Revelation 20:1
And I saw an angel descending from the heaven, having the key of the abyss, and a great chain in his hand.
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Luke 8:31And they besought him that he would not command them to go away into the bottomless pit.
Jude 1:6And angels who had not kept their own original state, but had abandoned their own dwelling, he keeps in eternal chains under gloomy darkness, to [the] judgment of [the] great day;
Revelation 9:1And the fifth angel sounded [his] trumpet: and I saw a star out of the heaven fallen to the earth; and there was given to it the key of the pit of the abyss.
Revelation 18:1After these things I saw another angel descending out of the heaven, having great authority: and the earth was lightened with his glory.
Matthew Henry on Revelation 20:1
This chapter is thought by some to be the darkest part of all this prophecy: it is very probable that the things contained in it are not yet accomplished; and therefore it is the wiser way to content ourselves with general observations, rather than to be positive and particular in our explications of it. Here we have an account, I. Of the binding of Satan for a thousand years, ver. 1-3 . II. The reign of the saints with Christ for the same time, ver. 4-6 . III. Of the loosing of Satan, and the conflict of the… Read the whole commentary →