Talk of the Long Horns Steak House certainly whets my appetite for a tasty morsel

And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, *that he should deceive the nations no more* till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season. {Revelation 20:1-3} --Are there still temptations and sin in this world? Yes! So satan is not yet chained in chains of circumstance. 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. {Revelation 20:4} --The test of the mark of the beast has not come to pass, so the thousand years is yet still a future event in the plan of salvation. 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. {Revelation 20:5} --"the rest of the dead" because the living ungodly have been destroyed by the brightness of Christ second coming and His saints have been either resurrected or transformed in his likeness in a twinkling of an eye. Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus will raise up us also by Jesus, and will present us with you. {2 Corinthians 4:14} To the end [objective] he may establish your hearts unblameable in holiness *before* God, even our Father, *at the coming* of our Lord Jesus Christ *with all his saints* {1 Thessalonians 3:13} ^ Our Father who art in heaven.

@@larrybedouin2921 And I saw Thrones... And they sat upon them and judgement was given unto them... 👈 This is the Church. This scripture fulfills 1Corinthians 6:3 The first resurrection mentioned in Revelation is the first in a new dispensation of time, just like the first resurrection of OT saints that took place after Jesus resurrected. Rapture ahead.... For Church Saints that have been saved by GRACE through Faith.

@@larrybedouin2921 I never said Satan was bound at this time

@@theleastofthese5369 No, that is incorrect. Those resurrected with Jesus Christ were only the waive offering of the first fruits.

@@theleastofthese5369 The state of the dead, according to the word of God. But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof *thou shalt surely die* {Genesis 2:17} Man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he? ... So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their *sleep* O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, *until thy wrath be past* that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me! If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, 👉till my change come. ... His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them. {Job 14:10, 12-14 & 21} And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in *my flesh* shall I see God. {Job 19:26} Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, *nor knowledge nor wisdom* in the grave, whither thou goest. {The Preacher 9:10} Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; *in that very day his thoughts perish* {Psalm 146:3-4} Then said his disciples, Lord, if he *sleep* he shall do well. Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep. Then said Jesus unto them plainly, "Lazarus is dead." {John 11:12-14} ... Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection 👉at the last day. Jesus said unto her, "I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet *shall* he live:" {John 11:24-25} But go thou thy way till the end be: for *thou shalt rest* and stand in thy lot *at the end of the days* {Daniel 12:13} For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him *should not perish* but have everlasting life. {John 3:16} And *the serpent said* unto the woman, *Ye shall not surely die* {Genesis 3:4} Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down *in the midst of the stones of fire* {Ezekiel 28:14} ^ (satan always turns the tables on God, for he is the father of lies.) The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. *Who* among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings? *He that walketh righteously and speaketh uprightly he that despiseth the gain of oppressions that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil* {Isaiah 33:14-15} If anyone errors in their understanding of this doctrine of the dead, then they will in no way be led to the understanding of the truth, for it will be a stumblingblock unto the decernment of spiritual things, including soilterology and eschatology.