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Cross-Testament Parallels

  • Rev 20:11-12 → Dan 7:9-10 (ot, vocabulary + structural — thrones, books opened, judgment scene)
  • Rev 20:8 → Ezek 38:2 (ot, vocabulary — Gog and Magog names; post-millennium attack parallels Ezek 38-39 invasion)
  • Rev 20:9 → Ezek 39:6 (ot, vocabulary — fire from heaven on Magog/nations)
  • Rev 20:1-3 → Isa 24:21-22 (ot, structural — supernatural beings imprisoned in pit/prison, released after time period)
  • Rev 13:5-7 → Dan 7:25 (ot, vocabulary chain — speak great things/blasphemies, war with saints, given authority/into his hand, time expression)
  • Rev 12:14 → Dan 7:25 (ot, direct LXX quotation — kairon kai kairous kai hemisy kairou virtually quotes LXX Dan 7:25)
  • Rev 11:11 → Ezek 37:5-10 (ot, vocabulary + structural — spirit/breath enters dead, they stand on feet; resurrection/revival)
  • Rev 20:4 → Dan 7:22 (ot, vocabulary — krima edothe (judgment given) to saints; thrones; saints possess kingdom)
  • Rev 20:14 → 1 Cor 15:26 (nt, vocabulary + structural — death as last enemy destroyed; death cast into lake of fire)
  • Rev 20:2 → Rev 12:9 (nt, vocabulary — identical fourfold Satan identification: dragon, old serpent, Devil, Satan)
  • Rev 10:6 → Dan 12:7 (ot, structural — oath formula: angel raises hand(s), swears by the eternal one, time declaration)