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Let us be careful, as the Church of Jesus Christ, to value what our Bridegroom values. We should greatly
anticipate His fulfillment and glorious reign over all the earth. Let us give the Nation of Israel their
rightful place as God’s chosen people. Let us celebrate the Jewish heritage and rightful inheritance of
our Bridegroom.

The Release of Satan and Gog and Magog.
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Revelation 20: 7-9 When the thousand years are completed, Satan will be released from his
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prison, and will come out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and
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Magog, to gather them together for the war; the number of them is like the sand of the seashore. And
they came up on thebroad plain of the earth and

surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved
city, and fire came down from heaven and devoured
them.

The duplicated use of the names Gog and Magog
in Revelation 20:8-9 is to show that these people
demonstrate the same rebellion against God and
antagonism toward God as those in Ezekiel 38-39
where God and Magog are first mentioned. It is
similar to someone today calling a person "the devil"
because he or she is sinful and evil. We know that
person is not really Satan, but because that person
shares similar characteristics, he or she might be referred to as "the devil."

The book of Revelation uses Ezekiel’s prophecy about Magog to portray a final end-times attack on the
nation of Israel (Revelation 20:8-9). Satan is able to rally the nations to gather together with the
audacity to believe that they can battle the King Jesus. Again, this convergence is located in Israel. It
will not be much of a battle, as the rebellion is destroyed by the Word of Christ. The result of this battle
is that all are destroyed by fire from heaven, and Satan will find his final place in the lake of fire
(Revelation 20:10).

The Great White Throne Judgment

Rev. 20:11-15Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat upon it, from whosepresence earth and

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heaven fled away, and no place was found for them. And I saw the dead, the great and the small,
standing before the throne, and books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of
life; and the dead were judged from the things which were written in thebooks, according to their

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deeds. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead which
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were in them; and they were judged, every one of them according to their deeds. Then death and
Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. And ifanyone’s name
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was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

The great white throne judgment is the final judgment prior to the lost being cast into the lake of fire.
We know from Revelation 20:7-15 that this judgment will take place after the millennium and after
Satan is thrown into the lake of fire where the beast and the false prophet are (Revelation 19:19-

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