All around him are dead bodies. The good are in heaven beyond his reach to deceive. He is a prisoner on the earth, and a seal has been set upon him. He must remain there for 1000 years.
Q9 What is the state of the earth after the plagues, the earthquake, the alteration of the atmosphere and the fires of the second coming?
The earth is utterly broken down. Isaiah 24:19
The earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly. Isaiah 24:19
The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall and not rise again. Isaiah 24:20.
Q10 How was the prophet Jeremiah shown this time?
I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light. I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly. I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled.
I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger. For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end. For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black: because I have spoken it. Jeremiah 4:23-28
Q11 Why does the Lord reserve the earth and not make a full end at this time?
But the heavens and the earth which are now, by the same word kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgement and perdition of ungodly men. 2 Peter 3:7
Q12 What are the righteous doing in heaven at this time?
And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them [the people] 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. Revelation 20:4
Q13 What had Paul said was to be a responsibility of the righteous?
Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? Know ye not that we shall judge angels? 1 Corinthians 6:2,3.
Q14 Which angels will be judged by the righteous?
And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, He hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgement of the great day.
Jude 6
Q15 Who are these angels?
And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads, and his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth. Revelation 12:3
And the dragon fought and His angels and prevailed not, neither was their place found any more in heaven … he was cast out and his angels were cast out with him. Revelation 12:9 |
