What is Satan doing?
Doesn’t he know he’s already lost? Is he just so inexplicably evil and the world then waxes worse and worse under his influence until God finally puts an end to him with some cataclysmic unknowable return to the Earth?
Well I say both yes and no, it wont come as a complete surprise except to those the book of Revelation calls earth dwellers. Those where everything they know, understand and desire is right here and now in their physical existence, the spirit is a mystery to them and there is no understanding or light in their eyes,
However what Satan is attempting to do is not as simple as being evil for its own sake, its what we’re being shown in greater detail in the books of Daniel and Revelation (and in the Psalms, Isaiah and Zephaniah and elsewhere)
The Laws and Ordinances of Moses are the legal mechanisms governing this physical Earth which Satan must adhere and is bound by for his present authority, and do not misunderstand, this is not for the Church, we are not under the Law of Moses, the Church is not a part of that end which is coming upon all flesh after the transgressors have come to the full and the time given to the Gentiles is complete.
Jesus came to fulfill the Law, not do away with it,
“Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.” Matthew 5:17
“And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: . . .” Daniel 9:26
After 62 sevens, 434 years,
Jesus was cutoff so that you and I could be purchased into the Kingdom of God (in Heaven) born into the spirit and brought out of this fallen world, not to the throne of David over the Earth, this is still his inheritance and it was stolen from him. Jesus was left with nothing in the flesh, even his clothes were taken from him when he hung on the cross,
But for Israel in 32 AD, that generation did not pass away by any means, they paid for it with their blood and with the desolation of the city and Temple August 10-12th 70 AD, which took place precisely 14,000 days after April 13th, 32 AD . The very same distance in time they wandered about in the wilderness under Moses.
“And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.” Luke 19:44
The Church is not Israel and has not replaced Israel on this Earth. The Church is in a very special place, elevated and set on a pedestal. Paul understood this and was amazed at what the Church had been given and understood its purpose and destiny alongside Christ as his bride.
Those that believe the Church is now Israel are the same ones that Jesus refers to in Revelation Chapter 3 as those that ‘say they are Jews and are not’ unfortunately this heresy (replacement theology) has been prevalent for a long time as the default heritage of many mainstream denominations and the source of much antisemitism.
So what is Satan really doing? Is he trying to rule the Earth? He already rules over it. Is he hard at work trying to install a puppet called the antichrist? He already has all the nations and kingdoms of the Earth and antichrist (as a spirit) is already at work in the world. What purpose is served by installing someone or some (thing) over them all,
But there is more to what he thinks he can do legally, he will make a covenant with the transgressors, (that would first have to be ‘brought back from the sword’ by God) this is where his ‘Man of Sin’ enters, for Israel to choose his ‘Son of Perdition’ over their Messiah for their peace and security. They must first be restored (by God as promised) then Israel will have (at that time) come to their full. This false ‘covenant’ will have the net effect of attempting to change the set times and seasons that both provide for and limit Satan’s authority and activity, it brings his end and ultimately his torment (after 1000 years)
When that mechanism is broken, could those same limits holding things in check also be removed or undone? I believe this is when the Earth will be ‘cursed with a curse’ as were shown in Isaiah Chapter 24. Bad things that had in the past always seemed to be dispelled or dispersed before they became global: epidemics, weather patterns, economic upheavals, crop failures, famines etc., before some terrible calamity should impact the entire world at once, that binding will now be loosed. I believe this is what we’re seeing when we see the Seven Seals being ‘loosed’ in the book of Revelation.
This is about a future Jubilee coming to the restored land and the world attempting to undo that restoration under the influence of Satan.
“I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.” Hosea 5:15
God is Holy and will always act in a manner that is Holy. God is a covenant keeping God, he makes and keeps covenants. God cannot be unholy. Satan understands this far better than most of us and it has been an advantage to his activity and influence over the Earth, that is, always knowing how your opponent will react to certain criteria, but Satan is no equal opposition to the work of God, hardly. Satan does not know the future or what the spirit will do or what the Spirit speaks to the Churches or to us individually in dreams and visions (as we’re told by the Prophet Joel would come) and this has been going on since the very first Pentecost (which came 10 days after Jesus ascended to Heaven and sat down next to the Father)
Nothing has changed since that time, since 32 AD in the Spirit, or 70 AD in the flesh when Israel was given space to understand,
So what IS going to change and when?
Those areas which are not written as a legal document and given expressly by the Spirit, Satan cannot understand. Those areas in the bible written by the inspiration of the Spirit which require the Holy Spirit to unseal, to unveil, to make connections to reassemble, which are about to become known. Its how Jesus told Peter, ‘flesh and blood has not revealed this to you’
Satan rules over this world, over entire regions and nations and whole empires, he rules them with his ‘principalities and powers.’ Jesus showed us that Satan’s kingdom is not divided despite the appearance from the outside that it is, where it has been a grinding down, a historical wasteland of centuries of wars and political intrigue and nation against nation seeking temporal power.
Satan is attempting to retain the Earth over the limiting mechanism of the Holy Laws and ordinances which have a specific conditional timing element outlined within, of which will resolve with a Jubilee restoration by returning ownership to God in both a legal and Holy manner. God will then begin the proceedings, the court ‘will sit’ as we’re shown in Revelation Chapters 4, 5 and 6 and Daniel Chapter 7. The court is in session to adjudicate the legal earthly (human) ownership from Adam back to God and then who? or which person? can now meet the conditions to restore and redeem as a near Kinsman of Adam? or it must be cast away, being unregenerate, as dead and to be destroyed? Only Jesus can qualify, this is why he referred to himself repeatedly as the ‘Son of Man’ as it has to be a man, a descendant of Adam, our new Adam, who will not falter and cannot fail, and with the full knowledge that he would be rejected and cutoff from this physical Earth and that only he alone would be eligible when that future court date came due,
The Church sits today with Jesus at the right hand of the Father, rejected out of this world and cutoff with nothing in the flesh, (until)
Those of us alive (now) are operating with his Spirit, the Holy Spirit is hindering the full operation of evil in a world given over legally to Satan until a set time and a very specific set of circumstances are met and fulfilled on the Earth. This is why Satan can stand in Heaven today and accuse the brethren (legally) we are operating and interfering in his sphere of power, we are sons and daughters of Adam, alive in the flesh, yet reborn with the Spirit that interfaces directly with the very one who created and ultimately owns all when the fullness of the transgressors timing is reached, bypassing Satan’s understanding and knowledge. And that direct interface, with the physical manifestations which can sometimes occur via extreme acts of faith, Satan can and does object too,
This will continue as we’re shown in Daniel Chapter 9, (until) the ‘transgressors are come to the full’ the transgressors of the Law were always that sole nation on this Earth that could transgress, the only one to which it was given, Israel, and they have and are paying for it as prophesied,
“And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.“ Luke 21:24
“Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;” 2 Thessalonians 2:3
God restored Israel in 1948 and then restored Jerusalem (Judea and Samaria) in 1967 and we know from scripture that at some future point this world will undo that restoration for some supposed ‘peace’ agreement,
Isaiah 28 calls it a ‘covenant with death’
At the time of the end, we’re told that Jerusalem will become a ‘burdensome stone’ bringing destruction ‘upon them all’ that is, upon ALL nations that choose to involve themselves impeding Gods restoration work,
This world, the United Nations, all the nations of the Earth and with unclean spirits inhabiting its leaders ruling over these nations, will all be of one mind to divide the land, to separate the restoration that is presently bringing the transgressors (Israel) to the full, which will allow the Messiah, the Holy one of Israel to legally reclaim his rightful inheritance under the Jubilee restoration of all things, this is why he returns as the ‘vengeance of the Temple.’ Jesus is the Temple made flesh and rejected, the title-deed has been restored but the world is trying to impugn and encumber it away from its rightful, lawful and legal owner who has paid much and suffered much providing for its restoration and for the restoration of all things which includes all those that belong to him.
Satan has authority on this physical Earth until the time of the end, and (I believe) until three conditions are met and broken:
1, Israel as a people are restored to the land and then Jerusalem as a city is restored, (which appears to be with the same distance in timing, 19 years apart as they were taken away from Israel in 606 and 587 BC with the three sieges of Nebuchadnezzar) together providing the two conditions required in Daniel Chapter 9 to count the time determined at 70 weeks, the 490 years. 434 years were counted at the cross, ‘after 62 weeks shall Messiah be cutoff’ 49 years were accepted by Jesus but rejected by Israel and instead brought the Gospel to the gentiles, the Gospel is the Jubilee and thus allowing for another 49 years (a Jubilee) for Israel and Jerusalem. The promises are tied to the physical land as well as to David, and then the final seven years remaining which most of us are aware of called the tribulation with the last half (3.5 years) being what Jesus himself called the ‘great tribulation’
2, a Jubilee is acknowledged in Heaven following the legal conditions being met precisely per Leviticus Chapter 25: ‘when you come into the land that I shall give you..’ then count seven times seven years (even 49 years) and only God can know when his conditional timing is acceptable, but we can know that it must occur on a future Yom Kipper (10th day of the seventh month) and only after all of the conditions have been met,
3, The covenant is broken, hindered, encumbered in some manner between this world and a restored Israel via some manner of agreement, this is what I believe we’re witnessing approaching today as being pushed for in world affairs, Israel is divided, Jerusalem is divided or both, the restoration is being undone, Satan is seeking to change the set times and seasons provided by God, to extend his ownership outside of the limiting Holy mechanisms of the Laws and Ordinances enacted on the Earth, the very ones which provided for the coming of the Messiah to this fallen Earth to redeem us and which also provided the punitive measures enacted against the transgressors of the Law (Israel of 32 AD) and then finally bringing the second restoration here since June 7th 1967, these are all interconnected events despite being thousands of years separated in time, this is why it will mean the end of Satan’s authority if he does not hinder or stop this prophesied process from coming to its completion.
It is my belief, that it is the attempted undoing of that authority on the Earth, the breaking of the ‘Everlasting Covenant’ (Isaiah Chapter 24) that brings the time of the end,
I believe this is the very event that is being adjudicated in Heaven beginning in Revelation Chapter 4, where the “court will sit” (see Daniel Chapter 7) and where Jesus takes the scroll, the title-deed to the Earth from the right hand of the Father. He then assumes legal ownership over the physical Earth (all of Creation) for which the world rejected him and faced eternal night, were it not for these Holy Laws established by God to overturn and to govern the creation, providing a way back from death when there was no way.
Today Jesus sits at the right hand side of the father, until he makes the nations of this world his footstool. This is shown to us in Psalm 2. And this is whats happening at the time of the end, at the close of the age.
Jesus is being given the Earth legally in the flesh, and Satan is attempting to hinder that judgement by seeing to it that the mechanisms (in the flesh, with a restored Israel) are encumbered, impugned or broken by a separate agreement with his authority as presently empowered legally over the greater part of the Earth,