Hi Dan_473,
Below is directed at Bowman and the other preterists:
To answer your question, it is because Satan has yet to be bound Bowman! Scripture is clear regarding the order of events. Rev.19:11-21 gives a detailed account of Christ returning to the earth to end the age and establish his millennial kingdom. At that time the beast and the false prophet are captured and thrown alive into the lake of fire and then Satan is seized and bound into the literal location of the Abyss for a thousand years, just as the scripture proclaims. Since Satan is said to be bound after Jesus returns to the earth to end the age, he then cannot possibly be bound and that because Jesus has not yet returned. And before you say that he did return at the destruction of the temple, let me remind you that the promise of his appearing to gather the church, was to the entire church and not just those of the first century.
When Jesus descends from heaven to gather the church, all those who will have died from the on-set of the church until Jesus descends, will be resurrected. Immediately after that, all of the living in Christ will be changed and caught up. This event will include the entire church from beginning to end. And since the church is still in the process of being built, then Jesus has not yet returned. By you having Jesus returned in 70 AD, the majority of the church is left out of his promises. Also, in order to make your interpretation fit, you believe and teach that we are currently living in the thousand year reign of Christ, but with Christ ruling from heaven through the saints on earth. Does it look like the saints are ruling anyone? No! they're not, because the plan is not for us to rule until after Christ literally returns to the earth to end the age, when that thousand years actually begins.
When I provide scripture to you that shows the characteristics during the thousand years such as the lion eating straw like the ox or prey and predator animals and their young lying down together, you ignore the literal meaning and spiritualize it. Peter said that Satan is like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour and John says that the whole world is under the control of the evil one. But Bowman says that Satan is partially bound and not in the Abyss, ignoring the chronological order of events as listed in scripture. Until you let go of preterism and receive the word of God at face value, except where symbolism is obvious, you will never understand the true meaning of these events, which is very sad. For you and others are exchanging the true meaning of God's word for the teachings of demons. I can't imaging how anyone could actually think that we are currently living in the millennial kingdom.
