Discussion » Questions » Religion and Spirituality » At the end of the thousand years described in Revelation 20, is Satan going to resurrect everyone who died without knowing Jesus from hell?

At the end of the thousand years described in Revelation 20, is Satan going to resurrect everyone who died without knowing Jesus from hell?

Revelation 20 talks about Satan being released from the abyss at the end of the thousand years and building a great army to try to fight God. It also says that “the rest of the dead did not come back to life until the thousand years had ended”, and at the end of the chapter, it describes Satan and all his followers being thrown into the lake of fire, the second hell. This gets me to wonder, how are all these unbelievers of God released out of the first hell to begin with, and where does Satan get his army in his last ditch attempt to get revenge on God?

Posted - May 9, 2018

Responses


  • 1393
    yes, TJ, I think some songs [very few these days though] have more than just entertainment value.
      May 22, 2018 5:25 AM MDT
    0

  • 2657
    Application for tom:

    Take It easy, take it easy (Relax, don't read the Bible, the Church tells you what you need to know)
    Don't let the sound of your own wheels 
    drive you crazy 
    Lighten up while you still can 
    don't even try to understand (Again, don't read or try to understand the Bible, it's counterproductive to Catholic Creeds)
    Just find a place to make your stand 
    and take it easy (Born Catholic, stand there and take it east, don't do the Lord's work)
      May 22, 2018 6:15 AM MDT
    0

  • 7280
    When someone tries to throw something I've thrown at them back at me, it's a sure sign they are close to hitting bottom.

    When you finally do, perhaps we can successfully extract you from any cult you may belong too.
      May 22, 2018 12:12 PM MDT
    0

  • 2657
    Just thinking of some of the comments you made to me as well as what and how your Church teaches.



    https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02033b.htm


    CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Athanasian Creed
    The Athanasian Creed. Help support New Advent and get the full contents of this website as an instant download. Includes the Catholic Encyclopedia, Church Fathers ...

     

     

    At various points the author calls attention to the penalty incurred by those who refuse to accept any of the articles therein set down.

     

    The Father Incomprehensible, the Son Incomprehensible, and the Holy Ghost Incomprehensible

     

    So likewise the Father is Almighty, the Son Almighty, and the Holy Ghost Almighty. And yet they are not Three Almighties but One Almighty.

     

    So there is One Father, not Three Fathers; one Son, not Three Sons; One Holy Ghost, not Three Holy Ghosts. And in this Trinity none is afore or after Other, None is greater or less than Another, but the whole Three Persons are Co-eternal together, and Co-equal

     

    Who, then, is the author? The results of recent inquiry make it highly probable that the Creed first saw the light in the fourth century, during the life of the great Eastern patriarch, or shortly after his death

     

    The "damnatory", or "minatory clauses", are the pronouncements contained in the symbol, of the penalties which follow the rejection of what is there proposed for our belief. It opens with one of them: "Whosoever will be saved, before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholic Faith". The same is expressed in the verses beginning: "Furthermore, it is necessary" etc., and "For the right Faith is" etc., and finally in the concluding verse: "This is the Catholic Faith, which except a man believe faithfully and firmly, he cannot be saved". Just as the Creed states in a very plain and precise way what the Catholic Faith is concerning the important doctrines of the Trinity and the Incarnation, so it asserts with equal plainness and precision what will happen to those who do not faithfully and steadfastly believe in these revealed truths..

    From a dogmatic standpoint, the merely historical question of the authorship of the Creed, or of the time it made its appearance, is of secondary consideration.  The fact alone that it is approved by the Church as expressing its mind on the fundamental truths with which it deals, is all we need to know. 



      May 22, 2018 1:20 PM MDT
    0

  • 7280
    I remember some of those comments I made---all "spot on" as I recall.

    By the way, you use a lot of red letters---do you have the stigmata

    At any rate, here's the creed we say during mass:  

    I believe in God,
    the Father Almighty,
    Creator of heaven and earth,
    and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord,
    who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
    born of the Virgin Mary,
    suffered under Pontius Pilate,
    was crucified, died and was buried;
    He descended into hell;
    on the third day He rose again from the dead;
    He ascended into heaven,
    and is seated at the right hand of God the Father Almighty;
    from there He will come to judge the living and the dead.
    I believe in the Holy Spirit,
    the Holy Catholic Church,
    the communion of Saints,
    the forgiveness of sins,
    the resurrection of the body,
    and life everlasting.
    Amen

    Why reference anything from Catholic resources when you apparently don't understand either the resources or Catholicism?
      May 22, 2018 9:31 PM MDT
    0

  • 2657
    Was the quote from the Catholic Encyclopedia inaccurate?
    According to the Bible, Jesus was in the grave for parts of 3 days and was resurrected on the 3rd day. Hell is a bad translation of the Hebrew Sheol and the Greek Hades. Jesus was raised as a spirit although for some 40 days he materialized. Human bodies cannot walk through walls nor go to heaven. Truth does matter.
    (John 4:24) God is a Spirit, and those worshipping him must worship with spirit and truth.”

     (1 Peter 3:18) For Christ died once for all time for sins, a righteous person for unrighteous ones, in order to lead you to God. He was put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit.
    (1 Corinthians 15:50) But I tell you this, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit God’s Kingdom, nor does corruption inherit incorruption.
      May 23, 2018 6:31 AM MDT
    0

  • 2657
    First hell, second hell? You mean second death?

    Revelation is highly symbolic with the keys to it in the rest of the Bible and not everyone will get the sense of it and no one until the time of the end.

    (Revelation 1:1-3) A revelation by Jesus Christ, which God gave him, to show his slaves the things that must shortly take place. And he sent his angel and presented it in signs through him to his slave John, 2 who bore witness to the word God gave and to the witness Jesus Christ gave, yes, to all the things he saw. 3 Happy is the one who reads aloud and those who hear the words of this prophecy and who observe the things written in it, for the appointed time is near.
    (Daniel 12:4) “As for you, Daniel, keep the words secret, and seal up the book until the time of the end. Many will rove about, and the true knowledge will become abundant.”

    Satan cannot resurrect anyone. There is no literal hell fire. According to the KJV, death and hell will be thrown in to the lake of fire so that shows hell is not the lake of fire, but thrown in to it. It is just the second death, totally gone or destroyed, no resurrection. 

    (Revelation 20:4-8) And I saw thrones, and those who sat on them were given authority to judge. Yes, I saw the souls of those executed for the witness they gave about Jesus and for speaking about God, and those who had not worshipped the wild beast or its image and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand. And they came to life and ruled as kings with the Christ for 1,000 years. 5 (The rest of the dead did not come to life until the 1,000 years were ended.) This is the first resurrection. 6 Happy and holy is anyone having part in the first resurrection; over these the second death has no authority, but they will be priests of God and of the Christ, and they will rule as kings with him for the 1,000 years. 7 Now as soon as the 1,000 years have ended, Satan will be released from his prison, 8 and he will go out to mislead those nations in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Maʹgog, to gather them together for the war. The number of these is as the sand of the sea.

    (Revelation 20:14) And death and the Grave were hurled into the lake of fire. This means the second death, the lake of fire.

    https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1101988040?q=%22the+rest+of+the+dead+did+not+come+to+life+until+the+thousand+years+were+ended%22&p=par
    [...
    The Rest of the Dead
    14 Whom, though, will these kings judge if, as the apostle John here inserts, “(the rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended)”? (Revelation 20:5a) Again, the expression “come to life” has to be understood according to context. This expression can have varying meanings in varying circumstances. For example, Paul said of his anointed fellow Christians: “It is you God made alive though you were dead in your trespasses and sins.” (Ephesians 2:1) Yes, spirit-anointed Christians were “made alive,” even in the first century, being declared righteous on the basis of their faith in Jesus’ sacrifice.—Romans 3:23, 24.
    15 Similarly, pre-Christian witnesses of Jehovah were declared righteous as to friendship with God; and Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob were spoken of as “living” even though they were physically dead. (Matthew 22:31, 32; James 2:21, 23) However, they and all others who are resurrected, as well as the great crowd of faithful other sheep who survive Armageddon and any children that may be born to these in the new world, must yet be raised to human perfection. This will be accomplished by Christ and his associate kings and priests during the thousand-year Judgment Day, on the basis of Jesus’ ransom sacrifice. By the end of that Day, “the rest of the dead” will have “come to life” in the sense that they will be perfect humans. As we shall see, they must then pass a final test, but they will face that test as perfected humans. When they pass the test, God will declare them worthy of living forever, righteous in the fullest sense. They will experience the complete fulfillment of the promise: “The righteous themselves will possess the earth, and they will reside forever upon it.” (Psalm 37:29) What a delightful future is in store for obedient mankind!
    The First Resurrection
    16 Returning now to those who “came to life and ruled as kings with the Christ,” John writes: “This is the first resurrection.” (Revelation 20:5b) How is it first? It is “the first resurrection” as to time, for the ones who experience it are a “firstfruits to God and to the Lamb.” (Revelation 14:4) It is also first in importance, since those who share in it become corulers with Jesus in his heavenly Kingdom and judge the rest of mankind. Finally, it is first in quality. Apart from Jesus Christ himself, those raised in the first resurrection are the only creatures spoken of in the Bible as receiving immortality.—1 Corinthians 15:53; 1 Timothy 6:16.
    17 What a blessed prospect for these anointed ones! As John declares: “Happy and holy is anyone having part in the first resurrection; over these the second death has no authority.” (Revelation 20:6a) As Jesus promised the Christians in Smyrna, these conquerors that share in “the first resurrection” will be in no danger of harm by “the second death,” which means annihilation, destruction without hope of a resurrection. (Revelation 2:11; 20:14) The second death has “no authority” over such conquerors, for they will have put on incorruption and immortality.—1 Corinthians 15:53.
    18 How different from earth’s kings during Satan’s tenure of authority! These have ruled at most for a mere 50 or 60 years, and the great majority for just a few years. Many of them have oppressed mankind. In any case, how could the nations benefit permanently under ever-changing rulers with ever-changing policies? In contrast, John says of earth’s new rulers: “But they will be priests of God and of the Christ, and will rule as kings with him for the thousand years.” (Revelation 20:6b) With Jesus, they will form the sole government for a thousand years. Their priestly service, in applying the merit of Jesus’ perfect human sacrifice, will lift obedient humans to spiritual, moral, and physical perfection. Their kingly service will result in building a global human society that reflects Jehovah’s righteousness and holiness. As judges for a thousand years, they, with Jesus, will lovingly guide responsive humans toward the goal of everlasting life.—John 3:16.
    The Final Test
    19 By the end of the Thousand Year Reign, all earth will have come to resemble the original Eden. It will be a veritable paradise. Perfect mankind will no longer need a high priest to intercede for it before God, since all traces of Adamic sin will have been removed and the last enemy, death, brought to nothing. Christ’s Kingdom will have achieved God’s purpose to create one world with one government. At this point, Jesus “hands over the kingdom to his God and Father.”—1 Corinthians 15:22-26; Romans 15:12.
    ...]
      May 10, 2018 7:18 AM MDT
    0

  • 22891
    i dont think satan is going to do any of that
      May 13, 2018 4:32 PM MDT
    1

  • 46117
    Yeah.  Right.  Whatever you vomit out is the right answer.
      May 15, 2018 4:19 PM MDT
    2

  • 13277
    Huh? You take that crap seriously?
      May 21, 2018 10:34 PM MDT
    0

  • 46117
    Yeah, that's the ticket.


      May 22, 2018 1:11 PM MDT
    1

  • 1326
    Boc you are referencing dante's inferno, not to what the bible says.
      July 17, 2018 12:57 PM MDT
    1

  • 1326
    I wish i had the time to answer your question in detail. To begin with Satan has no authority over the resurrection. The one given this authority is the Lord jesus Christ. "All authority has been given me in heaven and earth." (Matthew 28:18)Satan's rule is soon about to end, as well as the system of things he currently controls. After the war of Armageddon he will be imprisoned for a thousand years but only after he witnesses the destruction of the world that took so long for him to build. (Revelation 16:14-16; 20:1-3)at that point he will be  stripped of any authority he exercised over the nations.  This post was edited by Autumnleaves at July 19, 2018 4:11 AM MDT
      May 31, 2018 11:41 PM MDT
    2