1Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven. He had the key of the bottomless pit, and a great chain in his hand.
2He took hold of the dragon, that old serpent, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.
3He threw him into the bottomless pit, and shut him in, and set a seal on him. So he could not deceive the nations any more, until the thousand years were finished. After that he must be set free for a little while.
4And I saw thrones, and people sat on them, and they were given power to judge. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness about Jesus and for the word of God. They had not worshipped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. They lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
5But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
6Blessed and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection. The second death has no power over such people. They will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with him a thousand years.
7When the thousand years are over, Satan will be set free out of his prison.
8He will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together for battle. They are as many as the sand of the sea.
9They came up over the wide earth, and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. Then fire came down from God out of heaven and burned them up.
10And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
11Then I saw a great white throne, and the one who sat on it. The earth and the heaven fled away from his face, and no place was found for them.
12And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God. The books were opened, and another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged by the things written in the books, according to what they had done.
13The sea gave up the dead that were in it. Death and hell gave up the dead that were in them. And each one was judged according to what he had done.
14Then death and hell were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
15And anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.