Was Satan "cast out" during the first century?

grafted branch said:

Hi BABerean2,
I would like to get your opinion or anyone else’s here, on whether Matthew 12:43-45 is also related to the binding of Satan.
Matthew 12:43-45
Satan then takes 7 other spirits more wicked than himself and they enter in and dwell there. The seven other spirits being more wicked than Satan could be understood using Matthew 23:15 as something similar happens where the scribes and Pharisees convert someone and he is twofold the child of hell than they are. The strong man’s house now has Satan and seven other spirits, this then seems to correlate with Revelation 17:11 where the beast is called the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition; and also with Revelation 20:8 where Satan goes out and deceives the nations after the 1,000 years.

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Hello g b.
You may actually be on to something there
Notice the similarity of Satan roaming the earth in Job and the Judean Rulers in Matt 23. Astounding!

Job 1:
6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them.
7 The LORD said to Satan, “From where do you come?” Then Satan answered the LORD and said, “From roaming about on the earth and walking around on it.” 8The LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job?

Is the "GEHENNA" of Matt 23:33 the "LAKE OF FIRE" in Revelation? Poll thread

Mat 23:
15 'Wo to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!
ye are going round the sea and the dry to make one proselyte, and whenever it may happen -- ye make him a son of gehenna twofold more than yourselves.
33 'Serpents! brood of vipers! how may ye escape from the judgment of the gehenna?
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What would the "gehenna" be symbolizing to the 1st century Judeans?

LittleLambofJesus said:

Hello g b.
You may actually be on to something there
Notice the similarity of Satan roaming the earth in Job and the Judean Rulers in Matt 23. Astounding!

Job 1:
6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them.
7 The LORD said to Satan, “From where do you come?” Then Satan answered the LORD and said, “From roaming about on the earth and walking around on it.” 8The LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job?

Is the "GEHENNA" of Matt 23:33 the "LAKE OF FIRE" in Revelation? Poll thread

Mat 23:
15 'Wo to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!
ye are going round the sea and the dry to make one proselyte, and whenever it may happen -- ye make him a son of gehenna twofold more than yourselves.
33 'Serpents! brood of vipers! how may ye escape from the judgment of the gehenna?
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What would the "gehenna" be symbolizing to the 1st century Judeans?

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I looked at the video a while ago and found it very interesting. I’m still studying on gehenna so I’m not prepared to comment on that yet but I do currently think the lake of fire and gehenna are likely the same.

I should have added to my post what my thoughts were on the last statement in Matthew 12:45 “even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation”. I think this could possibly mean that there are 2 distinct groups the binding and letting loose of Satan happens to, one being obviously this generation and I place the other as the Gentiles. I’m thinking that what happened in 70AD and the years prior to it is what is meant by the statement “also unto this wicked generation”. To my knowledge this would be the only place where it might suggest that the binding of Satan can happen more than once or to two separate groups of people possibly separated by a span of time. This of course would all hinge on Matthew 12:43-45 being interpreted as the binding of Satan and the word also<2532>meaning “in addition to something else”. <2532> is sometimes translated “even”. If “even” is the more accurate translation then the binding of Satan only applies to this wicked generation.

I looked at the thread you have on the 2 parousia but am wondering if you have considered or have any information on the possibility of 2 bindings of Satan.