Remember where St John stood while the beast came out of the sea?"And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea"(Rev.13.1) Abraham's seed on the basis of faith creates two sets of heirs of promise,Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable."(Heb.11.12) Those who are alive and dead before the living God holds no difference. He is the God of Isaac and Jacob. Remember it is the Spirit whose intent is our spiritual instruction and he is not like Josephus writing the history of Jewish nation. These heirs of promise as stars and as sand, by Jesus Christ consist.(Col.1.17)
By the same token Magog and Gog are labels as we refer to the names of Trump and Putin and do not concern us. The nations that have rejected Jesus Christ are deceived, and they cover the four quarters of the earth. The horns of the beast bear names such as Gog, and Magog but what is driving them is Satan. Devil works from the beginning and Jesus Christ was manifested to destroy the works of the devil.
This entire chapter sums up the consequence of God's word dividing the light from darkness so the unclean spirits mustered by Satan and the doomed spirits of the sons of perdition from beginning are participants. The same lake of fire awaits them.
"and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them. In Rev.19 the same specifically signified the word of God.'which sword proceeded out of his mouth'. As with the beast and the false prophet the end of Satan shall be. Naturally the question arises, Do the events in ch.19 very from this chapter. We saw the will of God as events pictorially presented by the Spirit till ch.19. Chapter 20 is a summing up by the word of God. 'The nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, refer to the world framed by the word of God and not the world of nations with own borders.
Remember where St John stood while the beast came out of the sea?"And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea"(Rev.13.1) Abraham's seed on the basis of faith creates two sets of heirs of promise,Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable."(Heb.11.12) Those who are alive and dead before the living God holds no difference. He is the God of Isaac and Jacob. Remember it is the Spirit whose intent is our spiritual instruction and he is not like Josephus writing the history of Jewish nation. These heirs of promise as stars and as sand, by Jesus Christ consist.(Col.1.17)
By the same token Magog and Gog are labels as we refer to the names of Trump and Putin and do not concern us. The nations that have rejected Jesus Christ are deceived, and they cover the four quarters of the earth. The horns of the beast bear names such as Gog, and Magog but what is driving them is Satan. Devil works from the beginning and Jesus Christ was manifested to destroy the works of the devil.
This entire chapter sums up the consequence of God's word dividing the light from darkness so the unclean spirits mustered by Satan and the doomed spirits of the sons of perdition from beginning are participants. The same lake of fire awaits them.
"and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them. In Rev.19 the same specifically signified the word of God.'which sword proceeded out of his mouth'. As with the beast and the false prophet the end of Satan shall be. Naturally the question arises, Do the events in ch.19 very from this chapter. We saw the will of God as events pictorially presented by the Spirit till ch.19. Chapter 20 is a summing up by the word of God. 'The nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, refer to the world framed by the word of God and not the world of nations with own borders.
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