I was taught that the KJV is the only English Bible translation that can be trusted. I don't know if this is true but it is the only one I trust.The other translations just don't speak to me for some reason. They seem foreign and strange. The KJV probably seems that way to you. It's fine for me that you don't use the KJV but your take on everything will probably be a little different than mine. I guess it would be interesting to learn just how different these two translations are.
Revelation 16:15 says- "Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame. "
People who live as God would have them live will be blessed and those who do not will not. Christians can live in sin but why would they want to- the results will not be good.
Revelation 22:12 -Jesus says- "And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be."
Jesus is the reward Christians get. The reward is knowing that Jesus is pleased with the work you have done. The reward is the pleasure Jesus gets out of what yur work was.
Revelation 22:14 says- "Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates of the city.(new Jerusalem) For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie."
verse 17: "And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely."
I think that verse 17 is saying the same thing that Isaiah 11:10 says- "And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious."
I think that Revelation is about the fulfillment of Jesus' kingdom and Isaiah is about the start of it. Isaiah still applies in Revelation. I think that Revelation also applies in Isaiah.
Revelation 20:4-6 says- "And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had recieved his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years "
Isaiah 11:11 also seems to spaek of the second death: "And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again a second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea."
Revelation 20:7-8 says- "And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, And shall go out to decieve the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea"
So I think that that verse goes along with Isaiah 11:12 which says- "And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth."
Isaiah 12:1-2 says "And in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me. Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the Lord, JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation."
Verse 4: "And in that day shall ye say, Praise the LORD, call upon his name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted."
Romans 10:13 says "For whosoever shall call upon the name of the LORD shall be saved."
Romans 10:9-10 says- "That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation."
Romans 14:11 says -"For it is written, AS I LIVE, SAITH THE LORD, EVERY KNEE SHALL BOW TO ME, AND EVERY TONGUE SHALL CONFESS TO GOD."
2 Peter 2:4 says that "God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment."
Even Satan's angels will confess their sins to God. They will bow down to God.
2 Corinthians 5:17 says - "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creatureld things are passed away; behold, all things are become new."
The old creature is destroyed. It is passed away. We are baptized into Jesus's death.
Romans 6:3- "Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?" Romans 6:6 says- "our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin."
Matthew 3:11 John says of Jesus: "he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:"
Deuteronomy 4:24 says: "For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God."
I Corinthians 3:13-15- "Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall recieve a reward. If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire."
I think that the old creatures will be thrown in the Lake of Fire and consumed and the new creatures will be purified from the old creature.
Malachi 3:2-3 "But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap: And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering of righteousness."