1950 This Means Everlasting Life - A2Z.org

270 "THIS MEANS EVERLASTING LIFE"
plunged into the "fiery lake that burns with sulphur",
the Gehenna of everlasting destruction .
-Revelation 12 :13 to 19 :21, NW.
5 The destruction of this wicked world mounts
higher, up into the invisible realms . Satan and his
demons have witnessed the utter consumption of
their mobilized earthly organization, and now
their own "short period of time" is up! The Seed
of God's "woman" now has his day . The moment
has now arrived to crush the head of the heelbruiser,
the Serpent, and trample to death his
demon seed! And so Christ Jesus the Seed is Jehovah's
mighty "angel" or Deputy now empowered
to do this. He is the archangel Michael, whose
name means "Who is like God?", the one who
cast Satan and his demons out of heaven by a
successful war up there . Now he must render that
wicked one and his demons totally inactive . With
symbolic description John writes : "And I saw an
angel coming down out of heaven with the key of
the abyss and a great chain in his hand . And he
seized the dragon, the original serpent, who is the
Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand
years. And he hurled him into the abyss and shut
it and sealed it over him, that he might not mislead
the nations any more until the thousand years
were ended ."-Revelation 20 :1-3, NW.
6
When the Serpent bruised the heel of the Seed
of God's "woman", Jesus went into the abyss of
death ; but on the third day "God resurrected him
by loosing the pangs of death, because it was not
5 . a Where does the destruction finally extend?
b How does John picture this and those mainly involved
in it?
6. What is that abyss into which Satan and his demons
are cast?