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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: Greetings Alanh! Tenses in Greek are not quite as cut and dried as you present in your post. Prophetic events can be spoken of in the past tense. Future events can be spoken of in the present tense. Context is the best indicator. The Aorist tense is generally a past tense, but the time of the action is not the most important feature of the tense. There are several well recongnized uses of the Aorist tense. 1) The Gnomic Aorist is an event or occurance regarded as so certain that it is spoken of as already completed. Examples Jn. 15:8, Lk, 7:35, and 1 Pet. 1:24 (Dana and Mantey) 2) The Epistolary Aorist is where a writer would place himself at the viewpoint of his reader and use the aorist indicate to describe an event which was present or even future to him. Examples Phs. 2:28, Acts 23:30, and Col. 4:8. So, it cannot be argued simply that things in the aorist tense must have already happened. Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |