Revelation Twenty: In the Heavenlies, or On Earth?

Revelation Twenty:
7 Now when the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison
8 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.
9 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.

To War, or not to war
Micah Four:
1 Now it shall come to pass in the latter days
That the mountain of the Lord’s house
Shall be established on the top of the mountains,
And shall be exalted above the hills;
And peoples shall flow to it.
2 Many nations shall come and say,
“Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
To the house of the God of Jacob;
He will teach us His ways,
And we shall walk in His paths.”
For out of Zion the law shall go forth,
And the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
3 He shall judge between many peoples,
And rebuke strong nations afar off;
They shall beat their swords into plowshares,
And their spears into pruning hooks;
Nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
Neither shall they learn war anymore.

Joel Three:
9 Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war,
wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war
draw near; let them come up:
10 Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning
hooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.
11 Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen,
and gather yourselves together round about:
thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O Lord.
12 Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the
valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about.
13 Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down;
for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great.
14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision:
for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.

No war! Until one final battle!
Revelation Twenty:
7 Now when the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison
8 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.
9 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.

Revelation Twenty:

7 Now when the thousand years have expired,

Satan will be released from his prison

8 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.

9 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.

To think that Satan could convince the world to go to war against the Son of God Himself is utterly ludicrous. The Elect reign with Christ for 1000 years, and not by Grace.

"For out of Zion shall go forth the law,
And the word of the Lord from Jerusalem."

Do you not understand that during the Millennium, the death penalty required for any trespass will be enforced by The Elect?

Get a clue, this is fully foreshadowed in the Testimony of Israel. After 40 years of the most glorious kingdom reign, Israel immediately revolted against the House of David.

Why?

First Kings Twelve:

4 “Your father made our yoke heavy; now therefore, lighten the burdensome service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put on us, and we will serve you.”

Year to year, the nations will come to Jerusalem and appear "before the Lord"as they did under Law, even before there was a Temple. A Temple was not required to keep Sukkot.

"year to year" = time remains.

Satan most certainly is NOT bound at this time as he has continued to steal, kill, and destroy. How completely duplicitous to claim there is no scriptural support for the Millennium when the words "thousand years" appears 6X!

And what will you do when the heads start to roll? There will be no rapture, just a choice to be made.

Revelation Twenty:

4 And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. 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. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

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

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.

Consider this carefully friends. If Yeshua has to return to the earth for us to reign with Him for a thousand years, then we have dismally failed in our training.