Jerusalem under fire?!?

(Please understand that this Post is not about current events in Israel.)

The ongoing attack on Israel has made me think in more detail on Rev. 20:7-9 where the nations surround the camp:

"And when the thousand years are completed, Satan will be released from his prison, 8 and will come out to deceive and mislead the nations which are in the four corners of the earth— #gog and #magog—to gather them together for the war; their number is like the sand of the seashore. 9 And they swarmed up over the broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city; but fire came down from heaven and consumed them."

I was raised to read `Jerusalem` into where it says `beloved city`, but it always bothered me that just a few chapters back in Rev. 11:8 #jerusalem is called #sodom:

"And their dead bodies will lie exposed in the open street of the great city, which in a spiritual sense is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified."

Have I missed something and the city has been redeemed over the previous chapters by any chance?

Why does fire came down from heaven and consumed the armies?

Also, why would such a large army be needed to attack the existing Jerusalem if even now it is only by Father's grace that the land has not been decimated with missile attacks?

The 2011 figures already showed the combined world #armies of about 12 million strong.

Or might it just be that it is the city that is spoke of a few verses later in Rev. 21:1-4 that is the target:

"Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first #heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there is no longer any sea. 2 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, arrayed like a bride adorned for her husband; 3 and then I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, “See! The tabernacle of God is among men, and He will live among them, and they will be His people, and God Himself will be with them 4 and He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be death; there will no longer be sorrow and anguish, or crying, or pain; for the former order of things has passed away.”

Might it be that Satan is using the arrival of the New Jerusalem as a call to arms and therefore the entire earth's armies pull together to repel the coming "invasion"?

#revelation #newjerusalem #newearth #endtimes