4) of things that must shortly come to pass (1:1; cf. 1:3; 22:6,10). The 1000 year reign of Christ. The text says, "they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years." The pronoun "we" is a personal pronoun of the first person, but "they" is a is a personal pronoun of the third person; the verbs "lived" and "reigned" are verbs of the past tense, but "shall live and reign" are verbs of future tense. No person can claim the right to change the sentence of the text from the third personal pronoun "they" to the first personal pronoun "we," nor to chage the verbs "lived" and "reigned" of the past tense to "shall live and reign" of the future tense. That is too much change for any man to make who has an ounce of respect for the word of God. In his vision John "saw thrones" and the ones that "sat on them." And those whom he "saw" were the "souls" of the "beheaded." They had not "worshipped" the beast. They had not "received" the mark, and they "lived" and "reigned" with Christ. First: "They lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years." It does not mention the second coming of Christ, a bodily resurrection, a reign on earth, or a literal throne in Jerusalem or elsewhere. It does not mention us, and it does not mention Christ on earth. Revelaton 20 mentions none of these things, and a curse was pronounced on the one who add to the words of this book (revelation 22:18). Second: "They" lived and reigned with Christ. It says "they"-the souls of the martyrs who were beheaded. Only those who were beheaded entered the 1000 yrs. If the 1000 yrs is literal then the behading is literal, and only those literally beheaded entered into that millennium. If the beheading is figurative, the 1000 yrs. is figurative, and that cuts us out; for there could be no literal millennium. If a literal 1000 yrs, then a literal behading; if a figurative beheading, then a figurative 1000 yrs, and either way there is no millennium for us. Third: They "lived" and "reigned." If the term "reigned" is limited by a thousand years, the verb "lived"is also limited by those thosand years. If the reigning ends with the thousand years, the living ends with a thousand years, and the millennium will end with everybody in it ceasing to live. That would be quite a hopeless millennium. There is no millennium. |