Mar 3:27 No man can enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he will first bind the strong man; and then he will spoil his house.
What good news indeed, that we sinners are considered goods and treasures in God's eye whom God wanted rescued from Satan's house(world), We have been translated out of this world into the kingdom of the Son, from darkness into the light.
Col 1:13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son.
What first appeared to be a defeat for Christ with the principalities and powers crucifying Him, instead it was actually a great victory achieved by God where He triumphed, He bore the curse of the law upon himself, He nailed our legal obligations to the cross, and our debt is now paid in full.
Yet the world, those in darkness still reject Jesus and the free gift of life offered to all, they still choose the strong man to follow and want him unbound, We have a parable or a picture in the man Barabbas the name means son of the abyss, he was a insurrectionist he wanted to overthrow Roman rule, and return rule to Israel, to bring in the prophesied messianic kingdom through physical force as many wrongly interpreted scripture and wrongly assumed this was God's prophesied plan, therefore Jesus to them was contrary to their idea of a saviour, the saviour was meant to conquer the world and set Israel up as the head nation, yet not to us believers for us he was talking about a spiritual kingdom, we are a spiritual people with a heavenly inheritance we don't care about the world, or in the coming physical kingdom.
The ungodly have love of self, and their desire is for physical blessings, and we can see this play out with Pilate, he offered the people Barabbas or Jesus and their desire was for Barrabas (the son of the abyss)they wanted him released from his bonds to be released out of his prison and to have his execution stayed, to become their messiah to bring in the rule of Israel and the messianic kingdom...
Luk 23:18 And they cried out all at once, saying, Away with this man, and release unto us Barabbas:
Luk 23:19 (Who for a certain sedition made in the city, and for murder, was cast into prison.)
Luk 23:24 And Pilate gave sentence that it should be as they required.
Luk 23:25 And he released unto them him that for sedition and murder was cast into prison, whom they had desired; but he delivered Jesus to their will.
The choice is of extreme characteristics for It seems obvious to us yet not people who must be in darkness for example in John 10:10 the two choices are highlighted between the destroyer: Apollyon or the life giver: Jesus ,verse :10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
The people desired and demanded Barabbas be released, Barabbas controlled by Satan trying to take the place of the Messiah so he could continue to rule the earth, he was a murderer, a destroyer as he is also elsewhere described as the one who kills and destroys and the people rejected Jesus the prince of peace and demanded Him crucified..
Fast forward 2000 yrs and the picture comes into full focus, God will again soon give the ungodly want they want. The son of the abyss released from his prison.
The Antichrist is the first beast that rises up out of the sea(nations/peoples) and is a man, and we also see in the imagery of Rev 13 he will be a ruler over the earth(the seventh head), then we have the second beast who is Satan released from the abyss/pit/earth. (the eighth head)
Rev 13:11-14 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
The strong man was bound at the cross, and will soon be released for a short time, and people's desire will be for him, even Israel(not the remnant who will choose the prince of life) will follow him until he does a u-turn to wipe Israel off the map.
He will unite the world and will bring nations up against Israel, he will then be bound again for another 1000yrs and will be released a second time and will perform the same role again, after the 1000yr period which will obviously have physical blessings galore, with the age of people living similar to pre-flood, as people who die at 100 will be considered young. We can see the world has already rejected Christ in the messianic period again as they are ready to once again attack Israel.
I won't go into it to much, but the spiritual blessings we believers have today are everything we need we have joy, peace, contentment, assurance etc, God set the world up as temporary and our bodies are temporary the sooner I leave it and receive my new perfected body the better, I really think this age is the better choice of ages to be in, not that its a choice or that it matters. But it is one of the reasons why I love Ch 15 of first Corinthians
1Cor 15:42 So will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable; 43 it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; 44 it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.
If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. 45 So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”[f]; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit. 46 The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual. 47 The first man was of the dust of the earth; the second man is of heaven. 48 As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and as is the heavenly man, so also are those who are of heaven. 49 And just as we have borne the image of the earthly man, so shall we bear the image of the heavenly man.
Christ totally defeated Satan at the cross, removed him as ruler of the earth, he took care of sin, and swallowed up death in victory so that we may have eternal life, victory is also ours and all the blessings associated with it.
1Cor 15:57 but thanks be to God, who gives us victory through our Lord Jesus Christ
What good news indeed, that we sinners are considered goods and treasures in God's eye whom God wanted rescued from Satan's house(world), We have been translated out of this world into the kingdom of the Son, from darkness into the light.
Col 1:13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son.
What first appeared to be a defeat for Christ with the principalities and powers crucifying Him, instead it was actually a great victory achieved by God where He triumphed, He bore the curse of the law upon himself, He nailed our legal obligations to the cross, and our debt is now paid in full.
Yet the world, those in darkness still reject Jesus and the free gift of life offered to all, they still choose the strong man to follow and want him unbound, We have a parable or a picture in the man Barabbas the name means son of the abyss, he was a insurrectionist he wanted to overthrow Roman rule, and return rule to Israel, to bring in the prophesied messianic kingdom through physical force as many wrongly interpreted scripture and wrongly assumed this was God's prophesied plan, therefore Jesus to them was contrary to their idea of a saviour, the saviour was meant to conquer the world and set Israel up as the head nation, yet not to us believers for us he was talking about a spiritual kingdom, we are a spiritual people with a heavenly inheritance we don't care about the world, or in the coming physical kingdom.
The ungodly have love of self, and their desire is for physical blessings, and we can see this play out with Pilate, he offered the people Barabbas or Jesus and their desire was for Barrabas (the son of the abyss)they wanted him released from his bonds to be released out of his prison and to have his execution stayed, to become their messiah to bring in the rule of Israel and the messianic kingdom...
Luk 23:18 And they cried out all at once, saying, Away with this man, and release unto us Barabbas:
Luk 23:19 (Who for a certain sedition made in the city, and for murder, was cast into prison.)
Luk 23:24 And Pilate gave sentence that it should be as they required.
Luk 23:25 And he released unto them him that for sedition and murder was cast into prison, whom they had desired; but he delivered Jesus to their will.
The choice is of extreme characteristics for It seems obvious to us yet not people who must be in darkness for example in John 10:10 the two choices are highlighted between the destroyer: Apollyon or the life giver: Jesus ,verse :10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
The people desired and demanded Barabbas be released, Barabbas controlled by Satan trying to take the place of the Messiah so he could continue to rule the earth, he was a murderer, a destroyer as he is also elsewhere described as the one who kills and destroys and the people rejected Jesus the prince of peace and demanded Him crucified..
Fast forward 2000 yrs and the picture comes into full focus, God will again soon give the ungodly want they want. The son of the abyss released from his prison.
The Antichrist is the first beast that rises up out of the sea(nations/peoples) and is a man, and we also see in the imagery of Rev 13 he will be a ruler over the earth(the seventh head), then we have the second beast who is Satan released from the abyss/pit/earth. (the eighth head)
Rev 13:11-14 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
The strong man was bound at the cross, and will soon be released for a short time, and people's desire will be for him, even Israel(not the remnant who will choose the prince of life) will follow him until he does a u-turn to wipe Israel off the map.
He will unite the world and will bring nations up against Israel, he will then be bound again for another 1000yrs and will be released a second time and will perform the same role again, after the 1000yr period which will obviously have physical blessings galore, with the age of people living similar to pre-flood, as people who die at 100 will be considered young. We can see the world has already rejected Christ in the messianic period again as they are ready to once again attack Israel.
I won't go into it to much, but the spiritual blessings we believers have today are everything we need we have joy, peace, contentment, assurance etc, God set the world up as temporary and our bodies are temporary the sooner I leave it and receive my new perfected body the better, I really think this age is the better choice of ages to be in, not that its a choice or that it matters. But it is one of the reasons why I love Ch 15 of first Corinthians
1Cor 15:42 So will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable; 43 it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; 44 it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.
If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. 45 So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”[f]; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit. 46 The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual. 47 The first man was of the dust of the earth; the second man is of heaven. 48 As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and as is the heavenly man, so also are those who are of heaven. 49 And just as we have borne the image of the earthly man, so shall we bear the image of the heavenly man.
Christ totally defeated Satan at the cross, removed him as ruler of the earth, he took care of sin, and swallowed up death in victory so that we may have eternal life, victory is also ours and all the blessings associated with it.
1Cor 15:57 but thanks be to God, who gives us victory through our Lord Jesus Christ
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