Christendom's inconsistent beliefs #2: The Devil's Faithfulness Test at the End of the Millennium

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Christendom's inconsistent beliefs #2: The Devil's Faithfulness Test at the End of the Millennium

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In Rev. 20 the Devil is described "reactivated" trying to deceive the people who live on earth.

Rev. 20:7 Now as soon as the 1,000 years have ended, Satan will be released from his prison, 8 and he will go out to mislead those nations in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Maʹgog, to gather them together for the war. The number of these is as the sand of the sea. 9 And they advanced over the whole earth and encircled the camp of the holy ones and the beloved city. But fire came down out of heaven and consumed them.

It is obvious that this effort of the Devil has the purpose of deceiving the human beings who are living on earth to cause them to be destroyed forever along with him ... He is upset, because a thousand years have passed under the kingdom of Jesus and corulers from heaven, and the inhabitants of the earth (at this time turned into a paradise) are loyally serving God.

According to the account (talking about the future), he will manage to deceive many of the humans of that time. They will be destroyed forever. However, the account also makes it clear that there are people who live on earth with others and that they will not be deceived ... they are called "the camp of the holy ones and the beloved city".

However, we know perfectly well that those people on earth are not the people who were reunited with Jesus to rule in heaven, because they are kings with Jesus and are not on earth. Furthermore, they are immortal. So it is obvious that there is a group of faithful in heaven reigning, and a group of faithful on earth who are attacked.

What makes the theologians and "pastors" of Christendom believe that all the righteous will live in heaven after the great tribulation and its final outcome, if it is clear from the account that this is not the case?

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Re: Christendom's inconsistent beliefs #2: The Devil's Faithfulness Test at the End of the Millennium

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As I explain in my initial post, Rev. 20 explains that after a thousand years of being abyssed the Devil tests the fidelity to God of all humans who will be living on earth.

Did you notice the detail? At that point there is already a minority of people who went to live with Christ in heaven and have been reigning over those humans that the Devil will later tempt.

The biblical passage reveals to us that some people will be seduced by the Devil as were our first human parents, Adam and Eve, but many of them will remain faithful.

Who are the humans who were taken to heaven before the Millennium even began?

Rev. 20:4 And I saw thrones, and those who sat on them were given authority to judge. Yes, I saw the souls of those executed for the witness they gave about Jesus and for speaking about God, and those who had not worshipped the wild beast or its image and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand. And they came to life and ruled as kings with the Christ for 1,000 years. 5 (...) This is the first resurrection. 6 Happy and holy is anyone having part in the first resurrection; over these the second death has no authority, but they will be priests of God and of the Christ, and they will rule as kings with him for the 1,000 years.

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Re: Christendom's inconsistent beliefs #2: The Devil's Faithfulness Test at the End of the Millennium

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For some independent religious, leaders of various denominations or "churches", theologians of Christendom and non-believing biblical scholars, the Millennium of Christ's reign is only a symbolic time... Some even say that we are already living in that period. However, the Scriptures link several very specific events to that time; For those events to occur as Scripture explains them, the Millennium has to be a real time period and has not yet taken place.

In this comment on another topic I mentioned those events directly related to the Millennium:
Eloi wrote: Tue Jan 04, 2022 12:45 pm The Millennium of which we are given information in Rev. 20, is AS REAL as real are ALL EVENTS that are related to that period:

1) the great tribulation: a period that includes a brief time of suffering on humanity and that ends in the destruction of all the governments of the world at Armageddon ... It is survived by the great crowd of which Revelation speaks and then those thousand years begin.

2) The first resurrection: which occurs exclusively to the brothers of Christ who are taken to heaven; that resurrection occurs just before the beginning of the Millennium, as they will rule from heaven during that time with Jesus.

3) The Devil is abyssed for a thousand years, so that the government of Christ is not hindered. But he is not destroyed at that moment; he is only put in a situation or state where he cannot act, in inactivity; Revelation calls this state: "the abyss";

4) Another resurrection that occurs on earth later in the Millennium, and that allows some time after resurrection, for these people to live and learn with the survivors of Armageddon;

5) At the end of the thousand years the Devil is released from the state in which he was put, and manages to deceive an indeterminate number of people who have been living after Armageddon ON THE EARTH.

6) The Devil is destroyed along with all the new rebels;

7) Jesus hands over the kingdom of humanity to God.


If the thousand years of Apoc. 20 were not LITERAL, nothing that we are told to occur within that time frame would make sense. Those things are not symbolic, but very LITERAL and very precise.

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