still seeks to devour as a roaring lion and saints should be aware of his nature and mission (1 Pet. 5:8). There have been limitations of Satan’s power because God stated limitations of what he could do to Job (Job 1:12; 2:6). The idea in Revelation 20 is that Satan was bound so as not to deceive the nations as had been characteristic of the period of the persecution which the saints had been enduring. This is the sense in which he was bound. Following this complete period of being bound, the thousand
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