Q. Will sin cease when the Enemy is bound?
A. We learn of Israel — “Thy people also shall be all righteous,” etc. (Isa. 60:21). And that the multitude of Gentiles saved through the great tribulation (Rev. 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. 22:27). But we also learn of a solemn outbreak of sin and sinners at its close, when Satan is once more set free (Rev. 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 65:20, 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.