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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Revelation 20 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/revelation/20.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/revelation/20-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</a> > Revelation 20</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../revelation/19.htm" title="Revelation 19">◄</a> Revelation 20 <a href="../revelation/21.htm" title="Revelation 21">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s">The Thousand Years</h3><p class="par"><span class="v66_20_1"><span class="reftext" id="Rev.20.1" class="v66_20_1">1</span>Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key of the abyss and a heavy chain. </span><span class="v66_20_2"><span class="reftext" id="Rev.20.2" class="v66_20_2">2</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Rev.20.2!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent—that is, the Devil, or Satan—and chained him up for a thousand years. </span><span class="v66_20_3"><span class="reftext" id="Rev.20.3" class="v66_20_3">3</span>The angel threw him into the abyss, locked it, and sealed it, so that he could not deceive the nations any more until the thousand years were over. After that he must be set loose for a little while.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v66_20_4"><span class="reftext" id="Rev.20.4" class="v66_20_4">4</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Rev.20.4!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Then I saw thrones, and those who sat on them were given the power to judge. I also saw the souls of those who had been executed because they had proclaimed the truth that Jesus revealed and the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or its image, nor had they received the mark of the beast on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and ruled as kings with Christ for a thousand years. </span><span class="v66_20_5"><span class="reftext" id="Rev.20.5" class="v66_20_5">5</span>(The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were over.) This is the first raising of the dead. </span><span class="v66_20_6"><span class="reftext" id="Rev.20.6" class="v66_20_6">6</span>Happy and greatly blessed are those who are included in this first raising of the dead. The second death has no power over them; they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and they will rule with him for a thousand years.</span></p><h3 class="s">The Defeat of Satan</h3><p class="par"><span class="v66_20_7"><span class="reftext" id="Rev.20.7" class="v66_20_7">7</span>After the thousand years are over, Satan will be set loose from his prison, </span><span class="v66_20_8"><span class="reftext" id="Rev.20.8" class="v66_20_8">8</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Rev.20.8!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> and he will go out to deceive the nations scattered over the whole world, that is, Gog and Magog. Satan will bring them all together for battle, as many as the grains of sand on the seashore. </span><span class="v66_20_9"><span class="reftext" id="Rev.20.9" class="v66_20_9">9</span>They spread out over the earth and surrounded the camp of God's people and the city that he loves. But fire came down from heaven and destroyed them. </span><span class="v66_20_10"><span class="reftext" id="Rev.20.10" class="v66_20_10">10</span>Then the Devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had already been thrown; and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.</span></p><h3 class="s">The Final Judgment</h3><p class="par"><span class="v66_20_11"><span class="reftext" id="Rev.20.11" class="v66_20_11">11</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Rev.20.11!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Then I saw a great white throne and the one who sits on it. Earth and heaven fled from his presence and were seen no more. </span><span class="v66_20_12"><span class="reftext" id="Rev.20.12" class="v66_20_12">12</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Rev.20.12!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> And I saw the dead, great and small alike, standing before the throne. Books were opened, and then another book was opened, the book of the living. The dead were judged according to what they had done, as recorded in the books. </span><span class="v66_20_13"><span class="reftext" id="Rev.20.13" class="v66_20_13">13</span>Then the sea gave up its dead. Death and the world of the dead also gave up the dead they held. And all were judged according to what they had done. </span><span class="v66_20_14"><span class="reftext" id="Rev.20.14" class="v66_20_14">14</span>Then death and the world of the dead were thrown into the lake of fire. (This lake of fire is the second death.) </span><span class="v66_20_15"><span class="reftext" id="Rev.20.15" class="v66_20_15">15</span>Those who did not have their name written in the book of the living were thrown into the lake of fire.</span></p></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. All rights reserved.</span></p> <p class="yiv9003199930MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Bible text from the Good News Translation (GNT) is not to be reproduced in copies or otherwise by any means except as permitted in writing by American Bible Society, 101 North Independence Mall East, Floor 8, Philadelphia, PA 19106-2155 (<a href="http://www.americanbible.org">www.americanbible.org</a>). Learn more at <a href="http://www.gnt.bible">www.gnt.bible</a> . 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