What happens when Satan is released at the end of the thousand years?
Satan is released from his abyssal binding and again causes the nations to follow him and reject the sovereignty of the King and of God. This release precedes his final setting away, which cannot occur until the thousand years are finished.
Les explains that old Satan is still alive, merely bound up in an abyss of some kind and held there under spiritual chains until the thousand years has run its course. According to God's own sovereign way of doing things, Satan will once again be released and will once again cause the nations to follow him and reject the sovereignty of the King and of God. This is why Paul was led by the Spirit to write that He must reign until He has put all enemies under His feet. From the onset of His rule and reign in the thousand years, He is absolute King of Kings and Lord of Lords, and there will be nothing of Satanic power to oppose Him. But Satan is still alive; he has not been put away forever, so this final setting away of Satan cannot take place until the thousand years have finished. Les points to Revelation chapter 20, beginning in verse 7, as the Scripture that teaches this, at the end of the thousand years when He has been ruling and reigning in complete power and control.
And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
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How will Satan deceive the nations after he is released at the end of the thousand-year reign?
This same lie carries all the way through human history, and after the thousand-year reign Satan will be released from the pit and use the same lie — offering to make people 'like God' — to deceive the nations en masse.