Gene Fadeley

More natural thinking by Preterists. Fadeley thinks that natural events are how Christ defeat Satan. He says "in A.D. 70, Satan was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone." How much further from the truth can Fadeley get. If natural historical events are the defeat of Satan, then it would seem that after those historic events, Satan would no longer have power. Making this a historical event is highly Universalistic thinking on Fadeley's part. This is the major problem with Preterists who ADD 70ad to their system of interpreting bible prophecy. It is a complete unbiblical assumption stated nowhere in scripture. If it were discussing historical events, and God really wanted us to know this was historical events, we would have communicated it as mere past events through his holy apostles.

It should be noted that Christ does defeat Satan but not through historic events. Christ defeats Satan only by the transforming power of his internal workings of his Spirit. This is not a historic event but a in Christ event. It is only in Christ that Satan is bound which is what the workings of the Cross is all about, to bring about new life.

Gene Fadeley
Did Christ defeat Satan? In about A.D. 58, Paul told the Roman Christians, "The God of peace will crush Satan under your feet shortly." (Rom. 16:20) Twelve years later, in A.D. 70, Satan was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone. (Rev. 20:10) His power was broken, he was rendered useless according to Bible prophecy. Satan can no longer take over a person's body and make men do anything against his will.

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