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The “Thousand Years”—Not a False HopeGod’s Kingdom of a Thousand Years Has Approached
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He seized the dragon, that serpent of old, the Devil or Satan, and chained him up for a thousand years; he threw him into the abyss, shutting and sealing it over him, so that he might seduce the nations no more till the thousand years were over. After that he must be let loose for a short while.
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The “Thousand Years”—Not a False HopeGod’s Kingdom of a Thousand Years Has Approached
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28. (a) So after what events do the thousand years begin? (b) Why, then, have those thousand years manifestly yet to begin?
28 We notice the use of the expression “thousand years” six times in that account. We notice also that those thousand years begin after a battle between the “King of kings” and the “kings of the earth” along with the “beast” and the “false prophet,” and then the chaining of Satan the Devil and flinging of him into the abyss. Those events are part of “what must shortly happen.” Up till now the world has had nothing to compare with such events. Quite manifestly, then, those “thousand years” have yet to begin.
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