Is the Devil bound right now...?
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1. Satan is not bound at the present time. Satan roams the earth (1 Peter 5:8) and has access to heaven during the present Church age…..he is the “accuser of the brethren” (Revelation 12:10).
2. Satan has never been to hell.
3. He (Satan) will be bound in the bottomless pit for the entirety of the Millennium (Revelation 20:1-3). After the 1,000 is over, he will be loosed for “a season” (Revelation 20:7). He will then be defeated in the final battle between himself and God (Gog and Magog) and then cast into the lake of fire (Revelation 20:8-10)
4. The Church Age is not the Millennial Kingdom. If we are living in the Millennial Kingdom now, and Satan is already bound, then you amillennialists need to explain the reason (from Scripture) for all the evil in this world at the present time. Who is ruling this present kingdom? It certainly isn't Jesus Christ...and definitely NOT the Church saints, who are still mortal and have sin natures!
5. The Millennial Kingdom is a LITERAL 1,000 years of Christ’s reign on this earth, not an undetermined period of time.
Is Satan in hell? Where is Satan?
The power of Satan was broken at the cross of Christ! How much of a leash does God allow Satan...as much as he got with Job? (Job 1:5-12). God is the same in both OT and NT (He [God] is immutable).
1 John 4:4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
Galatians 5:16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
James 4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
2. Satan has never been to hell.
3. He (Satan) will be bound in the bottomless pit for the entirety of the Millennium (Revelation 20:1-3). After the 1,000 is over, he will be loosed for “a season” (Revelation 20:7). He will then be defeated in the final battle between himself and God (Gog and Magog) and then cast into the lake of fire (Revelation 20:8-10)
4. The Church Age is not the Millennial Kingdom. If we are living in the Millennial Kingdom now, and Satan is already bound, then you amillennialists need to explain the reason (from Scripture) for all the evil in this world at the present time. Who is ruling this present kingdom? It certainly isn't Jesus Christ...and definitely NOT the Church saints, who are still mortal and have sin natures!
5. The Millennial Kingdom is a LITERAL 1,000 years of Christ’s reign on this earth, not an undetermined period of time.
Is Satan in hell? Where is Satan?
The power of Satan was broken at the cross of Christ! How much of a leash does God allow Satan...as much as he got with Job? (Job 1:5-12). God is the same in both OT and NT (He [God] is immutable).
1 John 4:4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
Galatians 5:16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
James 4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
No...It already occurred...
And war occurred in Heaven, Michael and his angels making war against the dragon. And the dragon and his angels made war, but they did not have strength, nor yet was place found for them in Heaven. And the great dragon was cast out (aorist, completed action), the old serpent being called devil, and, Satan; he deceiving the whole habitable world, was cast out(aorist, completed action) onto the earth, and his angels were cast out (aorist, completed action) with him.And I heard a great voice saying in Heaven, Now has come the salvation and power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of His Christ, because the accuser of our brothers is thrown down(aorist, completed action), the one accusing them before our God day and night.(Rev 12.7 - 10)
And war occurred in Heaven, Michael and his angels making war against the dragon. And the dragon and his angels made war, but they did not have strength, nor yet was place found for them in Heaven. And the great dragon was cast out (aorist, completed action), the old serpent being called devil, and, Satan; he deceiving the whole habitable world, was cast out(aorist, completed action) onto the earth, and his angels were cast out (aorist, completed action) with him.And I heard a great voice saying in Heaven, Now has come the salvation and power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of His Christ, because the accuser of our brothers is thrown down(aorist, completed action), the one accusing them before our God day and night.(Rev 12.7 - 10)