sooda
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Well like I said, show as to where in the book of Revelation where Christ Jesus is found saying what your saying
That the king of bottomless pit as being Roman emperor.
Where does Christ Jesus say this in his book of Revelation.
The Roman legions attacking Jerusalem were under the Roman Emperor...
Many other figures appear under angelic imagery.
For instance, in chapter nine, the Roman Emperor, Nero, is figured as an angel given possession of the key to the bottomless pit to loose its armies, and the Roman legions themselves are described as four angels bound at the River Euphrates.
(Rev. 9: 1, 11, 14) If these “angels” are earthly figures connected with the world civil power, why is the angel in Rev. 20:1-3 divine?
The dragon is Satan, hence the angel that binds him must be Christ. However, that the dragon is a demonic being is itself very doubtful.
Revelation is a book of symbols. The passage veils spiritual and historical realities in the garb of symbolic imagery.
Reference to the dragon as the “devil and Satan” is no more literal than reference to its being bound with a chain and cast alive into the bottomless pit.
So, to place a literal construction upon the image is to violate the first rule of interpretation and confuse our understanding.
The better view is that the dragon is the world civil power poised as the adversary of Christ and his church, not a demonic being.
Since any number of earthly figures might bind and loose the power of earthly kingdoms there is no basis upon which to conclude that Christ is the angel who binds the power here.