Why Is Satan Set Free From The Pit After 1,000 Years?

[Budman]

I've always wondered about that. Why does God, after having Satan thrown into the bottomless pit at the beginning of the Millennium, set him free after the thousand years had passed?

I think it's to prove one final lesson.

Those Tribulation saints who survive, and go into the Millennium in their physical bodies will continue to have children. (So many so, that Satan will be able to raise a gigantic army from among them for one final battle against God).

Those children, and their children's children, etc., will be raised in a perfect environment, being ruled by Jesus with a rod of iron. They will superficially worship Jesus, but their hearts will be in rebellion to Him.

God lets Satan out to show, once and for all, that it's not a person's environment that makes them bad, it's what is inside of them. It's our nature. And no amount of paradise will change us if we are not regenerated through Christ.

It's kinda like many "stars" these days. They have the world at their feet - money, power, adulation - and they end up doing terrible things. They destroy themselves and others, despite "having it all".

Anyhoo, that's my two cents.

 

[Grandpa]

I think it is for a test as well.

 

[glf1]

Hey! Budman... PTL!
Jesus will be ruling the world from King David's throne along with the church, who'll all be in their immortal incorruptible resurrection bodies. We will have entered into our redemption and as spiritual beings we will be able to see in any dimensions that the angels or the evil one and his demons can be seen or dealt with directly. Might as well lock them away until the time of the end so that they can deceive as always to kill, steal, and destroy; since they'd be nothing but punching bags to the immortal, immune to injury, king/priests of the eternal New Covenant. They'll get released near the end of the millennium to stir up the many, who'll be defiled and unbelieving, to revolt against Jesus and his immortal priest/kings, who along with the angels will be administering Jesus' kingdom to the mortal descendants of the elect who survived the tribulation and Jesus' return. This universe which was made to be temporary will melt with fervent heat and the lost, demon and human alike, will be judged at the Lord's great white throne judgment and then they all will be cast into everlasting fire. imo... : )
Maranatha!

 

[eternally-gratefull]

I agree

I also think God is taking every excuse away. God is proving even when life is perfect. People still will rebell..

 

[Deade]

The "little season" that Satan will be loosed is the GWTJ. He will not be released until after the second resurrection. Once he has deceived one last time, he will be annihilated in the Lake of Fire (Eze. 28:18, 19).

 

[GraceAndTruth]

Where does the bible say 1,000 years.

My bible uses the greek word, chiloi which is the PLURAL of chilias.
Chiloi indicates many thousand
Chilias indicates a single thousand

 

[zeroturbulence]

Because God is a softie. (someone who's kindhearted)

 

[Budman]

The "little season" that Satan will be loosed is the GWTJ. He will not be released until after the second resurrection. Once he has deceived one last time, he will be annihilated in the Lake of Fire (Eze. 28:18, 19).

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WRONG.

"And the devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are also; and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever. " (Revelation 20:10)

 

[GraceAndTruth]

If they are tormented forever and ever ........when did forever end and Satan got out?

 

[Budman]

If they are tormented forever and ever ........when did forever end and Satan got out?

He is thrown into the Lake of Fire after the final rebellion at the end of the 1,000 year Millennium. Before that, Satan was in the bottomless pit - not in the Lake of Fire.

 

[GraceAndTruth]

He is thrown into the Lake of Fire after the final rebellion at the end of the 1,000 year Millennium. Before that, Satan was in the bottomless pit - not in the Lake of Fire.

I thought Satan was bound at the cross when Jesus defeated death.
My bible indicates MANY thousand, not one thousand.

Anyway, Bud, you are so darn cute, you look like Santa Claus with that red hat.!

 

[Budman]

Anyway, Bud, you are so darn cute, you look like Santa Claus with that red hat.!

Ho! Ho! Hoooooo!

Y'all.

 

[Deade]

WRONG.

"And the devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are also; and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever. " (Revelation 20:10)

God’s Memorials

Rev. 14:9-11 “And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.”

Some things are preserved in God's memory that is just as good as having them on file or archived digitally. His recall is 100%. Here is a case for something in God's memory:

Mark 9:47, 48 "And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire: Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched." Come on, a maggot that never dies. What is that?

Be aware that Sheol and Hades simply refers to the grave. Our doctrine of a dwelling place of the dead is inserted into Strong's Concordance as a reference. The reference in Revelation where they are tormented day and night forever, their smoke ascending forever could refer to something captured on film, therefore forever preserved. The reference in Mark 9:44: "Where their worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched" I believe is another example of that. It just does not make sense of a maggot that never dies. Anyway, hades is finally tossed into the lake of fire. You can't do that with a dwelling place.

All said, as I stated before all scripture has to fit together, in what we teach, or none of it is valid. Some things were presented in parables with figurative speech. Some things maybe we don't quite understand yet. God will not reveal some things until He is ready for us to know. I feel Lazarus and the rich man is a parable despite the proper names.

When God is finished with purging the universe of evil: all the demons and evil people will be completely destroyed.

Eze. 28:14: "Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire." This establishes identity.

Eze. 28:18: "Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee."

Eze. 28:19: "All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more." This tells of the fate of Satan. Which is also the fate of those that reject the Holy Spirit anointing by the end of the judgement period.

 

[GraceAndTruth]

Ho! Ho! Hoooooo!

Y'all.

Is that your "I love Trump" hat?
Wear it with a happy face!

 

[Deade]

I thought Satan was bound at the cross when Jesus defeated death.
My bible indicates MANY thousand, not one thousand.

Anyway, Bud, you are so darn cute, you look like Santa Claus with that red hat.!

Spoken like a true Amill.

 

[GraceAndTruth]

Spoken like a true Amill.

Now I AM insulted!

 

[Budman]

Some things are preserved in God's memory that is just as good as having them on file or archived digitally. The reference in Revelation where they are tormented day and night forever, their smoke ascending forever could refer to something captured on film, therefore forever preserved.

In no way does the Scripture give any indication that the tormented day and night, forever and ever, some sort of "preserved memory". How can God have a "stored" "captured on film" or "archived" memory of something that has not ended? Forever means eternal - never ending. Something that does not come to a completion.

You have presented the most inane explanation for something so plainly worded I have ever read.

 

[Deade]

In no way does the Scripture give any indication that the tormented day and night, forever and ever, some sort of "preserved memory". How can God have a "stored" "captured on film" or "archived" memory of something that has not ended? Forever means eternal - never ending. Something that does not come to a completion.

You have presented the most inane explanation for something so plainly worded I have ever read.

Okay, then explain Ezekiel 28:18, 19.

 

[TheDivineWatermark]

Where does the bible say 1,000 years.

My bible uses the greek word, chiloi which is the PLURAL of chilias.
Chiloi indicates many thousand
Chilias indicates a single thousand

In mine, all three (chilia [8x "neuter"], chilias [2x "feminine"], chilion [1x masculine]) are in the "plural".



[example from Rev20:4 - https://biblehub.com/text/revelation/20-4.htm ; and the list of all 11 usages of G5507 - https://biblehub.com/greek/5507.htm … all "plural" ]

 

[Budman]

Okay, then explain Ezekiel 28:18, 19.

Here's a C/P for ya:

To understand this apparent contradiction, we need to consider the contextual meaning of the Hebrew word translated “destroyed.” This Hebrew word, ’abad (Strong’s #6), is commonly used in the Hebrew Scriptures and may be translated “to perish, to vanish, to destroy or to put to death” depending on the context and the verb stem in the Hebrew (The King James Version Old Testament Hebrew Lexicon).

In the context of this passage, Satan was “destroyed … from the midst of the fiery stones.” The sense is that God is going to cause Satan to vanish or be removed from His presence. When we compare what is said in Ezekiel 28 with other scriptures pertaining to Satan’s fate, it becomes clear that God is going to eventually bind the devil permanently, rendering him useless in terms of continuing to deceive humans.

Many centuries after Ezekiel penned his prophecy, Paul wrote to the Corinthians about Satan, calling him “the god of this age” (2 Corinthians 4:4). This scripture and many others prove that the devil was alive and actively opposing God on earth during the life of Paul and the rest of the apostles. Moreover, Satan remains alive and committed to the destruction of God’s Church and its saints today (1 Peter 5:8).

Even though Satan is a spirit being, God is going to “destroy” the influence and power that the devil has had over mankind. Christ’s death facilitates this action. As the writer of Hebrews explains, “Through death He [Christ] might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil” (Hebrews 2:14).

Again, the word destroy in this passage does not mean to destroy in the sense of do away with or make nonexistent. The word translated “destroy” is from the Greek word katargeo, meaning “to render idle, unemployed, inactivate, inoperative; to cause a person or thing to have no further efficiency; to deprive of force, influence, power” (The New American Standard Greek Lexicon).

Even though Satan will not die, God will render him useless in his efforts to deceive humans by restraining him along with his angels. As Jude confirms, “And the angels who did not keep their proper domain [the responsibilities God originally assigned to them], but left their own abode, He [God] has reserved in everlasting chains [some spiritual means of restriction] under darkness for the judgment of the great day” (Jude 1:6).

What is Satan’s destined end? The Bible shows that the devil will not die, but rather that he will suffer torment. After Satan’s deception following the 1,000 years, he will be “cast into the lake of fire and brimstone” where he “will be tormented day and night forever and ever” (verse 10).