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[Ben @BenMH1994]

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@JoelWebbon Will there be any Christians attending?

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It's hard to get this through my head

[Jerry Bridges @bridgeswisdom]

Has it yet gripped you that when God looks at you today He sees you clothed in the perfect, sinless obedience of His Son?

[Ben @BenMH1994]

@sola_chad I wish God would tell me exactly what to do. I'd follow it like an automaton.

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@WrestleTaps Tie

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@caraksha103 I don't want to work, I just want to bang on the drum all day.

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@DMRussini @DamonAmendo

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@churchtalkative What a weight off my shoulders it would be to never give in ever again.

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@VintageFB Without question

[Ben @BenMH1994]

@TonyDungy So many great songs
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[𝕮𝖆𝖑𝖊𝖇 𝖛𝖘 𝕭𝖆𝖇𝖞𝖑𝖔𝖓 @CalebvsBabylon]

What makes this such rage bait is we can’t afford to live right now, people are being murdered left and right, civilization is being run into the ground - yet some college girls making monkey noises in a ring camera is on national news?

It’s a mockery

[Ben @BenMH1994]

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@ATRightMovies 10

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Yes, I returned to Christ a few years back. The sanctification process has been difficult and slower than I wish but I'm so grateful to God for bringing me back to reality and to Him. In hindsight I can see He was saving me from total destruction during those rebellious years. I really could've ended up in jail or dead. I now relate a lot with the story of the Prodigal Son.

[Ben @BenMH1994]

@TheCinesthetic First movie that came to mind

[Carter @WSHCarter]

1. Commanders cut their starting C for no reason.
2. Commanders tell us there will be no drop off between Biadasz to Allegretti.
3. Allegretti is your guy going into camp and he gets hurt immediately.
4. JGJ gets all snaps throughout the entire TC and doesn’t make the 53.
5. Allegretti is so smart and he’s gonna start going into the season apparently.
6. Less than a month in he loses his job to a dude off the streets.
7. Dude off the street gets hurt and they tell us 6th round rookie Matt Gulbin is his replacement cause Allegretti is now a GUARD.
8. NOW: Nick Allegretti is starting Thursday and back at center.
This is insane man 😂

[Ben @BenMH1994]

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@90sWWE HBK

[Ben @BenMH1994]

From an amillennial (symbolic) reading of Revelation 20, a coherent case can be made that we are now living in, or at least entering, the “little season” of Satan’s release.

### The Amillennial Framework
In this view the “thousand years” is not a literal future or past historical kingdom. It is a symbolic figure for the entire period between Christ’s first coming and his second coming—the church age. During this period:

- Christ reigns from heaven.
- The souls of believers reign with him.
- Satan is “bound” in a specific, limited sense: he is restrained from deceiving the nations in such a way that the gospel cannot go to all peoples (Revelation 20:3). This restraint is tied to Christ’s victory at the cross and the subsequent global advance of the gospel.

The binding is not total inactivity. Satan continues to oppose, tempt, and persecute. What he cannot do during the symbolic millennium is prevent the worldwide proclamation of the gospel or assemble a final, unified assault against the church. At the end of this period he is released “for a little season” (Revelation 20:3, 7) to deceive the nations again, gather them as Gog and Magog against “the camp of the saints,” and be defeated at Christ’s return.

### The Case That the Release Has Begun
The argument that we are already in (or at the beginning of) that little season rests on the claim that the specific restraint described in Revelation 20:3 is now visibly lifting, while the other marks of the end of the age are intensifying.

1. **The nature of the binding is being reversed**
The binding’s stated purpose was that Satan “should deceive the nations no more” until the thousand years were finished. For most of the church age the gospel has continued to cross cultural and geographic barriers even under persecution. In recent decades, however, large regions and major institutions have moved from passive indifference or partial openness to active, coordinated opposition to the gospel’s content. The claim is that this is no longer ordinary hostility but the kind of nation-level deception the binding was meant to restrain.

2. **The great apostasy is advanced**
Second Thessalonians 2:3 says the day of the Lord will not come until “the falling away” (apostasia) comes first. Amillennial interpreters have long linked this apostasy with the little season of Revelation 20. Observable trends cited in support include:
- Large-scale doctrinal and moral revision inside historic Christian institutions.
- The redefinition of previously settled ethical categories (good called evil and evil called good).
- Widespread acceptance, even within churches, of frameworks that treat the exclusivity of Christ or the authority of Scripture as optional or oppressive.
- A shrinking remnant that still holds the historic faith while the surrounding culture and many professing bodies move in the opposite direction.

3. **Technological and institutional amplification of deception**
Earlier centuries limited the speed and scale of deception. The present combination of mass media, algorithmic distribution, generative AI, and coordinated institutional messaging allows falsehoods and moral inversions to be propagated globally in real time. From this perspective, these tools are the practical means by which the released deceiver can influence “the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth” more effectively than at any prior point in the church age.

4. **The final gathering is taking shape, not merely local persecution**
Ordinary persecution has always existed. The little season is distinguished by a broader, cross-national movement against the people of God. Proponents point to the increasing alignment of cultural, educational, corporate, and governmental powers around ideologies that treat historic Christian claims as the primary obstacle to progress. This is presented as the early stage of the Gog-and-Magog gathering rather than random or merely national hostility.

5. **“Little” is relative and the intensification is rapid**
The Greek terms indicate a comparatively short period. Some amillennial writers (for example, William Hendriksen) have already suggested that certain regions or eras may be experiencing the onset of this season. The speed of cultural and religious transformation in the last few decades is offered as evidence that the restraint is no longer operating at the same level it once did.

### Summary of the Case
On a symbolic reading, the millennium is the present gospel age during which Satan is restrained specifically from deceiving the nations and blocking the gospel. The little season is the final, relatively brief period in which that restraint is lifted, apostasy accelerates, deception is amplified, and the nations are gathered in opposition to the church before Christ’s return. The best case that we are now in that season is that the distinctive features of the binding (gospel advance to the nations) are under unprecedented systemic pressure, while the biblical markers of the end-time apostasy and delusion are visibly present and accelerating.

This remains an interpretive judgment, not a consensus position among amillennialists. Many still place the little season entirely in the future or only at the very end. The argument above simply shows how the symbolic reading of Revelation 20 can be applied to current conditions without requiring a hidden literal historical millennium.