After the 1000 years have ended in the Millennium Kingdom, two additional things must happen before we get our new heaven and new earth. These two events will seal the fate of Satan and all of the unsaved people who have ever lived once and for all.
This first event is almost unbelievable. When Jesus comes back for the second time to set up His Millennium Kingdom for a thousand years, the Bible tells us that Satan is chained up in the bottomless pit during those thousand years. He will no longer be free to tempt or torment humans during the Millennium Kingdom.
However, after the thousand years have ended in the Millennium Kingdom, Satan is let loose for one last time to come upon our earth to try and cause one more round of trouble.
The original King James Version tells us that Satan will be let loose for a “little season.” The New King James Version says he will be let loose for a “little while.” The Bible does not tell us how many years Satan will be allowed to run free again. All that we can surmise from the above words is that he will only be free to roam for a very short period of time.
As soon as he is released from the bottomless pit, Satan will waste no time in doing what he does best. The Bible says that he will then go out to deceive the nations once again. He will be allowed to literally go to the 4 corners of the globe to get as many people as he possibly can to do his evil bidding once again.
The Bible says that he will be targeting all of the people who are wanting to rebel against God from the Millennium Kingdom. He will get them to surround the camps of the saints and the beloved city, which is probably Jerusalem, and then get them to try and attack God’s people and holy city.
However, the Bible tells us they will not even be able to get to the point of actually launching any type of attack against Jerusalem or any of God’s people.
They get to the point where they are surrounding Jerusalem, but before they can even attack, God Himself will literally devour them by sending down fire from heaven. God will literally take them out right there on the spot! There will be no physical battles like there will be in the battle of Armageddon. No blood will be spilled with the passing of this event.
And then the Bible tells us that Satan will then be thrown into the Lake of Fire and Brimstone where the Antichrist and False Prophet had been thrown in earlier at the beginning of the Millennium Kingdom.
Once this is done, the Bible says they will remain in this place forever and ever! We will thus never hear from the Devil again. God will have finally taken out this blasphemous creature from His sight and our sight for all of eternity!
If we have just had perfect peace for a thousand years in the Millennium Kingdom, why would God allow the devil to be set free to cause one more round of trouble? Here is my opinion as to why.
In the Millennium Kingdom, the humans who survive the events of the Tribulation will still be procreating and bringing more children into our world.
These children will then be raised up in the Lord and all of His ways. They will have never known demonic temptation since Satan and all of his demons will have been chained up and out of their sight during the entire length of the Millennium Kingdom.
If Satan is let loose and manages to gather a certain amount of people to try and attack Jerusalem, then this means that some of these grown up children are going to rebel and go against God Almighty Himself in this last event.
The fact that Satan will be able to easily dupe some of them into actually doing this tells me that some of these people had to have been restless and not totally committed to serving the Lord in the Millennium Kingdom. Otherwise, they would have never been so easily tempted by Satan to commit this one, last, final act of rebellion against God’s people and His holy city of Jerusalem.
I believe the main reason God will let Satan loose for one more time is to prune out some of these bad people who won’t stay loyal and committed to serving Him.
These people will not be able to start any kind of trouble against God in the Millennium Kingdom because Satan is not around yet, people no longer war with one another, and we will have perfect law and order in this new environment since Jesus will now be in full control of everything.
I believe God will set these people up. He will allow Satan to roam free one more time so he can tempt these people into going against Him and His people. And right at the point where these rebellious ones are getting ready to encircle Jerusalem to attack it, God will literally destroy them right there on the spot.
What this tells us is that there will still be some people who will rebel and go against God – even in the most perfect God-environment imaginable!
These people will have all been born into and raised up in this Millennium Kingdom without any type of bad influence from Satan, his demons, and any other bad and unsaved people, since God had already thrown all of them into Hades for the entire length of the Millennium Kingdom.
These people will have also been raised up being taught who the real God is, along with being taught all of His awesome ways. There will be no other gods or false religions to confuse or seduce them.
And even in this most perfect scenario imaginable, there is obviously going to be a group of these people who will still choose to rebel against God and try to overthrow Him by attacking His holy city of Jerusalem once Satan is let loose to try and set all of this up.
When you first examine all of the above, you have to ask yourself, how could a group of humans be so stupid to think they can overthrow or go against God Almighty Himself, especially since they have probably been taught the entire history of our world during the Millennium Kingdom?
How could these people go against God when they have been raised up in the most perfect God-environment imaginable?
To answer this, all you have to do is look at what happened to Satan and all of the fallen angels. They were all initially living up in heaven with the Lord with no negative influences until Satan started to malfunction through pride and conceit.
They too were living in the most perfect God-environment imaginable, and possibly up to one-third of them decided with their own free wills to rebel against God Himself in this perfect heavenly environment.
So just as a certain of amount of the angels decided to rebel and go against God Himself in a perfect heavenly environment, so too are a certain number of human beings going to do the exact same thing at the end of the Millennium Kingdom. And once again, God will allow Satan to be the one to tempt and cause these rebellious ones to fall.
Bottom line – God knows there are going to be a certain number of people who will still try and come against Him, even in this perfect Millennium Kingdom. He is simply going to draw them out, expose them, and then prune them out by allowing Satan to deceive them like he did with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.
Then once all of this has been accomplished, you will have nothing but the good apples left that will finally inherit God’s best for all of humanity – The New Heaven and the New Earth.
Now here are the two main verses from our Bible that will give us all of the above information.
The Scripture Verses
1. This first verse will tell us that Satan will be let loose for a little while after he is released from the bottomless pit.
“Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, and he cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal on him, so that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years were finished. But after these things he must be released for a little while.” (Revelation 20:1-3)
2. This next verse will tell us what happens after he is released from the bottomless pit.
“Now when the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison and will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, whose number is as the sand of the sea. They went up on the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. And fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them. And the devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are. And they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.” (Revelation 20:7-10)
Now before God gives us our final reward with the New Heaven and New Earth, there is one more really bad event that must take place. This event is called the Great White Throne Judgment. This event will determine the eternal fate of all of the unsaved people who have ever lived. This event will discussed in the next article.
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Thanks for this great article of exposition, it has really ans some questions in my heart. Thanks and God bless u all
Thank’s for the article it really answered some questions I had about satan being loose after the 1000 years.
Thanks for the article on what happens after the 1000 years & the rapture it was grate gave me peace & conformation I loved reading all your articles xx
I’m also really thankful for the info you provide. It’s so lovely to find such encouraging Bible info on the net.
So, what about all those tribulation descendants who have already died in the 1,000 years? There would be more of those who were untested than would still be alive when Satan is let loose, so I’m not sure I believe that is the reason.
i don’t think there is going to be a whole lot of death during that thousand years because of Christ being here. the average life span might be a thousand years. along with no temptation there might be a whole new atmosphere as it was before the flood. Peace and Love.
Gen. 6:3 Then the LORD said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.”
Since the Flood, there is no indication that anyone gets much past 120 years, even with today’s improved healthcare. There will be many who die during a 1,000 years who will be the sheep at the Great White Throne Judgment for the “Second” Resurrection.
It seems that Jesus and the Saints fall short of their training goals since those who rebel are “whose number is as the sand of the sea.” But, Jesus will not fall short, so, perhaps, the problem is in our explanation.
I agree 100%!
People need to stop playing and take Almighty God serious! This article was confirmation of what I have been saying for quite some time. Yes… Satan will be imprisoned during the Millennium period… and will be mad as heck when he is released! :-))))
It quite sad that the many many 4-walled building (called CHURCH) is NOT preaching or TEACHING on the books of prophecy. The book of Rev. clearly teaches us that Jesus Christ is COMING back! What started in the Garden… God’s glory upon man and woman… that ushered in Jesus Christ… will herald a New beginning with Jesus Christ. God’s Glory will once again be upon man and woman, and His Spiritual Kingdom Family will finally be living WITH Him, Christ Jesus, the Holy Spirit and His people: The O.Test. Saints., the N.Test. Church (True believer’s of and in Jesus Christ) and the Tribulation Saints and the Millennium Saints… Hey… HEY!!! Come Lord Jesus…come as your Holy Word reads in Rev. 22:20- “He who gives witness to these things says, “Yes, I am coming soon.” Amen. Come Lord Jesus!
Be blessed my sisters and brothers… and oh… If any of you are needing more words of encouragements? Look me up on YouTube… under: Evangelist CJ.
Stay FOCUSED!
God bless
What if our generation is the generation that is living when Satan was let loose? Is Jesus still on earth when he lets him loose? Are we the descendants of those who got to reign with the Lord. Those who will be numbered like the sands of the sea? How would we know if Jesus returned if we weren’t born yet and they changed history books to deceive us? We don’t know how long Satan is loosed to deceive. What if it’s a very long time, to gather everyone who could possibly not have whole faith in God. I dunno regardless we need to repent and have Christ as our savior.
@Tasha, YES. This is it. Christ already has had His 1,000 year reign of peace and we are at the very end, when Lucifer has been loosed one last time and is deceiving us all! If you look at the amazing structures that we are now unable to replicate and at how some cities all over the earth had star and snowflake shaped waterways surrounding them that allowed water to flow and resonate at frequencies that heal and make food grow, along with the free electricity that was created by the structures that we are told were built as temples, you see the blessings that were happening at one time. There’s 1,000 years of history MISSING from the so called “dark ages”! This is fact!
@Johnnie, That’s true! and it makes total sense ! We are the last remnant! We are the descendants of the orhpans that on the first picture that were taken. Those mass amount of orphans were not subject to evil, in a way, they did not pass the test as explained in the article.
The great tribulations, the antichrist, the rapture, the 1000 years of reign, all of that has already happened !
We are the last generation and we are in away very LUCKY!
Because the Bible says that there will not be something more dramatic than the great tribulations ans it also says that Satan and his army will be destroyed instantly, there won’t be any battle !
Despite the hard work of the satanist in this world for the past 200 years or so, all they do is meaningless, because Christ will erase them in a second without any fight.
It is said in the scripture Doctrine and Covenants 63: verse 51 that death during the millenium will happen “in the twinkling of an eye” or basically that anyone who dies wouldn’t just stop living, but would change into their spiritual state? That’s how i see it. Everyone will have the opportunity to choose, that is when the work is finished.
@Susan, will people in the 1000 year reign actually die..wont they will live to grand ages like they did before the flood..there will be only perfection..no sickness etc.??
This final loosing of datan is also to show that it is man’s sin nature that causes them to choose evil & not God who causes evil. All will know once & for all!
The armies of Gog and Magog (the Bad Guys) surround the camp(s) of the Saints (the Good Guys), as there will be many living Saints at that time. Then fire comes down from Heaven and destroys the Bad Guys and the entire Earth. This is followed by the Great White Throne Judgment and a new Heaven and NEW Earth.
God will not burn up the Good Guys when the Earth is destroyed. Don’t we need the Rapture here? We go up to meet Jesus in the air just before fire comes down to consume the the armies of Gog and Magog. Are there 2 Raptures?
My understanding is as follows.
3 Things blamed for man’s sin:-
a) Presence of Evil (Satan influenced people to sin from Adam’s days).
b) Fallen world’s influence on man (people & system).
c) The absence of God’s direct close physical relationship with man to guide/rule.
During the Millennium,
a) Satan is bound;
b) No other evil force on earth to influence believers (since all unsaved would have been destroyed at Armageddon/Christ’s Return);
c) Christ physical presence to reign over the 1,000 years.
Even then, despite the ‘Utopian’ environment,man still goes against God at the first opportunity (though they may have developed feelings against God/Christ sometime during the Millennium).
This is the result of the fallen nature of man (propensity to sin) which the Millennium, with the ‘new heaven and new earth’ is proving.
After the Millennium, Satan is destroyed. All faithfully believers will be translated for Eternity in Heaven (joining the church and all other believers in the New Jerusalem all this while). Remember, there is no temple in New Jerusalem because God and his people (resurrected dead in Christ and translated raptured believers of Christ) are the temple. Heaven (the 3rd Heaven where God lives and where the New Jerusalem came down from and probably hovered over the New Heaven and New Earth where Christ and his church reign during the Millennium) will expand to engulf the whole universe with New Jerusalem as the Holy City where ALL SAVED live in eternity with God (and Christ) forever and ever. Amen.
I have been trying to tell people where the 4 corners of the earth people come from, but get very little info from anybody. your articles clarify what I believe. try to tell that to a 7th. day Adventist. they believe that the millennium is in heaven!. you can’t talk to them because the believe ellen g. white over the bible. there is no reasoning with them. I have friends that are Adventists and go to church there because I try to reach them. you can’t. one of them listened to what I said, and looked up scriptures in the bible. he said ” I almost proved my point, but couldn’t quite. his wife wouldn’t believe the truth if Jesus himself talked to her. I would like to find out more about the Sabbath. I go to baptist churches, and one of them says to believe all the 10 commandments except the one about remember the Sabbath and keep it holy! also much for and against pre trib rapture. these things I am studying and haven’t come to a conclusion yet. thanks!
The sabbath, as I understand it is a rest day for the Israelites. To rest each 7th day as God rested after the creation of the earth. It is a Saturday. As Christians we celebrate the Sunday as the day Christ rose. It is called the Lord’s day. It is our 7th day of the week.
The Sabbath is Friday sunset to Saturday sunset – and God never changed it. The apostle Paul kept it and taught in the synagogue on the Sabbath and the Gentiles joined him there.
There is no pre-tribulation rapture. It is a lie meant to deceive. We will be gathered together at the last trump (read Revelation 14:14-20, Matthew 13:37-43). Also read Matthew 24:29-31 where Yeshua states “Immediately after the tribulation … they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory” and the trumpet will sound and we will be gathered together.
There is a tremendous amount of deception out there. It is crucial that we read and study our Bibles to know the truth.
@iris faucett, it seems as the millennial reign happened already. The people who were alive with Jesus, and gave their life instead of renounce Him, took part in the 1st Resurrection and reigned with Him fir the 1000 years … We are in the short season after when our adversary is loosed.
You mentioned “that we do not know the length of Satan’s reign – I wish to suggest to you that it is 210 days from a careful study of the BIble. First Matthew 24:22 tells U “and except those days be shortened…” The bible tells us that the tribulation will last seven yeare, or 84 30 day months for a total of 2,520 days. I believe that in the book of Daniel it is noted that it will last 2,310 days. OK – stay with me: The seven years of tribulation will last 2320 days (i.e. except those days be shortened) – Christ will come and usher in the 1000 years – then Satan will be set loose for the remaining 210 days of the tribulation!
I’m reading this after finally riding myself of Christian belief, and I have to say, what a horrible story. God will “set people up” to rebel, then completely enslave the remainder. And why would the devil be so stupid as to essentially do god’s dirty work for him? This story describes a sadomasochistic being I’d want nothing to do with. This whole mythology is stupid and I’m glad to be out of it.
Let’s put our brains and hearts to work for a better future.
Satan doesn’t have to “do God’s dirty work for Him”….Our Creature created all of us with the gift of choice – even in the Garden of Eden. He doesn’t want to force anyone to be with Him who does not want to be with Him. So, in order to choose….we must have a choice. God knows that each one of His creation(including YOU) has the potential to reject Him (as YOU have done) and on that final Day of Judgement, no one will be able to accuse Him of not allowing them to choose their own way. So, knowing that there will be those who will reject Him (and even though He could force us to choose Him) He will allow Satan to test them.
It’s like us parents – we can raise our children the best that we can, but in the end, we have to release them into this cruel world to choose their way. It’s no different with our Creator.
He desires that NONE should perish (i.e. spend eternity in hell with Satan) but He leaves that choice to us.
I also believe that there will be those during the Millennium who have not had the opportunity to choose, and can fully understand this writing. I just pray that your heart will be changed and you will ensure that you are on the right side of eternity.
38:8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
This is speaking of present day Israel that has been reborn not some place in heaven. Get your theology straight, get it from the Bible not from some Cult
Your seeing it wrong. God uses all things for his glory and his ways are perfect. If they weren’t perfect he would not be God.
He permitted man to have a free will as well as angelic beings and that is the reason that he permits evil.
He lights every man who comes into the world and man has no excuse not to receive the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.
The Bible doesn’t say the 1000 year reign will occur on earth. It makes more sense that this is the kingdom in heaven, while Satan is bound from influencing the earth, but it also doesn’t say demons will be bound as well.
The war of Gog and Magog which happens after the 1000 years is the same Gog and Magog from Ezekiel 38-39 and it doesn’t make sense that his Kingdom would have been established on earth before this war.
The end of times is very hard to interpret for we do know whether to take it literal or if its a symbolic expression of what is to come. Have more faith in Jesus Christ your lord and saviour. We do not need to agree with opinions and interpretations that seem out of place.
Deception cannot occur if one doesn’t depart from the undiluted word of God. Offering cleverly disguised alternatives to God’s word is how deception starts. You must choose to accept the word of God without question or amendment, that is the only way to salvation
if JESUS is not reining over his kingdom now how can anyone be saved, JESUS is king on the right hand of GOD now ,we who trust in him now will be saved, when satan is truned lose then JESUS will destory him and all that does not have faith in him in a lake of fire. we are the church we are in the kingdom, there will be great tribulation JESUS said that if he did not come there would not no one be saved but for the elect sake those day shall be shortened. in matt: 24=21,22 matt : 24=29,31 his is coming soon.
This is incredible ! The past years I’ve thought the tribulations were ahead of us while actually it’s already happened ! They totally hijacked the timeline ! The great monuments that we see all around the world, the picture of orphans working in factory, sent by trains to repopulate the world, all of this make total sense! The tribulations, the anti christ, all of that is behind us, we are on the other side of the curve !
The 1,000 year reign is after the resurrection. Those that are raised with Christ come down to reign with Him. Those reigning with Him will not have to make a second decision of who they are following. Those that were not raised will be living outside the walls of the kingdom. They will be the ones satan is trying to get on his side. It says nowhere in scripture that people will rebel against Chirst from inside the walls of His millennial kingdom. It’s really not that hard. All you have to do is read the whole Bible. Also, the new testament says not to argue over trivial matters that pertain to things not related to working to bring people to salvation in Jesus Christ.