Satan is the god of this world because Adam forfeited the position of his God-given rulership over this world. God true to His form will allow Satan to hold on to this position until someone has qualified to replace him. The good news is that someone is the second man [uniquely created, Adam being the first], the last Adam, Jesus. When the lord Messiah Jesus returns to this earth to take his place on the throne of David at Jerusalem with all of the holy ones - glorified immortal saints - us and form a Theocratic Government that will rule over all the nations of this world. He will replace Satan and all the angels who have supported him in his rebellion against Yehovah!
At that time one of the first things the Messiah Jesus will do is have one of his angels bind Satan and cast him into a pit where he can deceive the nation no more.
Revelation 20:1-3: And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, who is the Devil, and Satan, and bound 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: and after that, he must be loosed a little season.
So we see that at the end of the 1,000-year rule of the lord Messiah Jesus, Satan will be loosed for a short time to once again deceive the nations to rebel against Yehovah and His vice-regent Jesus. Yehovah will allow this to happen to reveal that human beings as to their sinful nature will not have changed during the 1,000 years of living under a Theocratic Government that the Messiah Jesus will preside over with all the saints - holy ones co-ruling with him. Human beings living at the time will have retained the nature Adam had after his wife Eve and he rebelled against Yehovah Elohim - God.
So we see that at the end of the 1,000-year rule of the lord Messiah Jesus, Satan will be loosed for a short time to once again deceive the nations to rebel against Yehovah and His vice-regent Jesus. Yehovah will allow this to happen to reveal that human beings as to their sinful nature will not have changed during the 1,000 years of living under a Theocratic Government that the Messiah Jesus will preside over with all the saints - holy ones co-ruling with him. Human beings living at the time will have retained the nature Adam had after his wife Eve and he rebelled against Yehovah Elohim - God.
This above all is proof positive that mankind cannot of and by themselves obtain salvation. All men and women need to respond to the calling that Yehovah sends forth to come under His Kingship. They then need to repent of their sinful selfish rebellious attitude of mind and be baptized, walking into the water showing they have died to self and rising up from the water as new creations in the lord Messiah Jesus. After that first step is taken they then need to fully commit for the rest of their lives to walk in obedience to Yehovah and His Vice-Regent Jesus. Those who do so will not rebel against Yehovah IF they continue to walk in the spirit.
If we have truly died to self, and are walking in the spirit then the following words will be true for us:
“Our old self was crucified with him, that our body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be enslaved to sin” (Romans 6:6).
Romans 6:11: Likewise reckon you also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God because of Jesus the Messiah our lord.
The Christian who lives in the Messiah Jesus will follow him, imitating his holiness, his mercifulness, his wisdom, his single-minded focus on his mission, and his communion with the Father. He patterns his whole life on the Messiah and follows in his footsteps from the first step to the last. That first step is to walk into the water - grave - into the death of self - having been crucified with him.
Galatians 2:20: I AM CRUCIFIED WITH THE MESSIAH:
NEVERTHELESS, I LIVE; YET NOT I, FOR THE MESSIAH LIVES IN ME: AND THE LIFE WHICH I NOW LIVE IN THE FLESH I LIVE BECAUSE OF THE FAITH OF THE SON OF GOD, WHO LOVED ME, AND GAVE HIMSELF FOR ME.
Galatians 5:16: This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
Galatians 6:8: For he that sows to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that sows to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
Believers are “in the Messiah” and have the new life in the Messiah, as Paul puts it: “if any man is in the Messiah, he is a new creation [a member of the New Humanity]” (2 Corinthians 5:17).
Notice: The scriptural record says that rebellion that takes place at the end of the 2,000-year rule of the lord Messiah Jesus will be put down immediately and Satan and his angels and all those whose names are not written in the book of life will be cast into the lake of fire and destroyed. Yes, I said destroyed. Whatever God has created He can destroy, Satan, angels and human beings are all created beings.
After the White Throne Judgement, a completely new order of things will take place, and all those who are immortal glorified men and women will enter with the lord Messiah Jesus into the coming new age. At that time there will be a new heavens, and a new earth, a whole new order of things, and Yehovah himself will come down and dwell on this earth at Zion with all those who enter into the New Age.
Revelation 21:1-5: And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
And He that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
Notice: Only glorified men and women will enter into the New Age:
1 Corinthians 15:50: Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption.
What a glorious future we have to become immortal men and women with the lord Messiah Jesus in the coming new age!
1 Corinthians 2:9: But as it is written, Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither has in entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for them that love him.
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