Glad you posted this - I’m discouraged today (world events plus a sprained ankle!) and seeing this headline made me remember what’s going on. Thank you!
The real question is, will evil people defeat the good people? Will good people just accept the power of the evil ones even though they far outnumber them? Good people never start wars, the evil ones do, and its usually the good who suffer and lose the most. Its mostly about up bringing, and the environment you grow up in. Don’t blame the Devil for evil, blame complicity and apathy.
You said in your heart, “I will ascend to heaven;
I will raise my throne above the stars of God;
I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly,
on the utmost heights of the sacred mountain.
I will ascend above the tops of the clouds;
I will make myself like the Most High.”
Sounds like he did at one time at least.
Now I think he just wants to thwart God in any way he can.
i think before the cross, i believe he actually thought he had a chance. after the cross, no way. he’s just trying to take as many of us down with him before his time runs out.
It’s more of a case that he fears the hell fire and is doing everything to put off that fate for as long as possible.
He knows he can’t defeat God but wants to take as many as he can with him as he can. And all he can do is use deception so others will either lose their faith and/or prevent others from knowing the fullness of God.
His time is short and he knows it, so he’s in
‘how many can he seduce with a lie.’ mode FULL TIME. It’s in the airwaves, it’s in the laws evil imposes, it’s in the schools to get the children - it’s surrounding us.
Same sex marriage, baby killing, PC, ....the list is endless to what he’s been doing.
And when people speak out with elections - evil steals it. Make no mistake.
John 10:10 “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.”
So anyone saying that God allowed it is wrong! God wants us to have a good abundant life but HE knew how people would give themselves over to be seduced by evil - so HE told us what HE knew - for It is Written.
Rock Paper Scissors?
IBMCOPAPOTB (In Before Manual Copies Of Pages And Pages Of The Bible.)
Satan knows Scripture, in case you’ve forgotten that he quoted Scripture during the temptation of Christ.
Thus, he knows that he loses in the end.
Satan’s objective is to win as many souls as possible.
Maybe his overwhelming pride makes it impossible for him to see and accwpt the truth of God’s superior power.
It's similar to what happened in World War II. One reason why the U.S. felt they had to drop two H-Bombs on Japan was because the Japanese would just keep on fighting regardless of their hopeless situation.
Satan “wins” in gathering souls to himself - evil - and from God. He’s in a contest to control humanity and make people suffer. He hates God and looks at man, whom God created and loves, as a dispicable creation. He hates human life. Satan mocks God by showing Him how people are evil; falling to Satan’s call to do the opposite of what God wants and rejecting God and what He created man to be.
Satan will have his time on earth to recruit and harm people, then he’ll be cut off. He hates humanity - God’s creation and he hates God. In the end days he’ll work fast and furious to reap souls (people who fall to evil and who reject God and His nature). Satan enjoys the imposition of torment, suffering, fear and death on humanity because he’s at war with God who loves mankind. Fallen humanity is Satan’s prize.
No, Satan doesn’t think he can defeat God. Satan’s only plan is taking as many of God’s children with him as he can. Victory was never the plan as he knows he can’t win.
bfl
he knows he cannot defeat God-
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=revelation%2020:10&version=ESVUK
“and the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulphur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.”
In the meantime, he will try to cause as much damage and harm as he can.
He’s the loser and he knows it.
Revelation 12:12
“Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea! For the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has a short time.”
Now he is just trying to get as many souls sucked into hell before his time runs out.
Lucifer certainly thought he could at the first go around.....delusions tend to repeat themselves. Lucifer has been waiting hoping that this next time it will be different. Fortunately it won’t be
This is my conjecture, I don’t claim it’s correct, but you asked for opinions and this is what I sincerely feel in my spirit,
We don’t know how to count a Jubilee, and we don’t know with certainty when it should apply, but God does know. God knows how to restore his people to the land when the ‘fulness of time’ has come. Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria have been restored since June of 1967 and will certainly align at some future time with the necessary days to complete a Jubilee on a future Yom Kippur as Leviticus Ch 25 requires. A Jubilee ultimately to restore to this physical Earth all that was lost in the fall. Jesus is the Jubilee made flesh, he is the Law and the Tabernacle that dwelt among us. And we’re told by Peter its the Jubilee, “Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.” Acts 3:21
I believe this is what Satan is doing, and these are the times and laws that Satan seeks to change, to prevent from coming to their fullness as Daniel was shown in Ch 7:25-26, but ‘the judgement shall sit.’ This court is shown again in Revelation Chapters 4 and 5, after the Church age, just as the events surrounding the final disposition of the Earth are about to begin. Jesus is taking legal ownership of the Earth, what Adam involuntarily surrendered to Satan is being restored by God,
In Isaiah Ch 24:5 we’re told “‘The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.” The nations have divided his land as we’re told in Joel Ch 3. This is (I believe) how and why Judgement comes to the world.
And what if God should call a Jubilee himself? As he did in Jeremiah Ch 34:17 and aligns his return using the requirements set out in Leviticus Ch 25 and Daniel Ch 9 counting from a restored Jerusalem the second time, and then he proclaims it himself like he did when he read from Isaiah Ch 61:1 in the synagogue in Nazareth, when he took that Jubilee to redeem the world and to make an end of sin. What if this time, with another Jubilee, Jesus now reads from Isaiah Ch 63:4, “the day of vengeance is in Mine heart, and the year of My redeemed is come.”
Principalities and powers, knowing Gods redemption plan is almost complete, are trying to hinder, prevent and destroy a restored Israel because their ruler (Satan) knows Gods plan to restore everything includes specific legal actions from Israel at the end to call for their promised Messiah, and will if fulfilled, include their eternal imprisonment in the Lake of fire. There is much more to what Satan wants (I conjecture) if he can get this world legally under the Law with no heirs to be redeemed, that involve the same events that occurred in Genesis Chapter 6,
Satan knows God has almost completed the requirements of the Law upon Israel and is about to “seal up the vision and the prophecy” from Daniel 9:24 Its the Jubilee. Satan is attempting to undo the redemption work of Jesus over the flesh and the Earth, he’s lost whatever authority he had in the spirit on the Earth, and he wants the Earth because without it he has nothing, and no more time. Walled cities did not go out in the Jubilee release, this is why I believe were told Jerusalem must be handed over for 42 months as it says in Revelation chapter 11.
This is (I suspect) also why Satan’s place is no longer found in heaven, he has been permitted in Heaven to accuse Gods people. He is trying to undo the work of physical redemption and its why he’s thrown out and the war rages. Whatever spiritual battles are happening now and I believe it to be considerable. I suspect that its nothing compared to what begins when we see Jerusalem divided, the ordinances and laws broken and Satan finally cast down to the Earth.
“Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.” Revelation 12:12
I believe Satan is to God what Slugsworth was to Wonka..