When God judged the whole creation in the flood except those God led into the ark, God was the VICTOR over all the schemes and interfering works of Satan and the wicked angels. God judged the wicked angels as well as humans in the flood. This mass extinction overthrew what Satan was bringing about among humanity. He must have thought that He finally had it over on God, but there was the little matter of Noah and his family that God did not allow Satan to bring to nought. God brought the flood upon humanity to stop the downward spiral of wickedness and corruption that Satan was authoring among mankind. And this God did in order to begin once again with Noah and his family (who were a type of the first Adam and Eve and Seth, etc.) who were the bloodline God had preserved from Adam and Eve from which the promised SEED would come. God wins!
We can go through the OT to confirm this Victory of God again and again. But I want to move forward to the NT with the incarnation of the divine Son, Jesus Christ. I don't think that Satan knew exactly where Jesus had been born or to whom. When Herod (ruled by Satan) sought to destroy the new "King of the Jews", he did not know any more than Satan did. God protected the magi and the shepherds from being used by Satan to reveal the whereabouts of the new King. The slaughter of the male children two years old and under was the attempt of both Herod and Satan to eliminate Jesus. Herod, to eliminate his rival to the throne, and Satan, to eliminate the SEED of promise. He probably knew that the time had arrived for the Messiah to be born and that this Messiah would be the promised SEED. He knew Scripture to some extent, but I believe that God disallowed Satan from truly understanding Scripture in a way that would give him clear knowledge of God's plan nor about the prophecies that pointed to the SEED promised. God WON here. He was victorious over Satan and Herod's wicked wills and, just like Job,
Pt. 4
When God judged the whole creation in the flood except those God led into the ark, God was the VICTOR over all the schemes and interfering works of Satan and the wicked angels. God judged the wicked angels as well as humans in the flood. This mass extinction overthrew what Satan was bringing about among humanity. He must have thought that He finally had it over on God, but there was the little matter of Noah and his family that God did not allow Satan to bring to nought. God brought the flood upon humanity to stop the downward spiral of wickedness and corruption that Satan was authoring among mankind. And this God did in order to begin once again with Noah and his family (who were a type of the first Adam and Eve and Seth, etc.) who were the bloodline God had preserved from Adam and Eve from which the promised SEED would come. God wins!
We can go through the OT to confirm this Victory of God again and again. But I want to move forward to the NT with the incarnation of the divine Son, Jesus Christ. I don't think that Satan knew exactly where Jesus had been born or to whom. When Herod (ruled by Satan) sought to destroy the new "King of the Jews", he did not know any more than Satan did. God protected the magi and the shepherds from being used by Satan to reveal the whereabouts of the new King. The slaughter of the male children two years old and under was the attempt of both Herod and Satan to eliminate Jesus. Herod, to eliminate his rival to the throne, and Satan, to eliminate the SEED of promise. He probably knew that the time had arrived for the Messiah to be born and that this Messiah would be the promised SEED. He knew Scripture to some extent, but I believe that God disallowed Satan from truly understanding Scripture in a way that would give him clear knowledge of God's plan nor about the prophecies that pointed to the SEED promised. God WON here. He was victorious over Satan and Herod's wicked wills and, just like Job,
cont. to Pt. 5
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