{
  "schemaVersion": 1,
  "kind": "event",
  "id": "revelation-final-rebellion",
  "era": "revelation",
  "order": 528,
  "title": "The final rebellion is ended",
  "group": "rev-renewal",
  "date": {
    "kind": "relative",
    "label": "Revelation 20 · reading sequence",
    "note": "This is the order of the book. It does not assign a calendar date to a vision or choose one scheme of fulfillment."
  },
  "summary": "Satan is released and deceives the nations called Gog and Magog into surrounding the saints. Fire from heaven ends the attack, and the devil is cast into the lake of fire.",
  "context": "The passage portrays a final outbreak of deception after the thousand years, followed by decisive divine defeat. Gog and Magog draw on Ezekiel but here describe nations from the earth’s four corners. They are not assigned to particular present-day countries, ethnic groups or armies. The beloved city and camp belong to the vision rather than a defensible reconstruction of a siege on this map. The saints’ deliverance is attributed to God’s action, not to instructions for them to launch a war.",
  "question": "How does this short scene frame both the persistence and the ultimate limit of deception?",
  "locationNote": "Visionary setting; no geographic pin or route. The background map shows the historical recipients in western Asia Minor, not the location of this vision.",
  "relatedNote": "These readings illuminate biblical language and themes. Connections do not by themselves settle the timing or every interpretation of the vision.",
  "passages": [
    {
      "reference": "Revelation 20:7–10",
      "range": [
        66020007,
        66020010
      ],
      "translation": "bsb",
      "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%2020%3A7%E2%80%9310&version=BSB",
      "availability": "bundled",
      "verses": [
        {
          "book": "Revelation",
          "chapter": 20,
          "verse": 7,
          "text": "When the thousand years are complete, Satan will be released from his prison,"
        },
        {
          "book": "Revelation",
          "chapter": 20,
          "verse": 8,
          "text": "and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth—Gog and Magog—to assemble them for battle. Their number is like the sand of the seashore."
        },
        {
          "book": "Revelation",
          "chapter": 20,
          "verse": 9,
          "text": "And they marched across the broad expanse of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. But fire came down from heaven and consumed them."
        },
        {
          "book": "Revelation",
          "chapter": 20,
          "verse": 10,
          "text": "And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, into which the beast and the false prophet had already been thrown. There they will be tormented day and night forever and ever."
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "related": [
    {
      "range": [
        26038001,
        26038016
      ],
      "kind": "teaching",
      "note": "Ezekiel’s Gog from Magog supplies names and attack imagery that Revelation uses in a worldwide scene.",
      "reference": "Ezekiel 38:1–16",
      "translation": "bsb",
      "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel%2038%3A1%E2%80%9316&version=BSB"
    }
  ],
  "places": [],
  "mapPeriod": "revelation-asia",
  "further": [],
  "provenance": {
    "sources": [
      {
        "name": "editorial",
        "ref": "content/authored/revelation.json"
      }
    ],
    "review": "draft"
  },
  "eraName": "Revelation",
  "interactiveUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/?event=revelation-final-rebellion",
  "attribution": [
    "Place coordinates from OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, CC BY 4.0.",
    "Teaching stops, summaries and regional extents are original editorial content of this atlas.",
    "Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. https://berean.bible/licensing.htm"
  ],
  "translation": "bsb",
  "url": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/revelation-final-rebellion/",
  "markdownUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/revelation-final-rebellion/index.md",
  "jsonUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/revelation-final-rebellion/index.json",
  "cautions": "Narrative order is a reading arrangement, not a proven chronology. Dates retain their stated uncertainty. An identified locality does not establish the exact venue or prove an event. Region extents and routes are illustrative, not surveyed boundaries or ancient roads. Draft material has not completed editorial review.",
  "revision": "9ff33ea87f8a89d0"
}