In this week’s study, I continue in Chapter 20 verses 7 and 8. Before I get into the study, I talk about the opening day ceremonies at the Olympics with drag queens mocking Yahshua Messiah’s Last Supper event along with First Lady Jill Biden praising the opening day ceremonies.
We continue with this Chapter 20 with Yahweh’s judgments against those on the earth. We have completed 3 of those
1st judgment was against man
2nd judgment was the binding of Satan verses 1-3 Before the Millennium
3rd judgment was for the over comers verses 4-6
Now we come to the:
THE FOURTH JUDGMENT
So far we have studied the imprisonment of Satan, the allocation of rulers and the resurrection of the saints in the first 6 verses. You will remember that when Yahshua Messiah the warrior king returns he immediately orders Satan to be bound and incarcerated in the abyss for the duration of the millennium. Imagine 1000 years of unthreatened holiness will characterize the messianic age. None of his demon horde will be roaming over the earth enacting their diabolical plots. And this will go on until the very end when Satan will be released briefly and ultimately destroyed eternally in an epical battle.
7. And when the thousand years are completed, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison = In verse 3 it was stated that "he should deceive the nations no more until the thousand years should be finished; after this he MUST be loosed a little season." Here, in verse 7, we have the fact, the necessity of which is there declared.
8. And will go out to deceive = How, and with what lies, Satan will deceive them we are not told. But we are not without examples of how easily nations may be deceived by man, even in our own day. And Satan will find means to discredit Yahweh's dealings and misrepresent His words.
the Nations = The meaning here is, that Satan would again, for a time, act in his true character, and in some way once again delude the nations once more. In what way this would be done is not stated. It would be, however, clearly an appeal to the wicked passions of mankind, exciting a hope that they might yet overthrow the kingdom of Yahweh on the earth.
which are in the four corners of the earth, = Literally, corners of the earth, as if the earth were one extended square plain. The earth is usually spoken of as divided into four parts or quarters - the eastern, the western, the northern, and the southern. It is implied here that the deception or apostasy referred to would not be confined to one spot or portion of the world, but would extend afar.
God and Magog, = "Gog and Magog" denote the nations as a whole. Magog is mentioned as the first son of Japhet in Gen 10:2. With him are associated his brethren, Gomer (Kimmerians), Madai (Medians), Meshech (Muscovites), etc. In Ezek 38:5, are added Persians, and Ethiopians, and Libyans. Josephus renders the word Magog, Scythians (Ant. i. 6, 3). The two words combine the nations North and East of Palestine.
to gather them together to battle: = As if to assemble them for ‘the war’;
the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. = A common comparison in the Scriptures to denote a great multitude
Don’t end up like those in Hosea 4:6 ‘My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God (Elohim), I will also forget thy children.’
But, be like those in 2Timothy 2:15 ‘Study to shew thyself approved unto God (Yahweh), a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.’
Join me as we go Chapter by Chapter, Verse by Verse, Unraveling the Words of Yahweh!
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