When does Revelation 19:20 take place?
Revelation 19:20 occurs at the end of the tribulation, after the horrible judgments have already happened, as it is time for the King and the Kingdom to come on the scene. At that point the beast, identified as the Antichrist, and the false prophet are taken and cast alive into the lake of fire.
Les explains that Revelation 19:20 is set at the end of the tribulation. The horrible judgments have already happened, and it is time for the King and the Kingdom to come on the scene. The beast in Revelation is the Antichrist, and so the Antichrist was taken, and with him the false prophet. This is the only place the false prophet is named; the rest of the time he is referred to as a personality, and as the Lamb with two horns back in chapter 13. Both are individuals and both are men. They both were cast alive into the lake of fire burning with brimstone, and they go there as the first ones to inhabit the eternal doom of the wicked, the lake of fire without benefit of the Great White Throne judgment. All other lost are going to stand before the White Throne and at least have their moment of time, where Jesus will answer, “Depart from me, I never knew you.”
And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
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When do the events of Revelation 19:20 take place?
The scene in Revelation 19:20 happens after the tribulation has run its course and after Christ has returned.