Dear Robert:
I will make a few COMMENTS to your email.................
Subject: I thought Satan was a liar
Ray, I'm going to try this again!
COMMENT: Sending me multiple emails on top of each other is not normally the way to get my attention. There are many hundreds of unanswered emails ahead of yours even though you seem convinced that your's is more important.
Brother to Brother. Matthew 4 vs 9 Satan says "All these (kingdoms) to you will I be giving, if ever, falling down, you should be worshiping me."
You state that the kingdoms are all his (Satan's) because he says so.
COMMENT: No, Robert, I say no such thing. Here is what I said, copied directly from my Lake of Fire series:
"Notice that it was the spirit of God that led Jesus to be tempted of the devil. Can we not see that Satan serves a needful purpose in God’s plan? It was absolutely needful that Satan tempt Jesus. If it weren’t needful, God wouldn’t have done it! And so Satan tried to bribe Christ into worshiping him:
"Again, the DEVIL takes Him up into an exceeding high mountain, and shows Him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; and says to Him, All these things will I give You , if You will fall down and worship me" "Matt. 4:8-9).
Let’s notice a few things overlooked by most Sunday school teachers (and most of the world’s greatest theologians as well). Ready? Are you sure? Okay, here goes: ALL THE NATIONS OF THE ENTIRE WORLD BELONG TO SATAN THE DEVIL!!! Heaven and Earth are God’s possessions, however, God has delegated the nations to Satan. Satan could not offer all these kingdoms of the world to Jesus if he did not possess them to offer them in the first place. They are Satan’s ignorant kingdoms" (End of Quote)
Now then, where do I say that these nations belong to Satan "because he said so?"
I say that it is a big fat lie! You have no proof, zero to otherwise contradict the truth. The only scriptures you use in the lake of fire series do not even support such thinking.
COMMENT: You are the first and only (out of nearly two million visitors to our site), who has questioned that Satan's statement to Jesus was true or not. I do not take the time to prove hundreds of statements from Scriptures in my writings. Most people think that my papers are already way to long.
[1] If Satan's statement concerning the control of the nations really was a blatant lie, then why didn't Jesus just state as much? Why didn't Jesus just say, "That's a LIE, Satan. The nations are NOT your to give me?" Jesus did not contradict Satan concerning the nations. Jesus didn't indicate that Satan had no such right or authority over the nations. Jesus did not find fault with Satan's temptation to give Him these nations.
Notice how Luke even adds to what Matthew records: "And the devil, taking Him up into an high mountain, showed unto Him ALL THE KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD in a moment of time. And the devil said unto Him, All this power will I give you, and the glory of them, FOR THAT IS DELIVERED UNTO ME AND TO WHOMSOEVER I WILL I GIVE IT" (Luke 4:5-6). Jesus did not accuse Satan of lying, did He?
Here is what Jesus found offensive in what Satan said: "If You therefore will WORSHIP ME, all shall be Yours." THAT is what Jesus found offensive, and THAT is the only thing that Jesus countered with: "Get thee behind Me, Satan, for it is written, You shall worship the LORD your God, and Him ONLY shall you serve" (Verse 08).
[2] Satan is an "angel" which means "messenger" in both Hebrew and Greek (II Cor. 11:14). Next notice Heb. 2:5--"For unto the ANGELS has He not put in subjection the world to come." Ah, did you catch that? Unlike the "world today," the "world to come," will NOT be under the subjection of angels. Satan is pretends to be "an angel of light" in this world's nations, but not so in the "world to come."
[3] Who is "the prince of this world?" Is it not Satan?
John 14:30, "Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world comes, and has NOTHING IN ME"
John 16:11, "Of judgment, because the PRINCE OF THIS WORLD is judged."
John 12:31, "Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the PRINCE OF THIS WORLD be cast out."
Eph 2:2 "Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world , according to the the COURSE OF THIS WORLD, ACCORDING TO THE PRINCE OF THE POWER OF THE AIR , the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience [that's all the nations of the world, Rev. 12:9]"
[4] "And they worshipped THE DRAGON [Satan, REv. 12:9]...and power was GIVEN HIM OVER ALL KINDREDS, AND TONGUES, AND NATIONS. And ALL that dwell upon the EARTH shall worship him...." (Rev. 13:4, 7-8).
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You give it up and quit thinking your some kind of wise a@@ because you have a relationship with Jesus- You hear! They all shall be taught of God! Do you hear me! Do you hear me! We all are part of the Body- not just you!
Please take it out of the lake of fire series.
Respectfully,
Robert
COMMENT: "Respectfully," you say? I don't think so: "quite thinking your some kind of wise a@@?" Respectifully? I don't think so.
Ray