Revelation 20:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Cast

Revelation 20:1

Revelation 17:8

And set

Daniel 6:17

Matthew 27:66

Should deceive

The thousand

Psalm 90:4

2 Peter 3:8

And after

Revelation 20:7

General references

Matthew 12:29

Mark 3:27

Luke 11:22

Bible References

Cast

And I saw an angel descending from heaven, holding the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.

The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is going to come up from the abyss, and he is going to destruction. And those who live on the earth, whose names are not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, will be astonished [when they] see the beast that was, and is not, and will be present.

And set

And a stone was brought and it was put on the entrance of the pit, and the king sealed it with his signet [ring] and with the signet [rings] of his lords, so that nothing would be changed concerning Daniel.

So they went with the guard of soldiers [and] made the tomb secure [by] sealing the stone.

Should deceive

and he will go out to deceive the nations [that are] at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to assemble them for battle, {whose number} [is] like the sand of the sea.

And the great dragon was thrown down, the ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

And he deceives those who live on the earth because of the signs that it has been granted to him to perform on behalf of the beast, telling those who live on the earth to make an image to the beast who has the wound of the sword and [yet] lived.

For they are the spirits of demons performing signs that go out to the kings of the whole inhabited world, to gather them for the battle of the great day of God the All-Powerful.

with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality, and those who live on the earth became drunk with the wine of her sexual immorality."

For false messiahs and false prophets will appear, and will produce great signs and wonders in order to deceive, if possible, even the elect.

But I am afraid lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds may be led astray from the sincerity and the purity of [devotion] to Christ.

whose coming is in accordance with the working of Satan, with all power and signs and lying wonders,

The thousand

For a thousand years in your eyes [are] like yesterday when it passes, or [like] a watch in the night.

Now, dear friends, do not let this one thing escape your [notice], that one day with the Lord [is] like a thousand years, and a thousand years [is] like one day.

And after

And when the thousand years are completed, Satan will be released from his prison

General references

Or how can someone enter into the house of a strong [man] and steal his property, unless he first ties up the strong [man]? And then he can thoroughly plunder his house.

But no one is able to enter into the house of a strong [man] [and] plunder his property unless he first ties up the strong [man], and then he can thoroughly plunder his house.

But when a stronger man attacks him [and] conquers him, he takes away his full armor in which he trusted and distributes his plunder.