A Certain Judgement on the Deceiver

Revelation 20:7-10 

7 Now when the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison 8 and will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, whose number is as the sand of the sea. 9 They went up on the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. And fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them. 10 The devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are. And they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

God’s plan will continue to unfold after the dragon is set loose from a thousand years of confinement, just as He planned and just as He will cause it to occur.  The adversary’s chains will be removed so he can go back into the world to deceive the nations again, but this time specifically to bring them together in probably the largest army ever seen for a final showdown. This deceived mass of men will surround God’s city of Jerusalem where His saints are gathered, intending to destroy them in vengeance for his imprisonment and that of his beast and false prophet.  But God will simply send down judgement in fire from heaven to eliminate the forces of evil and throw the deceiver, the devil, into the same eternal lake of fire where the henchmen of evil already are.  These will all be tormented forever with grievous torture fitting the crime of cosmic rebellion against the Lord Almighty.  These things written here may include allegory, but they also contain the truth of satan’s end and his reign of intentional evil over the deceived of mankind since Eve (1 Timothy 2:14).  We can speculate how the events align and at what times, yet in the end God’s plan will unfold as the title of this book of Revelation indicates.  Knowing that the instigator of sin and the fall of man will be judged and condemned with all who work with him against their Creator, we have a certain hope to follow of we who are in Christ and a drive to testify to the gospel of Jesus Christ who alone can set the deceived free for eternity.  His truth is marching on!  Let us be about our Father’s work.