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譯本是參照 AFV (A Faithful Version) 2009

7. Now when the thousand years have been completed, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison;
8. And he shall go out to deceive the nations that are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, of whom the number is as the sand of the sea, to gather them together for war.
9. Then I saw them go up upon the breadth of the earth and encircle the camp of the saints, and the beloved city; and fire came down from God out of heaven and consumed them;
10. And the Devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet had been cast; and they, Satan and the demons, shall be tormented day and night into the ages of eternity.
11. Then I saw a great white throne and the one Who was sitting on it, from Whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and no place was found for them.
12. And I saw the dead, small and great, standing 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 the things written in the books, according to their works.
13. And the sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and the grave gave up the dead that were in them; and they were judged individually, according to their works.
14. And death and the grave were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
15. And if anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire. (A Faithful Version)

7. 現在,一千年過了,撒旦被囚期滿,今日是釋放的日子。

8. 撒旦會四出迷惑,就是全地上的各民各族,像歌革和瑪各,他們人數多如海沙,為要出征。

9. 這些人開始向大地散開,圍住以色列人在野外的營地,並那蒙神所愛的城。此時有火從天上降下,燒滅了這些入侵的人。

10. 這四出去迷惑的惡魔,隨即被丟在硫磺的火湖里,那是一處讓獸和假先知被囚禁的地方,在那裡,撒旦和惡魔都將日夜受到試金石的考驗,持續到永恆。

11. 此時,看見一個白色的大寶座,坐在其上,看著這人間從天空及地面漸漸消失,再也找不到一點痕跡。

12. 我又看見那些死了的,不論老少,站在神面前,這是記錄死亡的書卷展開。另有一卷展開,是生命冊。記在死亡冊上的,按照犯事的嚴種程度作出審判。

13. 海,也交出其中的死亡人數,地,就是墳墓被埋的,也交出其中的人數,都是按照生前所為,分別接受審判。

14. 當中無論是從海或從陸地而來,若被定為有罪,會被丟進火湖。這是第二次死亡。

15. 若有名字沒有記在生命冊上,也被丟在火湖裡。

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Magog-religion-and-mythology在《歷代誌上》5:4 中(見《歷代誌》),歌革被認為是先知約珥的後裔;在《以西結書》38-39 中,他是瑪各地米設和土巴支派的首領,受上帝的召喚征服以色列的土地。歌革和他的整個軍隊將聯合來自世界各地的強大力量,「如密雲遮蓋大地」 (38:16) 入侵以色列,並洗劫和掠奪城市。然而,上帝將降下可怕的天災,毀滅歌革和他的軍隊 。

這段的描述似乎是借用歌革在舊約,一段被被猶太人熟識的史實,去引證耶穌基督是神應許,承諾給亞伯拉罕,因信稱義的後代的祝福,那是必然會實現。

約翰心目中似乎有將來的審判出現。這是個可以深思的一個課題。

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