What will satan come as

So, where did Satan come from? When did he rebel? When did his entourage rebel? Why did he rebel? Our brief interrogatory analysis into Colossians unearths nearly as many questions as it yields answers.

We now turn to the realm of biblical theology to resolve leftover questions from our exegesis. At Calvary, Jesus died and Satan received an imagined victory. But that was neither the beginning nor the end of the story as we saw in Colossians Satan thought he had bested the Son of God and was, thus, at the pinnacle of his pride.

At Golgotha, it seemed the curtains were closing on our humble little story from Bethlehem. In actuality, as rendered in Colossians, it is Satan who was at his weakest point. Satan is a contingent, sentient, and derivative being just as any other created animate creature Gn , Col It is discernible that his opposition took place prior to the fall of man in Genesis 3.

However, neither a precise description of that event nor the precise point in time of his personal rebellion and motivation is ever made explicit. Rather, we are, as it were, dropped into an already mature and maturing plotline. An honor-bound and conscientious narrative reading of Scripture must take the New Testament seriously. Revelation explicates that indeed the serpent of Eden Gn 3 is the same being referred to in many New Testament texts. In Matthew , Satan seems to believe he is powerful enough to bring down the Son of God from the altitude of divinity by temptation.

Satan contends with the Son of God, is overpowered, and is ultimately defeated at the cross Col Because of his pride, Satan never sees it coming.

He lacks omniscience. Pride is his most highlighted characteristic. After working through the proper exegetical and biblical-theological motions, we now have a sturdier foundation upon which to establish a few implications that help us to discern the person and activity of Satan:.

There was a time when Satan was not. Satan is created and contingent just as humans are Col He is not omnipresent and, thus, is unlikely to be personally tempting individual Christians. In Matthew 4 and Job , he fails to know the future and his potency is shown to be limited by God.

In Matthew 4, Satan legitimately offers Jesus the kingdoms of the world. These kingdoms seem to have a geographical and governmental nature. This offer is textually grounded in Deuteronomy 32 and Psalm But through the cross, Jesus took back the authority forfeited in Adam Col Therefore, in Matthew , Jesus states that all authority has been given to Him.

Instead, His Word brings peace, wisdom, love, and a sound mind. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. A Christian who hoards the gospel to themselves is an ineffective Christian. One of our primary roles as a follower of Christ is to encourage others to be followers of Christ. In fact, Matthew , would deem it to be our greatest mission. Yet, one trick of the enemy is to silence Christians. Yet, followers of Christ should take every moment they can to share the Gospel.

When we shrink back from doing so, the enemy wins! Let us no longer be ashamed to share the gospel, by any means necessary. It is the power of God at work, saving everyone who believes — the Jew first and also the Gentile. Reminding you of your past indiscretions and sin or current insecurities is another scheme of the enemy.

Even more so, this shame will keep you from praying to God and even sharing the gospel with others. Remember, we are not a sum of our past behaviors. An idol can be anything that we place before the Lord. In the Old Testament, this was clear to see as they worshipped literal objects.

From worshipping our favorite celebrity, to spending hours on social media, to living a life that is extremely focused on self, we can make anything an idol. Let me share a few things that he is interested in doing in your life. It doesn't matter what he has you distracted on as long as you aren't focused on God first. Maybe he will even distract you with good things at first. He is fine with good things as long as they aren't as good as the things you should be focused on.

He doesn't mind a slow erosion of your focus. The political season, the news cycle, a never ending supply of streaming entertainment, kids sports, the pursuit of a degree The devil wants to distract you from your Lord. Not only does he want families destroyed, but he wants to stop them before they even start. He wants to prevent the marriage by encouraging living together and degrading marriage to, "just a piece of paper. He wants us to view kids as a burden instead of a blessing Psalm But if the devil isn't able to keep us from marriage and bearing children, he wants to destroy our marriages and hijack the minds and hearts of our children.

He will use subtleties like unmet and unspoken expectations, selfishness, or budgets to put pressures on your marriage. He will slip perversions into your kids entertainment that you feel aren't quite bad enough to take it away, but begin to mold their hearts and minds away from the Lord. Nothing is more powerful than a hypocrite. Even a lost and dying world despises hypocrisy. If the devil get you confident enough of in your faith to profess it, but weak enough in your faith to not follow it, he has created a powerful weapon for his plan.

The devil loves fear. Riots in the streets and economic uncertainty are breeding grounds for fear, anxiety, depression, and all other forms of human suffering and he delights in them all.

When we are afraid we just want to drown out the thing that is causing the fear. We want to numb the pain. Fear can be crippling. And when you focus on fear, he is winning. He is greedy. He is selfish. Being a powerful angel in the Lord's presence wasn't enough for him. He wanted to be God. He will stop at nothing to take every good thing and destroy it. He is relentless and will go until he drains us of all good! So what should we do? James tells us, " Submit therefore to God.

Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Submit to God. No more trying to control our own lives and make our own decisions and write our own story. If He is Lord, submit to His authority. He will do a better job than you anyways. Then we need to r esist the devil. For too long we have tried to compromise with him, hoping that he would leave us alone.

But in the end all we have done is feed the beast, let him grow, and now he wants more. His greed can never be satisfied and you cannot appease him by giving in. Resist him in the power and strength of the Lord , with the armor of God Eph.

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