Anonymous ID: 8adf29 March 18, 2018, 10:07 p.m. No.717817   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7846

>>717724

A chain means your mobility is limited. It doesn't mean you can't move or do anything at all. History bears out that the devil's ability to operate has been limited by the spread of the Gospel. There are no temples offering blood sacrifices to multiple gods in Sweden or Britain today like you found basically everywhere in Paul's day. And it's like this everywhere that Christianity has been for any length of time. (It's not like this in places in Southeast Asia or Africa, where the Gospel hasn't been preached or taken firm hold of the majority of people.)

 

Demon possession is still a curiosity in the West, even though it was pretty common even in Israel in Jesus' day. It is becoming more common again though as the Gospel's influence declines here. And now we are also seeing sexual perversions that used to have to hide in the darkness become accepted and even celebrated. That's an example of the chain being weakened or broken.

 

It's certainly not a twisting of Scripture. It is a repudiation of the Gospel, on the other hand, to say that God is going to accept the service of priests and animal sacrifices at another earthly temple, when He has already received the sacrifice of His Son and His Son has raised up the eternal temple in which He will dwell forever and while HIs Son, the great High Priest, is daily ministering in this temple. To rebuild the temple in Jerusalem is to tear down Jesus and His work.