Is Satan Bound Today?

I would like to play this game. 

First of all so that I know the parameters; does your take on the subject stem from personal research that is independent of a religious doctrine, or, does your take on the subject harmonize with a religious doctrine.
2) if your view is independent of a religious doctrine  then will you please tell me the doctrine that you most often lean toward.
3) if your view harmonizes with a doctrine then will you please tell me the organization so that I can research the subject further from that perspective.

Let's have some fun.

Thank you both for referencing Revelation; a book that I love. If I understand you correctly, you are referencing Rev. 12:9 wherein Satan is "cast out" as supporting evidence to your position that Satan is bound. I am at a disadvantage because I use the KJV at my desk next to my computer and not the version that is used for quotes here at Unsealed. So here is the KJV:

Rev. 12:9, "And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him."

This verse seems to indicate that Satan is cast from some place "into the earth." However, in Verse 12:17 it states:  "And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ."

As you can see, casting Satan into the earth does not mean that he is bound from making war with the seed of the woman.

So, I guess that I am missing your reference to Rev. 12. Please show me how you connect Satan being bound to this chapter.

You do mention that it is "proven-out" in Chapter 13 "which describes the fact that Satan is not there in person" but "gives his power" to demons and mankind. From what I read in Rev. 13:2 Satan is there in person giving his power, seat, and great authority to wit:  "And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority." I mean, the verse clearly states "the dragon gave" "the beast which I saw" his power, seat, and great authority. How do you suppose that the dragon did this if he was not there? I mean, the beast is there, so wouldn't the dragon be there to give these things? If the dragon is there, then how can he be bound to not be there? The logic is off somewhere so please explain.

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I agree with what you say here boraddict.

Just because Satan was cast out into the earth doesn't mean he was immediately bound from making war on God's People, the woman.

Where my view can differ from the norm, i think, is that i believe that Satan was already cast out of Heaven on Resurrection Sunday. New Jerusalem is big, but it's not big enough for Jesus and Satan to be inside of at the same time. Not after what Jesus went through. Satan was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

"Now is the judgment of this world:
now shall the prince of this world be cast out. - John 12:31

And as soon as he saw that he was cast out, he went right after the woman, right after the newly formed Christian Body. He hit the woman very hard during the Foxe Book Days of Europe.

Just ask Anna Charboniere during her Peidmont Easter. Her blood still cries out to the Lord from beneath the alter.





Satan was NOT bound during those dark days.

But we are not the woman anymore, we are the offspring of that woman that the Dragon is making war with.

Ask the Christian Pastor's Wife, Ding Cuimei, who was run over and buried alive by a bulldozer in China.

These things are not going to happen when Satan is bound.

www.christianpost.com/news/china-church-leaders-wife-buried-alive-killed-for-protesting-church-demolition.html

www.foxnews.com/world/martyr-killed-by-bulldozer-becomes-symbol-of-growing-persecution-of-christians-in-china




Ding Cuimei suffocated after being buried alive.

"And white robes were given unto every one of them;
and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season,
until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were,
should be fulfilled.





 

I can't figure out which guy you're talking to.


Look, they made up.


Good night John Boy.

Nothing to see here folks,
Move along.

Bowman
Just thinking out loud...

1Pet 5:8 kinda tells us Satan isn't bound. Maybe not so much in that exact verbiage but here let's look at it in the YLT version

8 Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, doth walk about, seeking whom he may swallow up,

If I were looking to devour a nice filet mignon and were bound I may sound like a lion because I couldn't get to that piece of meat. But the words used here says he (devil) is walking. Other variants like the KJV call him the adversary (Satan) the devil...just this verse alone would lead anyone to believe Satan is yet to be bound.

Adversary
ἀντίδικος (antidikos) — 2 Occurrences
1Pet 5:8
Matt 5:25

I find the two words used for this individual interesting.
antidikos = an opponent in a suit, defendant, plaintiff