*snip* The Millennium (also known as the
Millennial Kingdom) is the 1,000-year reign of Jesus after the Tribulation and before all the people of the world are sent to either heaven or hell. Jesus will reign as king over Israel as well as all the nations of the world (
Isaiah 2:4;
42:1). The world will live in peace (
Isaiah 11:6–9;
32:18), Satan will be bound (
Revelation 20:1–3), and, at the beginning, everyone will worship God (
Isaiah 2:2–3). The purpose of the 1,000-year reign is to fulfill promises God made to the world that cannot be fulfilled while Satan is free and humans have political authority. Some of these promises, called covenants, were given specifically to Israel. Others were given to Jesus, the nations of the world, and creation. All of these will be fulfilled during Jesus’ 1,000-year reign.
The main purpose of Jesus’ 1,000-year reign is to fulfill the prophecies given to Israel and the promises made to Jesus, the nations, and the whole earth. God’s covenants were voluntary and one-sided. He promised He would bless Israel and restore the world in specific ways, and He will.
Quasar02
Great thread.
First, let's see where the word "Abyss" is used in the NT.
12. abussos from 1 (as a negative particle) and a variation of 1037;
depthless, i.e. (specially) (infernal) "abyss":--deep, (bottomless) pit.
G12 ἄβυσσος (
abyssos), occurs 9 times in 9 verses
In Luke 8, the event of the "
kamikaze swine"
Luke 8 [Matthew 8:32 Mark 5:13]
30 And Jesus questions him, saying, "What is thy name?"
And he said, "
Legion" (because many demons entered into him).
31 And they entreated Him that no He should be charging them to be going away into
the Abyss.
32 Yet, there was a herd of many swine grazing in the mountain, and they entreat Him that He should be permitting to them into those to be entering. And He permits to them.
33 And the Demons coming out from the man entered into the swine.
And the herd rushes down the steep
into the Lake and drowned.
This is an interesting verse in Romans referring to Christ descending into the Abyss leading up.
Never really looked closely at this in reference to the Abyss in Revelation.
Romans 10:7
Or Who shall be descending into
the Abyss,'
This is being
Christ out of dead-ones to be leading up<321>
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Revelation 9:
1 And
the fifth Messenger trumpets, and I saw a
Star out of the heaven having fallen to the land,
and
there was given to Him the key of the well/pit of the Abyss,
2 and
He did open the well/pit of the Abyss, and there came up smoke out of the well/pit as smoke of a great furnace.
And darkened was the sun and the air, from the smoke of the well/pit.
11 and they have over them a
King —
the Messenger of the Abyss —
a name [is] to him in Hebrew,
Abaddon,
and in the Greek he hath a name,
Apollyon/Destroyer.
Revelation 11
7 ‘And whenever
They should be finishing Their testimony,
the Beast,
the One ascending out of the Abyss, shall be doing battle with Them, and shall be conquering Them, and
shall be killing Them,
8 and their corpse <4430> shall be upon the broad-place<4116> of the great City, which is being called spiritually Sodom, and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified,
Revelation 17:8
‘The Beast that thou didst see: it was and is not, and is being about to be
ascending out of the Abyss, and
into destruction<684> to be going away<5217>
and shall be marveling<2296>those dwelling upon the land, whose names have not been written upon the Book of the Life from foundation<2602> of world<2889>,
beholding the Beast that was, and is not, although it is.
Revelation 20
1 And I saw a
Messenger coming down out of the heaven,
having the key of the Abyss, and a great chain over his hand,
2 and
He laid hold of the Dragon, the ancient
Serpent, who is a
Devil/Slanderer and the
Satan/Adversary,
and
binds Him a thousand years.
3 And
He cast Him to the Abyss, and locks and seals over Him
that no
He should be deceiving the nations any more, untill should be finished<5055> the thousands years.
After these, it is binding
to be loosed Him a little<3398> time<5550>.