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DECEMBER 30
Proverbs 31:1–9 But after these things he must be released for
a little while.
The words of King Lemuel, the utterance 4
31 which his mother taught him: And I saw thrones, and they sat on them,
and judgment was committed to them. Then I
2 What, my son? saw the souls of those who had been behead-
And what, son of my womb? ed for their witness to Jesus and for the word
And what, son of my vows? of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his
Do not give your strength to women, image, and had not received his mark on their
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Nor your ways to that which destroys foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and
kings. reigned with Christ for a thousand years. But
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It is not for kings, O Lemuel,
4 the rest of the dead did not live again until the
It is not for kings to drink wine, thousand years were finished. This is the first
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Nor for princes intoxicating drink; resurrection. Blessed and holy is he who has
5 Lest they drink and forget the law, part in the first resurrection. Over such the
And pervert the justice of all the second death has no power, but they shall be
afflicted. priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign
Give strong drink to him who is perishing, 7
6 with Him a thousand years.
And wine to those who are bitter of heart. Now when the thousand years have
7 Let him drink and forget his poverty, expired, Satan will be released from his prison
And remember his misery no more. 8 and will go out to deceive the nations which
are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and
8 Open your mouth for the speechless, Magog, to gather them together to battle,
In the cause of all who are appointed whose number is as the sand of the sea. They
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to die. went up on the breadth of the earth and sur-
9 Open your mouth, judge righteously, rounded the camp of the saints and the
And plead the cause of the poor and beloved city. And fire came down from God
needy. out of heaven and devoured them. The devil,
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Revelation 20:1–15 who deceived them, was cast into the lake of
fire and brimstone where the beast and the
Then I saw an angel coming down from false prophet are. And they will be tormented
20 heaven, having the key to the bottom- day and night forever and ever.
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less pit and a great chain in his hand. He laid 11 Then I saw a great white throne and Him
hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is who sat on it, from whose face the earth and
the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thou- the heaven fled away. And there was found no
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sand years; and he cast him into the bottom- place for them. And I saw the dead, small and
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less pit, and shut him up, and set a seal on
him, so that he should deceive the nations no
more till the thousand years were finished.
20:12 standing before God. In a judicial
sense, as guilty, condemned prisoners before
20:5 first resurrection. Scripture teaches 2 the bar of divine justice. There are no living
kinds of resurrections:the “resurrection of life” sinners left in the destroyed universe since all
and “the resurrection of condemnation”(John sinners were killed and all believers glorified.
5:29;Dan.12:2;Acts 24:15).The first kind of res- books. These books record every thought,
urrection is described as “the resurrection of word,and deed of sinful men—all recorded by
the just” (Luke 14:14), the resurrection of divine omniscience. They will provide the evi-
“those who are Christ’s at His coming” (1 Cor. dence for eternal condemnation.Book of Life.
15:23), and the “better resurrection” (Heb. It contains the names of all the redeemed
11:35). It includes only the redeemed of the (Dan.12:1).judged according to their works.
church age (1 Thess. 4:13–18), the Old Their thoughts (Luke 8:17; Rom. 2:16), words
Testament (Dan. 12:2), and the Tribulation (v. (Matt. 12:37), and actions (Matt. 16:27) will be
4).They will enter the kingdom in resurrection compared to God’s perfect, holy standard
bodies, along with believers who survived the (Matt. 5:48; 1 Pet. 1:15,16) and will be found
Tribulation. The second kind of resurrection, wanting (Rom. 3:23). This also implies that
then, will be the resurrection of the uncon- there are degrees of punishment in hell (Matt.
verted who will receive their final bodies suit- 10:14,15; 11:22; Mark 12:38–40; Luke 12:47,48;
ed for torment in hell. Heb. 10:29).

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