Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Revelation 20:15
The book of life: See Poole on "Revelation 20:12". read more
The book of life: See Poole on "Revelation 20:12". read more
THE THOUSAND YEARSCRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTESEMINENT expositors, ancient and modern, regard the opening of this chapter as referring to an early period in the history of the Church, but there are many writers who consider the events as occurring in immediate succession to those foreshown in the end of chap. 19. Stuart points out the intentional brevity with which this portion of the prophecy is treated. “The events of a thousand years; the invasion of Gog and Magog, with their defeat; the... read more
Revelation 20:11 "And the Books were Opened.". What are the books to be read? We are not told their title, but I think we may make some conjecture. I. The first book will be the book of the law of God. Just as in our courts of justice the laws of the realm are always near at hand, that in any doubtful case they may be appealed to, so, I think, the first book will be the book of the revealed will of the holy and just God, a record of the laws and measures by which men will be tried. II. The next... read more
Revelation 20:12 The Last Assize. Consider: I. He who is to decide our portion for eternity is the very Being who died as our Surety. Who but man can fully sympathise with man? And yet if an angel be not qualified to sit in judgment, how can a man be? A man may have the power of sympathy, which an angel has not; but then he is far inferior to the angels in those other properties which are required, and in some of those properties even angels are altogether deficient. So that, if we would... read more
DISCOURSE: 2527THE FIRST RESURRECTIONRevelation 20:6. Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection.RESPECTING the events spoken of in my text, and which are generally known under the name of the Millennium, commentators have been greatly divided. What has been spoken on the subject by wild enthusiasts, I shall pass over without notice: but the two leading opinions of pious and judicious men may fitly come under our review. Some have thought that there will really be a... read more
DISCOURSE: 2528THE DAY OF JUDGMENTRevelation 20:11-15. I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death... read more
thousand years The duration of the kingdom of heaven in its mediatorial form (See Scofield " :-") . read more
first resurrection The "resurrection of the just" is mentioned in Luke 14:13; Luke 14:14 and the resurrection of "life" distinguished from the "resurrection unto damnation" in John 5:29. We here learn for the first time what interval of time separates these two resurrections. (See Scofield "John 5:29- :") read more
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Revelation 20:14
And death and hell were cast into lake of fire; there shall be no more natural death, nor any more separate state of souls, (so αδης signifies), they shall all be swallowed up in the issue of the last judgment, where some shall go into life, some into eternal condemnation. Dr. More expoundeth it of the whole region of mortality being set on fire at the last thunder. This, as to the wicked of the earth, is the second death, mentioned Revelation 2:11. read more