Is God or Satan Winning?
"The God of peace shall bruise Satan
under your feet shortly"-#Ro
16:20
DO YOU KNOW:
That God created Lucifer perfect, but he
rebelled against God (##Isa 14:12-20; #Eze 28:12-19), and so became Satan (adversary), God’s
enemy?
That Satan is a person-not an evil
principle-for he abode not in the truth,
spoke to God, reasoned, etc. (#Joh 8:44; #Job 1-2; #2Co
2:11; 11:14, 15)?
That God created Adam perfect and told him
if he disobeyed he would surely die,
but Satan won control over mankind by his first lie: "Ye shall not
surely die" (#Ge 2:17; 3:4; #Eze 18:4, 20; #Ro 5:12; 6:23)?
DO YOU KNOW:
That God sentenced Adam to die: "Unto
dust shalt thou return," but also said
that the women’s seed shall bruise Satan’s head (#Ge 3:14-19)?
That, starting with Cain and Abel, Satan
has tried to destroy or ensnare the
seed of the women?
That Satan before the Flood induced some
angels to materialize and marry women,
thus producing hybrids and very evil conditions (#Ge 6:1-7; Jude 6, 7)?
That God by the Flood destroyed that
"old world" (Greek, kosmos, social
order)-not the earth (#Ec
1:4)-saving only Noah and
family (2 Peter 2:4, 5)?
That Satan with the aid of his fallen
angels soon enslaved Noah’s progeny
through Nimrod, began various false religions, etc., and thus by
usurpation became "the god [mighty
one] of this [’present evil’] world" (Genesis 10; 2 Corinthians 4:4; #Ga 1:4; #Joh 12:31;
14:30)?
That God promised righteous Abraham that
through him and his seed all nations
would be blessed (#Ge
12:1-3; 17:19, 21; 22:15-18; 26:4; 28:14)?
That Satan consequently made special
attacks on Isaac, Esau (causing him to sell
his birthright), Jacob, Joseph, Moses, the Israelites, Saul, David,
Solomon, his progeny, the prophets,
etc. (#Lu 11:47-51)?
That God finally sent His only begotten
Son, the promised Seed, to give His life
a ransom, so all would be given one full individual trial for eternal
life (#Ga 3:8, 16;
#Mt 20:28; #1Ti 4:10; #1Jo 2:2)?
That Satan tried to ensnare or destroy
Jesus and finally succeeded in crucifying
Him (#Mt 4:1-11; 8:24; #Lu 4:29; 22:3-6, 47, 48; 23:33, 34)?
That God raised Jesus from the dead and
exalted Him to the Divine nature (Acts
5:30, 31; #Php 2:9-11)?
That Satan, no longer able to attack Jesus
personally, tried to destroy the
Church, His Body, for it also is a part of Abraham’s Seed, that is to
bless all mankind (#Ro 12:5; 4:13-16; ##Eph 1:18-23; #Ga 3:7-9, 29)?
That God, despite Satan’s persecutions,
prospered and multiplied the early
Church (#Ac 2:41; 5:14)?
DO YOU KNOW:
That Satan, failing to destroy the Church
by persecutions, perverted it with
false doctrines and bad practices (#Mt 13:24-28; #2Th 2:3-10; 1 #Joh 4:3), so the true Church became almost unrecognizable, because
of so many tares (imitation Christians)?
That God kept His promise never to forsake
His loyal people, so amid all Satan’s
errors and the "gross darkness" upon the people, God gave His
true saints "a little help"
though such faithful servants as Marsiglio, Wyclif, Huss, Savonarola, Luther, Zwingli, Cranmer,
Wesley, etc. (#Heb 13:5, 6; Matthew
28:20; ##Isa 60:2; #Da 11:34;
#Mic 5:5)?
That Satan controlled Christendom by
"the chained Bible," ignorance,
superstition, heathen philosophies clergy and aristocracy-and to support
his first lie (#Ge 3:4), consciousness of the dead, inherent immortality of the human soul and the blasphemous doctrine of
eternal torment, using figurative Bible
texts and parables literally and confusing Hades and Gehenna so as to deceive?
That since 1799, in "the time of the
end," God has greatly increased knowledge
(#Da 12:4; #Na 2:3, 4)?
That with the dispelling of his old
errors, Satan and his demons ("seducing
spirits") have brought forth new "doctrines of devils" (#1Ti 4:1)-Evolution, Theosophy, Christian Science, New Thought,
Mormonism, Rosicrucianism,
Universalism, Scientology, etc.-and are multiplying "signs and wonders" (#2Th 2:9)-witchcraft, black art, fortune-telling, alleged talking with the dead, Satanism,
clairvoyance, spirit-rapping, sorcery,
crystal-ball gazing, tea-leaf reading, spirit-writing, hypnotism,
ESP, astrology, poltergeists,
horoscopes, tarot cards, ouija boards, "flying saucers," etc.?
That God forbids His people to have
anything to do with such media (Exodus
22:18; #Le 19:26, 31;
20:6, 27; #De 18:9-14; #1Ch
10:13, 14; #2Ki 21:6; #2Ch 33:6; ##Isa 8:19, 20; 19:3, 4; #Jer 29:8, 9; #Zec
10:2; #Ga 5:19-21; #Re
21:8; 22:15)?
DO YOU KNOW:
That Satan is desperate, seeing God
through Christ victorious in refuting his
errors by the truth and in using the Time of Trouble (World War,
Revolution and Anarchy) to bind him and
demolish his empire, preparatory to establishing God’s Kingdom on earth (#Re 19:11-21; 11:15-18; 20:1-4; #1Ki 19:11, 12; #Ps 46:8-11; 76:8-10; #Da 12:1; #Mt 24:21, 22; 12:29; 6:10; Micah 4:1-4)?
That God "shall bruise Satan under
your [the elect Seed’s] feet shortly"; for God "will have all men [including the non-elect-#1Ti 4:10; #Heb
2:9; 1 #Joh 2:2] to be
saved [from Adamic condemnation] and to come unto the [exact] knowledge of the truth" (#Ro 16:20; #1Ti
2:4-6; #Nu 14:21; #Isa
11:9)?
That in "the new earth [social
order]" mankind will have their judgment (trial for life) as they come up the "highway" to human
perfection (#Ac 17:31; #2Pe 3:7-13; #Isa 35; 65:17-25; #Re 21:1-5; 22:17)?
That Satan, when loosed for mankind’s
final testing, will soon gain a host of
followers, but God will annihilate him and all the wicked (#Re 20:3, 7-10; 21:8; #Ps 37:9-11, 38; 145:20; #Isa 43:17; #Heb 2:14)?
That God will thus have won the contest;
for Satan will be no more, "all
iniquity shall stop her mouth," and all creatures will praise God
and Christ forever (#Eze 28:19; #Ps
107:42; #Re 5:12, 13)?
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