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Revelation 9:1 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.
2 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.
3 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.
This is clearly speaking of the bottomless pit, the same pit satan gets cast into in Revelation 20. As can be seen in this passage, once the pit has been closed and locked, until someone unlocks it, the prisoners inside of it are not both in the pit and at the same time, roaming around the earth. It can't be both since none of these locusts, regardless what they actually might be, are roaming around the earth while locked up in the pit.
Yet this is exactly what many claim satan does. They claim he is in the pit, and roaming the earth at the same time. If he can do that while locked up in the pit, why can't these locusts do that?
And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth---this is meaning after the pit has been unlocked. And where does the text indicate they ascend to? Upon the earth, obviously meaning while they were in the pit, they were not also upon the earth at the time. The same has to apply when satan is locked in the pit. While he is in there he can't also be roaming the earth at the same time, such as the following passage indicates.
1 Peter 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
This is obviously meaning when he is not locked up in the pit. The thing about 1 Peter 5:8 though, there has never been a single time to this day, where 1 Peter 5:8 was not true. So how can anyone claim satan is bound in the pit in this age?
And another argument of mine is the entire 12th chapter of Revelation. That chapter covers at least the past 2000 years and then some, yet nowhere in that chapter is there a time that fits satan being in the pit a thousand years. Before he is cast to the earth, he had access to heaven, thus he couldn't have been locked up in the pit during that time. Then when he is cast out of heaven, he is cast unto the earth. He is then seen not locked up in the pit like the locusts in Revelation 9 are, but is seen persecuting the woman who brought forth the manchild. And when that attempt fails, he is then not cast into the BP either, he instead is wroth with the woman, and proceeds to make war with the remnant of her seed.
Therefore there is nowhere in all of Revelation 12 where there is a time satan can be in the pit. So why do many still insist satan is bound in the pit in this age, regardless that Scripture, such as Revelation 9 and 12 prove otherwise?
2 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.
3 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.
This is clearly speaking of the bottomless pit, the same pit satan gets cast into in Revelation 20. As can be seen in this passage, once the pit has been closed and locked, until someone unlocks it, the prisoners inside of it are not both in the pit and at the same time, roaming around the earth. It can't be both since none of these locusts, regardless what they actually might be, are roaming around the earth while locked up in the pit.
Yet this is exactly what many claim satan does. They claim he is in the pit, and roaming the earth at the same time. If he can do that while locked up in the pit, why can't these locusts do that?
And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth---this is meaning after the pit has been unlocked. And where does the text indicate they ascend to? Upon the earth, obviously meaning while they were in the pit, they were not also upon the earth at the time. The same has to apply when satan is locked in the pit. While he is in there he can't also be roaming the earth at the same time, such as the following passage indicates.
1 Peter 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
This is obviously meaning when he is not locked up in the pit. The thing about 1 Peter 5:8 though, there has never been a single time to this day, where 1 Peter 5:8 was not true. So how can anyone claim satan is bound in the pit in this age?
And another argument of mine is the entire 12th chapter of Revelation. That chapter covers at least the past 2000 years and then some, yet nowhere in that chapter is there a time that fits satan being in the pit a thousand years. Before he is cast to the earth, he had access to heaven, thus he couldn't have been locked up in the pit during that time. Then when he is cast out of heaven, he is cast unto the earth. He is then seen not locked up in the pit like the locusts in Revelation 9 are, but is seen persecuting the woman who brought forth the manchild. And when that attempt fails, he is then not cast into the BP either, he instead is wroth with the woman, and proceeds to make war with the remnant of her seed.
Therefore there is nowhere in all of Revelation 12 where there is a time satan can be in the pit. So why do many still insist satan is bound in the pit in this age, regardless that Scripture, such as Revelation 9 and 12 prove otherwise?