Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Every man's conscience is a book wherein his deeds are written ;

From :
The 1560 -1599 A.D.
Geneva Bible New Testament ;

The Revelation
Of Saint John The Apostle
& Evangelist With the Annotations
Of Francis Junius & Chapter 20 :

1 The Angel
2 bindeth Satan for a thousand years.

8 Being loosed, he stirreth up Gog
and Magog, that is, privy and open
enemies against the Saints,

11 but the vengeance
of the Lord cutting off their insolency.

12 The books are opened,
by which the dead are judged.

1 And (1) I saw an (*) Angel
come down from heaven, having
the () key (2) of the bottomless pit,
and a great chain in his hand.

(1) Now followeth the third place
of the prophetical history, which is
of the victory whereby Christ
overcame the dragon, as I noted
in Revelation 7:1 .

This place must necessarily
be joined with the end of the
twelfth chapter and be applied
unto the just understanding thereof.

This chapter hath two parts,
one of the dragon overcome,
unto Revelation 20:2-10; the other
of the resurrection and last judgment
unto Revelation 20:11-15 .

The history of the dragon is double:

First of the first victory,
after which he was bound
by Christ, unto the sixth
verse Revelation 20:1-6 .

The second is of the last victory,
whereby he has thrown down into
everlasting punishment, thence unto
the fifteenth verse Revelation 20:7-15 .

This first history happened
in the first time of the Christian
Church, when the dragon thrown
down from heaven by Christ, went
about to molest the new birth
of the Church in the earth,
Revelation 12:17,18:1 .

For which cause I gave warning,
that this story of the Dragon must
be annexed unto that place.

(*) This Angel representeth
the order of the Apostles, whose
vocation and office was from heaven;
or may signify Christ, which should
tread down the serpent's head.

() Hereby he meaneth
the Gospel whereby hell
is shut up to the faithful, and
Satan is chained that he cannot
hurt them, yea and the ministers
hereby open to the infidels, but
through their impiety and
stubbornness.

(2) That is, of hell,
where God threw down
the Angels which had sinned,
and bound them in chains of
darkness to be kept unto
damnation, 2 Peter 2:4; Jude 1:6
.
2 And he took the dragon
that old serpent, which is the
devil and Satan, and he bound
him (3) (*) a thousand years;

(3) The first
whereof (continuing
this history with the end
of the second chapter) is
the 36 years from the passion
of Christ, when the Church of
the Jews being overthrown, Satan
assailed to invade the Christian Church
gathered of the Gentiles, and to destroy
part of her seed, Revelation 12:17 .

The thousandth year
falleth precisely upon
the times of that wicked
Hildebrand, who was called
Gregory the seventh, a most
damnable Necromancer and
sorcerer, whom Satan used as
an instrument when he was loosed
out of bonds, thenceforth to annoy
the Saints of God with most cruel
persecutions, and the whole world
with dissentions, and most bloody
wars; as Benno the Cardinal
reporteth at large.

And this is the first victory
gotten over the dragon in the earth.

(*) That is, from Christ's nativity
unto the time of Pope Sylvester the
second; so long the pure doctrine
should after a sort remain.

3 And cast him into
the bottomless pit, and
he shut him up, and sealed
the door upon him, that he should
deceive the people (4) no more, till
the (*) thousand years were fulfilled;
for after that he must be loosed for
(5) a little season.

(4) Namely,
with that public
and violent deceit
which he attempted
before in Chapter 12 and
which after a thousand years
(alas for woe!) he most mightily
procured in the Christian world.

(*) After this term
Satan had greater power
than he had before.

(5) Which being once expired,
the second battle and victory shall
be; Revelation 20:7-8 .

4 (6) And I saw
(a) (7) (*) seats, and
they sat upon them, and
judgment was given unto
them, and I saw the souls of
them that were (8) beheaded
for the witness of Jesus, and for the
word of God, and which (9) did not
worship the beast, neither his image,
neither had taken his mark upon their
foreheads, or on their hands; and they
lived, and reigned with Christ a
() thousand years.

(6) A description
of the common state
of the Church of Christ
in earth in that space of a
thousand years, for which the
devil was in bonds; in which first
the authority, life, and common
honor of the godly, is declared,
Revelation 20:4 .

Secondly, newness of life
is preached unto others by
the Gospel after that space;
Revelation 20:5 .

Finally, he concludeth with
promises, Revelation 20:6 .

(a) For judgment
was committed to them,
as to members joined to the
head; not that Christ's office
was given over to them.

(7) This was a type
of the authority of the
good and faithful servants
of God in the Church, taken
from the manner of men.

(*) The glory and authority of
them that suffer for Christ's sake.

(8) Of the Martyrs, which
suffered in those first times.

(9) Of the Martyrs which
suffered after that both the
beasts were now risen up,
Chapter 15.

For these three
things are expounded.

() That is, whiles they
have remained in this life.

5 (10) But the rest
of the (*) dead men
(11) shall not live again,
until the thousand years
be finished. This is the
() first resurrection.

(10) Whosoever shall lie dead
in sin, and not know the truth
of God.

(*) He meaneth them
which are spiritually dead,
for in whom Satan liveth,
he is dead to God.

(11) They shall not be
renewed with that newness
of the life by the enlightening of
the Gospel of the glory of Christ.

For this is the first resurrection,
by which souls of the godly do
rise from their death.

In the second resurrection
their bodies shall rise again.

() Which is to receive Jesus
Christ in true faith, and to rise
from sin in newness of life.

6 Blessed and holy
is he, that hath part in
the first resurrection; for
on such the (12) (*) second
death hath no power, but they
() shall be the Priests of God and
of Christ, (13) and shall reign with
him a (()) thousand years.

(12) That whereby both body
and soul, that is, the whole man
is addicted and delivered unto
eternal death; Revelation 2:11 .

(*) The death of the soul,
which is eternal damnation.

() Shall be true partakers
of Christ and of his dignity.

(13) A return unto
the intended history,
by resuming the words
which are in the end of the
fourth verse, Revelation 20:4 .

(()) That is, forever.

7 (14) And when
the (15) thousand years
are (*) expired, Satan shall
be loosed out of his prison,

(14) The second history,
of the latter victory of Christ,
as was said in Revelation 20:1 .

In which are summarily
described the work, overthrow,
and eternal punishment of Satan.

(15) Of which
I spake, Revelation 20:2 .

Then therefore
shall be given unto
him liberty to rage against
the Church, and to molest
the Saints for the sins of men;
unto whom the faithful shall have
associated themselves more than
was meet, tasting with them of
their impurity of doctrine and life.

(*) After that the chain is
broken and the true preaching
of God's word is corrupt.

8 (16) And shall go out to
deceive the people, which are
in the four quarters of the earth,
even (*) () Gog and Magog, to
gather them together to battle,
whose number is as
the sand of the sea.

(16) The work
or act of Satan
(which is the first member,
as I distinguished in the verse
before going) to deceive the whole
world, even unto the uttermost nations
thereof; to arm them against the people
of God, in this verse and to besiege and
oppress the Church, with his whole
strength, in the verse following.

(*) Ezekiel 39:2 .

() By them are meant
divers and strange enemies
of the Church of God, as the
Turk, the Sarazins and others,
read Ezekiel 38:2, by whom the
Church of God should be
grievously tormented.

9 And they went up
into the (b) plain of the
earth, and they compassed
the tents of the Saints about, and
the beloved city, but (17) fire came
down from God out of heaven, and
devoured them.

(b) As if he said,
in so much that the
whole face of the earth, how
great soever it is, was filled.

(17) The wrath of God,
consuming the adversaries,
and overthrowing all their
enterprises; Hebrews 10:27 .

And this is the second member
mentioned, Revelation 20:7;
the overthrow of Satan.

10 (18) And the devil
that deceived them, was
cast into a lake of fire and
brimstone, where the beast
and the false prophet are, and
shall be tormented even day
and night for evermore.

(18) The third member,
eternal destruction against
those that are overcome; as
I noted in the same place.

11 (19) And I saw a
great (20) white throne,
and (*) one that sat on it,
(21) from whose face fled
away both the earth and heaven,
and their place was no more found.

(19) The second part
of this Chapter, in which
is described the judge, in this
verse, and the last judgment
in the verse following.

(20) That is, a tribunal
seat most Princelike and
glorious; for so doeth the
Greek word also signify.

(*) Which was Christ,
prepared to judgment
with glory and majesty.

(21) That is, Christ,
before whom when he
cometh unto judgment,
heaven and earth shall
perish for the greatness of
his majesty; 2 Peter 3:7-10 .

12 And I saw the dead,
both great and small stand
before (22) God, and the
(23) () books were opened,
and (*) another book was
opened, which is the book
(24) of life, and the dead were
judged of those things, which
were written in the books,
according to their works.

(22) That is, Christ
the judge; 2 Corinthians 5:10 .

(23) As it were,
our books of reckoning
or accounts, that is, the testimony
of our conscience, and of our works,
which by no means can be avoided.

This is spoken
after the manner of men.

() Every man's conscience
is a book wherein his deeds
are written, which shall appear
when God openeth the book.

(*) Revelation 3:5;
Revelation 21:27; Philippians 4:3 .

(24) The book
of the eternal decree
of God, in which God
the Father hath elected
in Christ according to the
good pleasure of his will,
those that shall be heirs of life.

This also is spoken
according to the manner of men.

13 (25) And the sea
gave up her dead, which
were in her, and (*) death
and hell delivered up the dead,
which were in them; and they
were judged every man
according to their works.

(25) This is a prevention
or an answer to an objection;
for happily some man will say,
But they are dead, whom the
sea, death and the grave hath
consumed, how shall they
appear before the judge?

John answereth,
by resurrection from death,
whereunto all things (howsoever
repugnant) shall minister and serve
at the commandment of God,
as in Daniel 12:1-2 .

(*) Understanding all kinds of
death whereby men have been slain.

14 (26) And (*) death
and hell were cast into the lake
of fire. This is the second death.

(26) The last enemy
which is death shall be
abolished by Christ (that he may
no more make any attempt against
us) 1 Corinthians 15:16; and death
shall feed upon the reprobate in hell
for evermore, according to the
righteous judgment of God, in the
next verse, Revlation 20:15 .

(*) Hell and death which are the
last enemies, shall be destroyed.

15 And whosoever was not
found written in the book of life,
was cast into the lake of fire.

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