“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.”
Revelation 20:3 KJV
He then hurled him into the bottomless abyss, shut him up and set a seal upon him, and thus made it impossible for him to continue to deceive the nations for the complete duration of the symbolic thousand years; he would then be let loose on the earth for a very brief moment. The defeat of the diabolical deception is a sealed deal. The complete contrast of Jesus’s resurrection is pictured here - Jesus’s tomb was secured with a large rock, then sealed and guarded by Roman soldiers; yet Jesus rose and came back with the keys of death and Hades, the stone was rolled away and He stepped out the Victor, leading mankind out as His trophies! Jesus’s descent into hell, to mankind’s deepest pits of despair, and then His resurrection when He co-raised the entire human race into a place of joint-reigning with Him, placing every enemy under His feet, is the clearest announcement! Glory to God!
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