The one thousand years concludes with the release of Satan "for a little while". In fact it is his last stand. He will deceive the nations one more time, inciting them against the Church - but then Christ will return. Satan will face the same judgment as his beast and false prophet: the lake of fire. The same eternal punishment waits for anyone who is not united by faith to the Lord Jesus Christ. There is hardly a more solemn passage in the whole of Scripture than this.