OPENBARING 20

Die Satan duisend jaar gebind. Die gelowiges heers saam met Christus.

1 EN ek het ’n engel uit die hemel sien neerdaal, tmet die sleutel van die afgrond en ’n groot ketting in sy hand.

2 En hy het tdie draak gegryp — tdie ou slang wat die duiwel en die Satan is — en hy thet hom gebind duisend jaar lank,

3 en hom in die afgrond gewerp en hom toegesluit en tdit bo hom verseël, sodat hy die nasies nie meer sou verlei totdat die duisend jaar voleindig is nie. Daarna moet hy dan ’n kort tydjie ontbind word.

4 En ek het ttrone gesien, en hulle het daarop gaan sit, en taan hulle is die oordeel gegee; en ek het tdie siele gesien van die wat onthoof is oor die getuienis van Jesus en oor die woord van God, en die twat die dier en tsy beeld nie aanbid het nie, en tdie merk op hulle voorhoof en op hulle hand nie ontvang het nie; en hulle het geleef en tas konings geregeer saam met Christus die duisend jaar lank.

5 En die ander dode het nie herlewe totdat die duisend jaar voleindig was nie. Dit is tdie eerste opstanding.

6 Salig en heilig is hy wat deel het aan die eerste opstanding; oor hulle het tdie tweede dood geen mag nie, maar hulle tsal priesters van God en van Christus wees en sal saam met Hom Dan. 7:18; II Tim. 2:12as konings regeer duisend jaar lank.

Die Satan word losgemaak en vir altyd oorwin.

7 EN wanneer die duisend jaar voleindig is, sal die Satan tuit sy gevangenis ontbind word;

8 en hy sal uitgaan om die nasies te verlei wat in die vier hoeke van die aarde is, tdie Gog en die Magog, tom hulle te versamel vir die oorlog; en hulle getal is soos die sand van die see.

9 En thulle het opgekom oor die breedte van die aarde en die laer van die heiliges en tdie geliefde stad omsingel, en tvuur het van God uit die hemel neergedaal en hulle verslind.

10 En die duiwel wat hulle verlei het, tis in die poel van vuur en swawel gewerp waar die dier en die valse profeet is; en hulle sal dag en nag gepynig word tot in alle ewigheid.

Die laaste oordeel.

11 EN ek het ’n groot wit troon gesien en Hom wat daarop sit, voor wie se aangesig tdie aarde en die hemel weggevlug het; en tdaar is geen plek vir hulle gevind nie.

12 En ek het die dode, klein en groot, voor God sien staan, en tdie boeke is geopen; en ’n ander boek, tdie boek van die lewe, is geopen. En die dode is geoordeel na wat in die boeke geskryf is, tvolgens hulle werke.

13 En die see het die dode gegee wat daarin was, en tdie dood en die doderyk het die dode gegee wat daarin was; en hulle is geoordeel, elkeen volgens sy werke.

14 En tdie dood en die doderyk is in die poel van vuur gewerp. Dit is tdie tweede dood.
15 En as dit bevind is dat iemand nie opgeskryf was in die boek van die lewe nie, is hy in die poel van vuur gewerp.

Revelation 20

1  THEN I saw an angel descending from heaven; he was holding the key of the Abyss (the bottomless pit) and a great chain was in his hand.2  And he gripped and overpowered the dragon, that old serpent [of primeval times], who is the devil and Satan, and [securely] bound him for a thousand years.3  Then he hurled him into the Abyss (the bottomless pit) and closed it and sealed it above him, so that he should no longer lead astray and deceive and seduce the nations until the thousand years were at an end. After that he must be liberated for a short time.4  Then I saw thrones, and sitting on them were those to whom authority to act as judges and to pass sentence was entrusted. Also I saw the souls of those who had been slain with axes [beheaded] for their witnessing to Jesus and [for preaching and testifying] for the Word of God, and who had refused to pay homage to the beast or his statue and had not accepted his mark or permitted it to be stamped on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived again and ruled with Christ (the Messiah) a thousand years. 5  The remainder of the dead were not restored to life again until the thousand years were completed. This is the first resurrection.6  Blessed (happy, to be envied) and holy (spiritually whole, of unimpaired innocence and proved virtue) is the person who takes part (shares) in the first resurrection! Over them the second death exerts no power or authority, but they shall be ministers of God and of Christ (the Messiah), and they shall rule along with Him a thousand years.7  And when the thousand years are completed, Satan will be released from his place of confinement,8  And he will go forth to deceive and seduce and lead astray the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth--Gog and Magog--to muster them for war; their number is like the sand of the sea. 9  And they swarmed up over the broad plain of the earth and encircled the fortress (camp) of God’s people (the saints) and the beloved city; but fire descended from heaven and consumed them. [II Kings 1:10-12; Ezek. 38:2, 22.]10  Then the devil who had led them astray [deceiving and seducing them] was hurled into the fiery lake of burning brimstone, where the beast and false prophet were; and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever (through the ages of the ages).11  Then I saw a great white throne and the One Who was seated upon it, from Whose presence and from the sight of Whose face earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for them.12  I [also] saw the dead, great and small; they stood before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is [the Book] of Life. And the dead were judged (sentenced) by what they had done [their whole way of feeling and acting, their aims and endeavors] in accordance with what was recorded in the books.13  And the sea delivered up the dead who were in it, death and Hades (the state of death or disembodied existence) surrendered the dead in them, and all were tried and their cases determined by what they had done [according to their motives, aims, and works].14  Then death and Hades (the state of death or disembodied existence) were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.15  And if anyone’s [name] was not found recorded in the Book of Life, he was hurled into the lake of fire.