Then how come Peter can bind in heaven?
Rev 20:7
7 When the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison
Rev 7:11-12
11 Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. The earth and the heavens fled from his presence, and there was no place for them. 12 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books.
Rev 20:5
5 (The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended.) This is the first resurrection.
"Binding and loosing" is a rabbinical expression referring to permitting/allowing or prohibiting in terms of the faith, in terms of the interpretation of the law (in the case of Peter in terms of what is allowed for the flock of Christ and what is prohibited). In the days of the Pharisees it had everything to do with interpretation of the law, so the Lord was basically allowing Peter to set what the church later claimed for itself, hence what we today would call "Canon Law".
When Christians take things completely out of context and invent meanings, or (in the way you have just done with regard to the "binding and loosing"), repeating lies, it shows a great deal. It betrays something
about them and their handling of the Word of God. (and yes, I'm including you in it now, Marty, because this is what you are doing).
Eve is a type of the church, the bride of Christ. Was Satan bound from deceiving first Eve and then her husband Adam, even while they were spiritually alive (because it was before the fall of man, the fall of Adam)?
1 Peter 5
8 Be sensible and vigilant, because your adversary the Devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking someone he may devour;
9 whom
firmly resist in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions in the world are being completed in your brotherhood.
There is absolutely nowhere in the New Testament where it is taught that Satan was bound at the time of the cross, and there are numerous verses in scripture stating the opposite. We are told is that Satan was
defeated by the cross, but scripture has him no more bound during this current Age than scripture has him already in the LoF.
All of you who teach the church that Satan is bound, claiming either that he is unable to deceive the nations, or that he is able to deceive the unsaved but not the church, are aiding his cause. It's a thousand times worse than telling Americans ISIS and the Taliban cannot harm nor touch them when they are in Afghanistan and they
need not be vigilant wherever they go.
You twist truth and scripture to force it to comply with what you want it to be saying, instead of taking scripture at face value and believing what it says. You change the meaning repeatedly, even when it's talking plainly to the saints, doing so just to make the meaning comply with what you decide it
should mean or what you
want it to mean. This is indeed what you are doing.
