I [John} saw thrones, and those who sat on them were allowed to judge. 

   Then I saw the souls of those whose heads had been cut off because of their testimony about Jesus and because of God’s word. They had not worshiped the beast or its statue and were not branded on their foreheads or hands. 

     They lived and ruled with Christ for 1,000 years. The rest of the dead did not live until the 1,000 years ended.