Millennium · Future - end of Millennium
Satan Released
The final deception
From the teaching of Apostle Mary Banks
When the thousand years are expired, Satan is loosed out of his prison. Scripture had already said that after the thousand years he must be loosed a little season, so his release is not a defeat for God's plan but part of the order that brings history to its close.
Once freed, he returns at once to what he has always done: he deceives. He goes out to the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, and gathers them together to battle, a number as the sand of the sea. Even after a thousand years of peace under the reign of Christ, there remain those who follow the deceiver the moment he is loosed.
His release becomes the final test of the nations that lived through the Millennium. Their rebellion is short. Fire comes down from God out of heaven and devours them, and the devil that deceived them is cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are.
The scriptures
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.
And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them. And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.