WHAT THE CHURCH DOESN'T REALIZE ABOUT "SATAN" ...

 
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Rom 16:20... "The God of peace, will SOON crush Satan under your feet." (spoken to a 1st century audience).
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John 12:31 ... Jesus said ... "*NOW* the prince of this world will be CAST OUT."
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John 16:11 ... "the ruler of this world HAS BEEN JUDGED."
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1 Cor 15:27 ... "FOR HE (GOD) HAS PUT EVERYTHING UNDER HIS FEET."
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1 Corinthians 15:26 ...“The last enemy to be destroyed is DEATH.”
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SO, WAS DEATH DESTROYED ??

2 Tim 1:10... "Christ Jesus, who HAS DESTROYED DEATH and has brought LIFE and IMMORTALITY to light through the gospel."
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QUESTION > If death was the last enemy to be destroyed, and Jesus destroyed DEATH ... then what does that mean for the devil ??
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LET'S CONTINUE ...
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HEB 2:14 ... "He too shared in their humanity so that by his death,  He might DESTROY him who holds the power of DEATH - that is the devil.”
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OK, (PAUSE) ... Since the devil held the "power of DEATH" ... what exactly was the power of DEATH ???
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ANSWER > 1 Corinthians 15:56 ... "The sting of DEATH is sin, and the power of sin is the Law.” ... (Also see Rom 7:10) - Death and the Law were always intertwined (one in the same). This is why the OLD Covenant was known as "the ministry of death."
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Many of you are thinking ... "But people are still dying every day, so DEATH was not destroyed !"

Okay, so let's look at how Jesus used the word "DEATH" ...

John 8:51 ..."Anyone who obeys my teaching WILL NEVER DIE !"

Obviously, Jesus was NOT referring to PHYSICAL DEATH because everyone eventually dies (physically).

So if you mis-identify the nature of the "DEATH" that Jesus had in mind ... that will throw off your whole eschatology right there.

What does the Bible say about PHYSICAL death anyway ?

We are told that PHYSICAL DEATH still remains in the NEW Heaven and NEW Earth.

Isaiah 65:17-20
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17. “See, I will create NEW HEAVENS and a NEW EARTH.

 
20. "THE ONE WHO DIES AT A HUNDRED WILL BE THOUGHT A MERE CHILD; the one who fails to reach a hundred will be considered accursed.
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So physical death was NEVER the issue. When Jesus "DESTROYED DEATH" ... it was "Spiritual Death" (separation from God) ... The Law separated us. The Law was the power of sin and death. The only power that Satan had was the Law, and that power was taken from him and destroyed with him.

So let me pose the question again... If DEATH was the last enemy to be destroyed, then what does that mean for the devil ?

WHEN WAS DEATH ACTUALLY DESTROYED ?

 

Revelation 20:14 ... "Then DEATH and SHEOL were thrown into the lake of fire."

 

The book of Revelation is full of hyperbolic, prophetic imagery describing the fire that destroyed "heaven & earth" (the old temple) and the city of Jerusalem. <NOTE> I contend that the same fire which destroyed Jerusalem and the Old Temple system of Law, is the same fire in which DEATH was destroyed ... because Death & the Law were ALWAYS intertwined (one in the same).

As for "satan" ... I encourage everyone to read the passages that refer to "satan" in the original KOINE GREEK, because the word "satan" is NEVER actually used as a proper noun (or name) ...  ONLY in the Latin to English translations do we find "Satan" (capitalized) and presented as a proper noun.  
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I find it interesting that to this very day, the majority of Jews reject the "western" idea of an entity called "Satan"... and for a good reason... THE TORAH never used the word "satan" as a proper noun. In the Old Testament, the word "ha-satan" simply meant "adversary" to the ancient Hebrews - Therefore, there were many "satans" in the Bible. King Nebuchadnezzar was called a "satan" ... even Peter was called a "satan" by Christ Himself.
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The REAL "ha-satan" in scripture was always man's CARNAL NATURE  (ego) (the unrenewed mind) which was adversarial to the will of God ... Mark 7:21, says that evil comes from the HEART of man.  

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It is not an outward enemy we war against ... but the false identity (ego) within our own minds.

Colossians 1:21 ..."You were once alienated from God and were enemies IN YOUR MINDS because of your evil behavior."

In the Garden, Adam & Eve's carnal minds were described as a "talking snake"... This metaphoric adversary was opposed to the will of God. The Bible is full of allegory and metaphors like this - which modern Christians almost always interpret in LITERAL FASHION. - This "satan" that opposes the will of God, exist only in our minds.  The mind is the metaphoric "battlefield"-(Rom 7:23). All throughout scripture this adversarial "carnal mind"(ego) of man, became aroused by the Law. 

Over the millennia, RELIGION has twisted the original meanings of these metaphors ... interpreting them as literal entities, and outward enemies.

Everything that appears as an outward enemy, is simply a reflection of the INTERNAL principles of our own psychological make up. Many are beginning to understand that EVERYTHING in this world has been externalized for the EGO to learn the difference between what is REAL (internal) and what is illusionary (external). EVERYTHING you see externally starts internally - and it's all very accessible for those who ask and seek to understand.

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But here's the GOOD NEWS ... WE ALL DIED WHETHER WE REALIZE IT OR NOT ... 

 

 2 Cor 5:14 ... "We are convinced that one died for ALL, and therefore ALL DIED." 

 

Romans 11:32 ... "He has shut ALL up in unbelief to show mercy on ALL."

 

Romans 3:3-4 ... "The unbelief of some will not nullify God's faithfulness."

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Once you know this ... you become free to engage with your TRUE IDENTITY ... (your true nature) ... as the FALSE IDENTITY (ego) gradually fades away, releasing it's grip on your heart & mind.

 

 As I like to say, "These things do not appear from out of the blue, but they appear from out of you." 

 

  

 

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