Revelation 20:1

CHAPTER XX.

An angel binds Satan a thousand years, and shuts him up in the

bottomless pit, 1-3.

They who were beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, who have

part in the first resurrection, and shall reign with Christ

a thousand years, 4-6.

When the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out

of his prison, shall go forth and deceive the nations, and

shall gather Gog and Magog from the four corners of the earth,

7, 8.

These shall besiege the holy city; but fire shall come down

from heaven and consume them, and they and the devil be cast

into a lake of fire, 9, 10.

The great white throne, and the dead, small and great, standing

before God, and all judged according to their works, 11, 12.

The sea, death, and hades, give up their dead, and are

destroyed; and all not found in the book of life are cast into

the lake of fire, 13-15.

NOTES ON CHAP. XX.

Verse Revelation 20:1. An angel came down from heaven] One of the executors of the Divine justice, who receives criminals, and keeps them in prison, and delivers them up only to be tried and executed.

The key of the prison and the chain show who he is; and as the chain was great, it shows that the culprit was impeached of no ordinary crimes.