Around the churches I have been to and some other places, it occasionally coms up that Satan was given this earth to rule over. THAT IS A LIE!
That lie comes from Satan himself, and it is a lie that He still uses today!
Now does Satan have some authority to rule over this earth? Only what you give him!!
The simple fact is that all power and authority comes from God!! And The Father put His Son on the throne over all things!! I repeat, "all things"!!
So Satan only has authority over us because we ourselves give it to him! Satan is leading a rebellion, and that against God, so we by giving Satan the authority that God gave to each of us personally, have joined in the rebellion against God and have become followers of Satan; whether we know it or not. So God never gave Satan authority to rule over the earth! Satan lied when he telling Jesus Christ:
Luke 4:5-7 And he led Him up and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
And the devil said to Him, “I will give You all this domain and its glory; for it has been handed over to me, and I give it to whomever I wish.
“Therefore if You worship before me, it shall all be Yours.”
The devil is a liar and when he speaks he speaks a lie!! So that is a lie, even though it is in the Bible, and we find even Christians calling the Bible the word of God! And the irony it the depths of evil Satan was trying to pull off in the above verse is so much more that we then to realize! Because Jesus Christ, whom Satan was speaking to, had already been given all that, and all had been instructed to worship Jesus Christ!! And even Satan had already been told and warn from doing exactly what he was doing!!
Ps 2:6,7 “But as for Me, I have installed My King
Upon Zion, My holy mountain.”
“I will surely tell of the decree of the LORD:
He said to Me, ‘You are My Son,
Today I have begotten You.
Now then the Father on the very day He begot Jesus Christ, which was before the beginning of time and day one being declared, was installed as King on His holy mountain!
Gen 1:3-5 Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.
God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness.
God called the light day, and the darkness He called night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.
We should understand that Jesus Christ is the light, and that He is good, and is not the darkness, and that time is something you count, and that "one day" was after the beginning where the light (Jesus Christ) was created. So on that day, and before it was counted as a day (time), Jesus Christ the Son of God, and the only begotten Son of God, was installed on the throne of God! I know this was explained to me, but with the instructions to not argue over it, because I was certainly not around then to fully understand it all. Never-the-less, it was explained in Ps 2 also.
And in Psalms to, we found that the declaration when out even from that day (day one). And we find more:
Ps 2:8 ‘Ask of Me, and I will surely give the nations as Your inheritance,
And the very ends of the earth as Your possession.
Now some people seem to think He didn't ask, but He did, didn't He?
Jn 16:15 “All things that the Father has are Mine; therefore I said that He takes of Mine and will disclose it to you.
So we find Jesus, even before the cross declaring All things that the Father has are His. And if all things were created by God then does He not have all things?
1 Chr 29:11 “Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, indeed everything that is in the heavens and the earth; Yours is the dominion, O LORD, and You exalt Yourself as head over all.
Jesus was put on the throne before all things, except Him, were created through Him. So He, Jesus Christ the Son of God, is Lord over all things! Whether they like it or not. So while there is a rebellion going on, which we unfortunately are caught up in, The Lord our God, Jesus Christ is still on the throne over all things, including that snake of old who in trying to lead a rebellion wants to lie and tells us that he has been given all you see. NO - that is a lie. He is over only those who put themselves under him by their own free will!
And Satan certainly never had authority over Jesus Christ - the KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS!!
So Satan tried to lie to Him in hopes the He too would just give him the throne of God! It was the biggest bluff in history! But that bluff would certainly cost Satan all, because it was written:
Ps 2:10-12 Now therefore, O kings, show discernment;
Take warning, O judges of the earth.
Worship the LORD with reverence
And rejoice with trembling.
Do homage to the Son, that He not become angry, and you perish in the way,
For His wrath may soon be kindled.
How blessed are all who take refuge in Him!
Of course, while that applied to Satan at the moment, and pretty much seal his fate, this still applies to us today. And Satan is still around testing us today also. Are we going to bow down to him, or are we going bow down and worship Jesus Christ our King and Lord; so that live by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God? That was the answer, was it not?
If we listen today, do we not find the Jesus Christ is Lord and gives us instructions, teachings, encouragement, and more - but there is also that liar around who wants us to bow down and worship him instead. So we have been given freewill, to follow the Lord our God, or to follow the rebellion. Never-the-less, The Lord our God Jesus Christ, has been placed on the throne of God by His Father and with that the instructions to worship Him or else.
That lie comes from Satan himself, and it is a lie that He still uses today!
Now does Satan have some authority to rule over this earth? Only what you give him!!
The simple fact is that all power and authority comes from God!! And The Father put His Son on the throne over all things!! I repeat, "all things"!!
So Satan only has authority over us because we ourselves give it to him! Satan is leading a rebellion, and that against God, so we by giving Satan the authority that God gave to each of us personally, have joined in the rebellion against God and have become followers of Satan; whether we know it or not. So God never gave Satan authority to rule over the earth! Satan lied when he telling Jesus Christ:
Luke 4:5-7 And he led Him up and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
And the devil said to Him, “I will give You all this domain and its glory; for it has been handed over to me, and I give it to whomever I wish.
“Therefore if You worship before me, it shall all be Yours.”
The devil is a liar and when he speaks he speaks a lie!! So that is a lie, even though it is in the Bible, and we find even Christians calling the Bible the word of God! And the irony it the depths of evil Satan was trying to pull off in the above verse is so much more that we then to realize! Because Jesus Christ, whom Satan was speaking to, had already been given all that, and all had been instructed to worship Jesus Christ!! And even Satan had already been told and warn from doing exactly what he was doing!!
Ps 2:6,7 “But as for Me, I have installed My King
Upon Zion, My holy mountain.”
“I will surely tell of the decree of the LORD:
He said to Me, ‘You are My Son,
Today I have begotten You.
Now then the Father on the very day He begot Jesus Christ, which was before the beginning of time and day one being declared, was installed as King on His holy mountain!
Gen 1:3-5 Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.
God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness.
God called the light day, and the darkness He called night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.
We should understand that Jesus Christ is the light, and that He is good, and is not the darkness, and that time is something you count, and that "one day" was after the beginning where the light (Jesus Christ) was created. So on that day, and before it was counted as a day (time), Jesus Christ the Son of God, and the only begotten Son of God, was installed on the throne of God! I know this was explained to me, but with the instructions to not argue over it, because I was certainly not around then to fully understand it all. Never-the-less, it was explained in Ps 2 also.
And in Psalms to, we found that the declaration when out even from that day (day one). And we find more:
Ps 2:8 ‘Ask of Me, and I will surely give the nations as Your inheritance,
And the very ends of the earth as Your possession.
Now some people seem to think He didn't ask, but He did, didn't He?
Jn 16:15 “All things that the Father has are Mine; therefore I said that He takes of Mine and will disclose it to you.
So we find Jesus, even before the cross declaring All things that the Father has are His. And if all things were created by God then does He not have all things?
1 Chr 29:11 “Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, indeed everything that is in the heavens and the earth; Yours is the dominion, O LORD, and You exalt Yourself as head over all.
Jesus was put on the throne before all things, except Him, were created through Him. So He, Jesus Christ the Son of God, is Lord over all things! Whether they like it or not. So while there is a rebellion going on, which we unfortunately are caught up in, The Lord our God, Jesus Christ is still on the throne over all things, including that snake of old who in trying to lead a rebellion wants to lie and tells us that he has been given all you see. NO - that is a lie. He is over only those who put themselves under him by their own free will!
And Satan certainly never had authority over Jesus Christ - the KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS!!
So Satan tried to lie to Him in hopes the He too would just give him the throne of God! It was the biggest bluff in history! But that bluff would certainly cost Satan all, because it was written:
Ps 2:10-12 Now therefore, O kings, show discernment;
Take warning, O judges of the earth.
Worship the LORD with reverence
And rejoice with trembling.
Do homage to the Son, that He not become angry, and you perish in the way,
For His wrath may soon be kindled.
How blessed are all who take refuge in Him!
Of course, while that applied to Satan at the moment, and pretty much seal his fate, this still applies to us today. And Satan is still around testing us today also. Are we going to bow down to him, or are we going bow down and worship Jesus Christ our King and Lord; so that live by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God? That was the answer, was it not?
If we listen today, do we not find the Jesus Christ is Lord and gives us instructions, teachings, encouragement, and more - but there is also that liar around who wants us to bow down and worship him instead. So we have been given freewill, to follow the Lord our God, or to follow the rebellion. Never-the-less, The Lord our God Jesus Christ, has been placed on the throne of God by His Father and with that the instructions to worship Him or else.