Father Mike Schmitz

Satan's doom.

And when the thousand years are ended, Satan will be released from his prison and will come out to deceive the nations which are at the four corners of the earth, that is Gog and Magog, to gather them for battle.

Their number is like the sand of the sea, and they marched up over the broad earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city.

But fire came down from heaven and consumed them, and the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night, forever and ever.

The dead are judged.

Then I saw a white throne and him who sat upon it.

From his presence earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for them.

And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened.

Also another book was opened, which is the book of life.

And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, by what they had done.

And the sea gave up the dead in it.

Death and Hades gave up the dead in them, and all were judged by what they had done.

Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire.

This is the second death, the lake of fire.

And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

The Earthly and the Heavenly Sanctuary.

Now, even the first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly sanctuary.

For a tent was prepared, the outer one, in which were the lampstand and the table and the bread of offering.

It is called the holy place.

Behind the second curtain stood a tent called the holy of holies, having the golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant covered on all sides with gold, which contained a golden urn holding the manna and Aaron's rod that budded and the tables of the covenant.