Question
At the end of the LORD’S 1000-year earthly Kingdom reign, why must Satan be loosed for a little season?
Response
The reason for Satan being ‘loosed for a little season’ upon the conclusion of the Lord’s 1000-year reign, has to do with what I just set forth regarding the response of God’s Perfect Justice to Satan. Specifically, it has to do with what God relates in Ezekiel 28:18 about His response to the implementation of Satan’s plan of evil. As God says in verse 18, “therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall destroy thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.”
Simply put, since God’s Perfect Justice responds to the implementation of Satan’s plan of evil in a way that is fully consistent with all of His other attributes and characteristics, it therefore allows Satan the genuine and honest opportunity to succeed with his plan of evil. But in view of what he has become (i.e. a ‘satan’) Satan not only will not succeed, but he will actually bring about the destruction of his plan of evil, as well as his own destruction, in trying to succeed.
Satan will bring about the destruction of his plan of evil during the time of the Lord’s day of wrath preceding the Lord establishing His kingdom on this earth in fulfillment of His program with Israel. And then Satan will bring about his own personal destruction after he is ‘loosed for a little season’ from his imprisonment, as described in Revelation 20. Satan personally will be ‘brought to ashes upon the earth,’ as God says in Ezekiel 28, by the judgment that is described in Revelation 20:7-9.
So then at that time Satan will be ‘loosed for a little season’ from his imprisonment in order for him to bring about the final aspect of his ‘self-destruction’.
Keith Blades
Enjoy The Bible Ministries
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