Revelation 20:3

Weymouth NT

He closed the entrance and put a seal upon him in order that he might be unable to lead the nations astray any more until the thousand years were at an end. Afterwards he is to be set at liberty for a short time.

Cross References

Matthew 24:24

For there will rise up false Christs and false prophets, displaying wonderful signs and prodigies, so as to deceive, were it possible, even God's own People.

Matthew 27:66

So they went and made the sepulchre secure, sealing the stone besides setting the guard.

Mark 4:15

Those who receive the seed by the way-side are those in whom the Message is sown, but, when they have heard it, Satan comes at once and carries away the Message sown in them.

Luke 8:31

and they besought Him not to command them to be gone into the Bottomless Pit.

2 Corinthians 11:3

But I am afraid that, as the serpent in his craftiness deceived Eve, so your minds may be led astray from their single-heartedness and their fidelity to Christ.

2 Peter 3:8

But there is one thing, dear friends, which you must not forget. With the Lord one day resembles a thousand years and a thousand years resemble one day.

Revelation 12:9

The great Dragon, the ancient serpent, he who is called `the Devil' and `the Adversary' and leads the whole earth astray, was hurled down: he was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him.

Revelation 13:14

And his power of leading astray the inhabitants of the earth is due to the marvels which he has been permitted to work in the presence of the Wild Beast. And he told the inhabitants of the earth to erect a statue to the Wild Beast who had received the sword-stroke and yet had recovered.

Revelation 17:2

The kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.«

Revelation 17:8

»The Wild Beast which you have seen was, and is not, and yet is destined to re-ascend, before long, out of the bottomless pit and go his way into perdition. And the inhabitants of the earth will be filled with amazement –all whose names are not in the Book of Life, having been recorded there ever since the creation of the world– when they see the Wild Beast: because he was, and is not, and yet is to come.«

Revelation 20:1

Then I saw an angel coming down from Heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit, and upon his arm he carried a great chain.