The Bible is the only reliable source of information regarding the things of God. God is the creator of all things including Satan. The major influence in the world we live in is the person, presence and power of Satan. God allows Satan to manipulate the things of this world including world events, individual circumstances and personal choices. What we experience in time is merely the unfolding of God’s preordained plan. Satan cannot do any more than what God allows. We must accept, by faith, that God’s plan is righteous, just and fair.
The Biblical record of the origin of Satan is intentionally obscure. The schemes of Satan are well documented and are highly effective. The fate of Satan is explicitly detailed in the Bible. Believers must rely on the Holy Spirit for protection from Satan, the Mighty Adversary of God.
Satan is the ruler of our fallen world. He commands his army of demons and all unbelievers. This satanic regime will continue until Christ’s Second Coming.
The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.
Romans 16:20
Postlude
The Apostolic Doctrine
An Apostle is one who is sent by the authority of the Holy Spirit who empowers them. After Jesus’ death, certain men were recognized as Apostles. The most famous ones were Peter, James, John and Paul. These and others established doctrines that have been recorded in their writings. God has communicated to man in various ways such as through creation, through the prophets and his Son. However, nothing has been as explicit as the Holy Spirit working through an Apostle resulting in an inspired written explanation of God’s previous methods of communication. While the previous methods may be correctly or incorrectly interpreted by some of us, the recorded teachings of the Apostles formulate sound doctrine. Their writings are contained within the canon of the New Testament. They will prove to be the only reliable conclusions for those who seek a proper understanding of God’s message to mankind. The following Scripture represents the confident authority demonstrated by the Apostle Paul. The same tenor extends to the other apostolic writings as well.
“We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. No, we declare God’s wisdom, a mystery that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. However, as it is written: ‘What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived’— the things God has prepared for those who love him—these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit.
“The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words. The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, for, ‘Who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?’“But we have the mind of Christ (1 Corinthians 2:6-16).”
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Text for this post has been borrowed from my Kindle eBook The Fate of Satan (Book 3 of the Grace and Knowledge Series) by Brother Woody Brohm. Copyright 2016.
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