Open letter to Satanists

First of all, I would like to welcome you who might be into Satanism or the Occult, to this page. The purpose of this page is to pose some questions for you to ponder. It has been my experience that many of you have misleading or distorted ideas of God, Christianity and Christians, and unfortunately there are many bad examples of what Christians should be like that you have probably run into. I hope to change some of those views for the better.

I ask that you please keep an open mind as you read this page, and give it some honest thought. You have nothing to fear by thinking and considering the things below, but your master and his angels will try very hard to get you to not read this page, or will try to get you to treat it cynically with a closed mind and a hardened attitude. Whether they succeed or not is up to you.

But for those who may be seeking the truth, you will hopefully find answers here that will open your eyes and will allow you to see clearly that Satan is not God, nor ever can be. And I pray to God the Father through Jesus Christ His Son that your eyes may be opened to the truth of what is written here, and that they may restrain Satan and his angels from blinding your minds to the truth.

If you have any comments or questions, my E-mail address is at the bottom of the page. And may God the Father and His Son Jesus Christ bless you as you read this, for They have brought you to this site and this page so that you might read these words.

Now, onto some popular misconceptions.

Misconception - Satan is more powerful than God

If that is the case, why isn't Satan seated in Heaven instead of God? He's had thousands of years to take on God, and hasn't done so yet. And why didn't he destroy Jesus while He was here on Earth, instead of merely tempting Him? (More on this later) And if he was more powerful than God, why are there still Christians in the world today? He should have been able to stop Christianity before it started if he had been more powerful than Jesus.

Satan and many of his human servants often mistake meekness and mercy for weakness.

God shows much of His power in His restraint in not punishing us as we deserve. But that doesn't mean that He doesn't display His power when He chooses to. The Flood was a good example of that. And He keeps Satan on a tight leash, to the point where Satan has to ask permission to do what he does. For example, Scripture says;

JOB 1:6-22

6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them.

7 And the Lord said to Satan, “From where do you come?” So Satan answered the Lord and said, “From going to and fro on the Earth, and from walking back and forth on it.”

8 Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job, that there is none like him on the Earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil?”

9 So Satan answered the Lord and said, “Does Job fear God for nothing?

10 Have You not made a hedge around him, around his household, and around all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.

11 But now, stretch out Your hand and touch all that he has, and he will surely curse You to Your face!”

12 And the Lord said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your power; only do not lay a hand on his person.” So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord.

13 Now there was a day when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house;

14 and a messenger came to Job and said, “The oxen were plowing and the donkeys feeding beside them,

15 when the Sabeans raided them and took them away—indeed they have killed the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you!”

16 While he was still speaking, another also came and said, “The fire of God fell from heaven and burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them; and I alone have escaped to tell you!”

17 While he was still speaking, another also came and said, “The Chaldeans formed three bands, raided the camels and took them away, yes, and killed the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you!”

18 While he was still speaking, another also came and said, “Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,

19 and suddenly a great wind came from across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young people, and they are dead; and I alone have escaped to tell you!”

20 Then Job arose, tore his robe, and shaved his head; and he fell to the ground and worshiped.

21 And he said: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return there. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.”

22 In all this Job did not sin nor charge God with wrong.

Note several things here. First, God asks Satan where he has been. God knew very well where he had been, but wanted to show that Satan was not confined to Hell as some believe. He will be allowed to roam the Earth and continue his deceptions until Jesus return in a few years to destroy his power and his kingdom.

Satan then complains that God has placed a protective hedge about Job that he, Satan, cannot get past. God has protected Job from evil, and has blessed him and his possessions. Satan then asks God to take away Job's possessions, meaning that he, Satan, had no power to do so himself. God then commands Satan that he can destroy Job's possessions, but cannot touch Job directly, basically giving Satan limited permission to afflict Job.

If Satan was more powerful than God, he could have ignored God's restriction and could have destroyed Job directly. Instead, he had to obey God's restriction, as shown by the fact that he was able to destroy all that Job had, but could not touch Job himself. And God, by allowing Satan to destroy Job's possessions shows His supremacy in giving Satan permission to do something he couldn't do before.

There are many more such examples recorded in Scripture in which God shows his supremacy over Satan.

Misconception - Christians are weak and powerless. All they do is talk.

Really? Then why does Satan try so hard to destroy us if we're no threat to him? And while many Christians are indeed powerless because they don't fully understand, believe, or use the power that God gave us, there are some who are awake and aware. These people are the ones that Satan fears.

We Christians do have power over Satan and his demons through the name of Jesus Christ. Just as an ambassador has the power and authority of the ruler who sent him, even so we Christians as ambassadors of God's kingdom have God's power vested by God Himself within us over Satan's kingdom. We are commanded by God to love our enemies, but He did not command us to be pushovers.

Jesus Himself told us;

LUKE 10:19-20

19 Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.

20 Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.

JOHN 14:12

12 “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father.

MARK 16:17-19

17 And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues;

18 they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

19 So then, after the Lord had spoken to them, He was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.

These promises still hold true. I have cast out demons from people, and have battled demons in physical form. And in each case, they had to obey commands given in the name of Jesus Christ. Through the name and power of Jesus Christ, I have also broken the power of demons called against me by Satanists and members of the Illuminati, and their incantations and spells were broken and made harmless.

Once when I went camping, I put some bleach into my drinking water to sterilize it from bacteria, but miscalculated and put far too much bleach into the water. I had taken about 4 swallows of water when my mouth and throat started burning and I realized what I had done. Knowing the effect that chlorine bleach has on the human stomach, I prayed that God would neutralize the bleach I'd drunk so that there would be no adverse effects from it. Nothing further happened, and I was able to continue camping without any problems.

I have also seen sick people miraculously healed, have been called by God to heal, and have been healed myself by others. God keeps His promises, even though it has been nearly 2,000 years since Jesus walked the Earth. He is alive today, and empowers His children here on Earth against Satan and his works.

Plus, He has given us His armor to protect us from spiritual attack. The apostle Paul states in the book of Ephesians;

EPHESIANS 6:10-17

10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.

11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

13 Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

14 Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

15 and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace;

16 above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one.

17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;

While this armor may seem imaginary, it is quite real. The helmet protects our minds, the breastplate protects our heart (emotions). The belt of truth allows us to discern the truth, and the shoes keep us from falling into the snares that Satan sets in our path. Finally we have the shield of faith which we use to protect us from direct assaults from demon forces, and the mighty sword of the Spirit, which is the knowledge of God's Word, the truth that Satan cannot abide.

While this armor may be invisible to we Christians, by faith we believe it is there. Demons definitely see it, and those of you in the Occult who have seen it know that it’s quite real also.

Misconception - God and Jesus are weak.

Satan wishes this was true. However, he knows better. The following Scriptures should prove several things about this misconception.

LUKE 8:22-25

22 Now it happened, on a certain day, that He got into a boat with His disciples. And He said to them, “Let us cross over to the other side of the lake.” And they launched out.

23 But as they sailed He fell asleep. And a windstorm came down on the lake, and they were filling with water, and were in jeopardy.

24 And they came to Him and awoke Him, saying, “Master, Master, we are perishing!” Then He arose and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water. And they ceased, and there was a calm.

25 But He said to them, “Where is your faith?” And they were afraid, and marveled, saying to one another, “Who can this be? For He commands even the winds and water, and they obey Him!”

The Sea of Galilee sits in a depression below Mount Hermon, and sudden movements of cold air from the mountain region onto the warmer air of the Sea of Galilee can cause sudden violent storms. Jesus proved His mastery over His creation by merely speaking to the elements, and they obeyed Him.

MARK 5:1-17

1 Then they came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gadarenes.

2 And when He had come out of the boat, immediately there met Him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,

3 who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no one could bind him, not even with chains,

4 because he had often been bound with shackles and chains. And the chains had been pulled apart by him, and the shackles broken in pieces; neither could anyone tame him.

5 And always, night and day, he was in the mountains and in the tombs, crying out and cutting himself with stones.

6 When he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and worshiped Him.

7 And he cried out with a loud voice and said, “What have I to do with You, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I implore You by God that You do not torment me.”

8 For He said to him, “Come out of the man, unclean spirit!”

9 Then He asked him, “What is your name?” And he answered, saying, “My name is Legion; for we are many.”

10 Also he begged Him earnestly that He would not send them out of the country.

11 Now a large herd of swine was feeding there near the mountains.

12 So all the demons begged Him, saying, “Send us to the swine, that we may enter them.”

13 And at once Jesus gave them permission. Then the unclean spirits went out and entered the swine (there were about two thousand); and the herd ran violently down the steep place into the sea, and drowned in the sea.

14 So those who fed the swine fled, and they told it in the city and in the country. And they went out to see what it was that had happened.

15 Then they came to Jesus, and saw the one who had been demon-possessed and had the legion, sitting and clothed and in his right mind. And they were afraid.

16 And those who saw it told them how it happened to him who had been demon-possessed, and about the swine.

17 Then they began to plead with Him to depart from their region.

Note some important things here. The demon-possessed man immediately recognized Jesus, and not only didn't harm Him but was terrified of Him.

Jesus very well knew who the head demon that spoke was. But He wanted everyone to know that there was a host of demons possessing the man. The demon named himself “Legion” as there were usually 5,200 soldiers in a Roman Legion and this showed that there were several thousand demons in the man.

The head demon then begged Him to cast them into the herd of swine feeding nearby so they could escape. Swine were considered by Jewish Law to be unclean animals, and it is appropriate that the demons begged to be cast into them, as the demons themselves are considered by God to be unclean spirits.

If they had been stronger than Jesus, or equal in power, they would have fought Him. But instead, they begged Him not to torment them before the time set by Jesus at their judgment when they rebelled and were cast out of Heaven.

If Satan had been more powerful than Jesus, his demons would have immediately attacked Him, or His disciples standing nearby. But instead, they begged not to be tormented, and begged to be cast into the swine feeding nearby. Note also that after the demons left, the man was once again in his right mind. That should tell you where the source of much of the cases of insanity lies.

Once again, the demons acknowledged Jesus' mastery of them by falling at His feet, and begging Him not to destroy them. The word used as "torment" here is the Greek word "appolumi" which means "to destroy fully, die, perish". The demons were begging Jesus not to destroy them before the set time in which they will be cast into the Lake of Fire for eternity after the Judgment.

One of the most well-known confrontations between Jesus and Satan was when Jesus was tempted in the wilderness. Jesus stayed in the wilderness for 40 days, being constantly tempted by Satan in every way we are tempted and He ate nothing during the entire time. Scripture records;

LUKE 4:1-13

1 Then Jesus, being filled with the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,

2 being tempted for forty days by the devil. And in those days He ate nothing, and afterward, when they had ended, He was hungry.

3 And the devil said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.”

4 But Jesus answered him, saying, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.’ ”

5 Then the devil, taking Him up on a high mountain, showed Him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

6 And the devil said to Him, “All this authority I will give You, and their glory; for this has been delivered to me, and I give it to whomever I wish.

7 Therefore, if You will worship before me, all will be Yours.”

8 And Jesus answered and said to him, “Get behind Me, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only you shall serve.’ ”

9 Then he brought Him to Jerusalem, set Him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down from here.

10 For it is written: ‘He shall give His angels charge over you, to keep you,’

11 and, ‘In their hands they shall bear you up, lest you dash your foot against a stone.’ ”

12 And Jesus answered and said to him, “It has been said, ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your God.’ ”

13 Now when the devil had ended every temptation, he departed from Him until an opportune time.

Jesus was incredibly weakened physically and at the edge of starvation when the recorded confrontation took place. Now, the question comes to mind that if Jesus was in such a weakened physical state, why didn't Satan take advantage of the opportunity to destroy Him? Why did he merely tempt Him?

The only obvious answer was that Satan couldn't destroy Him, because Jesus, as God in human form, was still more powerful than Satan and that His weakened physical state had nothing to do with His power as God!

Satan had also correctly stated that the kingdoms of the world had been given to him. But that had only happened because he'd deceived Adam in the Garden of Eden, and through deception had taken control of the world by causing Adam to sin. This also indicates that Man, when first created, was greater than Satan as God had originally given mastery of the world to Man!

Jesus appeared that he might take that mastery back from Satan. But that required that the sins of the world be paid for and that Satan be confronted and defeated which Jesus did through His death at the cross. For by His death, He took in Himself the sins of the world, and destroyed them. Then He went to Hell and suffered for those sins, and upon His resurrection defeated death and Satan, for if either death or Satan had been powerful enough to stop the resurrection, they certainly would have done so.

But the fact that Scripture records the resurrection, and that Christianity flourishes today proves that Satan indeed wasn't able to stop the resurrection from happening. Jesus took everything Satan had to throw at Him, and He still won!

Note also, that Satan misquoted Scripture in verses 9-11 above. He made it seem that if Jesus threw Himself from the temple, the angels would catch Him and bear Him up in their hands so that he wouldn't hit the ground below. The actual text in its entirety reads;

PSALMS 91:1-16

1 He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

2 I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress; My God, in Him I will trust.”

3 Surely He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the perilous pestilence.

4 He shall cover you with His feathers, and under His wings you shall take refuge; His truth shall be your shield and buckler.

5 You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the arrow that flies by day,

6 Nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor of the destruction that lays waste at noonday.

7 A thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it shall not come near you.

8 Only with your eyes shall you look, and see the reward of the wicked.

9 Because you have made the Lord, who is my refuge, even the Most High, your dwelling place,

10 No evil shall befall you, nor shall any plague come near your dwelling;

11 For He shall give His angels charge over you, to keep you in all your ways.

12 In their hands they shall bear you up, lest you dash your foot against a stone.

13 You shall tread upon the lion and the cobra, the young lion and the serpent you shall trample underfoot.

14 “Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore I will deliver him; I will set him on high, because he has known My name.

15 He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him and honor him.

16 With long life I will satisfy him, and show him My salvation.”

This psalm is an allegory, as are many of them. It shows the protection of God over each person who believes in Him. By allegory, I mean that phrases are used to signify something else - for example God doesn't have wings or feathers as described in verse 4; that refers to the shelter and protection that a bird gives it's young when danger threatens.

Verses 11 and 12 refer to angels guarding a person spiritually, not literally as Satan implied. And verse 13 doesn't imply that we will literally trample lions underfoot, but refers to the fact that we will have victory over our enemies, including Satan, through God's mighty power.

Misconception - Jesus is still in Hell, tormented by Satan and his demons

Again, Satan wishes this were true. This falsehood indicates that Jesus was not resurrected from the dead, which the Bible states as wrong. The apostle Paul wrote a letter to the Jews at Corinth in Greece (the book now known as 1 Corinthians) that;

1 CORINTHIANS 15:3-9

3 For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

4 and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures,

5 and that He was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve.

6 After that He was seen by over five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain to the present, but some have fallen asleep.

7 After that He was seen by James, then by all the apostles.

8 Then last of all He was seen by me also, as by one born out of due time.

9 For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

Jesus was seen by a man named Cephas, one of two men named to whom Jesus had appeared to as they traveled to another town after His resurrection, then the twelve apostles. Later He was seen by 500 believers at the same time whom, Paul stated, most of which were still living at the time and could be interviewed. And finally He was seen by Paul himself.

Mass hysteria? Mass hypnosis? Those two old excuses are hardly worth mentioning as the concept of both is ridiculous. Besides, this could have been easily checked out by those who wanted to question the issue. Paul would not dared to have made such a statement if it could not have been verified, as it would have destroyed his entire ministry if he had been wrong, and would have cost him his life.

Even the rulers of Judea couldn't dispute the resurrection. As Scripture records;

MATTHEW 27:62-66

62 On the next day, which followed the Day of Preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees gathered together to Pilate,

63 saying, “Sir, we remember, while He was still alive, how that deceiver said, ‘After three days I will rise.’

64 Therefore command that the tomb be made secure until the third day, lest His disciples come by night and steal Him away, and say to the people, ‘He has risen from the dead.’ So the last deception will be worse than the first.”

65 Pilate said to them, “You have a guard; go your way, make it as secure as you know how.”

66 So they went and made the tomb secure, sealing the stone and setting the guard.

MATTHEW 28:1-15

1 Now after the Sabbath, as the first day of the week began to dawn, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb.

2 And behold, there was a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat on it.

3 His countenance was like lightning, and his clothing as white as snow.

4 And the guards shook for fear of him, and became like dead men.

5 But the angel answered and said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified.

6 He is not here; for He is risen, as He said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.

7 And go quickly and tell His disciples that He is risen from the dead, and indeed He is going before you into Galilee; there you will see Him. Behold, I have told you.”

8 So they went out quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy, and ran to bring His disciples word.

9 And as they went to tell His disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, “Rejoice!” So they came and held Him by the feet and worshiped Him.

10 Then Jesus said to them, “Do not be afraid. Go and tell My brethren to go to Galilee, and there they will see Me.”

11 Now while they were going, behold, some of the guard came into the city and reported to the chief priests all the things that had happened.

12 When they had assembled with the elders and consulted together, they gave a large sum of money to the soldiers,

13 saying, “Tell them, ‘His disciples came at night and stole Him away while we slept.’

14 And if this comes to the governor’s ears, we will appease him and make you secure.”

15 So they took the money and did as they were instructed; and this saying is commonly reported among the Jews until this day.

When a person was buried in a stone tomb, usually a cave, a huge stone requiring several men to move it was rolled over the mouth of the cave to prevent the body from being desecrated by animals, grave robbers, etc. So any hoax requiring the removal of Jesus' body would have required a team of men to move the stone.

The rulers of Jerusalem, fearing this, petitioned Pontius Pilate the Roman governor of Judea for a guard to place at the tomb to ensure that just such a hoax would not be perpetrated. Pilate told them to use their own soldiers (usually about 16 men) to ensure that the tomb would not be approached.  

The commander of the guard would have placed a wax seal on the stone covering the tomb, and anyone breaking the seal would have been instantly tried and executed. Furthermore, if any of the men on watch fell asleep while on duty, they would have been covered in tar and would have been burned alive in their own clothing as a punishment.

If the disciples indeed had come and stolen the body, they would have had to have done so with a large body of men, in order to overcome up to 16 disciplined, and well-armed soldiers. There would also probably have been dead men for the soldiers to bring forth as evidence that such an event had happened. But nothing of the sort was provided as evidence.

Scripture records the disciples deserting Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane when He was arrested, fleeing for their lives. And Scripture also records that of all of the disciples, only John was brave enough to go to Jesus and watch His crucifixion. Scripture also records that after the resurrection the disciples gathered in a locked room for fear of the Jews where Jesus appeared to them.

If Scripture openly records that the disciples were badly frightened and fearful men, how could they have overcome hardened temple guards to steal Jesus' body? And the fact that the religious rulers told the guards to say that the disciples stole the body as they slept also proves this could not have happened.

So therefore only one conclusion is left.

The resurrection actually occurred as recorded in Scripture. And that being the case, Jesus is alive and is seated at the right hand of God in Heaven, just as the Scriptures say. And the fact that Satan couldn't stop the resurrection from happening shows that Jesus was, and is, more powerful than Satan, because Jesus is God!

Don't mistake meekness and mercy in God for weakness.

Just because God allows evil to happen doesn't mean that He is too weak to stop it. He has given man a free will to choose whom to follow, just as He gave the angels a free will and a choice of whom to follow when Satan rebelled and tried to overthrow God. The demons chose to follow Satan, and God forced them to continue to do so. Man chooses to follow his sinful nature inherited from Adam, which is why we have the horrors we have in the world today.

God calls with love and patience to all of mankind, but there are few who listen. The battle lines are being drawn and unfortunately if you do not choose God, you have already chosen to follow Satan because of Satan's deception in the Garden of Eden. Like any war, there are sides drawn and if you do not choose one, you have already chosen the other.

(For more on the fall of Man in the Garden of Eden, please follow the link.)

There is no ‘neutral ground’ in this war.

Because of Adam's sin, we were ALL brought under the power of sin and are ALL guilty of being imperfect before a righteous and perfect God. As such, God is just in allowing only perfection into His perfect kingdom. So by this very fact, we are barred from Heaven and because of Adam's choosing to disobey God's command and by such action choosing to follow Satan in the Garden of Eden, we are all condemned to Satan's punishment along with Satan.

And just as we punish our children for wrongdoing, even so are we worthy of punishment for our sinful lives. However, God loved us so much that He took His own wrath in Himself at the cross, and took our punishment so that through His atonement we might be made perfect before Him, and be allowed to enter Heaven.

Satan has been condemned already and his eternal punishment is set. He cannot escape the judgment set by God against him. And those who follow him, be it willingly or by default have also chosen to follow into his condemnation and punishment, and will join Him in the Lake of Fire for eternity.

Hell was not created for Man, but for Satan and his angels. There are already demons chained in hell for their disobedience.

Scripture records;

JUDE 1:5-7

5 But I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.

6 And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day;

7 as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

When Jesus returns, Satan and his demons will be chained and cast into Hell for 1,000 years while Jesus rules here on Earth.

REVELATION 20:1-15

1 Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.

2 He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years;

3 and he cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal on him, so that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years were finished. But after these things he must be released for a little while.

4 And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

5 But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.

6 Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years.

7 Now when the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison

8 and will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, whose number is as the sand of the sea.

9 They went up on the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. And fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them.

10 The devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are. And they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

11 Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose face the Earth and the heaven fled away. And there was found no place for them.

12 And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books.

13 The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one according to his works.

14 Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.

15 And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the Lake of Fire.

Quite a few things to note here.

First of all, this will all take place when Jesus returns which, by the signs He gave, will be during our lifetime.

Secondly, Jesus will rule unhindered by Satan during the 1,000 years that He will be here on Earth. During that time, children will be born who have not known Satan, or will not have been tempted by him.

Note also, all those who have died in faith in God, both Jews and Christians, will be resurrected and we will rule with Jesus here on Earth for 1,000 years. We will never again be subject to death, but we will be as Jesus - eternal, immortal, and glorified.

After the 1,000 years God, being just, will allow Satan out of Hell and will allow those living to make a choice as to whom they wish to follow. Satan will again deceive the nations, after which he will again attack God and the resurrected Christians. He will again be defeated, and this time, will be cast into the Lake of Fire for eternity, and the great Judgement of the damned will begin. And those who died in their sins will be cast into the Lake of Fire to be tormented with Satan for eternity, having chosen to follow him and their own wickedness, rather than choose God.

You will ask how a loving God can send people to Hell?

What more could he have done? He took His own wrath and punishment in Himself so we might become perfect in His sight. If we reject that sacrifice, is He unjust to reject us? All He asks is that we worship Him and follow His commandments, and if you read the New Testament Scriptures, you will see that they are not burdensome, and they actually make sense.

But because of our sin nature inherited from Adam and Satan, we would rather "do our own thing", while still wanting to go to Heaven. We can't have it both ways. And by rejecting God, like Adam, we have chosen Satan to be our master, and will follow him into his condemnation and punishment.

As Christians, our war is not with you, although some misled Christians perceive it that way. Our fight is with Satan and his demons, who seek to enslave or destroy mankind. However, if commanded by God, we will fight you spiritually in the hopes that when you see the power of God, you will realize that you are on the losing side and that you serve a master who cares nothing about you. Christians are commanded by God to love our enemies, just as He loves those who hate Him, so please do not consider us weak because we follow God's commandments.

God loves all of mankind. He sends rain on the just and the unjust, and causes His sun to shine on both the evil and the good. He provides the righteous and the wicked with food, shelter and clothing. But he sometimes displays His wrath also, as in the Flood and in various disasters to remind Man that He is God, and He is in control of all things.

God created all things, including Satan and his demons. Satan is a created being and cannot be equal with his Creator. And Satan cannot create, as only God has power to do that. He can make things from materials already created by God, but he cannot create any new thing. Therefore he is less than God.

In fact, his original sin was that of rebellion. He wanted to be God, and being less than God and a created being himself, this is not possible. He convinced one third of the angels that he should be God and went to war with God to try to overthrow Him. He lost and his name was changed from Lucifer (Light-bearer) to Satan (the Accuser, or Adversary).

He will wage war in heaven one more time in a few years, and will again lose. But this time, he will be banished to Earth to make his final stand at Armageddon. As Scripture records;

REVELATION 12:7-12

7 And war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought with the dragon; and the dragon and his angels fought,

8 but they did not prevail, nor was a place found for them in heaven any longer.

9 So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the Earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

10 Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, “Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down.

11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.

12 Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! Woe to the inhabitants of the Earth and the sea! For the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has a short time.”

FACTS

Satan always demands blood from his servants in sacrifice, but never sheds his own. Jesus gave His blood for all mankind, that they might be cleansed from sin generated by Satan's deception of Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden, sin which we have inherited by their disobedience to God.

God and Jesus receive worship as their rightful due. Satan demands worship out of pride and arrogance, having done nothing to deserve worship. It is built within Man to worship that which is greater than he. People have worshiped and still do worship statues, animals, the Sun, moon and stars, even Satan, seeking to worship SOMETHING greater than themselves. But yet Man generally refuses to worship the One who is due such worship, namely God, because our sin nature tends to rebel against God.

Satan seeks worship to feed his pride and arrogance, and to try to imitate God. He feels that if man worships him, that makes him equal with God. And that is just as false as men who seek worship, thinking it makes them gods also. Just as a monkey will imitate the actions of Man as he is able but cannot become a man, even so Satan will imitate God's actions as he can, but he cannot become God. By his very created nature, he is less than God, and always will be.

God creates life, and raises the dead. Satan can only kill and destroy. By the fact that Satan cannot create life or raise the dead, this makes him less than God.

The Bible has been proven to be 100% accurate wherever it is capable of being checked historically and archaeologically.

No one has been able to disprove the Bible through historical or archaeological evidence. Therefore, the Bible is true, as is everything in it, until it can be disproved which has yet to happen.

Bottom line

This is not a fun game! The stakes are eternal. Hell and the Lake of Fire are real. And if you die in your sins, you will indeed go there. People who have been clinically dead and have been resuscitated have reported seeing both Hell and the Lake of Fire.

At the Judgment, you can either have Jesus as your prosecutor, or your defense. And once sentenced to the Lake of Fire, you will be there for eternity. God gave us a priceless gift of salvation through Jesus Christ His Son and merely asks that we acknowledge Him as God, repent of our wickedness, and follow His commandments.

Satan has already been judged and sentenced. You have not. But when death comes for you, then you will have made your final decision, and your eternal destination will be determined. If you die in your sins, you will be sent to Hell to await the Great Judgment, after which you will be cast into the Lake of Fire for eternity. God took His own punishment in Himself so that we might have eternal life, and live with Him in glory for eternity. We are eternal creatures but where we spend eternity depends on what we do here.

Doing good works, or living a good life are not enough! Works cannot make us perfect in God's sight. Only acceptance of Jesus and being cleansed by His blood can we be made perfect.

We inherited our sinful nature from Adam, and are born into sin and therefore are automatically under the sentence of sin and death. Jesus Christ is our only hope for redemption from sin and if you reject Him, you reject the only hope you have of escaping Satan's punishment in the Lake of Fire.

Granted, we don't want to choose sides. But that choice was taken from us in the Garden of Eden by Satan. If you want to place blame, blame Satan. Adam was innocent and sinless until he was deceived by Satan. And when Adam sinned, he sold all of us into sin and into Satan's judgment and punishment. God has given us a way out through Jesus Christ, who gave His own life for us as an atonement for sin.

And when Jesus hung on the cross, suffering in indescribable agony from the brutal physical punishment he suffered before being nailed to the cross, and bearing the sins of the world in Himself for our redemption, He also had to suffer the fact that God the Father turned His back on His own Son when His Son needed Him the most because He became the very image of sin in His Father’s eyes.

God the Father cannot look upon sin, and Jesus literally became sin on the cross. Therefore the Father had to turn away, and let the pre-determined punishment of Jesus take it's course. And yet Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." He died for us even though we hadn't been born yet.

Jesus was sent to Earth for that very reason, to give His life in order to destroy sin and give Man a way to be with Him in Heaven. He gave everything He had for us. What more could He have done? Would we have done the same for others, dying in unspeakable agony for people we didn't even know?

The choice is yours. Will you serve God here, abiding by His commandments which are not burdensome and reign with Him in Heaven, or will you chose Satan, and live a life of sin followed by eternal agony in the Lake of Fire?

Read the following carefully, paying special attention to verse 41.

MATTHEW 25:31-46

31 “When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory.

32 All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats.

33 And He will set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left.

34 Then the King will say to those on His right hand, ‘Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:

35 for I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in;

36 I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me.’

37 “Then the righteous will answer Him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You drink?

38 When did we see You a stranger and take You in, or naked and clothe You?

39 Or when did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?’

40 And the King will answer and say to them, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.’

41 “Then He will also say to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels:

42 for I was hungry and you gave Me no food; I was thirsty and you gave Me no drink;

43 I was a stranger and you did not take Me in, naked and you did not clothe Me, sick and in prison and you did not visit Me.’

44 “Then they also will answer Him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to You?’

45 Then He will answer them, saying, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.’

46 And these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

Remember - by NOT choosing God, you have already made the choice to serve Satan.

You can change your mind after death but that’s all you can change. Your eternal destination will be locked in for eternity. 

Choose carefully.

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