Return of the evil Jedi at the end of the Millennium.

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"RETURN OF THE EVIL JEDI!"

In Revelation 19, we read about the end of the Millennium period: The Devil is loosed out of the Bottomless Pit, to test the Earthlings one last time. There will again be a polarization as we see developing today between God’s people and the wicked, those that do not receive the Lord. The wicked surround the camp of the Saints—Jerusalem!

" And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, And 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. And 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. " (Rev.20:7-9.)

OLD EARTH MELTS AND ATMOSPHERE EXPLODES!

This time God makes short shrift with the rebels and after He undoubtedly takes the Saints out with one more Rapture like the one we are going to enjoy very soon. Next He just explodes the whole atmosphere that the scripture says that "the Heavens shall depart like a scroll!" It will kind of roll up as waves and curtains of flames and disappear into Space! The fire will be so intense that it will melt "the elements", the surface of the Earth. As Peter describes it, talking about this very day—the end of the Millennium:

"But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. … Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. (2 Peter 3:10)

A NEW EARTH AND A NEW ATMOSPHERE
What Peter means is what follows after this fiery inferno, the Earth will de allowed to cool off and God creates a new surface and recreates the whole nature, as He did in the very beginning! The second Garden of Eden will be all over the world this time. (See the next Chapters revelation chapter 21 and 22)

"And 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. And 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.

After Satan is finally discarded and thrown in the lake of fire, no doubt a pool of magma—brimstone— inside the Earth's globe somewhere. The prisons of the spirits, Hades the unseen state and the seas are evacuated of all the dead that were there during the 1000 years of the Millennium and even from before. The records are opened of their lives to judge them, but also the "Book of life" which records salvations! So why does God bring the "Book of Life" out when there are no salvations? Just to point to it and thumb his nose at all the lost and say: "Ha ha you are not in there!" No obviously, beside the last batch of Millennial Saints who were raptured, many of the people who were in these Spiritual realms for thousands of years did get saved there. "For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord SHALL BE SAVED!"

And 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. And 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. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. (Rev.20:8-15.)

Here we see how these spiritual places—Hell as well as Death—are thrown in the lake of fire. They are destroyed! There is no more death after this! Only the second Death, which is a spiritual death! Now what that means???

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