Open English Translation REV Chapter 20

20 Then I saw a messenger coming down from heaven holding the key to the pit as well as a heavy chain 2 and he seized the dinosaur, that ancient snake, who is the devil and Satan, and chained him up for a thousand years.[ref] 3 The messenger threw him into the pit and shut it and sealed it over him so that he wouldn’t deceive the nations anymore until the thousand years were ended. After that, it will be necessary for him to be released for a short time.

4 I saw thrones with people sitting on them and they were given the responsibility of judging both the souls of the ones who’d been beheaded for believing Yeshua’s and God’s message, and those who didn’t worship the animal or his image and didn’t receive the mark on their hand or forehead. And they lived and reigned with the messiah for a thousand years.[ref] 5 The rest of the dead didn’t come back to life until the thousand years were up. That’s the first resurrection. 6 Those who have a part in that first resurrection will be blessed and (considered?) holy. The second death has no power over them—they’ll be priests of God and of the messiah and they’ll reign with him for a thousand years.

7 At the end of the thousand years, Satan will be released from his prison, 8 and he’ll go out to deceive the nations right around the earth—Gog and Magog—to gather them together to battle. They’ll be too many to count like the sand on the beach.[ref] 9 They’ll cover the whole world and surround the camp of the believers and the beloved city, but fire will come down from heaven and burn them up. 10 Then the devil who’d deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the animal and the false prophet were, and they’ll be tormented day and night throughout the ages.

11 Then I saw a large white throne with someone sitting on it. Earth and sky fled from his presence but they couldn’t find where to go.[ref] 12 Then I saw the dead—both prominent people and the lowly—standing before the throne, and some books were opened and then another book was opened—the book of life. Then the dead were judged from the things written in the books according to what they’d done. 13 The sea gave up the dead in it, and ‘death’ and Hades gave up the dead in them, and then every one of them was judged according to what they’d done. 14 Then ‘death’ and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. That’s the second death—the lake of fire, 15 and anyone whose name couldn’t be found in the book of life was thrown into that lake of fire.