Subject: Jewish law during the millenium |
Bible Note: Keily, You are correct that I think satan is currently bound. However, you are reading that in terms of what you think it will mean in what you picture to be a future millenia. Satan is not literally in a hole some place called the abyss. The passage defines what the binding of satan means. It says that it is such that he can not deceive the nations. I do not take this to mean that he is completely and utterly restrained from all actions. Revelations is a very symbolic book and much of it is not meant to be taken completely literally. Its simply not a genre that expects to be read in that way. So to answer, Satan is currently our foe that works against us, but he is not free to rally up the nations in a massive organized revolt against God and his people as he will in the final days. Isn't it remarkable that what is possibly the most well attested end times view point through out history (amillenialism), is now so nearly unheard of that it sounds a strange thing to us? In Christ, Beja |