This is the time when Satan will have a brief and last opportunity to deceive people. This will happen at the end of the 1000 year millennium period.
How can Satan get a following after 1000 years of peace and happiness?
You must remember that many will be born during this 1000 years. And, as ideal as the millennium will be it still will not be heaven. Many born during this 1000 years will not become believers. Sin will still be possible. Although the majority of those born during the millennium will no doubt follow Christ, yet other multitudes will not believe. Some will refuse to go up to Jerusalem to worship the Lord (Zechariah 14:17-19). Christ rules with an "iron rod" in a theocratic government during this millenial reign. Because of this some will inwardly rebel. Once and for all, God will give them this last opportunity to voluntarily choose between His Kingdom or Satan's. Like Adam and Eve, they will be given an opportunity to choose life or death. The bible says in Revelation 20:7,8 "...Satan shall be loosed out of his prison... to gather them (the unbelievers) together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea." This could involve millions of people!
This vast number of people will completely encircle the living believers within the capital city, Jerusalem, in a state of siege. When this occurs, God brings fire down from heaven killing the millions in Satan's army (Revelation 20). Satan is then cast into the Lake of Fire where Antichrist and the False Prophet already are.
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