QUOTE (Christian Mystic @ Mar 12 2009, 11:39 AM)
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Can you provide Scripture indicating that "Satan" will be destroyed from the inside out? You might be suprised as to what it's really addressing when we look at it in context. Amen. We agree here.You might be suprised to find that what you're teaching isn't even biblical. Here's the text....
Revelation 20:1-151And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. 2And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, 3And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season. 4And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them 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. 5But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. 6Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years. 7And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, 8And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog, and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. 9And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them. 10And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever. 11And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. 12And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. 13And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. 14And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. 15And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
First, Satan is a fallen angel, a spirit. He doesn't have a physical body. A physical chain isn't needed, a physical key, nor a physical pit are needed. These are all symbols. The "angel" having the key to the bottomless pit is Chris himself, Christ alone has the keys to death and hell (Revelation 1:18; compare with Revelation 10:1-2).
Revelation 1:18I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
This passage is symbolically describing is Christ's first coming to earth with the Gospel and the binding of Satan and his power. Today during this Gospel dispensation Satan is spiritually bound by the power of the Gospel and so he works through demonic hosts. Next we see thrones. Notice something...John's seeing this in Heaven, he's not seeing this on earth, because next he specifically states that he sees "souls". Here John is seeing the Church and the souls of those who have been martyred by the spirit of the Beast ruling and reigning with Christ in Heaven. They rule and reign for "a thousand years". One thing we have to remember...numbers are symbolic. The symbolic connotation of "a thousand years" depicts a complete age or dispensation. Those who are saved and have passed on are currently ruling and reigning with Christ in Heaven during this dispensation. At the end of this Gospel dispensation (the symbolic 1000 years) the restrainer will release Satan to bring total havok upon earth. Satan will then work to unite the world and gather the armies of the world into global warfare. (We may very well be seeing this today as the Gospel age comes to a close.) But we have a promise, when the armies of this world appear to be surrounding the church and Israel (that holy city) God's judgment will fall upon the world and Christ shall return. The Heavens and the earth shall flee from his face and the dead, both small and great, shall stand before Him and all shall be judged according to the things written in the books. Satan, the spirit of the Beast, and the spirit of the False Prophet, will be cast into the lake of fire. Also, all whose names are not recorded are not in the book of life are cast into the lake of fire. Here they undergo the "kolasis" Jesus spoke of in Matthew 25:46. There isn't a "second testing". That is a dispensationalism myth. There is only one opportunity to obey the Gospel and escape God's chastisement...and that is here and now.
Well you believe as you like My Bible says different there is a testing As there is a fisrt resurrection and second time Satan is loosed and the dead are not raised all raised untill after the thousand years ... You can belive all this garbage of 1000 years not being literal if you want but you havent a scripture to prove it .... I've heard all this before its not like I just got off the truck here. Jesus said Matthew 25:41 “Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:” He also said John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life”. In the one verse it would seem that the wicked will live forever in everlasting fire and yet the other verse tells us that only those who belong to Jesus will not perish. This means that wicked will perish.The only conclusion we can come to is that the everlasting fire, is not actually fire that is everlasting, but rather fire which consumes with everlasting consequences.Are there other places in the Bible where it says forever, but the event mentioned has finished? There are actually many examples of this. Just as today people will often say things like “The show was so boring it went on forever” and “It took forever to get the house painted”. These same type of expressions were also used in the Bible for events that lasted a long time, but not actually eternally or for events that had everlasting consequences. For example the Bible describes the fire that destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha as eternal fire. Jude 1:7 “Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire”. This fire is not still burning today. It had eternal consequences, as the cities were forever destroyed and the fire was not extinguished. This fire was allowed to burn until it had consumed everything away and then it went out.This is the same type of fire that “death and hell” will be thrown into and the same type of Fire from Heaven that will consume the wicked after the judgment. Depending on their sentence they will be either consumed quickly with little pain, or else have to suffer longer for more severe sins. The Bible shows us that they will not live forever burning in Hell, because we are told that they will be as ashes under our feet. Malachi 4:3 “And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts”.Many Christians think that Satan will be thrown into eternally burning hell fire and yet the
Bible shows that he too will be consumed and will be no more. Ezekiel 28:18-19 “Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee. All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more”.The Bible further clarifies that fate of the wicked Malachi 4:1 “For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts,
that it shall leave them neither root nor branch”.Our awesome and loving God who abounds in mercy is not going to torture and torment the wicked forever and ever in the agony of an eternally burning Hell.
He will justly deal with them and they will perish for their sins. For the Wages of Sin are death.