“No man can enter into a strong man’s house, and spoil his goods, except he will first bind the strong man; and then he will spoil his house.”
In fact, no one can enter a strong man's house without first tying him up. Then he can plunder the strong man's house — the strong man parable interprets the exorcisms: the world is the strong man's house (the domain of Satanic power over human beings), and the exorcisms are the plundering of that house. But plundering is only possible after binding. Jesus is not merely casting out individual demons; he has first bound the strong man — in the wilderness testing of chapter 1, the temptation was resisted and Satan was overcome in principle. The exorcisms throughout the Galilean ministry are the plundering that follows the binding. Revelation 20:1–3 will use the binding language explicitly for the defeat of Satan.
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