VI: The Prophets' Visions

Key of the Abyss and the Great Chain

Satan's authority stripped at the cross

Root
Isa 49:24-25
Old Testament chain
  1. Gen 3:15
  2. Ps 68:18
  3. Isa 22:22
  4. Isa 24:21-22
  5. Isa 49:24-25
  6. Rev 20:1-3
New Testament
Rev 9:1-2; Rev 20:1; Rev 20:2-3; Matt 12:29; Col 2:15; Heb 2:14

"Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered? ... Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away" (Isa 49:24-25). Isaiah sees the host of the high ones "gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison" (Isa 24:22), and the key of David laid on a shoulder, "he shall open, and none shall shut" (Isa 22:22). In Revelation 20 Yahuah holds the lock, not the enemy. Satan was bound at the cross as the strong man (Matt 12:29; Col 2:15): authority stripped, not enemy eliminated. The thousand years is the present age of the gospel, not a future earthly kingdom.

From The Courtroom of Heaven, pp. 333–336