[G5083 tereo]
from teros (a watch; perhaps akin to 2334); to guard (from loss or injury, properly, by keeping the eye upon; and thus differing from 5442, which is properly to prevent escaping.
The meaning of the above Greek word is important to understand what the Revelation is saying in the following passages:-
Revelation 3:10
"Because you have kept [teroeo] the word of My patience, I also will keep [tereo] you from the HOUR OF TRIAL which will come upon all the world, to try those who dwell upon the earth."
Revelation 3:10 does not imply that the people Jesus is talking to will escape the HOUR OF TRIAL that He is talking about (they will not be taken out of the world), but Jesus is telling them that He will guard and watch over them - because they guarded and kept the word of His patience.
Revelation 14:6-8
And I saw another angel flying in mid-heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach to those dwelling on the earth, even to every nation and kindred and tongue and people, saying with a great voice,
"Fear God and give glory to Him! For THE HOUR OF HIS JUDGMENT has come. And worship Him who made the heaven and the earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters." And another angel followed, saying, "The great city, Babylon, has fallen, has fallen; because of the wine of the anger of her fornication; she has made all nations to drink."
The following verses tell us that the judgment of Babylon the Great came in ONE HOUR:
"And the kings of the earth who have committed fornication and lived in luxury with her will weep for her, and will wail over her when they see the smoke of her burning; standing afar off for fear of her torment, saying, "Woe! Woe to the great city, Babylon, that strong city! For in ONE HOUR your judgment came." (Revelation 18:9-10).
The following verses tell us that "Babylon the Great" will be destroyed by the ten kings of the beast, who will receive authority to reign with the beast for ONE HOUR:
-- "And the ten horns which you saw are ten kings, who have received no kingdom yet, but will receive authority as kings ONE HOUR with the beast. These shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire." -- (Revelation 17:12 & 16).
The following verse tells us how long the beast was given authority to continue for:
Revelation 13:5
"And there was given unto the beast a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and authority was given unto him to continue forty and two months."
Revelation 11:3 says,
"And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth."
The above is part of what John sees when the 6th trumpet sounds. *
* Revelation 8:13 and 9:12 and 11:14 links the first woe to the 5th trumpet and the opening of the abyss, the second woe to the 6th trumpet and the period during which the two witnesses will prophesy, and the third woe to the 7th trumpet and God's judgment of the nations.
So the HOUR OF TRIAL is linked to the beast ascending from out of the abyss and to the testimony of the two witnesses, and to the destruction of the whore Babylon the Great by the ten kings who will reign with the beast for one hour,
and that beast will be given authority to continue for 42 months.
This is the "little season" that Revelation 6:11 is referring to:
Revelation 6:9-11
"And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled."
Regarding those who were beheaded - for their testimony to Christ and for the Word of God and for their refusal to worship the beast, Revelation 20:4 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 received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
In Revelation chapter 20, the binding of Satan for a thousand years (Revelation 20:1-3) and his subsequent loosing (Revelation 20:7-9) are the two "pieces of bread" in the "Markan Sandwich" surrounding what we are told about those who had been beheaded for their testimony to Jesus and their refusal to worship the beast that had ascended from the abyss.
The above fact is telling us that the thousand years and the binding of Satan follows the time that the beast ascended from the abyss and made war against the saints and the gospel - and the nations were judged by Christ when He returned.
Therefore the "little season" mentioned in Revelation 6:11 cannot is not referring to the same "little season" mentioned in Revelation 20:3 & 7 - because the latter is said to come a thousand years later than the former.
The above fact is besides the fact that there is absolutely no indication in scripture that Satan was bound at the time of Christ's ascension into heaven (in terms of God permitting him to continue deceiving the nations), or that he was bound from deceiving the nations "BY" the death and resurrection of Christ (which destroyed Satan's power over death), or "BY" the power of the gospel.
In fact, the groundwork for the beast's ascension from the abyss and going to war against the saints and the gospel at the end of the age has been laid BY Satan's deception of the nations over the last almost 2,000 years: "Rome was not built in a day" (not that the beast will come out of Rome or the Western empire - he will come out of where Revelation 13:2 and Daniel 7:4-6 tells us the beast will come out from).
Many have added the binding of Satan at the time of Christ's ascension to heaven to scripture, even while they ignore the clear and unambiguous statements in scripture that negate what they say about this (thus taking away from scripture by adding to scripture),
for example A-millennial theology takes away from scripture the real meaning of verses like Ephesians 2:2; 1 Peter 5:8-9; Ephesians 6:11-12; Revelation 2:9-10 & Revelation 2:13; 1 Thessalonians 2:18; James 4:7 etc, which ALL relate to Satan's deception of the nations mentioned in Revelation 20:1-3.
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