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DAD'S RAMBLINGS – A WORLD WITHOUT SATAN

"Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years; 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..." (Revelation 20:1-3)

I can't imagine a world where there is no Satan, no deceiver, loose in this world to do his nefarious acts. What a wonderful world that would be. Someday, it will be when Satan is consigned to a bottomless pit where he will be chained and will not be able to tempt people any more with his great lie.

It was his great lie – the lie – that brought the world into its fallen state that matched his own fallenness. Adam and Eve listened to Satan's lie that they could be like God, and they succumbed to the temptation to disobey God. This was what caused Satan to fall from heaven – because he wanted to be God. Everyone who descended from Adam is identified by the Apostle Paul as those who "exchanged the truth of God for the lie" – that they could be God (Romans 1:25). From the time of Creation, men and women have made themselves the supreme autonomous being, making their own rules and following their own lusts, following Satan's enticement – being a god unto themselves.

Even though Satan is bound, it seems that there will be people who still live with their human fleshly state in the Millennium. They will not be perfect and will do things out of their fleshly nature. That's why there will be a need for rulers and judges. Verse 4 indicates that there will be thrones with people who sit as judges. Earlier in this revelation, it is said that those who are Redeemed by Christ's blood have been made kings and priests to our God "and we shall reign on the earth" (Revelation 5:10). There will still be a need for government and judges to provide order to society because of human nature. But the Devil will not be there to take advantage of human frailty.

I don't necessarily want to be a king or a judge but I do want to be there as a servant to the Most High God.

Love, Dad