Satan

Maybe people don’t know that Satan is the “prince of this world” (John 12:31, 14:36, 16:11).  Jesus uses this title of him.  He is a usurper as a monarch over this world, taking the place of man and specifically, the God-man, Jesus Christ.  Nevertheless, Satan holds sway over the world.

As a result, “the world” in the Bible, most often does not speak of the earth, the planet within a solar system.  No, it s “the world system.”  “The world system” means the entire Satanic organization functioning in the world of men against the plan of God.

Subjection Unto Angels

In Genesis 1:28, upon the creation of man, God mandated him to subdue and have dominion over the earth.  Hebrews 2:8 says, “Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet.”  “His” refers to “man.” That’s the purpose of God.  God will fulfill that purpose through His Son, Jesus Christ, when Jesus comes back and sets up a kingdom on the earth.  Men will reign with Jesus Christ and complete that God-ordained task.

Later in the same verse in Hebrews, the author writes:  “But now we see not yet all things put under him.”  Okay, so if man is not in charge, then who is?  An earlier verse in the chapter, Hebrews 2:5, gives a clue:

For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak.

So the angels won’t be in charge of the world to come.  What’s the deal with that?  The present world, the one in which we live, is under the subjection of angels.  See above with Satan.  Even though this is clear in the Bible, I would say a vast majority of people do not know this.  They should consider with every imagination of the world and the world specifically around them, that Satan is in charge of it.  That’s a big reason it is the way that it is.  This significant truth is rarely mentioned, only sometimes in preaching, but seldom.  This truth that angels rule over the present world fits with what Paul wrote in Ephesians 6:12:

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

You can read there “the rulers of the darkness of this world.”

“Conspiracy Theory”

What I’m writing about the world and Satan and his angels, demons, some might call a conspiracy theory.  I’m saying the overall direction of this world, it’s in Satan’s plan.  However, the way he accomplishes his rule is through men, who work for him.  That is where the “conspiracy theory” really comes into play.

What I’m writing is not taught in schools.  No one mentions Satan as a significant feature of worldly existence.  No.  The only acceptable worldly position is that we’re here alone, trying to troop through on our own, us men, or people.  This itself is part of a Satanic conspiracy, that Satan will work unrecognized, like he is completely camouflaged in this world.  Don’t look behind that door — nothing to see there.

“Conspiracy theory” as a terminology is mainly used today as communicating that someone is telling a crazed lie.  It would be like saying that Jesus is God.  That thought does not belong to polite society, except hovelled away in very private religious places.

The Antichrist

The human personification of Satan in the Bible is the character, the Antichrist.  There have been antichrists, who are types of the future antichrist.  They are antichrist, but they are not The Antichrist.  When I talk about the Antichrist, I believe that it is easy to see the agenda of the Antichrist in this present world.  Why wouldn’t we see a parallel agenda, since Satan will also hold sway the antichrist, even as he does his underlings today?

While Bible believing and practicing people like myself go our sweet way, doing evangelism and discipleship with results coming at a glacial pace, the path toward the fulfillment of Satan and the Antichrist’s agenda keeps moving along much more quickly.  I’m all for the former.  Even though I do believe it is the answer, that does not mean that the latter isn’t also occurring.  It also does not mean that someone should not say something or do something to expose the present agenda of the Antichrist.

The Antichrist in the future will do his thing, as we can read in Revelation and related passages.  It will occur and he will lose.  What he and Satan want now is against what true believers do.  Many powerful people today though are working with and toward the agenda of the Antichrist.  It is a globalist agenda, a one-world-order.  You hear this language today and it is easy to see how many policies pushed by the most powerful institutions glove fit with the Antichrist.

Tools of Control of the World

When the Antichrist finally takes charge, he will inculcate many of the same instrumentation or tools to control everyone and send them in a path roughshod against God.  That path already exists.  It is a globalist super high way pushing an agenda that accords with Satan.

If anything, one of the most important means of Satan and the Antichrist is shutting down voices that damage their agenda, that do the most to impede their goals.  They want to give you the impression that you possess a suitable voice for your message, as long as you don’t stop the treads of their machinery from operating at their highest speed.  Keep your little audience.  Barely make a noise that will interrupt the march toward the final form of Satan’s rule over the world through the Antichrist.

Case of Alistair Begg

Counsel to a Grandmother

Consider the pressure that even professing preachers feel.  A mini-explosive event occurred the last several days in evangelicalism.  A fairly conservative evangelical, albeit already compromising preacher, Alistair Begg, got in trouble with prominent figures for publically encouraging a grandmother to go to her grandson’s transgender wedding.  The idea here with Begg was compassion and not condemnation.  In Begg’s assessment, compassion would be going to the wedding, condemnation was not going.

When Begg started getting kickback for his counsel, he did what many called, double downed.  He did not retract.  He would not repent of his counsel.  Many podcasters went after him.  Others defended him.  Public leaders stood on either side of his decision.

The Pressure

What’s the pressure on a Begg to answer a public question with a weak, unscriptural answer?  He lives under that pressure.  The Antichrist will have pressure during the Tribulation Period to control men.  He will wield many different means of coercion.  Someone summed up the issue with this paragraph:

From the accounts I have seen, we are not exactly sure what we are dealing with, but it is bent however you look at it. Either the grandson was marrying a woman who pretends to be a man, in which case the marriage itself is an actual marriage, and the homosexual delusion (pretending you are marrying a man) is still a sick delusion, or he is marrying a man who thinks he is a woman, and so you have both actual sodomy and quite a different delusion, just as broken. But for our purposes here, it doesn’t really matter. The issue is the lawfulness of a Christian’s celebratory participation at an event that is truly dark.

Why would a godly leader not tell the grandmother not to go?  The grandson will feel the sting of her rejection.  He would not experience suitable affirmation.  Begg knows this too.  But it really isn’t that.  It is that the present world, the one so against God, requires approval.

Approval of the Counsel or Activity

Who was for the counsel by Begg?  The world and its groups that support transgender ideology.  They would not throw him much of a biscuit, but they would look maybe somewhat admiringly.  Who would be against?  Godly people.  People against the world system.  There is very strong pressure to please the former at the risk of the latter.  Just say you’re sorry to your people and they’ll understand.  Some Christians will applaud, because they also want approval from the acceptable, appropriate people in the culture of the world.

The Antichrist will ask for full approval from everyone in the world.  His forms of coercion will surpass whatever kind Begg presently feels to impel him to give the kind of counsel he did.  It still follows that this is what Satan and the Antichrist want to become irrelevant, something that is an abomination to God.  They gladly accept the capitulation in the present.  The trajectory of such counsel is the future total domination of the Antichrist agenda.

More to Come