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Revelation 20

1 And I saw [an] angel descending from heaven, having the key of the abyss1 and [a] great chain in his hand. 2 And he laid hold of the dragon, the ancient snake, which is [the] Devil and Satan, and he bound him [for a] thousand years, 3 and he threw him into the abyss2, and shut and sealed him over, lest he yet deceive the nations, until the thousand years be completed. After these [things] he must be released [for a] little time. 4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given to them, and [I saw] the psyche-lives3 of those beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and whoever did not worship the wild-beast nor his image and did not receive [the] mark upon their forehead and upon their hand, and they zoe-lived4 and reigned with the Christ a thousand years. 5 But the rest of the dead did not zoe-live4 until the completion of the thousand years. This [is] the first resurrection. 6 Blessed and holy is the [one] having part in the first resurrection. Over these the second death does not have authority, but these will reign with him the thousand years. 7 And when the thousand years are completed, Satan will be loosed from his prison, 8 and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the land, Gog and Magog, to gather them for war, whose number [is] as the sand of the sea. 9 And they went up upon the breadth of the land, and they encircled the camp of the holy [ones] and the agape-beloved city, and fire descended from heaven and consumed them. 10 And the devil, the [one] deceiving them, was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where also the wild-beast and false-prophet will be tormented day and night to the eons of eons. 11 And I saw [a] great white throne and the [one] having sat upon it, from whose face the land and heaven fled, and place was not found for them. 12 And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and [the] scrolls were opened; and another scroll was opened, which is [the scroll] of zoe-life4. And the dead were judged from the [things] written in the scrolls according to their works. 13 And the sea gave [up] her dead, and death and Hades5 gave [up] the dead in them, and they were each judged according to their works. 14 And death and Hades5 were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. 15 And if anyone was not found written in the scroll of zoe-life4, he was thrown into the lake of fire.


1or "underworld"

2or "underworld"

3from PSYCHE (ψυχη): an individual manifestation of life/consciousness. Animals have PSYCHEs as well as humans. Contrast ZOE (ζωη)—Life 'collectively', interdependent, interconnected.

4from ZOE "ZOH-ay" (ζωη)—Life 'collectively', interdependent, interconnected. Although it means 'life' in the conventional sense (for example: Matt.9:18, Matt.27:63, Luke.2:36, Acts.25:24, Rom.7:2, 2Cor.1:8, 1Thes.4:17, 1Tim.5:10, Rev.19:20), Jesus uses ZOE exclusively of 'life eternal' (with the possible exceptions of Luke.15:13, Luke.16:25). The other N.T. writers use ZOE in both senses—temporal and eternal, generally clear from the context. The Father is the 'zoe-living God' (see Matt.16:16). The Septuagint (LXX) in Gen.2:7 has "...[God] breathed into his nostrils the breath of zoe-life, and the man became a zoe-living psyche-life" (and see 1Cor.15:45); and Gen.3:20 (LXX) "And Adam called his wife's name ZOE, because she was the mother of all zoe-living." Contrast PSYCHE (ψυχη): an individual manifestation of life/consciousness. See John.12:25 where both ZOE and PSYCHE occur. Greek also has the word BIOS (βιoς ) for 'life' in the sense of biological processes.

5"Hades" (αδης ), the Greek underworld.