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Lesson 11 Revelation’s 1,000 Years – Answers

1. How did Jesus describe Satan?

He is a liar and the father of it.

2. What caused Satan’s fall from his high position in heaven?

How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, You who weakened the nations! For you have said in your heart: ‘I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation On the farthest sides of the north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High.”

3. How successful will Satan ultimately be at receiving the worship of the world?

All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

4. When does Satan’s domination of planet Earth come to an end?

I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.

5. What happens as a result of Satan being bound for 1,000 years?

He [the angel] cast him [Satan] into the bottomless 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.

6. What event precedes the binding of Satan?

The Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.

7. How many resurrections will there be?

The hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear His voice and come forth—those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation.

8. Where does the Bible describe the righteous as being during the millennium?

They lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

I go and prepare a place for you. . . . I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.

9. If the righteous are in heaven during the millennium, where are the unrighteous?

[All who were not saved] said to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! For the great day of His wrath has come, and who is able to stand?”

The rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished.

10. How does the Bible describe the effect of the Second Coming on lost people?

At that day the slain of the Lord shall be from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth. They shall not be lamented, or gathered, or buried; they shall become refuse on the ground.

11. What will be the condition of planet Earth during the 1,000 years?

I beheld the earth, and indeed it was without form, and void; And the heavens, they had no light. . . .I beheld, and indeed there was no man, And all the birds of the heavens had fled.

12. What will the righteous be doing in heaven during the millennium?

I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and  judgment was committed to them.

13. What has Satan been doing during the millennium?

Now when the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison.

14. What remarkable event takes place at the end of the 1,000 years?

The rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.

15. What other event marks the end of Revelation’s 1,000 years?

I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

16. What will Satan influence the wicked to do when they are raised from the dead?

When the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison and will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to {battle, whose number is as the sand of the sea.

17. How does God end this attempted overthrow of the holy city?

They went up on the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. And fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them.

18. What does God do once this final rebellion has been put down?

I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea.

19. How does the book of Revelation describe God’s relationship with His people in the earth made new?

I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God.