Revelation 20:7

And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, EXPIRED - `finished.'...

7-10 While this world lasts, Satan's power in it will not be wholly destroyed, though it may be limited and lessened. No sooner is Satan let loose, than he again begins deceiving the nations, and stirring them up to make war with the saints and servants of God. It would be well if the servants and ministers of Christ were as active and persevering in doing good, as his enemies in doing mischief. God will fight this last and decisive battle for his people, that the victory may be complete, and the glory be to himself....

Verse Revelation 20:7. _SATAN SHALL BE LOOSED_] How can this bear any kind of _literal_ interpretation? Satan is bound a thousand years, and the earth is in peace; righteousness flourishes, and Jesus Christ alone reigns. This state of things may continue for ever if the imprisonment of Satan be _continued_. Satan, however, is loosed at the end of the thousand years, and goes out and deceives the nations, and peace is banished from the face of the earth, and a most dreadful war takes place, c., c. These can be only symbolical representations, utterly incapable of the sense generally put upon them....

AND WHEN THE THOUSAND YEARS ARE EXPIRED - See Revelation 20:2. SATAN SHALL BE LOOSED OUT OF HIS PRISON - See Revelation 20:3. That is, a state of things will then occur as if Satan should be for a time let loose again, and should be permitted to go as formerly over the world. No intimation is given “why or how” he would be thus released from his prison. We are not, however, to infer that it would be a mere arbitrary act on the part of God. All that is necessary to be supposed is, that there would be, in certain parts of the world, a temporary outbreak of wickedness, as if Satan were for a time released from his chains....

EXPOSITION REVELATION 20:1 AND I SAW AN ANGEL COME DOWN FROM HEAVEN; _coming down out of heaven. _The usual mode of introducing a new vision (cf. Revelation 4:1, etc.). On account of Revelation 1:18, some have considered this angel to be Christ himself; but this is incorrect. As in Revelation 12:7, an angel is the immediate agent in this expulsion of Satan (_vide infra_)_._ HAVING THE KEY OF THE BOTTOMLESS PIT; _the abyss; _as in...

AND WHEN THE THOUSAND YEARS ARE EXPIRED,.... Which are not yet expired; not in the year 1000, or 1033 or 4, reckoning from the birth or death of Christ, when Paganism, which had been destroyed in the Gentile world, was introduced into the church, which bore the Christian name, through the man of sin; for this had been bringing in by degrees more or less from the times of Constantine; whence it appears, that Satan in this respect was loose before, and therefore this was not the time of his loosing; nor in 1073, reckoning from the destruction of Jerusalem, and the carrying and spread of the Gospel among the Gentiles, in which year Hildebrand came to the popedom, who may be truly called the brand of hell; Damianus, a brother cardinal, who lived at the same time with him when he was archdeacon of Rome, calls him the holy devil; he was an impostor, sorcerer, and necromancer, and by wicked art...

CHAPTER S 20:7-22:5 After the Thousand Years and the New Jerusalem _ 1. Satan's last revolt (Revelation 20:7)_ 2. The great white throne (Revelation 20:11) 3. The eternal state (Revelation 21:1) 4. The vision of the holy city (Revelation 21:9) 5. The glories of the redeemed (Revelation 22:1) Revelation 20:7 . Satan who was put into the abyss a thousand years before, is

THE RELEASE OF SATAN AND THE FINAL CONFLICT. Revelation 20:8. Gog and Magog: the names are taken from Ezekiel 38 f., where Gog is the name of a prince and Magog the name of his country. The reference is to an attack by hostile nations, but we have no means of further identification. Revelation 20:9. the beloved city: Jerusalem. Revelation 20:10. the final overthrow of Satan is here described. BEAST AND FALSE PROPHET: REVELATION 13:11 *, Revelation 16:13 *....

THE THOUSAND YEAR REIGN OF CHRIST AND THE SAINTS (Revelation 20:1-15) Since the great importance of this chapter is that it is what might be called the foundation document of Millennarianism or Chiliasm, it will be better to read it as a whole before we deal with it in detail. 1 And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven with the key of the abyss, and with a great chain in his hand. 2 And he laid hold of the dragon, the ancient serpent, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a 3 thousand years, and cast him into the abyss, and locked him in, and set a seal over him, that he might no longer deceive the nations, until the thousand years were completed. After that he must be set free for a little time. 4 And I saw thrones, and those who had received the privilege of judgment sat upon them. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their witness

EXPIRED. See "fulfilled", Revelation 20:3. OUT OF. App-104....