Satan at work

The Editor: Crime is the hottest topic on the mind of the citizenry of this country these days.  However, if we are familiar with the world scene, we must conclude that what is happening here is child’s play to what is happening elsewhere.  This does not mean that we should be complacent.  Every effort should be made either to reduce or to irradiate this scourge — crime. To combat this problem, there is a dimension that some are turning to these days — the supernatural, through prayer.  However, what most are not realising is that the cause of crime is supernatural as well.  A careful perusal of the Holy Bible will point out the root cause.  At the end of the book, Revelation 12: 7-12; we read that there was war in Heaven between Michael and his angels, and the dragon and his angels. 

This great dragon, the serpent of old, called the devil and Satan, was defeated and thrown down to the earth, with his angels, now called Demons. These verses show that Satan deceives the whole world.  They further state that the earth and the sea would come under Satan’s wrath because he knows that his days are numbered. Something to think about these days!  Jesus Christ verifies the fall of Satan when he said that he saw Satan “fall from heaven like lightning” (Luke 10:18). In our highly technological and scientific world, many will scoff at the idea of a Satan the devil.  While most Christians may make only passing reference to him, Jesus Christ paid particular attention to Satan the devil, calling him “the ruler of this world” (John 12:31; John 14:30). 

Jesus Christ advised his followers to pray always, and in the simple prayer, the “Our Father”, he appealed to his followers to pray to the Father to “save us from the evil one”, the Devil (Luke 11:4). Jesus Christ prayed particularly to the father for Peter, whom Satan wanted to destroy or to “sift like wheat” (Luke 22:31).  On one occasion Christ derided Peter calling him Satan because he, Peter “favoured the things of men rather than the things of God” (Matt 16:23).  Just before his crucifixion, Jesus Christ prayed to the father to keep his disciples from the evil one, the Devil (John 17:15). Then there was the occasion when Satan entered Judas causing him to betray Christ (Luke 22:3).  In like manner, Satan enters our mind causing us to do wrong. Jesus Christ made many more references to Satan the devil, but space does not permit the recording of them all.  Neither does this article deal with the many references to Satan the devil, in the Old Testament.

J Monsegue
D’Abadie