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Rev 20:1-10 chiastic structure
1a) Rev 20:1-3, The great dragon bound for a thousand years so that he should no more deceive the nations;
1a) Rev 20:1-3a, The great dragon bound for a thousand years;
1a) Rev 20:1a, Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit;
1b) Rev 20:1b, And a great chain in his hand;
central axis) Rev 20:2a, He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan;
2b) Rev 20:2b, And bound him for a thousand years;
2a) Rev 20:3a, And he cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal on him;
central axis) Rev 20:3b, So that he should deceive the nations no more;
2a) Rev 20:3c, Till the thousand years were finished/ After these things he must be released for a little while;
1b) Rev 20:4a, And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them;
central axis) Rev 20:4b, Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands;
2b) Rev 20:4c-6, They lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years;
1a) Rev 20:4c, And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years;
1b) Rev 20:5a, But the rest of the dead did not live again;
central axis) Rev 20:5b, Until the thousand years were finished;
2b) Rev 20:5c-6a, This is the first resurrection/ Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ;
2a) Rev 20:6b, And shall reign with Him a thousand years;
2a) Rev 20:7-10, At the end of the thousand years, Satan will be released to deceive the nations;
1a) Rev 20:7-8a, Now 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;
1b) Rev 20:8b, To gather them together to battle, whose number is as the sand of the sea;
central axis) Rev 20:9a, They went up on the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city;
2b) Rev 20:9b, And fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them;
2a) Rev 20:10, The devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are/ They will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
Rev 20:6-15 chiastic structure
1a) Rev 20:6, Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years;
1b) Rev 20:7-10, Satan will be released to deceive the nations/ cast into the lake of fire;
1a) Rev 20:7-8a, Now 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;
1b) Rev 20:8b, To gather them together to battle, whose number is as the sand of the sea;
central axis) Rev 20:9a, They went up on the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city;
2b) Rev 20:9b, And fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them;
2a) Rev 20:10, The devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are/ They will be tormented day and night forever and ever;
1c) Rev 20:11, Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away/ There was found no place for them;
1d) Rev 20:12a, And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God;
1e) Rev 20:12b, And books were opened/ Another book was opened, which is the Book of Life;
central axis) Rev 20:12c, And the dead were judged according to their works;
2e) Rev 20:12d, By the things which were written in the books;
2d) Rev 20:13a, The sea gave up the dead who were in it/ Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them;
2c) Rev 20:13b, And they were judged, each one according to his works;
2b) Rev 20:14a, Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire;
2a) Rev 20:14b-15, This is the second death/ Anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.
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