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Please explain "The angel with a key " and how Satan is bound in Revelation 20.
Rev. 20:1 “Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. 2He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years; “ What we ideally need to understand here is what Satan’s main work seems to be. 1 Pet. 5:8 “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.†Rev. 12: 9 “So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.†Satan, the adversary, clearly has one aim and task, and that is to be a stumbling block for anyone who would like to follow their Saviour and to join them: Matt. 25: 41 “Then He will also say to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels:†The angel arrives with key and chain and it is at the start of the millennium and what starts the 1000 years? 1 Thess. 4:16 “For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. 17Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. 18Therefore comfort one another with these words.†The second coming of Jesus starts this millennial Sabbath in heaven and important to understand that when Jesus returns there are 4 groups of people on earth: Righteous living meeting Him in the air Righteous dead who hears His voice and is resurrected and joins group 1 to meet Him. Unrighteous living is killed by His glory. Unrighteous dead remains in their graves to await the end of the 1000 years to receive their reward for rejecting the Saviour. Before creation we had: Gen. 1:2 “The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.†Before the millennium we have: Jer. 4:23 “I beheld the earth, and indeed it was without form and void; And the heavens, they had no light. 24 I beheld the mountains, and indeed they trembled, And all the hills moved back and forth. 25 I beheld, and indeed there was no man, And all the birds of the heavens had fled. 26 I beheld, and indeed the fruitful land was a wilderness, And all its cities were broken down At the presence of the LORD, By His fierce anger. During the millennium Satan is relieved of his duties as he is on earth with the third of the angels who rebelled with him but as stated above: there was no man and therefore nobody to deceive. He now has a thousand years on earth that functions as a bottomless pit from which he is not able to escape and as his work as deceiver lacks people to deceive he is bound by circumstances and that the angel with key and chain were only symbols of what was going to be his circumstances! This ends when Jesus comes back a third time with His people and the New Jerusalem and now His reward for Satan and his followers is also with Him. Rev. 20:3 “and he cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal on him so that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years were finished. But after these things he must be released for a little while. 4 And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. 5 But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. 6 Blessed and holy is he who has a part in the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ and shall reign with Him a thousand years. 7 Now when the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison 8 and will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, whose number is as the sand of the sea. The moment Satan’s circumstances change after the 1000 years he is up to his old tricks and he starts to deceive the nations as Gog and Magog as his chain of circumstances is broken.