Revelation 20:1-3  "...an angel...having the key to the bottomless pit...a great chain...laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years...cast him into the bottomless pit...till the thousand years were finished...after these things he must be released for a little while" Satan is …

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Revelation 19:1  "...a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven..." For the last two announcements, John has been approached by or heard a single voice.  Now he hears a great multitude.  All is done and all of Heaven rejoices. 7-8  "...the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready...arrayed …

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NOTE:  Appears chapters 17, 18, and 19 deal with the same issue, the ending of satan's world kingdom referred to as Babylon.  As an actual city, it would have been presided over by the Antichrist or beast.  From chapter 19 he wasn't in it when it was destroyed.  Chapter 18 will describe the world reaction …

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NOTE:  John is presented a vision in 1-6, then is told what the vision represents in 7-18.  Commentaries have such different ideas.  Going to put down what stands out to me. Revelation 17:1  "...the judgment of the great harlot..." Bible refers to worship of anyone or anything other than God as harlotry.  I think the …

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Revelation 16:1  "...voice from the temple saying to the seven angels..." Again from the temple.  Direct commands, direct control. 1  "...the wrath of God on the earth" Concluding acts of vengeance on the people of earth, at least those who are rebelling against Him.  It's just a taste of what is in store if they …

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Revelation 15:1  "...great and marvelous...in them the wrath of God is complete" Great and marvelous as part of the overall majesty of what John was seeing, and because the wrath of God is complete with them.  Only natural to want things to be right, for wrongs to be corrected, but when our hearts become like …

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Revelation 14:1  "...with Him one hundred and forty-four thousand, having His Father’s name written on their foreheads" Probably the same group mentioned in chapter 7 revisited. 3  "...no one could learn that song except the hundred and forty-four thousand who were redeemed..." Only they could understand the song as they were the ones who experienced …

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