⁷ When the 1,000 years are completed, Satan will be released from his prison. ⁸ And he will crawl out of the abyss in order to deceive the nations located at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog^[a] as Ezekiel described them, in order to rally them together for one final battle. They are in number as the grains of sand on the shore. ⁹ They marched in unholy array over the expanse of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. As they laid siege to the city, fire rained down from heaven and incinerated them.