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So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. Rev 12:9

And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season. Rev 20:2,3


Covid - 19 + Vaccine + booster + booster + booster + booster

Were you deceived?

 

[percho]

Well it is wonderful to know none of the Christians were deceived by the devil through the covid 19 pandemic and vaccines.

I must have been wrong. The devil, Satan must be already be chained and unable to deceive Christians.

 

[Alan Gross]

I must have been wrong. The devil, Satan must be already be chained and unable to deceive Christians.

The passage concerns the devil deceiving the nations, as you placed in bold;

that he should deceive the nations no more

That is exclusively all that the devil was bound from doing IMHO.

This is the Apocalyptic genre's take on it, which leaves 'a thousand years' to mean, "a seemingly endless period of time, nevertheless, that will prove to be finite" (when Jesus Returns in Judgment and to Create The New Heavens and The New Earth.)

The 1,000 Years of Revelation 20
by Rev. Angus Stewart

This article is quite perspicacious in its handling of typical Bible hermeneutics regarding what Revelation 1 calls, "signified".

"The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:" Revelation 1:1.

Revelation gives the instruction that its contents are "signified", so IMHO again, we should listen to take off jump street, because that is given to us in the FIRST verse, to clue us into how to approach it, to see like a 'seer', what God would have us to understand from it.

"signified" = ἐσήμανεν / esēmanen;

Strong's 4591
sémainó: to give a sign
Original Word: σημαίνω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: sémainó
Phonetic Spelling: (say-mah'-ee-no)
Definition: to give a sign
Usage: I signify, indicate, give a sign, make known.

The 'thousand years' is said to be 'a thousand years' and NOT 'THE' Millenium.

A 'thousand years' is descriptive of and indicates The New Testament Church Age, from Jesus' Ascension (at His First Coming), until His one and only Second Coming, which will be the End of Time and The Great Consummation of all things.

You didn't want me to lie to you, I hope.

 

[Piper]

Covid has nothing to do with the book of Revelation.

 

[percho]

Covid has nothing to do with the book of Revelation.

Deceive Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

Does Deceit have anything to do with the book of Revelation? Does Covid 19 have anything to do with deceit?

And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. Rev 12:9
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. John 8:44

From whence cometh the deceit of covid 19?

Is Revelation 20 pre or post the new heavens and new earth?

How much lying has been associated with covid 19 and have spirit filled Christians been effected by that lying?

And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.

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.

At what point in time has the nations, including spirit filled Christians, not been under the deceit of the devil?