<x-tad-bigger>Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":
When Jesus was resurrected, Satan was mortally wounded. Genesis 3:15
was fulfilled: the serpent (Satan) had indeed “bruised” Christ’s
“heel” through the crucifixion; but Christ “bruised” his “head.” When
you smash a serpent’s head, you’ve killed it. So, since the
resurrection, Satan has been crushed.
But immediately the question arises in thoughtful minds, “Then why
nearly2000 years of continued sin, cruelty, misery, created by this
same ‘serpent’ who is supposed to be crushed? Why have Hitlers, Idi
Amins, Stalins, flourished, and why do crime and violence plague the
world as it was in the days before the Flood of Noah? Why is Paul’s
prophecy so terribly fulfilled, that ‘evil men and seducers shall wax
worse and worse’?” (2 Tim. 3:13). “Does all this look like the work of
a defeated foe?”
Other questions arise: “Why doesn’t Jesus come the second time as He
promised to do, and put an end to all this work of Satan? Is God
indifferent? Is He just procrastinating until He Himself finally gets
enough of it all and decides to blow the trumpet and ring the curtain
down arbitrarily?” We can search the world for an answer, and must
come back to what the Bible says: “A man scatters seed in his field. .
. . When the grain is ripe, the man starts cutting it with his sickle,
because harvest time has come” (Mark 4:26-29). God’s people must grow
up out of their childishness and appreciate--”believe”--what Christ
accomplished in His death, burial, and resurrection, that Satan has
been defeated. Hebrews 2:14 says that he has been “paralyzed” as wild
life experts shoot a dart into a rhino or a fierce lion and paralyze
it so they can examine its teeth. Satan cannot force you to continue
to sin unless we willingly choose to let him do so, to permit him to
deceive us.
The victory of Christ over Satan in His resurrection was wonderful;
now, says Revelation 12:11, God’s people must also “overcome him by
the blood of the Lamb.” Satan still claims that it is impossible for
any human beings to keep God’s law of love; it’s our privilege to
share in Christ’s glorious victory. That’s something worth living for!
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