ENLIGHTENING VISIONS OF THE SPIRIT REALM

 SATAN MISLEADS MILLIONS

"War broke out in heaven:  Michael [Jesus Christ] and his angels battled with the dragon, and the dragon and it's angels battled but they did prevail, nor was a place found for them any longer in heaven.  So down the great dragon was hurled, the original serpent, the one called Devil and Satan, who is misleading the entire inhabited earth; he was hurled down to the earth, and his angels with him." - REVELATION 12:7, 9.

  Heaven has not always been peaceful. A the very dawn of human history, one of the angels, consumed by a desire to be worshipped, rebelled against Jehovah, becoming Satan, meaning "Resister."  Other angels later joined in the rebellion and became known as demons.  Thoroughly evil,  they bitterly oppose Jehovah and have led humans on a course contrary to Jehovah's loving direction. 

Satan and his demons are depraved and cruel. They are enemies of mankind and have contributed to much of the suffering on earth. For example, Satan killed the livestock and the servants of the faithful man Job.  Next, he killed all ten of  Job's children by causing "a great wind" to crush the house they were in. After that, Satan struck Job with "painful boils from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head." - JOB 1:7-19; 2:7.

Soon, though, Satan will be done away with.  Since being hurled to the vicinity of the earth, he knows that "he has a short period of time." (Revelation 12:12)  Satan is doomed, and that certainly is good news! 

Next time: ENLIGHENING VISIONS FROM THE SPIRIT REALM - THOSE WHO COME FROM THE EARTH

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