"The angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in
everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day."
Jude 6.
"The earth looked like a desolate wilderness. Cities and villages, shaken down by the earthquake,
lay in heaps. Mountains had been moved out of their places, leaving large caverns. Ragged
rocks, thrown out by the sea, or torn out of the earth itself, were scattered all over its surface.
Large trees had been uprooted and were strewn over the land. Here is to be the home of Satan
with his evil angels for a thousand years.
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Here he will be confined, to wander up and down over the broken surface of the earth and see the
effects of his rebellion against God's law. For a thousand years he can enjoy the fruit of the curse
which he has caused. Limited alone to the earth, he will not have the privilege of ranging to other
planets, to tempt and annoy those who have not fallen. During this time, Satan suffers extremely.
Since his fall his evil traits have been in constant exercise. But he is then to be deprived of his
power, and left to reflect upon the part which he has acted since his fall, and to look forward with
trembling and terror to the dreadful future, when he must suffer for all the evil that he has done
and be punished for all the sins that he has caused to be committed.
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I heard shouts of triumph from the angels and from the redeemed saints, which sounded like ten
thousand musical instruments, because they were to be no more annoyed and tempted by Satan
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and because the inhabitants of other worlds were delivered from his presence and his
temptations.
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To God's people the captivity of Satan will bring gladness and rejoicing. Says the prophet: "It
shall come to pass in the day that Jehovah shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy
trouble, and from the hard service wherein thou wast made to serve, that thou shalt take up this
parable against the king of Babylon [here representing Satan], and say, How hath the oppressor
ceased! . . . Jehovah hath broken the staff of the wicked, the sceptre of the rulers; that smote the
peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, that ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that
none restrained." Verses 3-6, R.V.
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