Episode 369: Why will God release Satan after locking him in the bottomless pit.

Hello everyone. In today's Bible study we take a look at a strange occurrence regarding God and the devil.

In Revelation 20:1-3 we read that God will lockup Satan and all the demons in a place called the bottomless pit for 1,000 years.
Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years; and he cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal on him, so that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years were finished. But after these things he must be released for a little while.
Then later in the same chapter Revelation 20:7-10 we read that God will release them all from the bottomless pit after the 1,000 year period is over.
Why? Why would God lock Satan and the demons up and not keep them locked up in prison? Why let them out?

Well God tells us why in the scriptures.

This study is part of the three segment study titled Why was Jesus crucified before God created the world. The title of this part of that study is Why will God release Satan after locking him in the bottomless pit?