![]() The arena therefore is not mystical, but intellectual. Our call is to convert not demons, but people. Our aim is to liberate people from demonic strongholds. The war is over the control of human minds. 6:12), but no, because we are not called in Scripture to go toe-to-toe engaging in hand-to-hand combat with demonic forces. So are we battling the forces of darkness? Yes, because our ultimate battle is “not against flesh and blood” (Eph. It is not about identifying territorial demons or binding demons or rebuking demons. Spiritual battles are fought on the turf of the human mind. If Revelation 20 is in the present time, then Satan is already bound by God, and he doesn’t need to be bound again and again by Christians! Any way you look at it, "binding Satan" shouldn’t be part of normal Christian conduct today. Christians who spiritualize the 1000 years of Revelation 20 to the present "Christian age" (the "amillennial" view of Revelation) are inconsistent if they call for the "binding" of Satan. Therefore the "binding of Satan" today is really unscriptural terminology and unscriptural practice, even though the intent may be for the glory of God. The 1000 years of Revelation 20, when the Lord returns to this earth to set up His millennial kingdom, is a future event. He will not be bound until Scripture says he will be bound. In other words, it seems quite clear that until Satan is bound for the thousand years, he is not bound. In Revelation 20:1-10 we read that Satan will be bound for a thousand years, later released for a short time, and finally thrown into the lake of fire (hell) for eternal punishment. Let’s use the idea of "binding Satan," which is taught in some churches as a norm for Christian living. They still call themselves Christians after abandoning the Gospel of Christ and the observance of His law though walking in darkness they think they still enjoy the light. He snatches away people from within the Church herself, and while they think that coming close to the light they have now done with the night of the world, he plunges them unexpectedly into darkness of another kind. There is more need to fear and beware of the Enemy when he creeps up secretly, when he beguiles us by a show of peace and steals forward by those hidden approaches which have earned him the name of the “Serpent.”… Those whom he has failed to keep in the blindness of their old ways he beguiles, and leads them up a new road of illusion. ![]() It is easy enough to be on one’s guard when the danger is obvious one can stir up one’s courage for the fight when the Enemy shows himself in his true colors. It is not persecution alone that we ought to fear, not those forces that in open warfare range abroad to overthrow and defeat the servants of God.
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