Spiritual Israelite
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It actually describes a dragon being chained up in a prison. Satan cannot be literally chained up in a prison. So, the dragon being chained up in a prison is a figurative representation of the spiritual binding of Satan. There is no reason to look at it as if Satan can be literally chained up in a prison that has no access to the earth.Satan is BOUND
He is SHUT UP
He is PLACED IN PRISON
That means he can DECIEVE NO ONE.
Are you suggesting that what Satan has been able to do in NT times is no different than what he was able to do in OT times? If so, what do you make of passages like these: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..
Hebrews 2:14 Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil— 15 and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death.
1 John 3:8 The one who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work.
Acts 26:16 ‘Now get up and stand on your feet. I have appeared to you to appoint you as a servant and as a witness of what you have seen and will see of me. 17 I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to them 18 to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’