CHAPTER XX. This chapter may be regarded as the beginning' of a new section. Not that it has no relation to the past, for each section leads up to the next, and the latter grow out of the former. But this chapter leads us into scenes that are futuristic, here we have vistas that reach forward to th... [ Continue Reading ]
John saw an angel come down from heaven with the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on Satan and bound him for a thousand years and cast him into the bottomless pit and shut him up. Nothing is said as to the time intervening between the events of the 19th and 2... [ Continue Reading ]
"And I saw thrones." This is a new vision, indicated by the words, 'and I saw,' which expression indicates the transition from one scene to another. "Thrones," where were they? In every other place in this book of Revelation where John mentions a throne or thrones, they are in heaven and this is app... [ Continue Reading ]
These verses give us the post-millennial period. Satan is loosed; and goes out to deceive the nations; Gog and Magog are mentioned; these nations are gathered to battle against the people of God, and God destroys them with fire from heaven. Then the devil that deceived them is cast into the lake of... [ Continue Reading ]
And now the chapter closes with the scene of the final and general judgment. "And I saw a great white throne and him that sat upon it from whose face the earth and heaven fled away." Then follows a description of the judgment. Here is the place to put the second coming of Jesus Christ; when he sits... [ Continue Reading ]