Questions From Readers (w69, 2/15):Will Satan be dead in the Abyss ?

raymond frantz

Another gem from the Watchtower 1969 , back in those days the Watchtower was engaged in the Bible research to prove Satan's actual condition in the Abyss . Enjoy ...

Will Satan be dead when he is in the abyss for one thousand years?

jam

So Satan is thrown in abyss for a thousand years, why.

Because Jesus wil rule for a thousand years without

Satan. Why the game playing, why didn't God do

that from the start.. So he will wake up after a thousand years

after Jesus have been ruling, mine you no problems here on

earth, and we are to believe that Satan will try to get people to

follow him once more. OK, I'm not that bright but

I think I would follow Jesus and realize this crap is for real...

Why in the hell would anyone choose to follow Satan.

So what's the point of Satan in the Abyss for a 1000 years...

And the question "will Satan be dead in the Abyss", If he

was dead problem solved.

This is not the only stupid story in the Bible. And "story" it is. It should be put in the fairy tales book. What kind of god teaches people with stuff like that. A god is supposed to encourage his people and love them and have moral stories one can make sense of.

fulano

Yes, and what if Satan and his boys are not willing to cooperate after the 1000 years?

Tempered

How can the Anti-christ arise and mislead today when hundreds of millions know of his coming? How can Satan return at the end of the Millinium and mislead nearly perfect humans when they've know for centuries of his return?

steve2

At any time of his tenure in the abyss, will Satan - dead or alive - be able to change his position? I should imagine there could be a need to keep changing one's position - pretty much like Jehovah's earthly organization does.

DATA-DOG

YHWH the ever vengeful really loves to torture souls. That's why he keeps his favorite ones, the ones who died for "Jesus", under his throne in a sea of blood. He can create a vacuum by abyssing Satan, and then let him back out.

I feel sorry for " the rest of the dead" in Revelation. They don't come to life until AFTER the 1,000 year rule of Jesus and Anthony Morris III. Imagine the fun of being brought back just as Satan is released upon mankind ONCE AGAIN.

It just makes sense.

DD

Cold Steel

Jam: Why in the hell would anyone choose to follow Satan?

Hatred. Hatred even trumps the sense of self preservation.

During the battle of Armageddon, the prophets state that those nations surrounding Israel will be so enveloped in hate, that when Jesus returns, many of Israel's [Muslim] enemies will fight him. As we can see now, they have a seething, undying hatred of the Jews. Eventually, they will come down on Jerusalem to take the holy city (see Ezekiel 38-39), and the Lord actually speaks to Gog as though he were present. Zechariah even indicates that some of Judah's neighbors, after the return of the Messiah, will refuse to come to Jerusalem to partake in the feast of the tabernacles. He specifically mentions Egypt (see Zechariah 12-14). The Muslim mindset that the Quran is God's book and Muhammad his prophet is so strong that even when Jesus appears on the Mount of Olives and saves their enemies, the Jews, they are not going to be converted; rather, they're going to be filled with hatred. They won't take it kindly that the religion they believed in, fought and died for, and the god of their fathers -- all was a sham.

But this is exactly what the prophets said is going to happen. How did they know Judah was going to return to its ancestral homeland, and that its sworn enemies would be their neighbors? Why has Israel managed to miraculously survive two massive attacks where, logistically, it should have been destroyed? The Lord said he would, in our day, make Jerusalem a "burdensome stone" to all who set themselves against it. He said Judah would return and make the land a garden, which has happened. Anyway, Islam has not shown itself to be the religion of peace. And they have so come to hate Israel and the Jews that when the Lord returns, they will want no part of him.

jam

Cold steel, lets see if I got this right.

Satan is confined in abyss, when? After the

war, correct. So all the Muslim will be put to death, right.

Now when he come back after a thousand years, we have

the resurrected, Muslim, atheist,agnostics (me) etc..

have been living peacefully for a thousand years.

It's no way I would still be an agnostic and the same for

those that was resurrected doing Satan absence.

I think if a Muslim is resurrected and no Muhammad, I believe they

will realize, hell we were wrong, Jesus is my LORD.

Who in their right mind will go against God after 1000 years and

follow someone who have been in the Abyss for 1000 years.

If I am resurrected, whoever has won, that's who I will follow, no problem..