¹And I saw a messenger descending out of the heaven, holding the key of the Abyss and a great chain in his hand.

²And he seized the dragon, the ancient serpent, who is the accuser and the adversary, who is deceiving all the world, and bound him for a thousand years,

³and he cast him into the Abyss and shut him and sealed it over him, so that he may not deceive the nations any longer until the thousand years may be completed; and after these things it is necessary for him to be released for a little time.

⁴And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given to them, and the souls of those beheaded because of the testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God, and those who did not worship the beast nor his image and did not take the mark upon their forehead and upon their hand; and they lived and they reigned with the Anointed One the thousand years.

⁵Now the rest of the dead did not live until the thousand years may have been completed. This is the first resurrection.

⁶Blessed and holy is the one who has a part in the first resurrection! Over these the second death has not power, but they will be the priests of God and of the Anointed One, and will reign with Him a thousand years.

⁷And when the thousand years may have been completed, the adversary will be released out of his prison,

⁸and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the land, Gog and Magog, to gather them together unto the war, of whom their number is like the sand of the sea.

⁹And they marched up over the breadth of the earth and encircled the camp of the holy ones and the beloved city. But fire came down from God out of the heaven and devoured them.

¹⁰And the accuser who is deceiving them was cast into the lake of fire and of sulfur, where are also the beast and the false prophet, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

¹¹And I saw a great white throne and the One sitting on it, from whose face the earth and the skies fled, and place was not found for them.

¹²And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the one of life. And the dead were judged out of the things written in the books according to their deeds.

¹³And the sea gave up the dead who were in her, and the Death and the Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged each according to their works.

¹⁴And the Death and the Hades were cast into the lake of fire; this is the second death, the lake of fire.

¹⁵And if anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.