DavidPT
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Revelation 20:9 - The "camp of the saints" inside Jerusalem, the "beloved city". The Devil was going to deceive the nations in the four quarters of the earth (the "four corners" of the land of Israel - Ezekiel 7:2) to gather them to battle. These deceived nations would come to simultaneously surround both the "camp of the saints" and the city of Jerusalem with the righteous "remnant" of the saints inside it, who were carrying out their evangelistic task up until the last minute.
It's interesting that you use Ezekiel 7 to support your interpretation of Revelation 20:9, but when comparing both accounts, apparently details don't seem to matter much to you. Details like the following.
Revelation 20:9 And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.
Ezekiel 7:16 But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity.
IOW, where does Revelation 20:9 even remotely give the impression that anyone escapes? Ezekiel 7:16 involves escaping them. Revelation 20:9 involves God alone raining fire out of heaven. And it says it devoured them, where most of us take that to mean every single person involved in compassing the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city, thus no possible way to escape for any of them.
And not only that, In Revelation 20:7-9 it is the attackers being punished. In Ezekiel 7 it appears to be the opposite of that.
Or maybe I'm simply misunderstanding what you are meaning? Yet, you did mention Ezekiel 7:2 when discussing Revelation 20:9.
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