Glossary
Battle of Gog and Magog
Satan’s release after a thousand years of incarceration during the Millennium will free him to deceive the nations and to gather them for the last battle (Revelation 20:1–10). The gathered armies are called Gog and Magog, titles of Israel’s pagan oppressors in the Old Testament, who would be destroyed by fire from heaven and consumed as carrion (Ezekiel 39:1–6, 17–20; Revelation 19:17–18, 21). Although Satan and his forces, as numerous as “the sand of the sea” and marching over “the broad plain of the earth,” will surround the “camp of the saints,” they will be consumed by God’s fiery judgment (Revelation 20:8–9). Satan, the deceiver, will be thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur to be tormented day and night forever, along with the Antichrist and his false prophet (Revelation 20:10).