@AnneOminous
@Waggles
@brighthouse98
@PloughBoy,
Thank you for your responses.
The words that keep coming to my mind are,
'Who is able to make war with him?' (Revelation 13:4). Not that I am suggesting that Putin is the 'Beast', but that because of the threat of world war the same question can be asked in relation to him, I feel.
Within the love of Christ our Saviour,
Our Lord and Head.
Chris
let my reply here at this time be focus on the word “Permission”.
“The Adversary”, does not actually have “power” he has “PERMISSION”. And that “PERMISSION” he has, Comes from “The LORD GOD ALMIGHTY” and for “HIS PURPOSE” & not ours.
THE “GOD ALMIGHTY” had HIS Only Begotten SON, “Create this Creature” who many refers to him as “SATAN”.
His power is by “Permission”
Example, how much power “SATAN” has, “READ, Then LOOk, and Then OBSERVE, and with all your Getting, Get Understanding and come out of The Dark and let “This Light Shine in”! Because I am not going to explain it!
Revelation 20: 1,2 (NASB)
1977 copyright
1And I saw
an angel coming down from heaven, having the key of the abyss and a
great chain in
his hand.
2And
he laid hold of the
dragon, the
serpent of old, who is the
devil and
Satan,
AND bound him for a “
THOUSAND YEARS”
3and
THREW him into the
abyss, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he should not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were completed; after these things he must be released for a short time.
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I wish I had the permission to translate that portion of The Biblical text” in the “Ghetto Vernacular” and use ghetto idiom of Hyperbole what that mere angel did to “Satan” wrap that chain around his neck and drag his [HASH=5594]#*>€£¥~[/HASH]#% and threw his arsenal down in that pit and shut door and lock it up!
Now just a mere angel with a small “a” did that, it was not a “Arch Angel” it was not a “Strong” angel, it was not “Jesus” it was not “The GOD ALMIGHTY”
GOD gave a “Command” to a mere angel. That came out of Heaven like maybe a Lightening Bolt , wrap that chain around his neck and pull that devil backwards, that angel had him by the neck, dragging him through the air! In The Twinkling of eye, he was in the pit!
PS. Satan most likely knew him when he was Heaven. This angel here might have been the weakest angel there, Made especially to do this to satan. WOW, now that would be a sure blow to his pride.
when reading the “NASB” the writing of this Translation has so much information in it. You much learn how to read a “NASB” text. You just do not pick it up and read. You learn from the introduction of this translation. Then you grow in learning how to read it. For it is closer to the meaning of the “Original Copied Manuscript “ of The Original Text of The Once called “The Holy Scripture”.
For now the term “Holy Scripture” has a entire different meaning.
I am not teaching only giving information.
No problem take it or leave it. It does not matter.
