What was your reason for posting this exactly? Did you expect me to determine that by reading your mind?
You complain I give my opinion. You complain when I provide Scripture. In fact you have complained I never provide Scripture.
I thought we were talking about where he is bound? We were talking about where the angel who comes from heaven goes to when he binds Satan, right? You were saying it's the earth, right? Or are you only talking about where he is loosed? You're hard to follow. Of course he is on the earth when he is loosed, as Revelation 20:7-9 indicates. We all agree on that. But, where do you think he is when he is bound?
I posted those verses to show you where my opinion comes from. The pit is described throughout Scripture. Numbers 16:29-33
"If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then the Lord hath not sent me. But if the Lord make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the Lord. And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them: And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods. They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation."
Was this literal or symbolic?
Job 17:16
"They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust."
Job 33:27-30
"He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not; He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light. Lo, all these things worketh God oftentimes with man, To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living."
Psalm 30:3
"O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit."
Proverbs 1:12
"Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:"
Isaiah 14:7-20
"The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing. Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us. Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us? Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee. How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners? All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house. But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet. Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned."
Ezekiel 26:20
"When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the land of the living;"
Ezekiel 31:16
"I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth."
Revelation 9:1-5
"And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads. And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man."
Jude 1:6
"And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day."
Do you think Moses set the precedent that the pit was a literal place, even if part of symbolic narrative? What is the symbolism of the pit, other than a literal pit?
Of course we are talking about Satan bound in a pit. Is Scripture not plain enough where this pit is located?
Those verses describe Satan as just as much a part of this battle at Armageddon as the beast and the FP. Are they not literal? Are the armies killed, not literal humans? Are they not literally on the earth when killed? Why do you get that Satan is loosed upon the earth, but fail to see that the beast and FP are just as literal and on the earth as Satan when Satan is bound?
How can the beast and FP be part of those consumed by fire in Revelation 20:9?
"And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone."
Jesus put it this way: Matthew 10:28
"And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell."
Moses literally pointed out God could do a new thing, although the Flood took them all to the pit as well. God destroyed Korah and those men, and their whole families, body and soul directly into the pit. Now we don't think of sheol and the grave as a physical place where the body can last. But Jesus did. Satan being an angel/star should have no problem remaining in sheol in his natural state. Those angels have been there in the pit for almost 6,000 years in their natural physical state as stars. That is if you think science has figured out the natural physical state of a star. You all think the term star is just symbolic. Then you accept science or man's wisdom to give you a physical explanation for this spiritual phenomenon. At least you seem to separate the physical from the spiritual in your understanding. The angels produce light. What their physical makeup is, seems to be an educated guess.
Certainly what science accepts as the physical makeup of a star should have no issues retaining physical form in the alleged core of the earth, which is also similar in structure and makeup. Do we understand that even the image of God revealed by Jesus on the mount of Transfiguration allowed Jesus to shine as bright as the sun. That would be our own physical makeup when we put on the spirit, and are glorified. Did Jesus turn into a ball of gas, or just had the ability to shine like the sun?
You don't see angels as balls of gas as science would describe a star. You see them as spiritual beings producing the light we call a star, or not. If the angels are not the stars are you saying each angel lives in each physical star? How does that make sense?
"And I saw an angel standing in the sun;"
Is the sun a literal angel? Is the sun a star? Or is there just an angel living in the sun?
Satan was described as the morning star. Yet he was no longer allowed to be the morning star. His position as a star was revoked. The same with a third of the stars that rebelled with him. How does that change the fact they were at one time literal stars in the sky? Christians have let science dictate our interpretation of Scripture. But all that knowledge will be burned up at the Second Coming.