Chapter Forty/Crushing the Serpent's Head - Satan Abyssed - Conclusion

 What happens to the demons? They too have been "reserved for judgment." (2 Petre 2:4) Satan is called "Beelzebub the ruler of the demons." (Luke11:15, 18; Matthew 10:25) In view of their longtime collaboration with Satan, should not the same judgment be meted out to them? The abyss has been an object of fear to those demons, on one occasion when Jesus confronted them, they "kept intreating him not order them to go away into the abyss." (Luke 8:31) But when Satan is abyssed, his angels will surely be hurled into the abyss with him. (Compare Isaiah 24:21, 22) After the abyssing of Satan and his demons, The Thousand-Year Reign of Jesus Christ can begin.

Will Satan and his demons be active while in the abyss? Well, remember the scarlet-colored wild beast that "was, but is not, and yet is about to ascend out of the abyss." (Revelation 17:8) While in the abyss, it 'was not.' It was non-functioning, immobilized, to all intents and purpose dead. Likewise, speaking of Jesus, the apostle Paul said: "Who will descend into the abyss." (Romans 10:7) While in that abyss, Jesus was dead." It is reasonable to conclude, then, that Satan and his demons will be in a state of deathlike inactivity for the thousand years of their abyssing. What good tidings for lovers of righteousness. 

Next time: Chapter Forty/Crushing the Serpent's Head - Judges for a Thousand Years

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