In a word...YES!
But not for the reasons you might imagine...
Revelation 20
Satan Bound
20 Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding the key of the abyss and a great chain [SUP][
a][/SUP]in his hand. [SUP]2 [/SUP]And he laid hold of the dragon, the serpent of old, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years; [SUP]3 [/SUP]and he threw him into the abyss, and shut
it and sealed
it over him, so that he would not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were completed; after these things he must be released for a short time.
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4 [/SUP]Then I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. And I
saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of [SUP][
b][/SUP]their testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand; and they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. [SUP]5 [/SUP]The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed. This is the first resurrection. [SUP]6 [/SUP]Blessed and holy is the one who has a part in the first resurrection; over these the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with Him for a thousand years.
POST TRIBULATION / SECOND COMING OF CHRIST, BEGINNING OF 1,000 YEAR REIGN?
Satan Freed, Doomed
[SUP]7 [/SUP]When the thousand years are completed, Satan will be released from his prison, [SUP]8 [/SUP]and will come out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together for the war; the number of them is like the sand of the [SUP][
c][/SUP]seashore. [SUP]9 [/SUP]And they came up on the [SUP][
d][/SUP]broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of the [SUP][
e][/SUP]saints and the beloved city, and fire came down from heaven and devoured them. [SUP]10 [/SUP]And the devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and [SUP][
f][/SUP]brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are also; and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
THE FINAL TEST OF LOYALTY, POST 1,000 YEAR REIGN?
Judgment at the Throne of God
[SUP]11 [/SUP]Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat upon it, from whose [SUP][
g][/SUP]presence earth and heaven fled away, and no place was found for them. [SUP]12 [/SUP]And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and [SUP][
h][/SUP]books were opened; and another [SUP][
i][/SUP]book was opened, which is
the book of life; and the dead were judged from the things which were written in the [SUP][
j][/SUP]books, according to their deeds. [SUP]13 [/SUP]And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead which were in them; and they were judged, every one
of them according to their deeds. [SUP]14 [/SUP]Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. [SUP]15 [/SUP]And if [SUP][
k][/SUP]anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
2 Peter 3
The Coming Day of the Lord
[SUP]3 [/SUP]Know this first of all, that in the last days mockers will come with
their mocking, following after their own lusts, [SUP]4 [/SUP]and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For
ever since the fathers fell asleep, all continues just as it was from the beginning of creation.” [SUP]5 [/SUP]For [SUP][
a][/SUP]when they maintain this, it escapes their notice that by the word of God
the heavens existed long ago and
the earth was formed out of water and by water, [SUP]6 [/SUP]through which the world at that time was destroyed, being flooded with water. [SUP]7 [/SUP]But by His word the present heavens and earth are being reserved for fire, kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
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8 [/SUP]But do not let this one
fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day. [SUP]9 [/SUP]The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.
A New Heaven and Earth
[SUP]10 [/SUP]But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and [SUP][
b][/SUP]its works will be [SUP][
c][/SUP]burned up.
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11 [/SUP]Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way, what sort of people ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, [SUP]12 [/SUP]looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be destroyed by burning, and the elements will melt with intense heat! [SUP]13 [/SUP]But according to His promise we are looking for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells.
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14 [/SUP]Therefore, beloved, since you look for these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, spotless and blameless, [SUP]15 [/SUP]and regard the patience of our Lord
as salvation; just as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you, [SUP]16 [/SUP]as also in all
his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as
they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction. [SUP]17 [/SUP]You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, be on your guard so that you are not carried away by the error of unprincipled men and fall from your own steadfastness, [SUP]18 [/SUP]but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him
be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.
Isaiah 65
New Heavens and a New Earth
[SUP]17 [/SUP]“For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth;
And the former things will not be remembered or come to [SUP][
n][/SUP]mind.
[SUP]18 [/SUP]“But be glad and rejoice forever in what I create;
For behold, I create Jerusalem
for rejoicing
And her people
for gladness.
[SUP]19 [/SUP]“I will also rejoice in Jerusalem and be glad in My people;
And there will no longer be heard in her
The voice of weeping and the sound of crying.
[SUP]20 [/SUP]“No longer will there be [SUP][
o][/SUP]in it an infant
who lives but a few days,
Or an old man who does not [SUP][
p][/SUP]live out his days;
For the youth will die at the age of one hundred
And the [SUP][
q][/SUP]one who does not reach the age of one hundred
Will be
thought accursed.
[SUP]21 [/SUP]“They will build houses and inhabit
them;
They will also plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
[SUP]22 [/SUP]“They will not build and another inhabit,
They will not plant and another eat;
For as the [SUP][
r][/SUP]lifetime of a tree,
so will be the days of My people,
And My chosen ones will wear out the work of their hands.
[SUP]23 [/SUP]“They will not labor in vain,
Or bear
children for calamity;
For they are the [SUP][
s][/SUP]offspring of those blessed by the Lord,
And their descendants with them.
[SUP]24 [/SUP]It will also come to pass that before they call, I will answer; and while they are still speaking, I will hear. [SUP]25 [/SUP]The wolf and the lamb will graze together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox; and dust will be the serpent’s food. They will do no evil or harm in all My holy mountain,” says the Lord.
Revelation 21
The New Heaven and Earth
21 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and there is no longer
any sea. [SUP]2 [/SUP]And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband. [SUP]3 [/SUP]And I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is among men, and He will [SUP][
a][/SUP]dwell among them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself will be among them[SUP][
b][/SUP], [SUP]4 [/SUP]and He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be
any death; there will no longer be
any mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things have passed away.”
THE DESTRUCTION OF EARTH AND CREATION OF A NEW EARTH AND NEW HEAVENS?
Malachi 4
Final Admonition
4 “[SUP][
a][/SUP]For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace; and all the arrogant and every evildoer will be chaff; and the day that is coming will set them ablaze,” says the Lord of hosts, “so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.” [SUP]2 [/SUP]“But for you who [SUP][
b][/SUP]fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings; and you will go forth and skip about like calves from the stall. [SUP]3 [/SUP]You will tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day [SUP][
c][/SUP]which I am preparing,” says the Lord of hosts.
[SUP]4 [/SUP]“[SUP][
d][/SUP]Remember the law of Moses My servant,
even the statutes and ordinances which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel.
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5 [/SUP]“Behold, I am going to send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible day of the Lord. [SUP]6 [/SUP]He will [SUP][
e][/SUP]restore the hearts of the fathers to
their children and the hearts of the children to their fathers, so that I will not come and smite the land with a [SUP][
f][/SUP]curse.”
HERE IS WHERE THINGS DO NOT CORROBORATE FOR ME, IF ELIJAH IS ONE OF THE TWO WITNESSES AND ELIJAH/ENOCH RETURN TO PROPHESY DURING THE TRIBULATION, BEFORE THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST, AND THE GREAT AND TERRIBLE DAY OF THE LORD OR FINAL JUDGMENT IS POST 1,000 YEAR REIGN, THEN THE PROPHECIES IN REVELATION AND MALACHI WOULD SEEM TO CONFLICT.
ONE COULD
SPECULATE ABOUT SEVERAL POSSIBILITIES CONCERNING ELIJAH.
1. ELIJAH BECAME OR WAS REINCARNATED INTO JOHN THE BAPTIST AND THE GREAT AND TERRIBLE DAY OF THE LORD WAS CHRIST'S FIRST COMING.
2. THE GREAT AND TERRIBLE DAY OF THE LORD IS CHRIST'S SECOND COMING IN WHICH ELIJAH WILL APPEAR A THIRD TIME, IN WHICH CASE WHERE DOES THE POST TRIBULATION 1,000 YEAR REIGN FIT?
3. ELIJAH APPEARED AND WAS REINCARNATED, NOT JUST ONCE AT CHRIST'S FIRST ARRIVAL PER MATTHEW 11. NOT JUST TWICE DURING THE TRIBULATION AS A WITNESS PER REVELATION 11, BUT THREE TIMES WHEN HE APPEARS AT THE POST 1,000 YEAR REIGN FINAL JUDGMENT PER MALACHI 4.
4. JOHN THE BAPTIST BECOMES ELIJAH TO FULFILL THE TWO WITNESS PROPHECY PER REVELATION 11, AND APPEARS YET AGAIN IN A POST 1,000 YEAR REIGN FINAL JUDGMENT PER MALACHI 4.
Revelation 11
The Two Witnesses
11 Then there was given me a [SUP][
a][/SUP]measuring rod like a staff; [SUP][
b][/SUP]and someone said, “Get up and measure the [SUP][
c][/SUP]temple of God and the altar, and those who worship in it. [SUP]2 [/SUP][SUP][
d][/SUP]Leave out the court which is outside the [SUP][
e][/SUP]temple and do not measure it, for it has been given to the nations; and they will tread under foot the holy city for forty-two months. [SUP]3 [/SUP]And I will grant
authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for twelve hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.” [SUP]4 [/SUP]These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. [SUP]5 [/SUP]And if anyone wants to harm them, fire flows out of their mouth and devours their enemies; so if anyone wants to harm them, he must be killed in this way. [SUP]6 [/SUP]These have the power to shut up the sky, so that rain will not fall during the days of their prophesying; and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood, and to strike the earth with every plague, as often as they desire.
Matthew 11
[SUP]11 [/SUP]Truly I say to you, among those born of women there has not arisen
anyone greater than John the Baptist! Yet the one who is [SUP][
m][/SUP]least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. [SUP]12 [/SUP]From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven [SUP][
n][/SUP]suffers violence, and violent men [SUP][
o][/SUP]take it by force. [SUP]13 [/SUP]For all the prophets and the Law prophesied until John. [SUP]14 [/SUP]And if you are willing to accept
it, John himself is Elijah who [SUP][
p][/SUP]was to come. [SUP]15 [/SUP]He who has ears to hear, [SUP][
q][/SUP]let him hear.
TO THOSE WHO ARE WILLING TO ACCEPT IT, I DO NOT BELIEVE THE FATHER WOULD TRY AND CONFUSE ANYONE, OR MAKE HIS WILL OR PROPHECIES SO CRYPTIC SO AS NOT TO BE UNDERSTOOD WITHOUT A THEOLOGY DEGREE AND SOME VERY SERIOUS LIBERTIES BEING TAKEN WITH NON-LITERAL, FIGURATIVE SPECULATIONS. GOD SHOULD NOT BE A MYSTERY TO BE UNDERSTOOD BY ONLY A SELECT FEW. THIS LEAVES BUT ONE POSSIBILITY...
Codex Vaticanus
The entire manuscript has been mutilated...every letter has been run over with a pen, making exact identification of many of the characters impossible. Dr. David Brown observes: "I question the 'great witness' value of any manuscript that has been overwritten, doctored, changed and added to for more than 10 centuries."
Jeremiah 8
[SUP]8 [/SUP]“How can you say, ‘We are wise,
And the law of the Lord is with us’?
But behold, the lying pen of the scribes
Has made
it into a lie.
[SUP]9 [/SUP]“The wise men are put to shame,
They are dismayed and caught;
Behold, they have rejected the word of the Lord,
And what kind of wisdom do they have?
[SUP]10 [/SUP]“Therefore I will give their wives to others,
Their fields to [SUP][
c][/SUP]new owners;
Because from the least even to the greatest
Everyone is greedy for gain;
From the prophet even to the priest
Everyone practices deceit.
WHO STANDS TO GAIN FROM CONFUSION, IGNORANCE, AND DIVISION?
SCRIBES - PHARISEES - JESUITS - ZIONISTS
Supplemental:
http://christianchat.com/bible-discussion-forum/72812-doctrinal-thoughts.html
"Once you
eliminate the
impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."
- Sherlock Holmes
May the Lord bless and keep you,
P.
I thought "soul sleep" was belief in a gap between death and resurrection, not an annihilation as the JWs believe?