Revelation Chapter 20 - (Part 2) Satan Freed After 1,000 Years

At the end of Jesus' one thousand year rule over the earth with His saints, Satan will be freed from being bound during that period.  Satan will then go out and deceive the nations again.  How that happens baffles me.  Here the earth has been as peace for one thousand years under Jesus rule, yet still Satan, again, is able to gather many nations to come against Jesus.  It just lets me know how deceptively evil he is.  The world today is upside down because of him, but don't worry, he is going to make it all better.  Then after he makes it all better, with his false "Peace and Safety", he will go into his mass destruction mode.  You might look at it like this.

It is like someone robs everything you have and you are thrown out into the street.  Then someone comes along and says he knows who robbed you and he helps you find the robber and throw him in jail.  Then the person who helped you find the robber, helps you off the street and into a house.  After you are settled into your home you invite him over for dinner to thank him.  After dinner he leaves and you and your family feel all secure in bed.  In the middle of the night, while you are all sleeping, he comes back and burns down your house with all of you in it.  You died not knowing that he was the one who robbed you in the beginning, and the one who he helped you throw in jail was about to offer you real help.

John continues Revelation Chapter 20 with this in verses7-10'

                (7)"And when the thousand years are completed, Satan will be released from
                prison,(8) and will come out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners
                of the earth, Gog and Ma-gog, to gather them for the war; the number of them
                is like the sand of the seashore.(9) And they came up on the breadth of the earth
                and surrounded the camp of the saints  and the beloved city, and fire came down
                from heaven and devoured them.(10) And the devil who deceived them was
                thrown into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet
                are also; and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever."

So here he comes again.  Satan was locked up, not only for deceiving the people of the world, but for destroying the earth and his murderous rage also.  When Satan is let loose, somehow he again is able to deceive the nations into coming to war in Israel.  He leads the nations to come against the camp of the saints, which is the heavenly kingdom that dwells above the area of Israel, and the beloved city, which is the earthly Jerusalem.  The difference between the wrath at Jesus return and the judgment that will take place, at the end of Jesus' thousand year reign, is that it will be a swift  judgment with fire coming down from heaven and devouring all of them.  The only other reference to Gog and Ma-gog in the entire bible is found in the writings of the prophet Ezekiel. I will do my next blog on those passages.

Jesus' peace and grace be with you.