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(1)
Satan will be bound for 1000 years. He will be confined to the Abyss so
that he cannot deceive the earth’s nations during Christ’s reign (Rev.
20:1-3).
(2) There will be a resurrection of those who were beheaded during the Tribulation because they did not worship the Beast / Antichrist, or take his mark (Rev. 20:4). (3) They will be priests of God and Christ, and will reign with Him for 1000 years (Rev. 20:6). (4) At the end of the 1000 years, Satan will be released from the Abyss (Rev. 20:7). His goal will be to deceive the nations of earth to revolt against the King and His Administration (Rev. 20:8). (5) This will serve as God's tactic to expose those who have outwardly submitted to the King, but whose hearts are hearts of stone, and have not actually submitted to Him. (6) An aside: Most of Christendom treats the 1,000 years as a metaphor for "a long time." They are Amillennials, not believing in a literal Millennium. On what basis, then, is Christ's return in Rev. 19:11-21 a literal return to earth? On what basis is Satan a literal, personal being (Rev. 20:7-10)? On what basis are we to believe in a literal resurrection (Rev. 20:4-6)? If one accepts the metaphorical exegesis of Amillennials, on what basis is the book of Revelation anything more than an indecipherable metaphor, one which can be interpreted at the whim of every individual exegete or church tradition?
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