Mark 3:27 “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.”

The Greek word for spoil occurs in two forms, Depose and harapzo, which denotes “an intensive spoiling, plunder and snatching away.” In (Lk. 11-22), the Greek word Skulon, conveys “arms stripped from a foe.” Putting it simply, Satan is stripped of his weapons, (Lk. 11:21,22. The Greek word Deo means literally tie or fasten, to arrest or paralyze. Everything that he has stolen is reclaimed. Moreover, Christians aggressively binding the power of demons, prohibits them from the carry-forward their assignments.

Gary Kinnaman develops this theological foundation for binding: “The use of the phrase binding did not, in fact, originate with Jesus. Binding was a frequent expression of first century Jewish rabbinical dialect. According to Alexander Bruce in The Expositor’s Greek New Testament to bind and loose (Greek, deo and luo) meant simply “to prohibit and to permit,” that is to establish. The Jewish religious authorities at the time of Christ retained the right to establish guidelines for or keys to, religious practices and social interaction.