Focus Point # 8

Don't forget, one of the most important things to remember about the Devil....he is very powerful, intelligent and he's very cunning. And just because he is all those things and more, don't give him too much credit. He has none of the attributes that God has. God is sovereign and omnipotent. God is omnipresent and omniscient. He is all powerful, all knowing and there is no place He is NOT!

When Satan's demons left their first estate and set out to destroy the God consciousness passed on to every child born in Adam's race, they did not know that every one of those fallen angels would be destroyed and sent to an eternal place of death and destruction. And that they were!

Just what did happen to those human beings who did not get on the Ark with Noah and his family? All of those human beings, and including those women who gave themselves in sexual intercourse with those demons, along with the children (giants) born out of that illicit relationship were sent to "The place of torments".... and that's where those souls are to this day! But not those demons. They were sent to a place called in the Greek language, "Tartarus." II Peter 2:4 "Cast them into Hell." Hell here is not Hades but Tartarus. This same issue is dealt with in Jude, verse 5. Only there it says these "angels" (fallen) are in everlasting chains unto darkness and unto judgment."

Had Satan had the slightest idea that he was going to suffer such a terrible defeat he'd have never tried that stupid trick! Satan knew he'd never try that again. But Noah and the whole human race that followed him didn't know. That is, not until God said He'd never destroy the earth with water again. That covenant was and is sealed in the form of the rainbow.

I don't know how long ago God created Lucifer, who became Satan. I do know Lucifer existed as the Angel of Light long before this world, or if you will, the universe was created. And I do know that when Lucifer even thought, even had the slightest idea that he should be equal with God, that's when he and 1/3 of the angelic beings who decided that Lucifer was right and God was wrong, that's when they were cast out of Heaven. And I believe they made their new headquarters...
earth! Rev. 12:3,4.

So, did that great defeat suffered by Satan and his demon force make them quit the battle? No way!

I think in the early sixties, Hal Lindsay wrote his famous book, "Satan Is Alive And Well On Planet Earth." He is and he has been, lo these thousands of years.

Satan couldn't destroy the human race, so he took another tack! Organize and unify. If you'll just quickly glance through Gen. 11, you'll notice in verses 5, 10, 19, 10, 15, 30, 31 and 32 where it says "These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations, and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood." And you get the idea that this arrangement was okay with God. Until - and here's the devil's next shot...organize and unify and our international union will be expressed in one place! Let us build a city and a tower whose top....Heaven! The two words "will reach" are not in the original Hebrew. It literally says "whose top-Heaven. Under Satan's influence they were going to create their own Heaven! You know the story well. God confused them with a confusion of communications. They couldn't understand one another. So when the foreman said, "Put those bricks here" - they thought he said "Get lost" and that's what they did. They got out, in all directions.

Now the next thing you'll notice in chapter 11 of Genesis is in verse 10. These are the records of the generations of Shem. Ah ha! The Shemites. If you'll skim over chapter eleven until you get to verse 26 you'll find Satan's next target. Bingo!
Abraham, or Abram.

Until we chat again,

Blessings,

Bro. Bob