All,
Looking for scriptural positions regarding if Satan is presently bound...
You will be looking and not finding until CHRIST returns setting foot on Mount of Olives splitting it in half.
The existence of ISIS should tell you Satan is ALIVE, WELL, AND VERY ACTIVE.
Zechariah 14:4 (NKJV)
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4 [/SUP] And in that day
His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, Which faces Jerusalem on the east. And the Mount of Olives shall be split in two, From east to west,
Making a very large valley; Half of the mountain shall move toward the north And half of it toward the south.
Luke 8:31 (ISV)
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31 [/SUP] Then the demons began begging Jesus not to order them to go
into the bottomless pit.
Revelation 20:1-2 (ESV)
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1 [/SUP] Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain.
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2 [/SUP] And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and
bound him for a thousand years,
The thousand year reign of Jesus Christ is the SAME thousand years that Satan will be bound. UNTIL THEN, Satan remains LOOSE and VERY ACTIVE.
YES, I have heard Pentecostals and Charismatics erroneously pray, "I bind you Satan." That ERROR is a result of knowing VERY LITTLE about the practices of Judaism, and an total misunderstanding of this verse:
Matthew 16:19 (ASV)
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I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
THAT is a common practice of the Jewish Priests, but it DOES NOT REFER TO BINDING SATAN. It was part of disciplining a disobedient believer.
Deuteronomy 11:18 (NASB)
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18 [/SUP] "You shall therefore impress
these words of mine on your heart and on your soul; and
you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontals on your forehead.
This is a Jewish Soldier, probably at the Wailing Wall praying.
NOTICE the Tefillin box on his forehead and the end of the leather strap wrapped round and round his hand and forearm. INSIDE that Tefillin box is a small scroll with the Law of God written on it. Sometimes it is also written inside the leather strap. THEY are literally binding the Law of God to themselves as instructed in Deut 11:18.
NOW understanding that the LAW of GOD was to be Bound to them when praying, if they were striving to walk in obedience to the Law; it will be easier then to understand the rest of the discipline the Jewish Priest handed out to the disobedient.
When confronting a member of the congregation who was living in sin; if that person REFUSED to Repent; the Jewish Priest would say
"The Law of God was bound to you, but because you REFUSE to Repent, I now bind your sins to you, until you really do REPENT." When the sinner finally repented, the Jewish Priest would say, "I now loose you from your sins."
THAT is what
MAT. 16:19 is referring to. JESUS is giving the Church permission to discipline it's members who refuse to repent.
Never do we have the authority to bind Satan. THAT authority is given by GOD to a special Angel from heaven.