Modern Literal Version
[Revelation 20]


     20:1 And I saw a messenger coming down from heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. 20:2 And he took-hold of the dragon, the ancient serpent, who is the Slanderer and Satan, the one who is misleading all the world and bound him a thousand years, 20:3 and cast him into the abyss and lock it and sealed it above him, in order that he may not mislead the nations anymore, until the thousand years might be finished. He must be loosed for a little time after these things.


     20:4 And I saw thrones and they sat upon them and judgment was given to them and I saw the souls of those who had been decapitated because of the testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God and those who did not worship the beast, nor his image and did not receive the mark upon their forehead and upon their hand, and they lived and reigned with Christ the thousand years. 20:5 And the rest of the dead did not live until the thousand years might be finished. This is the first resurrection. 20:6 Fortunate and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection; over these the second death has no authority; but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with him a thousand years.


     20:7 And when the thousand years might be finished, Satan will be loosed out of his prison, 20:8and will go out to mislead the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together into the war. The number of whom is like the sand of the sea. 20:9 And they went up over the width of the earth and surrounded the encampment of the holy-ones and the beloved city and fire from God came down out of heaven and devoured them. 20:10 And the Slanderer who is misleading them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are also, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.


     20:11 And I saw a great white throne and him who sat upon it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away, and no place was found for them. 20:12 And I saw the dead, the great and the little, standing before the throne, and books were opened and another book was opened, which isthe Book of Life and the dead were judged out of the things which have been written in the books, according to their works. 20:13 And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them and they were judged everyone according to their works. 20:14 And death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death, that isthe lake of fire. 20:15 And if anyone was not found written in the Book of Life, he was cast into the lake of fire.



Modern Literal Version Preface & Appendix , copyright 1987, 1999, 2013 by G. Allen Walker for the MLV New Testament Committee.
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