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Understanding Satan’s Endgame

 

I Chronicles 12:32 from Issachar, men who understood the times and knew what Israel should do

 

2 Corinthians 4:4 whose minds the god of this age has blinded

 

John 12:31 Now is the time for judgment on this world; now the prince of this world will be driven out.

 

Colossians 1:13 For he has rescued us from the kingdom of darkness and transferred us into the Kingdom of his dear Son

 

Key #1 to understanding Satan’s endgame is by understanding his nature because he will always act according to his own nature.

 

The name Satan is from the Hebrew and it means accuser and adversary.

 

Revelation 12:10 For the accuser of our brothers and sisters, who accuses them before our God day and night, has been hurled down.

 

From scripture, we understand that Satan is the one who accuses us before God so that our prayers won’t be answered; he uses gossip to accuse us among peers, and uses thoughts to accuse of in the minds of others.

 

John 8:44 You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

 

Satan’s heart is to destroy the lives of humanity.

 

Ephesians 2:1-2 As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient.

 

2 Corinthians 4:4 The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

 

John 10:10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy;

 

Satan stole our birthright to have dominion over the earth; he stole the glory of God that we were crowned with in the beginning; he turned us into the slaves of his kingdom.

 

Psalm 8:4-6 what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them? You have made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them with glory and honor. You made them rulers over the works of your hands; you put everything under their feet:

 

Hebrews 2:14-15 Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil— and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death.

 

Key #2 for understanding Satan’s endgame is understanding Babylon, which is the name that God has called the world system that Satan is assembling.

 

2 Corinthians 2:11 I did this so that Satan would not win anything from us, because we know very well what Satan’s plans are.

 

“Know the enemy and know yourself in a hundred battles you will never be in peril. When you are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal. If ignorant both of your enemy and of yourself, you are certain in every battle to be in peril.”

 

Satan has been building a world system that he wants to use to unite the whole world under his dominion and oppression.

 

Revelation 17:1-6 One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits by many waters. 

 

God talks throughout the Bible about spiritual adultery, the great sin of humanity where we have fallen in love with things other than God.

 

Revelation 17:15 Then the angel said to me, “The waters you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations and languages.

 

The world system named Babylon touches every nation on the planet.

 

The kings of the earth in the book of Revelation is the church. 

 

Revelation 21:24 The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their splendor into it.

 

Revelation 1:5-6 …Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father,

 

God is saying that in the last days, His people, the church will commit spiritual adultery with Satan’s world system called Babylon. 

 

With her the kings of the earth committed adultery, and the inhabitants of the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her adulteries.”

Then the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. There I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names... She held a golden cup in her hand, filled with abominable things and the filth of her adulteries. 

 

Romans 1:26-32 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.

 

The name written on her forehead was a mystery: babylon the great the mother of prostitutes and of the abominations of the earth. 

 

The characteristic of this world culture called Babylon is that it will be full of ways to pleasure ourselves outside of God and that it will celebrate the things that God hates.

 

I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of God’s holy people, the blood of those who bore testimony to Jesus.

 

Another characteristic of this system Babylon is that it hates Christians and wants them dead. 

 

Revelation 12:17 So the dragon was enraged with the woman, and went off to make war with the rest of her children, who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus.

 

The goal of Satan’s Babylon is that it control all seven mountains of influence: government, entertainment, education, business, media, family, and religion.

 

Revelation 17:9 This calls for a mind with wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits,

 

Satan started building his world kingdom Babylon thousands of years ago. Both the spirit of lawlessness and the spirit of anti-Christ has been working on the earth for two thousand years.

 

2 Thessalonians 2:7-10 For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work;

 

I John 4:3 every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.

Satan’s goal is to tie the nations together and put one person over everyone so that Satan’s rulership of the earth would be complete.

 

Revelation 13:5-7 The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise its authority… And it was given authority over every tribe, people, language and nation.

 

2 Thessalonians 2:6-7 And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time. For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way.

 

The church is the restraining force that is stopping Satan from having his total way on the planet. Our prayers, our declarations, our Christ-given authority is even now thwarting his plans.

 

The habits you have right now will become life or death to you in the coming days.

 

First Habit: Pray every morning. 

 

Psalm 5:3 In the morning, Lord, you hear my voice; in the morning I lay my requests before you and wait expectantly.

 

Second Habit: Read the Bible every day. 

 

2 Thessalonians 2:10 (talking about the anti-Christ) He will use every kind of evil to trick those who are lost. They will die, because they refused to love the truth. (If they loved the truth, they would be saved.)

 

Joshua 1:8 Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.  

 

Third Habit: Make a covenant with your eyes. 

 

Job 31:1 “I made a covenant with my eyes not to look lustfully at a young woman.

 

Psalm 101:3 I will set nothing wicked before my eyes;


Fourth Habit: Regularly attend a church that teaches from the Bible: life is a team sport-we need one another.