You know the Bible teaches that Jesus will raise the wicked. That satan will marshal them to encompass the Holy City Jerusalem.
I understand that Jesus will raise both the wicked and the righteous at the same time for judgment. But, as to the "resurrected wicked" being a part of Satan's attack on Jerusalem and the saints, I have never heard of such. If this is the case, then would not the "resurrected righteous" also be a part of Jerusalem's and the saints' defense? Nowhere are we told of such a thing. But, we are told that when Jerusalem is surrounded, fire shall come down from God out of Heaven and devour those who come up against the saints and the City.
If you would, look at Rev 20:8. It does not tell us that the wicked dead will be resurrected in order to be warriors for Satan. But, it does tell us that Satan will go out into all the NATIONS (abodes for the living, as oppose to Hades) and deceive them to war against the City and Saints.
But then again, I must ask myself, what part does the resurrected dead play during God's great Day? For the life of me, I cannot see them playing a part when we are told they are raised for judgment. It is a hard matter to imagine that all the dead will rise to battle and not judgment.
It is not until Rev 20:12 (after Satan, the beast, the false prophet are thrown in the lake of fire) that the dead are risen. How then can they play a part in the final battle?
That God causes fire to fall on them and devour them.
The Saints are safe inside the Holy City, while the wicked are outside being reduced to ashes.
After the fire consumes all there is to consume,,,, until there is nothing left but ash,,,then,, the fire will go out.
If they are consumed, then how are they (Satan, false prophet, the beast) thrown into a lake of fire where their torment is "day and night, forever and ever"? Even if the wicked dead are resurrected to battle in the final war and are then totally consumed by fire, how is it that they are thrown into the lake of fire in Rev 20:15 if they are consumed in the final battle?
Are you saying that they will be resurrected then be consumed by fire and resurrected again to be thrown in the lake of fire?
Then God will make a New Earth.
He will do that, while we are safe inside the Holy City,, watching it all!
Michael,
Your hope for God's coming Kingdom will not be misplaced, knowing that it is the faith we place in the Son which shall deliver us into the new Kingdom. Beloved, hold on to that hope of Christ's victory, for He alone shall deliver us.
God's plan is to isolate, eradicate, and blot out sin and sinners from existence forever!
if you think God's plan is to keep sin alive so that His universe is always tainted with evil... then you are sadly mistaken.
Rev 21:8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the
second death.
As pertaining to the second death:
2Th 1:9: it is an everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord.
Mar 9:44, 46, 48 Where their worm never (absolute negative) dies and the fire (God's wrath) is never (absolute negative) quenched. (note the absence of a qualifying negative. That is, this verse is not spoken in the subjunctive, and by which, giving us a possibility of an end. No. It is absolute, no possibilities of it being anything different.)
Does not Rev 19:20 tell us that they who would receive the mark of the beast will be thrown
ALIVE into the lake of fire?
Did you catch that my friend:
ALIVE!!!!!!
