€XpLa!ning ReVeLaTion 20 1-6

          a WeeKly paraphrased study

1 - Then I (John) saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the abyss and a great chain. [Abyss - abussos - boundless, bottomless (which makes sense since “the wages/result of hamartia - missing the mark - is death” (opposite of Life). Is there any depth lower than that? There’s also this. It’s a little humbling! Because if imperfection is an abyss of potential, don’t you think it might be only because of where God places his hand somewhere along the shaft to the abyss as to how low each one of us can go.. Letting some go very low ..despots, and so on and so on.. But if you avoid making an ant farm, but don’t let things run their natural and full course, then what the heck is the point!? Isn’t this an all important contrast? Proving God, Genius that he is, is right about all things.)] 2 And the angel seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. 3 And threw him into the abyss, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he might not deceive the nations any more until the thousand years are ended. After that he must be released for a short while. 4 Then I saw thrones, and seated were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls [psyche - a person's distinct identity, unique personhood, individual personality] - of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and they had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands, and they were alive and reign with Christ for a thousand years. 5 This is the first resurrection. The rest of the dead do not come to life until the thousand years are ended. 6 Blessed and holy are those having a part in this first resurrection, upon such the second death hasn’t power, but they are priests of God and of Christ, and they reign with him for a thousand years. (His long second advent will [surely?] be a longer, wider version of his first so brief one. But with helpers serving, called reigning, for to do His works, surely(?) is to reign..) [Jesus said he “will draw all” (Jn.12:32) and - “All those in the tombs/graves will hear God’s voice and will come forth” (from where? From the graves/tombs) “some into the resurrection of life (into THE millennium). And some into the resurrection of judgment” (Jn.5:28-29) which - elsewhere - He calls agelasting correction (kolasin aionion” oR “eonian correction” Mt.25:46). No mention of that ancient propaganda of a hell that is a place, and not an inner condition.. or war, etc! Again.. the abyss of potential.. has already been proven by history..]

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🌽💫𝒲𝒽𝑜𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇 𝒽𝒶𝓈 𝑒𝒶𝓇𝓈.. ℓιѕтєη  𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝓌𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒮𝓅𝒾𝓇𝒾𝓉 𝑜𝒻 𝒢𝑜𝒹 𝒽𝒶𝓈 𝓈𝒶𝒾𝒹 𝓉𝑜 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒸𝒽𝓊𝓇𝒸𝒽𝑒𝓈...

The revelation vision is told 3 times: 6:1-2 to 11:19; chap.12 w/ Mt.23:39; and 13:1 to 19:11.

Rev/Apoc Cast of Characters & Events ~ is pinned📌 in the side column.