Revelation 20:6-8

Contemporary English Version

^5-6 These people are the first to be raised to life, and they are especially blessed and holy. The second death^[a] has no power over them. They will be priests for God and Christ and will rule with them for 1,000 years.

No other dead people were raised to life until 1,000 years later.

Satan Is Defeated

⁷ At the end of the 1,000 years, Satan will be set free. ^8 (A) He will fool the countries of Gog and Magog, which are at the far ends of the earth, and their people will follow him into battle. They will have as many followers as there are grains of sand along the beach,