REVELATION 20: 1 - 6 PART 1 of 2

REVELATION 20: 1 - 6
SATAN IS BOUND FOR A THOUSAND YEARS

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   1) And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in His hand.

   2) And He laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,

   3) And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled:  and after that he must be loosed a little season.

   4) And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them:  and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshiped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

   5) But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished.  This is the first resurrection.

   6) Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection:  on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years.  King James Version (KJV) Public Domain

  

 

COMMENTARY

       Here is another unnamed angel, this one having the assignment of throwing Satan into the bottomless pit and locking him away for a thousand years.   Michael, the Archangel, had thrown Satan and his followers out of heaven.  In fact, some of those angels who chose Lucifer were cast out of heaven in the middle of the tribulation.  (See Jude 6)  The chain with which Satan is bound is obviously not a physical chain that we are familiar with, but it will hold these spirits throughout the millennium.  Satan will be bound for a thousand years.  He will be shut up and sealed.  He will not be able to tempt mankind again until the thousand years are finished.  In fact, he won't even be able to communicate with his "powers and principalities".  You could say it will be a sort of "solitary confinement".

   All of the upheaval on the earth has ridden us of its human and demonic corruption. There will be no "power" to corrupt those who are left living at the end of the tribulation nor those who will be born during the great millennial messianic kingdom.  It is expected, that God will use the physical convulsions of the earth during the tribulation period to also purge and cleanse the lands and waters of earth, to restore it close to how it was in the beginning when He first created it.

   Then the Apostle John saw the thrones and they sat upon them.  Who are "they"?  Let's look in I Corinthians 3: 11 - 15 and Daniel 7: 22 for the answer to this question.  These are the saints who Jesus has washed with His own blood, purified, and sanctified: Old Testament saints and New Testament saints.  We rode with Him at the end of the tribulation, now we rule with Him.  This also includes the tribulation saints who did not deny the faith or receive the mark of the beast.  John first saw these saints near the beginning of the tribulation under the heavenly altar.  Even in Revelation 6: 10, they cried out to God, "how long" were they to wait for Christ to avenge them.  Now, "they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years", which means they, too, have received their resurrection bodies which will live forever.

   Take a minute to read Matthew 24: 29 - Matthew 25: 46 and you will see that immediately following the tribulation is the judgment of the nations.

   Do you know my Jesus, Who will return to earth as a Conqueror?  Now is the time to accept His offer of salvation, while He is still The Sacrificial Lamb offering you grace.  Click here for more information:   https://omaswisdom.blogspot.com/p/path-to-salvation.html.

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