Revelation 20:12

And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. THE DEAD - `the rest of the dead' who did not share the first resurrection, and those who died during the millennium. SMALL AND GREAT. B, 'the small and the great.' A 'Aleph ('), Vulgate, Syriac, Andreas, 'the ('Aleph (') has 'both' for 'the') great and the small' (). The wicked who died from Adam to Christ's second advent, and all the righteous and wicked who died during and after the millennium, shall then be judged. The transfigured godly, who reigned with Christ during it, shall also be present, not to have their portion assigned (for that was fixed long be...

11-15 After the events just foretold, the end will speedily come; and there is no mention of any thing else, before the appearing of Christ to judge the world. This will be the great day: the Judge, the Lord Jesus Christ, will then put on majesty and terror. The persons to be judged are the dead, small and great; young and old, low and high, poor and rich. None are so mean, but they have some talents to account for; and none so great, as to avoid having to account for them. Not only those alive at the coming of Christ, but all the dead. There is a book of remembrance both for good and bad: and the book of the sinner's conscience, though formerly secret, will then be opened. Every man will recollect all his past actions, though he had long forgotten many of them. Another book shall be opened, the book of the Scriptures, the rule of life; it represents the Lord's knowledge of his people,...

Verse Revelation 20:12. _THE DEAD, SMALL AND GREAT_] All ranks, degrees, and conditions of men. This description seems to refer to Daniel 7:9. _AND THE BOOKS WERE OPENED_] See Daniel 12:1. "Rab. Jehuda said: All the actions of men, whether good or bad, _are written in a book_, and of all they shall give account."-_Sohar_ Gen., fol. 79, col. 298. "How careful should men be to shun vice, and to act uprightly before the holy blessed God, seeing there are so many which go throughout the earth, see the works of men, testify of them, and _write them in a book_!"-Ibid., fol. 105, col. 417. "In the first day of the new year the holy blessed God sits that he may j

AND I SAW THE DEAD, SMALL AND GREAT - All the dead - for this language would express that - the whole race being composed of the “small and great.” Thus, in other language, the same idea might be expressed by saying, the young and old; the rich and poor; the bond and free; the sick and well; the happy and the unhappy; the righteous and the wicked; for all the human family might, in these respects, be considered as thus divided. The fair meaning in this place therefore is, that all the dead would be there, and of course this would preclude the idea of a “previous” resurrection of any part of the dead, as of the saints, at the beginning of the millennium. There is no intimation here that it is the wicked dead that are referred to in this description of the final judgment. It is the judgment of all the dead. STAND BEFORE GOD - That is, they appear thus to be judged. The word “God” here must...

EXPOSITION REVELATION 20:1 AND I SAW AN ANGEL COME DOWN FROM HEAVEN; _coming down out of heaven. _The usual mode of introducing a new vision (cf. Revelation 4:1, etc.). On account of Revelation 1:18, some have considered this angel to be Christ himself; but this is incorrect. As in Revelation 12:7, an angel is the immediate agent in this expulsion of Satan (_vide infra_)_._ HAVING THE KEY OF THE BOTTOMLESS PIT; _the abyss; _as in...

AND I SAW THE DEAD,.... An account being given of the Judge, next the persons to be judged are described, and in this clause, by the state and condition in which they had been; for it cannot be thought they were dead when they stood before the throne, but were raised from the dead; for this character is not descriptive of them as dead in trespasses and sins, though they are such as die in their sins, and rise in them, who are meant, but as having been corporeally dead; these are the rest of the dead, the wicked, who lived not again until the thousand years were ended, Revelation 20:5 as for the righteous, they will be judged upon their resurrection from the dead in the beginning of the day of the Lord; and will be declared righteous and blessed, and be called upon and introduced to inherit the kingdom prepared for them, which they shall have possessed a thousand years when these wicked

Revelation 20:11 _And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them._ Driven, like chaff before the wind, from the face of him who sat upon the throne. Revelation 20:12. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not

JUDGED The final judgment. The subjects are the "dead." As the redeemed were raised from among the dead one thousand years before (Revelation 20:5) and have been in glory with Christ during that period, the "dead" can only be the wicked dead, from the beginning to the setting up of the great white throne in space. As there are degrees of punishment (Luke 12:27); (Luke 12:48) the dead are judged according to their works. The book of life is there to answer such as plead their works for justification, for example (Matthew 7:22); (Matthew 7:23)

CHAPTER S 20:7-22:5 After the Thousand Years and the New Jerusalem _ 1. Satan's last revolt (Revelation 20:7)_ 2. The great white throne (Revelation 20:11) 3. The eternal state (Revelation 21:1) 4. The vision of the holy city (Revelation 21:9) 5. The glories of the redeemed (Revelation 22:1) Revelation 20:7 . Satan who was put into the abyss a thousand years before, is

THE GENERAL RESURRECTION. Revelation 20:11. great white throne: in contrast to the thrones of Revelation 20:4. In the final judgment there is but one throne, since there is but one judge (Swete); white symbolises the purity of the judgment. FLED AWAY: _cf._ Revelation 16:20. Revelation 20:12. the dead: _i.e._ the rest of the dead who did not share in the first resurrection. BOOKS. BOOK: the books contained the record of the acts and deeds of men, the book of life contained the names of the redeemed....