What happens to Satan after the thousand years are fulfilled in Revelation 20?
After the thousand years are fulfilled, Satan must be loosed for a little season. Once released, he goes out to deceive the nations located in the four quarters of the earth, from one end of the planet to the other, activating the free will of new generations born to believers.
Les explains that Revelation 20 first describes an angel binding the dragon, Satan, with a great chain and casting him into the bottomless pit. He is shut up and sealed so he can deceive the nations no more until the thousand years are fulfilled. This is the first time Scripture delineates a thousand-year period. When it ends, Satan must be loosed for a little season. Les teaches that this release is to activate the free will of new generations born of believers, and verse 8 shows him going out to deceive the nations in the four quarters of the earth, from one end of this planet to the other.
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: and after that he must be loosed a little season.
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How long is Satan bound before he is released?
Satan remains locked up until the thousand years are fulfilled, and after that he must be loosed for a little season.