Focus Point #6

Well, the bombings and killings in Northern Israel and southern Lebanon seem to be subsiding. Maybe the conflicts between Israel and Hezballah seem to be over. I don't think so!! While it may be quiet in the North, it's not quiet in the South. Israel and Hamas are still at it. Things have quieted down, and for that we should be very grateful. I know the folks on the exploding end of those bombs are grateful.

But, as peaceful as things may seem, believe me, it's only temporary. The angelic conflict, the battle between God and Satan will not be over until Satan is cast into the Lake of Fire. These two forces, or powers, will never, never set down to negotiate or dialogue toward some peaceful settlement. No way!!

One of the things we should keep in mind is, of all the attributes of God - who He is and what He's like - Satan has NONE of the same qualities. Not one! I mentioned some of those attributes in the first "Missle" I'll mention 3 more, just to give you a little background:


GOD IS OMNIPRESENT - There is no place where He is not (except in the souls of the unsaved or in the Lake of Fire). Satan is NOT omni-present. He is a person, a spirit being. He has demons, to be sure, but he is limited to being in one place at a time. I think he must spend a lot of time in San Francisco and Washington D.C. (Only kidding!).

GOD IS OMNISCIENT - God knows everything. He knows all things - all things past, present and future. Satan knows the past and he knows a lot of things in the present. Not all, but a whole lot. He knows the future, but only what he reads in the Bible, the Word of God. And it's here that I want to apply the angelic conflict.

Satan didn't know that God was going to create human beings until he saw it happen in the Garden of Eden. He didn't know that Eve would fall for his lies, until she did! He didn't know that Adam would willingly listen to Eve when he found out that she listened to the devil and disobeyed God, and for that disobedience, be cast out of the Garden. But Adam had that choice to make - so he did.
And when God, speaking directly to him (Satan) in Gen. 3:14 and 15 said
"And the Lord God said unto the serpent, because thou hast done this,
thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon
thy belly shalt thou go and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life.
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy
seed and her seed; he shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise
His heel."
When God said in verse 15 "Between your seed and her seed" - the "seed of the woman" is masculine singular, referring, of course, to the Son of Mary. We know that, but Adam didn't and Eve didn't and neither did Satan!

So to try to stop that promise from taking place, Satan thought maybe the seed was one of their kids - like maybe Abel. Abel was an obedient, God honoring, God worshiping young man. So Satan thought "I'll kill him, because he might be the seed that will destroy my seed." So he used a kid that didn't obey and didn't honor God - Cain. Cain, under the evil controlling influence of Satan slit his brother Abel's throat.

But Abel wasn't who God was referring to way back there in the beginning.
The seed, Masculine, singular, was none other than Jesus Christ.

Satan didn't know "That Seed" was going to come out of the family of Abraham, the father of the Jewish race, a brand new race. So he then tried to destroy Abraham's family...and so on. He didn't find out that this precious Seed would be born of a virgin. Satan got that information from Isaiah. God told Isaiah to write it down. And when He did, Satan read it.
Isaiah 7:14 "Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, the virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel."
Isaiah 9:6-7 "For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulder; and his name shall be called Wonderful,
Counselor, The Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace."
"Of the increase in His government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon His kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with justice and with righteousness from henceforth even forever. The zeal of the Lord WILL perform this."

So, all that's in the Word of God - Satan knows. He is still trying to keep God from carrying out His Word - trying to keep Jesus from coming again the second time, and trying to keep Him from sitting on the Throne of David and ruling the whole world. Satan will do anything he can to stop what's going to be happening; things that Isaiah wrote about in chapter 11. (Read Isaiah, chapter 11)

He will do anything he can to make God out to be a helpless liar. That's why the Jews are always and ever his constant target and the radical element of the Muslim world (1.2 billion of them) are the most usable weapons he has going for him.

Blessings,

Bro. Bob