The Millenium/Thousand Years

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If my understanding of Catholic theology is correct, we view the thousand year reign of Christ as being symbolic of the church age. What I don’t get is it’s described as a period of peace where Satan is bound up or defeated. How do we (Catholics) reconcile this?
 
He’s bound from “deceiving the nations”.

“Then I saw an angel come down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the abyss and a heavy chain. He seized the dragon, the ancient serpent, which is the Devil or Satan, and tied it up for a thousand years and threw it into the abyss, which he locked over it and sealed, so that it could no longer lead the nations astray until the thousand years are completed.” - Rev 20:1-3

My best guess is “nations” means Gentiles maybe… that the church age is allowed to flourish throughout the world. With Israel, not so much (they’re not the “Nations”, in the biblical sense). You can scarcely even talk to am Orthodox Jew without them spitting at the name of Jesus. Or in Israel, at best you get is a friendly secular Jew who’s confused. “Jesus? The Christian Prophet?” Most of them don’t even realize he’s Jewish and claimed to be their Messiah. There’s always a minority of believers though, but not as a whole. It’s like mass stupor or something.
 
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