UNTIL. the 1000 years are fulfilled. WHat happens after this?
Satan is BOUND
He is SHUT UP
He is PLACED IN PRISON
That means he can DECIEVE NO ONE.
My friend, Satan was just as hindered in the OT as he is in the new. Many gentiles came to christ.
Binding does NOT refer to the gospel. This is proven later in the chapter when satan is released..
7 Now when the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison 8 and will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, whose number is as the sand of the sea. 9 They went up on the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. And fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them. 10 The devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone whereb]">[b] the beast and the false prophet are. And they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
so as you see. In the passage itself. Deceiving the nations is to gather them and fight Gods people. We see this today, we have seen it for the last 2000 years.. So in context. in the passage. It is proven what deceiving the nation sis.. and WHEN satan will be bound, and what that means..
Israel was blessed with the Word of God for centuries. But the Gentile nations of the earth were in wholesale darkness, with the odd rare exception. They were ignorant of God’s truth. They were without knowledge of Christ. They basically could not call upon One they did not know.
Before the cross the Gentiles are continually depicted as being ignorant, blind, in darkness and in rebellion. In the New Testament the Gentiles are said to be enlightened and trusting in God. These are obviously general sweeping statements. They are relative and comparative. Scripture is basically contrasting the wholesale darkness that cloaked the Gentiles in the Old Testament to the widespread evangelism of the New Testament era which saw the Gospel invade all nations and set countless millions free. From a handful of rare Gentile conversions, including one lone Gentile city, to the global spread and success of the great commission, we are looking at in an incredible success.
Gentiles are said here to have been “without God” and “without hope” before the cross. That was a horrible place to be. Even though these are sweeping statements, that did not mean all Gentiles were unsaved. They were not there are many examples of Gentiles encountering God in the Old Testament. They were general simplifications.
The examples of salvation in the OT are rare and far-between, and are just a drop in the bucket of the countless millions of blind ignorant Gentiles. We know of Abel, Noah, Abraham, Ruth (Ruth 1:16), the widow women of Zarephath that entertained Elijah (1 Kings 17:24), Rahab the harlot and “all her kindred” (Joshua 6:23-25), Naaman (2 Kings 5:15), the Queen of Sheba (Matthew 12:42), and the inhabitants of the Gentile city of Ninevah (Jonah 3:5).
Israel was His only chosen people. Most honest and informed Bible students accept this. Read the following carefully.
Exodus 33:13-16: “Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy people. And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest. And he said unto him, If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence. For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? is it not in that thou goest with us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth.”
Deuteronomy 7:6-8 confirms, “God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.”
Deuteronomy 14:2 declares: “the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.”
Deuteronomy 32:8-9 tells us: “For the LORD's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.”
2 Samuel 7:23-24 says: “what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible.”
Psalm 147:19-20: “He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel. He hath not dealt so with any nation.”
Amos 3:2 confirms this, saying of Israel: “You only have I known of all the families of the earth.”