How long is Satan to be imprisoned on this earth?
Answer
"I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his
hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the devil, and Satan, and bound him a
thousand years, and cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he
should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled." Rev. 20: 1-3.
NOTE - The word rendered "bottomless pit" in this text is abussos, the Greek term employed by
the Septuagint in Gen. 1: 2, as the equivalent of the Hebrew word rendered "deep" in our English versions.
A more literal translation would be "abyss." It is a term applied to the earth in its desolate, waste, chaotic,
dark, uninhabited condition. In this condition it will remain during the one thousand years. It will be the
dreary prison-house of Satan during this period. Here, in the midst of the smoldering bones of wicked
dead, slain at Christ's second coming, the broken-down cities, and the wreck and ruin of all the pomp and
power of this world, Satan will have opportunity to reflect upon the results of his rebellion against God.
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Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle