Revelation 20:10; And the Devil That Deceived Them

Revelation 20:10 (KJV)  And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever. 

Satan meets his final perdition. He was imprisoned in the bottomless pitbefore; but his is now “cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where also the Beast and the False Prophet are.”

When the Saviour was on earth, He discoursed to His disciples about an “everlasting fire, prepared for the Devil and his angels (Matthew 25:41).

This is it; and this is the time when he for whom it is prepared first feels those terrible flames.

Thus ends the last rebellion ever seen upon this planet, the last sin, and the last deaths, that ever occur in this dwelling-place of man.

[Joseph A. Seiss, The Apocalypse – An Exposition of the Book of Revelation, Kregel, 1987, 478]

This judgment, which occurs after the millennium and the final disposition of Satan and the present heavens and earth will be most solemn and awful ever witnessed. The eternal Judge is to settle all accounts. Having dealt with Satan, the god of the world, Christ now prepares to deal with the sinners of the world.

At last the end of the world is reached, for creation less from the face of the One sitting upon the throne. There are those who refer to this as a general judgment, but Revelation knows no “general” judgment. Any judgment in this book is particular and specific. All men of all ages of earth’s history, whether good or bad, are not to gather at this great scene. It is only for “the dead” just as the judgment seat of Christ is only for believers.

Revelation 20:11-12 (KJV)  And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. 

John’s vision is in two parts,mindicated by the repeated phrase “I saw”:

The Judge: “And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it” (Revelation 20:11).

The judged: “And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God” (Revelation 20:12).

[Herbert Lockyer, Revelation – Drama of the Ages, Whitker House, 2012, 300-301]