If this is done, there is no other alternative than the premillennial interpretation that holds that at the second coming of Christ, Satan will be bound for a thousand years.13 This will constitute one of the major features of Christ’s righteous rule upon the earth and in fact will make possible the peace and tranquility and absence of spiritual warfare predicted for the millennial kingdom. The period before Satan is bound, which is the great tribulation, and the period at the close of the millennium, when Satan is again loosed, stand in sharp contrast to the tranquility of the thousand years
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