Revelation 20:1-3,1 And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,3 And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.
7 Now when the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison 8 and will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, whose number is as the sand of the sea.
This morning I want to remind us how powerful Satan is. He is not to be taken lightly in our lives. Satan is a deceiver and he is the master of it.
Lets take a look at what is going on.
I. In verse 7, Satan is bound for 1000 years.
A. The bound, nothing can get out. Look at verse 3.
B. Satan can’t temp anyone from within the bottomless pit.
C. Peace on earth for 1000 years.
D. Technically we can only be temped two ways.
1. One is Satan, this is from without.
2. The other is from with in. Our old nature which is changing if one is saved.
II. Than Satan is released after 1000 years.
A. Satan goes out temping people again.
1. Remember, these people have not been temped for 1000 years.
B. People have been born who have never been temped by Satan.
1. They will fall to his influence.
III. As the sand are of the Sea, that is how many people will turn from Christ and serve Satan.
A. There is no way anyone can number how many people that will be. But it will be a lot.
B. These people lived 1000 years in perfect Pease, which the earth has never experienced.
C. This shows us two things, Satan is powerful and how wicked our hearts are.
1. Jeremiah 17:9,9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
2. I thank God that through Jesus Christ that can change.
D. This is how powerful Satan is.
1. We take it for granted whom Satan is and what he can do.
E. People here are just not deceived, they are going out to battle for Satan.
1. This will show that a lot of people will be submissive to Christ, but never get saved during the 1000-year reign of Christ.
2. That is what is happening today.
a) People go to church, some every Saturday and will never get saved.
b) They have the outward appearance of a Christians, but no change take place inside.
Conclusion: I hope this gets you thinking today that we need the power of Christ each and every moment of every day. Than we can battle against Satan through the help of Christ doing the a work in us.
Please don’t take Satan for-granted.
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