The Binding of Satan, and Sin

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Q. Will sin cease when the Enemy is bound?
A. We learn of Israel — “Thy people also shall be all righteous,” etc. (Isa. 60:2121Thy people also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified. (Isaiah 60:21)). And that the multitude of Gentiles saved through the great tribulation (Rev. 7:9-179After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands; 10And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb. 11And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God, 12Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honor, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever and ever. Amen. 13And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they? 14And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. 15Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them. 16They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. 17For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. (Revelation 7:9‑17)) all call upon the name of the Lord; “All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto Jehovah; and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee” (Psa. 22:2727All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the Lord: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee. (Psalm 22:27)). But we also learn of a solemn outbreak of sin and sinners at its close, when Satan is once more set free1 (Rev. 20:6-96Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years. 7And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, 8And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. 9And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them. (Revelation 20:6‑9)). We also find that during this time of blessing the direct manifested government of God will cut off by judicial death those who sin (See Psa. 101 passim; Isaiah 65:2020There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed. (Isaiah 65:20), etc.) Those, then, who are born in the millennial day will need to be “born again,” as much then as now, though those who begat them are the Lord’s.
This being so, sin in man’s nature, that is, the flesh, is the same as since the fall; but Satan, who can act upon it by temptation, will be bound, and the “world” (the present great system built up on man’s departure from God) — “all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life” — this moral system will then have passed away, and the renewed earth be under the peaceful sway of Jesus. Consequently the “world” will be no more an evil system to allure the “flesh,” through the power of the “devil,” and to sin in that day will be willful sin against Christ, in manifested power and glory.
“The evil heart of unbelief” will show how “evil” indeed it is, in a day when all is light and manifestation, should it be unbelieving at such a time; in contrast to that in which we have to walk in what is unseen and eternal. It came in when man departed from God; not surely in paradise.
 
1. See Psa. 18, 66, and 81, as to the “feigned obedience” of the nations then to Christ.