i’m going with Rev 20. Jesus said in Matthew 12:29 “or else how can one enter into a strong man’s house, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house”
Jesus bound the strong man Satan at the cross and the Church has been spoiling his house ( the pagan nations ) for 2,000 years.
Do you think Satan is the only reason everyone isn’t saved? don’t you know the heart of man is desperately wicked, who can know it? Man is seperated from God due to sin, not Satan. Jesus reconciles us to God in His Body, which is the Church. private interpertation of Scripture leads one to all kinds of weird theology.
Then you'll have a Scriptural explanation, I'm sure, for the ascension of Islam and the fact that Islam is steadily taking over pagan Europe, that more and more European nations are allowing Sharia law to circumvent their own laws, that the United States of America is legalizing homosexual "marriage" in more and more states, that the elected-by-the-majority president is turning on Israel in direct disobedience to God - I could go on but that's a decent start. There is absolutely no evidence whatsoever that the Church has been "spoiling" pagan nations. The truth is that "paganism" in all it's forms is gaining strength, just like Jesus said it would right before His return, and the Church not only is not stopping it, but is powerless to stop it.
The idea that the Church will "Christianize" the world is a false doctrine that cannot be supported by Scripture and is proven false by the reality in the world today.
According to Jesus Christ, Satan is not bound until after the seven-year Tribulation and after Jesus literally returns to earth:
1Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. 2And he laid hold of the dragon, the serpent of old, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years; 3and he threw him into the abyss, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he would not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were completed; after these things he must be released for a short time. (Revelation 20:1-3)
So not only does God say that in this present Age Satan roams the earth, but God then says that Satan will not be bound until Christ literally returns.
Why do you think that Scripture consistently contradict your doctrine?