Happy One schreef:Kees Droog schreef:Prosper Kodjo schreef:Kees, Zeg je dat Satan tegen de kerk zal strijden als de man van zonde?
Ja, de Bijbel zegt dat tegen het einde der tijden als de tijd van de kerk eenmaal beëindigd is zal Satan losgemaakt worden en de kerk gemeenten met valse evangelies bestormen:
En wanneer de duizend jaren zullen geeindigd zijn, zal de satanas uit zijn gevangenis ontbonden worden. (Openbaring 20:7)
En als zij hun getuigenis zullen geeindigd hebben, zal het beest, dat uit den afgrond opkomt, hun krijg aandoen, en het zal hen overwinnen, en zal hen doden. (Openbaring 11:7)
En hetzelve werd macht gegeven, om den heiligen krijg aan te doen, en om die te overwinnen; en hetzelve werd macht gegeven over alle geslacht, en taal, en volk. (Openbaring 13:7)
Wil je daarmee beweren dat we nu in het 1000 jarig vrederijk leven, of die al gehad hebben :shock: ?
Het spijt mij maar deze bijbelinformatie over 1000 jaren moet ik je in het Engels geven. Om het te vertalen in het Nederlands zou je gebruik kunnen maken van de computertranslation "Free Translation".
The "1000 years" is a spiritual number -- not an actual 1000-year period of time. It represents the completeness of whatever God has in view. For example:
Deuteronomy 7:9 "Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;"
Psalms 105:8-10 "He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations. {9} Which covenant he made with Abraham, and his oath unto Isaac; {10} And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant:"
The "1000 generations" in these verses refers to "forever". God's covenant of salvation with His chosen people (the elect) is everlasting.
Psalms 50:10-11 "For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. {11} I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine."
The "1000 hills" is a way of saying "all the hills" -- thus, "all the cattle" belong to God.
Revelation 20:2 "And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,"
Here God is talking about the complete period of time that He had planned for the binding of Satan, which is from the Cross to the beginning of the Great Tribulation period that we are now in.
This is from "Wheat & Tares":
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Chapter 2
The Enemy that Sowed Them is the Devil
In Matthew 13:39, Jesus makes a very important declaration.
There He declares, “The enemy that sowed them is the devil.” Thus far, we have learned in our study that the wheat (the church members who are true believers) and the tares (church members who have not become saved), co-existed throughout the church age in the local congregations. In this statement of Matthew 13:39, God reveals that Satan is definitely involved in the local congregations. It brings our attention to this most solemn and important piece of information.
Therefore, it is very essential that we look at the Bible’s declarations as to how Satan has been involved in the churches throughout the church age. In order to understand this, we should back up and look at the Bible’s declarations concerning this all-important matter.
Sometimes we have the idea that because of the victory of Christ on the cross, and because of what we read in Revelation 20, that Satan, to a very high degree, has been taken out of the spiritual war, the war that goes on between Christ and Satan. Thus, we can readily adopt the idea that throughout the church age, the local congregations existed in a very secure way, and they did not have to worry that much about Satanic involvement. However, when we carefully examine the Biblical statements concerning the activities and the prerogatives and opportunities of Satan throughout the New Testament era, we find that it is quite a different story.
Satan Is Bound
First, we want to find out what Revelation 20:2-3 is teaching about the binding of Satan. There we read:
And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.
We have read this quotation many, many times but probably have not understood what it means. What does it mean that Satan was bound and then later on loosed? Based on what we read in Hebrews 2:14, we [13] know that when Christ went to the cross, Satan was destroyed in some sense. There we read:
Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself [Christ] likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil.
And from Revelation 13, we know that Satan was given a deathblow. We read in Revelation 13:3, wherein God is speaking about Satan:
And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
And because of Christ’s victory on the cross, we can be sure that Satan was cast out of heaven. We read in Revelation 12:9:
And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
And anticipating Christ’s victory on the cross, He said in Luke 10:18:
And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.
As we examine these verses, we conclude very correctly that at the time of the cross, Satan was given a deathblow. That is, the fact that Christ endured the wrath of God for our sins also guaranteed that at the end of the world, Satan will be cast into eternal hell. We have understood this quite correctly. That is why we read in Revelation 20:10:
And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever. [14]
He Should Deceive the Nations No More
However, we also read something very interesting in Revelation 20 that should be factored into our thinking. We read in Revelation 20:3:
And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.
We learned in the book “The End of the Church Age . . . and After” that the end of the thousand years is the beginning of the Great Tribulation. Therefore, the language, “that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled,” appears to imply that now that we are in the time of the Great Tribulation, he again is able to deceive the nations. This is so because the thousand years, during which he was bound, ended with the beginning of the Great Tribulation.
Let’s begin to develop the truth, “that he should deceive the nations no more.” Prior to the time of the cross, we know that Christ was the perfect preacher, and yet, virtually nobody became saved. Christ preached for three and a half years, and at the end of that time, only a few appeared to be saved or actually had become saved during His ministry. There is plenty of evidence that except for a few, virtually nobody became saved. We have learned that as Christ preached, and He was the perfect preacher, Satan was there to snatch away that Word so that it would not find root in the heart of those who heard it.
We must remember that two things are required in order for the Word of God to bring salvation to anyone. First of all, the Word that is preached or declared must be the Word of God. We know that from Romans 10, verse 17, where God says:
So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Secondly, the Word preached must be applied by the Holy Spirit to the hearts and lives of those God is planning to save. We learned from the parable of the sower in Luke 8 that Satan can prevent the preached Word from bearing spiritual fruit. Jesus explains this in Luke 8:12: [15]
Those by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.
Each time the Word of God was declared, Satan was there to snatch it away . . .
So, we see very clearly that before the time of the cross, this is the way Satan was quite successful in inhibiting salvation. Each time the Word of God was declared, Satan was there to snatch it away so that it would not take root in the hearts of those who heard it. He was able, therefore, to deceive the nations, because in the entire world wherever the Gospel was preached, that would have been the situation. We are amazed, and yet it is a truth that God gave us, that when Jesus was preaching, that is exactly what was happening. It was happening in the temple, in the synagogues, and by the seashore. That is why we see very few results even though Jesus was the perfect preacher.
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