VCO,
So, you have denied premillennialism or you just pick and choose what you want to believe whether it is in scripture or you reasign new meanings to words. You cannot believe in premillennialism if you believe Christ has already come. The BINDING OF SATAN IS NOT COMING. IT HAS ALREADY HAPPENED. The binding of Satan occurred by Christ arising from the dead, defeating death. The only other option I see possible is that there would need to be two bindings of Satan. One at Christ's resurrection, the other for your theory on premillennialism.
But then the Revelation as given by the Holy Spirit has always been consistent from the beginning and unchanged for 2000 years. After all it is His function to preserve that that unified revelation that He gave in the beginning.
If it is of the Holy Spirit, could you explain why the Holy Spirit waited until the 19th century to give this new revelation to only some people. Also explain why these people don't have it down as a unified revelation when it has gone all over the map over the last 200 years, especially the last 60 or 70 years.
I think you are being mislead by men and the spirit of division and confusion.
By the way, I didn't believe it when I was a protestant. I just understand it even better than I did then why it is false.
OKAY, now we know that you do not know the definition of premillennialism.
Here is the definition from WIKIPEDIA:
Premillennialism, in Christian eschatology, is the belief that Jesus will physically return to the earth before the Millennium, a literal thousand-year golden age of peace. This return is referred to as the Second Coming. The doctrine is called "premillennialism" because it holds that Jesus' physical return to earth will occur prior to the inauguration of the Millennium.
What part of
Second Coming do you not understand?
How is it that you do not understand that
restraining is NOT the same as
binding?
2 Thessalonians 2:7 (HCSB)
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7 [/SUP] For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work, but the
one now restraining will do so until
he is out of the way,
2 Thessalonians 2:7 (NASB)
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7 [/SUP] For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only
he who now restrains will do so until
he is taken out of the way.
2 Thessalonians 2:7 (NKJV)
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7 [/SUP] For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only
He who now restrains will do so until
He is taken out of the way.
Okay now the
"HE" can only be Jesus Christ, or the Holy Spirit, or the Father. TECHNICALLY since the THREE are one Divine Being it certainly can refer to the Holy Trinity. I think it is HOLY SPIRIT, whom HE promised would indwell all who are truly Born Again, teaching us all things, and giving us spiritual understanding of spiritual things.
Those who are NOT born again, are those who do not have the Holy Spirit in them teaching them all things. THUS many who claim to be Christians are in reality those of whom HE said, "
I NEVER KNEW YOU" (Mat. 7:21-23); therefore, they because they only have a physical nature and not a born again spiritual one, they will think all of this if foolishness. THAT IS A FACT, those who have NOT YET been born again WILL NOT HAVE the same spiritual understanding as those who HAVE BEEN BORN AGAIN.
1 Corinthians 2:14 (NIV)
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14 [/SUP] The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and
he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
John 14:16-17 (NKJV)
[SUP]16 [/SUP] And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper (Comforter), that He may abide with you forever--
[SUP]17 [/SUP] the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you.
John 14:26 (NASB)
[SUP]26 [/SUP] "But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you.
2 Timothy 2:7 (ASV)
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7 [/SUP] Consider what I say; for
the Lord shall give thee understanding in all things.
1 John 5:20 (HCSB)
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20 [/SUP] And we know that
the Son of God has come and has given us understanding so that we may know the true One. We are in the true One—that is, in His Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
Ephesians 1:7-9 (HCSB)
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7 [/SUP] We have redemption in Him through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace
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8 [/SUP] that
He lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding.
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He made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure that He planned in Him
Spiritual Understanding, is NOT how many religious books you have read,
NOR how many sermons you have listened to,
NOR how much education you have,
NOR how much GREEK you know, etc., etc.
IT IS WHO YOU REALLY KNOW SPIRITUALLY IN YOUR HEART.
If one has not had his human spirit brought to ETERNAL LIFE, by the Holy Spirit; that person will LACK UNDERSTANDING. It is with that born again spiritual mind LED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT that you will find true spiritual understanding within your heart. That inner personal LOVE relationship with JESUS CHRIST AS LORD of you LIFE, is what brings your human spirit to that Eternally Alive Consciousness, thereby gaining understanding as the Holy Spirit teaches you. Jesus Christ truly is in me spiritually and I am truly in HIM spiritually.
How is it you do not know that GOD has at times kept some of HIS TRUTHS hidden until the right time?
Colossians 1:26-27 (HCSB)
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26 [/SUP]
the mystery hidden for ages and generations but
now revealed to His saints.
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27 [/SUP] God wanted to make known among the Gentiles the glorious wealth of this mystery, which is
Christ in you, the hope of glory.
Ephesians 3:1-5 (NKJV)
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1 [/SUP] For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you Gentiles--
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2 [/SUP] if indeed you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which was given to me for you,
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3 [/SUP] how that
by revelation He made known to me the mystery (as I have briefly written already,
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4 [/SUP] by which, when you read, you may understand
my knowledge in the mystery of Christ),
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which in other ages was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now
been revealed by the Spirit to His holy apostles and prophets:
Ephesians 1:9-10 (NIV)
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9 [/SUP] And
he made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ,
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10 [/SUP] to be put into effect when the times will have reached their fulfillment--to bring all things in heaven and on earth together under one head, even Christ.
1 Corinthians 15:51-53 (NET)
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51 [/SUP] Listen,
I will tell you a mystery: we will not all die, but we will all be changed--
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52 [/SUP] in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
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53 [/SUP] For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality.
Revelation 10:7 (NKJV)
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7 [/SUP] but
in the days of the sounding of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound,
the mystery of God would be finished, as He declared to His servants the prophets.
Daniel 12:4 (NKJV)
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4 [/SUP] "But you, Daniel,
shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the end; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase."
Are there still other things that are still SEALED UP, not to be revealed for our understanding?
Revelation 10:4 (ESV)
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4 [/SUP] And when the seven thunders had sounded, I was about to write, but I heard a voice from heaven saying, “
Seal up what the seven thunders have said, and do not write it down.”