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The Thousand Years

20 Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain. And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, and threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years were ended.[a] After that he must be loosed for a little while.

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Footnotes

  1. 20.3 The destruction of the dragon must coincide in time with that of the beast (19.20), so that the first resurrection with the reign of the martyrs refers to the revival and expansion of the church after the years of persecution.

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