Revelation 20:3

God's Word

He threw it into the bottomless pit. The angel shut and sealed the pit over the serpent to keep it from deceiving the nations anymore until the 1,000 years were over. After that it must be set free for a little while.

Cross References

Psalm 90:4

Indeed, in your sight a thousand years are like a single day, like yesterday—already past— like an hour in the night.

Daniel 6:17

A stone was brought and placed over the opening of the den. The king put his seal on the stone, using his ring and the rings of his nobles, so that Daniel’s situation could not be changed.

Matthew 24:24

False messiahs and false prophets will appear. They will work spectacular, miraculous signs and do wonderful things to deceive, if possible, even those whom God has chosen.

Matthew 27:66

So they went to secure the tomb. They placed a seal on the stone and posted the soldiers on guard duty.

Mark 4:15

Some people are like seeds that were planted along the road. Whenever they hear the word, Satan comes at once and takes away the word that was planted in them.

Luke 8:31

The demons begged Jesus not to order them to go into the bottomless pit.

2 Corinthians 11:3

However, I’m afraid that as the snake deceived Eve by its tricks, so your minds may somehow be lured away from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ.

2 Peter 3:8

Dear friends, don’t ignore this fact: One day with the Lord is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like one day.

Revelation 12:9

The huge serpent was thrown down. That ancient snake, named Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world, was thrown down to earth. Its angels were thrown down with it.

Revelation 13:14

It deceives those living on earth with the signs that it is allowed to do in front of the ⌞first⌟ beast. It tells those living on earth to make a statue for the beast who was wounded by a sword and yet lived.

Revelation 17:2

The kings of the earth had sex with her, and those living on earth became drunk on the wine of her sexual sins.”

Revelation 17:8

“You saw the beast which once was, is no longer, and will come from the bottomless pit and go to its destruction. Those living on earth, whose names were not written in the Book of Life when the world was created, will be surprised when they see the beast because it was, is no longer, and will come again.

Revelation 20:1

I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding the key to the bottomless pit and a large chain in his hand.