Epic 15, ESV: "He canceled the account of the charges reluctant us and took it unacceptable by nailing it to the shelter. In this way, he disarmed the spiritual rulers and business. He embarrassed them publicly by his be triumphant done with them on the shelter."
NIV: "And having disarmed the powers and business, he finished a majesty observe of them, triumphing done with them by the shelter."
KJV: "And having soiled principalities and powers, he finished a shew of them straight, triumphing done with them in it."
The puzzle was, do we would like the shelter chastened satan prosperity so that behindhand the shelter he assumed he is a fit for human consumption goose, and now is thoroughly sack as a mixture of down with him as possible? Or is he uncowed by the shelter and periodic in his pursuit of devotion done with God? In other words, what consequence did the shelter store on him to the same degree Jesus descended and finished a observe of the demons and their evil finer, satan?
Arrived are my result on it.
Why do I presume satan thinks he mood win, and that the shelter did not fade his training on this celebrate one bit?
1. THE Nature OF SIN.
We're told that the unregenerated spirit is absolutely deficient. We're told that it on your own goes from bad to sink, fictitious and man deceived. (2 Tim 3:13). That they die on your own exceptional and exceptional ungodly (2 Tim 2:16). That stage is a nuance to sin that descends us and never ascends (Romans 1). In addition we're told particularly about satan that he is the get on your way of lies and to spoil. (John 8:44; John 10:10).
We know that sin makes us slow down (Romans 1, Ephesians 4:17-18...) We are speculating on satan's emotion to his guzzle at the shelter as if he were a held man reacting routinely to a guzzle as we would answer to it. He isn't and he won't. We can't use a logical mindset to utilize to his agree with actions to that guzzle. Sin makes us stupider and stupider. He is not in his good mind. As Ephesians says, our minds become ineffectual. The shelter would be a drive backwards and not a defeat- in his slow down, sin-drenched, ineffectual, darkened mind.
So due to what we are told about the breed of sin, stage is no absolve to would like that satan is any dissimilar than he was at the commencement of his fall as described in Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28, stuck-up and prideful, and every biblical absolve to know he is sink. I would like the shelter did not chasten him at all. In fact it doubtless acted as a launch pad for satan to growth his hard work. We know satan is outdone. I do not presume he does. His clowning around has ready us that. Arrived are some examples:
2. Ceremony FROM THE Sunrise
Bit he was the mask guardian angel, THE senior own of the guards as it were, and served God in His temple, and no one was more rapidly to God than he was, satan's point from the beginning was to subdue God. He meant,
"I mood exalt my throne aristocratic the stars of God: I mood sit after that upon the be apparent of the marshal, in the sides of the north: 14 I mood outward aristocratic the heights of the clouds; I mood be neighboring the utmost Dignified." (Isaiah 14:14b-15)
Satan saw God abide the earth with the power of his own put into words, he watched God abide a possible and dwell His life here him, and yet satan continually consideration he may perhaps exalt himself aristocratic God. THAT is vanity of all vanity.
2B. Ceremony CONTINUED Swallow JESUS'S Secular MINISTRY (LUKE 4)
I presume satan's vanity was deepened by the time Jesus came to earth, when satan tempted Jesus. Wow. He helpful Jesus all the kingdoms of the earth and Jesus did not correct satan, but solitary refused the run on. Satan's fasten with strap is a fasten with strap but satan, I would like, has ancient times he is one a fasten with strap at all. I would like he thinks that when he has understand to fantasy, 1/3 of the angels on his organize, and is god of this world that he can and mood bear to come again state.
3. SATAN'S Rush AT Characteristic TOSSED OUT OF Paradise, (REV 12:7-17).
In Rev 12:13 it says "At the same time as the dragon realized that he had been confused down to the earth, he pursued the woman who had limited dawn to the male child." The seam interpretation, I understand, is that has had understand to fantasy equally his fall, but at this memo in the Hearing, satan is not at home advance understand to fantasy, put down with his 1/3 fallen angel legion. In fact, this is what sparks the Great Hearing. He is so cross he mightily persecutes the Israel/Jews in the 2nd half of the Hearing, and so the Christians. He's dumbfounded, dumbfounded, at man confused out. It even takes him a bit of time to cotton on the fact. See--
...somewhere the verse says "to the same degree he realized he had been confused down". If satan has to stay on the line time to even fulfill he has lost the war in fantasy, he require store consideration that his understand would store gone on once and for all. The word in the verse for "he realized" key in he supposed or discerned, "to see with the mind" (i.e. religiously see), i.e. meaning (with inward spiritual appreciative). (Strong's). In this crate I label that if he is thoroughly realizing it in the Hearing that he lost state, so prior to that he didn't store a suspicion he even may perhaps lose. The shelter at a halt...
3B. THE Durability OF HIS Claim TO Defeat GOD
Satan's emotion to this loss of understand to fantasy is frighten evil tumult (Rev 12:17). The Greek word for his tumult key in noteworthy fit (aversion), i.e. growing up from an unconvincing (align) aversion. This tells me that his fit was as align as it was the day he declared war on God by saying he mood exalt himself aristocratic God. It key in an certain, noteworthy fit. So after over I interpret that satan is continually stuck-up and continually believes he mood win even at the choose by ballot consider it of the Great Tribulation's commencement. He starts to get a suspicion in Rev 12 somewhere the angel says zip, revel when the devil knows his time is momentary.' But that does not cut off him at all. The shelter at a halt. As a subject of fact... it on your own spurs him on. What flash on the diary of goings-on is...
4. ARMAGEDDON
As John MacArthur preaches the verses in Rev 16, we see all the armies of the world that satan has demonically positive to knock together at Armageddon. Why do they all stock there? Put forward is one world government and one world finer...so they don't come to quarrel reluctant the antichrist...and not reluctant each other, when they are all stage as one legion unit. Do they come to quarrel reluctant Israel? Maybe, MacArthur says, but exceptional to the memo they store gathered to quarrel reluctant GOD. Flat that that departed consider it, satan continually thinks he mood win. His armies at Har Megiddo are stage to quarrel reluctant Jesus Himself. The shelter notwithstanding!
5. MILLENNIUM Triumph
Flat behindhand guzzle at the shelter, man tossed out of fantasy, losing at Armageddon, and behindhand man safe and sound up for 1000 living, the zenith thing satan does behindhand realization out (at the end of the millennium,) is that satan foments a dispute. A big one. Rev 20:8-9, "mood come out to sting the nations that are at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to stock them for battle; their come forth is neighboring the sand of the sea. 9 And they marched up done with the spacious meager of the earth and delimited the camp of the saints and the darling community, but fire came down from fantasy and moved out them,"
This evil angel believes he can win until the very split second he is confused here the pond of fire!
I presume the shelter was a awkward influence in satan's mind but not a guzzle in his mind, (we know that it was the concluding nail in his casket, of course) but that the shelter on your own redoubled his hard work. My establish is: he thinks he mood win. He is pitiless in his hatred, which is glaring. Sin on your own deludes advance and advance as we know from Romans 1. And ancestors reasons aristocratic are the derivation for me having formed that establish. But it is on your own an establish. I can't be authoritarian about it. To the same degree do you think?
The memo I essential to make is that we requisite never underestimate the inflexibility of sin in our lives. Jesus broke ancestors chains for us and thus satan has no power done with us- if we fastener to Jesus definitely. We require perpetually mysterious to the Holy Central part to help us resist our natural appetite to sin (as covet as we are in our bodies).We can be positive by satan and tempted to sin and as we see from the nuance of his appointment roughly speaking the ages, he is pitiless.
As for the lost, if you store unsaved zip in your boundary or your workplace or your school...happy experience again satan's enormous vanity, nobility, and aim to absolutely spoil. Their chains store not been not working and they are under satan's fade. Beseech for them and store lenience with them. They do not know what they are doing!
Let me know what you would like on this problem or any other.
