Revelation 20
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1And I saw an angel coming down out of the heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. 2And he seized the dragon, the serpent the ancient, who is the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and bound him a thousand years, 3and threw him into the abyss, and shut him in, and sealed it over him, that he might not deceive the nations anymore until the thousand years were finished. After these things he must be released for a short time. 4And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of the testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God, and those who did not worship the beast nor the image of it, and did not receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand; and they lived and reigned with Christ the thousand years. 5But the rest of the dead did not live until the thousand years were finished. This is the resurrection the first. 6Blessed and holy is the one having a part in the resurrection the first; over these the second death has no authority, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with him the thousand years. 7And when the thousand years are finished, Satan will be released out of the prison of him, 8and will go out to deceive the nations those in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together for the war, of whom the number of them is as the sand of the sea. 9And they went up over the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. And fire came down from God out of the heaven and devoured them. 10And the devil, the one deceiving them, was thrown into the lake of the fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are also; and they will be tormented day and night into the ages of the ages. 11And I saw a great white throne and the one sitting on it, of whom from the face the earth and the heaven fled away, and no place was found for them. 12And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged out of the things written in the books, according to their works. 13And the sea gave up the dead those in it, and the death and the hades gave up the dead those in them; and they were judged, each one according to their works. 14And the death and the hades were thrown into the lake of the fire. This is the death the second, the lake of the fire. 15And if anyone was not found written in the book of the life, he was thrown into the lake of the fire.
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