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There is nothing in Ephesians 6:13 that would suggest Satan has access to the 3rd heaven any more. It simply says: “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”
I correlate John 12, Revelation 12 and Revelation 20.
After the cross Satan lost that position. He was now defeated. Sin and death were now defeated. He had lost all grounds to condemn the elect before the face of God. Satan was banished from heaven after Christ assumed the throne. Scripture shows the casting out of Satan with the resulting / accompanying enlightenment of the nations with salvation.
and yet Ephesians 6 has rebellious wicked angels operating in heaven.
Satan cannot/will not be held physically in a physical hole somewhere on/in the earth. After all, Satan is a spirit that cannot be physically restrained. He is a spirit that roams within divine parameters doing damage to those who are it’s enough to get close to him, listen to him or act on what he says.
and yet he'll be restrained for 1000 years and be unable to influence the world. You talk about spiritual binding and claim it's now? Apparently that binding is super weak then, because if he's out like a lion prowling around he's not restrained very well.
That's some super low standards.
But I get the real reason
some date setter shook your faith really bad. Preterism and Amillennialism are knee jerk reactions.
Even Camping claimed that the rapture did in fact take place in 2011, he just called it a "spiritual rapture" instead, a flat out coping mechanism.
Ephesians 2:1-3, says he is “the prince of the power of the air.”
I believe Satan is called “the prince of the power of the air” because he is not physically earth-bound like physical human beings. Spirits do not move as humans do. Human beings are physically kept to the earth’s surface by gravity. Spirits are invisible beings that can manifest in a visible fashion but they float around the cosmos rather than walk like human beings. The title simply refers to the spiritual realm around us on earth.
We are dealing with a spirit that operates in the 1st heaven – what we see with the natural eye. The 2nd heaven is space and the 3rd heaven where God abides. He is not a physical being walking about this earth but a spirit floating about albeit restricted in what he can achieve and restricted to one place at a time.
Of course you'll twist scripture to mean whatever you want.
"What do I want the scripture to saith?" the Amillennialist's catechism.
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