The Millennial Reign Of Christ, Parts 1 & 2 Series

Satan is powerful, but he is not all-powerful. All it takes is one angel to bind him and lock him into the abyss (Tsarfati). The angel takes Satan, binds him in chains and throws him in the abyss for 1000 years. Some ask what is the abyss. 2 Peter 2:4 describes it “For if God did not spare angels who sinned, but cast them into the pit and delivered them to chains of darkness, being kept for judgment;” It is a place reserved for judgement for the demons, unclean spirits, and demons. It is not the final lake of fire, but rather a holding place that was made for all the fallen angels and those who reject God’s grace through the cross.

Luke 8:31 “And they were pleading with Him not to command them to go away into the abyss.” Gives reference to this place and it is clearly a separate place from the eternal suffering

“Then He will also say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, accursed ones, into the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels; (Matthew 25:41 LSB)

We know that when the angels binds and throws Satan into the abyss, the Angel has a key and it is sealed. Look at the result of this in verse 3: Revelation 20:3 “3 and he threw him into the abyss, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he would not deceive the nations any longer.

With Satan gone there will no more satanic deception. The nations and the people no longer be under Satanic rule. There will, continue to be see in the unregenerate and those who are not resurrected from the corruption of sin.

The only ones left here on earth will be God and man - those who have been resurrected and those who are still in corruptible flesh (Tsarfati). “There will be no satanic enterprise, there will be no satanic ideologies, no satanic philosophies, no demonic theories of anything. There will be no satanic theories of morality. There will be no satanic theories of justice. There will be no satanic theories of social behavior, social life. There will be no satanic maxims, opinions, ideologies of any kind existent anywhere on the globe. The whole demonic world is incarcerated along with their leader, and Jesus Christ sets the agenda for all of the world.” (MacArthur).

We also know that this is a temporary arrangement. Verse 3 also tells us that Satan must be released for a short time. These leaves the question why the Millennial Kingdom? Why not just throw Satan into the fires of hell for eternity immediately?

Why the Millennium?

Verse 4 gives us the first answer. Revelation 20:4 “4 Then 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 their witness of Jesus and because of the word of God, and who also had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand. And they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.” The first reason for the Millennium is so that God can reward the faithful saints of the Old and New Covenant. Additionally, the bible says that all believer from every age will reign with Christ during this time (Hitchcock).