Our FINAL churchwide Bible study on Revelation will be Wednesday, 3/22, 6:30 PM. Bring a friend!

REVELATION 20:1-3

Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain. 2 And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, 3 and threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he might not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be released for a little while.

Evil has finally been defeated! Now, it’s just the cleaning up and the sorting out that needs to occur— the "scouring," to paraphase Tolkien. The source of evil—the devil—is thrown into the abyss until it’s his time to be judged. It’s like he’s being kept in a holding cell, awaiting trial!

Let me say again: don’t despair—evil loses in the end.