VanGillMan
Puritan Board Freshman
Welcome to PB, Andrew!
How would you then understand the binding and loosing of Satan?
Hi Steve,
Thanks for the welcome. I will preface this by saying that of course I could be wrong - BUT, I see the binding of Satan as coming through the work of the spirit in the growing of Christ's kingdom until the leaven has worked it's way through the whole loaf. The second petition has been answered in full effect i.e. - "the kingdom of sin and Satan may be destroyed, the gospel propagated throughout the world, the Jews called, the fullness of the Gentiles brought in; the church furnished with all gospel-officers and ordinances, purged from corruption, countenanced and maintained by the civil magistrate..." (WLC Q191)
The loosing - how do you go from that to being loosed? Hard to say I admit - if asked I would respond 'well, how did Satan fall' - hard to understand, but suffice to say God will allow it in order to further display his glory and goodness in Satan's full and overwhelming destruction.
I see the millennium as the justification in history of the cause for which the martyrs died - from the thrones where they reign with Christ they look on the downfall of the wicked and see the vindication of the cause for which they have suffered.
God Bless!