Revelation 20

CHAPTER 20

Christ’s Thousand Year Reign

¹Then I saw ^aan angel coming down from heaven, having the ^bkey of the abyss and a great chain ¹in his hand.

²And he laid hold of the ^adragon, the serpent of old, who is the devil and Satan, and ^bbound him for a thousand years;

³and he threw him into the ^aabyss, and shut it and ^bsealed it over him, so that he would ^cnot deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were finished. After these things he must be released for a short time.

⁴Then I saw ^athrones, and ^bthey sat on them, and ^cjudgment was given to them. And I saw ^dthe souls of those who had been beheaded because of ¹their ^ewitness of Jesus and because of the word of God, and who also had not ^fworshiped the beast or his image, and had not received the ^gmark on their forehead and on their hand. And they ^hcame to life and ⁱreigned with Christ for a thousand years.

⁵The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were finished. ^aThis is the first resurrection.

^6aBlessed and holy is the one who has a part in the first resurrection. Over these the ^bsecond death has no authority, but they will be ^cpriests of God and of Christ and will ^dreign with Him for a thousand years.

The Defeat of Satan

⁷And when the thousand years are finished, Satan will be ^areleased from his prison,

⁸and will come out to ^adeceive the nations which are in the ^bfour corners of the earth, ^cGog and Magog, to ^dgather them together for the war; the number of them is like the ^esand of the ¹seashore.

⁹And they ^acame up on the ¹broad plain of the earth and surrounded the ^bcamp of the saints and the ^cbeloved city, and ^dfire came down from heaven and devoured them.

¹⁰And ^athe devil who ^bdeceived them was thrown into the ^clake of fire and ¹brimstone, where the ^dbeast and the ^efalse prophet are also, and they will be ^ftormented day and night forever and ever.

The Great White Throne Judgment

¹¹Then I saw a great white ^athrone and Him who sits upon it, from whose ¹presence ^bearth and heaven fled away, and ^cno place was found for them.

¹²Then I saw the dead, the ^agreat and the small, standing before the throne, and ^1bbooks were opened; and another ²book was opened, which is ^cthe book of life. And the dead ^dwere judged from the things which were written in the ³books, ^eaccording to their deeds.

¹³And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and ^adeath and Hades ^bgave up the dead which were in them, and they were judged, every one of them ^caccording to their deeds.

¹⁴Then ^adeath and Hades were thrown into ^bthe lake of fire. This is the ^csecond death, the lake of fire.

¹⁵And if ¹anyone’s name was not found written in ^athe book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.