The "jailing" of Satan is described in these words.
Revelation
20:1-3
1 Then I saw an angel
coming down from heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit and a
great chain in his hand.
2 He laid hold of the
dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him
for a thousand years;
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. (NKJ)
When Satan is released,
at the end of the 1000 years, there will be one final battle, between
evil and good. Evil will be destroyed forever and all those that have
been judged evil will be cast into the lake of fire, forever separated
from God, eternally.
True peace will occur,
during the Millenium, because the restored Jewish nation will finally
be reconciled with their Creator and Savior, the Messiah, the Prince
of Peace. The evil influence of Satan and the temptations of the flesh
will be bound. The healing of the nation shall take place, in one day.
That healing will be made possible because the Messiah, the Redeemer,
the Intercessor, will have been made manifest to Israel and prophecy
will be both understood and fulfilled.
Isaiah 53:1-12
1 Who has believed
our report? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
2 For He shall grow
up before Him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He
has no form or comeliness; and when we see Him, there is no beauty that
we should desire Him.
3 He is despised and
rejected by men, a Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we
hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not
esteem Him.
4 Surely He has borne
our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed Him stricken, smitten
by God, and afflicted.
5 But He was wounded
for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement
for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.
6 All we like sheep
have gone astray; we have turned, every one, to his own way; and the
LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed
and He was afflicted, yet He opened not His mouth; He was led as a lamb
to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so He
opened not His mouth.
8 He was taken from
prison and from judgment, and who will declare His generation? For He
was cut off from the land of the living; for the transgressions of My
people He was stricken.
9 And they made His
grave with the wicked-- but with the rich at His death, because He had
done no violence, nor was any deceit in His mouth.
10 Yet it pleased the
LORD to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief. When You make His soul
an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days,
and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in His hand.
11 He shall see the
labor of His soul, and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant
shall justify many, for He shall bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore I will
divide Him a portion with the great, and He shall divide the spoil with
the strong, because He poured out His soul unto death, and He was numbered
with the transgressors, and He bore the sin of many, and made intercession
for the transgressors. (NKJ)
Read verses 10-12 very
carefully. It pleased the LORD because God knew that this was the
only sacrifice that could heal His people. The love that God has
for His chosen people could not have been expressed in a more complete
way.
Consider this. If your
son had to die, in order to cover the sins of all mankind, and in doing
so, became the redeemer of all those of faith, saved by the Grace of
God, would that be pleasing to you? It pleased God to bruise our Messiah,
His Son, because in doing so, all of His children now have a Redeemer,
a Mediator, a Counselor, One who can bring God’s children into His perfect
Presence.
Now, at the end of
the age, God has told us what a marvelous miracle He will provide. One
of the primary reasons that there will be a peaceful, wonderful millenium
is that Satan is bound. The great deceiver, the tempter, the accuser,
is bound. The other is that the nation of Israel will receive the New
Covenant. Christ will reign in the hearts of Israel’s people!
Then, following the
1000 years of peace, evil will be eternally and finally judged. New
Jerusalem will descend from the heavens and a new heaven and a new earth
will begin, without end, and all whose names are written in the Book
of Life will be there. Satan, and all of the enemies of God, will have
been removed, forever.
New Jerusalem, our
eternal heaven, will never see darkness, there will be no temple there
and no more sea. There will be a "pure" language, we will all have a
new name and we will reign eternally with the Father and the Son. Your
status there will depend upon what you did with the amount of
Light God gave you here. We will all joyfully "serve," but it appears
that we will serve in ways that differ from one another. Jesus will
be called by a new name. We will be neither young nor old nor male and
female. This will be a perfect, eternal place, without sin. Worship
and joy will prevail.
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