The “Great Alarm Bell”: Revelation 20

An Angel with a key bound the dragon (satan) for a 1,000 years and cast him into the bottomless pit for a 1,000 years, and he could no longer deceive the nations during that time.  However, after this, he will be “loosed for a little season.”

In the “first resurrection”, those who rejected Christ and were dead, stayed dead.  Those who served Christ, some even died for Christ and all those who refused the mark and refused to worship the beast reigned with Christ for 1,000 years.  They will become “priests of God and of Christ”.

After 1,000 years, satan is allowed out of his prison for a little while.  He deceives the nations once again and he and gog and magog persuade many others to battle against God.  But a fire came down out of Heaven, sent by God Himself, and devoured satan and all those who made the fatal mistake of following him.  And the devil who had so deceived so many for so long will be cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and false prophet are.  In this lake of fire, they will all be tormented 24-7, forever.

Finally, God will sit on the throne.  Both earth and Heaven will have “fled away” and the people whose names are written in the ”Book of Life” will live with God, but all of the rest will be cast into the lake of fire.

One cautionary note from James.  “So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.”  Just saying the words, I believe, is not enough.  For as James says in James 2, a true believer lives the life of a true believer.

Think about it like this.  If a mother says she love her children, but never feeds or hugs them, does she really love them?

Prepare, Pray & Be Ready!