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And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And
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and he cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal on him, so that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years were finished. But after these things he must be released for a little
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Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years.
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Then the devil, who had deceived them, was thrown into the fiery lake of burning sulfur, joining the beast and the false prophet. There they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
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The Ancient of Days came, and judgment was given for the saints of the Most High, and the time came when the saints possessed the kingdom
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the dragon was 'thrown from heaven to earth, where he deceived the nations' and now is thrown into the imprisonment in the abyss (cf.
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and of Death", leading some interpreters to suggest that the angel observed here is actually Christ. The 17th-century theologian
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And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the
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It is not explicit or clear who was seated on the thrones. "The natural construction is that 'judges' sat on them. The
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But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
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He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years;
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And Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death.
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I saw thrones on which were seated those who had been given authority to judge ...
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As I looked, thrones were set in place, and the Ancient of Days took his seat
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Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter are among others:
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argues that those seated on the thrones are these saints of the Most High.
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I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key to the
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they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
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Index

chapter 19
chapter 21

Papyrus 47
Book of Revelation
Apocalypse
New Testament
Book of Revelation
New Testament
Christian
Bible
John the Apostle
Koine Greek
This chapter is divided into
Codex Sinaiticus
Codex Alexandrinus
Revelation 20:8
Ezekiel 38:2
Ezekiel 39:1
Revelation 20:12
Revelation 3:5
millenarianism
bottomless pit
Jesus Christ
Revelation 1:18
Hades
John Gill
Constantine the Great
Ethiopic
chapter 12

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