Sermon Tone Analysis
Overall tone of the sermon
This automated analysis scores the text on the likely presence of emotional, language, and social tones. There are no right or wrong scores; this is just an indication of tones readers or listeners may pick up from the text.
A score of 0.5 or higher indicates the tone is likely present.
Emotion Tone
Anger
0.11UNLIKELY
Disgust
0.08UNLIKELY
Fear
0.1UNLIKELY
Joy
0.62LIKELY
Sadness
0.18UNLIKELY
Language Tone
Analytical
0.66LIKELY
Confident
0UNLIKELY
Tentative
0.04UNLIKELY
Social Tone
Openness
0.93LIKELY
Conscientiousness
0.79LIKELY
Extraversion
0.04UNLIKELY
Agreeableness
0.32UNLIKELY
Emotional Range
0.66LIKELY
Tone of specific sentences
Tones
Emotion
Language
Social Tendencies
Anger
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9
Claim - Satan’s war against the church is limited (bound) by God in this age (1000 years), and when he finally appears to get the upper hand (set-free), Christ will return and end all evil judge all evil doers forever.
Focus - Satan is bound, and even death as a martyr is a victory for Chritians, Satan will never win, and Jesus will return to end all evil.
Function - To educate about the ‘1000 years’ and convince us that evil is doomed.
PRAY
Life is a gamble.
We don’t know the future,
We don’t know which decisions we make will ultimately turn out to be best?
We all love to be on the wining side, but loosing is often unavoidable.
Can we afford this mortgage,
What GCSE’s/A-levels/degree should I choose.
Which school should our kids go to,
Should I pursue this career direction or that.
Which football team should I support.
Of course we can make educated guesses, but gambling it is non-the-less
We know it’s a gamble, because whenever we can, we tend to take out insurance to cover the risk!
car insurance,
income insurance
home insurance
pensions
tech cover,
medical insurance,
In fact, for most people, life itself is one big gamble.
Should i find out about this religion or that?
Is there life after death?
We all love to be on the wining side, but loosing is often unavoidable.
Even Christian’s might consider faith in Jesus to be a gamble.
Will good ultimately win against evil.
Will Jesus restore peace or not.
We all love to be on the wining side, but loosing is often unavoidable.
Rev 20
is here to give us a big picture overview of life.
And just like in a film review, if you don’t want to know the ending then you better leave now.
Chapter 20 is like a spoiler alert for the end of the world!
But unlike a good film, in life it is worth knowing the end!
It’s here to tell each and every person in this world:
You can be on the winning side - and there is no gambling involved.
We all love to be on the wining side, but loosing according to chapter 20 is your choice.
If you need hope,
Perhaps career or money gives you hope.
Will
if you need reassurance about life.
The chapter that has caused much debate in Christain circles.
If you need confidence
The chapter that has given rise to many weird and wonderful theroies about the end of the world.
If you need freedom from the losses of this life
Or freedom from fears about the next.
We know who will ultimately win and loose in life.
It’s not a gamble.
Well, then put your confidence in the king we spoke of last week in Chapter 19.
Put you hope in Jesus.
Much has been pondered about .
Many think this 1000 year binding of satan and rule of Jesus as being chronologically after chapter 19.
IE - after the return of Jesus to earth in judgement.
where Jesus will then reign for a literal 1000 years on earth,
with satan bound up, unable to act,
with the martyred saints of history being raised to reign with Jesus for that period on earth.
But with the rest of Christians already ‘raptured’ taken up, to heaven before it begins.
And then at the end of those 1000 years,
Satan will be freed from his chains (v3b)
for a terrible time of tribulation against the church
before the final final battle where Jesus will win!
The good thing about this view is that they absolutely agree - Jesus WINS!
Feel free to read the books, but don’t base your theology on them!
Use the bible for theology.
There are though few very difficult issues with this view,
I think the biggest problem being,
that if this section of revelation is so literal and so chronological,
(Rather than a different view of this present age - a different camera angle if you like on the repeated cycles we’ve already seen in Revelation,
then the question has to be asked,
Who is Jesus reigning over for those 1000 years?
Becasue at the end of chapter 19, all those who have rejected Jesus as King, have already been judged and faced death.
In fact, Satan and his schemes were also destroyed in chapter 19,
as symbolised by the fasle prophet and the beast being thrown into the lake of burning sulphur.
So why would he now need binding.
What actually appears to be going on in , is that
It is a very susinct summary, or reminder of all we’ve considered in Revelation so far.
it is a very succinct summary, or reminder of all we’ve considered in Revelation so far.
It is clearly intended to symbolic,
with chains and keys, and books,
and thrones, and the ancient cities Gog and Magog
all being used to illustrate what’s going on.
And so we’re going to take the 1000 years as symbolic (as was nromal in this type of literature anyway and as we have seen throughout Revelation)
It represent a ‘long-time’.
Between Jesus ascending to heaven and his future return.
So, the question is, what is going on.
1 - Satan bound - Jesus wins
If I just make it to CEO, or partner, or director, or site supervisor?
Perhaps it’s children or family,
If I can just make my spouse exactly how I’d like them, or
Satan bound
First up we find out that Satan is bound by a chain for a thousand years.
rev 20 1
And we’re told what he is bound from doing.
IE - what it is that the chains stops him from doing:
Now, if you really know Revelation well then you’ll know that ‘deceiving’ is what Satan has been accused of throughout history.
So it may seem odd that we’re now saying satan cannot deceive in this world,
because he’s been stopped, bound by heaven.
But look more closely at what he is actually bound from, it is given a context.
He’s bound from deceiving the ‘nations’ - a way of saying the whole world.
And look what happens when satan is freed from the chains - what’s he immediately do - v7-8
< .5
.5 - .6
.6 - .7
.7 - .8
.8 - .9
> .9