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Rev. 20:2: And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years.
That is when every knee shall bow to Christ, both the good seed, and the evil seed.
Rom. 14:11: For it is written, as I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow down to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.
. At the end of that Millennium age, Satan will be loosed out of the pit to go and deceive again, and those who come to Christ during the Millennium will have to prove themselves against Satan at the end of it. Rev. 20:7-15: Read All.
Then the final ‘cup of God’s wrath’ will be poured out, casting Satan and his angels into the ‘lake of fire’, along with those who follow him, which is the blotting out of those names from the Book of Life.(This is called the second death.) Our Lord is very fair. By the end of Christ’s Millennium reign upon the earth, everyone will have had a chance to hear God’s Word, unaltered and pure, even the wicked ‘evil seed’.Ezek.44 through end:
Acts 24:15: And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust About the resurrection of the "just", i.e. righteous, and the "unjust", i.e. wicked. Isa 4:4 When the LORD shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning. There’s a lot of weight in this verse. The Companion Bible helps quite a bit in deciphering it. The ‘daughters of Zion’ are God’s people written in that Book of Life. The word ‘purged’ is duwach in the Hebrew, meaning to ‘cast out’. ‘Blood’ is ‘dam’ in the Hebrew, meaning the ‘blood (as that which when shed causes death) of man or an animal’. This means the ‘casting’ away with all the unrighteous shedding of man’s blood, for example, by murder. The word ‘spirit’ is Hebrew ruwach, meaning ‘blast’ or ‘blast by the breath’.1 Essentially this verse says The LORD in the future, will have washed the filth away, put for the ‘doing away with all evil’, from among His children, and ‘cast out’ the ‘blood guilt’ of Jerusalem (remember who all the righteous blood of the prophets fall upon; see
Matt. 23:35: That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.
by the ‘blast’ of judgment from His ‘breath’, (The Word cuts both ways, like a two-edged sword,)
Heb. 4:12: For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
And by the ‘blast of burning’, for God is a ‘consuming fire’…
Heb. 12:29: For our God is a consuming fire.
2 Thessalonians 2:8: I will therefore that men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.
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