Revelation 20:3

The Passion Translation

The mighty angel threw him into the pit, locked it, and sealed it so that he could no longer deceive the nations until the thousand years were over. (After that he must be loosed for a brief time.)

Cross References

Psalm 90:4

One thousand years pass before your eyes like yesterday that quickly faded away, like a night’s sleep soon forgotten.

Daniel 6:17

A large stone was then brought and placed over the opening of the den, and the king sealed it with his own signet ring and with the signet rings of each of his nobles so that Daniel’s fate might not be changed.

Matthew 24:24

For there will be imposters falsely claiming to be God’s ‘Anointed One,’ and false prophets will arise to perform miracle signs to lead astray, if possible, those God has chosen to be his.

Matthew 27:66

So they left and sealed the stone, and Pilate’s soldiers secured the tomb.

Mark 4:15

What falls on the beaten path represents those who hear the message, but immediately Satan appears and snatches it from their hearts.

Luke 8:31

We beg you, don’t banish us into the Abyss!”

2 Corinthians 11:3

But now I’m afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s clever lies, your thoughts may be corrupted and you may lose your single-hearted devotion and pure love for Christ.

2 Peter 3:8

So, dear friends, don’t let this one thing escape your notice: a single day counts like a thousand years to the Lord Yahweh, and a thousand years counts as one day.

Revelation 12:9

So the great dragon was thrown down once and for all. He was the serpent, the ancient snake called the devil, and Satan, who deceives the whole earth. He was cast down into the earth and his angels along with him.

Revelation 13:14

And through these startling miracles that he performed on behalf of the first beast, he deceived the world, telling the people to erect a statue in the image of the beast that had been wounded by the sword and yet lived.

Revelation 17:2

The kings of the earth have fornicated with her, and the people of earth are drunk on the wine of her prostitution.”

Revelation 17:8

The wild beast you saw once was, now is not, and is destined to ascend out of the deep and go to destruction. All those whose names have not been written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world will be utterly astonished when they see the wild beast because he once was, now is not, and is about to rise.

Revelation 20:1

Then I saw a mighty angel descending from the heavenly realm, holding a heavy chain and a key—the key of the deep.