The
American
Wisdom Series
Presents
Pamphlet 1913 Rev. kc
52-2
Do
we read in Revelation 20:10 that Satan will be tormented for ever and ever?
No,
we do not.
We are now going to be
taken behind that veil to the End of the Millennium,
and we must "transport"
our minds to that time
with the understanding
of those things which have been revealed to us thus far.
Remember,
everyone is in an incorruptible, spiritual body.
Christ and His zadok
(those of us who were part of the first resurrection)
have been reigning for the 1000 years
during which time Satan
has been imprisoned.
Everyone
now fully understands God Word
and
they have been taught the "difference" and how to "discern"
between
the unclean (Satan's ways) and the clean (God's way).
They
have all seen many times the video replays of the flesh age
and
the results of following the unclean path.
So you would think that
most everyone would SEE
and desire in their hearts
to follow God and love Him
and live the clean way
of life that produces happiness and joy.
That
is our Father's desire,
but
there is some sad news in the next two verses.
Rev.
20:7 And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out
of his prison,
It is soon time for
the Great White Throne judgment of God.
Christ now let's Satan
loose to test those who followed after him before.
[8]
And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters
of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number
of whom is as the sand of the sea.
And
so Satan shall once again run "to and fro" and "up and down" in the earth
gathering
together all who will still follow him,
although
as you will recall he will not be afforded the one world political system
or
his former role as the spurious messiah.
This
beast and false prophet were destroyed for ever and ever (Rev. 19:20).
But
as incredible as it may seem,
and
as sad as it is,
the
reality is that there will still be a lot of people who will follow Satan,
the
number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
So
this verse documents the justification
and
the reason for the release of Satan and the "testing".
All
one can say is that the heart of the wicked and the kenite is a very hard
thing to change.
The statements "in the
four corners" and "Gog and Magog"
simply mean all those
nations outside the Holy City.
Remember
we are at the end of the Millennium
and
this Gog and Magog is not to be confused
with
the pre-millennial Gog and Magog of Ezekiel 38 and 39.
Here it means in both
directions, East and West,
from Jerusalem into all
the earth, i.e. into all four corners.
(For further documentation
see notes in the Companion Bible on Rev. 20:8 and Ezek. 38:2)
[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.
When
Satan has gathered all who will join him
and
they have compassed Jerusalem then it's lake of fire time for them.
No
need to even open up the book of works on these folks
for
they have totally and completely failed the final exam.
They
will not graduate into eternity.
Bye!
[10]
And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone,
where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and
night for ever and ever.
Here
we come to the favorite verse of Dante,
who
gave us graphic descriptions,
complete
with illustrations,
of
an everlasting Burning Inferno,
known
as Dante's Inferno,
where
poor souls who didn't repent
weep
and wail and writhe in pain and agony and torment forever and ever
while
the saints sitting on the clouds with their harps look upon them
and
sing the refrain "Burn, suckers, burn,
we
told you so, we told you so"!
Some
concept of heaven, eh?
Well
it ain't so!
First
of all,
it
is documented time after time after time in the Bible
that
the fate of the wicked is to PERISH,
to
die the second death,
which
is the DESTRUCTION OF THE SOUL!
We've
already quoted John 3:16 in the last study as well as Christ's own words
in Mat. 10.
But let's read again His
words:
Matthew
10:28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the
soul: but rather fear Him which is able to destroy both soul and body in
hell.
And
how about Satan's soul?
Did
we just read that Satan will be tormented for ever and ever?
No
we did not,
because
we read an idiom of another language
translated
into our English which completely lost the meaning.
It
would be like translating the English expression "She got cold feet",
meaning
"She lost her nerve" to do something, into French.
But
in the French language there is no such expression
and
so the best the readers of the expression can determine is
that
the actual temperature of her feet must approach that of ice!
The root of the word "torment"
in verse 10
is the Greek word basanos
from
where we get our word "basis",
and it means (through
the notion of going to the bottom).
But
the whole expression together simply means
that
Satan will be consumed, debased, gone, day and night (for all eternity),
forever
and ever (to be no more).
For
further documentation,
let's
look at a second witness,
another
account of Satan's ultimate fate,
found
in the 28th chapter of Ezekiel.
Here's how he DIES!
He
perishes by fire!
Ezekiel
28:18 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities,
by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore
will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee,
and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them
that behold thee.
Always remember
from the last verse in Hebrews chapter 12
that our Father is
a consuming fire.
He
will destroy Satan and turn him into ashes forever and ever.
Does that mean he'll burn
for ever and ever?
Of
course not.
[19]
All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou
shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou
be any more.
Satan
will BE NO MORE!
You
just read it!
His very name in Greek
is "Apollyon" which means PERISH.
That is why he is called
the "Son of Perdition", i.e. the son who will perish!
Do
you realize that Satan has succeeded in taking a few mistranslated verses
and
created an almost universally accepted Christian doctrine
so
heinous that it even defies the nature of human love.
We
have laws in human society against torturing both animals and people.
Even a parent of a child
who became a despicable evil murderer
could not imagine nor
accept and would certainly never decree that the child be heinously singed
with fire,
poked with hot coals,
and roasted in an oven.
What
parent, brother or sister
could
look upon one of their own being treated as such?
They could perhaps accept
the humane execution of the child,
to put him or her out
their torment for ever and ever,
for the protection and
good of society.
And guess what?
God
says in Jer. 32:35
that
He never ever thought of torturing children in fire!
Such is the doctrine of
Molech!
NEVER
EVER!
And
yet today it is a doctrine in most Christian churches.
But it is a tradition
of men like Dante and not of God's Word!
And
as it is written,
Death
is exactly the punishment God decrees for the murderer in the flesh body,
and
as it is written,
Death
is exactly the punishment God decrees for the wicked in the spirit body.
And
just as we don't have to put up with the evil (flesh) person anymore on
earth
when
they are executed (the first death),
so
we will not have to put up with the wicked anymore for all eternity
when
they are executed (the second death).
To study the Bible is the noblest of all pursuits;
to understand it, the highest of all goals.
We pray that with the guidance of the Holy
Spirit, you accomplish both.
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