Tag: Satan

Satan’s stratagem to thwart God’s plan

  • Adam and Eve -Genesis 3:3-6, 14-15; 1 Timothy 2:14-15
  • Cain’s murder of Abel -Genesis 4
  • Corruption of Adam’s line -Genesis 6
  • Abraham’s seed -Genesis 12, 20
  • Famine -Genesis 50
  • Destruction of male line -Exodus 1
  • Pharaoh’s pursuit -Exodus 14
  • The populating of Canaan -Genesis 15
  • Against David’s line -2 Samuel 7
    • Jehoram kills his brothers -2 Chronicles 21
    • Arabians slew all but Ahazariah -2 Chronicles 22:1
    • Athaliah kills all but Joash -2 Chronicles 22:10-11
    • Hezekiah assaulted, etc. -Isaiah 36, 38
    • Blood curse on Jeconiah -Jeremiah 22:30
      • – thus, the Virgin Birth
    • Haman’s attempts -Esther 3
  • Joseph’s fears: -Matthew 1
  • Herod’s attempts: -Matthew 2
  • Attempts at Nazareth: -Luke 4
  • Two storms on the Sea: -Mark 4; Luke 8
  • The Cross
  • Summary: -Revelation 12

…and he is still not through until he is thrown into the bottomless pit for the millennium (Revelation 20:1-3). Until then Satan will continue to attempt to remove all that come to recognize who Jesus was when He entered His creation on His first coming, and will then ask Him to return for His second coming (Hosea 5:15; Amos 9:11). After Jesus’ second coming the millennium will be Satan free until the end of the millennium when he will make another attempt to deceive humanity, but will lose and be sent to his eternity (Revelation 20:7-10)…

Satan’s 3 Step Method

Satan deceives us, even today, using 3 steps:

  1. He questions God’s Word; creates doubt – Genesis 3:1
    • “…Yea, hath God said…?”
  2. Next, he denies God’s Word – Genesis 3:4
    • “…Ye shall not surely die:”
  3. Then he substitutes his own lie and denies the deity of Christ – Genesis 3:5
    • “…ye shall be as gods…”

and our response is rationalization – Genesis 3:6:

  1. the tree was good for food
  2. it was pleasant to the eyes
  3. and to be desired to make one wise

God has provided a way back to fellowship with Him:

  1. Accept Jesus as your personal savior – Romans 10:9
  2. Confess and repent your sins- 1 John 1:9
  3. and sacrifice them to Jesus as He has willingly paid for all sin to free us from the devil’s hold now and into eternity- 2 Timothy 2:21
  • It is His faithfulness we rely on!!!
  • He has always and will continue to do what He says!!!
  • Come to Jesus, NOW!!!

Even so, come quickly Jesus