(7) And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, (8) And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. (9) And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them. (10) And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night forever and ever.
The loosing of Satan, and the deceiving of Gog and Magog, and the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, opens a new face of things. It cannot mean either the Pope, or false Prophet, for they all and their followers, will a long time before this, have been lost in remembrance from the earth. It is our mercy, however, that the whole is of short duration. A little season, it is said in Revelation 20:3. And then follows the everlasting overthrow, and perdition of the devil.