Today I was listening to a lecture by a well known Amillennial author and he made the same error that I hear so many times by Amillennialists. He said that the first event of the millennium is the binding of Satan which happened at Christ’s First Coming. This can be found, he said, in the millennial passage in Revelation chapter 20 starting at verse 1 through 6.
This is in error. The literary unit of the passage militates against this interpretation because the event of the binding of Satan is only part of a larger passage which begins back in Revelation 19:11 and includes the destiny of the “three enemies of God” when Christ comes back — the Beast, False prophet, and then the Dragon, Satan. The timing of the destiny of Satan should not be disconnected from the other two enemies of God — but this point is frequently ignored by Amillennialists.
For my discussion on the context read my article here. This will equip you to correct the Amillennialist next time they want to dive right in the middle of this passage without giving consideration of the preceding context. Building brick walls with chapter breaks is not practicing sound exegesis.