Rev. 20 Rev. 20:1–3 Satan bound for a thousand years. Rev. 20:4–6 The first resurrection. Rev. 20:7–9 Satan again let loose gathereth Gog and Magog to battle, who are devoured with fire. Rev. 20:10 The devil cast into the lake of fire and brimstone. Rev.

The description of this angel can agree to none but Christ, or one that exerciseth a power by delegation from him: for, Rev. 1:18, it is he who hath the power of hell and death; and it is he who alone is stronger than the devil, which must be supposed to him that binds him, or we must think the…

There can be no question who is meant by the dragon here, and the old serpent, for the Holy Ghost interpreteth it, the devil, the enemy of mankind. And bound him: by binding also is meant the restraint of the devil in the exercise of his natural power, or the power God had before allowed him to…

And cast him into the bottomless pit; that is, into hell, his proper place: he shall no longer, or at least not till these thousand years be expired, exercise his power, as prince of the power of the air, Eph. 2:2, or compassing the earth, and walking up and down in it, as Job 1:7.

This is a very difficult text. Thrones are places of dignity and judicature; they seem here to signify only places of dignity. And they sat upon them; those mentioned afterward in this text sat upon them. And judgment was given unto them; that is, a power of judgment, 1 Cor.

By the rest of the dead, some understand all except martyrs; only that party who adhered to antichrist. Those who by the rest understand all the dead, both good and bad, (the martyrs alone excepted), judge that there will be two resurrections: the first more particular, of those that have suffered…

That is, they only are holy ones that shall be thus restored to share in the church’s happiness, and such as shall not perish eternally; but they shall be as priests to God and Christ, glorifying him with the spiritual sacrifices of prayer and praise, and shall enjoy a quiet and honourable station…

When the long time expressed under the notion of a thousand years shall be expired, God shall take off his restraint from the devil, so as he shall influence the wicked of the earth once more to make opposition to his church.

And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth; that is, the devil, being got from under the restraint of Divine Providence, shall fall upon his old work, going about to deceive men over all the world, either tempting them to idolatry, or heresy, or lewdness of…

And they went up on the breadth of the earth; that is, in all parts of it where the church of Christ was. And compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city; the church of God (typified by old Jerusalem, which was God’s beloved city) they encompassed in a military order and manner,…

After this shall be the end of the world, when the devil shall be restrained to hell, the place of torments, where he shall have all heathens, and all the rabble of antichrist, who shall be there tormented constantly and for ever and ever.

God now giveth his prophet a vision of the last day, the day of judgment. He seeth a throne, a place of judicature; said to be great, to denote its gloriousness; white, to signify Christ’s purity and holiness in his judging the world.

The former verses gave us an account of Christ, the great Judge of the quick and the dead in the last day; the Lord Jesus Christ sat upon a throne of glory, about to execute his last holy and righteous judgment. Now he describes the persons to be judged, viz. all, both small and great.

By hell is meant all places where the dead are; whosoever shall be at that day in the state of the dead; the bodies of men, whether buried in the earth or sea; and the souls of men, whether they be in the place of torments or happiness, shall all be re-united to their bodies, that they may both in…

And death and hell were cast into lake of fire; there shall be no more natural death, nor any more separate state of souls, (so αδης signifies), they shall all be swallowed up in the issue of the last judgment, where some shall go into life, some into eternal condemnation. Dr.

The book of life: See Poole on “Rev. 20:12”.