Revelation 20:2

Easy To Read Version

The angel grabbed the giant snake (that old serpent). The giant snake is the devil (or Satan). The angel tied him \{with the chain\} for 1,000 years.

Cross References

Genesis 3:1

The snake was the most clever of all the wild animals that the Lord God had made. {The snake wanted to trick the woman.} The snake spoke to the woman and said, “Woman, did God really tell you that you must not eat from any tree in the garden?”

Genesis 3:15

I will make you and the woman enemies to each other. Your children and her children will be enemies. You will bite her child’s foot, but he will crush your head.”

Job 1:7

The Lord said to Satan, “Where have you been?”

Isaiah 24:22

Many people will be gathered together.\par Some of them have been locked in the Pit.\par Some of them have been in prison. {\cf2\super [233]} \par But finally, after much time,\par they will be judged.\par

Isaiah 27:1

At that time, the Lord will judge\par Leviathan, {\cf2\super [246]} the crooked snake.\par The Lord will use his great sword,\par his hard and powerful sword, to punish\par Leviathan, the coiled snake.\par The Lord will kill\par the large creature in the sea. {\cf2\super [247]} \par

Ezekiel 47:5

The man measured another 1,000 cubits. But there the water was too deep to cross. It had become a river. The water was deep enough to swim in. It was a river that was too deep to cross.

Matthew 19:29

And every person that has left houses, brothers, sisters, father, mother, children, or farms to follow me will get much more than he left. And that person will have life forever.

Matthew 8:29

The two men came to Jesus and shouted, “What do you want with us, Son of God? Did you come here to punish us before the right time?”

Mark 4:15

Sometimes the teaching falls on the path. This is like some people. Those people hear the teaching of God. But Satan (the devil) comes and takes away the teaching that was planted in them.

John 12:31

Now is the time for the world to be judged. Now the ruler of this world (the devil) will be thrown out.

John 16:11

And the Helper will prove to the world the truth about judgment, because the ruler of this world (the devil) is already judged.

Romans 16:20

The God that brings peace will soon defeat Satan (the devil) and give you power over him.

Hebrews 2:14

Those children are people with physical bodies. So Jesus himself became like those people and had the same experiences people have. Jesus did this so that, by dying, he could destroy the one who has the power of death. That one is the devil.

1 Peter 5:8

Control yourselves and be careful! The devil is your enemy. And he goes around like a roaring lion looking for some person to eat.

2 Peter 2:4

When angels sinned, God did not let them go free without punishment. No! God sent them to hell. God put those angels in caves of darkness. They are being held there until the judgment.

Revelation 12:13

The giant snake saw that he had been thrown down to the earth. So he chased the woman who had given birth to the boy child.

Revelation 12:15

Then the snake poured water out of its mouth like a river. The snake poured the water toward the woman so that the flood would carry her away.

Revelation 12:17

Then the snake was very angry at the woman. The snake went away to make war against all her other children. Her children are those people who obey God’s commands and have the truth that Jesus taught.

Revelation 12:3

Then another wonder appeared in heaven: There was a giant red snake there. The giant snake had seven heads with a crown on each head. The snake also had ten horns.

Revelation 12:4

The snake’s tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and threw them down to the earth. The giant snake stood in front of the woman who was ready to give birth to the baby. The snake wanted to eat the woman’s baby when it was born.

Revelation 12:9

The snake was thrown down out of heaven. (The giant snake is that old snake called the devil or Satan. He leads the whole world into the wrong way.) The snake with his angels were thrown to the earth.

Revelation 13:2

This animal looked like a leopard, with feet like a bear’s feet. It had a mouth like a lion’s mouth. The giant snake \{on the seashore\} gave the animal all of his power and his throne and great authority.

Revelation 13:4

People worshiped the giant snake because he had given his power to the animal. And the people also worshiped the animal. They asked, “Who is as powerful as the animal? Who can make war against him?”

Revelation 20:10

And Satan (the one who tricked those people) was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur with the animal and the false prophet. {\cf2\super [155]} There they will be tortured (punished) day and night forever and ever.

Revelation 20:7

When the 1,000 years are ended, Satan (the devil) will be made free from his prison \{in the bottomless pit\}.

Revelation 9:11

The locusts had a ruler. The ruler was the angel of the bottomless pit. His name in the Hebrew language is Abaddon. {\cf2\super [69]} In the Greek language his name is Apollyon (Destroyer).