Revelation 20:3

Easy To Read Version

The angel threw the snake into the bottomless pit and closed it. The angel locked it over the snake. The angel did this so that the snake could not trick the people of the earth until the 1,000 years were ended. After 1,000 years the snake must be made free for a short time.

Cross References

Psalm 90:4

To you, a thousand years is like yesterday,\par like last night.\par

Daniel 6:17

A big rock was brought and put over the opening of the lions’ den. Then the king used his ring and put his seal {\cf2\super [70]} on the rock. And he used the rings of his officials and put their seals on the rock also. This showed that no one could move that rock and bring Daniel out of the lion’s den (cage).

Matthew 24:24

False Christs and false prophets {\cf2\super [372]} will come and do great things and miracles. {\cf2\super [373]} They will do these things to the people God has chosen. They will do these things to try to fool his people, if that is possible.

Matthew 27:66

So they all went to the tomb and made it safe from thieves. They did this by sealing the stone in the entrance and putting soldiers there to guard it.

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.

Luke 8:31

The demons begged Jesus not to send them into eternal darkness. {\cf2\super [153]}

2 Corinthians 11:3

But I am afraid that your minds will be led away from your true and pure following of Christ. This might happen the same as Eve was tricked (fooled) by the snake (the devil) with his evil ways.

2 Peter 3:8

But don’t forget this one thing, dear friends: To the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years is like a day.

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 13:14

This second animal fools the people that live on the earth. He fools them by using the miracles that he has been given the power to do. He does these miracles to serve the first animal. The second animal ordered people to make an idol {\cf2\super [96]} to honor the first animal. This was the animal that was wounded by the sword but did not die.

Revelation 17:2

The rulers of the earth sinned sexually with her. The people of the earth became drunk from the wine of her sexual sin.”

Revelation 17:8

The animal that you saw was once \{alive\}. But that animal is not \{alive\} now. But that animal will \{be alive and\} come up out of the bottomless pit and go away to be destroyed. The people that live on the earth will be amazed when they see the animal. They will be amazed because he was once \{alive\}, is not \{alive\} now, but will come again. These are the people whose names have never been written in the book of life since the beginning of the world.

Revelation 20:1

I saw an angel coming down out of heaven. The angel had the key to the bottomless pit. The angel also held a large chain in his hand.