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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints believes that the sealing of the 144,000 relates to the high priests, ordained unto the holy order of God, to administer the everlasting gospel; "for they are they who are ordained out of every nation, kindred, tongue, and people, by the angels to whom is given power over the nations of the earth, to bring as many as will come to the church of ...
The Dragon is imprisoned in the Bottomless Pit for a thousand years. (20:1–3) The resurrected martyrs live and reign with Christ for a thousand years. (20:4–6) After the Thousand Years The Dragon is released and goes out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the Earth—Gog and Magog—and gathers them for battle at the holy city ...
The Thousand Years The Millennium Revelation 20:1–3 [58] The Millennium is a literal, future 1,000-year reign of Christ following the destruction of God's enemies. The Millennium is the current, ongoing rise of God's Kingdom. The Millennium is a symbolic time frame, not a literal time frame.
The End of the World, also known as The Great Day of His Wrath by John Martin. "The Day of the L ORD ” is a biblical term and theme used in both the Hebrew Bible (יֹום יְהוָה Yom Adonai) and the New Testament (ἡμέρα κυρίου, hēmera Kyriou), as in "The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the L ORD come ...
Moreover, after chapters 6–19, and after 20:1–3 when Satan is bound, Revelation 20:4–6 says, "and they lived, and reigned with Christ a thousand years. But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection."
The day-year principle was partially employed by Jews [7] as seen in Daniel 9:24–27, Ezekiel 4:4-7 [8] and in the early church. [9] It was first used in Christian exposition in 380 AD by Ticonius, who interpreted the three and a half days of Revelation 11:9 as three and a half years, writing 'three days and a half; that is, three years and six months' ('dies tres et dimidium; id est annos ...
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But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. [19] "Lived … again": from Greek: ἀνἔζησαν [20] or ἔζησαν (Greek Orthodox Church NT), [21] in the sense of "not only when restored to life, but when in the act of reviving" (cf. Revelation 2:8). [22]