Revelation 20:7-11 “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. (9) They went up on the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. And fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them. (10) The devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are. And they will be tormented day and night forever and ever. (11) Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. And there was found no place for them.”
On the day of judgement, when all of God’s creation will stand before His throne to be judged, there will be three individuals that will not be present. Those three are the beast (anti-Christ), the false prophet and Satan. The reason that those three individuals will not be present is because all three of them would have already been judged. And as revealed in the above passage of scripture, all three of them would have already been cast into the lake of fire and brimstone for all eternity. And so, we see that the beast and the false prophet will be the first two individuals cast into that lake, and Satan will be the third, when he is cast into the lake of fire one thousand years later.
Michael E.B. Maher
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