Revelation 20:8 ...out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
And this battle, into which, by his deception, he leads this multitude
to engage, is a battle against the camp of the saints and the beloved city, for:
Revelation 20:9 They went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city. They are enabled to do this because, it is declared that when the Lord Jesus comes, at the end of the thousand years: Zechariah 14:4 His feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley…
Revelation 20:9 They went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city. They are enabled to do this because, it is declared that when the Lord Jesus comes, at the end of the thousand years: Zechariah 14:4 His feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley…
5 ...and the Lord my God shall come, and all the saints with you. Thus, the holy city, the heavenly Jerusalem, the camp of the saints, is brought down upon the earth at His coming to the judgment of the wicked.
And this is how it is that Satan can gather all the nations of the wicked, who have then been raised from the dead, against this camp of the saints and the beloved city. And how easy it will be for him to deceive them all in this, however much he has deceived them before!
And now Satan and his armies are there, with his spirit reigning supreme, to seize their minds in this crisis and in this spirit of war, and to draw them up to battle against the camp of the saints and the beloved city.
And now Satan and his armies are there, with his spirit reigning supreme, to seize their minds in this crisis and in this spirit of war, and to draw them up to battle against the camp of the saints and the beloved city.
And so: Revelation 20:9 They went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city. And thus, and at that time, the Son of man sits upon the throne of His glory, and before Him are “gathered all nations,” and they are separated one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats: the sheep—the righteous—are at “His right hand,” in the city, and the goats—the wicked—are at “His left hand,” outside the city.
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.
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.
13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell [margin: “the grave”] delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. These are all the wicked dead; for the righteous dead all lived a thousand years before.
And mark: these are judged out of the things “written in the books;” not out of the things written in the book. These books are the records
of their lives. The book of life is there as the witness that they might have had their places in that book, and so might have had all the records in “the books” blotted out and have lived at the beginning of the thousand years and be reigning now with Christ. But they would not have their place in “the book of life,” and so they must now meet the record in “the books,” exactly as that record is, “according to their works.”
And now all the books are opened; and every soul of that vast throne, as it stands compassed about “the camp of the saints and the beloved city,” sees his life exactly as it was lived. He sees all the blessedness and the joy that he might have had.
And every soul of them, seeing all this, and, in the light of the judgment of the just Judge,—seeing that it is all just, every knee bows to Christ, and every tongue confesses to God that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
And every soul of them, seeing all this, and, in the light of the judgment of the just Judge,—seeing that it is all just, every knee bows to Christ, and every tongue confesses to God that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Romans 14:11 For it is written, As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God. Philippians 2:11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Thus, Psalm 22:29 All they that go down to the dust shall bow before Him...
Thus, Psalm 22:29 All they that go down to the dust shall bow before Him...
Yet, as each one has chosen his way in spite of all that the Lord could possibly do, now... "
A.T. Jones