he must be freed for a short time. I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as didn't worship the beast nor his image, and didn't receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand. They lived, and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. The rest of the dead didn't live until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over these, the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with him one thousand years.
And after the thousand years, Satan will be released from his prison, and he will come out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to the war; the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. They went up over the breadth of the earth, and surrounded the camp of the saints, and the beloved city. Fire came down out of heaven from God, and devoured them. The devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are also. They will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
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. I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works. The sea gave up the dead who were in it. Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them. They were judged, each one according to his works. Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. If anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.
The angel seized the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and bound him for a thousand years – fettered capitalism as a system of social organization. Why was it necessary to destroy capitalism? Why was it necessary to fight against this consumerism at all? Firstly, because it has the peculiarity of denying spirituality, spiritual and spiritual development, it does not agree with the Truth. And secondly, because it is very contagious. The gods want people to evolve and reincarnate in the high worlds. Therefore, on the one hand, they intend to destroy this degrading world, which forces them to reincarnate in bad worlds. And on the other hand, to lay the foundation for the emergence of superhumanity, which will evolve spiritually, and which, at the end of the kalpa, will be able to ascend to the heavens of the upper astral world.
There is an erroneous idea allegedly that “there is, in fact, no fundamental difference between hedonism and asceticism. That both of them strive for the same thing, for pleasure. It's just that hedonists prefer to get these pleasures first, and then pay for them. And the ascetics prefer to first go through suffering, earn more good karma, and then break away in the highest bliss to the fullest.” The essence of the error here lies in the fact that hedonists and ascetics understand the word "bliss" differently. If for hedonists “bliss” is a plus on the scale of emotions. For ascetics, “bliss” is an emotional zero, calmness. That is, if hedonists are doomed to constantly swing in the experience of either pleasure or suffering. Then, for ascetics, the main goal is calmness, a stable emotional state.
The angel seized the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and bound him for a thousand years – after a sufficiently long period of time, the sealed false vice, the idea of a free market, will once again gain influence.
Thousand years – it is possible that the term "thousand years" is conditional. In reality, it may take much longer.
I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them – the first judgment.
Testimony of Jesus – is the testimony of the Lamb.
Reigned with Christ – reigned with the Lamb.
They will be priests of God and of Christ – they will be priests of God and the Lamb.
This is the first resurrection – the first judgment.
Over these, the second death has no power – they are insured against falling into the lower worlds after the second judgment, that is, they will be saved. When there is a second judgment, then by the decision of this court they will continue to be reborn as people on Earth.
They lived, and reigned with Christ for a thousand years – they will not live in the same body for more than a thousand years. No. They will simply be reborn constantly in the same place where the Lamb is. And, accordingly, they will be constantly in the stream of Truth, in the stream of soul evolution. Some of them will become saints and evolve as saints. The retinues will be able, reincarnating, not to lose consciousness for more than a thousand years. Even if, for example, the body has grown old and it is time to leave it, they will be able to choose a new body for themselves in the next birth. Moreover, they will have the memory of a past life, and they will clearly remember where they were born before, what they did, with whom
