If there is a book that will reveal much about man's ONE God, then it is this one (link in title) - Satan : His Motive and His methods. I find the whole book striking and clear. In it author Lewis Sperry Chafer explains the 'ages'; how ages is translated from the word 'world' on occasions in the bible. Page 48 - how man can no longer claim his conscience is sufficient to guide him to his highest destiny, since the whole race, when standing on that basis before God, so utterly failed in the past that the destruction of the flood was neccessary.
Later in History the Law was given to Moses, and still it was evident, after time, man could not keep to the letter. In the present age (from Christ's coming) man proves his separation from his Creator by his spirit of self-sufficiency and positive rejection of God. It reads:" The present issue between God and man is one of whether man will accept God's estimate of him, abandon his hopeless self-struggle, and cast himself only on the grace of God which is alone is sufficient to accomplish his needed transformation. All divine love, wisdom, and power have worked together to provide salvation for man, and when this last and supreme effort of God has been rejected, the final pleading of man must be forever past, and the long delayed judgment upon sin be exectured in righteousness." I read somewhere that 'covenant' is linked with the word 'righteousness' which was interesting.
The book goes on to say, "according to the Bible, that which satan purposed is being permited, to the extent of his ability, throughout the course of this age. Though his failure and defeat have been predicted from the beginning, it has pleased God to permit the satanic ambition to come to its own destruction, and to demonstrate its own weakness and wicked folly. No other solution is given of the present power of satan and the manifestations of his increasing authority yet to be experienced in the closing scenes of this age."
Mark Burch (pastor from Willow Park Baptist Church, Canada) reports more people have died through Genocide in the last ten years throughout the world than in the history of the world. That's not including abortion. (Rewanda, India, Africa, and so on...) Reassuring news is that satan's dominion over this age is limited in that " there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God" - (Romans 13:1) In this Scripture it is revealed that Satan, though in authority, is not wholly free from his Creator, and that any direction of the governments of the world which he exercises is by permission from God.
Therefore, the efforts of satan and man are not supreme, but must come to their predicted end when the eternal purpose of God had its realization in the gathering out from both Jews and Gentiles a heavenly people for His own name. If you hear this - come, follow Lord Jesus, God of the universe and your soul.Repent and be saved.
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