How does this contradict a millennium binding of Satan that began back in Solomon's days, as prophesied by King David in Psalms 72:4 in the LXX? The Trinity has always had all power over the earth and the things in it from its beginning. "Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations.", Psalms 145:13 tells us. That was true before, during, and after the millennium binding of Satan from 968/967 BC until AD 33. Christ's incarnate ministry on earth only manifested that He had already bound Satan long ago, and as a sign of that PAST millennial binding of the "strong man", He cast out devils right and left, as well as His disciples under His authority.
You clearly have nothing to support your thesis. Your obsession with Hahnism is causing you to twist plain and simple Scripture to support your false claims. This is ridiculous and a total cop-out.
God's dominion did not begin with Solomon. It has been there from all eternity. To suggest otherwise is preposterous. Christ's earthly ministry was the battle field to strip Satan of his global influence. Your theology negates this and undermines the enormity of the heavenly task that Jesus achieved in defeating Satan on his own playing field.
So, you have presented nothing here to support Solomon perfecting the binding of Satan, nothing apart from your own opinions.
The millennial binding of Satan achieved a halt in Satan's deception of the nations; not his final defeat and annihilation into ashes. Many want to make the conditions of the millennium include vastly more than that single result, which is the ONLY condition stipulated by Revelation 20 that characterizes the millennium. It would be the equivalent of putting duct tape on a person's mouth for a time. They exist, they can breathe and move, but they cannot speak to deceive anyone for that period of time.
What are you talking about? The Gentiles are repeatedly depicted in the OT as imprisoned, blind, ignorant and in darkness. We see this is Lamentations 3:33-34, Psalm 68:6, 79:10-11, 102:19-20, 107:8-16, 146:7-8, Isaiah 14:12-17, 42:6-7, 49:8-9, 58:6-12, 60:1-3, 61:1 and 58:6-12.
Jesus said, in Luke 24:46-47,
“thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations (
ethnos)
, beginning at Jerusalem.”
For thousands of years before the cross Israel was the sole national custodian of the Gospel. However, the earthly ministry of Christ marked the turning point for this state of affairs. In fact, the resurrection was the pivotal event that opened the way for the global un-blinding of the Gentiles. This climactic event secured salvation for the “whosoever believeth” of all tribes, colours and nationalities – none excluded. Without Christ’s victory over sin, death and the grave the Gentiles would have remained in their darkened state. The Jewish rituals would have been restricted to a physical brick building in Jerusalem city, where Gentiles where kept on the outside.
It is a fact, the Gentile nations sat in darkness for 4,000 apart from one notable exception – the city of Ninevah. The veil of darkness covered every Gentile nation. Calvary saw the boundaries of the Gospel witness enlarged to embrace a global harvest field. The kingdom of God was preached in power and authority to the heathen “and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed” (Acts 13:48). Luke identifies the sufferings of Christ followed by his “rise from the dead the third day” as the catalyze for the Gentiles receiving the Gospel. Luke confirms that this occurred for the purpose “that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations” including Israel. The suffix attached to the end of this statement proves this, by saying, “beginning at Jerusalem.”
Acts 26:23 declares,
“Christ should suffer, and that He should be the first resurrection from the dead, and should shew light unto the people, and to the Gentiles (
ethnos)
."
The first resurrection opened up the Gospel to the nations!
We should note in this passage, the enlightening of the Gentiles (or)
ethnos is carefully connected to the first resurrection of Christ. It is only through this powerful event that the deception that smothered the Gentiles was lifted. Moreover, the binding of Satan is expressly connected to the enlightenment of the Gentiles (or)
ethnos. The Amil understanding of "the first resurrection" can only be understood “in Christ.” The spiritual resurrection that a sinner realizes upon conversion is only realized in "the first resurrection" of Christ. Our second physical resurrection is also procured through the victory of "the first resurrection" of Christ. A Christian is raised from the grave of his sin in this life solely on the grounds of Christ’s first resurrection.
The general broad deception that engulfed the Gentiles in ignorance and darkness is lifted. They now can receive if they believe. That does not suggest the majority will.
Christ’s first resurrection was the start of the evangelization of the Gentiles. Most people see that in the New Testament. The Gentiles are depicted in the OT as being outside of hope, blind, in gross darkness, rebellious, bound in chains and in a prison. That all changed after the resurrection of Christ. The NT is a picture of Gentile evangelizing. That is all Rev 20 is saying.
The Bible makes general sweeping statements regarding the darkened Gentiles as a whole before Christ came. They
"were without Christ ... aliens from the commonwealth of Israel ... strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world" before the First Advent, "but now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.”
This reading looks back to a former era when Gentiles were overwhelmingly outsiders to the favor of God. They were “aliens,” “strangers” and “foreigners” of true believing Israel under the old covenant. There was an unsurmountable barrier or dividing wall that prevented the Gentiles generally from experiencing covenant grace.
According to this passage, what parties were divided with a spiritual wall? Who has Christ made one? The overwhelmingly Jewish Old Testament redeemed Church and the overwhelmingly Gentile New Testament redeemed Church. This settlement is a spiritual union of believers. This is not a natural arrangement. The fact that Christ and His work on the cross is the means of unification shows that we are looking at God’s elect throughout time. There is no other way of salvation for man.
Multiple Old Testament passages had predicted the ingathering of countless Gentiles into the covenant family. There was no sense of division or inferiority in those predictions. Quite the opposite! Jews and Gentiles would equally experience full salvation through the vicarious work of Christ in His faithful earthly assignment on man’s behalf. They would both take on the same spiritual status.
Acts 17:30 says,
“the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent.”
The old covenant period was described as “the times of this ignorance” for the Gentiles. They lived in darkness. We have now entered a period of enlightenment since sin was defeated. There has been a bright light shining throughout the nations that has given the Gentiles the wonderful opportunity of salvation.
Acts 14:16 teaches that God
“in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.”
The nations that were once saturated in complete heathenism and gross idolatry, knowing nothing of the grace of God and the need of repentance, would now receive the Gospel through the Cross of Christ. It is manifestly clear from the actual testimony of this specific reading that the Church had now entered into a new dispensation, a period in which the good news of salvation was to be offered to the Gentiles. No longer would the pagan nations of the world be drowned in complete darkness and be utterly deceived by the devil, as before. The de-blindfolding of the Gentiles (or nations) therefore unquestionably coincided with the binding of the devil’s previous extensive power; the historic defining moment being Christ’s devil defeating transaction at Calvary.
