After three and one-half years of persecution of believers, a second event occurs. It is first observed in the sky giving a slight forewarning. It then results in a plague of stones falling from the sky, which lasts another three and one-half years. Nearly all life is destroyed by the stones falling from the sky. Based on modern science, the only possible source of the falling stones would be Jupiter exploding.
Large planets can explode, which is how the asteroid belt was created.
Much of the soil which is layered on the surface of the earth apparently fell from the sky when a planet exploded in the asteroid belt. This event apparently occurred before Pangea formed more than a billion years ago. After the plague of falling stones destroys nearly all life, satan is said to be put in chains. Satan's chains would consist of no significant material life to subdue and dominate. But satan's chains only last a thousand years.