Satan is the god of this world .
Got scripture for that?
John 12:31
Now judgment is upon this world; now the ruler of this world will be cast out.
John 16:8-11
And he, when he comes, will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment; concerning sin, because they do not believe in me; and concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father and you no longer see me; and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.
Cast out and judged. What kind of "
god" is
that?
If you're referring to 2 Corinthians 4:4....
2 Corinthians 4:3-4
And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, in whose case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
What makes you think Paul's "
the god of this world" is Satan?
John 12:37-41 ESV
Though he had done so many signs before them, they still did not believe in him, so that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: “Lord, who has believed what he heard from us, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?” Therefore they could not believe. For again Isaiah said, “He [God]
has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, lest they see with their eyes, and understand with their heart, and turn, and I would heal them.” Isaiah said these things because he saw his glory and spoke of him.
It is
God who blinds the unbelieving, not Satan. Satan is just as blind as the rest of them! John cited Isaiah. Let's see what Isaiah said.
Isaiah 6:8-10
Then I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?" Then I said, "Here am I. Send me!" He said, "Go, and tell this people: 'Keep on listening, but do not perceive; Keep on looking, but do not understand.' "Render the hearts of this people insensitive, their ears dull, and their eyes dim, otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and return and be healed."
Their hearts were rendered insensitive, their ears dull, or deaf, and teir eyes din, or blind. Why? Because
otherwise they would hear, see, return and be healed. They were blinded
so they would NOT be healed!!! Sounds harsh, doesn't it. Not as harsh as centuries of breaking promises and disrespecting the only God who has ever existed. This Isaiah text is used in every single gospel, in acts, and in the epistles. It is used by Jesus in different ways but in Mark he explains this:
Mark 4:10-12 ESV
And when he was alone, those around him with the twelve asked him about the parables. And he said to them, “To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God, but for those outside everything is in parables, so that “they may indeed see but not perceive, and may indeed hear but not understand, lest they should turn and be forgiven.”
The keys to the kingdom have to given before the eyes can see and the ears understand, and any repentance and healing occur. Parables were used
so they would NOT perceive and understand.
Romans 11:7-10
What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking. The elect obtained it, but the rest were hardened, as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear, down to this very day.” And David says, “Let their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a retribution for them; let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see, and bend their backs forever.”
That Romans 11 passage is specifically written about Israel. The 2 Corinthians 4:4 text can be understood as applicable to everyone outside of Christ. Isaiah, Jesus, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Paull all plainly state God blinds people, or otherwise keeps them from seeing
and He does so to keep them from repenting and being healed. Yes, I know many Christian leaders have taught 2 Corinthians 4:4 is about Satan and they've been teaching that for centuries. Satan was once an elohim, a god made by God, but the fact of scripture is he was stripped of ALL his glory, cast out of heaven and has been heled in eternal bonds of darkness awaiting his judgment (Jude 1). He was NOT given the earth. No place does scripture state Adam surrendered the earth to Satan when Adam disobeyed God. That is a myth. Sin enslaves and kills. The wages of sin is death. Lucifer sinned. The moment he did so he died and became enslaved.
Satan is not god of anything.
Babylon kingdoms of men. Kings, fathers. Venerable puffed up men that lord it over the faith of the non venerable understanding. God is not served by dying hand as the will of mankind .Kings in Israel the abomination of desolation.
Daniel 2:44 And in the days
of these
kings shall the
God of heaven set up a
kingdom, which shall
never be destroyed: and the
kingdom shall not be left to other people, but
it shall break in pieces and consume
all these kingdoms, and
it shall stand
for ever.
Yep. And that kingdom has been established with the resurrection of the Son of God.
Acts 2:29-32 ESV
Brothers, I may say to you with confidence about the patriarch David that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day. Being therefore a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that he would set one of his descendants on his throne, he foresaw and spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that he was not abandoned to Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption. This Jesus God raised up, and of that we all are witnesses.
David foresaw the resurrection of Christ. David spoke about the resurrection of Christ. Jesus' body did not see decay;
he defeated death!!! His throne is eternal! It shall never be destroyed. The eternal throne God promised David is the resurrection. If Christians acted in a manner consistent with the truth of scripture this world would look a lot less like Satan is still in charge.
Revelation 3:21
The one who overcomes, I will grant to him to sit with me on my throne, as I also overcame and sat with my Father on His throne.
Jesus is seated on his Father's throne at his Father's right hand.
Overcome!
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