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Revelation Book 20 - NY Study Group

Revelation Chapter 20
NY Study Group
1 And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.

2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,

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: and after that he must be loosed a little season.

4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

5 But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.

6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

7 And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,

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.

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.

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.

11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.

12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.

14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.

15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
A GREAT CHAIN - Restraint.
FIRST RESURRECTION - Rebirth of advanced souls.
GOG AND MAGOG - Worldly influences.
GREAT WHITE THRONE - Universal point of emanation and return of souls.
THE DEAD IN JUDGMENT - Returning souls.
BOOK OF LIFE - Akashic record.
SEA - Emotions.
DEATH - Unconscious state.
HELL - Remorse and frustrations.
SECOND DEATH - Destruction of all man-made Frankenstein conditions.

INTERPRETATION

1. Now the archetype of Man's continual rebellions, the self-willed intellect (ego), itself is confined for a time in the collective ID.

4. During this thousand year period only the evolved souls incarnate in the earth. (With these souls all in perfect balance they would bring balance into the very forces of earth itself, perfect peace and Harmony to Nature itself.)

5. At the close of the thousand year period, the remaining souls begin to incarnate, bringing with them their unsatisfied ambitions and desires. This, of course, brings about the former conditions of imbalance. (Wars, plagues, etc.)

9., 10. Now the evolved souls are surrounded and their activities curtailed by the unregenerate souls, who only succeed iin destroying their physical selves through tampering with natural forces. Once again they must await reincarnation.

11. Here John beholds the universal point of Divine emanation as the point of Judgment which is unbiased by material ideals or considerations.

12. Before this judgment, not only are the individual soul records scanned but also the record for Collective Man, Akasha.

13. Those souls entrapped by uncontrolled emotions, as well as those trapped by their own frustrations and remorse, are now freed.

14. These conditions, all man-made, are now themselves eliminated and all creatures, mental forms and patterns, not formed by Divine Will are purged.
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