The Doctrine of Last Things: Satan’s Little Season & The Great Tribulation

The Doctrine of Last Things: Satan’s Little Season

And when the thousand years are finished, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, and shall come forth to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to the war: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.

Revelation 20:7, 8
According to Revelation 20:3, this loosing will be “for a little time.” In the historical scheme of things it comes after this present age and just prior to the earth-shaking appearance of Jesus Christ at the consummation of history. It is the climax of the millennium.

Precisely how long this season of Satan will be during which he can once again “deceive the nations” is not stated in Scripture. Other than the reference in Revelation 20:3, all that we read is,

And except those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.
Matthew 24:22

The basic Biblical material which explains the period is found in Revelation 20:7-10 and Matthew 24:14-28. The events which will take place during this time are the Great Apostasy, the Great Tribulation and the Reign of the AntiChrist.

Why is God going to release Satan after the 1,000 years?

Revelation 20:7-10, “When the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth—Gog and Magog—to gather them for battle. In number they are like the sand on the seashore. They marched across the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of God’s people, the city he loves. But fire came down from heaven and devoured them. And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.”

As we read these verses, we wonder, “Why will God release Satan at the end of the millennial reign of Jesus Christ?” First, we must admit that there are some biblical questions which we cannot answer this side of glory because God has chosen to reserve some mysteries to Himself (Deuteronomy 29:29, Romans 11:33-36). Yet, as believers, even if we cannot always understand something about God’s Word, His will, or His ways, we can be sure that He remains ever faithful, true, and trustworthy, and in light of that our job remains to obey what we do understand as quickly, fully, and well as we are able. Even if we might not be able to answer why God releases Satan, we can suggest some possible reasons and motivations, based on an understanding of the entirety of the Word of God.

At the beginning of the millennium, only believers will be alive (Revelation 19:17-21), some who live through the tribulation period, and some who come back with the Lord at His second coming. It will be a time of peace unparalleled in history (Isaiah 2:4; Micah 4:3). Jesus will be ruling on the throne of David, imposing a benevolent theocracy on all of His creation. Jesus will ensure that everyone has every need fulfilled, while not tolerating the sin so prevalent in today’s society (Psalm 2:7-12; Revelation 2:26-29; 12:5; 19:11-16). We can only imagine such a time of “heaven on earth.”

The believers who live through the tribulation will be mortal. They will live and repopulate the earth during the millennial kingdom. Without the devastation of sin taking its toll, we can imagine the population increase during the millennium will be enormous, almost incomprehensible. All those who are born during the millennium will enjoy the benefits and blessings of Christ’s reign on the earth, but they will still be born with a sin nature, and they will still have to freely repent and believe the gospel, personally choosing Christ as Savior and Lord.

Yet, at the end of the millennial reign, Satan is loosed and is able to deceive a vast multitude to follow him in one final rebellion against the Lord of glory and His saints! It seems that the further humanity gets from the end of the tribulation and the start of the millennium, the more they will “take for granted” how good they have it, and some may even harbor doubts about the goodness of God. Even though the number who rebel with Satan are said to be “as the sand of the sea” (Revelation 20:8), they may still be a minority compared to the number who do not rebel. It will still be a large number of souls who join Satan. Undoubtedly, one of the primary reasons God gives us this picture of what will happen in time is to demonstrate the deep-seated sin nature inherent in all of humanity (Jeremiah 17:9).

Additionally, God is trying to tell us something about His nature as displayed during the millennium. His grace and goodness will be on display continually. But at the end of the 1,000 years, He will have zero tolerance for rebellion. When it happens, He will show no mercy and offer no “second chances.” At that time He will be quick to judge, and the final rebellion of Satan and sinful man will be over in a flash of fire. After this, the final judgment of the dead takes place (the great white throne judgment, Revelation 20:11-15). Eternity can thus begin with every aspect of sin gone for all time.

Finally, God is trying to reinforce some very important lessons concerning Satan, especially for believers. First, that he has been and always will be the enemy of humanity. As God has fixed His love on us, Satan has for us a special hatred. Ever since Satan’s fall (Isaiah 14, Ezekiel 28), he has been the adversary of believers, and he is aptly described as the ultimate deceiver of mankind (John 8:44; 1 John 2:22). All he can give or promise man is death and destruction (John 10:10a). Satan is also shown here to be a truly defeated foe, and his ultimate doom is certain, along with the doom of all who follow him. God is trying to remind us that Satan is a created being who is powerless before Him. All this should encourage believers today to take God at His Word concerning our position in Christ with respect to the devil (Matthew 4:1-11; Luke 4:1-13; 1 Corinthians 10:13; 2 Corinthians 4:1-7; James 4:6-8; 1 John 2:15-29; 1 John 4:1-3), especially as we remember this grand truth: “…greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world” (1 John 4:4, KJV).

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The Great Apostasy

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Some brethren who hold to the post-millennial view of Christ’s return, and even some Amillenarians believe that this apostasy (the falling away of Matthew 24) has already taken place. Therefore, before we see what Scripture says about this apostasy, we must show that Scripture does teach that it will take place in the future.

Of course, there has been apostasy, or rebellion against God and His Truth all along. This, according to Jesus, would characterize this present age (Matthew 24:10-13). He said, “And many false prophets shall arise, and shall lead many astray” (v. 11). There is constant warning of this danger in the New Testament (Hebrews 6:6; 10:29; 2 Peter 2:20; 1 John 2:19; 1 Timothy 4:1; 2 Timothy 3:1-5). Already, before the days of the Son of Man on earth, apostasy and rebellion were well-known. There had been one under Antiochus Epiphanes (175 B.C.). This is discussed in the Apocrypha in 1 Maccabees 1 and 2.

In those days went there out of Israel wicked men, who persuaded many, saying, Let us go and make a covenant with the heathen that are round about us: for since we departed from them we have had much sorrow … Then certain of the people … made themselves uncircumcised, and forsook the holy covenant, and joined themselves to the heathen, and were sold to do mischief.
1:11-15

However, if we say that this apostasy will already be past when Satan is loosed, we are not paying attention to the rest of Scripture. Writing about the Day of the Lord in 2 Thessalonians 2, Paul adds “let no man beguile you in any wise: for it will not be, except the falling away come first, and the man of sin be revealed…” (v. 3). Notice that a definite event which shall precede Christ’s return is “the,” not “a,” falling away. Of course, this is related to the events of this present time, because in verse 7 we read, “For the mystery of lawlessness doth already work…” The apostasy that then shall be will be an intensification of what we are warned about right now.

What can be said about the Great Apostasy? It will be a mass departure from the Truth of God. William Hendriksen, writing on 2 Thessalonians 2:3, put it this way: “by and large, the visible Church will forsake the true faith.”

Obviously, those who defect from the true faith will not include true believers. Scripture is very clear that the elect cannot fall from God’s grace (1 Peter 1:3-9; John 10:27-29; Romans 8:37-39).

Those who do defect in that day will be those who have only done lip service to the Truth. Since this is an apostasy, a falling away, these must have been at least outwardly somehow connected with the church. Those who fall away will be grossly materialistic and apparently secure in themselves. Jesus described these in Luke 17:26-33 as being just like the people who lived in the days of Noah and Lot. However, the point of comparison is not what Jesus said these people were doing. Certainly, marriage is not evil in itself. Nor is eating or drinking. In fact, we are told to eat and drink, and to do everything else, too, to the glory of God (1 Corinthians 10:31). The point of comparison, rather, is in the fact that they were so wrapped up in what they were doing that God was not important to them. So it will be in the Great Apostasy.

The Great Tribulation

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During this period at the close of this age it will be increasingly difficult to be a Christian. Hendriksen suggests at one point that this experience of tribulation may even begin before the Gospel Age — this present age — is over.

The term “tribulation” comes from a Latin word, tribulum. A tribulum was a threshing sledge, that is, a wooden platform with iron teeth underneath. It was a farming instrument used for separating grain from chaff. Perhaps this helps understand what the tribulation will be like. Usually we think of tribulation as being persecution. Indeed, it will be that for the church. However, what is usually not emphasized is that it will be a sifting process by which those who are only nominal members of the church will be exposed for what they are. They will “fall away” or apostatize due to the pressures exerted on them because of their connection with the church.

Some, it is true, see this tribulation as an event already past. Not only do Postmillennialists take this position; even some Amillennialists see what Jesus speaks about in Matthew 24:15-28 as past.

However, a careful study of Matthew 24 exposes their error.

Verses 21, 29 and 30 are very clear: “for then shall be great tribulation, such as hath not been from the beginning of the world until now, nor ever shall be … But immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun shall be darkened … and then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven.”
The tribulation of vv. 15ff follows the preaching of the gospel to the whole world (v. 14).
It is true, of course, the persecution for the Faith has been an established fact of life for the church through the centuries. The early church was bathed in blood. The church of the Reformation witnessed death and trouble in many forms. Islam, Communism, Nazism and other movements have brought and continue to bring ungodly pressure on the church of the modern age. And we need not be surprised! Scripture warns the church of this very’ thing (1 Peter 4:12-19). Jesus said, “In this world ye shall have tribulation…” (John 16:33). That which will come at the end will be beyond anything we can possibly imagine (Daniel12:1). Dr. A. Hoekema, commenting on Matthew 24, puts it this way:

…Jesus is predicting a tribulation so great that it will surpass any similar tribulation which may have preceded it. In other words, Jesus is here looking beyond the tribulation in store for the Jews at the time of the destruction of Jerusalem to a final tribulation which will occur at the end of the age.
~The Bible and the Future, p. 150

You see, while it indeed is true that in Matthew 24 Jesus was referring to a tribulation of sorts that came first in the days of Antiochus Epiphanes (175-164 B.C.) and would be seen again in 70 A.D. when the Roman armies desecrated and destroyed the Temple and the Christians fled to Pella and the hills, His words in verse 21 indicate that these times of trouble, both past and future as far as His day was concerned, were only faint reflections of what would come at the end.

According to Revelation 20:7-10 this period of tribulation will be characterized by Satan deceiving “the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to the war…” They will encircle “the camp of the saints” but ultimately they will be destroyed. Since there is much written from time to time about Gog and Magog, perhaps we should look more closely at what they are.

The term “Gog and Magog” is another of the many references to the Old Testament in the Book of Revelation. Gog and Magog we find discussed prophetically in Ezekiel 38 and 39. Gog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal, ruled over the territory of Magog. According to Genesis 10:2, Magog, Meshech and Tubal were all tribes which descended from Japheth. Before Ezekiel’s time Meshech and Tubal were savage peoples who inhabited the mountains north of Assyria. Gradually they migrated north toward the Black Sea. They were tribes that lived, as it were, on the outer fringes of the world’s peoples.

These troublesome people who opposed and oppressed all who were around them, are used by Ezekiel as a picture of the oppressive power of the Seleucidae, especially as it was experienced under Antiochus Epiphanes. Thus, Ezekiel refers to Gog and Magog as the last great oppression of God’s people in the old dispensation.

When Gog and Magog are referred to in the Book of Revelation, they appear as the source of the last great oppression of the people of God in the new dispensation. Therefore, Gog and Magog do not have their fulfillment in some nation and leader located geographically where Gog and Magog lived in the Old Testament days. Rather, since Revelation 20 tells us that they “are in the four corners of the earth” (v. 8), Gog and Magog are the oppressors of believers throughout the entire earth.

Already their oppression is seen in humanism, the countless other -isms of the day, the cults, etc.

This Great Tribulation will come to a head in the Antichrist. It will be short (Matthew 24:22; Revelation 20:3) and it will culminate in what the Bible picturesquely calls the Battle of Armageddon.

~Excerpt, Source: The Outlook, 1984. 5 pages.

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Turn with me to Matthew 24. The verse we will be looking at here in Matthew 24 is the chief cornerstone in the preterists’ defense of their view. Here in this chapter, Jesus talks about the signs that will take place in the days leading up to His Second Coming to the Earth. He mentions, if you’ll notice…

…in v. 15, the “Abomination of Desolation” (that time when the Antichrist will set himself up in the temple of God and declare himself to be God, 2 Thess. 2)

…in v. 21, He mentions the time of the “great tribulation such as has not occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever shall.”

…in v. 29, He mentions the sun and moon being darkened and that “the stars will fall from the sky.”

…and then in v. 30, He mentions “the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky.”

MATTHEW 24:34

And then notice v. 34. This is the most popular proof text preterists point to. Notice what Jesus says…

Matthew 24:34
“Assuredly, I say to you, this generation will by no means pass away till all these things take place.”

The key to understanding this verse (Matthew 24:34) is found by backing up a verse. Notice verse 33. Jesus said…

Matthew 24:33-34
33 “Even so you too, when you see these things, recognize that He is near, right at the door. 34 Truly I say to you, this generation [What generation? the generation who, in v. 33, sees “all” those things] will not pass away until all these things take place.”

So, Jesus says “when you see all these things” (v. 33).

What things?

• The “Abomination of Desolation” (v.15)
• The time of “great tribulation” (v. 21) “such as has not occurred since the beginning of the world until now nor ever shall.”
• The stars falling from the skies (v. 29)

That generation (the Tribulation generation) will not pass away without also seeing the coming of the Son of Man to the Earth (mentioned in v. 30).

Jesus was talking about the generation of people who would be alive during the events leading up to His Second Coming, that is, during the time of tribulation.

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