God has the control of everything.
Said the Lord to Satan: Where do you come from? Satan answered the Lord and said, "To go around the earth and walk in it."
In passing we will say that he had also come to present a report. It's amazing, do not you think? Could we say that he came from hell? No, he was not in that place because hell has not yet been opened. No person is in hell today; It will be open when God's program for this world ends. Hell is a place that has been prepared for the devil and his angels, but they are not yet in that place. The truth is that he has as much access to this land as you and I, and more as well. We are told that he came before God and presented a report.
The earth is the domain of Satan. In this scene he said that he had been traveling the earth from one place to another. He is called the god of this world and he is also called the prince of the power of the air. So he has access and freedom here on this earth today. Peter the apostle warned us about that danger, in his first epistle, chapter 5, verse 8, when he said: Be sober, and watch; because your adversary the devil, lurks like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. Dear listener, this was a warning and this is exactly what we are taught in the book of Job. Satan himself said he had the freedom to come and go in this world.
Remember that when Satan tempted the Lord Jesus Christ offered him the kingdoms of this world, and the Lord Jesus Christ never told him that he did not have them to give them, but simply rejected the temptation and answered: "Get out of me Satan". And apparently Satan has access to those realms, and he has that kind of freedom.
And when one observes what is happening in this world, it would seem that Satan is in charge of things. But, dear , it is God who is in control of everything. It is not true? God is controlling all things but He has given Satan a period of freedom. We have been told that this world in which you and I live is controlled by Satan, because God has allowed it to do so. He must be defeated, we can only overcome him through our faith in the efficacy of the blood of the Lamb of God. This is truly a revelation. And it is certainly contrary to many beliefs of contemporary thought.
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