Chapter breakup
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V 1-3 – summary
V 4-6 – 1st resurrection
V 7-10 – serpents head bruised
V 11-15 – 2nd death
Mega things
Great …voice 1:10; 5:2,12, tribulation 2:22,
sword 6:4, earthquake 6:12; 11:13; 16:18, wind
6:13, day 6:14,17, mountain 8:8; 21:10 star 8:10,
furnace 9:2, river 9:14; 16:2, city 11:8; 14:8;16:19;
17:18; 18:10,16,18,19, fear 11:11, voices 11:15,
power 11:17; 18:1, small & Great 11:18, hail
11:19; 16:21, wonder/s 12:1; 13:3, red dragon
12:3, wrath 12:12, eagle 12:14, authority 13:2,
thunder 14:2, cry 14:18, winepress 14:19, heat
16:9, whore 17:1; 19:2, admiration 17:6, millstone
18:21. white throne 20:11, wall 21:11.
Christ and the Saints
• Rev 10:1 – the rainbowed angel
• Rev 18:1 – Angel who lightens the
earth with his glory.
• Rev 21:2,10 - Bride
The power of sin
• “…who will bind the dragon or sin-power
for a thousand years”.
The Christadelphian : Volume 6. 2001, p.360
The power of sin
• The first part of the work is to restrain sin,
apocalyptically styled binding the Dragon,
the Old Serpent; who is designated also
by the words diabolos and satanas; the
former being rendered devil, and the latter
left untranslated.
The Christadelphian : Volume 10, 2001, p.485
• We see from these hints that diabolos, or ‘that
having the power of death,’ appears in divers parts
of Scripture in a sort of personal manifestation. The
personality, however, is not that of a single
individual; but the personification of a power in man,
and in society antagonist to God and His people. .
The Christadelphian : Volume 10. 1873. p.486.
Summary of rebellion
Deceive
March against God
Surround the holy city
Gathered for battle
Travel the world against God
Killed saints
“Little season”
II Cor 4:17 – “for our light affliction,
which is but for a moment”
Heb 2:10 - described as a “few days”
I Pet 5:10 – “after you have suffered a
while”
I Pet 1:6 – heaviness for a season.
Shared Authority
MILLENNIUM
MILLENNIUM
Parenthesis
The First Resurrection
• Luk 20:36; Phil 3:11 – ‘The resurrection
of the dead”
• Luk 14:14 – “the resurrection of the just”
• Jhn 5:29 – “the resurrection of life”
• Heb 11:35 – “a better resurrection”
• Some partake of the life of the First
resurrection at the beginning of the
millennium and some at the end... (as the 2nd
death is also meted at the beginning and
end).
• Both groups are “blessed and holy”.
• Only those at the beginning reign for a
1000yrs.
The first death
• Gen 3:19 – “for dust thou art and unto dust thou
shalt return”
• Ecc 3:19-20 – “what happens to the beasts is the
same…all go to one place”.
• Psm 89:48 – “What man…shall not see death”
• Rom 5:12 – “…and so death passed upon all
men for that all have sinned”
• I Cor 15:21-22 – “for since by man came
death…for as in Adam all die”
• Heb 9:27 – “it is appointed unto men
to die,
but after this the judgment”
Sinners
• Lke 15:18-20, 24,32 – my son was dead
but is alive
• Jhn 5:21 – father raises up the (morally)
dead
• Eph 2:1-6 – dead in tresspasses & sins,
dead in sins.
• Col 2:13 – dead in sins
• I Tim 5:6 – she that liveth in pleasure is
dead while she liveth
Therefore all under the first death
2nd Death called…
• Jhn 5:29 – “the resurrection of
condemnation”
• Dan 12:2-3 – “shame & everlasting
contempt”
• Matt 25:41-46 – everlasting punishment
• Rev 20:14 – the lake of fire
The throne in Revelation
• Rev 4:2 …a throne was set in heaven, and one
sat on the throne.
• Rev 4:9 And when those beasts give glory and
honour and thanks to him that sat on the throne…
• Rev 4:10 The four and twenty elders fall down
before him that sat on the throne…
• Rev 5:1 And I saw in the right hand of him that
sat on the throne a book …
• Rev 19:4 And the four and twenty elders and the
four beasts fell down and worshipped God that sat
on the throne, saying, Amen; Alleluia.
The throne in Revelation
• It is the same throne in Dan 7 before
whom the books were opened to judge the
nations and from which proceeded the
stream of fire that ignites the lake of fire.
• It is the white throne and very glorious (Mt
25:31-32,41).
• Set up at the same time as (Dan 2:35)
Summary
“first resurrection” = the only escape from
the condemnation of mortality that God
passed on all.
“second death” = the condemnation of
Christ, either at the commencement or at
the end of the millennium.
Microcosm
Gen 19 Rev 20
Sin unrestrained Sin loosed
Compassed house about Compassed camp of saints
From every quarter (extremity) From four quarters
Fire from Yahweh out of heaven Fire from heaven
5 cities Completely destroyed Sin completely destroyed