So you are saying the beasts are fallen angels and perhaps demons. Correct?Paul identified who we are presently fighting against in this verse: -
Ephesians 6:12: - For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.
Isaiah tells us this: -
Isaiah 24:21-22: -21 It shall come to pass in that dayThat the Lord will punish on high the host of exalted ones,And on the earth the kings of the earth.22 They will be gathered together,As prisoners are gathered in the pit,And will be shut up in the prison;After many days they will be punished.
God promised that when Israel repents that He would remove all the beasts of the field in Ezekiel 34;25-30: -
Ezekiel 34:25-30: - 25 "I will make a covenant of peace with them and cause beasts [1] to cease from the earth; and they will dwell safely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods. 26 I will make them and the places all around My hill a blessing; and I will cause showers to come down in their season; there shall be showers of blessing. 27 Then the trees of the field shall yield their fruit, and the earth shall yield her increase. They shall be safe within my fertile field; and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have broken the bands of their yoke and delivered them from the hand of those who enslaved them. 28 And they shall no longer be a prey for the nations, nor shall beasts of the earth devour them; but they shall dwell safely, and no one shall make them afraid. 29 I will raise up for them a garden of renown, and they shall no longer be consumed with hunger in the land/on the earth, nor bear the shame of the Gentiles anymore. 30 Thus they shall know that I, the Lord their God, am with them, and they, the house of Israel, are My people," says the Lord God.'"
As for these beasts being imprisoned in the Bottomless Pit for 1,000 years, we have these references from the Book of Revelation.
Since Satan is also a judged heavenly host in Isaiah 24:21-22 and Satan and the other judged Heavenly Hosts are imprisoned for many years then if Satan in Rev 20:1-3 is imprisoned in the Bottomless Pit for 1,000 years then the other judged heavenly hosts, i.e. the beasts of Daniel 7, will also be imprisoned in the Bottomless pit with Satan, along with the judged kings of the earth.
Now in Rev 9 when the pit is unlocked we first see the kings of the earth rise up out of the pit for a period of 5 months and then they were followed by the release of the Angels from the Euphrates River to kill a third of mankind.
Then in Revelation 17:8 and 13:11 we are told this: -
Revelation 17:8: - 8 The beast that you saw was, and is not, and will ascend out of the bottomless pit and go to destruction.Revelation 13:7; - 11 Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon.Now Douggg, I am sure that you will find fault with the scriptures, but with no scriptural substance to your rebuttal and one of your pretty diagrams to boot.
Ezekiel 34:25-30 above also discredits the private theories of @Keraz in that it speaks of a time period when Israel will rest in God's covenant of peace.
Shalom
[1] This is a reference to God’s judgement of the beastly Heavenly Hosts who will be judged during the time that God is turning His attention once more towards the Israelites in our near future, around the year 2044 AD give or take a year or so either way because of the uncertainty in the understanding of the relations between God’s timeframe and man’s understanding.
Isaiah 24:21-22 speaks of God Judging the Heavenly Hosts in Heaven and the kings of the earth on the earth and that they will be gathered together with the kings of the earth and imprisoned in a cistern/pit for many days to await the time of their punishment.
Daniel 7:11-12 also speaks of the time of the judgement of the four Beasts, referred to as the four winds of Heaven in Daniel 7:2 that causes a manifestation of the four respective beasts to rise up out of the sea of humanity with the dominate characteristic of the four respective beasts.
In Revelation 16:12-16 we are told that the kings of the earth after the signs performed by the three foul frog like spirits when they went out from the mouth of the Dragon, the False Prophet and the Beast would be to assemble them for battle, on the great day of God the Almighty at Armageddon where they will be judged as Isaiah 24:21-22 prophesied.
Paul wrote in Romans 11:25-26, that when the fullness with respect to time, that has been set for the Gentiles to trample God’s Sanctuary and His earthly Hosts, has drawn to its conclusion, after the 2,300-year period, and the subsequent judgement of the kings of the earth, all of Israel will be saved.
Ezekiel 34:28 repeats this same theme, where it points a second time to the beasts being removed from the face of the earth and not troubling Israel for a period of 1,000-years.
If they are currently in the bottomless pit - and that pit is opened in Revelation 9 and the prisoners there are released when the pit is opened during the great tribulation. I don't have a problem with that line of thought.
Since it is said that Christians will judge the very angels - 1Corinthians 6:3 - I conclude that those fallen angels and demons will be judged at the time of Jesus's return, shorty thereafter and cast into the lake of fire at the beginning of the thousand years.
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kings of the earth - humans - are not cast into the bottomless pit, when they die, because their bodies and souls are separated at death.
The kings of the earth who try to make war on Jesus will be slain by Jesus at the time the beast and false prophet are cast alive into the lake of fire. Revelation 19:19-21.
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