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The same way Amil's believe he was put in the bottomless pit, but can still the roam the earth to devour someone.
Satan was bound at the 1st advent as scripture states, and thus the satan can no longer accuse the elect and the gospel has spread to the nations.
Matthew 12:29 Or again, how can anyone enter a strong man’s house and steal his possessions, unless he first binds the strong man? Then he can plunder his house.
Satan is loosed at the 1st advent as scripture states, and thus satan is able to persecute the church
John 14:30 will not speak with you much longer, for the prince of this world is coming, and he has no claim on Me.
Revelation 12:17 And the dragon was enraged at the woman, and went to make war with the rest of her children, who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus.
1 Peter 5:8 Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
Revelation 2:13 I know where you live, where the throne of Satan sits
Revelation 2:9 And I am aware of the slander of those who falsely claim to be Jews, but are in fact a synagogue of Satan.
The gentiles were accepting the Gospel
Acts 15:14 Simon has told us how God first visited the Gentiles to take from them a people to be His own
Gentiles, encouraged by unbelieving Jews, attempted to persecute the church.
Acts 14:2-5 But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.a So they remained for a long time, speaking boldly for the Lord, who bore witness to the word of his grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands. But the people of the city were divided; some sided with the Jews and some with the apostles. When an attempt was made by both Gentiles and Jews, with their rulers, to mistreat them and to stone them,
You are totally playing with words. The binding and loosing, if they carry any meaning, relate to either the spiritual or physical restraint of Satan. Amils believe this is a literal spiritual restraint allowing the lifting of the deception on the Gentiles and facilitating the Gospel expanse in this current intra-Advent period. There is no difficulty with Satan walking about as a roaring lion, as he is not physically restrained. You are trying to employ a Premil argument to negate Amil, when it doesn't work. The loosing speaks about a time when the aforementioned restraint is actually lifted. This occurs before the second coming. The loosing happens after the binding, not during, as you are trying to argue. You are trying to force a square peg into a round hole.
Satan is a spiritual being that is not governed by gravity or limited to space. He does not have to be incarcerated in a physical geographical prison. The abyss is not a geographical place but a condition of restraint. Please remember demons are spirits. He was injured at the cross, his head is now bruised. His movement is impaired. He is incapacitated.
If the binding and loosing describes the same matter (namely spiritual realties), as they do, if being in the bottomless pit and released from the bottomless pit describes the same matter (namely spiritual realties), if the lifting of the deception and the restoration of the deception describes the same matter (namely spiritual realties), as they do, then you whole argument falls apart. It is frankly nonsensical, like your other neo-Full Preterist views.
Scripture shows the abyss being opened near the end whereupon Satan and his demons are released from their spiritual restraint (Revelation 9:1-11 and Revelation 20:7). This parallels with the beast also rising from the abyss (Revelation 11:7 and Revelation 17:8). This corresponds with the restraint being taken off the mystery of iniquity in 2 Thessalonians 2:7 before Christ’s return.
Daniel 7:9-11, 2 Thessalonians 2:8 and Revelation 19:19-20 show the beast being obliterated at the second coming. Isaiah 26:19-27:1 and Revelation 20:10–14 show this to be the same time when Satan is finally destroyed.
This all proves that Revelation 20 runs from Christ’s first resurrection till the second coming.
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