Chapter 20
1 I saw an angel coming down out of heaven , having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand .
2 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 ,
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 The rest of the dead didn’ t live until the thousand years were finished . This is the first resurrection.
6 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 .
7 And after the thousand years , Satan will be released from his prison
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire . This is the second death , the lake of fire .
15 If anyone was not found written in the book of life , he was cast into the lake of fire .