Revelation 20:2 WEB

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Revelation 20:1-15

The Thousand Years' Reign of Christ Revelation 20:4 I. First we shall show that the literal interpretation of the passage before us is altogether wrong and untenable. (1) The first proof of this is a very obvious one. We are dealing with a symbolic book. From the glorious description of the Saviour in the first chapter to the last picture of the Holy Jerusalem the book is one great series of panoramic displays of symbolic pictures. It is not intended to narrate literal events, whether... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Revelation 20:1-15

CHAPTER XVI.JUDGMENT OF SATAN AND OF THE WICKED.Revelation 20:1-15.IN now approaching chap. 20, with its yet unsolved difficulties of interpretation, it is of essential importance to observe, in the first place, the relation of the chapter to what immediately precedes. The Seer is not entering upon an entirely new subject. He distinctly continues, on the contrary, the prosecution of a theme he had before begun. In the previous portion of his book three great enemies of the saints of God had... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Revelation 20:1-6

CHAPTERS 19-20:6 The Manifestation of the King and the Millennium 1. Heavenly hallelujahs and the marriage of the Lamb (Revelation 19:1-6 ) 2. Heaven opened and His visible manifestation (Revelation 19:11-16 ) 3. The battle of Armageddon (Revelation 19:17-21 ) 4. The binding of Satan (Revelation 20:1-3 ) 5. The thousand-year reign (Revelation 20:4-6 ) Revelation 19:1-10 . Once more we find the significant phrase “after these things” (Revelation 4:1 ; Revelation 7:1 ; Revelation 18:1 ).... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Revelation 20:2

20:2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him {3} a thousand years,(3) The first of which (continuing this history with the end of the second chapter) in the 36 years from the passion of Christ, when the Church of the Jews being overthrown, Satan attempted to invade the Christian church gathered from the Gentiles, and to destroy part of her seed, Revelation 12:17 . The thousandth year falls precisely on the times of that wicked Hildebrand,... read more

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 20:1-15

Satan Bound for 1000 years Though the Beast and the False Prophet have been (inRevelation 19:1-21; Revelation 19:1-21) consigned to the Lake of Fire, the wicked spirit Satan who influenced them is not immediately sent there. Rather an angel (not the Lord) is delegated to take Satan captive and to secure him in the pit of "the abyss" for the specified time of one thousand years (vv. 1-3). A seal is set upon him: there is no possibility of escape. The object of this limited imprisonment is that... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Revelation 20:1-15

THE SEVEN DOOMS CONTINUED Continuing the last lesson we begin this with what we have come to recognize as the Parenthesis (Revelation 19:1-10 ), and which in this case is composed simply of four “alleluiahs.” Two are retrospective and refer to the fall of Babylon, and two are prospective, touching on the marriage supper of the lamb and the inauguration of the kingdom. The Lamb’s wife (Revelation 19:7 ) is the bride (Revelation 21:9 ) or the church, identified with the “heavenly Jerusalem”... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Revelation 20:1-3

(1) And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. (2) And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, (3) 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. We have here the judgment of Satan, and his... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Revelation 20:2

And bound him for a thousand years. I shall give the reader an abridgment of what St. Augustine has left us on this chapter, in this 20th book de Civ. Dei [The City of God]. From the 5th to the 16th chap. (t. vii. p. 578, et seq.) he treats upon these difficulties: What is meant by the first and second resurrection; by the binding and chaining up of the devil; by the thousand years that the saints reign with Christ; by the first and second death; by Gog and Magog, &c. As to the first... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 20:1-3

1-3 Here is a vision, showing by a figure the restraints laid on Satan himself. Christ, with Almighty power, will keep the devil from deceiving mankind as he has hitherto done. He never wants power and instruments to break the power of Satan. Christ shuts by his power, and seals by his authority. The church shall have a time of peace and prosperity, but all her trials are not yet over. read more

Frank Binford Hole

F. B. Hole's Old and New Testament Commentary - Revelation 20:1-99

Revelation 20 IT IS REMARKABLE that while our Lord will deal personally with men, it is an angel, a spirit being, who will deal with the great spirit being, who is the originator of all the evil. He is described in a fourfold way so as to identify him without a doubt. As Satan he is the adversary. As the devil he is the accuser. He is the old serpent of the opening book of the Bible, and the dragon of the closing book. All through the ages his aim has been to “deceive the nations,” as Rev_20:3... read more