--- ### *The 1000 Year Reign, the Second Resurrection, and Why Satan Deceives Again* *A First-Fruits / Latter-Fruits Understanding of Revelation 19-20* #### *1. The Timeline in Revelation 19-20* 1. *Messiah returns* — Rev 19:11-21. The beast + false prophet judged. 2. *Satan bound 1000 years* — Rev 20:1-3. No deception of nations during the reign. 3. *First resurrection* — Rev 20:4-6. These reign with Messiah 1000 years. They are “blessed and holy.” Second death has no power over them. 4. *After 1000 years*: Satan loosed — Rev 20:7. He deceives the nations again, Gog and Magog. Fire comes down. 5. *Rest of the dead raised* — Rev 20:5, 12-13. This is the second resurrection. 6. *Great White Throne Judgment* — Rev 20:11-15. Happens on earth. Books opened. Sea, Death, and Sheol give up their dead. #### *2. Who Goes Up and Who Waits* *First-Fruits = The Elect, The Called Now* - *“No man comes to Me unless the Father draws him”* — John 6:44 - *“Many are called, few are...
### *The Bones on the Road to Gath: Ephraim’s Early Exodus and Ezekiel’s Dry Bones* *1 Chronicles 7:20-23* records a jarring interruption in the genealogy of Ephraim: > _Zabad his son, Shuthelah his son, and Ezer and Elead, whom the men of Gath who were born in the land killed, because they came down to raid their livestock. And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him. And Ephraim went in to his wife, and she conceived and bore a son, and he called his name Beriah, because disaster had befallen his house._ A family tragedy. Sons killed at Gath. A father mourning. A child named “Disaster.” But Jewish tradition preserves a larger story behind these verses. ### *The Midrash: 300,000 Who Left Too Soon* Sources including _Mechilta d’Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai_, _Pirkei d’Rabbi Eliezer_ 48, and _Shemot Rabbah_ 20:11 recount that the tribe of Ephraim miscalculated the 400 years of *Genesis 15:13*. Counting from Jacob’s descent to Egypt instead o...