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A mean dog on a long chain is bound in some sense.
However, if you get too close you are in danger.
Satan is not bound in the lake of fire, like a dog on a long chain.
He is done.
Rev_20:10 The devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are. And they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
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Satan is only bound in one sense in Revelation chapter 20.
Rev 20:3 and he cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal on him, so that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years were finished. But after these things he must be released for a little while.
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2Pe_2:4 For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;
Jud_1:6 And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day;
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LOL---the dog on a leash thing again. If I ever do become Amil someday, one thing I promise is this. I will never use the dog on a leash analogy to try and support anything about satan's binding.
1 Peter 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
satan must be on the longest leash in the universe. This doesn't depict satan being on the defense. This depicts him being on the offense. When a dog is tied up to a chain in it's yard, it is hardly also walking about in it's neighbors' yards down the block. When real world imagery is used to describe something, it has to match the imagery being used. It would be pointless to even bother using real world imagery to describe things, if in the real world it means this or that, but that it means something entirely different when it is being applied to something in the Bible. To add to this point. The imagery used to describe satan's binding, what would that mean in the real world? If someone is bound with a chain, then cast into a pit, then the lid shut upon them, would they still be able to go to Walmart to shop, for example? Would they still be able to roam around outside of the pit while they are shut up inside of it?
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