Thousand years - part 2
Could the Thousand Years be a reference to the Church that became Babylon? Let's examine.
EXPIRATION OF THE THOUSAND YEARS: DEATH OF THE CHURCH AT THE REVELATION OF CHRIST?
Re 20:7 And when the THOUSAND YEARS are **expired <5055>**, <Satan shall be loosed out of his prison>,
Re 17:8 THE BEAST that thou sawest was, and **is not**; and <shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition>: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
Re 17:10 And there are SEVEN KINGS: FIVE are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, <he must continue a short space>.
Re 17:11 And THE BEAST that was, and **is not**, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and <goeth into perdition>.
Re 13:3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
Re 13:14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
Re 20:5 But the rest of the dead lived not again until the THOUSAND YEARS were **finished <5055>**. <<This is the first resurrection>>.
Re 15:1 And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvellous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is **filled up** <5055> the wrath of God.
Re 20:3 And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, <till the THOUSAND YEARS should be **fulfilled <5055>**: and after that he must be loosed a little season>.
MYSTERY OF GOD (CHRIST): THE CHURCH THAT BECAME BABYLON AND REVEALED TO THE ELECT?
Re 20:7 And when the THOUSAND YEARS are **expired <5055>**, <Satan shall be loosed out of his prison>,
Re 10:7 But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the MYSTERY OF GOD should be **finished <5055>**, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.
2Th 2:7 For the MYSTERY of INIQUITY doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, <until HE be taken **out of the way**>.
Re 17:5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
Ro 1:18 For the WRATH OF GOD is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
Eph 3:3-4 How that by revelation he made known unto me the MYSTERY; (as I wrote afore in few words,… Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the MYSTERY OF CHRIST)
Eph 1:9 Having made known unto us the MYSTERY of HIS WILL, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:
1Co 15:51 Behold, I shew you a MYSTERY; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
Ro 11:25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this MYSTERY, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
2Th 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that MAN OF SIN be revealed, the son of perdition;
Re 17:7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the MYSTERY OF THE WOMAN, and of the BEAST that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.
Lu 17:30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the SON OF MAN is revealed.
Mr 4:11 And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the MYSTERY OF THE KINGDOM of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in PARABLES:
Col 1:26 Even the MYSTERY which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:
SHORTENING OF THE DAYS: DEATH OF THE CHURCH AT THE REVELATION OF CHRIST?
Re 20:7 And when the THOUSAND YEARS are **expired <5055>**, <Satan shall be loosed out of his prison>,
Ps 89:45 The DAYS of his youth <hast thou **shortened>**: thou hast covered him with shame. Selah.
Ps 102:23 He weakened my strength in the way; <he **shortened** my DAYS>.
Mt 24:22 And except THOSE DAYS should be **shortened**, there should no FLESH be saved: but for the elect’s sake THOSE DAYS shall be **shortened**.
Heb 9:22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
Nu 35:33 So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of HIM THAT SHED IT.
1Sa 18:26 And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king’s son in law: <<and THE DAYS were **not expired**>>
SUMMARY CONCLUSION:
The Bible appears to be linking “thousand years” to the church. In judgment this thousand years expires, finishes, fulfilled; meaning that God had brought judgment to IT. At the revelation of Christ, there is both judgment as well as salvation. So at the end of the thousand years (death of Babylon) the Elect find redemption as they come out of Babylon while the unsaved church goes into perdition (total devastation).
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