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“I have tried to show that the binding of Satan in Revelation 20:1-3 can be understood to mean that Satan cannot prevent the
spread of the gospel during the present age, that he cannot gather Christ's enemies together to attack the church, and that this binding takes place during the entire era of the New Testament church (see pp.”
― The Meaning of the Millennium: Four Views
spread of the gospel during the present age, that he cannot gather Christ's enemies together to attack the church, and that this binding takes place during the entire era of the New Testament church (see pp.”
― The Meaning of the Millennium: Four Views
“However, I understand the word as it is used here to mean not regeneration but the transition from physical death to life in heaven with Christ during the time between death and the resurrection (pp. 170-71).”
― The Meaning of the Millennium: Four Views
― The Meaning of the Millennium: Four Views
“binding of Satan described in verses 1-3. He does not tell us exactly what he thinks this binding means nor precisely what he understands by "deceive the nations no more." He does not relate the binding of Satan spoken of here to passages in the Gospels which speak of such a binding as having already begun at the time of Christ's first coming (see pp. 161-64 of my essay).”
― The Meaning of the Millennium: Four Views
― The Meaning of the Millennium: Four Views
“Since the Messiah has come and has fully performed his work of atonement, this special role assigned to the Jews has been fulfilled. Hence there remains no reason whatever for reviving or re-establishing any one or more of the elements of the old system.”
― The Meaning of the Millennium: Four Views
― The Meaning of the Millennium: Four Views
“But I do not agree that what is described in chapter 20 necessarily follows chronologically what is described in chapter 19, any more than what is described in chapter 12 (the birth of the man-child) follows chronologically what is described in the last verses of chapter 11 (the judging of the dead and the giving of rewards to the saints). The reasons why I believe that Revelation 20:1 takes us back to the beginning of the New Testament era are given in my essay, pages 156-60.”
― The Meaning of the Millennium: Four Views
― The Meaning of the Millennium: Four Views
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