Revelation 20

“And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.” The line’s distinctive content terms include angel, bottomless, chain. Its relationship to verses 2 shows what work it does in this passage.

“And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,” The number thousand makes the report concrete. Ask whether it measures time, people, distance, repetition, or completeness before deciding what weight it carries.

“And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were…” The number thousand makes the report concrete. Ask whether it measures time, people, distance, repetition, or completeness before deciding what weight it carries.

“But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.” The number thousand makes the report concrete. Ask whether it measures time, people, distance, repetition, or completeness before deciding what weight it carries.

“Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and…” The verse names God rather than leaving the action without a source. Watch whether the next line continues, answers, or contrasts that action.

“And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there…” The line’s distinctive content terms include earth, face, fled. Its relationship to verses 10 and 12 shows what work it does in this passage.

“And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which…” The verse names God rather than leaving the action without a source. Watch whether the next line continues, answers, or contrasts that action.

“And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they…” The line’s distinctive content terms include dead, death, delivered. Its relationship to verses 12 and 14 shows what work it does in this passage.

“And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.” The line’s distinctive content terms include death, fire, hell. Its relationship to verses 13 and 15 shows what work it does in this passage.

“And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.” The line’s distinctive content terms include book, fire, lake. Its relationship to verses 14 shows what work it does in this passage.