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Part 1: A Life In Transit: The Journey Going Home
Part 2: A Pattern Of Satan's Attack 1
Part 3: A Pattern of Satan's Attack 2
Part 4: A Pattern Of Satan's Attack 3
Part 5: A Pattern Of Satan's Attack 4
Part 6: About Our FATHER's Business
Part 7: How Can Two Walk Together
The Whole World Lies Under The Sway Of The Evil One
We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies under the sway of the wicked one.
1 John 5:19 (literally: lies in wickedness; analogical context: lies under the wicked one)
So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Revelation 12:9
Now when the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison and will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, whose number is as the sand of the sea. They went up on the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. And fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them.
Revelation 20:7 – 9
The Christian Holy Scriptures is plainly, unmistakably and explicitly clear that the Evil or Wicked One, Satan the Devil, the ancient Serpent and Dragon (including many to most, of his demonic cohorts totaling up to a third of the Angels of GOD) holds sway over (i.e. holds power over and deceives) all of humankind (i.e. the world).
This means, let me put it plainly and clearly, that Satan the Wicked One have almost absolute control over every single human being and also every thing on this planet albeit with a restriction or restraint.
And the main (there are other secondary) restriction or restraint, is that he still needs to put up a front or facade of obedience to GOD (because his authority over the earth is by GOD's appointment) not too different from the fronts all the proclaimed and acclaimed Superlatives of the so called Abrahamic religions (and includes even all those who are among the Elect) put up for their deceived followers in order to get them to unquestionably obey (aka worship) them as the ‘whatever of God’ they proclaimed themselves to be, logic, reasons and obvious evident realities immaterial.
That is correct, Satan the Devil has near absolute control over all of you reading this post regardless of whether you are the regular readers and followers of this work or any others reading this post (and any of the rest of this work) for whatever reason. And his control includes also everyone alive (at anytime) regardless of Saints or sinners, albeit with notable exceptions. And no he does not have any control at all over those who have died but who are supposedly alive in a hell of horrific sadistic torture forever, as has been the evil doctrines of the so called Abrahamic religions and other pagan religions.
Then the devil, taking Him up on a high mountain, showed Him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. And the devil said to Him, “All this authority I will give You, and their glory; for this has been delivered to me, and I give it to whomever I wish.
Luke 4:5 – 6
We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies under the sway of the wicked one.
1 John 5:19
Now when the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison and will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, whose number is as the sand of the sea. They went up on the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. And fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them.
Revelation 20:7 – 9
So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Revelation 12:9
And these exceptions are all those whom GOD shields and protects, to the extent that GOD shields and protects them.
So Satan answered the Lord and said, “Does Job fear God for nothing? Have You not made a hedge around him, around his household, and around all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.
Job 1:9 – 10
One good example is Joseph, another is Job (there are several others, to varying degrees), both whom GOD shielded from the manipulative sway of Satan the Devil, mostly but not completely because to do so would go contrary to one of GOD's purposes for creating us as self aware (i.e. conscious of ourselves), intelligent, freewill personages.
This author too though lesser than both Joseph and Job, but progressively from very little before my conversion and increasing more and more as my job role as GOD's messenger for this work grows. Please be clear that we are talking about sway or manipulation to control, and not other forms of attacks. Keep this point in mind as we will discuss more on this in subsequent installment of this discussion topic.
The key word here is ‘almost’. This means that Satan has enough power to control andor harm everyone on earth (Revelation 20:7 – 9). But he just does not have enough power impunity to be able to express this power at his will (Job 1:12, 2:6).
There are two reasons for this. One is of course, GOD who rules absolutely over all the Spirit personages such that if they should directly go (i.e. openly rebelled) against GOD, they will be seized and locked up (i.e. taken out of circulation) bound in Spiritual chains of darkness (2 Peter 2:4) as what happened to all the Angels who rebelled and wiped out all lives on earth in the events leading to the condition of earth of Genesis 1 verse 2. That was the reason when JESUS commanded the demons of those possessed, these demons obeyed.
For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;
2 Peter 2:4 (Note: the word of the original text render as hell was the Greek ‘tartaroō’ [G5020] referring not to a physical hades or hell meaning the grave or conceptually death, but to a place of Spiritual confinement, incarceration or prison, xref with Jude 1:6)
And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day;
Jude 1:6
The second reason is something similar (but not the exact same) to the human social order, there are multiple billions (possibly even trillions) of other Spirit personages, and not all of them are totally sold to the lies of Satan the Devil (Jude 1:9). All these whether those loyal to GOD or those sitting on the fence, still have to obey GOD either fully or put up a front of doing so (just like Satan the Devil and of his cohorts).
Therefore then, Satan is not exactly totally free to do anything he wants to. He still has to maintain an appearance (i.e. put on a façade) of obeying GOD (Job 1:9, 12; 2:4, 6).
The Sway And Control Of Satan
Satan the Devil's sway and control of humankind began in the Garden of Eden after (and only after) both Eve and Adam chose to disbelieve their MAKER and PROVIDER and instead chose to believe a strange talking serpent. This is the first consistent truth revealed in the Scriptures, and this that GOD almost invariably (but there are exceptions because the discretion is GOD's) let HIS creature personages who are not faithful (i.e. distrustful. disobedient andor disloyal) to HIM to fall into and under the power of their enemies (those who hate them and wants to subjugate andor harm them).
Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?
Genesis 3:1
Before that incident Satan has no access to control and sway the minds (or brains) of Adam and Eve that was why to reach them he had to directly used an animal, a snake, a animal of the field. But since that time Satan the Devil no longer need to do that (i.e. go through a proxy), this we will discuss in a subsequent installment of this discussion.
So he said, “I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself.”
And He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?”
Then the man said, “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.”
And the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?”
The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
Genesis 3:10 – 13
After Adam and Eve chose to believe the strange talking snake, Satan was able (i.e. was allowed) to gain control to sway their attitudes and thinking (i.e. to plant thoughts and attitudes directly into their minds). They began harboring acrimonious thoughts, with Adam blaming GOD and Eve, while Eve blamed the snake. Both absolved themselves of any wrongdoing or guilt by saying others were to blame for their actions, actions seeded in and driven by their own self impetus and resulting decision.
It should be noted that after Satan the Devil will be removed from his position of authority over the planet and incarcerated for a thousand years, his sway over humankind will also cease but only for the one thousand years. After the thousand years, when he will be released he will again be able to hold sway over (i.e. to tempt and totally manipulate) humankind again for a short period of time.
During the soon coming period of the Tribulation, the Church of GOD (having fled the Beast's army) will be shielded from Satan's sway throughout the three and half years period until the Second Advent. Similarly too, when Satan will be released after his one thousand years incarceration, while he will be able to sway most all of humankind of that time, the Elect of the Promise Land will be shielded from his sway just as the one true Church of GOD will be in the place of protection (Revelation 12:14) during the Tribulation.
It should be noted that after Satan the Devil will be removed from his position of authority over the planet and incarcerated for a thousand years, his sway over humankind will also cease but only for the one thousand years. After the thousand years, when he will be released he will again be able to hold sway over (i.e. to tempt and totally manipulate) humankind again for a short period of time.
During the soon coming period of the Tribulation, the Church of GOD (having fled the Beast's army) will be shielded from Satan's sway throughout the three and half years period until the Second Advent. Similarly too, when Satan will be released after his one thousand years incarceration, while he will be able to sway most all of humankind of that time, the Elect of the Promise Land will be shielded from his sway just as the one true Church of GOD will be in the place of protection (Revelation 12:14) during the Tribulation.
Aside from planting ideas, thoughts and attitudes and grow them within us into all manner of lusts and evils (because we don't resist and reject these lusts seeded impetus but instead embrace and take ownership of these lusts seeded ideas and thoughts to further develop them in our minds as our contemplation, fantasies and plans),
In the Christian Holy Scriptures there are several passages where the sway of Satan over humankind were recorded with some passages explicitly recorded while the how (i.e. the method and manner that he used), indirectly recorded.
In the account of King David, Satan very easily (because David resisted not at all, not even one tiny bit, not even when he was corrected by his General Joab, who implored him not to) got David to sin by numbering Israel.
Now Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to number Israel. So David said to Joab and to the leaders of the people, “Go, number Israel from Beersheba to Dan, and bring the number of them to me that I may know it.”
And Joab answered, “May the Lord make His people a hundred times more than they are. But, my lord the king, are they not all my lord’s servants? Why then does my lord require this thing? Why should he be a cause of guilt in Israel?”
Nevertheless the king’s word prevailed against Joab.
1 Chronicles 21:2 – 4
And in the account of the Apostle Peter, JESUS told Peter that Satan have asked for him (to get Peter to deny JESUS):
And the Lord said, “Simon, Simon! Indeed, Satan has asked for you, that he may sift you as wheat
Luke 22:31
And using a common servant girl, Satan got Peter to do exactly that despite him being forewarned.
Having arrested Him, they led Him and brought Him into the high priest’s house. But Peter followed at a distance. Now when they had kindled a fire in the midst of the courtyard and sat down together, Peter sat among them. And a certain servant girl, seeing him as he sat by the fire, looked intently at him and said, “This man was also with Him.”
But he denied Him, saying, “Woman, I do not know Him.”
Luke 22:54 – 57
In both accounts Satan was able to very easily sway (i.e. get them to do his bidding) both King David and the Apostle Peter to do exactly what he wanted them to do. And for good measure Satan got Peter to deny JESUS not just once or twice but three times, just so as to hammer the point home.
In these two examples (and there are several others which we will not go into for good and obvious reasons, which if you do not know what they are, then never mind) we have two ‘categorically’ spiritual giants of GOD. One, a man after GOD's own heart and who is a ‘Prince’ (i.e. ruler of high office) designate in the Kingdom, while the other, the Chief Apostle of twelve specifically handpicked and appointed by JESUS.
If these two main men of the Christian Holy Scriptures, one from the Old Covenant period and the other the New Covenant, were just near no effort pushover for Satan the Devil, do not delude yourself that you can do better.
Your hope of becoming anything of note in the scheme of things (in the creation of GOD) is in GOD and not in yourself a severely limited ‘tiny speck of dust of planet earth which is a tiny speck of dust in the Milky Way galaxy which is a tiny speck of dust in the universe’.
Which (or this) by the way is (the reason) why GOD created life and placed mankind made in HIS image and likeness on the nanospeck of dust earth after billions of earth years. And this reason is so that you the less than a speck of dust in your reality (the universe), would recognized (aka be cognizant of) yourself as such and not be thinking and holding yourself up as some ultra, mega, super duper supreme ingeniously intelligent proclaimed and acclaimed Superlatives as all of the proclaimed and acclaimed Superlatives of the human social order whether whatever religions and whatever science and knowledge disciplines have all been holding and thinking they are.
Your hope of becoming anything of note in the scheme of things (in the creation of GOD) is in GOD and not in yourself a severely limited ‘tiny speck of dust of planet earth which is a tiny speck of dust in the Milky Way galaxy which is a tiny speck of dust in the universe’.
Which (or this) by the way is (the reason) why GOD created life and placed mankind made in HIS image and likeness on the nanospeck of dust earth after billions of earth years. And this reason is so that you the less than a speck of dust in your reality (the universe), would recognized (aka be cognizant of) yourself as such and not be thinking and holding yourself up as some ultra, mega, super duper supreme ingeniously intelligent proclaimed and acclaimed Superlatives as all of the proclaimed and acclaimed Superlatives of the human social order whether whatever religions and whatever science and knowledge disciplines have all been holding and thinking they are.
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