Satan Bound 2 UDB He seized the dragon. That dragon is the ancient serpent the devil—that is, Satan. The angel bound him with the chain. That chain could not be loosed for one thousand years. BSB BSB: He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.
3 UDB The angel threw him into the deep, dark pit. He shut the door of the pit, locked it, and sealed it to prevent anyone from opening it. He did that so that Satan might no longer deceive all the people who lived in the many nations until one thousand years are ended. After that time, Satan must go free for a short time so that he can do what God has planned. BSB BSB: And he threw him into the Abyss, shut it, and sealed it over him, so that he could not deceive the nations until the thousand years were complete. After that, he must be released for a brief period of time.
4 UDB I saw thrones on which people were sitting. God gave them authority to judge. I also saw the souls of other people whose heads had been cut off because they had spoken the truth about Jesus and had declared God's message. They were people who had refused to worship the beast or its image and who had not allowed the beast's servants to put the beast's mark on them, either on their foreheads or on their hands. They became alive again, and they ruled with Christ during those one thousand years. BSB BSB: Then I saw the thrones, and those seated on them had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or hands. And they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
5 UDB They were the ones who lived again the first time that God caused dead people to live again. The rest of the believers who had died did not live again until after those one thousand years. BSB BSB: The rest of the dead did not come back to life until the thousand years were complete. This is the first resurrection.
6 UDB God will be pleased with those who live again this first time. God will consider them holy. They will not die a second time. Instead, they will be priests who serve God and Christ, and they will rule with Christ during those one thousand years. BSB BSB: Blessed and holy are those who share in the first resurrection! The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with Him for a thousand years.
Satan Cast into the Lake of Fire 7 UDB When the one thousand years are ended, God will release Satan from his prison. BSB BSB: When the thousand years are complete, Satan will be released from his prison,
8 UDB Satan will go out to deceive the people who live in the nations that are all over the earth. These are the nations that the prophet Ezekiel called Gog and Magog. Satan will gather them to fight against God's people. There will be so many of them fighting against God's people that no one will be able to count them, just as no one can count the grains of sand on the ocean shore. BSB BSB: and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth—Gog and Magog—to assemble them for battle. Their number is like the sand of the seashore.
9 UDB They will march over the whole earth and will surround the camp of God's people in Jerusalem, the city that God loves. Then God will send fire down from heaven, and it will burn them up. BSB BSB: And they marched across the broad expanse of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. But fire came down from heaven and consumed them.
Judgment before the Great White Throne 11 UDB Then I saw a huge white throne on which God was sitting. He was so fearsome that the earth and the sky completely disappeared from his presence; they were no more. BSB BSB: Then I saw a great white throne and the One seated on it. Earth and heaven fled from His presence, and no place was found for them.
12 UDB I saw that the people who had died but now lived again were standing in front of the throne. There were both important and unimportant people! The books in which God records what people do were opened. Another book was also opened, which is the Book of Life in which God has written the names of people who have eternal life. God judged the people who had died and now lived again according to what they had done, just as he had recorded it in the books. BSB BSB: And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne. And books were opened, and one of them was the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their deeds, as recorded in the books.
13 UDB The people whose bodies were buried in the sea became alive again in order to stand before God's throne. Everyone who had been buried on the land also became alive again in order to stand before the throne. God judged each one of them according to what each one had done. BSB BSB: The sea gave up its dead, and Death and Hades gave up their dead, and each one was judged according to his deeds.
15 UDB God also threw the people whose names were not in the book, the book where God has written the names of the people who have eternal life, into the lake of fire. BSB BSB: And if anyone was found whose name was not written in the Book of Life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
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