Lindsay's premillennialism places the binding of satan at the end of the current age. Scripture places it at the beginning. When Jesus came 2000 years ago He didn't say satan would be driven out at the end of the world. He said "now the prince of this world will be driven out." He admitted Satan's strength, but used the present tense to say He (Jesus) "ties up the strong man."

The Apostles understood that Satan had been bound by Christ's 1st Coming. Paul pointed out that Jesus "disarmed the powers and authorities...by the cross." The author of Hebrews agrees by declaring that the very purpose of the 1st Coming was to "destroy him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil." And John confirms this by stating "the reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil's work."

When we come to the 20th chapter of John's Apocalyptic work and find him describing an 'angel' with a 'key' and a ' chain' seizing a 'dragon' that is a 'serpent' and binding him for a thousand years, very few interpret these nouns in a wooden literal sense. The key represents authority. The chain symbolizes limited freedom. The dragon & serpent simultaneously depict Satan. Binding, then, implies restraint, not ropes. And a 'thousand' years is simply a long duration of time.

So what 'binding' is John referring to? He's probably referring to the binding Jesus had taught him about and that he'd written about. When was this accomplished? At the 1st Coming of Christ and, specifically, at the cross. Revelation 12:10-11 says specifically that this was accomplished by the Blood.

This places the 1st century in the midst of the 'thousand years' and left satan a 'dead man walking'. Revelation 20 directly mentions the devil's limitation, during this time, in regards to his work of "deceiving the nations." And history evidences his inabilities. Up until the 1st century the truth was mostly contained in one tiny nation, but from that point on it went to the ends of the earth.

Scripturally, the devil is severely limited in power during the times of the end. Maybe that is why the New Testament speaks of Jesus & His followers having so much 'authority'. Satan has been "thrown into the lake of burning sulfur", His power was limited to those who accept slavery. He had no authority over anyone in Christ during his being bound. He prowled around like a "roaring lion", but he couldn't take control of anyone that keept some distance from his den. He was a caged animal then and the Holy Spirit was a trustworthy zookeeper.

It wasn't until some 30 years later when satan was loosed to deceive the nations one last time. But Paul says Jesus will defeat him "with the breath of his mouth". Peter says "that day will bring about the destruction of the heavens by fire, and the elements will melt in the heat." John notes that fire will come "down from heaven" and the devil and his children. "This happened when the Lord Jesus was revealed from heaven in blazing fire" at the Parousia. Satan has now been lobbed into the lake.