ksen: Mom, you kept pegging Woody and doc with this same question. How did you finally get it reconciled to your satisfaction?
Mom, I wouldn't mind hearing that one myself. I still cannot find an answer to that one.
That's your fault, kiddo.
Rev 20:3 And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more,
The word Cast is in the past tense..having been completed..
In Job we saw that Satan NEVER had completly free reign..he could only do what God allowed him to do..
We read that God allowed him to blind the Jewish people from the truth of the gospel..God allowed Satan to attempt to stop the plan of salvation..all of this for the Glory of God
So that you might know that I AM GOD
Jesus turned the work of preaching the gospel over to men..and to enable that Satan had to have his ability to deceive the nations removed..
He will be realeased to allow for the final deception so that once again Gods power will be manifest..and the world will know that He is God..
Look out your window Tim..it is snowing here:>) I have been in and out of FR doing some online Christmas shopping...How timely the snow