Satan Bound 2 UST The angel seized the dragon. That dragon is the ancient serpent— the devil, that is, Satan. The angel bound him with the chain. That chain would hold him for a 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 UST 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 this so that Satan would no longer deceive the many people groups until after those thousand years. At that time, God will release Satan for a short time. 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 UST Then I saw thrones on which people were sitting. God made those people judges. I also saw the souls of other people whose enemies had killed them by cutting their heads off. Their enemies did that because they had spoken the truth from God about Jesus. I also saw the souls of other people whose enemies had not killed them but who had refused to worship the beast or its image. They had not allowed the beast’ s servants to put the beast’ s mark on them, either on their foreheads or on their hands. They all became alive again and they ruled with the Messiah during those 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 UST These were the people who lived again the first time that God caused dead people to live again. The rest of the people who had died did not live again until after those 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 UST God will be pleased with those who live again this first time. Yes, God will consider them to belong to him in a special way. They will not die a second time. Instead, they will be priests who serve God and the Messiah. They will rule with the Messiah during those 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 UST At the end of the thousand years, God will release Satan from the deep, dark pit. BSB BSB: When the thousand years are complete, Satan will be released from his prison,
8 UST Satan will go out to deceive the rebellious people groups 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 UST They will march from many places on the earth. They will surround the army of God’ s people where it is in battle formation. That will be at Jerusalem, the city that God loves. But God will send fire down from heaven and it will burn up all of his enemies. 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 UST Then I saw a huge white throne on which God was sitting.{ He was so fearsome that} the land and the sky disappeared completely when he appeared. 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 UST Then I saw people of all kinds who had died but who were now alive again standing in front of God’ s throne. God opened the books in which he records what people do. God also opened another book, the Book of Life. God writes in that book the names of people who have eternal life. God judged the people who had died and who were now alive again according to what they had done, which he had recorded 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 UST The people whose bodies were in the sea became alive again, and the people whose bodies were in graves on the land also became alive again.{ They all stood in front of God’ s throne, and} God judged each 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 UST Then God saw whose names he had written in the book that lists the people who have eternal life. If someone’ s name was not in that book, God threw him into the burning lake. 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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