2. THE DESTRUCTION OF THE SATANIC WORLD SYSTEM
It is plain from the testimony of Scripture that God is permitting Satan's career and program of pride and rebellion to run its course, both as it affects man and the earth and the angelic beings, in order to bring glory to Himself in His redemptive grace in Christ (Eph. 2:7) and to furnish a stern lesson for eternity,
to all created intelligences,
(Theses days? That means Digital intelligences as well.)
of the wicked folly of revolt against their Creator (Matt. 25:41; Rev. 19:20). But the concluding acts of this great drama of evil, ending in tragedy for Satan and his followers and in the destruction of Satan's world system, will be enacted in the closing years of this age, in the day of the Lord, after the Church has been translated to heaven
(I Thess. 4:13-18; II Thess. 2:1-4).
Im going to include the scripture referenced here instead of just making a link to it so that you can see, NOWHERE in those two passages of scripture does it mention ANYTHING about:
"The Day of the Lord coming after the Church has been translated to heaven."
This is the Pre-Tribulation view (Church gets yanked out prior to the last of Daniels 70's 7's, the tribulation, and as we are witnessing, it was (because hardly anybody believes it any more) an erroneous position based on wishful thinking, not the reality we are currently witnessing.
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
(Yes he will, but do you see where it says
Church gets yanked out of the world prior to all of that?
Yeah me neither.)
15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
(And once he comes back?
He doesn't go anywhere else, let a lone take any with him, In fact the new heaven and the new earth and the new Jerusalem all come here as well.
(Ref Revelation 21, particularly vs 2.)
18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
2 Thessalonians 2:1-4
2 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
(Seems like if Christ was gonna remove his people from the Tribulation period?
He would have said so.
He never did, therefore all the:
"the day of the Lord, after the Church has been translated to heaven" thinking,
was merely man made conjectures.
Not getting on to the Author here, this was a predominant position of many until recently. Now we see it for what it was, a man-made conjecture never supported with scripture.)
Satan, who still has his abode in the heavenlies with the privilege of access to God during the period his world system exists on the earth, will with his angels be cast out of the upper air upon the earth in the middle of the last amazing seven years which wind up this era (Rev. 12:7).
Again I disagree.
Were living it
or at a minimum witnessing the beginning of it
and Satan quite obviously has been on this earth for a while.
Witness:
John 14:30
Christ talking.
Hereafter I will not talk much with you:
for the prince of this world cometh,
and hath nothing in me.
The war in the Heavenlies described in Revelation 12:7, took place after Christ ascension. Not in the middle of the tribulation. The Book of Revelation just isnot linear, Ive said it many times (although at times it can be, which can make things interesting ) Christ and Satan can not be in the same place at the same time, therefore Christ went up, Satan was thrown down to the earth. (Technically the end times started with Christ ascension).The author made this very point earlier in the book and now he seems to be contradicting himself.)
Jesus referred to this yet future event graphically when he declared:
"I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven" (Luke 10:18).
(So then it obviously couldn't have been in middle of the tribulation period right?
Satan Expelled from Heaven yes,
but not thrown to the earth yet.
Only on special occasions
is he allowed to temp/deceive etc.
(In the Garden, Job,
Peter after Christ predicts his death)
Cast out of heaven upon the earth, Satan will operate through the Antichrist, that mysterious and ominous personage predicted both in the Old and the New Testament to arise in the last times. In the Old Testament this fearful antagonist is prefigured under the titles of "the king of Babylon" (Isa. 14:4), "Lucifer" (Isa. 14:12), "the little horn" (Dan. 7:8; 8:9), "a king of fierce countenance" (Dan. 8:23), "the prince that shall come" (9:26), and "the king" that "shall do according to his will" (Dan. 11:36). In the New Testament he appears as "the man of sin," "the son of perdition" (II Thess. 2:3), "the wicked (lawless) one" (II Thess. 2:8), "antichrist" (I John 2:18), and "the beast" (Rev. 13:1-10). Considerable confusion has been precipitated in prophetic teaching by identifying the second beast of Revelation 13:11-18 with the Antichrist9 rather than with the first beast of Revelation 13:1-10.10 That the first beast, and not the second, is the Antichrist of Scripture,
(Again I disagree.
Ref:
Revelation 13:11
(The second Beast.)
And I beheld another beast
coming up out of the earth;
and he had two horns like a lamb,
and he spake as a dragon.
Matches right up with LLM's,
an eloquent speaker
against the most high etc.
Its pretty clear the Antichrist is
the second Beast in Rev 13.
The Interpreters Bible
goes to great lengths
to make this point.)
is amply demonstrated by W. R. Newell?1
Through this sinister person,
(Given the time period we are living in,
some 70 years after this book was written we know
Its not a person,
Ref Daniel 7:8
in this horn
were eyes
like
the eyes of man,
(Not human just appears to be.)
and a mouth speaking great things.
(LLM's, AI etc...)
whom Satan will indwell (which he may do since he is "a spirit, and therefore unseen by mortal eyes," )12 he will strike his final furious blows at the God-fearing remnant of Jews,
(Why would he even bother?
Satans #1 enemy is Christians.
Not Jews.)
who will then preach the "gospel of the kingdom" (Matt. 24:14),
(Many Jews will convert in the last days:
Hosea 3:5
Afterward the Israelites will return
and seek the Lord their God and David their king.
(Christ)
They will come trembling to the Lord
and to his blessings in the last days.)
and the God-fearing Gentiles, who will believe
the good news
that Christ will shortly come
to establish
His millennial kingdom upon the earth.
(Amen, Amen, Amen honey says :-)
Satan's evil design will be to take full possession of the earth himself,
(Where do you think we are?)
banish the name of God from the globe, and defeat the divine plan to set up the Messianic kingdom.
To this end this devil-indwelt "man of lawlessness . .. the son of perdition . . . opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat IN the temple of God (at Jerusalem), proclaiming himself to be God" (II Thess. 2:3-4, R. S. V.).
(Preferring:
These days.
And he will confirm a covenant with many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of the temple will come the abomination that causes desolation, until the decreed destruction is poured out upon him.”
Power will be "given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations" (Rev. 13:8). He will inaugurate a world-wide reign of terror, blasphemy, and murder. "He shall speak words against the Most High,
(LLM's,
I keep trying to tell ya.)
and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and think to change times and laws" Daniel 7:25). It will be his supreme and most desperate attempt to be "like the Most High" (Isa. 14:14). "He shall stand up against the prince (Christ)" (Dan. 8:25). His brief
(He is but a "bit player" in the book of Revelation.)
but horrible reign and mad career of God-defying pride and selfish ambition will bring into full fruition all the latent evil elements of the Satanic world system and reveal it to be, what it has always been and what God's Word appraises it to be, WHOLLY EVIL.
(Do you not know?
Can you not tell?
Look at your world.)
When its iniquity is full,
as in the case of the ancient Amorites
(Gen. 15:16),
it shall be irremediably destroyed.
(Commentary on Genesis 15:16:
The Lord does not arbitrarily punish;
He allows people to run themselves into hell,
which makes His verdicts fitting.
Not only people but countries,
like ours right now.
Im telling ya, I saw this:
The destroyer of Satan's evil world system will be the all glorious returning Christ, He who at the cross "spoiled principalities and powers," and "made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it" (Col. 2:15), and who thereby not only purchased man's redemption, but at the same time redeemed the earth from Satan's ultimate usurpation.
(Fav word here lately :-).
He who alone was found worthy to unloose the seven-sealed book, the title deed to the earth, by virtue of His sacrifice
("the seven-sealed book, the title deed to the earth"
Love that.
Gonna use it.)
will then have finished opening the seals and loosing the judgments upon the earth that will result in the utter annihilation of the Satanic system and the dispossession of Satan. At the end of the Great Tribulation the confederated armies under the Antichrist, Satan's tool, will be assembled in the plain of Megiddo, in preparation for moving against Jerusalem (Zech. 14:2) to annihilate the Jew.
(Who been yapping about what we are seeing right now is the start of that?
Zech 14:2 that is?
Hum?
Not sure where he is getting that from:
"to annihilate the Jew"
He is the antichrist
not
the anti-Jew.)
Pouring the "spirit of grace and supplications" upon "the house of David" (Israel)
(Israel in this context to me is the body of true believers
"an Israelite indeed in whom there is no guile"
(John 1:47).
and the inhabitants of Jerusalem (Zech. 12:10), the glorious Christ, leading the "armies of heaven," will come to their rescue (Rev. 19:11-16), clashing with the Antichrist and the wicked kings and their demonized armies of earth, assembled by unparalleled demon activity (Rev. 16:13-16) to make war against the Lord.
(What do you think we have going on right now?
"assembled by unparalleled demon activity"
????????)
The Beast (Antichrist) and the False Prophet, his helper, will be taken and "cast alive into the lake of fire," and their armies "slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse" (Rev. 19:20-21). In the terrific carnage "all the fowls will be filled with their flesh" (Rev. 19:21).
The last event marking the collapse of the Satanic world system will be the descent of an angel from heaven, who seizes "the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound (will bind) him a thousand years," and "cast him into the bottomless pit and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled" (Rev. 20:1-3). Although only Satan, as the great head of the kingdom of darkness, is mentioned as incarcerated in the bottomless pit, it would be inconceivable in view of the nature of the Messianic Kingdom to suppose that the demon powers were left free to act. In this case the whole body of spiritual evil is to be thought of as included in the head,
especially as the bottomless pit
is also the prison house of the demons
(cf. Rev. 9:1-11).
(Again I disagree.
The Locust from the Abyss are not demonic but angelic.
Gods legion of destroyer angels.
He had to keep em locked up somewhere,
look at what happened in Genesis 6.
The author never accounts for them or how they got there or why
The answer is obvious.
They are not demons.
They are here.
We see them all the time.
They were in the night sky when the two sheriffs deputies for some unknown reason just changed their minds about where things were headed and just left.
And there are two different abyss.
Neither one reachable by the other.
Covered this already a while back.
More notes/references are included at the bottom.)
With the Satanic system destroyed and Satan and demons locked up, the time will have at last come for the restoration of the kingdom to Israel (Acts 1:6), that glorious era of peace and blessing so magnificently predicted by the seers of the Old Testament.
(Not really sure why you would need geo-political, geographic boundaries during Christ Millennial reign. Refer back to: "Body of true believers in whom there is no guile, etc.)
Biblical demonology Pt.3 (Chapter4)
THE REALITY AND IDENTITY OF THE DEMONS
That one rattled me for a second as it seems contrary to my position that the locust of the deep in Revelation 9 are angelic not demonic.
"If it hits you seemingly out of nowhere?"
"Its the holy spirit working upon you."
Brother Joe Kim
After reading about the demons abode Luke:8:31, Rev 9:11 I got up to take a break, Again, I hadn't reached the stairs and the spirit says..."Theres two"...So after I take my break I come back up and look up a diagram I know I have something to check on something and here is what I found:
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