4 Then I saw thrones, and those who sat on them were given the power to judge.  I also saw the souls of those who had been executed because they had proclaimed the truth that Jesus revealed and the word of God.  They had not worshiped the beast or its image, nor had they received the mark of the beast on their foreheads or their hands.  They came to life and ruled as kings with Christ for a thousand years.  
5 (The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were over.)  This is the first raising of the dead.  
6 Happy and greatly blessed are those who are included in this first raising of the dead.  The second death has no power over them; they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and they will rule with him for a thousand years.

11 Then I saw a great white throne and the one who sits on it.  Earth and heaven fled from his presence and were seen no more.  
12 And I saw the dead, great and small alike, standing before the throne.  Books were opened, and then another book was opened, the book of the living.  The dead were judged according to what they had done, as recorded in the books.
13 Then the sea gave up its dead.  Death and the world of the dead also gave up the dead they held.  And all were judged according to what they had done.  
14 Then death and the world of the dead were thrown into the lake of fire.  (This lake of fire is the second death.)  
15 Those who did not have their name written in the book of the living were thrown into the lake of fire.

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