The point that you dodged was the term AGE.
Paul is clearly indicating that this PRESENT AGE is the CHRUCH AGE.
And it is indeed EVIL, and Satan is NOT completely bound by any stretch of the imagination.
1Th 2:18
Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again;
but Satan hindered us.
1Ti 1:20
Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom
I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.
1Ti 5:15
For some are already
turned aside after Satan.
Rev 2:9
I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and
I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but
are the
synagogue of Satan.
Rev 2:13
I know thy works, and where thou dwellest,
even where Satan's seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas
was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you,
where Satan dwelleth.
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In fact, the Satan-man is prophesied to make his appearance, and soon. Did you forget about this as well? Shameful!
2Th 2:9
Even him,
whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
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You do realize that there was also an earlier AGE ended at the flood. Right?
2Pe 2:5
And spared not the
old world, but saved Noah the eighth
person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
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The amils, CT's, RT's and historicists continue to make themselves out to be woefully biblically illiterate.
They have been discredited at every point.
And yet, not the slightest glimmer of repentance or effort to learn or sincere correction is evident.