Is the Devil bound right now...?

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Is Satan bound right now?


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Jul 23, 2015
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No, not everybody
:hrmm: indeed
and we really laugh that creature for his total ignorance like
denying the very written words of god
that bow of lies doesnt really know what his sayin
and he never really learn as well
for that trinity he is calling is the deceptive trinity teachings
that enslave the philippines for 333 years literally
compared to his ancestors who were protestants before they
accepted the false trinity teachings of old babylon
 
Jul 23, 2015
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:hrmm: indeed
and we really laugh that creature for his total ignorance like
denying the very written words of god
that bow of lies doesnt really know what his sayin
and he never really learn as well
for that trinity he is calling is the deceptive trinity teachings
that enslave the philippines for 333 years literally
compared to his ancestors who were protestants before they
accepted the false trinity teachings of old babylon

:alien: that bow of lies should study the very foundation of ancestral backround of every being
so that he may not become an ignorant creature
like being ignorant from the true message of the scriptures
 
Nov 19, 2012
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:hrmm: indeed
and we really laugh that creature for his total ignorance like
denying the very written words of god
that bow of lies doesnt really know what his sayin
and he never really learn as well
for that trinity he is calling is the deceptive trinity teachings
that enslave the philippines for 333 years literally
compared to his ancestors who were protestants before they
accepted the false trinity teachings of old babylon
You are not going to get much support for your rejection of The Trinity, here.

This is a Christian forum...
 
Nov 19, 2012
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Deflection. Still waiting for you to show where I have proved to abhor Scripture.

Lazy...so everyone who reads The Bible in English instead of Greek (or Bowmanese) is lazy? Way to go *smh*

Any scholar of scripture refers to the original languages.
 
Nov 19, 2012
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Where in the bible does it say that you must study the bible in the original language it was written? Most of us who study the bible do not know Greek, Aramaic or Hebrew or are bible scholars. I guess that we will just have to rely on you to tell us what it means or we will just be considered lazy.
All that effort in posting excuses could have been used to verify the Greek that I already provided.

Keep the excuse train flowing...
 

Dan_473

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Show us a 2k year old English manuscript...

there aren't any



I believe you implied that you knew how God intended for us to study the bible. It's up to you to show how you know that to be true.
 

Silverwings

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ABSOLUTELY NOT!!! THE DEVIL IS RUNNING WIDE OPEN, SPREADING ALL HIS LIES AND CONFUSION AND SEEKING WHOM HE MAY DEVOUR, IF YOU CANNOT SEE THIS YOU ARE COMPLETELY BLIND AND DEAF TOO.
 

birdie

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[h=2]s the Devil bound right now...?[/h]
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Looking for scriptural positions regarding if Satan is presently bound...
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"And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season."

The word 'angel' means messenger. In this case, the messenger who binds Satan is Christ. He is the one who came down to earth to go to the cross and be resurrected. (I saw an angel come down from heaven) This caused Satan to be bound in the following way: He could not deceive those who God now allows to believe on Christ unto salvation. They believe on Christ unto salvation because the Holy Spirit allows them to (that is the seal being referred to), and Satan is bound in the sense that he can not stop them from believing. In short, he cannot DECEIVE them out of their salvation. For a figurative thousand years (not a literal number of years) Satan is bound. That is why during the church age the true believers are told that whatsoever they bind on earth will be bound in heaven. And whatsoever is loosed by them on earth will be loosed in heaven. After the church age, it appears that there is a little season which appears to be the time of great tribulation. That is when the Holy Spirit appears to be withdrawn from the congregations of the church age and Satan is allowed to deceive people in the congregations from the position of salvation. Specifically, that would be because the Holy Spirit is not working in that arena, so to speak. If we are still in the church age, then Satan is still presently bound.

Many persons reading the account in Revelation 20 have come up with false theologies about a blissful thousand year reign of Christ on earth after he returns. They imagine that Satan being bound means that their is not any earthly sickness or pain or trial anymore. However, the verse is really talking about Satan being bound in relation to deceiving persons from the position of salvation. That is why when Satan is loosed, it speaks of this as his being loosed to go and deceive.
 

Ahwatukee

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Hello Birdie,

The word 'angel' means messenger. In this case, the messenger who binds Satan is Christ. He is the one who came down to earth to go to the cross and be resurrected. (I saw an angel come down from heaven) This caused Satan to be bound in the following way: He could not deceive those who God now allows to believe on Christ unto salvation.
Let's look at the scripture:

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Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven with the key to the Abyss, holding in his hand a great chain. He seized the dragon, the ancient serpent who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. And he threw him into the Abyss, shut it, and sealed it over him, so that he could not deceive the nations until the thousand years were complete. After that, he must be released for a brief period of time.

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So first of all, just for proper exegesis, there is nothing in the context that would identified the angel as being Christ. It would be by conjecture only to interpret him as such.

Secondly, the Abyss is a literal place under the earth. It is the same place that that those demons collectively called "Legion" begged Jesus not to send them into, as revealed in Luke 8:30.

The Abyss is also the current location of the beast, that angel of the Abyss, as revealed in Rev.9:11, 17:8. The Abyss is a real location under the earth. Therefore, when it states that this angel throws Satan into the Abyss and locks and seals over him, then he will literally be putting Satan under the earth in the Abyss so that he has no contact with the inhabitants of the earth during Christ's thousand year reign.

It is necessary to compare and cross-reference scripture to come to a right interpretation. Satan's binding is not metaphorical, symbolic or spiritual, but is literal.

At the sounding of the 5th trumpet, anther angel has the key to the Abyss and will literally unlock it, allowing those demonic beings to come out to torment the inhabitants of the earth. From that time, the Abyss remains open until the Lord returns to end the age. Then in Rev.20 another angel having the key to the Abyss throws Satan in and locks it back up. This is a literal lock up so that Satan is cut off from influencing the inhabitants of the earth during Christ's thousand year reign, where it will be a time of peace on a paradise earth, where prey and predator animals and their young lie down together, with a young child leading them around. It will be a time when the lion will eat straw like the ox.
 
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REV. 20:3.
And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him,
that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled:
and after that he must be loosed a little season.

oh yeah, he is definitely running amuck, just take a 'real-look' at our world -
can't wait for those 1000yrs...read up on it...
 

Marano

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No satan is not bound yet, he will be during the 1000 year millenium reign of Christ though, and he will be let loose after that for a season.