"The judgment, by the saints of Satan and his angels and of wicked men being accomplished, it appears that, just before the thousand years expire, the holy city, with its immortal inhabitants, descends upon our earth, upon a place prepared for it. (Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives...Zech.14:4,5).
---At the termination of the 1,000 years all the wicked dead hear the voice of the Son of God and come forth (John 5:28, 29); the unjust have their resurrection (Acts 24:15); “The rest of the dead” live again (Rev.20:5).
---They come forth from the depths of the ocean and from the caverns of earth; for the sea gives up the dead, and hades gives them also. And they come forth alive, for death itself gives them up. Rev.20:13.
---And now Satan is loosed for his final work.
---He begins it just where he left off. He had gathered the nations to the great battle, when he was bound and they were cut off. Revelation 19.
---Now, after they have been “many days” in the “prison,” the time comes for Satan to visit them as they are loosed from it for their execution. Isa.24:21,22; Eze.38:8,9.
---He resumes his work by inciting them to capture the city of God. Rev.20:7-9.
And thus, by the direct action of Satan,
all the wicked,
with himself and his angels at their head,
stand in the presence of Christ,
for the execution of the judgment."
J.N. Andrews
