“And I saw a messenger coming down out of Heaven, having the key of the abyss, and a great chain over his hand,”— Revelation 20:1 (LSV)
1And I saw a messenger coming down out of Heaven, having the key of the abyss, and a great chain over his hand,
2and he laid hold on the dragon, the ancient serpent, who is [the] Devil and Satan, and bound him one thousand years,
3and he cast him into the abyss, and shut him up, and put a seal on him, that he may no longer lead the nations astray, until the one thousand years may be completed; and after these it is necessary for him to be loosed a short time.
4And I saw thrones, and they [that] sat on them, and judgment was given to them, and the souls of those who have been beheaded because of the testimony of Jesus, and because of the word of God, and who did not worship the beast, nor his image, and did not receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand, and they lived and reigned with the Christ one thousand years;