Revelation 20:1
Then I saw an angel coming down from Heaven, with the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
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Luke 8:31and the demons begged Jesus not to order them away into the bottomless pit.
Jude 1:6and that even those angels, who did not keep to their appointed spheres, but left their proper homes, have been kept by him for the judgment of the Great Day in everlasting chains and black darkness.
Revelation 9:1Then the fifth angel blew; and I saw a Star that had fallen upon the earth from the heavens, and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.
Revelation 18:1After this I saw another angel, descending from Heaven, invested with great authority; and the earth was illuminated by his splendour.
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 →