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.
Revelation 20:7 - Easy To Read Version When the 1,000 years are ended, Satan (the devil) will be made free from his prison \{in the bottomless pit\}. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And when the thousand years are completed, Satan will be released from his place of confinement, American Standard Version (1901) And when the thousand years are finished, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, Common English Bible When the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison. Catholic Public Domain Version And when the thousand years will have been completed, Satan shall be released from his prison, and he will go out and seduce the nations which are upon the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog. And he will gather them together for battle, those whose number is like the sand of the sea. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And when the thousand years shall be finished, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, and shall go forth, and seduce the nations, which are over the four quarters of the earth, Gog, and Magog, and shall gather them together to battle, the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. |
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.
These four angels had been kept ready for this hour and day and month and year. The angels were freed to kill one third of all the people on the earth.