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Revelation 20
An angel with the key of the abyss binds the dragon — named here as "the old serpent, the devil and Satan" — for a thousand years. The martyrs who refused the beast's mark live and reign with Christ in what the text calls the first resurrection, while the rest of the dead wait. After the thousand years Satan is released, deceives Gog and Magog, and is consumed by fire before being thrown into the lake of fire. Then comes the great white throne: the dead, great and small, stand as books are opened, judged by their works, with the book of life decisive. Death and Hades themselves are thrown into the lake — "the second death."
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I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.
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He seized the dragon, the old serpent, who is the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and bound him for a thousand years,
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and cast him into the abyss, and shut it and sealed it over him, that he should deceive the nations no more until the thousand years were finished. After this, he must be freed for a short time.
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I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and such as didn’t worship the beast nor his image, and didn’t receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand. They lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
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The rest of the dead didn’t live until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
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Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over these, the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with him one thousand years.
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And after the thousand years, Satan will be released from his prison
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and he will come out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to the war, whose number is as the sand of the sea.
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They went up over the width of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. Fire came down out of heaven from God and devoured them.
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The devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are also. They will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
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I saw a great white throne and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the sky fled away. There was found no place for them.
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I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.
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The sea gave up the dead who were in it. Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them. They were judged, each one according to his works.
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Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.
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If anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.
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Y VI un ángel descender del cielo, que tenía la llave del abismo, y una grande cadena en su mano.
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Y prendió al dragón, aquella serpiente antigua, que es el Diablo y Satanás, y le ató por mil años;
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Y arrojólo al abismo, y le encerró, y selló sobre él, porque no engañe más á las naciones, hasta que mil años sean cumplidos: y después de esto es necesario que sea desatado un poco de tiempo.
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Y vi tronos, y se sentaron sobre ellos, y les fué dado juicio; y vi las almas de los degollados por el testimonio de Jesús, y por la palabra de Dios, y que no habían adorado la bestia, ni á su imagen, y que no recibieron la señal en sus frentes, ni en sus manos; y vivieron y reinaron con Cristo mil años.
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Mas los otros muertos no tornaron á vivir hasta que sean cumplidos mil años. Esta es la primera resurrección.
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Bienaventurado y santo el que tiene parte en la primera resurrección: la segunda muerte no tiene potestad en éstos; antes serán sacerdotes de Dios y de Cristo, y reinarán con él mil años.
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Y cuando los mil años fueren cumplidos, Satanás será suelto de su prisión,
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Y saldrá para engañar las naciones que están sobre los cuatro ángulos de la tierra, á Gog y á Magog, á fin de congregarlos para la batalla; el número de los cuales es como la arena del mar.
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Y subieron sobre la anchura de la tierra, y circundaron el campo de los santos, y la ciudad amada: y de Dios descendió fuego del cielo, y los devoró.
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Y el diablo que los engañaba, fué lanzado en el lago de fuego y azufre, donde está la bestia y el falso profeta; y serán atormentados día y noche para siempre jamás.
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Y vi un gran trono blanco y al que estaba sentado sobre él, de delante del cual huyó la tierra y el cielo; y no fué hallado el lugar de ellos.
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Y vi los muertos, grandes y pequeños, que estaban delante de Dios; y los libros fueron abiertos: y otro libro fué abierto, el cual es de la vida: y fueron juzgados los muertos por las cosas que estaban escritas en los libros, según sus obras.
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Y el mar dió los muertos que estaban en él; y la muerte y el infierno dieron los muertos que estaban en ellos; y fué hecho juicio de cada uno según sus obras.
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Y el infierno y la muerte fueron lanzados en el lago de fuego. Esta es la muerte segunda.
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Y el que no fué hallado escrito en el libro de la vida, fué lanzado en el lago de fuego.
The phrase that splits interpreters
This is the only chapter in the Bible to mention a thousand-year reign, and it states it plainly six times without explaining its nature — which is why "the millennium" became one of Scripture's most contested ideas. The text gives a sequence (binding, reign, release, final revolt, judgment) but no calendar.
Notice the structural pairing it does spell out: the "first resurrection" protects its sharers from "the second death." Those two phrases, not the thousand years alone, carry the chapter's actual promise — that for those in the book of life, the lake of fire has no claim.
Context layers
Keep these closed by default and open them only when you want more context.
- JudgmentWhat judgment means in the Bible, how it relates to justice, mercy, and final accountability, and where to read it without flattening it into threat or embarrassment.
- ResurrectionWhat resurrection means in the Bible, how it relates to Christ and future hope, and where to read it without reducing it to metaphor.
- WorshipWhat worship means in the Bible, how it goes beyond music, and where Scripture shows its full shape most clearly.
- Isaiah 33:22Key passage connected to Judgment.
- Romans 2:5-8Key passage connected to Judgment.
- Revelation 20:11-15Key passage connected to Judgment.
- John 11:25-26Key passage connected to Resurrection.
- 1 Corinthians 15:20-23Key passage connected to Resurrection.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18Key passage connected to Resurrection.
- Psalms 95:1-7Key passage connected to Worship.
- John 4:23-24Key passage connected to Worship.
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