3 Then he hurled him into the abyss, closed it, and sealed it over him, to keep him from leading the nations astray anymore, until the thousand years are at an end; after that he must be let loose a little while.
Revelation 20:3 Cross References - Williams
Matthew 24:24
24 for false Christs and false prophets will announce themselves, and they will show great signs and wonders to mislead, if possible, God's chosen people.
Matthew 27:66
66 So off they went and made the tomb secure by sealing the boulder and setting a guard.
2 Corinthians 11:3
3 But I am apprehensive that, somehow or other, as the serpent by his cunning deceived Eve, your thoughts may be turned aside from single-hearted devotion to Christ.
2 Corinthians 11:13-15
13 For such men are sham apostles, dishonest workmen, masquerading as apostles of Christ.
14 And no wonder, for even Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.
15 So it is no surprise if his servants also masquerade as ministers for doing right, whose doom shall be in accordance with what they do.
2 Thessalonians 2:9-11
9 that is, the representative of lawlessness, whose coming is in accordance with the working of Satan, with his plenitude of power and pretended signs and wonders,
10 and with a completely wicked deception for men who are on the way to destruction, because they refused to love the truth so as to be saved.
11 This is why God sends them a misleading influence till they actually believe what is false,
2 Peter 3:8
8 But you must avoid forgetting this one fact, dearly beloved, that with the Lord a single day is like a thousand years and a thousand years are like a single day.
Revelation 12:9
9 So the huge dragon, the ancient serpent, called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world, was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him.
Revelation 13:14
14 He leads the inhabitants of the earth astray because of the wonders he is permitted to perform in the presence of the wild beast, telling the inhabitants of the earth to erect a statue to the wild beast that bears the sword-thrust and yet has lived.
Revelation 16:14-16
14 They are the spirits of demons that perform wonders, and they go forth to the kings of the whole world, to muster them for battle on the great day of the Almighty God.
15 (See! I am coming like a thief! Blessed is he who stays awake and keeps his clothes ready, so that he may not go naked and people see his shame.)
16 So they mustered the kings at the place called in Hebrew, Armageddon.
Revelation 17:2
2 in whose prostitution the kings of the earth have joined, and with the wine of whose prostitution the inhabitants of the earth have been intoxicated."
Revelation 17:8
8 The wild beast that you saw, once was but now is no more; he is going to come up out of the abyss, but he is going to be destroyed. The inhabitants of the earth, whose names from the foundation of the world have not been written in the book of life, will be astonished when they see that the wild beast once was but now is no more, and yet is to come.
Revelation 20:1
1 Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven with the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.
Revelation 20:7-10
7 When the thousand years have ended, Satan will be let loose from his prison.
8 He will go forth to lead astray the nations that are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, and to muster them for battle, and their number will be like the sands of the seashore.
9 They came up on the broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of God's people, and the beloved city. Then fire came down from heaven and consumed them.
10 Then the devil who led them astray was hurled into the fiery lake of burning brimstone, where the wild beast and false prophet were, and there they are to be tortured day and night forever and ever.